Matt Kittle - The Federalist Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven, twenty two or time here in Houston's Morning News.
I don't know if the guy that tried to assassinate
Trump in Florida is a self identified leftist or not,
but we do We do know now that evidently he
was texting somebody in the Ukraine looking for stinger missiles
to try to attack the president. That I would say,
that's pretty psycho And evidently there are at least fifty

(00:25):
five percent of so called self identified leftists or psycho
enough to think that killing President Trump would be justifiable.
Joining us to talk about it from the federalist is
Matt Kittle. I guess let's start with this, Matt, how
do we how do we describe a self identified leftist?
I mean, we're not necessarily talking a Democrat here? Are
we just talking radicals? What are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, Jimmy, the problem is is we're talking about what
used to be the fringe left. Now the fringe left
is the left in many ways, it's the Democratic Party
the United States of the America. And the problem is
is that they're so whipped up with Trump derangement syndrome

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that the you know, the idea of violence is now
turning into the act of violence.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, and we've seen a little bit whether it not
just directed at Trump but also directed a corporate America.
I guess I don't know how the guy who tried
or did kill the United Healthcare CEO in New York
City how he self identified, but they obviously thought that
was justifiable.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah. This report, the survey came out from the Network
of Contagion Research Institute, which is in partnership with Rutgers University.
And what it builds upon is this whole, you know,
issue of the Luigi Mangione, the guy who is accused
of killing the the healthcare ceo, And we're seeing this

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kind of stuff now in policy in Cali, for you,
they have a Luigi Mangione Healthcare Act. It tells you
just how mainstream this sort of stuff is becoming.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Wow, if we had to put and I realize I'm
putting on the spot here, if we had to put
a number on how many people like this exist in
our country? Do we have any clue how many people
are out there that they're capable of this kind of action.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
It feels like if you go online that they're everywhere.
True good points. It's worrisome, for sure, but know, what
this study found was that you know, a significant portion
of people who say or you know, who tell the

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survey folks that they they're liberal or lean liberal, now
are talking about that it's justifiable at some level to
not only assassinate to kill the President of the United States,
but also his advisors like Elon Musk seen all the
violence coming out of surrounding the Tesla product.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Of course, well, and that also says something about just
how desensitized to violence we are. Have they done any
research into why so many Americans now think that committing
crimes and defending killers and the like are perfectly normal
things to do. What has caused this to happen?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Trump arrangement syndrome.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's all about Trump, I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
We talk about that as you know, kind of it
used to be kind of a joke. It's not a
joke anymore. It really is. And the accomplice media in
this country has much to do with whipping up this
frenzy is that is going on right now, and it
is it is dangerous, to say the leavest.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
No doubt. Matt, Thanks for Johnny, I appreciate it. Matt
Kittle with a federalist it's seven twenty six,