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So it's the weekend program. Let's go back to July eighth,
a year ago. July eighth, twenty twenty four, CNN. This
is a program called America's Choice twenty twenty four. The
CNN Ankarett is talking to Congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of
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Floria and.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Congressman, I hear you talking about Donald Trump and trying
to put.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
The focus back on him.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
He's been very quiet over the last several days and
has not has just let this play out amongst the
Democratic Party. I hear you focusing on the accomplishments you
want to highlight from this president, and yet that's not
the story that's.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Out there right now. So are you frustrated?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
How damaging do you think this is, particularly as we
get closer to November.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
I'm frustrated that the media is literally dissecting every word
that comes out of Joe Biden's mouth and is ignoring
the fact that the Republicans are about to nominate again
convicted felon, who's an judicated rapist, who still denies that
he lost the twenty twenty election, who is committing to
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upend every single accomplishment that Joe Biden has helped make
sure we can recover after COVID and the fifteen million
jobs that were created. Yeah, I am pushing to make
sure that we can focus on what the danger lurking
down the road is, is that if we don't make
sure that we rally and focus on Donald Trump and
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the extremest good versus evil existential threat that he represents
to our democracy, then we're going to end up back
there again. And that's the nightmare scenario my constituents want
to avoid.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Wow, I forget about the word democracy being in there,
good versus evil, the dark versus the light, the existential
threat that Donald Trump is. That was July eighth, twenty
twenty four. He is an existential threat to this country.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Okay, what happened shortly thereafter? Well we know now that
in Butler, Pennsylvania, an assassin tried to and almost did
blow out Donald Trump's brains on live television. How did
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that happen? Honestly? Can you tell me today how that happened?
I mean, I know why it happened because there was
no one on that roof. As I explained on my
program yesterday, if you want to listen to the podcast,
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I talked about Eddie Marenzo, who was George Bush's head
of his presidential detail, and how Eddie would have gotten
out of the car the limousine in Butler, Pennsylvania. Had
he been the head of the detail on that day,
and he would have done as I as I saw
him do many many times. He would have scoured the landscape.
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He would have looked, He looked everywhere, and he would
have seen the roof of that building, the Ager building,
and noticed that there was something missing. What was missing? Oh,
there wasn't any Secret Service agent or local cop or sniper,
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law enforcement sniper on that roof, on the edge of
it with his rifle pointing, so that he knew that
that vantage point for a sniper was being covered by
law enforcement, and he probably would not have let the
president out of the car. So we know the why.
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How how did that happen? Well, in coverage on this
would be on July fourteen.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Why did it take eight rounds to ring out before
somebody returned fire? Sources tell Prime Time that the counter
sniper team that neutralized crooks were Secret Service sharpshooters, but
the Washington Post reports that the counter snipers were local cops.
Now that's true. Why is the Secret Service relying so
heavily on locals? And why did the counter sniper snipers
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who had their rifles trained on this assassin, not shoot first?
And why is the one agent's head popping up in
the air. Why isn't he zeroed in on his scoop?
When the Secret Service descend on Trump?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Why'd they stay on stage for so long?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
If you listen closely, you can hear one of the
female Secret Service agents completely confused.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
This lady wasn't prepared. And the Secret Service isn't answering
any questions.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
They skipped out on their press conference last night and
today told us they wouldn't say anything. Some of the
agents you're looking at don't look confident. How do you
protect the president from sniper fire if you're not tall enough.
Biden recently gave the head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheedle,
a bonus.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Chetle's a Biden hire. She was on his detail when
he was VP, and he brought her back.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And we know now of course she's gone.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Main focus has been hiring more women.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
One of her female agents just had a nervous breakdown
on Kamala's detail. They covered up the cocaine in the
White House, covered up for hunter Naomi.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Biden's agent had their vehicle carjacked.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
How was it that the head of the Secret Service
hasn't tendered her resignation today?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Why hasn't Biden fired Chetle?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Biden didn't fire anybody after Afghanistan, didn't fire Mayorcis after
the border. Cheetle's got to go, and nobody could trust
this investigation?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now do you trust the investigation? I heard on the
way into the studio this morning that the Senate has
released an internal report that they've done. I've not seen
it yet, obviously not had a chance to read it,
so I don't know what it's says what it says,
But what I do know is this, the Trump shooting
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changed the country. Donald Trump raising his fist, spinning out
those words fight, Fight, Fight, as there was blood streaming
down his face from that bullet wound in his ear.
That's the sort of image that used to be called iconic,
back before that word degenerated into a synonym for famous.
The attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the year
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ago this weekend was the great symbolic moment of his
twenty twenty four presidential victory. There are some symbolic moments,
and there are some events that are so transformative that
we mark or should mark their anniversaries as a way
of measuring the change that they've brought to us. The
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near assassination of Donald Trump, I think is one of those.
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Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. So tomorrow,
on Sunday, July thirteenth, at four to eleven Mountain time,
it will have been one year since the assassin almost
blew out Donald Trump's brains on national television. The day
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after that, on July fourteenth, Kevin McCarthy was on Fox
News instead of this.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Beyond Ft, former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy joins me, Now,
what did you think of the President's Oval Office address?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Well, I thought it was appropriate what he said. I
thought it was right timing. I thought if you watched it,
he caught himself because he almost said make America great again.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Did you see that He's there America? Then he had
to stop.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
You could tell it was teleprompter and really what he's
doing there at the time, he's doing what's appropriate for
a president now calm the temperature down, but he's also
solidifying his own race. Prior to this assassination, the whole
quest was to get him out from running, and he
had a couple more weeks to go before the August
Democratic Convention. They wanted to take a run on him.
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And now that's put aside, so he's probably gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Although isn't that interesting in hindsight, we now know that
behind the scenes it was still going on. They were
still pushing to get him out. This is why I
love history, in a particular history in these days, in
modern times, when we go back and we can listen
to what was said literally hear it. Yeah, they were
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still going after the Democrats, were still going after their own.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Party, and it'd be the nominee unless maybe they try
some hygiene. I don't think they can now I think
it's cement, yes, But does he run against Donald Trump?
Now he's got the mugshot, A bullet basically came within
an inch of his brain, and he's got this fist
in the air with the flag and blood over his face,
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and it just sends a chill every time I see that.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
How do you run against a guy like that?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
I don't know, because that photo would be the most
iconic photo for our entire generation. We know where we
were at that moment time, who called us? The picture
the flag behind it. But that isn't something that stage,
that's not a teleprompter, that's not written. That's a situation
that happened. How did your commander achieve act during that
moment in time? And you're going to question when you
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make this decision, do you want somebody strong like that
in the ovaloft that somebody could stand up? How do
you think the foreign leaders like I've had calls today
from foreign leaders in other countries asking me how President
Trump is doing that.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They're shocked too with democracy what's happening.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
But when you look at everything that has gone on
to go against President Trump and how he's standing and
where is he standing for, it wasn't about him, bluddy.
He was there for the people. He is standing up
for them, going against even when someone's shooting him and
it's less than an inch, how close that came to
losing his whole life.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
I talked to him today and it's amazing I mean,
he would.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Tell me about hearing the bullet, the speed of it,
and I could tell what he's telling it. Whoever that
happens to it affects you, but his strength.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Of what it was about and hitting the year.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Then he goes in and telling him how the doctor
tells him there's a lot of blood within your ear,
and then he's total Trump, Come, you.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Understand because you have really big ears to you.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
For listening.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Interesting to go back in time and listen to it,
isn't it. We know now that twenty one year old
sniper Thomas Krook, who was this loner as usual right
from the suburbs of Pittsburgh, he actually brought an AR
fifteen semi automatic rifle to the roof of a warehouse
only one hundred eighty yards away and was able to
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pull off eight shots at Trump. And we know, of
course that he get three bystanders, he killed fifty year
old fireman Corey Compentour. But there's still no consensus even
a year later, about the larger meaning of what happened
at Butler a year ago tomorrow. Now, clearly I would
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argue that the attack shaped the outcome of the election.
In fact, I would argue that it changed the moral
climate in the country. We got to go back. Spring
of last year. Four criminal prosecutions dating all the way
back to Trump's first term, approached their final resolution almost simultaneously.
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They had purposely been strung along by Democratic Party prosecutors
to fall just then during the election season. They were
obviously trying to get the maximum persuasive effect on the voters.
Oddly kind of strange the New York case in which
Trump's opponents prevailed, that was the weakest case of all,
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and it was the most convoluted case, but they got
what they wanted. Trump was now a convicted fela And
remember we talked about that. Now that was the phrase
they were looking for. It didn't matter the merits of
the case. They just wanted to be able to call
Trump a convicted felon. But then an argument persisted on
the campaign trail that summer over whether Trump was actually
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being truly held to account or righteously held properly held
to account under the rule of law for his own corruption,
or was he actually being persecuted by adversaries who they
themselves were corrupt. The bullet that was fired at Trump,
I think settled the controversy, not in a logical way,
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of course, don't get me wrong, but in an emotional way.
In an emotional way, it validated. Now I think they
were Don't get me wrong, I personally believe that he
was being persecuted, but in an emotional way for you know,
just kind of not smart people like you, but for
everybody else, in an emotional way, it validated the notion
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that they meaning something in society and the spirit of
the time, we're out to destroy Donald Trump. So it
reinforced the shift that had been evident in this country's
politics for a long time. Voters used to respond to
rational appeals based on policy differences, and I think we've
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kind of shifted. We've shifted to emotional appeals based on
these tribal allegiances. You know, the talking heads on television
usually point out this change only in an effort to
deplore the new system's superficiality it's weakness, But it's really
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not that simple. The policy debates that we used to
have in the old system, those were phony. Two the
political parties went often did what they wanted to do anyway, right,
voting publics prefer the popular style because it actually gives
them more information. Conservative policy wonks used stats all the time.
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We would point out how bad mass immigration was, but
nothing happened. Right. But then Democrats went a step too far.
They opened the floodgates. We saw it, we saw what
it was doing to the country, and we acted. The
striking thing about Trump's behavior on July thirteen was that
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it was excellent. It was excellent in a way that
was honestly kind of unreflective. But it was spontaneous. Everything
about it was at odds with the American postwar conception
of what we thought a presidential leader should be, and
that's what the cabal tended to focus on. But in
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a culture where equality of opportunity is everything, the public
came to believe that there was something reprehensible about the
idea that anyone has any special aptitude for anything at all.
We're not living in a republic, or as they would
call it, a democracy. He felt, unless anyone can go
out and become a leader through hard work or a
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degree granting course, no, nothing could be more repugnant than
the notion that leadership is something you either have or
you don't have. And yet tomorrow, a year ago, at
four to eleven Mountain time. There was Trump in a
moment of total disruption, behaving like a born leader. That
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Speaker 2 (17:58):
Next tonight, Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
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Speaker 8 (18:09):
Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
He It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. And this weekend
happens to be the one year the one year anniversary
of the first attempt at assassination on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
You know, Selena Zito has a great book out about
the assassination. She was there, she is. She writes a
column for the New York Post and some other outlets,
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and Selena is she's a fantastic writer. This book is
on my iPad. I haven't read it yet, but she's
written a book that everybody tells me is a great book.
She was there, and she was in the press of
the little roped off area just below the electern So
she's written about her experience that day, and she's interviewed
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Trump and talked about it. So I would encourage you
to get Seleavea's book and read it if you have
a chance. I can't wait to read it. I'm just
trying to get through my Revolutionary War book that I
told you about last weekend. So it's just an interesting
point in time to realize. As Michael and I were
just talking off air during the break, it's hard to
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believe that it was a year ago. But then to me,
when you think about how fast things are moving, it's
hard to believe that the election was less than a
year ago. That was just this past November. Time certainly flies.
I mean, you're having fun, doesn't it. But I think
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that the most striking thing about Trump's behavior on July
thirteenth of last year was that it was excellent. The
effect was electric. You go back and you watch, and
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of course we all know the iconic photograph of him
surrounded by the Secret Service agents, you know, not kind
of just as insider joke. When I look at that photograph,
the one thing that I always think about because they
One of the things the Secret Service teaches you is
is how they will handle you when they need to
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make you do something. And they're big, and they're tough
and they're rough, and if they need to put you
on the ground, they're gonna put you on the ground.
And I look at that photograph and I see the
one female agent who is in front of Trump as
he's stood back up, and he has his fist in
the air, and she's at about wist level and she
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can barely put his arms around him. And I know
they're trying to shuffle him off the stage and get
him into the car to get him out of harm's way.
And she's struggling at that poor woman's having a horrible time.
But back back to that very moment, though I think
the effect was electric, we probably forget that. Within just
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minutes of Trump being rushed off stage, Elon Musk I
think probably stunned the country by endorsing Trump at that moment.
Musk said, we had one president who could not climb
a flight of stairs and another president who was fist
pumping after getting shot. It's often forgotten that Biden's rambling, mumbling,
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just his horrible performance in that debate back in June.
It didn't immediately end his candidacy. Remember those soundbites I
played just before the break. Jesse Waters on Fox News
was talking and he and Kevin McCarthy are both talking
about how, yeah, probably you know, it probably didn't end
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Biden's presidency and it's probably too late to do anything
in blubb blah. And now we know with all the
books coming out that behind the scenes, they were still
trying to treat Joe Biden like Julius Caesar. They were
still trying to stab him in the back. In fact,
they were still stabbing him in the back. But it
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wasn't the Biden debate performance. It was a factor, don't
get me wrong. It was a factor, but I think
it was the shooting that did it, because remember Biden's
still hanging on at that point. It was only after
Trump's demonstration of that vitality that Biden's withdrawal I think
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became inevitable. He ended his candidacy the following weekend. See
how we can press and conflate. I always talk about
how I conflate time until putting together notes for this discussion,
did I REALI that it was the very next weekend,
so the knives were out. But that event in Butler,
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Pennsylvania was more than just about vitality. Mark Zuckerberg of
of Meta Facebook Instagram said that we quote on a
personal note seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot
in the face and pump his fist in the air
with that American flag, It's one of the most badass
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things I've ever seen in my life. At some level
as an American, it's hard not to get emotional about
that spirit. As much as I just like Mark Zuckerberg,
I think he's exactly right. Why can't we capture that
spirit like a firefly and put it in a jar
and just pour it over every American. Just capture that
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spirit and once again that's what we are about. Trump
was doing something archetypal. The pose in which those photographs
caught him on that day is truly iconic. The flag,
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the rallying of the wounded warriors, the wounded followers. Trump
was not just being brave or strong. He was without
I don't think meaning to, He was summoning Americans to
feelings that have been buried so deep because we've been
so just run over by the government. We've been just
run over by the fast paced advances in technology. We've
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been run over by how the world has shrunk. We've
been run over by artificial intelligence. We've been run over
by we often forget. I think how dramatically COVID affected
this country. Remember Jimmy Carter talking about well, you probably
don't because you're too young. Remember Jimmy Carter talking about
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how the country was in a malaise. I think post COVID,
this country was in a malaise economically, socially, culturally. I
think we were just I mean, I think that's one
reason why Biden got elected, Just the malaise of COVID.
How often it happens to me more than I wish
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it did. But how often do you go somewhere? Where
was I just the other day? I was standing in line.
I think it may have been like at a Walmart
or a Target or some retail place, and I just
happened to look down, and what did I see?
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The marks they used to.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Have on the floor.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Some were painted, some was tape, some were they they
would somehow put a mark there and you had to
stand there because you had to stand six feet apart
from somebody else. It was so stupid.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
I saw those.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Marks again and that was a reminder. So it was
a horrible flashback I had about just how stupid those
times were and how I did. I remember doing everything
I could to violate the rules. Oh you want me
to stand here, screw you. I'm going to stand over here.
Oh I'm too close to you. Will excuse me. Everything
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I could do, I would come into this building. Oh,
we had strict rules. You had to take the lysol
spray and spray the studio you had there was there
was always always a demand for the lysol. You know,
the clocks wipes, wipe down the studio. Now. I used
to do that before COVID because radio studios are such
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as bit nasty place. But wear a mask, wear a mask,
beat wear that mask, and they do what. Radio studios
are nasty, Michael, you know they're nasty. The rule here
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was we can't control what you do with your masks
outside the building, but once you step into the building,
be sure put that mask on, which I never did.
I mean, first of all, there was nobody in the building.
I didn't run in anybody because everybody, you know, producers
were hiding in the control rooms, and other talk show
hosts were already hiding in their studios, so I never
put a mask on. It was a true malaise. So
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Trump on that day got us out of that malaise.
Trump was not just being brave or strong. He was
and again I don't think he was meaning to, but
he really was summing us, summoning us to feelings that
had been buried so deep that we had almost forgotten them.
It was a powerful interruption into that malaise that we
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were suffering through. It was a powerful eruption into politics
of reality, even religious if you want to. And Trump himself,
though not conspicuously conversant in the language of faith, he
has since become fairly conversant in the language of faith.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
He saw that.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Seconds before the shooting, he had been excoriating Joe Biden
is the worst president in the history of our country. Now, yes,
he continues to do that, but when we got to
the Republican National Convention due to convene only two days later,
that did change. It went from the world's most vicious speech,
Trump informed sensor Lindsey Graham the following day to you
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know what, let's bring the country together might not be
as exciting that there it is. Now you can't change
the tigers or leopard or zebra's stripes, and he's back to,
you know, the worst president in the history of the nation,
which I do believe is probably true. But it did
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change him to mentally, and I think change the country.
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back to Butler. When when Trump went back to Butler,
I think it was maybe three months later, just on
the eve of the election. That's when I noticed the change,
because he referenced the hand of God, the grace of
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God that brought him through that assassination attempt. And we
could go all off on a theological discussion of that,
but let's not. But I found it interesting that increasingly
he always discusses the incident as a homespun and prayerful
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old lady might talk about it dwelling on faithful coincidences.
You know, he always talked about you know, I'd never
seen that particular photo, that graph before. So what made
him turn and look at the graph behind him on
the stage? What made him decide to ask the graph
to even be shown earlier in the speech rather than
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later in the speech, because it usually came later in
the speech. Whether we think of this as sincere religious
reflection or electoral pandering, I think neither. I think Trump
was simply reacting as a human would after experiencing that
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kind of trauma, groping toward a language that he's not
accustomed to, trying to understand how contingent, how out of
control everything that happens to us really is, that we're
always on this quest. Even if it doesn't lead one
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to believe in God, it certainly can't teach you humility,
at least in theory.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
It can.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Politicians of both parties, I think, and I think the
country sensed that something special had happened, that the voting
public had come to feel a new kind of connection
with their leaders. You know, I find it interesting because
American politicians, particularly well, let me rephrase that elected officials,
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people that hold office, I think you are now striving
to place themselves in similar situations. They want to appear
battling for you and me, the people. It's a subtle shift,
whether it's real or fake, it's a subtle shift to populism.
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Fight fight, fight. They all want you to believe that
they're all fighting for us. Well, it is probably because
of the Butler assassination attempt that now we have a
new county campaign stunt. You know, at a Los Angeles
press conference where Christy nom was it was in LA
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back in June. Remember the Senator from California, Alex Padilla,
who mister political person here didn't realize who that was.
It can be they forgotten that Newsom had appointed him.
So here's a Democrat moving along an aisle toward the
podium and when he got close gets stopped. He gets
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expelled by the room. He's screaming and hollering at her
and what happened afterwards? His office immediately started circulating the video,
Oh look at me, look at me. I'm you know,
look at me. Then a couple of days later, brad
Lander staged a similar disruption. Who the hells Bradlander, a
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New York City comptrol and a candidate for mayor, cling
to a migrant being removed by custom officials and demanding
that they show me the warrant, Show me the warrant.
These people are pathetic, but that's what politicians do. But
you and I, I think Americans are too smart and
we see through it. Well, let me rephrase that. I
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think conservative, critical thinking Americans. But I repeat myself, well
see through that kind of bull crap. We know when
you're just playing the part you're cosplaying. You want to
be you want to be like Trump. You want to
you know, stick your fist out and screen fight, fight, fight,
But you never can you never can replicate the real thing,
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nor should you want to. In the case of Trump,
you really don't want to replicate it. I think Republicans
have always been better than Democrats at the kind of
true populism, at the true concern for American citizens of
all stripes. You know, you really just he really has
(34:42):
always bothered me that Conservatism has always been equated, for
whatever reason, with racism, which I find so bizarre because
it was always Democrats, Democrats that you know, were the
last messiges of the KKKA, Democrats that have posed, you know,
the Civil Rights Acts of nineteen sixty four, in the
(35:03):
Voting Rights Act, and it was Republicans that pulled it,
pulled it across the finish line. Abraham Lincoln a Republican.
They got the Thirteenth Amendment, the Emancipation Proclamation. The Conservatives,
for some reason or racist. We may be seeing the
beginning of the end of that kind of narrative that's
just been historically false. Democrats, well, what do they want
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to do? They want to regulate us. They they don't
understand there, They truly don't get the constitutional order. Go
back to the beginning of the program, talking about Jimmy Raskin,
and how you know, Republicans just always, you know, reflectively,
reflexively go to, well, we're not a democracy, we're a republic. Yeah,
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because those words actually have meaning, and we understand that meaning,
and we want to restore that constitutional order. And we
see Trump building that wall that I talked about earlier
in the program, really trying to do that, being the disruptor,
taking those old ways, throwing them in that ben that
(36:12):
he's trying to build the wall around. So we can
just incinerate those old ways, doubt it with some diesel
or some gas or some lighter fluid, and throw a
match on it and burn it down within the confines
of that wall. I should say many laphorically speaking before
somebody said, oh, Michael Brown, it's wanting to burn stuff down.
I just want to burn down that old ideology. I
(36:34):
want to burn down that fascism and that communism and
that socialism that's just destroying the country. And I think
we made a big pivot turn toward that tomorrow on
July thirteenth, at four to eleven Mountain time, when Trump
stood up and said, fight, fight, Fight, Thanks for joining
the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. Everybody,
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have a great weekend and i'll see you next weekend.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Speak away and the way
Too night.
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So it's the weekend program. Let's go back to July eighth,
a year ago. July eighth, twenty twenty four, CNN. This
is a program called America's Choice twenty twenty four. The
CNN Ankarett is talking to Congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of
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Floria and.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Congressman, I hear you talking about Donald Trump and trying
to put.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
The focus back on him.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
He's been very quiet over the last several days and
has not has just let this play out amongst the
Democratic Party. I hear you focusing on the accomplishments you
want to highlight from this president, and yet that's not
the story that's.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Out there right now. So are you frustrated?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
How damaging do you think this is, particularly as we
get closer to November.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
I'm frustrated that the media is literally dissecting every word
that comes out of Joe Biden's mouth and is ignoring
the fact that the Republicans are about to nominate again
convicted felon, who's an judicated rapist, who still denies that
he lost the twenty twenty election, who is committing to
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upend every single accomplishment that Joe Biden has helped make
sure we can recover after COVID and the fifteen million
jobs that were created. Yeah, I am pushing to make
sure that we can focus on what the danger lurking
down the road is, is that if we don't make
sure that we rally and focus on Donald Trump and
(02:31):
the extremest good versus evil existential threat that he represents
to our democracy, then we're going to end up back
there again. And that's the nightmare scenario my constituents want
to avoid.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Wow, I forget about the word democracy being in there,
good versus evil, the dark versus the light, the existential
threat that Donald Trump is. That was July eighth, twenty
twenty four. He is an existential threat to this country.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Okay, what happened shortly thereafter? Well we know now that
in Butler, Pennsylvania, an assassin tried to and almost did
blow out Donald Trump's brains on live television. How did
(03:32):
that happen? Honestly? Can you tell me today how that happened?
I mean, I know why it happened because there was
no one on that roof. As I explained on my
program yesterday, if you want to listen to the podcast,
(03:53):
I talked about Eddie Marenzo, who was George Bush's head
of his presidential detail, and how Eddie would have gotten
out of the car the limousine in Butler, Pennsylvania. Had
he been the head of the detail on that day,
and he would have done as I as I saw
him do many many times. He would have scoured the landscape.
(04:14):
He would have looked, He looked everywhere, and he would
have seen the roof of that building, the Ager building,
and noticed that there was something missing. What was missing? Oh,
there wasn't any Secret Service agent or local cop or sniper,
(04:35):
law enforcement sniper on that roof, on the edge of
it with his rifle pointing, so that he knew that
that vantage point for a sniper was being covered by
law enforcement, and he probably would not have let the
president out of the car. So we know the why.
(04:57):
How how did that happen? Well, in coverage on this
would be on July fourteen.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Why did it take eight rounds to ring out before
somebody returned fire? Sources tell Prime Time that the counter
sniper team that neutralized crooks were Secret Service sharpshooters, but
the Washington Post reports that the counter snipers were local cops.
Now that's true. Why is the Secret Service relying so
heavily on locals? And why did the counter sniper snipers
(05:30):
who had their rifles trained on this assassin, not shoot first?
And why is the one agent's head popping up in
the air. Why isn't he zeroed in on his scoop?
When the Secret Service descend on Trump?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Why'd they stay on stage for so long?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
If you listen closely, you can hear one of the
female Secret Service agents completely confused.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
This lady wasn't prepared. And the Secret Service isn't answering
any questions.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
They skipped out on their press conference last night and
today told us they wouldn't say anything. Some of the
agents you're looking at don't look confident. How do you
protect the president from sniper fire if you're not tall enough.
Biden recently gave the head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheedle,
a bonus.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Chetle's a Biden hire. She was on his detail when
he was VP, and he brought her back.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And we know now of course she's gone.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Main focus has been hiring more women.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
One of her female agents just had a nervous breakdown
on Kamala's detail. They covered up the cocaine in the
White House, covered up for hunter Naomi.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Biden's agent had their vehicle carjacked.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
How was it that the head of the Secret Service
hasn't tendered her resignation today?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Why hasn't Biden fired Chetle?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Biden didn't fire anybody after Afghanistan, didn't fire Mayorcis after
the border. Cheetle's got to go, and nobody could trust
this investigation?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now do you trust the investigation? I heard on the
way into the studio this morning that the Senate has
released an internal report that they've done. I've not seen
it yet, obviously not had a chance to read it,
so I don't know what it's says what it says,
But what I do know is this, the Trump shooting
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changed the country. Donald Trump raising his fist, spinning out
those words fight, Fight, Fight, as there was blood streaming
down his face from that bullet wound in his ear.
That's the sort of image that used to be called iconic,
back before that word degenerated into a synonym for famous.
The attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the year
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ago this weekend was the great symbolic moment of his
twenty twenty four presidential victory. There are some symbolic moments,
and there are some events that are so transformative that
we mark or should mark their anniversaries as a way
of measuring the change that they've brought to us. The
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near assassination of Donald Trump, I think is one of those.
It's the weekend with Michael Brown. The tax line numbers
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How is a weekend ago? This weekend one of those
transformative moments. I'll be right back. Hey's the weekend with
(08:45):
Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. So tomorrow,
on Sunday, July thirteenth, at four to eleven Mountain time,
it will have been one year since the assassin almost
blew out Donald Trump's brains on national television. The day
(09:07):
after that, on July fourteenth, Kevin McCarthy was on Fox
News instead of this.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Beyond Ft, former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy joins me, Now,
what did you think of the President's Oval Office address?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Well, I thought it was appropriate what he said. I
thought it was right timing. I thought if you watched it,
he caught himself because he almost said make America great again.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Did you see that He's there America? Then he had
to stop.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
You could tell it was teleprompter and really what he's
doing there at the time, he's doing what's appropriate for
a president now calm the temperature down, but he's also
solidifying his own race. Prior to this assassination, the whole
quest was to get him out from running, and he
had a couple more weeks to go before the August
Democratic Convention. They wanted to take a run on him.
(09:55):
And now that's put aside, so he's probably gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Although isn't that interesting in hindsight, we now know that
behind the scenes it was still going on. They were
still pushing to get him out. This is why I
love history, in a particular history in these days, in
modern times, when we go back and we can listen
to what was said literally hear it. Yeah, they were
(10:21):
still going after the Democrats, were still going after their own.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Party, and it'd be the nominee unless maybe they try
some hygiene. I don't think they can now I think
it's cement, yes, But does he run against Donald Trump?
Now he's got the mugshot, A bullet basically came within
an inch of his brain, and he's got this fist
in the air with the flag and blood over his face,
(10:45):
and it just sends a chill every time I see that.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
How do you run against a guy like that?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
I don't know, because that photo would be the most
iconic photo for our entire generation. We know where we
were at that moment time, who called us? The picture
the flag behind it. But that isn't something that stage,
that's not a teleprompter, that's not written. That's a situation
that happened. How did your commander achieve act during that
moment in time? And you're going to question when you
(11:14):
make this decision, do you want somebody strong like that
in the ovaloft that somebody could stand up? How do
you think the foreign leaders like I've had calls today
from foreign leaders in other countries asking me how President
Trump is doing that.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They're shocked too with democracy what's happening.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
But when you look at everything that has gone on
to go against President Trump and how he's standing and
where is he standing for, it wasn't about him, bluddy.
He was there for the people. He is standing up
for them, going against even when someone's shooting him and
it's less than an inch, how close that came to
losing his whole life.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
I talked to him today and it's amazing I mean,
he would.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Tell me about hearing the bullet, the speed of it,
and I could tell what he's telling it. Whoever that
happens to it affects you, but his strength.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Of what it was about and hitting the year.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Then he goes in and telling him how the doctor
tells him there's a lot of blood within your ear,
and then he's total Trump, Come, you.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Understand because you have really big ears to you.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
For listening.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Interesting to go back in time and listen to it,
isn't it. We know now that twenty one year old
sniper Thomas Krook, who was this loner as usual right
from the suburbs of Pittsburgh, he actually brought an AR
fifteen semi automatic rifle to the roof of a warehouse
only one hundred eighty yards away and was able to
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pull off eight shots at Trump. And we know, of
course that he get three bystanders, he killed fifty year
old fireman Corey Compentour. But there's still no consensus even
a year later, about the larger meaning of what happened
at Butler a year ago tomorrow. Now, clearly I would
(12:59):
argue that the attack shaped the outcome of the election.
In fact, I would argue that it changed the moral
climate in the country. We got to go back. Spring
of last year. Four criminal prosecutions dating all the way
back to Trump's first term, approached their final resolution almost simultaneously.
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They had purposely been strung along by Democratic Party prosecutors
to fall just then during the election season. They were
obviously trying to get the maximum persuasive effect on the voters.
Oddly kind of strange the New York case in which
Trump's opponents prevailed, that was the weakest case of all,
(13:48):
and it was the most convoluted case, but they got
what they wanted. Trump was now a convicted fela And
remember we talked about that. Now that was the phrase
they were looking for. It didn't matter the merits of
the case. They just wanted to be able to call
Trump a convicted felon. But then an argument persisted on
the campaign trail that summer over whether Trump was actually
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being truly held to account or righteously held properly held
to account under the rule of law for his own corruption,
or was he actually being persecuted by adversaries who they
themselves were corrupt. The bullet that was fired at Trump,
I think settled the controversy, not in a logical way,
(14:31):
of course, don't get me wrong, but in an emotional way.
In an emotional way, it validated. Now I think they
were Don't get me wrong, I personally believe that he
was being persecuted, but in an emotional way for you know,
just kind of not smart people like you, but for
everybody else, in an emotional way, it validated the notion
(14:54):
that they meaning something in society and the spirit of
the time, we're out to destroy Donald Trump. So it
reinforced the shift that had been evident in this country's
politics for a long time. Voters used to respond to
rational appeals based on policy differences, and I think we've
(15:15):
kind of shifted. We've shifted to emotional appeals based on
these tribal allegiances. You know, the talking heads on television
usually point out this change only in an effort to
deplore the new system's superficiality it's weakness, But it's really
(15:40):
not that simple. The policy debates that we used to
have in the old system, those were phony. Two the
political parties went often did what they wanted to do anyway, right,
voting publics prefer the popular style because it actually gives
them more information. Conservative policy wonks used stats all the time.
(16:04):
We would point out how bad mass immigration was, but
nothing happened. Right. But then Democrats went a step too far.
They opened the floodgates. We saw it, we saw what
it was doing to the country, and we acted. The
striking thing about Trump's behavior on July thirteen was that
(16:27):
it was excellent. It was excellent in a way that
was honestly kind of unreflective. But it was spontaneous. Everything
about it was at odds with the American postwar conception
of what we thought a presidential leader should be, and
that's what the cabal tended to focus on. But in
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a culture where equality of opportunity is everything, the public
came to believe that there was something reprehensible about the
idea that anyone has any special aptitude for anything at all.
We're not living in a republic, or as they would
call it, a democracy. He felt, unless anyone can go
out and become a leader through hard work or a
(17:12):
degree granting course, no, nothing could be more repugnant than
the notion that leadership is something you either have or
you don't have. And yet tomorrow, a year ago, at
four to eleven Mountain time. There was Trump in a
moment of total disruption, behaving like a born leader. That
(17:37):
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about Tomorrow a year ago.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Next tonight, Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
director of talk show host Michael Brown.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
The Weekend with Michael Brown.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
He It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. And this weekend
happens to be the one year the one year anniversary
of the first attempt at assassination on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
You know, Selena Zito has a great book out about
the assassination. She was there, she is. She writes a
column for the New York Post and some other outlets,
(18:35):
and Selena is she's a fantastic writer. This book is
on my iPad. I haven't read it yet, but she's
written a book that everybody tells me is a great book.
She was there, and she was in the press of
the little roped off area just below the electern So
she's written about her experience that day, and she's interviewed
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Trump and talked about it. So I would encourage you
to get Seleavea's book and read it if you have
a chance. I can't wait to read it. I'm just
trying to get through my Revolutionary War book that I
told you about last weekend. So it's just an interesting
point in time to realize. As Michael and I were
just talking off air during the break, it's hard to
(19:18):
believe that it was a year ago. But then to me,
when you think about how fast things are moving, it's
hard to believe that the election was less than a
year ago. That was just this past November. Time certainly flies.
I mean, you're having fun, doesn't it. But I think
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that the most striking thing about Trump's behavior on July
thirteenth of last year was that it was excellent. The
effect was electric. You go back and you watch, and
(20:02):
of course we all know the iconic photograph of him
surrounded by the Secret Service agents, you know, not kind
of just as insider joke. When I look at that photograph,
the one thing that I always think about because they
One of the things the Secret Service teaches you is
is how they will handle you when they need to
(20:23):
make you do something. And they're big, and they're tough
and they're rough, and if they need to put you
on the ground, they're gonna put you on the ground.
And I look at that photograph and I see the
one female agent who is in front of Trump as
he's stood back up, and he has his fist in
the air, and she's at about wist level and she
(20:43):
can barely put his arms around him. And I know
they're trying to shuffle him off the stage and get
him into the car to get him out of harm's way.
And she's struggling at that poor woman's having a horrible time.
But back back to that very moment, though I think
the effect was electric, we probably forget that. Within just
(21:09):
minutes of Trump being rushed off stage, Elon Musk I
think probably stunned the country by endorsing Trump at that moment.
Musk said, we had one president who could not climb
a flight of stairs and another president who was fist
pumping after getting shot. It's often forgotten that Biden's rambling, mumbling,
(21:38):
just his horrible performance in that debate back in June.
It didn't immediately end his candidacy. Remember those soundbites I
played just before the break. Jesse Waters on Fox News
was talking and he and Kevin McCarthy are both talking
about how, yeah, probably you know, it probably didn't end
(22:02):
Biden's presidency and it's probably too late to do anything
in blubb blah. And now we know with all the
books coming out that behind the scenes, they were still
trying to treat Joe Biden like Julius Caesar. They were
still trying to stab him in the back. In fact,
they were still stabbing him in the back. But it
(22:24):
wasn't the Biden debate performance. It was a factor, don't
get me wrong. It was a factor, but I think
it was the shooting that did it, because remember Biden's
still hanging on at that point. It was only after
Trump's demonstration of that vitality that Biden's withdrawal I think
(22:44):
became inevitable. He ended his candidacy the following weekend. See
how we can press and conflate. I always talk about
how I conflate time until putting together notes for this discussion,
did I REALI that it was the very next weekend,
so the knives were out. But that event in Butler,
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Pennsylvania was more than just about vitality. Mark Zuckerberg of
of Meta Facebook Instagram said that we quote on a
personal note seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot
in the face and pump his fist in the air
with that American flag, It's one of the most badass
(23:28):
things I've ever seen in my life. At some level
as an American, it's hard not to get emotional about
that spirit. As much as I just like Mark Zuckerberg,
I think he's exactly right. Why can't we capture that
spirit like a firefly and put it in a jar
and just pour it over every American. Just capture that
(23:51):
spirit and once again that's what we are about. Trump
was doing something archetypal. The pose in which those photographs
caught him on that day is truly iconic. The flag,
(24:13):
the rallying of the wounded warriors, the wounded followers. Trump
was not just being brave or strong. He was without
I don't think meaning to, He was summoning Americans to
feelings that have been buried so deep because we've been
so just run over by the government. We've been just
run over by the fast paced advances in technology. We've
(24:36):
been run over by how the world has shrunk. We've
been run over by artificial intelligence. We've been run over
by we often forget. I think how dramatically COVID affected
this country. Remember Jimmy Carter talking about well, you probably
don't because you're too young. Remember Jimmy Carter talking about
(24:56):
how the country was in a malaise. I think post COVID,
this country was in a malaise economically, socially, culturally. I
think we were just I mean, I think that's one
reason why Biden got elected, Just the malaise of COVID.
How often it happens to me more than I wish
(25:17):
it did. But how often do you go somewhere? Where
was I just the other day? I was standing in line.
I think it may have been like at a Walmart
or a Target or some retail place, and I just
happened to look down, and what did I see?
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The marks they used to.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Have on the floor.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Some were painted, some was tape, some were they they
would somehow put a mark there and you had to
stand there because you had to stand six feet apart
from somebody else. It was so stupid.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
I saw those.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Marks again and that was a reminder. So it was
a horrible flashback I had about just how stupid those
times were and how I did. I remember doing everything
I could to violate the rules. Oh you want me
to stand here, screw you. I'm going to stand over here.
Oh I'm too close to you. Will excuse me. Everything
(26:19):
I could do, I would come into this building. Oh,
we had strict rules. You had to take the lysol
spray and spray the studio you had there was there
was always always a demand for the lysol. You know,
the clocks wipes, wipe down the studio. Now. I used
to do that before COVID because radio studios are such
(26:40):
as bit nasty place. But wear a mask, wear a mask,
beat wear that mask, and they do what. Radio studios
are nasty, Michael, you know they're nasty. The rule here
(27:02):
was we can't control what you do with your masks
outside the building, but once you step into the building,
be sure put that mask on, which I never did.
I mean, first of all, there was nobody in the building.
I didn't run in anybody because everybody, you know, producers
were hiding in the control rooms, and other talk show
hosts were already hiding in their studios, so I never
put a mask on. It was a true malaise. So
(27:27):
Trump on that day got us out of that malaise.
Trump was not just being brave or strong. He was
and again I don't think he was meaning to, but
he really was summing us, summoning us to feelings that
had been buried so deep that we had almost forgotten them.
It was a powerful interruption into that malaise that we
(27:50):
were suffering through. It was a powerful eruption into politics
of reality, even religious if you want to. And Trump himself,
though not conspicuously conversant in the language of faith, he
has since become fairly conversant in the language of faith.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
He saw that.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Seconds before the shooting, he had been excoriating Joe Biden
is the worst president in the history of our country. Now, yes,
he continues to do that, but when we got to
the Republican National Convention due to convene only two days later,
that did change. It went from the world's most vicious speech,
Trump informed sensor Lindsey Graham the following day to you
(28:37):
know what, let's bring the country together might not be
as exciting that there it is. Now you can't change
the tigers or leopard or zebra's stripes, and he's back to,
you know, the worst president in the history of the nation,
which I do believe is probably true. But it did
(28:58):
change him to mentally, and I think change the country.
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(29:22):
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But I just I just want you to know how
much I appreciate the audience I really really do, so
back to Butler. When when Trump went back to Butler,
I think it was maybe three months later, just on
the eve of the election. That's when I noticed the change,
because he referenced the hand of God, the grace of
(30:05):
God that brought him through that assassination attempt. And we
could go all off on a theological discussion of that,
but let's not. But I found it interesting that increasingly
he always discusses the incident as a homespun and prayerful
(30:26):
old lady might talk about it dwelling on faithful coincidences.
You know, he always talked about you know, I'd never
seen that particular photo, that graph before. So what made
him turn and look at the graph behind him on
the stage? What made him decide to ask the graph
to even be shown earlier in the speech rather than
(30:47):
later in the speech, because it usually came later in
the speech. Whether we think of this as sincere religious
reflection or electoral pandering, I think neither. I think Trump
was simply reacting as a human would after experiencing that
(31:08):
kind of trauma, groping toward a language that he's not
accustomed to, trying to understand how contingent, how out of
control everything that happens to us really is, that we're
always on this quest. Even if it doesn't lead one
(31:28):
to believe in God, it certainly can't teach you humility,
at least in theory.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
It can.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Politicians of both parties, I think, and I think the
country sensed that something special had happened, that the voting
public had come to feel a new kind of connection
with their leaders. You know, I find it interesting because
American politicians, particularly well, let me rephrase that elected officials,
(32:00):
people that hold office, I think you are now striving
to place themselves in similar situations. They want to appear
battling for you and me, the people. It's a subtle shift,
whether it's real or fake, it's a subtle shift to populism.
(32:24):
Fight fight, fight. They all want you to believe that
they're all fighting for us. Well, it is probably because
of the Butler assassination attempt that now we have a
new county campaign stunt. You know, at a Los Angeles
press conference where Christy nom was it was in LA
(32:49):
back in June. Remember the Senator from California, Alex Padilla,
who mister political person here didn't realize who that was.
It can be they forgotten that Newsom had appointed him.
So here's a Democrat moving along an aisle toward the
podium and when he got close gets stopped. He gets
(33:10):
expelled by the room. He's screaming and hollering at her
and what happened afterwards? His office immediately started circulating the video,
Oh look at me, look at me. I'm you know,
look at me. Then a couple of days later, brad
Lander staged a similar disruption. Who the hells Bradlander, a
(33:31):
New York City comptrol and a candidate for mayor, cling
to a migrant being removed by custom officials and demanding
that they show me the warrant, Show me the warrant.
These people are pathetic, but that's what politicians do. But
you and I, I think Americans are too smart and
we see through it. Well, let me rephrase that. I
(33:55):
think conservative, critical thinking Americans. But I repeat myself, well
see through that kind of bull crap. We know when
you're just playing the part you're cosplaying. You want to
be you want to be like Trump. You want to
you know, stick your fist out and screen fight, fight, fight,
But you never can you never can replicate the real thing,
(34:20):
nor should you want to. In the case of Trump,
you really don't want to replicate it. I think Republicans
have always been better than Democrats at the kind of
true populism, at the true concern for American citizens of
all stripes. You know, you really just he really has
(34:42):
always bothered me that Conservatism has always been equated, for
whatever reason, with racism, which I find so bizarre because
it was always Democrats, Democrats that you know, were the
last messiges of the KKKA, Democrats that have posed, you know,
the Civil Rights Acts of nineteen sixty four, in the
(35:03):
Voting Rights Act, and it was Republicans that pulled it,
pulled it across the finish line. Abraham Lincoln a Republican.
They got the Thirteenth Amendment, the Emancipation Proclamation. The Conservatives,
for some reason or racist. We may be seeing the
beginning of the end of that kind of narrative that's
just been historically false. Democrats, well, what do they want
(35:28):
to do? They want to regulate us. They they don't
understand there, They truly don't get the constitutional order. Go
back to the beginning of the program, talking about Jimmy Raskin,
and how you know, Republicans just always, you know, reflectively,
reflexively go to, well, we're not a democracy, we're a republic. Yeah,
(35:52):
because those words actually have meaning, and we understand that meaning,
and we want to restore that constitutional order. And we
see Trump building that wall that I talked about earlier
in the program, really trying to do that, being the disruptor,
taking those old ways, throwing them in that ben that
(36:12):
he's trying to build the wall around. So we can
just incinerate those old ways, doubt it with some diesel
or some gas or some lighter fluid, and throw a
match on it and burn it down within the confines
of that wall. I should say many laphorically speaking before
somebody said, oh, Michael Brown, it's wanting to burn stuff down.
I just want to burn down that old ideology. I
(36:34):
want to burn down that fascism and that communism and
that socialism that's just destroying the country. And I think
we made a big pivot turn toward that tomorrow on
July thirteenth, at four to eleven Mountain time, when Trump
stood up and said, fight, fight, Fight, Thanks for joining
the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. Everybody,
(36:57):
have a great weekend and i'll see you next weekend.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Speak away and the way
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