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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, thank you for your methodical analysis of how the
Trump administration chart is trying to return the children back
to Guatemala. But you have to understand why Judge Spark
was so upset. I mean, hundreds of my agents going
after a single house in a pre dawn raid with
big guns and body armor. Oh wait, that was Bill
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Cunton's ions with Helan Gonzalez.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I forgot I thought of that d Gonzales in ages.
Remember that iconic photograph of the Ice agent. You know,
he's got his AR fifteen or his him whatever it was,
and he's standing there and he's got his eyes bulging out,
and the kids looking like, oh my god, and they're spulling.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The kid out.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
L's with the good old days. Meanwhile, you sit back
and have a cigar, and you know, just enjoy life.
Speaking of residents, there, Eddie that I told you before
was President Bush's chief of the Presidential Detail. Now the
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presidential detail is the Krem de la Krem of the
US Secret Service, and they you know, I've told you
this story that I never heard Laura Bush tell George W.
Bush no, but I'm sure she did, because husband and
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wife happens all the time, Missus Redbeard is constantly telling
mister Redbeard no no, no, no, no no no rightfully,
so I'm getting yelled at all the time. No no no, no, no, no,
no no. And I'm sure there are friends of President
Bush H. Klay Johnson or James Baker in any number
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of the of the inner inner inner inner Circle, or
even someone like Condi Rice might at times in a
private meeting say no, we can't. You know, we can't
do that, mister President. I mean, but she would phrase
it that way, No, we can't do it that way.
But I've never heard any individual who, when the President
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made a specific request, stopped the car. I want to
get out here, and I want these people to be
able to see their president. And I remember because it
was in the third person, wasn't that they wanted to
see him, George W.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Bush?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
They wanted to see their president. And he was just
persistent about this. This was in California and we were
headed back to Marine one and he just he just
kept nagging Eddie, who was sitting in the passenger seat
of the Beast. Not we weren't in the Beast. We
were in an suv. And after about three blocks of
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this Eddie turned around and looked directly at Bush because
Bush was sitting behind Eddie, directly behind him. I was,
I was in the seat behind the driver, and so
he had to turn all the way all the way
around and say, no, we're not doing that. And Bush
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just kind of like a little kid, just like okay, was.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It forceful with like the dad voice, and you know,
it was it was it was.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It wasn't the mad dad voice. It was the stern
dad voice. No, we're not going to do that. In
other words, stop asking me. That was the implication of it.
We're not doing it. Don't ask me about it again.
Bush had swagger. Bush, you know, the you know, the cowboy,
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the Texas cowboy. He had that kind of swagger.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Uh. And it was it was almost always evident. Today.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I saw a video of him getting out at some
event yesterday and that you know, they opened the door
of the of the suv and he got out and
he had on you know, he had on I forget,
maybe jeans and a shirt and I think he had
on sneakers or something. And he got and he was
walking with that swagger. He's just got that swagger as
if he grew up in the back of a horse,
which he didn't, but that's what the way he walks.
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I've never met Donald Trump. I don't know that I've
ever been within fifty feet of Donald Trump. But everything
that I watch about Trump, I see a personality that
is well, think about the iconic photo of where the
Secret Service is trying to in Butler, Pennsylvania, where they're
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trying to get him off that stage. And you know,
normally in a situation like that, they get over the
top of the principal, the president, and so they'd kind
of got him bent over as they're covering him with
their bodies as they moved to get him and throw
him into the limousine. But yet what does he do
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in that iconic photograph. He pushes them aside and stands up,
pumps his fist in the air and yells fight, fight, Fight.
So I think that personifies the personality. Nonetheless, even that
photo has always bugged me. And here's why. The Secret
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Service did not know at that point whether there were
other shooters or whether the shooter had been neutralized or not.
They didn't know, and they didn't know whether anybody in
that audience behind him might be a shooter. They didn't
know where the attack was coming from. They didn't know
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what was coming next, and yet they were weak enough
and or Trump was strong enough that he was able
to push out from all of those, including the little
chubby Secret Service girl. They really didn't know what to
do with her with her weapon when they got to
the car.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And it shows that.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's, well, he's just that kind of guy. When Bobby
Kennedy Senior, when Robert F. Kennedy was the Attorney General
for JFK. There there's not much history about this, but
they began work in early nineteen sixty three to remove
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the presidential protection duties from the purview of US Secret
Service and move it to the US Marshall Service. It
was a time consuming process. It was going to have
required beefing up the Marshall Service and training them up
to be able to take over.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
The job now. Unfortunately for Barbart F. Kennedy and then
President John F.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Kennedy, November twenty second, nineteen sixty three arrived before the
Attorney General was able to execute the transfer. We now
know that on that fateful day in Dallas and the
night before, Kennedy's Secret Service detail committed a whole host
of whether it's Monday morning quarterbacking, or it is second guessing,
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or it is the circumstances have changed. I think it's
a combination of all of the above. Nonetheless, that secret
Service detail on November twenty second, on November twenty first,
and November twenty second committed a plethora of the most
prolific derelictions of duty in American history. By two point
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thirty in the afternoon on November twenty second, one president
was dead. He was monstrously murdered in broad daylight as
a direct result of the myriad Secret Service failures, and
another completely different president with different goals had been sworn
into office. And if you want to go down a
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rabbit hole conspiracy theories, that's fine, but that's not what
the point of this story is. I remind you of
that today in lie of something that happened when just
last night, the President and most of his cabin I'm
not quite sure who all was there. I know the
Vice President was there, which really bothers me. They walked
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from the White House to a nearby restaurant, Joe's Seafood,
Prime Steak and Stone Crab. I think there used to
be a Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab down on
the wharf. I don't know that I've been to this restaurant,
but I've been to the old Abbott Grill, and I've
been to several of the restaurants that are just to
the east of the Treasury Building and some that are
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just north of the White House. There's also one just
west on G Street. I think I've been to most
of those restaurants. I don't know that I've been to
this particular restaurant, but I've now seen photographs of the
inside of it. This whole display of them walking from
the White House to the restaurant was a display in
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Trump in fashion to show just how safety c has
become since he activated the National Guard and he's beefed
up crime fighting operations of the d C Metro Police Department.
Now here's what's hilarious. But before I get to the
serious stuff, the description by CNN and MSNBC was that
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the trip was mostly peaceful. What's this mostly peaceful crap?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
We've heard that before.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We've heard that before lots of times, and we've always
heard it in the context of what violence going on. Right,
So they're talking about the president going to a restaurant
and telling me it's mostly peaceful. That catches my attention. Well, then,
what wasn't peaceful? I want to know what was really
going on. Well here's what was going on. For at
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least sixty seconds, maybe longer, A pack and I use
that word derogatorily, A pack of pro hamas terrorace demonstrations
were somehow able to barge into that restaurant, get within
fifteen feet of the President of the United States, vice
President of the United States, and members of the freaking
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cabinet and shout their epithets at him and his cabinet members.
It's simply amazing that.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I later dinner, there's the vice president.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
There's hexit this US I can see, Oh there's Trump
beating the pat They're.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
All kind of looking back at them. Oh there's Marco Rubia.
Stop it the way.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
But you know, I hadn't thought about this, so I
watched the clip again. Just now, think about the line
of succession. Holy crap, Mike's speaker was Mike Speaker. Mike Johnson,
the speaker was within just fifteen feet of becoming the
next president of the United States of America. Because anybody
you had the president, you had the vice president, then
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the Secretary of Defense of the Secretary of State. Now,
protocol wise, I would have put the Secretary of State
next in line in terms of just walking into the restaurant.
But hey, what do I know. That's up to Monica Crowley,
and who knows. Maybe they were talking and they just
got disrupted. But and then Trump turns and faces the demonstrators.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And at least in terms of the video that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm looking at, I'm looking over here Pat Woodard's over
in the news booth, which is how far is that
from me? Twenty feet maybe fifteen twenty feet, so about
the same as in the restaurant. And if I want
to take Pat out now or Pat went to take
me out right now, that glass may be soundproof, but
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it ain't.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Bulletproof, and boom, there's no glass between him.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So the Democrat operative Trump payters in the in the
cabal or good are pretending ain't no big deal, and
people are blowing it out of proportion since there was
no real violence.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
That took place. That's not the purpose of the Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, hey, guys, no harm, no foul, no violence took place,
so nothing to worry about. Make no mistake about this.
I think this is a big effing deal. It's a
big f and deal because despite everything that's taking place
related to the candidate Donald Trump, the former president Donald Trump,
and the current president Donald Trump. WI oversay the last
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what fifteen months or so, the Secret Service still seems
incapable of providing the kind of protection that I saw
when Bush was president and I was inside that bubble. Now,
the protesters, let's be honest, they're depraved sociopathy lunatics. Whether
they're just lunatics, they're brainwashed automatons who actively are screaming
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on behalf of a group of terrorists who brutally murder
them for just the fun of it. They don'tly murder
you after they raped you. Now, these particular nut jobs
were unarmed. They only wanted to screen. But wants to
say that the next pact of lunatics who managed to
get within fifteen feet of the President of the United
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States of America won't be armed of the teeth or
after the suicide momb Now, shockingly, this specific incident was
far worse than that clip that I just played portrays
because in the second trip clip, Trump himself has to
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finally order his supposed protective detail to get them out
of the restaurant to finally, you know, I've had enough.
The fact that now Trump and everybody are standing, you know,
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they've got they've got a you know, a big banquet table,
and they're all, you know, getting ready to sit down,
and Trump has to wave to the Secret Service like, Okay,
you know, I've had enough to get them out of here.
That is mind boggling incompetence on the part of the
Secret Service. Now I don't know, and this gets back
to personalities. I don't know what instruction they might have
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given been given in preparation for this dinner. But whatever
those instructions might have been, that is no excuse for
the failure of duty that I've seen in these videos.
There is both for the White House and the Secret
Service advanced teams. What advanced work was done to secure
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the site. I had not been in that particular restaurant,
but anytime that you know, there was a mixing place
that Bush ate at that was in Arlington, Virginia, and
I ate there one time and I was amazed. You know,
there were a group of people in the restaurant and
we walk in. You know, people obviously stand up because
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they see the President of the United States, so they
stand up and they applaud him, and we go to
a table that's been set down for the president, and so.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
But I know that everybody in that restaurant had gone
through a magnetometer and they had been instructed about what
to do and what not to do when the president
or This restaurant is not some complex venue with multiple
entrances and exits. It's not a basketball arena. It's not
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a football stadium. It's not like the tennis facility where
you want where you went to watch the Men's Division
or whatever it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Was, or the US Open. This is a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It would have taken the White House Advanced team and
the Secret Service advanced team. I don't know, maybe thirty
minutes max for a competent security detail to lock the
place down as tight as a drum. This is the
kind of advance work that is presidential protection one oh one,
and it is not rocket science. But I want to
know something else. How did those lunatics get into the
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restaurant in the first place. Did they go on open
table and make a reservation. If so, wouldn't that mean
that somebody leaked the information about where the president and
his cabinet would be at that time so they could
be there to stage their scene. Hey guys, let's just
make this go on to open table, and let's just
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make reservations at every restaurant within you know, a quarter
mile of the of the Oval office, and we'll have
people ready for each one of them. I don't think
that's what happened. The second thing I wonder, will will
the Secret Service now do an investigation? What a joke
right to find the leaker? If indeed there was a
leaguer about where the president was going. Are these hams
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nut jobs hanging around all the time just waiting for
the president and whether he's leaving by limo or marine
one or whatever, to follow him wherever they can go?
And why were they? And I think this is the
thing that bugs me the most is why did the
Secret Service agents have to wait for the president to
wave them off to remove the protesters? Why didn't they
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remove the protesters? I don't give two pieces that they
were mainly women and kids. They were a clear and
present danger to the president and the cabinet and should
have been fortunately removed within seconds, and don't tell me
about bad optics for Trump. Do you think Trump cares
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about bad optics? What about bad optics? If a slow
reaction by the Secret Service ended up getting somebody killed
in that restaurant.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Good grief, BEPO, Michael, you hit the nail on the head. Okay,
somebody leaked this information. Number one, Number two. Secret Service
is so incomfident they should have cleaned house after his
last two attempts on his life. The guy that's running
the Secret Service right now is a weak pile. Okay,
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fire them all, replace them all, get some military guys
to protect him.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Anybody who has studied the JFK assassination and the events
actually that led up to it knows that the Secret
Service in nineteen sixty three failed to uphold its duties
on that day and in advance of that day. Researchers
also know that the Secret Service failed despite.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
A wealth of clear warning signs and even.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Prior assassination plots that targeted JFK, which took place in
both Chicago and Tampa, but those incidents had been buried
in the history because of November twenty second, the Chicago
plot was intercepted and that would stopped less than two
weeks before Dallas. Now you can call me alarmist, but
this thankfully non violent incident ought to be a clear
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warning sign to Trump himself that his detail is still
not up to the task of providing for his safety.
What more than a year now after Butler and I
still have questions about Butler. I still want to know
about the phone. You know, where where was the sniper Well,
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I know where the sniper team wasn't And I kind
of beginning to learn why the sniper team wasn't where
they were supposed to be, because they're understaffed by about
seventy almost seventy five percent. You know, in the corporate world,
you know, I was taught this as a kid in school.
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You know, in the corporate world, we're always reminded that
nobody is truly indispensable. You know, Dragon and I both
know that we are not indispensable to this company, and
we're certainly not indispensable to the survival of the company. Well,
the same principle also applies to the health and the
survival of a nation for the most part. But if
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you honestly kind of look through American history, there are
indeed a handful of individuals who you might say they
are there. They're not indispensable because history would have go
move forward anyway. But there are names like George Washington,
or Abraham Lincoln, or Theodore Roosevelder US Grant, or George
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Patten or Ronald Reagan who did change and alter the
course of the nation.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So what do you want to call.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Him indispensable or you know, truly historical figures. Donald Trump
is for the time that we are in and from
a perspective point of view, from everything that's been going
on up to this particular term, we really can't afford
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to lose him to secret service incompetence. I've got confidence,
don't misread that, I've got confidence that Jade Evans would
carry on these policies. But think about what that would
do to subsequent elections, to the midterms or the twenty
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twenty eight election. If Trump were to be assassinated. We
simply can't afford for that to happen. We've got one
guy on trial down in Florida right now for his
attempt on Trump. So last, this event in this restaurant
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is it is a clear warning sign that the presidential
security detail is certainly not up to what the job
really requires. It's thought up to the job that eyewitnessed
that I saw up close personal in firsthand. And it
should be a warning sign that the Secret Service itself
as an institution has become too corrupt. It's probably too
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submerged into the bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security.
It has been eviscerated throughout the Biden administration. Think about
how much did you have to be on your toes
to protect Joe Biden? And was anybody really after Joe Biden?
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Think about those pictures of him in the chaise lounge
on the beach at Rehoboth, just laying there reading a book,
or you know, Sonning the radled up old fart laying
there on the beach. I know the Secret Service was
just sitting there and their short sleeves shirts and their
sneakers and you know, watching and you know, making sure
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that nobody got very close. You saw people walking around,
but they looked at the threat level and I'm sure
that they had snipers in place for him, you know,
ready to do anything they needed to do. But that's
that's not acceptable here because here we have two, if
not three potential assassins, you know, one that actually got
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shots off. And what's Homeland Security doing right now now?
Because that's where you know they moved, you know, unfortunately
it was Bush and US that moved Secret Service out
of Treasury at least the protective details, the counterfeiting operations,
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all of that. Unless that's changed. I don't really I
didn't pay any attention, but I know what DHS and
that behemoth did to FEMA in terms of eviscerating its
capabilities as the same thing happened to the Secret Service.
And why have we allowed that to occur? Go back
to the whole point about personalities. The presidential detail, whoever
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was and I don't know the name of who Trump's
lead agent is, but that lead agent when he walked
into that restaurant should have known that an advanced team
had been there, that the people that were dining had
been you know, checked, that told the president was coming,
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and to you know, stay seated and nobody will leave.
You know, when you're ready to leave, say no, that
you're ready to leave, and we'll escort you out of
the restaurant. And the minute that the protesters showed up,
they shouldn't have waited for the President to waive to
his detail. I've had enough of this. Get them out
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of here. The Secret Service. They should have had enough
the minute they started screaming. And that's putting aside. Let
me back up just a little bit. The other thing
that really bothers me is that it wasn't just Trump
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and Millennia. It wasn't just Trump and Rubio, or Trump
and Hegsath or Trump and Bessen.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It was.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
The entire line of six Essen all in the same place.
And it wasn't the House of Representatives, the United States
Capital for a State of the Union speech, which is
totally locked down.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It was a freaking restaurant.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
There is far, far too much at stake, not just
in this country but worldwide. Israel is shooting at Hamas
inside another sovereign country. I am a full bore, full
on supporter of Israel, but that caused me to go
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what you launched fighter jets into sovereign airspace of cutter
to take out Hamas ballsy yes, diplomatically saying no, probably not.
I woke up this morning to learn that, oh, we've
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got Russian drones in Poland and the Warsaw airport was
shut down fighter jets scrambled, And do you want a
president to be assassinated while he has dinner? You want
you want the Archduke Ferdinand moment where World War three starts.
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Watch Donald Trump get assassinated in a restaurant and see
what happens next if Trump gets taken out by some
idiots in a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I'm not too concerned about World War three. I'm concerned
about Civil War number two.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I think all of the above, I think, and you
don't want to think that one single individual could cause
that much chaos by simply either And I think it
would be different too. You know, if he dies of
too many you know, big macs, that's one thing. But
if he dies because of a bullet to a head,
that's that's something else. But yeah, I think it's it's
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Have you ever thought about the fact that World War three,
as a subset of that act might actually include a
civil war in this country or even you want to
go really out on the limb, an invasion of this
country by the Chinese Communist Party, by the People's Liberation Army.
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It's all possible. I want to go to text messages
because I want to address a couple of things that
people are making nine zero two six, says Mike. I
don't mean think about this. Do you think Trump was
being defiant and making a point that he is not
going to be run out by a bunch of protesters
and that's why this happened. I haven't seen the video.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
The video is up at Michael says go here dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
And I don't think so. I think that the protesters,
But the the video, there's two snippets. I haven't seen,
like a full length, so I really I assume these
videos come from people in the restaurant. I don't think
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this was a planned event. I think that now there
could have been a leak, yes, And also you have
to remember across the street from the White House in
Lafayette Park, there is almost I mean virtually, twenty four
hours a day, seven days a week, there are groups
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of protesters always all around the White House, all around
the fence surrounding the eighteen acres. There are always protesting.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Whether he's home or not, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Whether he's awake or asleep, doesn't make any difference. They're
always there. Now, I want you to picture an entourage
of the freaking president of the United States, the Secretary
of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary the Treasury,
all of these people, plus all of this of the
Secret Service agents themselves that are there for the president,
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plus the security details that are provided to the Secretary
of State and Defense and everybody else. So you got
this conglottanous, huge, humongous crowd of people that have now
exited let's say the northeast gate of the White House,
or they've crossed over to Treasury, and they've exited out
of the front gate of the Treasury and walked across
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the street to the restaurant. That immediately attracts attention in DC.
And everybody knows, just like everybody knows when the beast
is traveling. Everybody knows when Marine one takes off and
everything in DC comes to a standstill. Well, the protesters
are there twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
They see what's going on, They go to the restaurant,
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and then they do you think the matre d at
the restaurant is going to say to a group of
women and children who screaming and yelling, you know, no, no,
you know, we require coat and tie and we require
no screaming they're overtaken. All they're trying to do is
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protect themselves and try to preserve the integrity of the restaurant.
And they know they've already got a problem because they
got the freaking president of the United States inside the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
So I don't think it was set up. I think that.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Trump was deliberately allowing them, because he's standing there facing
them as if to say, I really don't give a
fly on f what you're yelling about. I'm the President
of the United States. I'm going to stand here and
stare you down. And then when he turns to sit down,
that's when he waves to the Secret Service to move
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them out of here. Because he's also and I firmly
believe this, he's also cognizant that this group of yahoos
is being disruptive to the rest of the people in
the restaurant. Trump himself knows that he's disruptive. Although I
think most people would be honored to be in a
restaurant where Trump or any other president would come in
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and sit down and have dinner, it's just it's the
president c not the president, And so I think that
anybody is it an inconvenience for them. Yes, is it
one that they would endure because they get to go
home and tell their friends and family, Hey, guess who
I had dinner with tonight. Yeah, the President came in
and had dinner at the restaurant where we were eating.
I think he was just tired of the noise and
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he knew that it was disruptive to everybody else, and
he was waving them off. Don't get so conspiratorial to
think that this was planned by Trump.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, he doesn't need to. They're going to show up regardless,
Michael, thank you for your methodical analysis of how the
Trump administration chart is trying to return the children back
to Guatemala. But you have to understand why Judge Spark
was so upset. I mean, hundreds of my agents going
after a single house in a pre dawn raid with
big guns and body armor. Oh wait, that was Bill
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Cunton's ions with Helan Gonzalez.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I forgot I thought of that d Gonzales in ages.
Remember that iconic photograph of the Ice agent. You know,
he's got his AR fifteen or his him whatever it was,
and he's standing there and he's got his eyes bulging out,
and the kids looking like, oh my god, and they're spulling.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The kid out.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
L's with the good old days. Meanwhile, you sit back
and have a cigar, and you know, just enjoy life.
Speaking of residents, there, Eddie that I told you before
was President Bush's chief of the Presidential Detail. Now the
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presidential detail is the Krem de la Krem of the
US Secret Service, and they you know, I've told you
this story that I never heard Laura Bush tell George W.
Bush no, but I'm sure she did, because husband and
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wife happens all the time, Missus Redbeard is constantly telling
mister Redbeard no no, no, no, no no no rightfully,
so I'm getting yelled at all the time. No no no, no, no, no,
no no. And I'm sure there are friends of President
Bush H. Klay Johnson or James Baker in any number
(01:55):
of the of the inner inner inner inner Circle, or
even someone like Condi Rice might at times in a
private meeting say no, we can't. You know, we can't
do that, mister President. I mean, but she would phrase
it that way, No, we can't do it that way.
But I've never heard any individual who, when the President
(02:16):
made a specific request, stopped the car. I want to
get out here, and I want these people to be
able to see their president. And I remember because it
was in the third person, wasn't that they wanted to
see him, George W.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Bush?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
They wanted to see their president. And he was just
persistent about this. This was in California and we were
headed back to Marine one and he just he just
kept nagging Eddie, who was sitting in the passenger seat
of the Beast. Not we weren't in the Beast. We
were in an suv. And after about three blocks of
(02:53):
this Eddie turned around and looked directly at Bush because
Bush was sitting behind Eddie, directly behind him. I was,
I was in the seat behind the driver, and so
he had to turn all the way all the way
around and say, no, we're not doing that. And Bush
(03:15):
just kind of like a little kid, just like okay, was.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It forceful with like the dad voice, and you know,
it was it was it was.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It wasn't the mad dad voice. It was the stern
dad voice. No, we're not going to do that. In
other words, stop asking me. That was the implication of it.
We're not doing it. Don't ask me about it again.
Bush had swagger. Bush, you know, the you know, the cowboy,
(03:49):
the Texas cowboy. He had that kind of swagger.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Uh. And it was it was almost always evident. Today.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I saw a video of him getting out at some
event yesterday and that you know, they opened the door
of the of the suv and he got out and
he had on you know, he had on I forget,
maybe jeans and a shirt and I think he had
on sneakers or something. And he got and he was
walking with that swagger. He's just got that swagger as
if he grew up in the back of a horse,
which he didn't, but that's what the way he walks.
(04:24):
I've never met Donald Trump. I don't know that I've
ever been within fifty feet of Donald Trump. But everything
that I watch about Trump, I see a personality that
is well, think about the iconic photo of where the
Secret Service is trying to in Butler, Pennsylvania, where they're
(04:47):
trying to get him off that stage. And you know,
normally in a situation like that, they get over the
top of the principal, the president, and so they'd kind
of got him bent over as they're covering him with
their bodies as they moved to get him and throw
him into the limousine. But yet what does he do
(05:10):
in that iconic photograph. He pushes them aside and stands up,
pumps his fist in the air and yells fight, fight, Fight.
So I think that personifies the personality. Nonetheless, even that
photo has always bugged me. And here's why. The Secret
(05:34):
Service did not know at that point whether there were
other shooters or whether the shooter had been neutralized or not.
They didn't know, and they didn't know whether anybody in
that audience behind him might be a shooter. They didn't
know where the attack was coming from. They didn't know
(05:56):
what was coming next, and yet they were weak enough
and or Trump was strong enough that he was able
to push out from all of those, including the little
chubby Secret Service girl. They really didn't know what to
do with her with her weapon when they got to
the car.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And it shows that.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's, well, he's just that kind of guy. When Bobby
Kennedy Senior, when Robert F. Kennedy was the Attorney General
for JFK. There there's not much history about this, but
they began work in early nineteen sixty three to remove
(06:47):
the presidential protection duties from the purview of US Secret
Service and move it to the US Marshall Service. It
was a time consuming process. It was going to have
required beefing up the Marshall Service and training them up
to be able to take over.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
The job now. Unfortunately for Barbart F. Kennedy and then
President John F.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Kennedy, November twenty second, nineteen sixty three arrived before the
Attorney General was able to execute the transfer. We now
know that on that fateful day in Dallas and the
night before, Kennedy's Secret Service detail committed a whole host
of whether it's Monday morning quarterbacking, or it is second guessing,
(07:44):
or it is the circumstances have changed. I think it's
a combination of all of the above. Nonetheless, that secret
Service detail on November twenty second, on November twenty first,
and November twenty second committed a plethora of the most
prolific derelictions of duty in American history. By two point
(08:07):
thirty in the afternoon on November twenty second, one president
was dead. He was monstrously murdered in broad daylight as
a direct result of the myriad Secret Service failures, and
another completely different president with different goals had been sworn
into office. And if you want to go down a
(08:27):
rabbit hole conspiracy theories, that's fine, but that's not what
the point of this story is. I remind you of
that today in lie of something that happened when just
last night, the President and most of his cabin I'm
not quite sure who all was there. I know the
Vice President was there, which really bothers me. They walked
(08:50):
from the White House to a nearby restaurant, Joe's Seafood,
Prime Steak and Stone Crab. I think there used to
be a Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab down on
the wharf. I don't know that I've been to this restaurant,
but I've been to the old Abbott Grill, and I've
been to several of the restaurants that are just to
the east of the Treasury Building and some that are
(09:14):
just north of the White House. There's also one just
west on G Street. I think I've been to most
of those restaurants. I don't know that I've been to
this particular restaurant, but I've now seen photographs of the
inside of it. This whole display of them walking from
the White House to the restaurant was a display in
(09:35):
Trump in fashion to show just how safety c has
become since he activated the National Guard and he's beefed
up crime fighting operations of the d C Metro Police Department.
Now here's what's hilarious. But before I get to the
serious stuff, the description by CNN and MSNBC was that
(10:00):
the trip was mostly peaceful. What's this mostly peaceful crap?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
We've heard that before.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We've heard that before lots of times, and we've always
heard it in the context of what violence going on. Right,
So they're talking about the president going to a restaurant
and telling me it's mostly peaceful. That catches my attention. Well, then,
what wasn't peaceful? I want to know what was really
going on. Well here's what was going on. For at
(10:28):
least sixty seconds, maybe longer, A pack and I use
that word derogatorily, A pack of pro hamas terrorace demonstrations
were somehow able to barge into that restaurant, get within
fifteen feet of the President of the United States, vice
President of the United States, and members of the freaking
(10:49):
cabinet and shout their epithets at him and his cabinet members.
It's simply amazing that.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I later dinner, there's the vice president.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
There's hexit this US I can see, Oh there's Trump
beating the pat They're.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
All kind of looking back at them. Oh there's Marco Rubia.
Stop it the way.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
But you know, I hadn't thought about this, so I
watched the clip again. Just now, think about the line
of succession. Holy crap, Mike's speaker was Mike Speaker. Mike Johnson,
the speaker was within just fifteen feet of becoming the
next president of the United States of America. Because anybody
you had the president, you had the vice president, then
(11:39):
the Secretary of Defense of the Secretary of State. Now,
protocol wise, I would have put the Secretary of State
next in line in terms of just walking into the restaurant.
But hey, what do I know. That's up to Monica Crowley,
and who knows. Maybe they were talking and they just
got disrupted. But and then Trump turns and faces the demonstrators.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And at least in terms of the video that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm looking at, I'm looking over here Pat Woodard's over
in the news booth, which is how far is that
from me? Twenty feet maybe fifteen twenty feet, so about
the same as in the restaurant. And if I want
to take Pat out now or Pat went to take
me out right now, that glass may be soundproof, but
(12:27):
it ain't.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Bulletproof, and boom, there's no glass between him.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So the Democrat operative Trump payters in the in the
cabal or good are pretending ain't no big deal, and
people are blowing it out of proportion since there was
no real violence.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
That took place. That's not the purpose of the Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, hey, guys, no harm, no foul, no violence took place,
so nothing to worry about. Make no mistake about this.
I think this is a big effing deal. It's a
big f and deal because despite everything that's taking place
related to the candidate Donald Trump, the former president Donald Trump,
and the current president Donald Trump. WI oversay the last
(13:11):
what fifteen months or so, the Secret Service still seems
incapable of providing the kind of protection that I saw
when Bush was president and I was inside that bubble. Now,
the protesters, let's be honest, they're depraved sociopathy lunatics. Whether
they're just lunatics, they're brainwashed automatons who actively are screaming
(13:34):
on behalf of a group of terrorists who brutally murder
them for just the fun of it. They don'tly murder
you after they raped you. Now, these particular nut jobs
were unarmed. They only wanted to screen. But wants to
say that the next pact of lunatics who managed to
get within fifteen feet of the President of the United
(13:57):
States of America won't be armed of the teeth or
after the suicide momb Now, shockingly, this specific incident was
far worse than that clip that I just played portrays
because in the second trip clip, Trump himself has to
(14:18):
finally order his supposed protective detail to get them out
of the restaurant to finally, you know, I've had enough.
The fact that now Trump and everybody are standing, you know,
(14:38):
they've got they've got a you know, a big banquet table,
and they're all, you know, getting ready to sit down,
and Trump has to wave to the Secret Service like, Okay,
you know, I've had enough to get them out of here.
That is mind boggling incompetence on the part of the
Secret Service. Now I don't know, and this gets back
to personalities. I don't know what instruction they might have
(14:59):
given been given in preparation for this dinner. But whatever
those instructions might have been, that is no excuse for
the failure of duty that I've seen in these videos.
There is both for the White House and the Secret
Service advanced teams. What advanced work was done to secure
(15:19):
the site. I had not been in that particular restaurant,
but anytime that you know, there was a mixing place
that Bush ate at that was in Arlington, Virginia, and
I ate there one time and I was amazed. You know,
there were a group of people in the restaurant and
we walk in. You know, people obviously stand up because
(15:41):
they see the President of the United States, so they
stand up and they applaud him, and we go to
a table that's been set down for the president, and so.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
But I know that everybody in that restaurant had gone
through a magnetometer and they had been instructed about what
to do and what not to do when the president
or This restaurant is not some complex venue with multiple
entrances and exits. It's not a basketball arena. It's not
(16:10):
a football stadium. It's not like the tennis facility where
you want where you went to watch the Men's Division
or whatever it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Was, or the US Open. This is a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It would have taken the White House Advanced team and
the Secret Service advanced team. I don't know, maybe thirty
minutes max for a competent security detail to lock the
place down as tight as a drum. This is the
kind of advance work that is presidential protection one oh one,
and it is not rocket science. But I want to
know something else. How did those lunatics get into the
(16:44):
restaurant in the first place. Did they go on open
table and make a reservation. If so, wouldn't that mean
that somebody leaked the information about where the president and
his cabinet would be at that time so they could
be there to stage their scene. Hey guys, let's just
make this go on to open table, and let's just
(17:07):
make reservations at every restaurant within you know, a quarter
mile of the of the Oval office, and we'll have
people ready for each one of them. I don't think
that's what happened. The second thing I wonder, will will
the Secret Service now do an investigation? What a joke
right to find the leaker? If indeed there was a
leaguer about where the president was going. Are these hams
(17:31):
nut jobs hanging around all the time just waiting for
the president and whether he's leaving by limo or marine
one or whatever, to follow him wherever they can go?
And why were they? And I think this is the
thing that bugs me the most is why did the
Secret Service agents have to wait for the president to
wave them off to remove the protesters? Why didn't they
(17:52):
remove the protesters? I don't give two pieces that they
were mainly women and kids. They were a clear and
present danger to the president and the cabinet and should
have been fortunately removed within seconds, and don't tell me
about bad optics for Trump. Do you think Trump cares
(18:13):
about bad optics? What about bad optics? If a slow
reaction by the Secret Service ended up getting somebody killed
in that restaurant.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Good grief, BEPO, Michael, you hit the nail on the head. Okay,
somebody leaked this information. Number one, Number two. Secret Service
is so incomfident they should have cleaned house after his
last two attempts on his life. The guy that's running
the Secret Service right now is a weak pile. Okay,
(18:45):
fire them all, replace them all, get some military guys
to protect him.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Anybody who has studied the JFK assassination and the events
actually that led up to it knows that the Secret
Service in nineteen sixty three failed to uphold its duties
on that day and in advance of that day. Researchers
also know that the Secret Service failed despite.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
A wealth of clear warning signs and even.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Prior assassination plots that targeted JFK, which took place in
both Chicago and Tampa, but those incidents had been buried
in the history because of November twenty second, the Chicago
plot was intercepted and that would stopped less than two
weeks before Dallas. Now you can call me alarmist, but
this thankfully non violent incident ought to be a clear
(19:41):
warning sign to Trump himself that his detail is still
not up to the task of providing for his safety.
What more than a year now after Butler and I
still have questions about Butler. I still want to know
about the phone. You know, where where was the sniper Well,
(20:01):
I know where the sniper team wasn't And I kind
of beginning to learn why the sniper team wasn't where
they were supposed to be, because they're understaffed by about
seventy almost seventy five percent. You know, in the corporate world,
you know, I was taught this as a kid in school.
(20:22):
You know, in the corporate world, we're always reminded that
nobody is truly indispensable. You know, Dragon and I both
know that we are not indispensable to this company, and
we're certainly not indispensable to the survival of the company. Well,
the same principle also applies to the health and the
survival of a nation for the most part. But if
(20:45):
you honestly kind of look through American history, there are
indeed a handful of individuals who you might say they
are there. They're not indispensable because history would have go
move forward anyway. But there are names like George Washington,
or Abraham Lincoln, or Theodore Roosevelder US Grant, or George
(21:09):
Patten or Ronald Reagan who did change and alter the
course of the nation.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So what do you want to call.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Him indispensable or you know, truly historical figures. Donald Trump
is for the time that we are in and from
a perspective point of view, from everything that's been going
on up to this particular term, we really can't afford
(21:39):
to lose him to secret service incompetence. I've got confidence,
don't misread that, I've got confidence that Jade Evans would
carry on these policies. But think about what that would
do to subsequent elections, to the midterms or the twenty
(21:59):
twenty eight election. If Trump were to be assassinated. We
simply can't afford for that to happen. We've got one
guy on trial down in Florida right now for his
attempt on Trump. So last, this event in this restaurant
(22:20):
is it is a clear warning sign that the presidential
security detail is certainly not up to what the job
really requires. It's thought up to the job that eyewitnessed
that I saw up close personal in firsthand. And it
should be a warning sign that the Secret Service itself
as an institution has become too corrupt. It's probably too
(22:47):
submerged into the bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security.
It has been eviscerated throughout the Biden administration. Think about
how much did you have to be on your toes
to protect Joe Biden? And was anybody really after Joe Biden?
(23:10):
Think about those pictures of him in the chaise lounge
on the beach at Rehoboth, just laying there reading a book,
or you know, Sonning the radled up old fart laying
there on the beach. I know the Secret Service was
just sitting there and their short sleeves shirts and their
sneakers and you know, watching and you know, making sure
(23:30):
that nobody got very close. You saw people walking around,
but they looked at the threat level and I'm sure
that they had snipers in place for him, you know,
ready to do anything they needed to do. But that's
that's not acceptable here because here we have two, if
not three potential assassins, you know, one that actually got
(23:54):
shots off. And what's Homeland Security doing right now now?
Because that's where you know they moved, you know, unfortunately
it was Bush and US that moved Secret Service out
of Treasury at least the protective details, the counterfeiting operations,
(24:15):
all of that. Unless that's changed. I don't really I
didn't pay any attention, but I know what DHS and
that behemoth did to FEMA in terms of eviscerating its
capabilities as the same thing happened to the Secret Service.
And why have we allowed that to occur? Go back
to the whole point about personalities. The presidential detail, whoever
(24:40):
was and I don't know the name of who Trump's
lead agent is, but that lead agent when he walked
into that restaurant should have known that an advanced team
had been there, that the people that were dining had
been you know, checked, that told the president was coming,
(25:02):
and to you know, stay seated and nobody will leave.
You know, when you're ready to leave, say no, that
you're ready to leave, and we'll escort you out of
the restaurant. And the minute that the protesters showed up,
they shouldn't have waited for the President to waive to
his detail. I've had enough of this. Get them out
(25:24):
of here. The Secret Service. They should have had enough
the minute they started screaming. And that's putting aside. Let
me back up just a little bit. The other thing
that really bothers me is that it wasn't just Trump
(25:48):
and Millennia. It wasn't just Trump and Rubio, or Trump
and Hegsath or Trump and Bessen.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It was.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
The entire line of six Essen all in the same place.
And it wasn't the House of Representatives, the United States
Capital for a State of the Union speech, which is
totally locked down.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It was a freaking restaurant.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
There is far, far too much at stake, not just
in this country but worldwide. Israel is shooting at Hamas
inside another sovereign country. I am a full bore, full
on supporter of Israel, but that caused me to go
(26:38):
what you launched fighter jets into sovereign airspace of cutter
to take out Hamas ballsy yes, diplomatically saying no, probably not.
I woke up this morning to learn that, oh, we've
(26:58):
got Russian drones in Poland and the Warsaw airport was
shut down fighter jets scrambled, And do you want a
president to be assassinated while he has dinner? You want
you want the Archduke Ferdinand moment where World War three starts.
(27:20):
Watch Donald Trump get assassinated in a restaurant and see
what happens next if Trump gets taken out by some
idiots in a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I'm not too concerned about World War three. I'm concerned
about Civil War number two.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I think all of the above, I think, and you
don't want to think that one single individual could cause
that much chaos by simply either And I think it
would be different too. You know, if he dies of
too many you know, big macs, that's one thing. But
if he dies because of a bullet to a head,
that's that's something else. But yeah, I think it's it's
(28:03):
Have you ever thought about the fact that World War three,
as a subset of that act might actually include a
civil war in this country or even you want to
go really out on the limb, an invasion of this
country by the Chinese Communist Party, by the People's Liberation Army.
(28:25):
It's all possible. I want to go to text messages
because I want to address a couple of things that
people are making nine zero two six, says Mike. I
don't mean think about this. Do you think Trump was
being defiant and making a point that he is not
going to be run out by a bunch of protesters
and that's why this happened. I haven't seen the video.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
The video is up at Michael says go here dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
And I don't think so. I think that the protesters,
But the the video, there's two snippets. I haven't seen,
like a full length, so I really I assume these
videos come from people in the restaurant. I don't think
(29:12):
this was a planned event. I think that now there
could have been a leak, yes, And also you have
to remember across the street from the White House in
Lafayette Park, there is almost I mean virtually, twenty four
hours a day, seven days a week, there are groups
(29:34):
of protesters always all around the White House, all around
the fence surrounding the eighteen acres. There are always protesting.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Whether he's home or not, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Whether he's awake or asleep, doesn't make any difference. They're
always there. Now, I want you to picture an entourage
of the freaking president of the United States, the Secretary
of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary the Treasury,
all of these people, plus all of this of the
Secret Service agents themselves that are there for the president,
(30:07):
plus the security details that are provided to the Secretary
of State and Defense and everybody else. So you got
this conglottanous, huge, humongous crowd of people that have now
exited let's say the northeast gate of the White House,
or they've crossed over to Treasury, and they've exited out
of the front gate of the Treasury and walked across
(30:28):
the street to the restaurant. That immediately attracts attention in DC.
And everybody knows, just like everybody knows when the beast
is traveling. Everybody knows when Marine one takes off and
everything in DC comes to a standstill. Well, the protesters
are there twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
They see what's going on, They go to the restaurant,
(30:51):
and then they do you think the matre d at
the restaurant is going to say to a group of
women and children who screaming and yelling, you know, no, no,
you know, we require coat and tie and we require
no screaming they're overtaken. All they're trying to do is
(31:11):
protect themselves and try to preserve the integrity of the restaurant.
And they know they've already got a problem because they
got the freaking president of the United States inside the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
So I don't think it was set up. I think that.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Trump was deliberately allowing them, because he's standing there facing
them as if to say, I really don't give a
fly on f what you're yelling about. I'm the President
of the United States. I'm going to stand here and
stare you down. And then when he turns to sit down,
that's when he waves to the Secret Service to move
(31:45):
them out of here. Because he's also and I firmly
believe this, he's also cognizant that this group of yahoos
is being disruptive to the rest of the people in
the restaurant. Trump himself knows that he's disruptive. Although I
think most people would be honored to be in a
restaurant where Trump or any other president would come in
(32:06):
and sit down and have dinner, it's just it's the
president c not the president, And so I think that
anybody is it an inconvenience for them. Yes, is it
one that they would endure because they get to go
home and tell their friends and family, Hey, guess who
I had dinner with tonight. Yeah, the President came in
and had dinner at the restaurant where we were eating.
I think he was just tired of the noise and
(32:29):
he knew that it was disruptive to everybody else, and
he was waving them off. Don't get so conspiratorial to
think that this was planned by Trump.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, he doesn't need to. They're going to show up regardless,
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