Authorities Hunt for Clues but Motive of Man Who Tried to Assassinate Donald Trump Remains Elusive

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Independent thoughts, independent life. Thisis Chad Benson. It was not if,
but when. That's what I saidover the weekend. My biggest surprise
was it took this long for somebodyto take a shot. That's the truth

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in a time that we live inwhere rhetoric is at its highest level,
where to get noticed you've got toscream the loudest to get noticed, you
have to one up what you thoughtwas already hyperbole. To get notice,
you have to sell fear. Itwas not if, but when? And
when came this weekend with Donald Trumpand then the worst president in the history

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of our country took over. Andlook what happened to our country, probably
twenty million people. And you knowthat's a little bit old, that chart,
that charts a couple of months old. And if you want to really
see something that said, take alook at what happened over spare who was

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there? Hold? Hold what areyou ready? On? You ready?
It was not if, but when. Look, it is already the most
dangerous job in the world, beinga leader of any nation. But if
you think about it, about onein eleven and a half are killed and
it's probably one in what every seventhat have some sort of assassination attempt go

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back Ragan couple and in two months, in one month, there was two
on Foard. It is a dangerousjob, but we have ratcheted up in
such a way that I was notsurprised. I was just surprised on how

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long it took before somebody took ashot at somebody. We live at a
time where you don't understand the reachyou have with social media. We live
at a time where you also don'tunderstand that person on the other side of
whatever it is that you're saying,maybe doesn't quite get that your goal is

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to sell something, whether it befear or whatever it is. But fear
is the easiest thing to sell ina situation like this, and they don't
get it. Now. We don'tknow too much about the shooter. He's
dead. It's what we know.He's twenty years old. Loaner. I

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mean, you could just I mean, you can go to Central casting.
Loaner didn't have a lot of friends, was bullied in school, seemed to
be kind of a nice kid.I mean, it's it's the same thing.
Registered Republican gave money to a ProgressiveI mean, we don't know,
we don't know what his motivation was, of mental illness played a part of
it. I'm sure there was somethingthat was there that played a part of

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it. Sure he's not a venturiancandidate. And let's talk about the conspiracy
theories that runneth wild. How didwe get here? Got here? Simple?
We live at a time we're sayingoutrageous things. Get you clicks,
gets you likes. Hate is abooming industry. Division is a booming industry.

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And Donald Trump is the biggest moneymakerin the world of division, not
just because well he says stuff thatmakes me angry, because people can say
things about Donald Trump that gets themnoticed as well. It is a booming

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industry. It wasn't if. Butwhen and when came this weekend you had
a gentleman killed who by all accountswas a salt of the earth, as
they would say, an amazing humanbeing, loved his family, loved God,

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and loved Donald Trump and went thereand was enjoying all of the things
that come with Donald Trump and thebig, giant, huge rallies that he
has and he was killed. Welost a fellow Pennsylvania last night, Corey
Comparatour. I just spoke to Corey'swife and Corey's two daughters. Corey was

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a firefighter. Corey went to churchevery Sunday. Corey loved his community most
especially, Corey loved his family.He was an avid supporter of the former
president. I was so excited tobe there last night with him in the
community and killed. They're going togofund me. We're trying to raise seven

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thousand dollars. I think it's abouta half a million now and rising going
there to watch person that he wassupporting and this happened, and there's going
to be a dissecting across the boardof how did we get here? Do
we need to bring? You know, we need to tamp down the rhetoric.

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I saw that so much this weekendand we're going to break that down
because the insanity of the media andthen we need to tamp down the rhetoric
and their rhetoric this weekend was youknow, well, you know he had
that fist. I said, firstthing I said to my wife, I
said, there's a branding opportunity,but he said fight fight fight. That

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means go out and kill everybody.Is that what it means or is that
what you're taking? Taking it tome, it was not a shocker.
It was something that was long overdue, unfortunately, and maybe this is what

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we need to take a step back. But I think because we live in
a twenty four hour news cycle,this will last maybe seventy two hours,
maybe a week, and then it'sback at it because we have got an

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election. Biden still has his issues. I mean, I said earlier that
I was talking to a couple ofpeople over the weekend, I did a
bunch of hits on a bunch ofdifferent stations, and I said, over
the weekend, this hasn't changed Biden'sissues him arrest. Bit, we're going
to talk about his speech that Ithought he had a chance to unite do

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something. In reality, it wasa little bit divisive and kind of wacky.
But because of the twenty four hournews cycle, we forget things fast.
Friday, we were wondering, ishe going to survive the weekend?
Biden and then Trump almost didn't survivethe weekend, and luck, by the

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way, played a massive, massivepart in it. Former President Trump,
in his first interview since being shot, tells the Washington Examiner that he was
saved from death because he had turnedaway from the crowd to look at a
screen that featured data he was usingin his speech, Trump saying quote,
I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that in that
moment, well, we would notbe talking today, would we. Now?

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What would that be like? We'regonna actually look at that later.
What would it be like if Trumpwas hit and didn't make it. What
would that do to everything? Atthis point in time when it comes to
not just the election, but whowe are, how we deal with things,
how we approach each other. Thisis a wake up call and then

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you have to ask you self thequestion, how in God's name did this
happen? How in God's name dida twenty year old who didn't even make
the shooting team at school, whichI didn't even know they had shooting teams
at school. Obviously didn't go toschool in California. It's going Pennsylvania.
I know. How did this guyget that close to the president of the

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United States or the former president ofthe United States? How did he get
that close? How did he geton a roof? I have been places
where presidents are at and former presidents, and let me tell you something.
The snipers are everywhere and there's someserious questions. Trump's come out and he

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said they were awesome, they wereamazing. There's some serious questions that need
to be answered about how he gotanywhere close to the former president and the
leading candidate of the Republican Party.Three two, three, five, three
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So much stuff to get through today, A lot of stuff obviously about
the assassination attempt we got, theRNC kicking off today. Does Trump change
his message? It sounds like he'sgoing to and the media, the role
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It is the Chad Benson Showstening tothe Chad Benson Show. The plan

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is for this convention to go onboldly without any major changes to the program.
The theme for tonight's session is makeAmerica Wealthy once Again. Headline speakers
in prime time are set to includeTeamster's president Sean O'Brien and model, rapper
and social media star Amber Rose.Very interesting, somebody else that's going to
be there. A little bit ofa shock to a lot of people,

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Nicki Haley. There's no clear senseat this point that anything's going to change
with respect to the convention program asthe thousands of delegates from across the country
converged here on this city. Weare aware, however, of one substance
of change to the program, andthat's the addition of Nicki Haley, the
former South Carolina governor. She hasnow been added to the speaker's list this
week. She was not included inthe original lineup, and a spokesperson for

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Haley had previously told ABC News shesimply wasn't invited. So now she is
being added. That could be readas a sign of party unity. In
the wake of the assassination attempt againstthe former president. A lot of people
are thinking, Okay, what's thisto be like this week? It's a
convention. I've been to conventions.We really we were gonna go. Then
we decided this is kind of anothing's gonna happen, and then, obviously

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Saturday changed a lot of things.But it's very interesting what people are saying
around the former president that he plansto seize the moment by toning down his
trumpiness. As he even said dialingup eversy night a tinderbox in America,
he talked about the fact that thiswas going to be a I'm going after

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Biden, I'm gonna crush Biden's speech. But now it seems to be kind
of changing, that this is goingto be more of a unite America rather
than divide America. And maybe youget a couple of days away from something
like being shot in the air andalmost dying that you think, oh my

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god, are everybody's playing for keeps? Now it'll be you know, I
said to somebody the other day,I don't know how long this unity thing
lasts, because we live in atime and an age where it's a twenty
four hour news cycle, and attimes it seems twenty four minutes. By

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Thursday, as is forgotten and Trumpdecides to go back to his original speech,
I don't know, but he hasa chance to take this and run
with it. The thing is,though the left doesn't care, They already
think he's Adolf Hitler because they've beentold he's Adolf Hitler. They've been told
he's the second coming of the antiChrist, Adolf Hitler, all rolled into

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one. They've been told all ofthose things over and over again. So
they're, you know, they they'renot going to change their tune at all.
But could this be a more matureIt's weird to say that about a
man is seventy eight, but amore mature political opportunity for him, I

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think so. Now. I don'tknow how much longer it lasts, because,
as we all know, if thepolls were very close and we're a
month out, all of that stuffcomes back. Because it's about winning.
That's what it's about. It's whatit's always been about. In every way,
shape or form. It's about beatingthe other side, the evil other
side, which is not evil.We're Americans. We are We are so

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much closer and I've been saying thatwe're the exhausted majority. We are so
much closer to our neighbor who isnot a Trump supporter than we realize.
We're so much closer to our neighborthat is a Trump supporter than we realize.
Oh yes, You've got those outlierswho are cuckoo for cocoa puffs in
every way, shape or form,who live their world in a divided way

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that you cannot believe. Yes,that happens. That's out there. I
get text mess sage from some ofyou. Even over the weekend. I
was called an effing Nazi a thousandtimes. Oh, I wish he was
killed, said a lot of Textersout there. And I'm thinking to myself,
Wow, that's how you feel.You're supposed to be the loving kind,

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an empathetic one, and you werejust like, yeah, yeah,
I wish he was dead. Mygod. I'm now convinced that the greatest
threat to this nation it's not someforeign adversary. It's the growing tribalism and
hate within our own country, wherewe find it hard to recognize that the
lines that divide us are not nearlyas strong as the ties that bind us.
In fact, that we need eachother. No side is going to

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vanquish the other. We have tofind ways to build common ground and to
find common cause. That's America.It's best, and frankly the America that
the world needs. So true,that that binds us is so much closer.
Our founding fathers worried not about aforeign adversary coming here and crushing us,

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about us rotting from the inside.Hate is big business, from algorithms
to bots to people who profit offof it. Hate is massive business,
finding out what's going on for realin the world, taking a look at
everything. That's why I always tellingyou guys every day, challenge your beliefs,

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and many people they don't want to. They want confirmation bias. They
want to know that their belief isright. They want nothing to be challenged,
and if anybody does, they're seenas an enemy, not as somebody
who's asking a question. And thatis sad. That is not healthy.
Try that in a regular relationship.Not gonna work. Three two, three,

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five, three, eight, twentyfour to twenty three atch head Benson
shows your Twitter, tweet ats text. Probably got a lot of stuff still
to get to. Obviously, wehave the big RNC convention going on.
We're going to talk a bit aboutthat. More on the assassination attempt.
There's a lot of that today,as you would imagine, plus a bunch
of other stuff. When it comesto Biden. Biden got a bit of

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a respite over the weekend. Rememberon Friday it was can he survive the
weekend? And now by Saturday afternoonit was wood Trump survived the weekend.
Talk about that a lot of otherstuff. Chad Benson Show, The Chad

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Benson Show, Independent Thoughts, Independentlife. This is Chad in America and

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resolver difference at the battle box.Now, that's how we do it at
the battle box, not with bullets. But the hell's a battle box.
I want to hear that again.Excuse me. In America, we resolve
our difference at the battle box.You know, that's how we do it
at the battle box, not withbullets. Did you mean ballot box?
As Biden last night? And it'saddressed to the nation from the Oval Office,

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the Resolute Desk, the battle box. Mistakes in the selection are enormously
high. I've said it many timesthat the choice in the selection we make
in the selection is going to shapethe future of America and the world for
decades to come. I believe thatwith all my soul. I know that
millions of my fellow Americans believe itas well, and some have a different
view as the direction our countries shouldtake. Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy.

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It's part of human nature. Politicsmust never be a literal battlefield,
a god from bid, a killingfield. I believe politics ought to be
an arena for peaceful debate, topursue justice, to make decisions guided by
the declar some independence in our constitution. I agree one hundred percent. I
don't agree with a lot Biden hasdone. I don't think he's a horrible
person at all. I don't.I think right now he is a person

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that is you know, I've beensticking up for Biden as a human being,
saying that he shouldn't be out therebased on all the stuff we're seeing,
that he shouldn't be running for president, based on the fact that he
has got serious issues that are humanissues that every human goes through, not
presidents. Every human will go throughissues of aging, and some of them

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will be much worse to menia,Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, things of that nature.
He shouldn't be run a country.But I wish him no ill will.
No, no, no, no, no, would I ever do
that. The fact that there arepeople out there that wish other people ill
will based on the fact that theydon't get the things that they want and

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they're and they're terrified, and they'rereactionary, and they're over they're just overwrought
with emotion and they act on itis frightening. Said it again. It
was not if, but when,And the win came this weekend. Thank
god the guy missed. Thank godhe did. Secret Service sniper's reacting quickly

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firing at the shooter and killing him, but not before he was able to
fire several shots, including the onethat hit the former president. Authorities say
the ar style rifle used in theshooting was purchased legally by the suspects father.
Sources also say what appeared to beexplosives were found in the suspects car,
one source saying they look like grenades. The FBI is working to determine
if they're viable. A bomb squadwas on the scene as the FBI searched

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the suspected shooters home bombs. Imean, who is this guy. There's
a lot of questions about that thatwill be answered. I'm sure in the
next you know, forty eight seventytwo hours, will we get everything we
want as far as why he didthis and any I don't know, I
don't know any of them. Allthey do now is, you know,

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you just try to figure it outwho and what he is. But then
you have to ask the question aboutwhat the hell happened? How did somebody
get within two hundred yards of thepresident or so give or take of the
former president with a gun. Nowwe're finding out that a cop engaged with

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him, but then he pointed thegun at the cop and the cop back
down and he managed to squeezes offsome shots. This is what they trained
for. But a former agent toldme this is the first time that a
Secret Service sniper or technician as theyare called, has killed a would be
assassin. It is a split seconddecision, as we've said, but as
the agent noted to me, itis obvious that despite the history making move

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and the difficulty of that slit seconddecision, the shot came too late,
too late. He was able towound to kill one and you know,
the former president, the leader ofthe Republican Party and the leader at least
at this moment time to be thenext president was hit. And by the

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grace of God, that didn't happen. But there are serious questions about not
just the reaction of what took placeon stage after the shots were fired,
but before that. Now, thesleeper service, counter snipers, and the
super service personnel are bound by typicalUS use of force rules. They can't

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just shoot somebody because they see somebody. They have to make sure that and
identify it's a threat and make surethat the threat is actionable. In this
situation, you're talking about a threateven one hundred hundred and twenty yards out.
That is not an easy thing tosee from a rooftop perspective. No,
it's not. But why was anybodyon any of these rooftops? That's

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what people were asking, Why wasanybody on any of these rooftops at all.
I've been around both presidents and formerpresidents. We played something for you
guys about a month ago talking abouttwo soccer players who were playing on one
of Trump's courses and they said theywere told, hey, look the president's

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playing. He's coming up behind youhere a little bit. And they were
like, okay, you know whatever, But they said, trees, even
in the lakes around the golf course. There were snipers the lakes on his
golf course. Why did a guywho had no military training, wasn't some

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sort of ninja warrior? Right,This wasn't Jason Bourne, this wasn't John
Wick, This was none of those. This was some twenty year old kid
who managed to get up there andtake a shot. How How how how

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speaking of him twenty years old,what happened? You know, could we
have seen this coming? Well?I think if you were to draw a
you know, a perfect example ofsomebody you should look out for in situations

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where maybe they've got serious issues.This may have been the dude, right,
loner, bullied, didn't seem tohave a lot of friends. We
go on and on. I mean, you know, we understand what we're
talking about here. One of hisformer schoolmates. I didn't have any interaction
with him, but he was likea kid that was always alone. He

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was always bullied every day. Hewas a to the outcast. I mean
he would sit alone at lunch.I mean, he was just an outcast.
And you know how kids are nowadays, So they're going to see someone
like that and they're going to targethim because I think it's funny or whatever.
So it's the best way I candescribe it. And it's honestly kind
of sad, Like I don't wantto say this is what provoked it,

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but you never know, never know, never know. Is he bullied.
I want to say he was aloner more because he was just he was
quiet, but like he was justbullied, Like he was bullied so much,
so much, like you could lookat him and you would be like,
something's little off. That's that's howI could describe it. Would you

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ever suspect to think of somebody likethat being someone in Bethel Park? No,
And it's not something you even wantto think about, like being real
and it's seeing all this is likeactually unbelievable. It's it's so crazy.
Did he do anything in school?Was he probably of any club or anything?
You guys believe he was on therifle team. I don't think anyone

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would have thought this. It's crazycrazy. Indeed, everybody buy all accounts.
Everybody said he was a nice kid. It wasn't mean to anybody.
While he was a loner. Werea lot of hunting outfits to school,
but he kind of ate a lotthere, you know. As far as
crazy political rhetoric or any of theyou know, it just he seemed to

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be kind of a kid that wasalone, you know, and his parents
are probably just going, what thehell happened. What in God's name happened
to our kid that he snapped?He was an assistant like dietary nutrition at
an elderly facility, twenty years old, And you just think to yourself,
what the hell happened in your worldthat you did this? Were you that

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terrified of Donald Trump? Were youtrying to make a name for yourself?
Were you mentally ill? I thinkthat plays a part in a lot of
these things, because a lot oftimes when you see these people who mass
shoot all of these stuff, Imean, there what you can, you

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can go right to central casting andyou drop exactly. It's rarely similar.
Like I was the happiest guy Iknow. Guy had everything going for him.
He had he had women and moneyand power, and everything was great
and he no very rarely do yousee anybody who's not exactly what they described

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in mass shootings. But when you'retalking about an assassination of a former president
who may be president again, you'rethinking, motivation to change the course of
history is that this guy was that? This guy in my class, he

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didn't talk about politics. He keptto himself about that, and there was
never anything negative that anyone had everheard about him. You know, we
got to get into his phone,which is it's a quantico looking at this
social media which, by the way, only took two seconds for people to
change social media things and to sendstuff out that was just fake. And
we'll get to that in a littlewhile, because that's just gotta be careful

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out there. Question everything you see. I'm just gonna tell you that right
now, because there's a lot ofstuff out there that is not real and
it is very very manufactured, whetherit be bots from Russia or China trying
to divide us, or people whoare making a name for themselves and want

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to push a theory conspiracy wise thatwe'll get them more clicks and likes.
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No, not the country, theinstitution. He's a shot and show y'all
see the president. Get that's runnernone Trump. He got shot. They
shot him from my uncle. Whowho the hell he's got? He black?

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He's officially black now, but thisis beautiful. They shot him.
They shot him. He was likeI'm having a fire. He was fine.
He was like this and walk downwith American flag on her. He
put one here. I'm real,I'm out of here. I wasn't even
like I wasn't even to vote.I'm voting now. He got it.
I had no skin in the game. I was like, this got shot.
He won. If he had realoption, what the it's a comic

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after the shooting? Who's this?My uncle? Come on, every one's
while. You gotta laugh or you'llcry. I was talking to a lot
of people over the weekend, andyou know, because the memes and everything
were flying around and the wackiness,uh, you know, and I saw
a lot of him, Man,be honest with you. Something made me
laugh. I saw one with aHillary where she was coming out, you

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know, she's just coming out ofa room and she's like, what do
you mean they missed? And it'shorrible. But in a time, and
I've said this over and over again, comedy in particular, sometimes you go
to a dark place because that's howyou deal with things. One thing's for
sure, though, what to believeand not to believe, because there is

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a lot of stuff out there thatisn't real that got passed around within minutes
and it should be pointed out thatthere's a number of photographers that are part
of the press pool who took thesephotographs and as well as the video that
we've seen. We're a little bitmore cautious in this day and age.
Not that we never were, butwe're a little more cautious in this day
and age with deep fake videos,with AI generated videos and images that we

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really tried to do to the bestof our human ability, and an exhaustive
effort to make sure that things thatare floating around online or are sent to
us are in fact accurate and arenot so sort of machine generated image.
And that's a hard thing to figureout what's real and what's not real.
And a time when you can createstuff so fast, so quick and have

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it out there in moments, itis hard to figure out what's real what's
not real. From the gunman andhis face and it's bloody to all.
I mean it was within minutes,the amount of stuff that I was receiving
was I was just like, youknow, it's a CIA. It's this,

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it's that, it's it's I'm like, it's a CIA. And instead
of Jason Bourne, they got akid that had issues and that's what this
kidd he had issues. Now,how mentally ill was he, what was
the reason for it? Those arethings that'll be discussed in the next couple
of days, and the stuff thatyou're going to hear in the next twenty
four forty eight seventy two hours isgoing to change dramatically, And because we

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live in a time where stuff comesout so fast, and it's about being
first, it's not about being right. We don't hold people accountable for you
messed up. We don't hold peopleaccountable for any of those things. And
we all mess up. But weno longer hold people accountable in the media

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and the news industry in particular,if they get something wrong or they push
a narrative and it turns out tobe wrong, they just don't care.
We move on from that. Soyou're gonna hear a lot of stuff over
the next twenty four forty eight seventytwo hours. It's gonna be all over
the place about who this guy.He's a registered Republican, but he also

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gave fifteen whopping dollars to some sortof progressive pack I don't know. I
mean, it's it's a mystery.It is a mystery to who this kid
is and what he was? Wetalked about it earlier. What did mental
illness play part in this? Wasit? See Amanchurian candidate. I mean
again, all of this stuff isgoing to be you know here there.

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You know, we're gonna be overhere for a minute. It's gonna be
thinking about this. We're gonna beover here. Who is this kid?
We don't know, we don't know. What we know is We talked about
a little birly bullied kind of anerd, didn't seem to have a lot
of friends, loner see an incel? Who knows? Who knows? Manchurian

(34:29):
candidate? No, was he activated? Did somebody say something and that activated?
I mean, that's the kind ofstuff I'm seeing everywhere, and take
it with a grain of salt.That's all I gotta say, because a
lot of that stuff from bots topeople who profit in division and conspiracies.

(34:52):
Those people out there are this istheir Christmas, this is their super Bowl,
This is there all of the thingsbecause now they have a chance to
grow, and unfortunately we feed intoit and that isn't good. Three two,
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Shows your Twitter tweet at As Texasprogram coming up next hour. A lot

(35:13):
more on the RNC. Obviously,Trump the assassination attempt. The media,
what was their role? We've beentalking to a lot about that today because
the media has definitely played a part, as has politicians. And it's funny
because the media, as we talkedabout earlier, and the Democratic politicians,
have pushed a narrative about Donald Trumpthat is, quite frankly, it's insane.

(35:37):
And on top of that, they'vepushed that narrative about Donald Trump's supporters
to the point where you you wantto talk about division. But I go
back to saying this over and over, hat is an industry that is thriving.
How do we, as the exhaustedmajority, take back the reality of

(35:57):
where we are and make that thethriving industry of common sense disagreement with a
smile? How do we, asthe exhausted majority take back the narrative?
Talk a lot about that. Itis the Chad Benson Show. This is
the Chad Benson Show, Independent Thoughts, independent life, This is Chad Benson,

(36:45):
not IF. But when came thisweekend, my biggest shock and surprise
is that it didn't happen sooner somebodytaking a shot at a political rival potentially.
I mean, we don't know whatthe motives are of this guy.
And we'll get to the conspiracy theorieslater because there's a plenty of them.
And by the way, do Ithink all of them are insane? No,

(37:12):
but I do have some serious questionsabout the protection and the lack of
protection. But if you've been maybeI don't know, under a log and
you just woke up, you're like, what are you talking about? Over
the weekend, Donald Trump give mea speech Pennsylvania and was almost assassinated,

(37:37):
and then the worst president in thehistory of our country took over. And
look what happened to our country,probably twenty million people. And you know
that's a little bit old, thatchart, that charts a couple of months
old. And if you want toreally see something, that said, take
a look at what happened over chaosk us not if, but when when

(38:14):
happened. The temperature in the roomis always warm this time of the year,
when it's election time. But youget to the point now where everything's
burnt, if you will, Everythingin the microwave is burt. Everything on
the stove is burnt, Everything inthe oven is burn. We need to
bring it down. We need tobring it down. We've allowed the emotional,

(38:37):
angry, hate filled extremes on bothsides to dominate conversations that quite frankly,
they shouldn't be allowed to have atthis point in time, because they
can't seem to control themselves. Now, I don't know why this kid did
this. It may be we findout later today. It may be we
find out later this week. Itmay be we never find out. Was

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this a reach of fame? Didn'tseem to be too political. He's a
registered Republican, Yeah, but hegave fifteen whopping dollars to a liberal pack.
Was he mentally unstable? I'm surethere's going to be a little bit
of that. Was he somebody lookingfor fame? Was he terrified because of
all the things he's heard about DonaldTrump, that this guy is going to

(39:22):
take over the world and he's goingto enslave every human being, and he
is the second coming of Adolf Hitler. I don't know. I don't know
any of those things. Nobody does. Oh. Some people run out there
and say, oh, I knowwhat it was, I know what it
was sleeper. Somebody came up tohim and said trick or treat and that

(39:45):
activated. I mean, it's justyou. You don't know, you don't
know. But what happened this weekend, And thank god Trump is still alive.
And some of you out there whohave already heard from very pissed that
he's still Like some of you outthere who have called in and left a
message at three two, three,five, three, eight, twenty four,

(40:06):
twenty three have said things like this, Yeah, I'm calling the Chad
Benson Show. Like Donald Trump gotexactly what he deserved. I'm just sad
they missed him. You and allyour crazy luntics out here, just give
him a path for everything. Hegot everything he deserved. You guys are
a bunch of Nazi sympathizers, alot of that Nazis. It's a Nazi,

(40:27):
Si Nazi. He's a Nazi.So insane now and politics was on
full display afterwards. So first andforemost, I said to my wife,
I said, when I saw thewhole thing, and then I see Trump

(40:51):
stand up and puts his fist up, and I said, ah, he's
branding. She goes what I said, it's branding. It's absolutely branding that
image of the former president, blooddripping down his face, his arm raised.
That image is now the symbol ofthis campaign, of this convention,

(41:12):
perhaps a defining image for Trump's supporters, of Trump himself. This convention will
go forward in a highly energized fashion. As one person involved in it said,
we are going forward with a vengeance. Yeah, oh, a vengeance.
What does that mean? You're goingto kill a bunch of people.

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No, you got to take somethingand then make it something right. So
that's what you. So the leftmedia, who's played a huge part in
this, Trump plays his part.No doubt. Trump doesn't mind being the
villain to the left. Trump doesit. Trump understands it's a game.
And I think that's also a problemthat people don't quite get. I've always

(41:55):
said this about Trump marketing nobody betterin politics. Ever, he is a
one off. That's why when yousee people try to be like Trump,
it is a bad, bad,bad imitation. It's like you order something
on Amazon and then you get itfrom Timu totally different. It's like,

(42:19):
what is this? He's different?So he knows that. But it didn't
take two minutes before they started saying, well, you know, look at
him. Here, it's just this. Here he is with this symbol of
evil right shaking his hand, theimage of the former president raising his fist
and saying the words fight, fight, Fight. President Trump is saying in

(42:44):
a new interview after this attack thathe did that so the people there at
that rally would know he was okay, and that he meant to send a
message that quote, America goes on, we go forward. Now we are
strong. I don't have a problemwith it. He also took it as
a way to brand himself. Didn'twant his shoes to be lost either,

(43:04):
because if you've if you've heard thewhole thing they were. They were like,
all right, we're gonna move,you go movies, hold on,
I gotta get my shoes. Gottaget my shoes, because they said when
he he said when they tackled andhis shoes went flying, Gotta get my
shoes, Gotta get my shoes.Fight, Fight Fight. I did a
bunch of radio over the weekend,and somebody's like, don't you think that's
a symbol. I said, letme tell you. Have you ever been

(43:25):
to a sporting event seen something.Somebody's there for a long time on the
ground, they're working on him threeyears ago. The European Soccer Championships just
finished yesterday, But three years agothe captain of the Danish national team,

(43:46):
Ericson, had a heart attack anddied on the field. They they brought
him back to fibulary of the WHOnine yards. It was in front of
the world and as he was comingoff the field put his hand up thumbs
up. Boom. Trump took thatto another level because he's all I can
brand this, but you have tobe mad. You have to find a

(44:08):
way to be pissed. You haveto find a way to turn this around.
Make this all about Trump being evil. Why isn't he bringing down the
rhetoric. He is recovering from theseinjuries. Now, this was a traumatic
event, no doubt for him.But I did notice there was no call
for lowering the temperature, condemning allpolitical violence, and really trying to signal

(44:30):
to his supporters as well not toretaliate or to have any kind of escalation
here. I just am looking atthese believe in his inner circle that he's
under siege. I understand. Iattracted his rally and so there's a lot
of every exactly digestive like you're saying, yeah, man, what are you

(44:51):
talking about? Margaret Brennan. Hewas just shot and you're asking him why
isn't he coming up to microphone?By the way, how many people got
shot afterwards? How many chaos wasgoing on in the streets and and and
people tearing things down? None?Zero, silch, nor should there be.
He's the demon they love to hateand Trump it's fine being that person.

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And we're gonna get to the conventionin a little bit because the convention
apparently they've rewritten the script of whatwas going to be and what it is
going to be about. What wasit going to be about going after Trump?

(45:37):
It's gonna be about attacking him.It's gonna be about to evil Biden.
But now is it about unity?So that message is gonna change.
We're gonna talk about that a littlebit. It was chaos though. My
kids were you know, they wokeme up because I was actually taking a
nap, done a lot of workingout down on some of the work early
in the morning, and and uh, we had a long couple weeks.

(45:58):
My son was here. I meanwe were up eight till midnight, and
you know, I'd wake up twoor three do the show, and we
were both my stepdaughter, I wereexhausted, and she woke me up and
she's like, they just shot Trumpand I'm like, excuse me. And
so we had a lot of conversationsabout you know, and I said,
I remember as a kid when Reagangot shot. I remember that, and

(46:22):
it was I just remember. Thewhole thing was burned in my mind.
I was home, I didn't feelgood. My mom's in the other room
and I'm like watching I don't know, emergency the television show are one of
those things. And I come inand I go, mom, all the
TV channels are the same, andshe's like, what happened. I said,
they shot the president and she's like, excuse me. And that's what

(46:46):
it was like. It was oneof those moments. And we're living in
a wacky, crazy, angry worldat times it is. It is definitely
feeling very much like every day there'ssomething new happening. Because let's go back
this time last week, how longdid Biden have in the White House By

(47:09):
Friday, CBS is reporting by theweekend, there's going to be fifty plus
senators and congress people that are goingto ask for Biden to step down and
by Saturday evening that story had goneaway. Now that hasn't changed anything with
Biden. I think we all knowthat, and we'll touch on that in
a little bit. But we areliving at a time that is, you

(47:34):
know, the Black Swan event.Who knows was that? It? Is
there more to come? God?I hope not. It is definitely getting
hot three two, three, five, eight, twenty four to twenty three
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of stuff to get to. Weare going to talk about what to expect
at the RNC. Is there goingto be a switch if you will in

(47:55):
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to sign up today. It isthe Chad Benson Show. You're listening to
the Chad Benson Show. The landscapehas changed unmistakably, and now it'll be
interesting to see how much it showsup in the early polls. I think

(49:40):
a lot of people have been surprisedby the fact that that Joe Biden's display
is senility and feebleness. It doesn'tseem to have shown up very much in
the polls because I think I thinkthat's because most people have processed that way
ahead of the media and much ofthe political establishment. This may be different,
and it presents the president as aarrive here with a real opportunity,

(50:01):
attempts to me to speak to peoplewho will now in the light of this,
be tuning into this convention, whichthey might not have done, be
giving him a kind of a secondlook, which they might not have been
prepared to do. It'll be interestingto see how he uses it, how
he's staying up. This involves somepolitical stage kraft. Obviously, it'll be

(50:21):
kind of fascinating from that point ofview to see what he does. But
he's got an opportunity to move theball in his own favure with this convention
here, no doubt about that.Convention kicks off today. Nikki Haley be
speaking tonight. Surprise, surprise,it is I tell you what I mean,
this whole weekend was chaos. Iwas relaxing. I actually take a
little bit of a nap when everythingwent down, and my stepdaughter she woke

(50:45):
me up. She says, hey, they just tried to kill Trump.
I'm excuse me. Now he's gota chance. You know, he's a
day away from it, like youknow, like the next day he went
out, he golfed yesterday and everything. But he started talking about the further
away. It's the more vi realizationof how close this thing was. We
talked about it last hour. Howhe said, you know, it's because

(51:07):
God and luck just turning his headto read a chart about illegal immigration,
and it's, you know, thebullet whizzing by, and you can see
the bullet. They've got pictures,you know, frame by frame. It
is. It is crazy. Buthe's got a chance now to bring the
rhetoric, you know down. Youknow, Saturday night, I was on

(51:30):
a bunch of shows across the countryand I was, you know, saying,
look, go back several weeks andmonths you had the Supreme Court saying
the temperature is too hot. Weneed to bring this down, we need
to bring this down. And yetbecause we live in a time where being

(51:52):
loud is more important than being right. Screaming and saying absolutely crazy things is
more important than the truth. That'son us for paying attention to people,
giving them likes, giving them theopportunity to grow their fan base because they

(52:13):
want to say crazy stuff, andpeople like, yeah, let's get on
that. But unless you do that, you can't cut through the noise in
a lot of time, a lotof ways, and that's a very frustrating
thing for a lot of people.Three two, three, five, three
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(52:35):
Show. Likely when you reach outand give us a holler if you will,
as the kids would say, aholler. And it's funny because I
got a lot of people who weresending me text messages over the weekend.
You know, the conspiracy theory startedwithin minutes, and some people sending crazy
stuff as you do, because that'swhat you expect from some people. Some

(52:58):
people pissed that he wasn't, whichis nuts. I mean, is that
where we are really in this world? Now? That is that where we
are God. I hope not,but I think for some people they look
at him as this existential threat.That is absolutely what the media has been
saying. He is Adolph Hitler.Know that they are talking up this because

(53:21):
it's good for ratings and they've gotto beat the other side for the raids,
And this pantomiming that goes on isridiculous and it's dangerous. Our founding
fathers worried not about anybody attacking usfrom the outside, but us destroying ourselves
from within. And we're doing adamn good job at this point in time

(53:45):
of doing that. A lot ofstuff to get to follow us across all
the social media. We've got someof your texts have some calls as well
as far as leaving messages, youcan do that at three two, three,
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a message there or a text aswell, said Chad Benson chev Chad Benson,

(54:07):
Joe, Independent Thoughts, Independent Life. This is Chad Benson. Hate

(54:31):
is a powerful selling tool in theworld of politics. And I don't know
if this guy hated Trump. Idon't know if this guy is trying to
make a name for himself like Isaid of the next God knows seventy two
hours will know war, and thefirst things you're gonna hear are gonna be
conspiracy, you know, Leyden,The first things you're gonna hear are gonna

(54:51):
be things based on people trying toget clicks and likes. I'd like to
know exactly what the truth is,not what somebody on the Internet tells me
is the truth. And I don'tknow if we'll get all of the shots
because I don't know what was inhis mind. You know, he may
have nothing, There may be nothing, There may be zero clues. Go
back to what his name is,Stephen Paddock, the guy in Vegas.
To this day, we have noidea why I did it. By all

(55:14):
it counts, had a girlfriend,it's several million bucks, had all the
things that seemed to be what peoplestrive for, right, like a decent
life. We have no idea why. We have no idea why here.
I couldn't tell you. I couldn'tcould not tell you. But I do
know one thing. If you're ratchetedup enough while you're selling something, some

(55:37):
people will take that and run withit, thinking that they are going to
do write by America by killing AdolfHitler, who I got to vote for
in November to keep Hitler out theWhite House. That's all I want to
know. Who I got to votefor to keep Hitler out the White House.
Y'all do your thing, play intraffic all you want in front of
these Republicans, acting a full infront of these people instead of privately declaring

(55:58):
your stuff. But don't text meno more. Just let me know when
you guys are finished figuring it outDemocrats, because I know you all the
freak out people, Go ahead andfreak out, have your conversation, and
then let me know who I gotto vote for to keep Hitler at the
White House. Bessie it I'm done. What in your view would happen if
he were to be re elected?Oh, I can't even think that,
because I think it would be theend of our country as we know it.

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You know, when I'm Secretary ofState, I used to talk about
one and done, and what Imet by that is that people would get
legitimately elected and then they would tryto do away with elections, and do
away with opposition, and do awaywith a free press. Well, Hitler
was duly elected, right right,and so all of a sudden, somebody
with those tendencies, though dictatorial authoritariantendencies, would be like, Okay,

(56:46):
we're gonna shut this down. We'regonna throw these people in jail. Hitler.
Maybe this guy thought Trump is isAdolf Hitler second coming, and thought
iike led by Hitler, and weare going to be enslaved, We're going
to be put in chains, We'regoing to have all of our rights taken
away. I'm doing something that isgoing to save us all. I never

(57:08):
know, but I know we needto bring down the temperature. I know
we need to take the conversation backfrom the extremes. And it's hard because
a lot of the extremes are mainstreammedia. A lot of the extremes are
people who you watch on television oryou watch on the YouTube, and you
watch all over the place, andthey're in it for clicks and likes,
and they say all kinds of stuffbecause they're about entertainment, and a lot

(57:30):
of you understand it's entertainment. Butit only takes one person to not get
that it's entertainment. It only takesone person to get that no, he's
not Adolf Hitler. It only takesone person to go mmm and do something,
and that's sad. Law enforcement isworried that this is the beginning of
a vicious cycle, or at leastcoming as part of a viscious cycle.

(57:52):
It's certainly not at the beginning.But we already have the overheated climate.
We already have the conspiracy theories,the rage, the anger. We do
we got plenty of it. Isthis going to bring us closer together?
That's a fair question to ask.Does this bring us together? We we
just take a step back and gowhoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa. Thiswas this was a bridge too far,

(58:15):
guys. This was I mean,it's one thing where we you know,
people say stuff right like a boxingmatch. The two boxers they supposedly hate
each other, they want to fightright there, they want to do old
and then the minute that it's over, they hug each other. Oh,
guy's great, he's amazing. Asfanis go, Oh, they're trying to
sell a fight. They're trying tosell a fight. They're trying to get

(58:35):
people to buy the pay per viewfor sixty nine to ninety nine. That's
what they're trying to do. Itdidn't take long though, but then within
minutes everybody was pointing fingers right.It was a rhetoric of this, It
was a rhetoric of that they wantthis, and it was Donald Trump should
have done that, he should beout there. It's frustrating because I look
at our nation. I think we'reawesome. I have people that across the

(59:00):
street from me who are to Rumpsupporters, like you cannot believe, and
then Caddy corns me Trump supporters,you cannot believe. I have people to
the right of us can't stand Trump. Both people I chat with and they
don't hate each other. Your kidsplay together. They just have a differing

(59:20):
point of view. But you wouldthink that it is we all hate each
other based on the media, weall hate each other. We don't.
We are so much alike. Andthat's why I say, you know,
people talk about diversity, it's thegreatest thing in our country. No,
it's not the greatest thing about ourcountry. Is the thing that binds us
together, the unity of the thingsthat we have in common. That's the

(59:45):
greatest thing that this country has.Is that the want of freedom, the
want of the American dream, thewant to live your life in peace.
Those things are the thing that bringus together and that we all have in
common. We all want our kidsto succeed. We want our kids to
go to school. We all wantto have a good job. We all

(01:00:07):
want to own a piece of propertyand have We all want so much of
the same things. Now we differon how we think we can get to
some of those places. But we'vestopped talking policy. It doesn't matter anymore.
It's just so much easier to lookover and go, that guy's a
Nazi, and that's it. That'sall you need to know. He's a

(01:00:28):
Nazi. That's all you need toknow, period case clothes. And that
is so dangerous. It's just aNazi, that's what he is. It's
a Nazi. Sad, sad thatwe're in this position. That the easiest
thing to say is I could lookover and say, let me tell you
why my policies are going to bebetter for the country. But that's nuanced.

(01:00:53):
You have to think about that.It's just easier to go that guy
there, You vote him in.It put you in change. It's gonna
take away everything you're right to vote. He's gonna install himself as a dictator,
he said, so all disingenuous bswhich I heard over the weekend.
That's what he's gonna do if youvote for this guy over here, this

(01:01:16):
old guy probably shouldn't be running.And we'll talk about Biden here coming up,
because none of that stuff's changed.He still has all those same problems.
This has just bought him a fewextra days. But it's the worst
president of the history of mankind.Our country may not exist if you don't
vote for me. Again. No, we are the country. You guys

(01:01:38):
are the salesman, and you you'reselling your vision. But at the end
of the day, we're the country. We are not them. We are
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(01:02:00):
so much stuff about the how inGod's name did he get this close?
How in God's name did he getthis close? Which is a fair question.
Now you're gonna get the conspiracy sideof it. Now you're not gonna
tell me. I don't care whoyou are. Don't listen to the media
nonsense anyway. So they most ofus have know that by now that some

(01:02:22):
twenty year old kid that looks likehe played Dungeon and Dragons in his mom's
basement, is trained on a gun, especially a sniper rifle like that,
as a registered Republican, and thencan access anywhere near the vicinity of that
crowd of that event with him notdressed in a uniform and that sniper rifle.

(01:02:43):
He was wearing American flag T shirtand pants, and he had a
rifle. You're gonna tell me thatthat kid went through all this levels of
security somehow got into the closest buildingto the president, then accessed the rooftop
of the closest building to the president, then had the time to unpack his

(01:03:05):
rifle, lay down in the proneand then take five to eight well aimed
shots of the president before he wasdecisively engaged by the Secret Services counter cipher
teams or you made it. Tellme that it makes some good points there,
Well, that means it's an insidejob. You're going to tell me
all that happened, and a twentyyear old kid did that without it being

(01:03:27):
heavily planned, coordinated, and peopleon the inside making it happen. There's
absolutely no way possible that that kidwas able to get up there and take
those shots of the president without alot of internal help. So someone in
that local or some people and tiedthat local police department, agencies and secret
services compromised and is a threat toour president. Lots of conspiracies out there.

(01:03:53):
Bad job, yeah, underestimating thesurrounding area. Absolutely conspiracy. Well,
all you need is a little bitof something to give fire to a
place that is already a tinderbox.Three two, three, five, twenty
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more than two hundred million over twoweeks. The story of the weekend,
though, was the horror film LongLegs. It took second place, earning
twenty two point six million dollars despiteonly costing ten million dollars to produce.

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On the flip side, fly Meto the Moon cost one hundred million to
produce, but only earned ten milliondollars to come in fifth. Inside Out
Too came in third. Yeah.I tried to take my mind off a
lot of this stuff when I hada chance. This weekend my son went
home. It kind of bumps meout every time because we have our great
times together. And then uh,he had it on Friday, and then

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we just, you know, thisthing happened Saturday, and I'm thinking,
oh, thank god, Sunday,you know, I get to watch some
soccer. The European Soccer Championships wereon and that was great. Let's of
course you're English. Spain won twoto one. And then I watched the
Copa America last night, which waschaos. So Cope America is a big

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soccer tournament. It is second reallythe third biggest soccer tournament. You have
obviously the World Cup, then youhave the Euro Championships, which was going
on simultaneously, and then Cope America, of which we normally don't participate.
It's for South American teams, butthis time they combined us in North America,
if you will, in the SouthAmerica teams, and it was it

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was awesome. So last night MESSIthere, he is right, you know,
is this it is this hit forhim? Is he going to try
to play in the next World Cup? It's in Miami. The final,
it was like a two hour delay. People tried to rush into the stadium.
People it was chaos. And thenwatching the game, I mean it

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was it was chaos. So yeah, I tried to take my mind off
as much as I could this weekendand then sadness this weekend. They say
it comes in threes, the passingof celebrities, and it did. The
straight talking Sex Therapist time with theirstern German accent, helps soften the way

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Americans felt and dealt with the conversationof sex. It's not to shock,
but to educate. Her radio show, Sexually Speaking, became a nationwide sensation
in the nineteen eighties, she becamea household name and celebrity, appearing on
TV shows and building her own empire. In a nineteen ninety two interview,
the Holocaust survivor and orphan said thisabout her legacy. I want to be

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remembered as an immigrant to this countrywho lived in what she's doing. Shannon
Dougherty got her start in Hollywood asa child actress, but it was in
nineteen ninety that Dougherty became a householdname, playing Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills
nine oh two, one zero,Hell No Everyone, Sissy Strammeled and in
nineteen ninety eight playing prou Hollowell andcharm We three was Sentith Street. Twenty

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fifteen, Dougherty was diagnosed with breastcancer, which later spread, a battle
she fought for the rest of herlife. Her publicist says Dougherty was surrounded
by loved ones as well as herdog. At the end, she was
fifty three. Hi Richard Simmons wasa walking exercising billboard in the nineteen eighties
and nineties, promoting weight loss onTV shows and his popular workout videos like

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Sweating to the Oldies and Like theclown on the block. I'm the exercise
person of his over the top personalityand drive drew a huge and loyal following.
He used humor, but in anearlier interviews said he was serious about
his goal to help those lose weightand lose the stigma. If I could
be remembered for anything, it wasthat I gave some dignity and some respect
back to the overweight community. Yeah, so you had three Doctor Ruth was

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ninety six, fifty three years old. Shannon Jordie, I'm fifty three.
She got cancered twenty fifteen, itwent into remission, came back in twenty
twenty. By the time he hadcome back, it was stage four and
she fought and passed away over theweekend. And then Richard Simmons seventy six,
and I know there's a movie comingout, Paula Short's playing him,

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and uh just it was like oneof those one two three weekend, Just
a crazy, crazy weekend across theboard, and uh I just I'm glad
there was some stuff to take mymind off some of this, because I
know I've got a a lot ofstuff to do, you know, coming
up this week with all the stuffgoing on at the RNC, and what's
that going to be like? Youknow, people asking me over, we

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hate ched you. You've been toseveral of these. I said, yeah,
what's it like? I said,Well, first of all, obviously,
it's it's beefed up security in waysthat you cannot believe. I mean,
it's it's crazy. What's it goingto look like now? I think
a lot of times you you knewthere were undercover cops and people. I

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think now you're going to see alot more cops that are in full gear.
I think it's going to be ashow of force somewhat. And then
outside because the whole thought like wewere thinking about going and not going,
and I was talking to my teamabout it, I said, look,
I'm more interested in the outside ofyou know, what potentially could happen with

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all of the protesters all that,That to me is more interesting than what's
going on on the inside, becauseup until this weekend, you kind of
know what you're gonna get. It'svery maga oriented, very you know,
make America great. You know,now that's all changed. I was more
interested in what was going to goon in the outside because of all the

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protesters, what kind of protests,were going to we get the Palestinian protesters.
We're gonna get the climate change deny, you know, protesters who are
here to fight against the denial.What were we gonna what are we going
to get? So now it's goingto be both. And obviously what's going
to go on to Chicago with Biden? And you know, this weekend,
all the talk of him stepping away, he kind of got a respite from

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that. This hasn't changed any ofthat. He's still the same person that
he was ten days ago. He'sstill the same person that he was on
Thursday that we were talking about onFriday. At what point, you know,
you know, do they step in, what kind of polls do they
have to show? They were supposedto meet this weekend, but everything changed

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on Saturday three, two, three, five, three eight, twenty four,
twenty three at Chad Benson Show,It's your Twitter, talk a bit
about that, what's next for Bidenwhile they talk about Trump and the assassination
attempt, That issue is still hangingover the Democrats when it comes to what
to do with Biden next and howthey go about doing that. Talk about
that more on the Obviously the assassination, attempts a lot of other stuff to

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get to fall across all the socialmedia. Got some of your calls,
got some of your tweets and textsas well. Three two, three,
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That is your Twitter, your Instagram, and yes, your Facebook as well.
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Benson Show, Independent Thoughts, IndependentLife. This is Chad Benson. We

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talk about the black Swan event.What could that be? Not if?
But when I have said over andover again when it comes to the potential
of an assassination of somebody in thepolitical world, this weekend we got the
win, not the if, withDonald Trump, and then the worst president

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in the history of our country tookover. And look what happened to our
country, probably twenty million people.And you know that's a little bit old,
that chart, that charts a coupleof months old. And if you
want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened over

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who was there? Hold? Hold, when are you ready? On you
ready? Where's my shoe? Hereally wanted his shoe, not if,
but when it happened over the weekendSaturday, Pennsylvania. A twenty year old
of who we know very little,decided to try to kill the front runner

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for the presidential race at this momentin time and the former president Donald Trump.
They're one and the same, asyou guys know, not if,
but when the rhetoric, it's throughthe roof people not understanding that it's a

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lot of it is is theater.A lot of it is screaming and yelling
because you have to get over thenoise. A lot of it is it's
why he did it. We're goingto find out at some point in time.
I'm sure why he did it,but this isn't good. People.

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We need to do a better jobunderstanding our fellow man. Now, the
other questions, and there's plenty ofthem, and we're going to dress a
few of them here. First andforemost, what the f happened that a
twenty year old kid, not asniper, not trained in some magical way,
was in her way with the FrenchForeign Legion for eight years. He

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wasn't in the woods training specifically forthis moment. He wasn't some special candidate
the killer that was activated when somebodysaid trick or treat or long distance calling
for free. He wasn't. Hewas a twenty year old who, by
all accounts was a loner, nota shocker, shy, bullied at school.

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Go on and on. I mean, you could paint the picture of
exactly what it is that if youwanted to go to Central casting and find
somebody. But that doesn't answer thequestion of how in God's name was he
that close to able to pull offshots. People are asking questions, my
orcist, They're looking at you.I'm not sure we're believing anything you say.
A letter from the chairman of theHouse Homeland Security Committee suggests your department

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may have quote rebuffed multiple requests frompresident from security detail to increase protective resources.
How do you respond to that?That is an unequivocally false assertion.
We keep very close watch on avery dynamic threat environment. Yeah, I'm

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not sure I buy everything you say, because there are people who have said
that they requested and you denied moreprotection that people had requested. This Now,
did it get to that level whereit got to you? Probably not.

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Did other people in this in youknow, think that they had everything
handled. That's a possibility. Butwhile Trump is praising them for jumping on
top of him and all that.There is a serious question on how did
an untrained twenty year old who didn'teven make his varsity shooting team, which

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I didn't know they had, andstill in this day and age, how
did he get on a roof andsqueeze off several shots? How did that
happen? And now you've got,of course, starting today the RNC,

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what's that going to be? Likewhat I've heard, and I've got friends
who are out there. We thoughtabout going. Actually we're thinking, hey,
we might go, we might not. And the reason we didn't we
thought, well, it's not goingto be anything eventful. It's going to
be completely unevent outside of his pick. What's it going to be a lot
of these things outside of the pick? There didn't seem to be anything that
was supposed to be, you know, really grandiose. Coming out of this.

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We knew what was gonna happen.It's very trumpy, and it's going
to go on from there. They'dhave a pick, you know, you'd
have a few interesting things, butit wasn't going to be the thing like,
oh my god, now obviously everything'schanged. Are they going to beef
up security, I'm hearing not somuch. Security is already insane. By
the way, getting anywhere near thepresident is virtually impossible. But you would

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have thought that in this situation,wouldn't You've? Yeah, serious questions are
being asked, as there should be. This is what they trained for.
But a former agent told me,this is the first time that a Secret
Service sniper or technician as they arecalled, has killed a would be assassin.

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It is a split second decision,as we've said, But as the
agent noted me, it is obviousthat despite the history making move and the
difficulty of that second decision, theshot came too late and the sniper did
their job. But why was thisguy able to pull off that many shots

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that close? Why was the perimeterso close? Out of curiosity, why
why did that happen? Now?They have rules. By the way,
those are not keepings. Why ishe just blasting people on the roof?
They have rules. Now, theSleeper Service, counter snipers, the super

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Service personnel are bound by typical USuse of force rules. They can't just
shoot somebody because they see somebody.They have to make sure that and identify
it's a threat and make sure thatthe threat is actionable. In this situation,
you're talking about a threat even onehundred hundred and twenty yards out.
That is not an easy thing tosee from a rooftop PERSPECTI no, but

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they handled business when they needed to. But Donald Trump, and we've talked
a bit about what he's going totalk about this weekend, uniting the country,
trying to bring us together again.How much will people buy that?
How long will this unite go on? Because as we all know, we
are a nation of twenty four hournews cycle that sometimes is twelve and sometimes

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it's minute by minute. On Friday, we're talking about how much longer does
Biden have? Can he even survivethrough his residency when it comes to his
political life or is he going tohave to step down sooner than that?
And by Saturday that talk had goneaway, which we'll pick up later on
and we'll talk a bit about that. So there's a lot. There's a

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lot in this. But how wegot to this moment is sad because we
have a nation that is driven byalgorithms that promote hate and division and people
who profit upon it, people whoare so emotionally driven that they'll follow people

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that play into their biases and theirbelief systems, and that is so dangerous.
Like I said, and I've saidthroughout the show, it wasn't if,
but when if you go back throughhistory, I mean, there's been
a lot of attempts on presidents andpresidential candidates lives. Teddy Roosevelt was shot,

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you can go back and look governed. I mean, it has happened.
And a lot of you ask thisweekend, and we'll get into that
in a little bit. Maybe wecould touch on a little bit now what
happens if a presidential candidate is shot, killed, incapacitated before the election.

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And so I'm going to break itdown for you on what happens if something
would have happened. We're also gonnatalk about Biden. Biden got a rest
bite this weekend because of what tookplace with the assassination attempt of Donald Trump,
But in reality, he and anybetter. And if it wasn't for

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the narrative being changed because of theassassin's bullet, we would be going does
he make it till Wednesday? Doeshe make it till Thursday? And I'm
not talking about his life, I'mtalking about his political life. Talk about
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trending straight at Chad Benson Show.You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.
Now it's time to find out what'strending. What's trending? James Norway,

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Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Serene, um Bot, what truthing.
Let's find out what's trending on theold interwebs on this Monday. I

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don't know if you're aware of this. Something happen over the weekend. Just
tuning in to life. Start withYahoo. Jakobe Jones, NFL player passed
away, h forty Rush, UkraineWar demolition, Ranch, MLB Draft,
COPA America, Soccer, Wimbledon,Tennis, UEFA Euro twenty twenty four soccer,
Stephen King Trump not a fan.Shannon Doherty passed away yesterday, age

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fifty three. Been battling cancer formany, many years. And Trump shooting.
Number one thing on Yahoo. Let'sstart with Twitter from here. Very
interesting. Twitter number one trending thing. Yesterday messy soccer player. Then you

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have good Monday Monday motivation, thenlots of K pop stuff. Apparently something's
going on with K pop Lituro soccerplayer trending. Shakira performed at halftime last
night the soccer game World Cup Soccerbattle Box. It was Biden's address from
the Oval office the Resolute desk intobattle box. Dle's a BattleBox soccer trending,

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that's what it just says. Soccergolf DePaul soccer, John McCain not
soccer trending. And then finally overto Google Shannon Doherty and Arientina Columbia number
one trending things Chester of two millionsearches, Copa America trending, Jacoby Jones
football player passed away. Carlos Alcaraz, the tennis superstar, won a easy

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win yesterday over to Yokovic in Wimbledon. Shakira Major League Baseball Draft, Blackrock,
Black Rock, of course, theevil Blackrock. I don't know if
they're evil, but the shooter wasin a commercial but not starring in it.
It was a commercial about I thinkone of his high school teachers,

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and like he literally was in therefor a second. But you've got to
find conspiracyies. Trust me, Iknow the amount of conspiracy theories that hit
me by I don't know five minutesafter the horror of Saturday was tremendous.

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We live in a world of conspiracytheories. There's no doubt about that.
Three two, three, five,three eight, twenty four, twenty three
at Chad Benson Show. Is yourTwitter? Tweet at us text the program
at the Chad Benson Show. Somuch stuff to get to today. We
got a lot of stuff, obviouslymore on the shooting the shooter now that
we've got the RNC kicking off today, that was going to be for the

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most part, the only exciting thingthat was going to come out of the
RNC was who was going to bethe pick? All right? Jd Vance,
Tim Scott. Was it gonna be, you know, Marco Rubio,
Doug Bergham. That was gonna kindof be the thing, like, what
are we gonna get? That wasgonna be somewhat exciting. I don't know

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what we're gonna get. Now,are you going to get that? The
temperature turned down? Nicky Haley,by the way, is going to be
as as we would like say,in the House there's no clear sense at
this point that anything's going to changewith respect to the convention program as the
thousands of delegates from across the countryconverged here on this city. We are
aware, however, of one substanceof change to the program, and that's

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the addition of Nicki Haley, theformer South Carolina governor. She has now
been added to the speaker's list thisweek. She was not included in the
original lineup, and a spokesperson forHaley had previously told ABC News she simply
wasn't invited. So now she isbeing added. That could be read as
a sign of party unity in thewake of the assassination attempt against the former
president. Would it be a shockerif she was it, that would be

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so like Trump. Everybody thinks jdVance he's in the lead because he's super
maga, woke destroyer. I don'tthink he needs jd Vance. Marco Rubio,
nice pick Tim Scott. Don't doit. Tim, don't do it.
Get out of politics. You're twonice of a human being. You
don't need to be there. Dougbergerm I like, but Nikki Haley be

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a shocker, and Trump likes toshock people. As we all know.
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get to, obviously, more onthe shooting, the who is this guy?
The why did it happen? Theseare things that we're not going to
know for who knows how long wedon't know. Could be a month,

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could be never, could be today. But do I think mental illness played
a part in it? I wantto say yes, there was definitely some
of that. Do I think themedia played a part into a lot of
this stuff? Absolutely? Do Ithink we have lost our understanding of the
way that people talk and the waythat they gin up the crowd, that

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there's a wink and a nudge thatgoes with it, and they we don't
quite get it, which is scary. Talk about that. A lot of
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This is Chad Benson tonight. Iwant to speak to what we do know.
Yesterday shooting at Donald Trump's rawling Pennsylvaniacalls on all of us to take
a step back. A former presidentwas shot, an American citizen killed while
simply exercising his freedom to support thecandidate of his choosing. We cannot,
we must not down this road inAmerica. The political record in this country
has gotten very heated. It's timeto cool it down. Yeah, and

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then you went on to kind ofdivide a bit. I think you had
a chance to do something there inthat speech from the Oval Office, the
Resolute Desk, and you didn't deliverthe way that I think you should have.
And in fairness, I want tosee what Trump does this weekend.
But he was the one who gotshot and he's the one being called Adolf

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Hitler. Look. Trump says alot of wacky stuff, and I think
everybody knows he's a marketing guy.I mean this weekend with the fist up
the whole nine yards. I waswatching Bill Maher talk about it, and
actually Bill Maher came out and becausehe had a show and talking about how
he last night. Hey, I'mgoing to you know, Milwaukee, mostly
the Strip club, so I cansee he's in him. But he said,

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unequivalentally denounce this. People cheered,it's not who we are, it's
not what we're about. This iswrong. And you may hate Trump,
you may all of those things,but that's not how we do things in
this country. And that was,you know, pretty powerful. But then
he went on to say, youknow, Biden can't get through a debate

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and they can't kill Trump with thebullet and then he goes up and he
puts his fist up in the air. He goes, it's over. I
don't care who you run. AndI was joking, I said this week
And I told my wife the minuteI saw it, to said, wow,
he branded that. She goes whatI said, that's all branding.
Trump knows that Trump does. Trumpknows that, yes, he wants to
show everybody he's okay. But thatwas such a branding moment, and if

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pictures told anything anymore, which theydon't, not like the used to because
people don't read stuff. Uh,he'll figure ot a way to brand the
hell out of that. And it'salready everywhere. I've seen shirts if you're
gonna hit the king, you betterkill the king. I've seen shirts say
you missed me bitch. Ok,It's it's crazy. So I got a

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lot of questions though, of whatif something horrible happened. So the way
this works is both Democrats and Republicanshave backup plans. Now they're differing obviously,
how the you know, the Republicanswould do it comparatively to the Democrats,

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And it also differs at the time. So let's say, for instance,
something horrific happened to Trump. Well, the convention was this weekend.
Chances are that would have been canceled. But they may have pulled some of
the delegates. They may have pulledall of the big weeks together and go
all right, how do we flipthis? What do we do? Who

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are we going to go with?How does that work? If it's pre
primary and they would have gone andpartially through the primary, they each one
of them have a different plan.Everybody has some sort of plan in big
situations in life for something like this, the what if scenario. Major League

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Baseball, the NFL, NBA,NHL all have a plan that should something
horrific happen, ie a plane crash, how they go about propping up the
team and what happens. A fewyears ago in Brazil, one of the
bigger soccer teams, there was aplane crash killed a vast majority of their

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players. Players from other teams werethen loaned out to the other team so
they could continue. So everybody's gotsome sort of plan. Both sides have
a plan. It just depends onwhat the plan looks like depending on the
moment. If something would have happenedthough, after the nomination point, so
we'd have got past this week,you'd have been nominated, and a few

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things down, you know, weeksdown the road, something would have happened.
Well, then they would have beenback at the drawing board and it
would have been kind of like theold school where they're in the back room
picking. That's the way that wouldhave worked. So that's the way that
would have gone, So we shallsee. Breaking news. Judge Eileen Cannon

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dismisses the classified documents case against DonaldTrump because she is evil. You knew
that was going to happen at somepoint in time, that this thing was
going to go away. And soTrump survived an assassination attempt, and now
he got the classified case, thedocument's case against it, which I think

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out of all of the cases,out of all of these cases, was
the one where he had serious issuesbased on what would potentially have been the
cover up, not the classified side, because you were never going to find
twelve jurors that probably could have passedclassified background check so they could see super

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double triple top secret stuff. Soit's been quite a whirlwind for Trump.
Now on the other side of it, there's another guy running for president,
Dale Biden, and up until Saturdayafternoon, the question was can he make
it through the weekend as the nominee. Then the other questions started to become

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should he even be president at thispoint in time. The Maiden campaign is
pointing to polls that show that sincethe debate, the numbers and that head
to head matchup between Biden and Trumphave not really moved, still within the
margin of era of virtual tie.But I think it's important to remember that
we don't elect presidents with just onenational vote. Right through the electoral college
process. It's those battleground states thatmatter so much, places like Wisconsin.

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They are said that some of theseeven more traditionally sort of safer blue state
like Minnesota and Virginia could now bemore vulnerable and in play ooh, states
that are super blue are becoming purple. I mean, and I have to
remind everybody we don't elect presidents basedon the popular vote, because if that

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was true, then New York andCalifornia would run everything. Everybody else to
be screwed. Whatever they say goes. We don't do it that way.
We do it state by state.That's the beauty of our country, that's
the beauty of being a republic.So everybody has a say in this and
the way that things go. Bidenhas issues because he is bringing people well,

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first of all, let's talk aboutwhat he's doing. Inflation is bringing
people back to a sense of well, I don't really like Trump, but
I like cheap guests and cheap stuff, and I want to be able to
afford my life. And I rememberwith him that existed. Oh yeah,
okay, I see that. Andthen with the age thing, that's bringing

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a whole bunch of people into this. There's no big change in strategy.
In fact, his team has insistedthat they are staying the course. They
say that they still think he canwin if they get him out there more,
if they work closely with organizers.But I can tell you that is
an answer that has been wholly unsatisfyingto a lot of these members who are
running themselves in tight races, andthey say that voters just already think the

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damage has been done, that theythink he is too old, that old
thing. But it's not about andI go back to the age thing.
I mean, is he too old? Number wise? We could talk about
that all day. It's the cognitiveability that is the issue. It is
the cognitive ability that is the struggle. It is the cognitive ability. He

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could be fifty seven and struggling withearly onset dementia and it wouldn't be the
number next to his name pointing outhis age. It would be the cognitive
ability of what is happening with him. There is some moments where we see
that kind of anxiety we're hearing fromDemocrats, even in our own polls,

(01:39:10):
when you get into the questions aboutexcitement. In our own poll, we
saw that only about a third ofBiden's supporters said they strongly support him,
others sort of reluctantly so. Andthat's where Democrats are really worried that even
some of his own supporters might justfeel like there can't be bothered to vote
no. And that's the thing.I think what you're going to see is
more focus on the down ballot ticketsbecause they're worried about that. Because remember

(01:39:35):
when you're bringing in states now,VIRGNYA, Minnesota, I mean, you
know, these primarily blue states,when you're bringing them into a race that
is serious, the down ballot folkwho are on Biden's side are getting worried
that something is going to happen thatis going to tip it towards the Republicans.

(01:39:57):
And oh my god, oh it'sI think what you're gonna see,
though, what you're gonna see alot of people show up and they're gonna
I never vote for Trump, andthey're gonna say, and I can't vote
for Biden. So they'll leave itblank or write somebody in and then go
and work their way down down ballot. There's very few purple states in this

(01:40:23):
country, very very few. Moststates are for the most part, one
side dominated by that side. Californiait's a blue state. It's a super
blue state. Whoa, yeah,Texas pretty red. Pretty red. Now

(01:40:46):
each one of them have pockets ofthe other, but the fact is is
they're dominated for the most part atthe state level, congressional level that goes
to the federal side to send itthings of that, they're dominated by that
very few. Arizona is a veryinteresting state, probably one of the most

(01:41:06):
purple states, because you have Republicansand Democrats, tons of independents. You
can have a person who, likein the last election for the governor and
that entire election midterms, of allnine yards, who got the most votes
wasn't Hobbes, wasn't carry Lake.It was the Treasure a Republican. You

(01:41:34):
had right and left, you hadHey, this person over here is blue
and they won. This person overhere is red. Lots of split tickets.
You don't have that a lot inthe world of politics anymore because we're
so divided. That's why those sevenstates are so important and that's how we
vote. But Biden is bringing thosestates into play, not just at the
top of the ticket, but downballot. And while the assassination attempt is

(01:41:59):
going to dominate so much of thenews. It's gonna give a respite for
Biden. That noise is gonna pickup later on once this this shock wears
off, once a bit of normalcycomes back, and once Biden fumbles again,
it's back on. And the closerwe get to the convention for the

(01:42:19):
Democrats, the louder that voice isgoing to be three two, three,
five, three eight twenty four,twenty three at Chad Benson Show, is
your Twitter Tweet as texta program?He said, breaking you a little bit
earlier. Eileen Cannon, the evilTrump appointed judge has thrown out the classified
documents case, which wasn't a shocker. I'll think a lot of people thought

(01:42:40):
Jack Smith should have dropped the classifiedand tried to get obstruction. But that
is gone now, and uh so, I'm sure there'll be more chaos and
craziness. We're gonna wrap it upstraight ahead. Talk a little bit more
about, obviously what took place overthe weekend, how some people feel about
it. Yes, there are youngpeople out there that are very upset that

(01:43:01):
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(01:44:15):
with irony. It's Chad Benson breakingnews and as we learn more information about
the attempt at assassination of former PresidentDonald Trump. We have just learned that
Judge Eileen Cannon has dismissed the classifieddocuments case against Donald Trump, calling Special
Council Jack Smith's appointment unconstitutional. Thisis a stunning development coming on the first
day of the Republican National Convention herein Milwaukee. In an order that runs

(01:44:39):
more than ninety pages, Trump appointedJudge Eileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents
case and ordered it closed, findingthat Special Council Jack Smith was wrongly appointed
in violation of the Constitution because Smithwas not confirmed by the Senate. This
is an argument that failed during theTrump presidency when it was used against then
Special Council Robert Muller. Donald Trump, who is in Milwaukee, has been

(01:45:01):
told about the dismissal, but hasnot delivered a response. WHOA, She's
maga, That's why she did it. It's gonna happen there. I said
all along that that case was nevergonna get there. The way that they
wanted it to. And I think, going back to the Biden, you
know, Robert her Thing, Ithink the best thing Jack Smith could have
done was drop the document's case andjust went with obstruction. And I don't

(01:45:26):
know what's gonna happen in DC andAtlanta, and then there's an appeal,
and what if the appeal says,hey, this this ridiculousness in New York
should never have gotten to here.We're throwing it out. And then in
DC they don't do anything, andthe whole case falls apart in Georgia,
so you couldn't get him through lawfair, then you couldn't kill him.
Holy geez chah, that's not verynice. Some people wanted him dead,

(01:45:48):
though, and we're super bummed hewasn't. I just found out about this.
It just happened. I haven't evenhad a second to process. You're
telling somebody finally had the balls tobring a few few We were that yet
away. We were a centimeter awayfrom half of the problem being gone.

(01:46:12):
And you missed there was a whiteman attached to that trigger. I know
it. We were a centimeter away. Oh do you miss that? We
don't miss those sun shot at greatnessto be mentioned in the history books.
Can you miss the shot? Shoots? No, people are nuts. That

(01:46:41):
doesn't help us, by the way, it doesn't bring us closer together.
Here's a lady at home depot wearingyour own depot stuff. I guess she
tweeted out, how could you miss? Shooters need to be better? A
veteran who's a fan. Obviously,if Trump decided to go confront her,
are you Jersey Waldron? Yeah,okay from Kyogo? And you think that
the shooter should have been a bettershot? Is that what you posted on

(01:47:03):
Facebook? Do you think that theshooter should have been a shooter? Huh?
Yeah, I think that's pretty messedup, pretty anti American. If
you ask me as a veteran,I'm disgusted. What if you provided to
this country? Huh? I'm sorry. This is ridiculous. You are ridiculous,
and I'm making you famous famous sadthat's where we are now, wishing

(01:47:27):
the other side would get killed.My god, we need to stop this.
Get our heads out of our ass. There are fellow Americans we can
disagree with a smile and maybe evensometimes we're just scrowl our clinched teeth.
But for the love of God enough, stop with the emotions for the love
of goodness, if you could forjust a moment, what brings us to
this portion of the program. Andthen I go and spoil it all by

(01:47:49):
saying something stupid. All take stupidtills this morning. It's the honest ones
you want to watch out for becauseyou can never predict it. We're gonna
do something kindibly stupid. Now you'rethe fact stupid one with the big mouth
is stupid little last time, youshould never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

(01:48:12):
Now it's time fa stupid information.As we wrap up this Monday show.
There's been a lot of assassination attempts. Like I said, it's most dangerous
job in America. The first assassinationtip though of a president, took place
on January thirty, eighteen thirty five. Andrew Jackson was the first president to

(01:48:34):
experience this assassination insanity when Richard Lawrencetwice tried to shoot him in the east
portico of the Capitol after Jackson lefta funeral held in the House of Representatives
chamber. The attempt failed when bothof Lawrence's pistols misfired. He was lucky
Andrew Jackson didn't beat him to death. He had a way with him,
if you know what I mean.There you go. Now you know some

(01:48:55):
stuff that you didn't know. Solidshow today, fun well, it's debatable
this point in time. Guys,gals, everybody take a deep breath.
Remember your neighbor as your neighbor.We're all Americans here. God bless each
and every one of us, andmaybe we can all take the temperature down
just a little bit and laugh alittle bit more. As always, Night,
Night jack This is the Chad BensonShow.

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