December 22, 2025 • 12 mins
Buck breaks down the Brown University and MIT shootings after the alleged suspect is found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, pushing back on early rumors and online speculation. He also calls out law enforcement press conferences that focus more on self-praise than facts. Plus, Buck explains why the Mar-a-Lago raid marked a turning point in the weaponization of the justice system, and why it still matters today.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Infact, in the Brown and
Mit killings, the shootings that happened has been found with
a self inflicted gunshot wound. There's a whole lot of
(00:32):
details here that we could get into. I don't even
think at this point they will make much make much
sense to anybody, because it seems so largely just random,
like this is a crazy person who might have had
some vendetta against some individuals. The MIT professor who was
(00:52):
killed actually studied a long time ago at a university
in Portugal. I believe it was with the alled shooter.
But this is a homicide investigation. It does not seem
there's a broader political motive. The guy did not yell
allahuac bar as was being shouldn't, they're reported, but that
was the chatter online in the aftermath of the shooting
(01:16):
at Brown, and the takeaways from this are not particularly profound.
I mean, one thing is I would really like it
if we no longer saw people at these press conferences
from the law enforcement side about an incredibly serious event,
about something that people have lost their lives, and especially
(01:38):
when they haven't had some huge breakthrough and done something amazing.
The amount of time they spend these press conferences, these
law enforcement press conferences, high fiving each other and making
sure that every person I feel like they're telling the
summer interns you know, they did a great job, and
everybody all. I just want to thank our partners in
this police department. I want to thank all the It's
(01:59):
not an oscar speech, all right, you're just there to
give us the most pertinent information and maybe answer some
questions from the press. But we don't need to hear
all the I just want to thank over law enforcement partners. No, okay,
we don't care. We don't need to hear that at all.
And this happened recently in an FBI press conference. Way
too much. I want to thank everyone. No, that's their job.
(02:23):
They're doing their job, and if they're doing it, well, good,
but that's it. This isn't a time for self congratulations.
So that's one part of this that I think is
worth noting. And then also that there's this, once again,
this focus on oh the gun and how did he
get the gun? And you're never going to stop bad
(02:46):
people from doing bad things. You're never going to be
able to prevent people from who want to commit murder
against innocent people from finding some way to do that.
Whether it's a knife, a gun, a car, a bomb,
there are all kinds of ways in the modern world
in which we live. Soon, I think you're going to
start to see, and this is kind of a prediction,
but you're going to start to see people taking people
(03:07):
out with a drones, meaning that there'll be either an
exploding drone or even a drone that is armed up
with some kind of projectiles a gun. You're going to
see drone assassination of individuals. That's absolutely going to happen.
It's just a matter of time before the first major
one occurs. But I don't think there's much in the
(03:29):
ideological sense to take away from this. There's really nothing
we don't know enough. I mean, this guy, it seems
the shooter here who killed himself, and I mean, you know,
I don't think has any doubt that this is the guy.
You know, there's not going to be a court proceeding
because he's dead. The case is now closed insofar as
they're not going to bring any charges against him. But
(03:52):
this is an instance where it seems it was just
personal hatred and this guy snapped and went through some
real precautions. He changed out his license plate on his car,
clearly was covering his face. And it seems so strange
because if you do this kind of thing, then you're
(04:13):
going to stay in the country. You're not going to
get away with this forever. So going through all these steps,
it seems is I don't know, I guess maybe he
thought he could get away with it, maybe he thought
it was possible. But anyway, that the Brown thing, so
it was not a jihattist attack. There were early reports
that seemed to seem to indicate, and it was not.
(04:36):
From what we can tell. Specific to the politics of
the beautiful young woman who was killed, one of the
two killed on the campus of Brown University, it doesn't
seem that the fact that she was a Republican that
could change, but there's not a lot of the evidence
pointing in that direction right now. So that is that
(04:56):
is what we know about this case, about the situation.
Let's talk about the mar A Lago raid and the
updates that we have on that, because this is a
big deal that's coming up but you know that I
don't just talk politics. I like to break down what
it means for your life, your family, and your money.
And this is why I launched Money in Power. It's
my own independent venture that takes advantage of all that
(05:18):
I know about DC politics, how decisions are made, and
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Paid for by Paradigm Press. Now we have the mar
A Lago rate. Here's the short version of this. The
whole thing was absurd. This was really the original crossing
of the rubicon against Trump. Once they did this, it
(06:02):
was clear they were going to prosecute him. Once the
Biden DOJ and that's who was behind all of this,
decided that they were going to ignore the law, ignore
good sense, ignore fair play, and have this mar a
Lago raid. Then everything was going to be different. Now.
(06:27):
They thought this would destroy Trump. They thought it wouldn't
be possible for him to have this raid and then
these prosecutions, and that he would somehow continue on. But
they were wrong. As we know, because he's a president,
he managed to fight through this madness. He managed to
defeat all of these lawfair efforts against him, multiple lawfare efforts,
(06:49):
weaponizing the law, weaponizing the DOJ. This is something that
it's incredibly important for the country. It was unsuccessful because
if it was successful, this would now be the way
that politics has done in this country. But this is
from Kim Strassel in the Wall Street Journal, and I
think she nails it here. She writes. The public unveiling
(07:10):
of the Biden administration's lawfair campaign against the past president
and political rival came on August twenty twenty two, the
day the FBI descended on Donald Trump's Mar Lago residents
in search of classified documents. It was a shocking moment,
first time in federal law enforcement history that they had
acted against a former president. More shocking, it didn't have
to be that way. The Justice Department insisted on it.
(07:34):
That's the disturbing information contained in emails released this week
by the Senate Judiciary Committee. In missives spanning the summer
of twenty twenty two, FBI officials expressed alarm and forcefully
pushed back against AJ driven search, warrant, and raid. The
FBI highlighted legal and evidentiary weaknesses, noted offers of cooperation,
proposed numerous better avenues. The DOJ ignored or over it
(07:58):
at all, drooling over a prosecution end quote. They did
this to destroy Trump for election the election cycle. It
was the Biden DOJ. And not only this is I
think a really important part of this. Not only did
Biden want to make sure that Trump was not able
to run in a free and fair election again against him,
(08:18):
he thought Biden actually wanted Trump to go to prison.
They were going to do that. The plan was to
lock Donald Trump up. It wasn't just to bring the
prosecutions to dirty him up for political reasons. It was
to put him in a cell, perhaps for the rest
of his natural life. These are bad people, Joe Biden,
(08:39):
the people around him. Merrick Garland, Biden's top advisors, they
are scummy, bad people, and what they did is disgraceful,
disgraceful and really put the nation in in jeopardy because
it goes to the very heart of our system. If
(09:00):
you can prosecute your political opponents on nothing, I might
add make stuff up. We aren't free. We don't have
free in fair elections, and we're not a free country anymore.
That's not an overstatement, that's not excessive. That is an
absolute observation of verifiable fact of truth. We are not
a free country if people can get prosecutor for no
(09:22):
reason by the regime in power. Kim Strassel here in
the Wall Street Journal goes on a June first FBI
Washington Field Office summary shows for starters that the Department
appears to have sucker punched the Trump team. It had
contacted a Trump attorney requesting the return of any classified
documents by May twenty fourth. When that deadline passed, it
immediately moved to a search warrant. Yet one complicating factor,
(09:45):
the summary explains, was that the attorney had written back
to the department on May twenty fifth, claiming that the
DOJ had told him the return date was flexible and
that only on deadline day itself, had the Department notified
him that the return date was not going to be extended.
The Trump lawyer, meanwhile, had suggested to try to reach
an accommodation. In light of this, the FBI asked the
(10:05):
dj to take the reasonable route to negotiate the return
of any class documents. The member reports the department's response,
it was adamant that no accommodation will be given, and
they would not reach out to the attorney. They wanted
to purp walk everybody. Eventually, they wanted the FBI guys
and windbreakers going through Malania's sock drawer and they got it.
(10:26):
They wanted to lay out documents, oh nuclear documents, remember that. Yeah, sure,
they wanted to lay this all out. They wanted to
use it to destroy Donald Trump. Don't ever forget what
they did. They completely threw away any pretense of the
law as something other than a tool of politics when
(10:49):
it suits them. They abandon honor, they abandoned decency, and
Trump still beat them. That's the part of this that's
so amazing. I could be sitting here and it would
sound like I'm whining or sour grapes. Oh look, the
only reason that Kamala was president is because of that
could have happened. It didn't happen, and we should be
very thankful to Donald Trump that this is the way
(11:11):
that it all went. Because how would you feel would
it be true? Would it be accurate to say that
I should I should treat the current I should treat
a common administration as legitimate. If they had locked Trump
up over this stuff, no, I would not have agreed
to the legitimacy of that election. It would have been
(11:34):
a stolen election via law fair. So those are the
kinds of risks that they were willing to put our
country through so they could put a dementia pation in office,
so they could run the country into the ground. It's
not even like they're good at this. They are irrational,
overly emotional, and delusional. That is where the Democrat Party
is today. Do not forget it, my friends, do not
(11:57):
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(13:01):
here on the buck Brief whatever we call this podcast
these days. She'll sig
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Infact, in the Brown and
Mit killings, the shootings that happened has been found with
a self inflicted gunshot wound. There's a whole lot of
(00:32):
details here that we could get into. I don't even
think at this point they will make much make much
sense to anybody, because it seems so largely just random,
like this is a crazy person who might have had
some vendetta against some individuals. The MIT professor who was
(00:52):
killed actually studied a long time ago at a university
in Portugal. I believe it was with the alled shooter.
But this is a homicide investigation. It does not seem
there's a broader political motive. The guy did not yell
allahuac bar as was being shouldn't, they're reported, but that
was the chatter online in the aftermath of the shooting
(01:16):
at Brown, and the takeaways from this are not particularly profound.
I mean, one thing is I would really like it
if we no longer saw people at these press conferences
from the law enforcement side about an incredibly serious event,
about something that people have lost their lives, and especially
(01:38):
when they haven't had some huge breakthrough and done something amazing.
The amount of time they spend these press conferences, these
law enforcement press conferences, high fiving each other and making
sure that every person I feel like they're telling the
summer interns you know, they did a great job, and
everybody all. I just want to thank our partners in
this police department. I want to thank all the It's
(01:59):
not an oscar speech, all right, you're just there to
give us the most pertinent information and maybe answer some
questions from the press. But we don't need to hear
all the I just want to thank over law enforcement partners. No, okay,
we don't care. We don't need to hear that at all.
And this happened recently in an FBI press conference. Way
too much. I want to thank everyone. No, that's their job.
(02:23):
They're doing their job, and if they're doing it, well, good,
but that's it. This isn't a time for self congratulations.
So that's one part of this that I think is
worth noting. And then also that there's this, once again,
this focus on oh the gun and how did he
get the gun? And you're never going to stop bad
(02:46):
people from doing bad things. You're never going to be
able to prevent people from who want to commit murder
against innocent people from finding some way to do that.
Whether it's a knife, a gun, a car, a bomb,
there are all kinds of ways in the modern world
in which we live. Soon, I think you're going to
start to see, and this is kind of a prediction,
but you're going to start to see people taking people
(03:07):
out with a drones, meaning that there'll be either an
exploding drone or even a drone that is armed up
with some kind of projectiles a gun. You're going to
see drone assassination of individuals. That's absolutely going to happen.
It's just a matter of time before the first major
one occurs. But I don't think there's much in the
(03:29):
ideological sense to take away from this. There's really nothing
we don't know enough. I mean, this guy, it seems
the shooter here who killed himself, and I mean, you know,
I don't think has any doubt that this is the guy.
You know, there's not going to be a court proceeding
because he's dead. The case is now closed insofar as
they're not going to bring any charges against him. But
(03:52):
this is an instance where it seems it was just
personal hatred and this guy snapped and went through some
real precautions. He changed out his license plate on his car,
clearly was covering his face. And it seems so strange
because if you do this kind of thing, then you're
(04:13):
going to stay in the country. You're not going to
get away with this forever. So going through all these steps,
it seems is I don't know, I guess maybe he
thought he could get away with it, maybe he thought
it was possible. But anyway, that the Brown thing, so
it was not a jihattist attack. There were early reports
that seemed to seem to indicate, and it was not.
(04:36):
From what we can tell. Specific to the politics of
the beautiful young woman who was killed, one of the
two killed on the campus of Brown University, it doesn't
seem that the fact that she was a Republican that
could change, but there's not a lot of the evidence
pointing in that direction right now. So that is that
(04:56):
is what we know about this case, about the situation.
Let's talk about the mar A Lago raid and the
updates that we have on that, because this is a
big deal that's coming up but you know that I
don't just talk politics. I like to break down what
it means for your life, your family, and your money.
And this is why I launched Money in Power. It's
my own independent venture that takes advantage of all that
(05:18):
I know about DC politics, how decisions are made, and
then it lets me team up with some fantastic analysts
in the markets to bring you great opportunities. Look, you've
trusted me for years to tell you the truth. Now
I want to help you stay informed, stay prepared, and
stay ahead. Join Money in Power today get eighty two
percent off the regular price. Go online at join buck
dot com. That's join buck dot com eighty two percent
(05:41):
off the regular price. Great thing to do for the
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six Go to join buck dot com. Sign up today.
Paid for by Paradigm Press. Now we have the mar
A Lago rate. Here's the short version of this. The
whole thing was absurd. This was really the original crossing
of the rubicon against Trump. Once they did this, it
(06:02):
was clear they were going to prosecute him. Once the
Biden DOJ and that's who was behind all of this,
decided that they were going to ignore the law, ignore
good sense, ignore fair play, and have this mar a
Lago raid. Then everything was going to be different. Now.
(06:27):
They thought this would destroy Trump. They thought it wouldn't
be possible for him to have this raid and then
these prosecutions, and that he would somehow continue on. But
they were wrong. As we know, because he's a president,
he managed to fight through this madness. He managed to
defeat all of these lawfair efforts against him, multiple lawfare efforts,
(06:49):
weaponizing the law, weaponizing the DOJ. This is something that
it's incredibly important for the country. It was unsuccessful because
if it was successful, this would now be the way
that politics has done in this country. But this is
from Kim Strassel in the Wall Street Journal, and I
think she nails it here. She writes. The public unveiling
(07:10):
of the Biden administration's lawfair campaign against the past president
and political rival came on August twenty twenty two, the
day the FBI descended on Donald Trump's Mar Lago residents
in search of classified documents. It was a shocking moment,
first time in federal law enforcement history that they had
acted against a former president. More shocking, it didn't have
to be that way. The Justice Department insisted on it.
(07:34):
That's the disturbing information contained in emails released this week
by the Senate Judiciary Committee. In missives spanning the summer
of twenty twenty two, FBI officials expressed alarm and forcefully
pushed back against AJ driven search, warrant, and raid. The
FBI highlighted legal and evidentiary weaknesses, noted offers of cooperation,
proposed numerous better avenues. The DOJ ignored or over it
(07:58):
at all, drooling over a prosecution end quote. They did
this to destroy Trump for election the election cycle. It
was the Biden DOJ. And not only this is I
think a really important part of this. Not only did
Biden want to make sure that Trump was not able
to run in a free and fair election again against him,
(08:18):
he thought Biden actually wanted Trump to go to prison.
They were going to do that. The plan was to
lock Donald Trump up. It wasn't just to bring the
prosecutions to dirty him up for political reasons. It was
to put him in a cell, perhaps for the rest
of his natural life. These are bad people, Joe Biden,
(08:39):
the people around him. Merrick Garland, Biden's top advisors, they
are scummy, bad people, and what they did is disgraceful,
disgraceful and really put the nation in in jeopardy because
it goes to the very heart of our system. If
(09:00):
you can prosecute your political opponents on nothing, I might
add make stuff up. We aren't free. We don't have
free in fair elections, and we're not a free country anymore.
That's not an overstatement, that's not excessive. That is an
absolute observation of verifiable fact of truth. We are not
a free country if people can get prosecutor for no
(09:22):
reason by the regime in power. Kim Strassel here in
the Wall Street Journal goes on a June first FBI
Washington Field Office summary shows for starters that the Department
appears to have sucker punched the Trump team. It had
contacted a Trump attorney requesting the return of any classified
documents by May twenty fourth. When that deadline passed, it
immediately moved to a search warrant. Yet one complicating factor,
(09:45):
the summary explains, was that the attorney had written back
to the department on May twenty fifth, claiming that the
DOJ had told him the return date was flexible and
that only on deadline day itself, had the Department notified
him that the return date was not going to be extended.
The Trump lawyer, meanwhile, had suggested to try to reach
an accommodation. In light of this, the FBI asked the
(10:05):
dj to take the reasonable route to negotiate the return
of any class documents. The member reports the department's response,
it was adamant that no accommodation will be given, and
they would not reach out to the attorney. They wanted
to purp walk everybody. Eventually, they wanted the FBI guys
and windbreakers going through Malania's sock drawer and they got it.
(10:26):
They wanted to lay out documents, oh nuclear documents, remember that. Yeah, sure,
they wanted to lay this all out. They wanted to
use it to destroy Donald Trump. Don't ever forget what
they did. They completely threw away any pretense of the
law as something other than a tool of politics when
(10:49):
it suits them. They abandon honor, they abandoned decency, and
Trump still beat them. That's the part of this that's
so amazing. I could be sitting here and it would
sound like I'm whining or sour grapes. Oh look, the
only reason that Kamala was president is because of that
could have happened. It didn't happen, and we should be
very thankful to Donald Trump that this is the way
(11:11):
that it all went. Because how would you feel would
it be true? Would it be accurate to say that
I should I should treat the current I should treat
a common administration as legitimate. If they had locked Trump
up over this stuff, no, I would not have agreed
to the legitimacy of that election. It would have been
(11:34):
a stolen election via law fair. So those are the
kinds of risks that they were willing to put our
country through so they could put a dementia pation in office,
so they could run the country into the ground. It's
not even like they're good at this. They are irrational,
overly emotional, and delusional. That is where the Democrat Party
is today. Do not forget it, my friends, do not
(11:57):
forget it. Our sponsor here is preborn. The pro life
community has to step up. Far too many abortions are
happening day in and day out. But I know for
a lot of you, you're busy. What can you do?
It's not just you living your principles. You want to
do more support Preborn. Preborn is a pro life organization
that has saved over three hundred and fifty thousand babies.
(12:17):
They've got clinics across the country that welcome mothers in
and they give these mothers to be a free ultrasound.
That ultrasound lets them connect with the baby in their womb,
and then the decision for life is so much easier
and so much more likely. By the numbers, twenty eight
dollars is what an ultrasound costs. Twenty eight dollars. Your
tax deductible donation can be the difference between life and death.
(12:40):
For just twenty eight dollars, you can help save a life,
and twenty eight dollars a month would help save perhaps
twelve lives over the next year. To donate, dial pound
two five zero and say the keyword baby. That's pound
two five zero, say baby. Or get a preborn dot
com slash buck preborn dot com slash b u c
ek sponsored by Preborn. All right, everybody, thanks for being
(13:01):
here on the buck Brief whatever we call this podcast
these days. She'll sig
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