071524 Bill Pascoe

Episode Transcript

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Couple of months old. And ifyou want to really see something that said,
take a look at what happened overthat's the moment. It happens Saturday,
an attempted assassin's bullets grazing the ear, puncturing the ear of Donald J.

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Trump. Supposedly he's going to appear. He's already showed up in Milwaukee,
went there a little bit early,said I'm not going to let a
bad guy keep me down. Andhe's already there, and I guess they're
going to kick off the RNC thismorning. And supposedly he's going to make
an appearance at the RNC just tolet his supporters and the Republicans know that

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everything is all right. I wantto get to my guest here, a
Bill pascoteapartypatriots dot dot org. We'lltalk about that in a second, but
let me play one more snippet ofaudio, just to refresh your memory.
Here. This is the audio ofthe Secret Service that was picked up by
the microphones on the podium, andyou'll hear it's about a couple of seconds.

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You'll hear one of the female agentssaying, what are we doing?
Then they're going to hear them tryingto give instructions to stand up Donald Trump.
You'll hear them phrase a Hawkeyes here. That's the vehicle they use for
the exit. You also hear theconfirmation on this microphone that the shooter is
down. It's the microphone on thepodium. And this is the highlight of
the conversation that was being held rightthere as they hovered over Donald Trump.

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This is just the entire conversation asa formed that cocoon around him, And
this is what was being said onthat podium by the Secret Service agents.
Go ahead, take a look atwhat happened. What are you ready on

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you reading? Oh my god,shut down, shoot us down. I'm
good to come up. Let meget my shoe. Let me get my
shoes. I got you. Letme get my shoes. Hold, so

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we gotta go to let me getwait. Wait, wait, that's it.

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That's a Trump saying wait wait.Weight raised his fist in the air.
The crowd didn't flee, the didn'tscatter, they were all there.
It was crazy, just imagery lookingback on how that could have ended differently,
how the crowd stayed, how theyIt's just amazing. I want to
bring in the conversation from the TeaParty Patriots Organization, Tea Party Patriots dot

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org, Bill pass go, BillWalking to the program, sir, how
are you. Good morning, Jimmy. Good to be with you, Glad
to have you. Originally I wasgoing to have you on the program to
talk more about Joe Biden and theDemocrats and whether or not they're going to
replace him at the top of theticket. I have my speculation is maybe
you hear something different inside Washington,because you're the man about Washington. I'm

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guessing Joe Biden is safe. Hesaid that the fervor to get him off
that ticket is I'm guessing going togo away here as this assassination attempt probably
changes a lot of things in Washington. Well, I think you're right.
I think that, let's call itdormant and within just a hair's breadth of
death, the opportunity, the chance, the momentum to change out to swap

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out Joe Biden for somebody else.Let's face it, if you are not
Joe Biden, if you're a youngDemocrat rising star, if you're Gavin Newsom,
Regretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro, whoby the way, looked excellent over
the weekend. In the briefings thathe did, you would say, why
in the world would I want tostep in for Joe Biden? At this
point, it sure looks like DonaldTrump is a lock for the presidency.

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At this point, he was leadingbefore any before anything happened, and then
he gets shot at and he,let's face it, he is the best
television producer ever to inhabit the WhiteHouse. And he's got this sense,
this this understanding of imagery and howpowerful that is in politics, and the

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idea that as the Secret Service wastrying to hustle him off the stage,
he knew to raise his fist andsend a signal to his supporters into all
of America. I'm okay, continuethe fight. Oh my goodness. I
mean, you couldn't have scripted itbetter. Yeah, it was. It
was quite an image. I canspeak. I can't. I can only

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speculate how I would have reacted ifthat that would have been me. I
would have been like hiding under theSecret Service agents and just carry me into
the into the limo. But hehad the intestinal forth. It speaks to
how people react under fire, underpressure. Again, you don't have to
like the Orange man. If youcall him that, you don't have to

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like him, but under pressure,under fire, literally an inch or a
millimeter away from death, you stillthink about the supporters, You still think
about the people that are there tosee you, and you just exude this
confidence. I mean, you don'thave to be a Republican Democrat that was
just bad asser all around. You'reabsolutely right. You know, A very

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young Winston Churchill, one of thegreatest leaders of the twentieth century, was
a He started his career as ajournalist and he covered the Boer War in
South Africa in the late eighteen ninetiesas a very young man, nineteen years
old, and he later wrote oneof my favorite lines in the English language,
there is nothing so exhilarating in lifeas to be shot at without result.

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Now now, President President Trump herewas shot at with minor result.
His ear was grazed an inch tothe side, and we'd be having a
very different conversation right now. Itis remarkable that the bullet missed. There
were several bullets fired. We knowCorey Comparatory, the fifty year old retired

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fire chief who threw himself on topof his wife and daughter to shield to
them, gave his life to savehis family. What a man should We
should speak his name, and weshould honor his sacrificing. I don't want
to say the name of the shooter. We don't need to do that.
We're going to find out his motiveeventually. I think there's a bigger question

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that everybody is asking, and thatis how in the world was a guy
able to get onto a roof onehundred and fifty yards away from a rally
stage with an unobstructed line of sight. That's just unacceptable. This is the
first time anything like this has happenedin forty years. It was Ronald Reagan.
March thirty, nineteen eighty one,was the day that Reagan was shot,

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and since then, the Secret Servicehas had a good track record.
But I got to tell you thereare going to be very serious questions raised.
We know that Speaker Johnson has alreadypromised hearings. Oversight Chairman Comer has
announced that he wants a hearing nextMonday when Congress comes back, the very
first day they're back. He's notgoing to fool around. The Chairman of

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the Homeland Security Committee, Mark Green, has already spoken to the Director of
the Secret Service Susan Crabtree, oneof the best reporters in Washington, is
reporting that her secret her Secret Servicesources are telling her that the problem may
have been a First Lady Jill Bidenevent drew resources away from the Butler Pennsylvania

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event. The Secret Service just gotan increase in its budget. If you're
going to tell me that you can'tprovide security for a former president who is
running for president because you've got toshare time, You've got to share resources
with the first ladies, detail,something is wrong inside the Secret Service management,

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and we're going to get to thebottom of that shortly. I'm sure.
I had a guest on earlier anda lot of folks observed that the
some of the agents had rushed upto cocoon the president were too short.
A couple of ladies were short,and one couldn't get her gun holstered back
up. She was rather poorly anda lot of folks speculated over the weekend,

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I heard many people say that that'sbecause the current head of the Secret
Service is on the record saying shewas more interested in expanding the ranks,
of having more women in the ranksand DEI diversity equity inclusion. What are
you hearing in Washington about this currentdirector of the CIA, and is Dei

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part of maybe the problem that's thefocus on her focus rather than theod that
should be in hand. Well,I think you're exactly right. Whoever it
was you talked to him earlier hasabsolutely nailed it. Kimberly Cheedle, the
director of the Secret Service was onJoe Biden's personal detail when he was Vice
president of the United States. Sonow it's later, it's four years after

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that he becomes president and decides topromote somebody who agrees with his Dei agenda.
You know you're right. When PresidentTrump was president and he personally chose
every member of his Secret Service detail, he had a simple test. He
wanted to be lifted, because that'spart of the job. You've got to

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be able to lift the guy theprinciple that you're protecting in case he gets
shot. And as a result,it's my understanding, there was only one
woman who passed the test. Onewoman could lift him, and he said,
fine, then you can be onthe detail. And you're the comment
that you made just a moment agoabout the height. Listen, they're supposed

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to be able to shield with theirbodies. Now, they did a great
job. In the literally instantaneous splitseconds after shots were fired. They collapsed
on the president like platelets on virus. They just covered him. But I
got to tell you, I amnot, by any stretch of the imagination,

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as an expert in secret service oran expert in personal security. But
it's my understanding that they're supposed tojust cover him, hold him down,
and cover him until they have beentold that there is no further threat.
Now, I know, we heardthe shooter is down. We heard that
literally seconds after shots were fired.How were they sure at that point there

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wasn't maybe a second shooter? Ican't. I don't understand why they moved
him as quickly as they did.And then when they stood him up for
seven whole seconds. I watched areplayed and replayed and replayed, and I
counted for seven entire seconds, hishead was exposed. Yeah, that is
a huge no note. And hishead was exposed because a female Secret Service

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agent who was in front of himdid a wonderful job covering him with her
body, but she was too short. He's a tall man. He's taller
than average. For goodness, sake, they've gone to have secret service agents
who can cover him. And that'snot because she's a woman, that's because
she was short, for goodness sake. So we got a problem, and
that's going to be looked into.Yeah, that's got to be looked into,

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because if they're just hiring because ofyour gender, your identity, then
you have a problem, especially ifyou're going to actually be on the detail
that's supposed to protect the president.I noticed also the head being exposed as
he was trying to get into thecar to get away. Hawkeye. I
think they call it. One agent. A tall man had his hand up
trying to provide extra shelter, butthe short woman behind him, she just

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couldn't do it. She was justtoo short. And why she was assigned
there, I have no clue,But there's going to be a to investigate.
And I'm hearing people calling for theresignation of kimbervan Chidah. What are
you hearing in DC? Well,I think she's going to have a hard
time. She's going to have toexplain how it is that with an increased
budget that she was just given,how is it that she doesn't have the

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proper resources to have her agents covera rooftop. Now, it's our understand
a rooftop just one hundred and fiftyyards away with a direct line of sight
from an elevated position. That isI mean many, how many things were
violated there under secret service protocols tonot have somebody literally sitting on top of

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that rooftop. We've all seen thevideo. Now, in the age of
social media, it doesn't take long. It's only been forty hours since this
happened, and yet I feel likeI've consumed a week's worth of news in
the last forty hours. Jimmy,we've all seen the video of the bystanders
on the ground pointing at the shooteron the roof, trying to get the

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attention of the local police authorities tosay, hey, there's a guy with
a gun on top of that roof. You can see him, and they're
pointing at him. Now, theAP is reporting that a local police officer
climbed to the roof and began toencounter the shooter. The shooter turned and
pointed his gun, that's the reporting. So the police officer dropped off the

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roof, the shooter turned and secondslater opened fire. Before any police officer
would have had time to even radiothe Secret Service even if they were on
the same wavelengths on the same frequencies. And we're going to find out about
that. Is this two thousand andone a nine to eleven problem all over
again, where people are literally notusing the same wavelength on their radios the

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same frequencies. We're going to haveto find out all of this stuff because
this is going to change once again, the way we secure the way we
provide security for political principles. There'sno two ways about it. The voice
of Bill Pasco. He's a chewprinty Patriots Organizations, a man in Washing

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Let me switch gears. We havea couple of moments left. Obviously,
Donald Trump has already gone to Milwaukee, which is just amazing. He just
flew out yesterday, so we're goingearly and he's supposedly going to make an
appearance. I don't think it'll betoday. I'm guessing it'll be tomorrow or
Wednesday, maybe tomorrow that he willannounce his VP pick. Does any this
change the VP pick? Give meyour prognostication on the vice presidential announcement that's

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still forthcoming for Donald Trump. Jimmy, I think it depends on what Trump
himself thinks about what this event doesfor his likelihood of becoming president. If
he thinks this is still a contestedelection, then what happened leads me to
say he's going to pick Glenn Youngkinor maybe even long shot Nicky Haley,

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because he'd want to send a signalto suburban women that are right now teetering
they don't know which way go.If he sends a signal of stability and
security that you know, I've learnedmy lesson, I'm going to govern more
quote unquote reasonably, you know lesswhatever it was that scares you people,

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then you get a Then you geta Youngkin or a Haley. If,
on the other hand, he thinks, wow, I'm a mortal lock,
there's no way in the world thatJoe Biden is going to beat me,
and I get to shape the futureof the party with this pick, then
I think he goes with a youngJD. Vance. The problem with Vance
is you can't make the experience argument. The guy wasn't even in government three

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years ago. He's he's never beena chief executive of anything, whereas a
Doug Bergham or a Nikki Haley orGlenn Youngkin have all been successful chief executives
of their states. The best trainingground we have in American politics to serve
in the presidency is to serve previouslyas a governor. So you're kind of

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a mini president. You're the presidentof your state, and you get to
show your chops. So I thinkI think we're going to find out with
his vice president pick, We're goingto find out what he thinks of his
chances to win this election. Onehundred and fifteen days from now, thirty
forty five seconds here to go.Let me ask you. I've been holding
out that I think is still goingto be Tim Scott. Your thoughts on
that, I would bet against you. I would just bet against you.

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I see him as possibly a cabinetmember. I think he's been a strong
supporter of President Trump, but Ithink his I think his star has faded.
You could be right. Trump lovesthe surprise. He may have been
feeding the press for the last severaldays. Everybody in the press thinks it's
jd vance. That could be deliberatedeception, that could be misdirection on Trump's

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part, so that when he doesmake the announcement, it's a huge surprise
to everybody and everybody in the press, cort is caught flat footed. Jdvan's
going to have to shave that facebecause Donald Trump doesn't like hair face.
He doesn't enjoy that at all.You're absolutely right about that, Bill Pascote,
partypatriots dot org, teapartypatriots dot org. Are you in Milwaukee, sir?

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I am not in Milwaukee. Thisis the first Republican to mention I've
missed since nineteen eighty. My friend. Yeah, you know, I'm the
redheaded stepchild. They didn't send meeither, so I'm here in my studio.
Appreciate you, Bill Pasco, teapartypatriotsdot org, teapartypatriots dot org.
Everybody, stand by Lakey on theradio, six hundred KCOL. We're going

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to talk to a security expert nexton the program about the event in Pennsylvania
on Saturday that almost got a formerpresident killed. Stand by Chuck Andrews with
me next, six hundred KCl