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It is verdict was centered Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you and center. The big question I think everyone in this country is asking themselves right now and talking about, is how did this happen?
What went wrong?
Well, we're a day and a half removed from the first presidential assassination attempt since nineteen eighty one, since the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. A day and a half ago, Donald Trump was shot by a crazed assassin, and I got to say, what millions of Americans are thinking is how in the hell did this happen? What went wrong? Why did Secret Service not stop this? Why was there not additional security? Why was this guy able to get on a damn roof and fire a rifle at the president?
And where was where the security protocols to prevent that? We're going to break that down. We're also going to talk about the incessant, violent, hateful, horrifying rhetoric from Democrats that pressed and pressed and pressed and pressed until this happened, And right now they're acting like they're utterly innocent. They have no idea why anyone would look to them as playing a role causing this, This horrific assassination attempt.
We're going to talk about that too.
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An outrage, like, how the hell did this happen?
Yeah, no, no, no, it's infuriating. And I want to start by us by a BBC interview with with with a gentleman who was at the rally. He was standing outside the rally, but he witnessed the shooter before the shooting, and he was desperately trying to point him out to law enforcement, and and and it's just that this this cant came out with with within minutes of the shooting happening, and it and it really just defies defies words.
Give a listen.
See you were inside the event, but you were just outside. Tell us what yes. So, so we had a party here all day due you can see behind us at the Brinkle's Farming greenhouse here. We had a party and we all decided, hey, you know, when when we hear Trump up there, we're going to walk up through the field, stand by the trees out there under the shade and watch the ring and listen to the rally. Right. We
couldn't see them, but we could hear him. So we walked up and probably five to seven minutes of Trump's speaking on estimating here, I have no idea, you know.
But.
We noticed the guy crawling arming, you know, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us, fifty feet away from us. So we're standing in there, you know, we're pointing. We're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. And he had a rifle. He could clearly see him with a rifle. Absolutely, we're pointing at him. The police are down there running around on the ground. We're like, hey, man, there's guy on the roof with the rifle. And the police were like, huh what, you know, like like they
didn't know what was going on. You know, We're like, hey, right here on the roof, he can see him from right here, we see him, you know, he's crawling. And next thing you know, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not pulled him off the stage. I'm standing there pointing at him for you know, two three minutes. Secrets Service is looking at us from the top of the barn. I'm pointing at that roof, just standing there like this,
And next thing, you know, five shots run out. So you'll you're sudden where the shots coming from, not coming on the one hundred, and he was up there for a couple of minutes. He was out there for him there for a couple of minutes, absolutely at least three to four minutes. And you were telling the police in the secret stuff, we were telling the police we were pointing at him. For the Secret Service who were looking at us from the top of the barn. They were
looking at us the whole time. When you stand about that tree. Thanks for the oculars. Could they see, Probably not because the roof the way that the slope went, he was behind where they could see. But why is there not secret Service on all of these roofs here? I mean, this is not a big place.
Did you see?
I mean obviously everyone when the shooting started, everyone was very kind of did you see what I'm saying him at all? Oh? Yeah, they blues head off. Okay, so secret Service blues head on and we'll be okay, we just be carefully because we don't know quite he's watching. But you're pretty sure they show up. The guy absolutely say yep, you saw that happen. Yep, yep, okay, yep. And did you see them go up to him? Off to it? So they yeah, they crawled up on the roof.
They had their guns pointed out and make sure he was dead. He was dead, and that was it.
It was over.
That's incredibly shof. The guy was on the roof right there. You can see the right roof right there. You could to look at him, could you, I know, other.
Than he was in.
Muted collers, tanned tight clothing. We saw the rifle flinging around as he was trying to crawl. I mean, we saw the rifle one hundred percent? Do you I mean, do you know about couns? Do you know what kind of weapon it was?
Oh?
Absolutely, know about guns for sure. Yeah, I mean there is a rifle of some sort. I wouldn't know, you know, I wasn't close enough to read the label on him, but there was a rifle.
Of some sort.
Yeah, absolutely. So what do you how do you process what you've just seen? I don't know what to say, man. I'll tell you is you know if I if I walked up closer there with anything that can Secret Service considered a problem, I wouldn't be standing here talking to you right now. But I don't know why a guy who we're standing there point now to police and Secret Service is crawling up the roof where you're on the side of the spear. Yes, right there by that tree.
We were outside the security demy. But my question is, there's only a few buildings around here. Why is Secret Service not in every building here? There's a whole bunch of questions. I think they're going to come. There's a whole bunch of questions.
Yeah, you listen to this guy, he's a concerned citizen. Yeah, he says, we're yelling there's a guy on the roof. And I do think it's important because there's been a lot of people that have been critical of the of the snipers that took him out, saying, how do they not see him? You notice he said, I'm sure they couldn't see him on the back part of the roof,
right it was slanted from them. And I think that's important that those guys did their job when they saw him from what we understand, and this guy said, look, they couldn't see him.
Where he was well, and that really goes to the preparation of Secret Service for the event and for the manpower that it certainly appears there was woefully insufficient manpower to make that rally safe. The snipers on the other side of the roof, from everything, it appears, couldn't see him because the roof was sloped away. Where the sniper was was one hundred and sixty four yards away from President Trump.
That is not very far.
It's certainly not far with a rifle with a scope. One hundred and sixty four yard.
By the way, I talked today to someone that is in Secret Service and he said that is twenty percent of the range that they trained to look for. Yeah, just to put in perspective, so this would be if you were leighing out. Now, Okay, that's ten percent away of what we trained for. This guy was within twenty percent of what they trained for to look for snipers.
Well, and a story that all so broke. The Associated pet Press reported yesterday quote a local law enforcement officer climbed to the roof and found crooks the gunman, who pointed the rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder, and the gunman quickly fired towards Trump. The official said, that's when US Secret Service gunman shot him. The official said, so that's really astonishing. That means law enforcements saw him before he fired. The shots came up
the ladder, the guy pointed the rifle at him. Now, presumably we don't know the answer to this right now, but presumably that law enforcement was not in contact with a secret service.
Not in the same frequency, which reminds me so much. And my next question he was going to be about what we saw after nine to eleven. After nine to eleven, what we realized was is that there were too many government agencies that weren't able to talk to one another that weren't talking to one another. It was FBI over here, Secret Service over here, and then the CIA over here, and they weren't sharing information the way that they needed to.
Is it possible that in.
Twenty twenty four, we have everyone at this event, but they're not able to speak to one another for whatever reason.
It is astonishing. And look at the timing of this.
So you've got this guy on the roof, a police officer comes up the ladder, He turns around, points the gun at the police officer.
Look.
I don't fault the police officer for ducking back down when you get a rifle pointed at you. But it takes a little bit of time for a gunman to turn around then and aim and sight up and fire the shots and fire them close enough that they hit the President's ear. That takes a little bit of time. That doesn't happen in five seconds, presumably if they're on
the same frequency. The instant the officer sees him in your microphone, you're yelling gun, gun, gun, and the snipeppers can immediately train on him, so when the guy pokes his head over to shoot, they can take him out right Then, if they were.
Talking to each other.
Well, and not even that.
If you went through it and they said shooter, shooter, shooter, you would immediately grab the president and pull him to the ground or rush him off the stage.
Absolutely, that's true. You don't even have you can take it. They didn't pull him down. And that's what that observer was saying. He's like, why is Trump still on the stage, Why is he still talking? This guy's there with a rifle like he's frustrated out of his mind. And let me just pause and say, thank God, I believe God's protection was on Donald Trump amen that day. Thank God
he turned his head. Had that bullet been an inch or even a half an inch to the left, we could be dealing with a very different show right now, with a completed assassination. Yeah, and I do believe it was God's providence that made that bullet miss. But we need to ask and I want you to listen. Also, so Dan Bongino was on Fox and Friends, and you and I are both friends with Danny, terrific guy.
But former's secret service agent for viewer that may not know that for fifteen years.
So what Dan did before he got into radio and began commenting is he was a Secret Service to agent, so he knows Secret Service presidential protection at a level. Frankly that unless you've been done that service for a decade or more, you don't know it. I want you to listen to this interview because it really does highlight the massive, massive security failures that day.
I think your thoughts on this, Dan just continue where you left off on the reaction here.
So again, open security questions right now. And this is why again I think the Secret Service the pr Anthony googly m. He has to be very careful about what they put out. You know, he says in his in his ex posts and you can read it yourself. You don't need to hear from me that they deployed these extra resources and technology. Okay, well, which ones you're telling me? The best technology you have was deployed? And you missed a shooter one hundred and thirty yards? Say it was
two hundred yards. The Secret Service CS team PETE the counter Sniper team, And I'm not sure those two guys are Secret Service. We have to remember that we don't always when we go to New York. Sometimes with high level protectees, we'll use MYPDESU counter sniper. So I'm not really sure they Either way, they'd still be briefed in. The question we have to ask is if that's the
best technology we have. And we had a CS team up there with a shooter that you know, we're trained out to one thousand yards in the Secret Service with the counter sniper team, how did they miss someone at most, you know, one fifth of the way there. It doesn't make any sense. And even worse, it's broad daily right on a white roof. So again open questions here. Was there forward looking at infrared deployed? Was there aerial support, drones, helicopters?
You know, something happened to you If you go back and listen to the audio. I want you to listen to this after I get off here, when Donald Trump, after this tragic thing happens, you'll see the Secret Service agents.
And by the way, I know some of those guys personally.
It takes a lot to run into bullets divorcing the security failure. So at least they did that part, you know, correctly, and they knew what they were doing after the security absolutely fail. But you're going to hear something if you listen closely. The guys mentions hawkeye on the scene. He's talking about those two the BLACKBDU with the tactical gear CAT element, that two man CAT element that stands for counter Assault Team. That's a Secret Service special weapons team
equivalent to our SWAT. So they're there, they all deployed. The bunting around the front of the stage is probably armor. Donald Trump knew to Duck. I mean most people would. He saved his own life. That's just a fact. The evacuation did not go right. I mean the rule with the Secret Services covered the protect ee and evacuate. The other rule is maximum to the protect ee, minimum to the problem. Why minimum to the problem because you don't know that's the only problem.
It could be a distraction.
There could be another person in the crowd, so if you don't jump on the protectee, you could be looking at multiple shooters. So at least that part the guys there stepped up there. But the failure here is absolutely catastrophic. And I got to tell you the Secret Service should be very careful. I could tell you and absolutely confirm from the horse's mouth from multiple people, not just one.
And I saw Congressman Waltz text this out before on X. There have been repeated requests to increase the security footprint around not just the residences of Donald Trump, but the body itself.
They have been rebuffed.
Like I said, I can tell you actually quote the Secret Service directors completely failed and candidly should resign today. Kim Cheatle has failed Donald Trump and honestly failed Joe Biden too. He's the president right now. Where's the DHS secretary? I mean, this is you're blaming it on manpower. So just to be clear, we're a four trillion dollar United States government and we can't fork over enough money to
keep our people alive. And then you're sending out tweets like, oh, this is the best technology we have really to let a sniper one hundred and fifty yards away from the potential next president shoot a piece.
Of a zero off? Did that's your victory lap? Give me a break, man.
Let me just stop there. And I want to ask you this because it was the question that I was asked. And I was sitting today at lunch with a guy that has taken out some of the worst terrafs literally in the world, and the question that I was asking him was like, how does this even get happen?
He said?
Number one, Ben he goes they didn't have enough people. Clearly didn't have enough coverage. He said, I don't know how with the budget that they have, how they didn't have enough money to pay for enough people to cover the president of the United States of America. And I think that's a very valid point that many Americans are asking themselves right now. Forget if you're a Republican or Democrat center. We pay a lot of money in taxes.
We have trillions of dollars in debt. You're telling me that we're but we got a line on him here that we're really worried about, and a budget here on Secret Service to protect the president of the United States of America, whether it's a former or current.
Well.
As Dan Bongino rightly said, there were clearly catastrophic security failures. And I want to draw a distinction between the individual Secret Service agents.
Amen, and I want to praise their heirge.
Amen.
They put their bodies in front of Donald Trump. They stood up and surrounded him and were there to block a bullet, and they risked their lives to do that, and and and and so the criticism is not of those individual agents who did everything they could, but it is of the leadership of Secret Service, and it is ultimately of the political leadership. It is Alejandro Majorcis who is completely a wall on this.
Yeah, where's he? How is he not in front of a camera?
And listen, Bongino is exactly right that the head of the Secret Service should resign over this.
I was going to ask you, you believe that the Secret Service, the head should resign.
Yes, And I also believe.
So I joined with a number of other senators calling on Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to hold an emergency hearing, bringing together the head of the Secret Service and and the Secretary of Homeland Security and Chris Ray, the director of the FBI, for a hearing to ask them what the hell went what wrong?
How did this? How did this happen?
And and and it.
It's clear.
You didn't have manpower on the other roofs, you didn't have enough agents, you didn't scope out. And you know, one of the interesting things, every other security detail, if you have a security detail that is capitol police, if you have security detail that is with a governor or with the mayor, generally speaking, they can't control their environment.
So they go into whatever the environment is and.
The officers there are trying to protect the protect team, but they can't control their environment. Secret Service is different. When they come in, they control the environment, They set up magnetometers at the event, they take over buildings, they move people out. They have the ability to come in and look at the environment and say, Okay, if there's
a vulnerability, who would exploit it? And by the way, you don't have to get crazy hypothetical about a high powered rifle with a scope, because that's how JFK was shot. I mean, we're aware that is one of the principal ways that an assassin will look to take out a president. And and I'll tell you that there was another story that that that that that broke today, uh, which which was was sent out by Real Clear Politics that says and I want to read this, uh.
I want to read this.
From Susan Crabtree from Real Clear Politics. Here's what she sent out quote. This is the problem that my secret source. Secret sources have cited Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president. According
to two sources within the Secret Service community. There were also many supplemental agents from different field officers, not Trump's regular detail, providing security at the rally because Trump's regular detail has been overworked, some working seven days straight and only two counter snipers. But Trump is not just a former president. He is the first in modern history to have run for president again, and he has been the
focus of several prosecutions and controversies. Under statement intentional who made the decision to divert the resources to Jill Biden's event First Lady, doctor Jill Biden and former President Donald Trump campaigning in Pittsburgh today. So the reporting is they pulled Secret Service resources away from Trump's rally to the event with the First Lady. Now, look, the First Lady
needs to be protected. But to what extent is Secret Service treating Trump simply as another former president rather than right now now the leading candidate to be president of the United States and someone who has been targeted with vitriol And we're going to get into this more, but as targeted with vitriol such that they're is a threat level against him that any moron should be aware of.
I would love to know the threat assessment and I hope that you guys in Congress get this, because I would want to know how many threats are coming in against Donald Trump, even compared to Joe Biden even or are compared to Barack Obama or compared to George W.
Bush.
I mean, the number has got to be staggering of legitimate threats coming in. And it's not just I hate him on Twitter, I want to kill I'm like, we're talking about actual threats. We're talking about a significant number of active threats. You got to take that into consideration. You would assume if you're doing your job the right way. Look, that's exactly right, real and serious threats. We apparently didn't
have drone surveillance. We didn't have helicopters. We didn't have ariel because you would spot a guy.
Getting out road on a white roof putting up a ladder, apparently.
If you had any aerial surveillance. So I'm assuming they did not play the rest of Dan Boungeina And look, this is a long interview, but his expertise is unusual, and so I want to play the rest of what he had to say.
Dan, I mean, you bring up so many amazing points, and I just don't even know where to begin, except to ask you, why with the Secret Service not beef up more security for the man who is most likely to be assassinated in the entire world. Why would they not deploy more resources. Why weren't there drones over? Is it that this woman Kimberly Cheedle the director is incompetent? Could there be something else there? What is happening? Is it DEI? What's going on?
Well, you know, Rachel, it's my job if I'm going to give an opinion, to back it up.
You know.
Opinions are like holes, right, everybody has one. The difference between one opinion over the other in a courtroom and anywhere else.
Can you back it up? I want everyone at home.
Going down your phone or computer now, and I want you to look up US Secret Service red ties Donald Trump read it. The Secret Service was more concerned about protective agents around Donald Trump. If you think I'm making this up, go to your f go to a left wing search engine. If you think I'm biased, to go to Scrugle and put it.
Oh, you're reading a story right now. They were more concerned about the color.
Of the Secret Service agent's ties around Donald Trump, given the perception that a red tie with some I've got red ties, I'm a Republican, has nothing to do with it. I just like red ties. They go nice with white shirts. That's an actual saw.
You see. You see it right now.
I'm not crazy. This is what the Secret Service was concerned about. They put out, you know, a thousand tweets about all of this DEI stuff.
Do I know that's related here? I don't.
I'm just saying that you have one job, and only one job. Your job is keep the body alive, no matter what Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, the president of Djibouti, it doesn't matter.
That is your job.
They absolutely, resolutely, one hundred percent failed. Not a single excuse should be made, not a single excuse should be attempted. This should be the subject of congressional hearings and investigations because if they can't do this, and this is the best technology you had, then folks, there's no purpose anymore. This isn't the agency I grew up in. It's not I spent twelve years of my life there, and I'm telling you some of that. I know some of those
guys personally. These are good men and women. But this was an apocalyptic security failure, and don't ever forget an.
Uneventful failure is never a success.
And the fact that Donald Trump didn't die yesterday is no reason for anybody to take some kind of victory lap. And before we start sending out plaudits, we better look and do a hotwash on this and find out exactly how abysmal this security plan was.
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It was all about diversity.
They have a classic plan that right the leftloves thirty percent female recruits by twenty thirty. This is what it sounded like a few months ago they were asking for this.
Press to expand hiring. They're aiming to have thirty percent women recruits by twenty thirty and even allowed YouTube influencer Michelle Carey to train with agents.
But I'm very conscious as I sit in this chair now of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce, and particularly women.
That workforce will be pivotal for the twenty twenty four campaign season, which for the first time includes a former president who already has lifetime protection. Agents were there when Donald Trump was arraigned in New York.
We were able to work out the details ahead of time of how that particular day was going to go. But we will always ensure the safety of all of our protectees that we have.
The Service has a zero fail mission, a mission officers are training to uphold, pretending this field is the most famous address in America.
To be clear, I don't care.
If a woman is is the person protecting the president, as long as she's the best person to protect the president. I don't care if you're a man or a woman I want the best. But when you listen to that and you look at the Secret Service and what they were beating their chest about, you know, for the last several months about you know, diversity and hiring, you got to ask yourself, do we have the best or are
we filling quotas? And if there's any place I don't want a quota to be filled, it would be protecting the President of the United States America, whether that's Joe Biden or Donald Trump. And it shouldn't be a study in society like some sort of university. Hey, all right, we're gonna grab seventeen be whether it or this color, and fifteen they're this color, and twenty three that identify as a sex.
That's not what the Secret Service should be am I wrong?
Well, this is yet another manifestation of what we've seen throughout the Biden administration, which is an obsessive focus on being counting on quotas on DEI at the expense of the mission. Look, we've covered in this podcast before the CIA doing this and instead of focusing on, for example, getting intelligence on hamas to prevent October seventh, they're they're focused on on on pushing the language police on on
ferreting out what what they deem insufficiently inclusive language. You just heard Dan Bongino talking about the damn red ties that they're worried about.
Uh oh uh oh.
If you wear a red tie, it looks like you may support Donald Trump. So no red ties. And and it's it's losing the mission. And the mission should be front and center focused on protecting the protect tee. And and when you fail, and to be clear, this weekend was not just a mild failure. It was a catastrophic failure. The consequences far too often are catastrophic and and and and listen, one person lost his life, Corey Comparatory, the
fire chief. And I want to read read the Facebook post from his daughter that his daughter put up, because this is really powerful. So here's what she put up. This is from Aliston Alison Comparatory. Yesterday time stopped, and when it started again, my family and I started living a real life nightmare. What was supposed to be an exciting day that we had all looked forward to, especially my dad, turned into the most traumatizing experiences someone could imagine.
I know the media will cover this event, and I'm going to try my best to stay away from looking at everything, especially because I've already seen and lived through it in real time. But I want everyone to know what the media will not cover and will not say about him. He was the best dad a girl could ever ask for. My sister and I never needed for anything.
You call, he would answer and he would do whatever it is you needed, and if he didn't know how, he would figure out how he could talk and make friends with anyone, which he was doing all day yesterday and loved every minute of it. He was a man of God, loved Jesus fiercely, and also looked after our church and our members' family. The media will not tell you that he died a real life superhero. They're not going to tell you how quickly he threw my mom
and I to the ground. They're not going to tell you that he shielded my body from the bullet that came at us. He loved his family, He truly loved us enough to take a real bullet for us, And I want nothing more than to cry on him and tell and thank you. I want nothing more than to wake up and for this not to be reality for me and my family. We lost a selfless, loving husband, father, brother.
You hear that, and I read that on my show earlier and I barely could get through it because I can't imagine knowing that's what your dad did at the end of his life, which was to keep you safe.
It's real and it is Look. Look, the Bible tells us greater love has no man than he lays down his life for another. And Corey Comparatory literally gave his life to save his wife and daughter. Now, if the Secret Service leadership had done their damn job, Chief Comparatory would be home with his family instead.
Yeah, it has consequences when you when you, when the actions have consequences, bad decisions have even bigger consequences. And I go back to something that was said today. I try to surround myself when there's things like this that happen with people that know it better than I do. That's why I had lunch today with a special operator
and I had a million questions. There was one comment though, that was made that stuck with me when I left, and that was it is astounding that we are sending blank checks to Ukraine for drones to be used to find Russian soldiers. But we didn't have drones being used apparently in a major way to protect Donald Trump.
Listen, I don't know this for a fact, but I have a very strong suspicion that politics played a real role in this well, and that was my next question. And the reason I say that is because politics plays a role in everything this damn administration does. And by the way, this is the same administration, this is the same Joe Biden, this is the same Alejandro Majorcus that still won't give a secret service detail to Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, which you called for six I don't even know how many months ago, seven eight months ago.
On this podcast. Rfk Junior's father was murdered by an assassin. His uncle, the sitting president, was murdered by an assassin. And yet this administration, Joe Biden doesn't want anyone to know that Bobby Kennedy's on the ballot and if he gave him secret service, well that could legitimize him. So no,
no secret service for you. And so my very strong suspicion is there's a reason they just treat Trump as a former president and not as the leading candidate for president right now today, because it is political, and so the decisions look One of the things that we've seen multiple reports of is that there have been repeated requests for additional security coverage for Trump. And given the magnitude of the threats, I believe that that's why we need
to have a hearing and the Senate Judiciary Committee. We need to have it very rapidly, and we need to know how many threats were there, how many requests for extra coverage were there, how many of them were denied, Who denied them, who made the decision, who made the decision to move agents from the Trump rally to the first Lady? Was that a political appointee, What were the factors in that decision?
And what were the teams? Was it a drone team, was it another sniper team? Was it just bodies?
And are you telling me in the United States government they don't have any more drones. You're telling me there are no helicopters in the United States government. You're telling me that you don't have additional counter snipers. There were not that many rooftops surrounding that. Why did they not have adequate personnel? Now that again, I want to underscore this, that's not the fault of the Secret Service agents who
were risking their lives to protect the president. Amen, that is the fault of leadership, That is the fault of the bureaucrats making the decision. And I think we should get we should have a real urgency to get to the bottom of did partisan politics play a role in saying no, we're not going to protect you. And I think Congress needs to get to the bottle of it. I think the American people deserve to know the answer.
To that to back up what you're saying. And I think facts matter now. Democrats actively called members of Congress so that no one thinks he is a conspiracy theory for Donald Trump to lose Secret Service protection if he was convicted of a felony. One of those was my former Congressman, Steve Cohen. He and several other people in Congress said that they should pull Secret Service protection of Donald Trump, which goes back to what you said about
it being political. They didn't care if Donald Trump got killed. In fact, they advocated for taking away the safety that protects a president from being killed.
And those are members of Congress. And it's amazing to me that.
Virtually no, not virtually literally no one in the media has brought that point up that just months ago, we had active Democrats in Congress, not fringe people. Okay, these are elected officials who were demanding that Donald Trump, who's a Secret Service protection if he was convicted of these I'm sorry hoaks, you know, crimes against him, they tried to go after him for to imprison him.
Well, and this was legislation that was filed by Congressman Benny Thompson, who is the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee.
So he's actually can you just say that again, so if you understand how important that job is, and then to understand that Homeland Security how much they have to do with the Secret Service.
So they are the committee of jurisdiction. They have authority over the Department of Homeland Security. And Benny Thompson is the senior Democrat, he's called the ranking member, and he filed the legislation. He is the author of the legislation to say, let's pull the Secret Service coverage from Donald Trump entirely if he's convicted. And by the way, it's a complete partisan conviction that is designed to subvert democracy.
But let's be clear, if you were to put any former president into general population in a prison they would die, yes, And so he's literally effectively calling for a death sentence. And by the way, Betty Thompson also had a staffer who in the wake of this posted on x saying that she wishes the shooter had taken shooting lessons and that he wouldn't miss next time. Now, Benny Thompson fired that staffer. He put out a statement, I was made aware of a post made by a staff member and
she is no longer in my employment. But you know what staff reflects the member, and it reflects the culture that her first reaction is to be angry that this would be assassin did not in fact kill Donald Trump. That's what she wanted and from his legislation, and it was joined by multiple other Democrats, that legislation, if it actually had become law, and if Trump had gone to prison, would have led directly to the death of Donald Trump.
And now they're suddenly saying, oh, well, we're very dismayed that there was any violence towards it.
Let's talk about the rewriting of history and move also to the press conference Monday night that Joe Biden had. He opened it went a press conference more of a statement from the over office, I should say because there was no questions and what he said his address to the nation when he opened was certainly rewriting of history.
Here he is, in his own words, I want to.
Speak you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, or we may disagree, we are not enemies. We're neighbors. We're friends, coworkers, citizens, and most importantly, we are fellow Americans.
Sounds great.
The problem is if you go and read the president's own words in the days leading up to this moment, that is not what he was saying at all. He didn't say, hey, I need to tone it down as well. Joe Biden's own tweet was quote, Donald Trump is the greatest threat to our democracy. He tweeted out again, donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. Another tweet, he meaning Trump is a threat to our freedom, he
is a threat to our democracy. He's literally this is Joe Biden's words on Twitter on x He's literally referring to Trump a threat to everything America stands for. He also said Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and we cannot let him win. I'm in Madison, Wisconsin talking to the folks about what's its take in this election.
We cannot let him win.
He also tweeted out Trump poses many threats to our country, the right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and Americans and America city in the world. But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy. If we lose that, we lose everything. If I read those and I'm a crazy twenty year old lunatic, and you tell me, as the president United State's America that Donald Trump and I'm quoting again, is a threat to our democracy. Quote, He's
literally a threat to everything America stands for. Well, then it's not crazy to think that that person would say, well, then we have to stop him at all means, because we've already tried to impeach him.
That didn't work. We tried to bankrupt him, that didn't work. We tried to lock him up, that didn't work. What's left.
Well, and you're right, and there's some irony with Joe Biden suggesting, you know, we need to tamp down the rhetorical. I'd like to see the rhetoric tamp down, but then taking no responsibility. Listen, it is Democrats for a decade who have been calling Donald Trump eight off Hitler.
Yeah, and the media too, and the media too.
And well, I said democrats, and they're one in this in the corporate media is the left wing of the Democrat Party. That is their role, and they call them that over and over and over again. Here play the montage. This is Democrats repeatedly calling for political violence.
It starts with Nancy Pelosi. Give a listen.
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I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all of the country, and maybe there will be.
People need to start taking to the streets.
This is a dictator. You know.
There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.
Enemies of the state, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
Do something about your dad's immigration practices.
Effectless comment they.
How do you resist the temptation to run up and bring her neck. The biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized up to the right.
I thought he should have punched him in the face.
They say, even if you lost, if he insulted to white He's on the escalator and called Mexican's rapist emerged.
He said, well, what do you think I should have done?
So think you should have.
Punsed him in the face and then gotten out of the race.
He would have been a hero. I'd like to punch him in the face.
I said, if we're in high school, I take you behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
Punch some people in the face.
When was the last time an actor assassinated in a president?
They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.
And that's a fact.
Look is, his character is stabbed to death.
Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?
In this way?
I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House of Missouri.
States senator is under investigation by the Secret Service after saying she hopes President Trump is assassinated.
I will go and take Trump out to night.
And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a castle stay, you get out and you played a rude and you just based on them, and you tell them that nothing welcome anymore anywhere.
And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and are honoring our constitution all right at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue.
They're not going to stop before election day in November, and they're not going to stop after election day. And that should be everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this is they're not going to let up, and they should not.
If you take me a rally, not you ain't say nothing yet.
That's what Donald Trump dealt with while he was president and after being the president.
Look, the radical left, Donald Trump melted their minds. They hate him and they have spewed invective and hate for years. And listen, there's an invective on both sides. I would like to see the political temperature taken down, but the Democrats intend to go right back to this. This is a brief little pause for about twelve seconds, and by I don't know next week or the week after, they're going to go back to Callingham Hitler because the rage
and fury. Look the number of leftists on Twitter who were lamenting that they were sad.
That she wasn't good at it.
Yeah, they're basically saying this if any and there were people were literally tweeting out there like, hey this guy, next time, take lessons. Next time, actually do a good job.
And let me be clear, as you and I talked about, we did a podcast immediately in the moments after this assassination attempts. I pray for Joe Biden. I don't wish political violence on Democrats or anyone else.
Now.
I want Joe Biden defeated at the ballot box. That I believe his policies are harmful. But there's a difference between saying his policies are harmful and saying he's Hitler, saying he's Mussolini, which is what saying he's the devil, which is what the Democrats have been doing literally for a decade, and it's what the media has been doing to I.
Said today, how many cities have Republicans tried to destroy after their kin it was almostssassinated. Just so we're clear, zero, what did Republicans say today they said pray, go to church, yes, and pray for the family of those who lost loved ones. There's been no violence. I never want to hear again from the left. Oh, it's the Republicans of the extremists here. There has been nothing but love and compassion. There's anger, and.
We also need to fix the damn problem. We need to make sure that there is is adequate protection for Donald Trump and and for others targeted by violence, because this was a catastrophic failure and we got to make sure it doesn't happen again.
We're going to keep you updated on this, I can promise you, especially as Congress looks on this, as you've called for these emergency meetings. We are also going to be at the Republican Convention this week with several shows. We will be on more than normal from the convention. It's going to be a very big, important week, and we pray for the safety of the President and everyone in the attendance there, obviously, but we will be back with you from Milwaukee at the Republican Convention as well.
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