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Dana gives her initial reaction to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania. Dana breaks down the moments leading up to the shots and how the Secret Service failed to protect Trump after bystanders were trying to warn them that someone was on the roof. Why were shorter women responsible for protecting Trump who is over 6 feet tall? Meanwhile, UFC Fighter, Ranger, Sniper, and Special Forces Operator Tim Kennedy on the failed Secret Service response.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Dana Lashes of seard Truth podcast sponsoredby Keltech. It's his life mission to
make bad decisions. It's time forFlorida man. So this guy in a
wah wah parking lot exposed his woowoo to some women. This thirty three
year old Florida man easy in trouble. He parked next to these women and

(00:25):
had a little self expose. Awinter Haven police said that this guy,
Trennelle Webster, drove h there's likeseven thirty seven forty pm park next to
these female victims sitting in their carsand decided to try to give him a
show, and they called police.This guy was arrested, although they had
to go and find him because hetried to speed off, but they did

(00:45):
find him and he is now injail. We're short on time. That
that was a great interview with TimKennedy and make sure to find it on
social third hour on the way VPNews coming up and watching and listen to
the rally. Right, we couldn'tsee him, but we could hear him.
So we walked up and probably fiveto seven minutes of Trump speaking I'm

(01:07):
estimating here. I have no idea, you know, but we noticed the
guy crawling arm you know, bearcrawling up the roof of the building beside
us, fifty feet away from us. So we're standing there, you know,
we're pointing. We're pointing at theguy crawling up the roof. And
he had a gun, right,he had a rifle. We could clearly

(01:30):
see him with a rifle. Absolutely, we're pointing at him. The police
are down there running around on theground. We're like, hey, man,
there's guy on the roof with therifle. And the police were like,
huh what, you know, likelike they didn't know what was going
on. You know, We're like, hey, right here on the roof,
we can see him from right here. We see him, you know,
he's crawling. And next thing,you know, I'm like, I'm

(01:53):
thinking to myself, I'm like,why is Trump still speaking? Why have
they not pulled him off the stage. I'm standing there pointing at him for
you know, two three minutes.Secret Service is looking at us from the
top of the barn. I'm pointingat that roof, just standing it like
this, and next thing, youknow, five shots ring out. Wow.
That is a BBC interview with oneof the guys that was right outside

(02:15):
of the security perimeter and he theysaw, as you could hear with what
he was saying, they saw thisguy accessing the rooftop. They saw him
and it wasn't just him. Ithink it was reported what can like fifty
some odd bystanders saw this guy andthey were for minutes trying to alert law
enforcement about it. There's a greatside by side and first off, welcome

(02:38):
back. We're at the bottom ofthis first hour Dana lash back from vacation
with you. There was a greatside by side video. It's a little
long. I don't know if wewant to play all of it, but
it puts it in really sharp perspectiveand it's matched up perfectly. It was
an account on x that did this, and they matched up perfectly lee the

(03:01):
video from the bystanders that they tookwhere they were like from the moment they
saw the guy. And you cansee on one side it's the bystanders video
and it's there's they're saying, thisis the moment they saw the guy on
the roof and then they were like, wait, that's not right, we
need to tell law enforcement. FromTrump speaking on the other side and it's

(03:22):
I want you because this really putsit into realistic, sharp perspective. The
amount of time that passed. Ireally want you to understand this. It's
a little long. Please bear withme though, because it will shock you.
Watch the left is the bystanders video. The right Trump on the top

(03:49):
of the roof. He's playing,he's playing down what's happening. And just
because if we do, we're gonnamake We're gonna look there is because we

(04:12):
have millions and the people in ourcountry see the guys we have. We
have people tough. I mean,they're surrounded by whatever in recorded history at
the best border. In fact,if they could ever put up a shot,

(04:35):
I don't know if they can.You guys have access to that jot
that I love so much. Youdon't mind if I go up. Please
police, police, police, becausehe's teleproctic that from the moment they first
saw and they're telling you about thisclock is police. Who's this guy on
the roof. There's a guy inthe room. Guys, fifty son,
here's the side by side and herewe go fifty some odd bystanders right now.

(05:00):
What they're doing is they're trying totell police there's a guy on the
roof of the gun. They couldsee the rifle. They're telling police,
they're telling trying to get secret service. There's a guy on the roof with
the gun. And it was twofull minutes. We're letting this clock run
because I want people to understand howlong it was from the moment they spotted
him until the first shots werang out, and they're tried desperately trying to get

(05:26):
police's attention the entire time. Youcan see people in the other video,
they're running over there. They knowsomething's happening. Then if you and then
narratives at that point, you couldhear in the other video people were screaming,
there's a guy on the roof.There's a guy on the roof,

(05:48):
and all hell breaks out. Don'ttell me that note that you can't armchair
quarter back this. Do not tellme. First off, Can I just
tell you something about the area thathe was speaking in Pennsylvania. These are
people that know guns, These arepeople that hunt a lot of these.
I mean, this is veteran countrywhere he was at. That's one of

(06:11):
the reasons why. And I madethis remark to a friend of mine,
a combat veteran. I said,I don't know, I kind of have
a feeling that one of the reasonsthat, you know, a lot of
the people that heard the gunshots,they didn't react at first because they're used
to hunting there, used to beingaround. And my friend kind of life
was like, you know that area, you're not wrong. I mean,
he's in veteran country, he's youknow, this is not like you know,
Beverly Hills and so, and youknow, people kind of kept there

(06:33):
cool. They didn't rush out ofthat. They just were looking around,
looking where the threat was. Itis amazing to me that it took that
long. So don't tell me youcan't armchair quarterback it. So what the
hell happened? The American people areowed answers. We are owed answers on
this because we go through an election, we go through this cycle, and

(06:55):
we have a very protected process inthe United States. We are so unbelieved,
fevably unique, the bloodless transfer ofpower. And I'm telling you,
there are questions a bystanders saw Maybemaybe the bystanders should have called the ATF
and said, oh, hey,there's a dog on the roof. Maybe

(07:15):
they should have done that. Ifthey wanted that threat neutralized, maybe that's
what they should have done. Andwhat gets me is when the FBA,
so the FBI said, oh,we think he acted alone. Really,
and you're telling me that everybody herethey couldn't see this dude. But they
can hunt down every single person whoskipped past the Capitol on January sixth,
run them down, get all ofthem. Really, but they're going to

(07:39):
shrug before much is known about theguy. I always think he acted by
himself. There was this story thatI told you about the local cop who
confronted this guy. New York Posthas the story moments prior, moments before
shots rang out, as all thesebystanders spotted him on the roof of this
I mean one hundred and thirty yardsfrom the stage. One hundred and thirty
yards from the stage. Police werenotified. One officer, according to the

(08:03):
New York Posts, climbed the ladderto investigate. This is according to numerous
law enforcement officials who told the AssociatedPress this on the condition of anonymity.
So they're telling on the guy.The officer whose department had been enlisted by
the Secret Service to help with securityencounter the murder, who pointed as rifle
murderer, who pointed his rifle athim. The officer then backed down the

(08:24):
ladder. That's when crooks immediately tookaim and fired shots. I don't know
why the officer wouldn't immediately point hisgun and even at the very you know,
at the very least like duck behind, you know, duck under the
roofline, and then point your gunover the roofline. I don't know why
I wouldn't do that. I mean, this is the I mean that I
got questions about that. So nowthere's the Houses initiated an investigation into this.

(08:46):
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer saidthat they're calling the Secret Service director
Kimberly Cheedle. They're going to havea hearing on July twenty second. Is
anything going to come of it?I don't know, but this is a
catastrophic I there's a lot of genuinequestions over the deiification of the Secret Service.
And don't get mad at the peoplebringing it up because we didn't bring

(09:09):
it up. The damn had aSecret Service brought it up. Kimberly Cheatle
brought it up. This is whatblows my mind. And no pun intended
here, but when you have thesedepartment heads that get in and they're like,
Oh, we're going to increase womenrepresentation. We're going to do all
of this. You know, we'regoing to we're going to increase the number

(09:31):
of women. We're going to makethat a big thing, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. Okay, well, why are you I mean,
what why is that a big promotionfor you? Cheatle was filmed in
an interview bragging about the diversity inSecret Service. Uh and she was,
you know, had been, hadbeen a real big promoter of that,
et cetera. So I mean,are you capable? That's all I care

(09:54):
about. So don't tell people thatthey can't talk about the deiification of this
or ask questions about this because thepeople didn't bring it up. Kim Cheatle
brought this up. And now KimCheatle has an attempted assassination of a former
president on her watch audio sound bytwenty four flashback, she was talking about

(10:15):
DEI compliancy with Secret Service listen toexpand hiring. They're aiming to have thirty
percent women recruits by twenty thirty andeven allowed YouTube influencer Michelle Care to train
with agents. But I'm very consciousas I sit in this chair now of
making sure that we need to attractdiverse candidates and ensure that we are developing

(10:39):
and giving opportunities to everybody in ourworkforce, and particularly women. That workforce
will be pivotal for the twenty twentyfour campaign season, which for the first
time includes a former president who alreadyhas lifetime Protection agents were there when Donald
Trump was arraigned. She's a certainSecience service for twenty eight years. She

(11:00):
was involved in the evacuation of Cheneyon September eleventh, et cetera. She
was director of last year. Rememberthe agency delayed a lot of its text
messages from January sixth. There's Imean, there's some there's they they said
recruitment and retention are challenges. TheSecret Services departure rate was forty eight percent
last year. Because it is ahigh demand job. I get that.

(11:20):
That's not an excuse. Don't throwthis out to me as excuses, because
we don't we don't tickle the fancyof mediocrity here in this country, especially
when it comes to protection of ourthe highest office in the land. Here's
the reason why I bring this up, because there are a lot of people
and I've seen some of it nowon social media, there were a lot
of people saying, oh, well, women shouldn't be in an executive detail.
I've had executive detail before. Imean I've had to when after Parkland

(11:43):
and when I was working with agun rights organization. I mean, I
mean they were literally people were tryingto get in my house, like physically
trying to get my home. Iwould go to different events and there would
be people who would try to rushwherever we were. So I had I
had for a period of time,and Kane's met them a detail. I've
had men and women a lot oftimes. If it's in a huge crowded
area, you mean, obviously youhave several tiers of it. I had

(12:05):
a lot of women details because womenhaving women agents, it's less obvious because
you then don't know immediately who thesecurity targets are, because those people want
I mean their targets. If there'syour security, they're targets. But also
these women were more muscular than Iwas and a little taller than I was,
and they could manhandle me if theyneeded to to get me out of

(12:26):
the way. I bring this upbecause I need people to stop making this
about a gender or sex thing.And it's about physicality and it's about statistics.
When I've done all level of I'vedone so much training. Obviously I'm
not in armed forces and I'm nota special agent. I've done a lot
of training. Though I've been toOklahoma. I've been all over the country
doing training and morning, noon,and night, all types of weather,

(12:48):
hours of training. And one ofthe interesting things that I learned because I've
done a number of different drills whereyou go through like you're clearing houses or
you're clearing what is like a makeshiftschool, and you go through and the
instructors are screaming orders at you.And one of the things that I found
out was I was outperforming the menin every single one of these drills.
And it's not just me. Iwasn't the exclusion, every other lady did

(13:11):
too. Now, why is thatthe women, the instructors told us,
usually always outperform the men in thesedrills because the women take instruction better than
men. But there's a flip sideto this and the real time, real
space environment when you're out there inreality and you're not in a makeshift training

(13:31):
house and you're not with instructors thatare walking on these beams and screaming orders
at you. When you are inreal space, it's flipped because there is
a shift that takes place. Theseinstructors have told me, where men zero
in on the objective in this realtime environment, and women are always it
is our nature. We immediately wantto make sure you okay, you okay,

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and we kind of look at thebigger picture, whereas men will zero
in. It's just a man versuswoman thing, and it's not a strength
or weakness of either side. Itis a different objective and a different capability.
And if people didn't have their headsso far up their backsides, they
would see that these two things complementeach other instead of using one, as
you know, as a way todenigrate the other. That being said,

(14:13):
when it comes to a secret serviceprotection, I'm not in favor of women
protecting men like the President of theUnited States, unless it's a specific requirement.
Now, there are exclusions. Thereare women who are absolute exclusions to
that rule and perform just as goodsometimes better than the men. But there
that's an exception. That's why theyare exceptional. The reason I say this

(14:37):
is because I was watching on stage. I was watching when Trump was on
stage and this woman was trying tothe first agent in the front, and
she was you know, I thoughtshe actually was doing performing very well.
But he's like, have you evermet Trump? I have. I've known
her for a decade. He's tall, he's a huge guy. He's over
six foot three inches and he's verybroad. And if he doesn't want a

(14:58):
movie, he's not going to move. I don't know if you remember.
And I'm going to talk about thislater. We're going to I want to
compare the Secret Service response from theReagan attempted Reagan assassination to now. Because
they mayn handled Reagan, they threwThey literally picked that man up and threw
him in the back of a car. They were trying to move Trump,

(15:18):
and he did not want to move. He wanted to get his shoes,
and the woman in front, youcould tell, was kind of struggling to
cover all his vital organs in thefront. That's one of the first things
I noticed, because that training thingwhere they could cooon you was one of
the things that we actually they drilledus on and we participated, and it
was very interesting. And when you'renot as big as your principle, which
is what they call the person you'reprotecting. When you are not as big

(15:41):
and you are not capable of overpoweringthem and getting them and they're not respond
that's a problem. That's a securityproblem. And one last quick thing.
It reminds me of Zack Snyder's threehundred when Leonidas was talking to the deformed
guy from Sparta who wanted to jointhe three hundred, and he followed Leonidas
and the Spartan army to face offagainst the King of against Xerxes, and

(16:03):
Leonidas said, can you raise yourshield? Can you show me what you
can do? And the guy couldraise his shield. Leonidis is being very
kind, and he said, I'mnot doing this, you know, maliciously,
but I need everybody to be ableto perform at top notch because if
you can't, then you're making atarget out of the guy behind you,
and if he drops, he's makinga target out of the guy behind him.
And we have to have every linkphysically strong. He wasn't saying that

(16:26):
to be mean. And I'm tellingyou what, it's either about the objective
or it's about you. And ifit's about you, then you are idolizing
yourself higher than the objective, andyou are unsuitable for the job. If
you can't focus on the objective overself, you're unsuitable for the job.
It is about protecting, It isabout making sure that there are no gaps
in security. This is not socialexperimentation. Now, like I said,

(16:48):
there are some exceptions to that role, which is why they're exceptional. But
I have serious questions about some ofthe stuff. I know that they're hemorrhaging
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(18:38):
those out. I still have foreverstamps, don't you like? I bought
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long ago? And I bought awhole book of these forever stamps. So
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Oh man, I don't. Butthey said they said that the cross

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you know, like magazines and packages. That's like pretty much like do
people send letters and you know,because they email, they have like direct
communication. I don't know, butI think like prescription drugs and purchases online

(19:22):
purchases, you know, that's gonnabut stamps or they just like run it
through the you know, I don'tknow. So it's going up to seventy
three cents for that, I know, Right, we should get into the
stamp business away from the government.An axe wielding woman torches cars in a
violent Hollywood Hills rampage. Goodness,it happened around ten thirty am. She

(19:42):
set apparently a Toyota's a Toyota Priusis being set on fire, and then
and then it blew up, andthen the fire went to a jeep Cherokee.
And then this female suspect ran intoan apartment complex where she attacked another
woman with an axe and then shethreatened to chop up other people with said
acts. La responded, and Ithink and the firefighters responded. They extinguished

(20:03):
the flames and they did not releasethe identity of the crazy lady who was
running around with an axe. Butsounds like a horror film. A let's
see this. You still have aboutthree hundred thousand people without power a week
after a hurricane barrel ripped through Texas, and Governor Abbott has demanded that Houston's
main electricity supplier explain how it's goingto improve its hurricane preparation plans. Yeah,

(20:26):
you think so, they said.It's like two hundred and eighty eight
thousand energy customers still in the darkas of Monday morning. According to power
outage dot US. Many don't evenhave air conditioning. Houston is superhumid and
it's super odd. It's like ninetythree degrees. I don't even know what
the humidity is. Theyre one hundredand eleventy thousand something like that. Yeah,

(20:47):
Centerpoint Energy, the main supplier,says it's reconnected almost two million,
about ninety percent. But you stillhave two hundred and eighty thousand that don't
have it. And that's AC that'sinsane. So now there and looked at,
and the Executive Office, governor officeand Governor's Office in Texas is saying
they need they need to pony upsome answers here also going back to this

(21:11):
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(21:33):
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Committee that suggests your department may havequote rebuffed multiple requests from presidents from security
detail to increase protective resources. Howdo you respond to that? That is

(23:44):
an unequivocally false assertion. We keepvery close watch on a very dynamic threat
environment. The president, the formerpresident commonly consistently under threat. We take
every single threat seriously. I don'tbelieve you. That's Ellehund Mayorkas. I

(24:08):
don't believe him. He's DHS.I don't believe him at all. And
there are a number of lawmakers thathave come out repudiating that statement and refuting
it at ST and Mike Waltz isone of them. There are a number
of them. They've said absolutely,we can unequivocally confirm that, yes,
requests have been made. But apparentlythe director of United States Secret Service was
denying a larger Secret Service footprint.And I mean, regardless of what you

(24:33):
think about RFK Junior, I mean, I think it's really weird that he
doesn't have protection either. That strikesme as being very weird because he's a
very credible third party candidate and youknow, by all measures he's met that.
I mean, he's past that thatlitmus test. So there are a
lot of questions about this, andthis is why House Oversight has initiated an
investigation into this. Welcome back tothe program, Dana lash with you.

(24:55):
The first thing that I thought ofwhen I was watching all of the video
of the that the I guess fairground of the area where Trump was speaking,
for the lack of a better wayto put it, was it was
one hundred and thirty yards out therooftop that apparently had I guess no one
cleared. I don't know how youcannot see a guy shimming up the side
of a building and then he's indarker clothing on a white rooftop that isn't

(25:15):
really that pitched, and he's bearcrawling a car. He had over fifty
by standers that could see it.Why could nobody else who was involved in
security? And I want to beclear that until all the answers are in,
I'm not I'm not, you know, armchair quarterbacking. I want to
know what happened, and I wantto go to the people that had the
expertise in this so that they cangive us some insight. And one of

(25:37):
the first people that I thought ofwas our really good friend Tim Kennedy.
You know him as a UFC CHAMPI. He's a ranger, sniper, Special
Forces operator, unapologetically American. He'sbeen tweeting about this and he was asking
a lot of the same questions thatwe were asking. So he tweeted on
the thirteenth he was glad the formerpresident is okay, but he asked,
you know, the fact that thisguy was able to get up there within
two hundred meters with a rifle andin an elevated position. He says,

(26:02):
quote is beyond negligent, if notintentional, and Tim joins us via skype
right now with an epic background.Tim, so good to see you,
my friend. I wish it wason a better subject, but I'm so
glad that you're sharing your expertise withus. And that's I mean, tell
us, that's the question that Ihave' You know, I've trained, and
I've I've had executive protection. ObviouslyI'm not a Secret Service agent and I'm
not in the military. But thefact that you had over fifty bystanders that

(26:26):
were able to see this guy onthe rooftop and that two minutes went by
that they were trying to get Securitiesattention and nothing was done. How does
that happen? Yeah? On theresponding to you know, communication is really
really difficult when you're working in amulti agency, multi district. You state

(26:47):
people there, you have county peoplethere, you have city people there,
and according to Secret Service, theyit sounds like they're leaning very heavily on
local law enforcement to fill the gap. They were understaffed, undermanpowered. Obviously
they're inadequate, inept and not capableto do the job. New York needs

(27:08):
to step down, as does theSecret Service director. Both those appointees need
to be fired immediately. In additionto that, there there has to be
an immediate look at the competence andcapability within the Secret Service. When I
said that those questions, I wasasking that they were there were rhetorical questions.

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It's it's egregious, it's impossible.Data I cannot tell you. There
is not a there's not a detailon the planet that would look at that
building and be like, yeah,it doesn't need to be secured. You
know, there's not My nine yearold would do a better job. And
first of all, my nine yearold will absolutely make one hundred and fifty
yard shot off of a negative pitchslope roof, even though if you're shooting

(27:55):
open sites with that rifle, likeevery single kid in Texas can do this,
as you know, so like anine year old can do it,
but a twenty year old is ableto clamber up onto a roof with a
ladder that is in line of sightto the president. Everybody's fired, absolutely,
everybody, from the principal team tothe site survey team to the red
cell team to all the way upthe chain of command. They're all fired.

(28:18):
They it's clear, it's evident,and no matter what anybody says from
the organization, because they're just tryingto protect their jobs. Now they all
got to go. They're they're onthe scale of negligence, inept, stupid,
incompetent to complicit. Man, I'mnot sure where they fall, you
know, like they might be soso dumb and so, and I'm not

(28:44):
attacking the people on the ground becauseI do believe that they have the heart
of patriots. You know, Likeyou look at the women that were around
the president. They wanted to dothe right thing. They just didn't know
what that was. When they're askingquestions, what are we going to do?
How do we get off the X? You see one of them coloring
behind the president. Her job isto throw her freaking body on top of
the man that she's sworn to protect. There's another one that's cowering behind the

(29:07):
stage. You see two men lookingout into the crowd, what weapons at
the high ready doing the thing thatthey're supposed to do, that they swore
that they would do. And thenyou see another one, a secret service
agent that's cowering by the stage she'sfired. The other one hiding behind the
president form president she's fired, isthat they don't know what to do,
dain her. Yeah, they didn'tknow what to do. You hit the

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nail on the head. Our friendTim Kennedy's talking to us via skype because
when I heard that on video,I've never seen and I've been around a
number of politicians. I've been aroundpresidents before, and their team knows a
million steps ahead of time what they'redoing. If they're not going to get
out one way, they got sixthousand other ways to get out. I
mean, they've rehearsed it. Itdidn't seem cohesive, and they and also

(29:51):
correct me if I'm wrong on this. If I mean, it's like,
if the president needs to move becausethere's a security threat, you're gonna move
him regardless of what he wants todo. I just, you know,
I look back what happened with Reaganand John Hinckley and oh my gosh,
you had Shattuck and Parr that werelike literally picking Bragan up and shoving him
like you know, they were tryingto stuff something a sausage back in the
casing, shoving him into a carand heading off towards the hospital. I

(30:12):
mean they moved him if he couldn'tor didn't want to move that. I
mean that to me, this fellapart at so many at so many levels,
starting from that rooftop right there,watching the women and we're we're talking
to our friend Tim Kennedy. Italk to me about this a little bit
because it seemed chaotic them trying tomove him. A lot of people are

(30:32):
blaming women serving. I know,I don't. I think that. I
think that's a weird thing to focuson. But it seemed like it was
a skill set they weren't trained that. There there are two parts of that.
So one, you're like a fartcan almost blow you over, Dana
Hey. In my mind, I'mlike two fifty okay, I'm like two

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fifty six nine. You know,come on, you're a beautiful, small,
petite woman, right, that's whatyou are. The president that we're
talking about is almost three hundred pounds. Yeah, you know, he's six
and a half feet tall. He'sa giant man. If you cannot throw
your body in front of him totake a bullet, you're on the wrong

(31:14):
man. So there is a sizecapability portion that has to be remembered.
But I do one hundred percent agreewith you that this is not you know,
this this chauvinistic. The chiesemo asexist issue of like the women are
incapable of doing it. It isa training and competence issue. They were
undertrained. They are not physically fit. When you see a woman that can't
get her weapon in her holster aroundher love handle as she's wearing like Paula

(31:38):
Blart Malca, I'm stealing that,Papa, she's warn't sus better just keep
her pants up, you know.And that's not being mean, that's like
that's a requirement for the job.It is a requirement. I've had female
details before. These women could benchyou. I think even there are hardcore
chicks, they're like built out,like you know, Rocky Balboa that and

(32:00):
there's always exceptions to the rule I'vesaid, but that's why they're exceptional.
But I'm also a little old school. I don't think a chick should be
taken a bullet for a dude.I mean, if they raise their hands.
I have worked with women they're sothey are far more competent and capable
in so many ways than me.I've been with them in Afghanistan. I've
been with him in Iraq, I'vebeen with him in Africa, I've been
in with them in the Eastern Europe, and I have been flabbergasted. Is

(32:22):
not even close. I've just beenbeyond blown away by their capability, their
competence. Like I'm thinking one ofthem right now, Like this young woman
runs circles around me. In thetechnology and weaponization of technology, you know,
drone warfare, cybersecurity, how theyall have their talents. Everybody's got

(32:44):
a talent. But you made agood point. I mean, he's six
foot three. When he shakes yourhand, your hand, well maybe not
yours, but my hand disappears init. It's like a catchers mit,
Mike, There's no way I could. I couldn't do it. And I
you know, I appreciate those whowant to do the job, but you've
got to be able to do thejob. It reminds me of like we
were talking about this and the Spartanthree hundred. You know, every guy's
got to meet the same bar,and it's not out of maliciousness. It's

(33:07):
to serve that objective, which isgreater than self. Yeah, I mean,
I'm and when you see posts fromthe Director of the Secret Service saying,
hey, we're going to focus onDEI and she brought it up,
not us. Yeah, and that'sawesome. There's lots of rules and there's
lots of jobs where I you know, from equity to inclusion to like send

(33:30):
it. That's fine. If you'reflying a plane, if you're running into
a burning building, if you're tryingto protect a former president that is the
Republican nominee for a president, itdoesn't matter. You can either do the
job or you can't. You know, in the military, we have these
standards from ranger school to sniper school, a a special force of selection.
And if you can pull the weight, awesome, Like if your bones are

(33:51):
dense enough to do it, ifyou are strong enough, if you are
fast enough, you were lethal enough. That's fine because the only thing that
matters is your lethality. That's it. I want to I want to play
this. We're talking. We're talkingwith our friend Tim Kennedy. I wanted
to. This is an audio Sundaythree. I wanted because I got two
other things I want to ask you. One is about the private security for
Trump. But the first thing,though, is and again, I do
not want to armchair armback or armchairquarterback these guys because it's not hard to

(34:15):
acquire or it is very hard actuallyto acquire a target. You know,
I I know that much. I'vedone. You know, I've I've done
long range and it's not easy tobe like quick on the scope like that.
I think that's only if you're incod But this, this guy,
I mean this video and I thinkthis is the one one that we slowed
down when they were when the guywas on the glass and he was in

(34:37):
and clearly you know, he's youknow, checking for for threats and then
it's almost like they saw the guythey saw or heard something and then they
looked like the guy looked genuinely shocked. When when you saw that video,
what what came to your mind?I mean, you know you're this is
I mean, you know a lotmore about this than the average bear.
What came to your mind when youwere seeing this? Yeah, that there

(35:00):
were I was on the call lastnight with a bunch of very very talented,
far more talented snipers than me.I've I've been a sniper for sixteen
years. Went to Special Operations TargetAddiction School, which is the Level one
sniper course, Special Forces Sniper school. And you know, one of the
guys that was on the call withlast night holds the current record for the

(35:22):
furthest combat kill in current history andnot not like some made up Ukrainian stuff
at like seven miles. I'm talkinglike a couple of dudes on glass,
right, and they splashed the Talibanterrorist in Afghanistan. Wow, this Canadian
Special Operations sniper. And as we'rebreaking down that specific portion, we all
could not understand. This is notwhat you're doing. So you do this

(35:45):
range card from the position that you'reat. You know where your principal is,
you know the guy that you're supposedto protect, and then you have
this range sector right, you havethis left and right limit and this is
my responsibility to observe and know what'sin this area. And on my range
card, they've done the site survey. So they take a guy, uh

(36:06):
and they send him out into withinprobably two thousand meters around where everywhere where
the person that you're trying to protectis going to be. And you identify
every single line of sight, youidentify every single rooftop, you identify every
single window, and those are allrepresented, and then in some instances you'll
even categorize them. If there's sucha high threat, you're going to put

(36:28):
a physical body on top of thatrooftop that spot specifically, there is no
possibly Listen to me, there isno way there. I'm saying this with
absolute one hundred certainty that they knewthat that specific spot was one of the
most dangerous and deadly spots in theentire campus that they're trying to protect.
They knew that without a doubt,and they knew it before the President got

(36:49):
there. So that sniper has thisX on his map that says one hundred
and fifty one meters from where hewas or one hundred and fifty four from
where he is. One hundred andfifty one the shooter was to the president
was, and he was absolutely lookingat exactly where that guy was going to
come up. And when he cameoff the rifle, it was because he

(37:09):
was scared. He was not trained. And I think this is a byproduct
of what has been happening with lawenforcement for the past ten years. They're
going to jail, they're being indicted, they don't have the confidence to do
their job because they think they're goingto get fired, right, So then
you see this guy pop up.It's on a negative slope roof as somebody's

(37:30):
low crawling up there. The factthat he could get there is a different
story entirely. But then he popshis head up and you see him.
Look, he comes off his optic, he comes back down, and then
the fire and he gets off completelyoff his gun, and then somebody's able
to splash him. That is anuntrained, ill equipped, incompetent person.
That is not and maybe he's maybehe's an amazing sniper, but his ability

(37:55):
to do his job has been undermined. He can't do the thing that he's
suppose to do, which is tokill somebody else that's trying to kill the
person he's there to protect. Lastfast question for you. You said that
this it's time for Trump to havehis own have privatized security solutions, a
non government security option because of this, and because you think because I mean,

(38:15):
I mean, I think it's afair question whether it's accidental or malicious.
I mean it can be if let'ssay you were in the seat as
the director, and you were lookingaround the person that you're supposed to be
protecting, and you see the capabilityor the lack of capability, and the

(38:37):
competence and the negligence and the ineptitude, and you're like, you're smart enough
data to recognize that that is dangerous. So then as you start sliding down
the scale into complicit where you areaware that it is so dangerous, but
you're still allowing it to happen.Now, I mean you're almost, you

(38:58):
know, in some way involved,right, you're in cohoots with the guy
that's about to pull the trigger becauseyou've allowed it to happen because of the
inability of the people around him.He has to get trusted non government people.
It has to be augmented. SecretService is not going to like it.
But there those resources should to aground force commander that can use the

(39:27):
dogs, the physical security, thatcan use the mental detectors that they got
to make American make it work together. We're short on time now, but
Tim Kennedy, God bless, Iappreciate your service. I appreciate your perspective
on this as well, because youknow that that that experienced you know,
analysis, I think that's you knowa lot of people were looking for that.
A lot of those answers on this. Thank you so much, my
friend, and I appreciate you doingit on such short notice too. God

(39:49):
bless you. Thank you. Thanksfor tuning in to today's edition of Dana
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