Strength. Resilience. Determination. Donald Trump showed remarkable resolve under the most dire of circumstances as a would-be assassin's bullet graced the top of his right ear and sent him down to his knees - only to arise with his fist raised defiantly, shouting 'Fight!' to the assembled rally-goers in Butler, Pennsylvania. This iconic image will live on in American history, and it may have sealed an election victory for Trump in 2024.
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This is Dan Caples and welcome totoday's online podcast edition of The Dan Caplis
Show. Please be sure to giveus a five star rating if you'd be
so kind, and to subscribe,download and listen to the show every single
day on your favorite podcast platform.And I know a lot has happened today,
including the VP pick, and wewill get to all of that,
but we've got to we've got tofully appreciate what happens Saturday in terms of
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long term impact in this country.And it was a remarkable moment. Very
few who ever lived get to seea moment quite like that, and we
all wish it had not happened,right, but since evil did visit that
day, you know the response ofDonald Trump to that evil and to what
was inflicted, I'm in and thefact that it occurred so quickly, and
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that's so rapidly instantly he was ableto be so courageous, so strong,
so quick thinking and react in thatway where he showed remarkable leadership in a
moment when who could blame him oranybody else, even the strongest, toughest
man or woman, if in thatmoment they just said, get me the
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blank guy here. But he showedthat kind of courage and leadership under those
circumstances and left. You know,I kind of cant inter right, that's
the terminology, But he left thismarked much more importantly in the brains of
every American who saw that, whetherthey're a Trump hater, a Trump lover,
or somewhere in between, everybody couldsee in that very raw and real,
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unscripted minute that nobody can ever preparefor. In that instant, they
saw a level of character, Theysaw a level of intelligence, They saw
a level of poise and courage thatvery few possess. And I think it
changed a lot of people's view ofTrump. The vast majority will never admit
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it, right, but I thinkit changed the view of Trump. It
somebody use the phrase gave people permissionnow to vote for Trump, I say,
a reason to vote for Trump thatthey didn't have before. You know,
it was a way, maybe therewasn't any other way to cut through
that the false, hateful media narrativeabout Trump and let people see him in
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this moment of completely exposed humanity andsee how he handled it. And I
think you have an awful lot ofpeople who didn't like him before, who
said you know that that's who Iwant on the wall in this very dangerous
world. That's who I want protectingme from all these evil forces in the
world, and evil forces at homeas well. There's so much crime.
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And so I think that that itwonders for Trump, not just in terms
of winning the election, because winningthe election it's critical, right or else
we're not going to have a countryas we know it. But it's not
just enough to win the election.You have to win after the election.
You have to be able to lead. You have to be able to defeat
evil out there, conquer these problemsthat are ahead of us, some of
which we can't even imagine now,and then you have to be able to
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accomplish the good things on the positiveside. So the lasting, the lasting
value of what we wish had neverhappen Saturday. But the lasting value of
that goes far beyond winning this election. It goes to the ability to lead
this country in the future. AndDonald Trump, now after winning this election,
will have an ability to succeed andto lead that he would not have
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had had he not handled that momentthe way he did. So lots to
talk about about that moment, andyes, we're talking of course about the
VP pick and so much more that'sunfolding before our eyes as we now.
Oh, Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee isgiving the invocation as they now open the
convention at seven O nine eastern.Well, Milwaukee's central right. I'm sorry,
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central correct, six nine central rightnow seven o nine eastern. But
very wise to have the Catholic archbishopgive the invocation. You win Wisconsin,
very very very hard for the Demsto win any of those. I mean,
it's such a looking map for DonaldTrump right now. Pennsylvania, where
unfortunately the assassination attempt took place.I anticipate his numbers will soar in that
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state. He's competitive in Virginia evena poll released today. Dan. My
question for you, though, isdo you see may equib for a second?
Yep, new word to save ustime other than the explanation. But
here's why, a quib Ryan,I don't doubt that we'll see a bump
in the polls for Trump combination ofhis incredible heroism on Saturday and the convention.
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But here's the point, my brother, So much of this support,
this new support, isn't going toshow up until election Day because people aren't
going to admit it to their bestfriend. They're not going to admit it
to a polster. They're not goingto admit it to everybody anybody. They're
not going to admit it to theperson they sleep with. They're just going
to vote for him. Strongly disagree. I've seen so many people on Facebook,
Dan who I never knew were Trumpsupporters that put that iconic photo up
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as their profile picture. I thinkTrump's shyness is going out the window.
I think people are not proud tosupport Trump. I think there are people
like me to think if Trump willtake a bullet for us, the least
we can do is wear a hatfor him, or put a lawn sign
out for him or those Look atwhat Elon Musk did. He was kind
of you know, you think maybehe was gonna and then as soon as
that happened, he's like, Ifully endorse Donald Trump. I hope for
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his complete recovery. There's a lotof that coming out of the woodwork.
Muscow came out and said JD Vanceequals assassination insurance, meaning I mean the
point being, and my concern andI've talked about before, My point has
been that the most significant threat toDonald Trump's life is from Iran, I
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believe. Now, obviously there areothers, and we saw that on Saturday.
But if all of a sudden,your vice president is somebody who that
nation state that's trying to take youout, that nation state knows your vice
president is going to be every bitis hard on you and is probably going
to seek maximum revenge for what you'vedone and certainly sture Advance, which serve
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that. I'm not suggesting that's whyhe was selected. I think he was
selected because Donald Trump gets it.It's how he won in sixteen. He
gets that, it's what the GOPhas to be committed to and because it's
right, but also to win,which is to be the party of working
people, and I think JD Vancewill help a lot on that front.
Agreed, And have you seen alot of these off the record anonymous high
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ranking DEM sources and reaction to whathappened Saturday, the iconic images, Dan,
they're packing up. They're packing itup. They're not even going to
fight to get Biden off the ticketanymore. They've resigned themselves to losing this
selection. I'm talking about direct quotes, Dan, where they said they saw
that photo, blood on his face, fist in the air, flag behind
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him, Secret Service next to him. We can't beat that. Bill Mahers
admitted that, and they're going tojust focus on the down ballot races now
to try to salvage the Senate inthe House, I think they think that
the race is over. Let mepull that Mars sound and you've bleeped this
right of course. Okay, it'sa little hard to union. I had
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long things and that he lost thepopy of the book. Yeah, and
it's uh and Ryan did the verybest he could with that sound. It's
just caught of him in an auditorium. But yeah, the point being right
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that you think of all the differentways what happens Saturday, and we wish
it hadn't, But what happens Saturdayhas changed things. The Dems now are
stuck with Biden for at least anothercouple of weeks, right, I know
you think they're stuck with him forgood? Yes? No, no,
Dad, they're admitting and I'm offthe record and these but anonymously, how
are they damn? This changed everythingon Saturday. It blew the entire race
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out of the water. It did, it did so why bother at this
point? Well, first of all, question is would any of these other
Dems want it? Now? No? Okay, right, that's that's that's
a fair question because what they're hoping, right is that Okay, you know
this gets Kamala out of the picture. You know she's tied to Biden.
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They lose this time around, andthen everything opens up for twenty eight because
Trump only gets one more term.But yeah, I get that. But
first question, I do pose itas a question, not a conclusion.
Do you think any of this usualgang of suspects would police want the nomination?
Now? No, he was nevergoing to I'm sorry, two things.
Who wants to run against Teddy Roosevelt. Now, this guy is an
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icon, He's an American folk hero. Dan, I'm not overstating this.
That's what happens Saturday. Yeah,no, No, you don't have to
convince me. But secondary to thatpoint, I mean, they are out
of options on the chessboard right now. But here's my point, right,
Joe Biden, and I know you'vesaid this and know it for a very
long time, has not been capableof serving as president of the United States.
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We do not have a president rightnow in the classic definition. Sometime
very very soon, and I don'twish him anything ill, but we know
it sometime very very soon, he'sgoing to have another total freeze up.
He's going to have another total meltdown. It's not going to be an option
to run him. It's just notwhether the candidate has to be Jason Crow.
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It's not going to be an optionto run him. He's not functional
now, he hasn't been functional fora long time, and he's going to
be less functional soon. That's allI'm saying. Eight five to five for
zero five eight two five five thenumber. Hey, we've got to take
this hard break when we come back, so much to talk about treated as
open lines, because I know wehave everything from that iconic seismic moment that
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will live in American history on fromSaturday, all the different ways it affects
things. Some we've been talking about, some we haven't gotten to yet.
We've got to talk about the JD. Vance pick. Talk about what I'd
like to see Trump do during theconvention. Do you want this to change
him? He's already said he's tornup his convention speech and he's going to
talk about you instead of Biden.Do you want to see those changes or
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not. You're on the Dan CaplaShow And now back to the Dan Kaplass
Show podcast. But Dan, Iincluded that last lyric because I was talking
to Kelly during the break and sheand I were together with Christian Total a
couple other friends when we found outthat Donald Trump had been shot on Saturday.
And the more I think about,the more I reflect. I see
his comments, I see our reactionI see tonight. Did Donald Trump become
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Superman after Saturday? I think thathe did. I think he literally,
like I said, he's an Americanfull hero. I think he's Teddy Roosevelt,
and I think he's indefatigable, andhe's he's Teflon Don. He can't
beat it, I can't beat Ithink the word is hero. I think
he was a great American hero beforeSaturday for the reasons we've discussed. But
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Saturday, right that that just allowedeverybody to see it. And then you
had that image and again a momentthat can't be prepared for or scripted.
It's that kind of moment that revealstrue character and true capable ability and true
courage. And imagine the quick thinkingthat had to go on there. I
mean, yes, so he wasI think confirmed as a great American hero
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born in the minds of many whodidn't like him before, now as a
great American hero in a time ryanwhen we crave heroes, we need heroes,
and so now I agree with allof that. My big focus is
beyond election day. My big focusnow, Yeah, you got to win
the election, and nothing's given tillit's done, and people cannot get complacent
and shouldn't let up. And there'sno danger of that now after Saturday.
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After Saturday, any existing Trump supporterlike me just can't wait to cast the
ballot for him. I am fiftytimes more likely to go to a Trump
rally now than I would have before. So there's not going to be any
danger of complacency among the base oramong those who were intending to vote for
him. I'm just saying that.I think the biggest benefit, because I
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think he was on try to winthe race anyway. I think the biggest
benefit that's going to come from Americansgetting this chance to see him in this
raw moment and see that greatness isgoing to come after election Day. It's
going to help him, it's goingto help him lead this nation, and
I think you're going to get thatlong term benefit eight five five four zero
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five two five five text d Anfive seven seventh, three nineties. We
go to the phone line. Ryan. I know that you had a question
about shoes. Why was Donald Trumpso insistent in that moment that he'd be
allowed to put his shoes on beforethey take him out of the line of
fire. You know, you andI were talking about during the break,
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and you have a theory I hadn'tthought about. Oh no, it's not
a theory. Oh it is thetrunks. It is the reality. But
it just goes to the remarkable mindof this man and his ability to think
so quickly in that situation. It'sall about the shoes piece of it.
It's all about Hillary Clinton. It'sall about Hillary Clinton, the image that
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destroyed her, that ended her campaign. And I understand komy Kim later and
all that stuff, but it waswhen she was dragged into that van and
rend her shoes were laying in thestreet, all right, and he just
he did not want that image outthere. He wanted his shoes on.
I think Donald Trump is arguably themost street smart president we've ever had,
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and to that point in that momentof crisis where many people would melt right,
Donald Trump has a steel spine.He proved that on Saturday. We
knew that beforehand, but the presenceof mind. Even Ross Kaminsky was talking
to me about this earlier when hewas on my show, to know,
like you said, be aware inthat moment, put a shoes on that
moment, want to raise his fistto the crowd in that moment, tell
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them the fight in that moment thathe had all of that going on,
It shows you his mental acuity.And again, Dan, it goes to
the next level projecting this matchup betweenDonald Trump's strength, oh yeah, and
Joe Biden's weakness. Yea yeah.And obviously you can't get a more stark
contrast than the two, but Isuggest it could be anybody right now.
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You know what else this accomplished isSaturday, it keeps Michelle Obama out of
the race because, as I've alwayssaid, the one thing that would keep
her out of the race is shecould not bear losing to Donald Trump.
This keeps Michelle Obama out of therace. Rosiel in North Denver, You're
on the Dan Caplis Show. WelcomeHey, Rosiel, our friend Rosiel,
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hopefully not asleep at the wheel,but always remember a couple of things,
a refresher course for our listeners.When you call in, one, turn
your radios down. Two. Ifyou don't, you'll notice that there is
a delay, and so that cankind of affect your response time to Dan
in real time. So just listento him through the phone, and if
you can take phone off a speaker, especially while you're driving. I'm saying,
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all good advice, All good advice, my friend. I agree with
every morsel of it. Eight fivefive, five to five the number text
d AN five seven, seven threenine. So much more we need to
tackle that. We haven't even hada chance to get to this monumental ruling
from the federal judge down in Florida, you know, tossing out the document's
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case that the court concluding that theSpecial Council didn't have proper legal authority to
be serving in that role. Thatis of monumental importance. Now does it
dictate what the federal trial court isgoing to do in the DC cases.
No, but it's already an instancewhere those cases aren't getting to trial before
election day. But so very significantdown there, But you know, it
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is a busy news day when youdon't even have time to get to that.
But again, all of this combines, you think of how the dynamics
change. And I know you've alreadythought about this, but it's it's sure
we're talking about from this moment onSaturday, when when Trump Trump rose with
such courage and strengths and brilliant allin the blink of an eye, and
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everything it changes. Now. Ithink that it makes this abuse of the
legal system to attack him, thislaw fair looks so much more heinous and
despicable in the eyes of so manymore Americans, right It just I think
it has that effect. Obviously forBiden. It'll be very interesting because I
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heard it maybe it was on yourshow, Ryan, somebody was talking about
reporting that Lester Holton has interview withBiden today, that Biden said he was
wrong to have used the term bullseyefor Trump. Yeah, and then Sheriff
Steve Reams reached out to me viatext from will County and said that he
should have used crosshairs. You know. And but the point being listen,
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in my position is I am notsaying that any of this demonizing, vilifying,
language such as Biden with bullseye ormecastical Sen, he's worse than Hitler
and Mussolini. You go right ondown the line. I'm not saying any
of that cause this. My pointis that every one of them when they
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made those statements, they're smart people. It was foreseeable to them that it
might. I'm not saying it didcause it, but it was foreseeable to
them. When you go out inthis kind of environment, you talk about
somebody like Donald Trump that way,use their term bulls eye. You say
worse than Hitler and Mussolini. Youknow, you say must be eliminated.
You know, doesn't mean you're causingthat to happen, but it is foreseeable
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to you that it might green lighta wackle. Yes, and it's intellectually
dishonest. They don't believe it whatthey said. Those they know it's not
true what they're saying. They're doingit for effect. They're doing it to
foment fear and to inspire people tovote against Donald Trump. That's it.
Do you think any of them werehoping it would cause somebody to just engage
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enviolence. They were lying. Theydidn't believe what they were saying, Hey,
when we come back, I askso many questions. Any aspect to
this you want to talk about.I do want to talk about the JD
vance selection, but also is theelection over? Do you believe that God
did save Donald Trump? I'll giveyou my answer to that on the Dan
Kaplis Shook. You're listening to theDan Kaplis Show podcast. America now has
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a real superman. And no matterwhat you thought of Trump before, when
you saw him on that stage Saturday, that's what a lot of people had
to think, especially with the Americanflag in the background, the blood on
his face, the incredibly quick thinking, the courage, and the ability to
lead in that moment. Yeah,we are lucky to have May five to
five for zero five eight two fivefive the number. Hey, what do
you think of the JD vance selectionfor VP? We want to get your
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take on that as well. Youcan text Dan Daan five seven seven three
nine. I'll go back to thephone lines now. We have been talking
about and we love your take ondid God save Donald Trump? The President
has alluded to it. There's nodoubt in my mind that divine intervention is
real. There's also no doubt thatwe are just not capable as humans of
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completely understanding or even close the mindof God, and so we're not capable
of answering the question totally as toyou know, okay, if the president's
right, if I'm right, andmore importantly others that God did intervene on
Saturday, than why not intervene tosave the amazing man who was killed?
All very fair questions, obviously,But think about it. As humans,
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it wasn't that long ago. Wecould not even imagine an automobile. You
know. We think we're all thisand that, but we are so very
limited. But yet at the sametime we're capable of great things. But
yes, I believe there was divineintervention. I believe divine intervention exists.
Obviously the founders did. It's theonly reason we have this country, right,
they wrote it and the Declaration ofIndependence with reliance on divine providence.
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We pledge to each other, ourlives, our fortunes are sacred honor.
And they had the longest of longshot bets that they were going to be
able to knock off the Brits.And I think the only reason this country
was created, has survived and hasthrived is because of divine intervention. I
believe that we are meant to savethe world. We're meant to help lead
the world to what it's supposed tobe. And the reality is that without
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America, the world would have beenplunged into darkness, controlled by darkness,
the worst form of evil at thelatest by nineteen forty five. So yeah,
I believe in that. And asI look at it, can I
be certain, No, not untilhopefully I find out after this life.
But yeah, I absolutely believe init. And you could see why.
You could see why Donald Trump didmore in his first term to stop evil
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around the world, effectively stop evilaround the world, and there is grave
evil acting around the globe right now. I mean, see what's been unleashed
through the weakness of Biden. Andthe world needs Donald Trump again, Lord
knows this country does. And interms of morality, it's so interesting people
on the left want to talk aboutpersonal moral flaws of Donald Trump. We
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all have personal money flaws, Butin terms of morality of what he did
in office, he's been one ofthe most moral presidents in our history.
Whether you talk about saving innocent humanlife, stopping evil around the world from
slaughtering innocent human life of all faithor no faith at all. You talk
about Donald Trump preserving religious freedom.He's been one of the most moral presidents
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in the history of the country.So yeah, I could, even given
my limitations as a human, Icould certainly see why God would intervene to
save him. On Saturday, let'sgo back to the phone lines at in
Westminster. You're on the Dan Kaplisshow. Welcome, Yeah, Dan,
thanks for having my college. Justa couple of thoughts. You know,
I believe that the hand of Godhas been in Toohn's corner. But I
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also believe that in that senset,and I thought that this shot couldn't have
been any face else in the world. Was if a miss to the light,
it would have killed him. Ifa miss to the left, we
would have been talking about assassination.It would have been coming out that this
was a serial killer that shot acouple of people on there, and that
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Trump just happened to be there.But the fact that he did get hit,
he got hit in an ear Igave proof that he was an assassination
attempt, and that that gave itthem around to go forward with the assassination.
But if it happened this either way, we'd been talking about completely different.
Oh man, yes, so sotrue, so true. Ed.
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Sure do appreciate your calling. IsEd leads us to such an important place.
And listen, I'm not trying toget your blood pressure up. I'm
not, you know, trying toincrease the anger or intensity. But we
just this exposed the press in away on Saturday. I know it's more
confirmational, but the depth of thedishonesty, the depth of the hatred for
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Trump that so wildly distorts the truthand the news. When you saw these
early headlines and I got the news, Ryan, I was at actually walking
into church for thirty Mass at AllSouls. I got the news. Lois,
a friend of mine, texted meand said Trump's been shot. And
I'm walking into church as I getthat message. So I call Amy and
I say a turn on the TVand tell me what's going on here before
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I go into church. And soshe said, here's here's the early reporting.
So at that point I knew hewas alive. So I walk into
church and standing right at the backof church because it's just about to go
down the aisle is Father, He'sabout to start the Mass, and I
had to make that quick judgment calldo I tell him or not? What
would you have done in that situation? Ryan, I think you would have
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been well within You're right then thenalso I think doing a service to provide
that information. Yes, I wouldhave said, yes, Yes. I
had to make a split second decisionbecause I knew two things. I knew
President Trump, thank god, wasalive, and I didn't know all the
details. I decided to wait tillafter Mass. Those qualifiers. Yeah,
right, So it's kind of atough call. But then I get out
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of church and you know, soI turn, I turn on my phone
and I see this CNN story.It was something like Trump leaves stage because
of loud noises I'm paraphrasing, butgoofy And then all these goofy headlines and
then the Denver Post the next daygunman dies in attack. I mean,
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my lord, and you know,I reached out to the Denver Post,
and I really respect some folks thereand asked, how can somebody come on
and explain this headline? And didn'thear back from anybody. I mean,
that is so patently wrong on everysingle level. Why couldn't they bring themselves
why couldn't they bring themselves to accuratelyreport this through the headline assassination attack.
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But they didn't want to make itabout Trump. They didn't want to do
anything that would help Trump. Listento ABC Ryan if we go back and
listen at the top of this hour, they're calling it the Trump rally shooter,
like the guy you know shot outa light somewhere, rather than the
attempt assassin. They just they can'tgive Donald Trump an inch. They can't
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give him any quarter. They won'tbe honest about it. They can't give
him a headline that would help him. Dan, this is a theory.
I had a profanity laced post onx that went viral about that Denver Post
headline, and they deserve to becalled out. That is absolutely unconscionable,
that headline that you would leave outthe fact this was a survived assassination attempt.
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Talk about burying the lead Oh notye never right and making it about
the gunmen and it you know it'sintentional, Well, it is, obviously,
But that's the thing is they mustrealize that these are smart people.
They must realize that they're just showingthe world openly that they can't be trusted
to report honestly when it comes toTrump or Republicans that that journalism's out the
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window. Truce out the window.They are political activists. And it's so
sad because listen, I've known alot of these people. They are talented
people, but they have simply becomepolitical activists and frauds. Let's call them
what they are. But Dan,one other thing. I'm glad you brought
this up because it extends to thereason why Joe Biden's locked into this race,
and it goes one further point.It's all those clips you had me
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edit about these fools like Claire McCaskill, whoever else. Trump is an existential
threat to democracy. Well, guesswhat, Dan, they can't run on
that anymore. They try to runon that, they'll be accused of trying
to get another assassination attempt against Trump. They have. Trump has neutralized that
entire storyline in this campaign. It'sgone. It's out the window. They
can't win now because of that.Well, you're right, but are you
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wrong? I'll answer that when weshould back for zero five eight two five
five, the numbers so obviously treatedhis open lines. I do want to
talk about the selection of jad Vanswhen we come back as well, and
why while there were some other greatpicks out there to be made, I
think eventually this will turn out tobe an absolutely brilliant and in some ways
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transformative pick. You're on the DanCaplas Show and now back to the Dankapless
Show podcast. I wonder if alot of Americans, not just Trump's supporters,
after Trump survived on Saturday and lookingahead, are feeling a little lighter
on their feet right now because thatwas a true, raw, unfakable moment
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of American strength and heroism at itsbest, tested by fire in the worst
kind of situation. Very quick thinking, very courageous, immediately thinking about leading
the people again, just what Americaneeds right now in a very very dangerous
world. So yeah, I thinka lot of people probably have a little
extra bounce in their stats. Well, quick question about that with you,
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Dan and how you experienced that,And I said it on my program.
I think this is one of thosemoments in history that you'll remember where you
were when it happened and the storyattached to that, and what I recall
I was with Kelly and it wasChristian Toto with Alexo with Frandy down in
the Springs waiting to see Jimmy Faylain Colorado Springs. Yeah, and when
this news came and I'm watching Danonginoand watching the video and we weren't really
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sure, like was he okay?Did he get hit? And that the
panic of that moment, I gotpretty emotional. I got a comit.
I got really choked up, quiteFranklin, I'm wondering how you felt to
that moment and then, And thankyou for that because it lets me clarify
something that's very important, because Iwas telling you I was walking into church
when a friend, Lois, textedme Trump's been shot and it's like,
oh, I'm Jay, and Isaid, I called to Amy and asked
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her to turn on the TV.I want to make it clear. I
realized afterwards I may have given theimpression Amy wasn't going to church with me.
No. Amy was at home helpingour daughter get ready for a big
movie premiere that night. Our daughteracts thro Babcock Studios in addition to her
day job. So Amy was helpingour daughter and she was going to Mass
on Sunday. I was going onSaturday because I had to work on Sunday.
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God forgive me for that. Butwe're getting ready for a trial.
So anyway, I didn't want anybodyto think Amy wasn't going to church,
but it was Ryan. That wasso hard to walk into church. Give
me that info, because like mostpeople listening to the show, I can't
separate myself from my phone. ButI couldn't sit there on my phone in
church. So to go that hournot knowing that was really really hard.
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Mark and beautiful Strasburg. You're onthe Dan Kaplas Show. Welcome. Yeah,
Dan, I don't know you've everheard of the Hermit of Loreto.
No, you need to google foryour divine intervention. Yeah, the Hermit
of Loreto and Donald Trump. Iwill do that. Can you give us
a little peak, little tease.This is a guy, this is like
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four years fifty years ago. Yeah, and he talked about the savior of
to bring God back to America.Yeah, he said it was going to
be Donald Trump. Well I willtake a look at that. Thank you,
my friend. I will definitely takea look at that. Hey,
I wanted to mention as we goback to the phone lines to jadvance thing.
Listen, Trump had a Cornercopia ofRich. If he had announced today
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Glenn Youngkin, a lot of peoplewould say this race is over right,
the race hopefully over anyway, butyou get Virginia, et cetera, et
cetera. Would have been a greatchoice. Marco Rubio, same thing for
all the reasons I was pushing Rubio. There is an excitement of brilliance in
the JD. Vance pick, thoughthat extends beyond Both of those two gentlemen
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would have brought tremendous things to thetable, and I'd be thrilled with either
of them. But with JD.Vance you get back to and I'll put
it in a shorter nutshell here forthe Republican Party, it's how we won
he won in sixteen, and it'sthe only way Republicans can win long term.
And it's the way Republicans should winlong term because it'll be great for
the country, and that is byserving working people. But being the party
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of the working people, and JD. Vance can help advance that tremendously.
Given his life story, he canalso, you know, being from Ohio
and having really lived a lot ofthose challenges I think relate in particular to
a lot of other folks in theupper Midwest, and if you get any
of them Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, then again it becomes almost impossible for
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Biden to win. Patty in Denver, you're on the dan Kaplis, She'll
welcome. I Dan you you andI had this exact same thought because I
was sitting up in the front ofthe church. I was one of the
lectors, and I kept looking atfather, going, you don't know my
phone, my watch, everything's blowingup, right, And I just I
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didn't know. I almost got up, but I didn't, And I'm glad
I didn't. I'm glad you didn'tcheated a beautiful homily on Sunday, So
and just really you know, Yeah, those moments hurt. Yeah, difficult.
Yeah, I was so torn.Do I tell him? If,
of course, if God forbid,the news had been as I walked into
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church that the president had been killedor gravely wounded, I would have told
him because then I think he wouldhave wanted everybody to pray for President Trump.
But it being uncertain at that pointhow severe the injuries were. Yeah,
I hope I made the right call. If I didn't, I better
get the confession. Yeah, Iuse my phone for a prayer app.
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So I, ah, so youhad it on, Yeah, but you
were cheating, you were watching thepop ups? Well I did. I
did kind of know what was happening, and I was thankful that he you
know that he wasn't the way Ithought when I first knew it. So
anyway, anyway, so I know, uh, so I know there's somebody
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else watching out for father at math. That's right, thanks Patty. As
if he needs he doesn't need it, but thank you for that. Oh
I wish we had two three morehours today. There'll be so much more
to talk about tomorrow. Trump isgoing to be there tonight. I expect
to be there every night, ashe should be, and and particularly in
this moment, I can't even imaginethe energy in there Ryan. Any chance
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that what I'm hoping for and we'venever seen before will happen, which is
throughout the week, Trump will beannouncing cabinet picks if I win. Marco
Rubio is going to be my secretaryof State. Glenn Youenkin's going to be
this because young Cain only gets oneterm the way they do it in Virginia.
So and so is going to bemy Secretary of Defense. Do you
think we'll see any of that?He just made a comment in an interview
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about how he views this as beingkind of like an episode of the Apprentice,
So I wouldn't put it past himthat he wants to put that theater
out there and speak it into existence. Dan, When people can visualize I
can see Doug Bergham as a Secretaryof Energy, then yeah, you make
it real to a voter like,yeah, I could see that and I'm
going to vote for that. SoI think he might interesting text, Dan,
a miracle from God. Thank youfor asking the question for our listeners.
JB from Loveland. Hey, it'sobviously the question, right. The
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President raised it himself, And yeah, personally, I do believe there was
divine intervention there. Dan Biden saysa Texter said he would only step down
if God Almighty himself said he should. Perhaps Saturday shooting was God Almighty speaking
to Joe. Fascinating thought. Anotherand God does not cause evil to happen,
right, but saving Trump the responsefrom that evil, the response of
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Trump another texture, What a brilliantthought. What would have happened to Biden
if the Secret Service had to tacklehim like that, and I'm glad the
Secret Service is not, and Ihope they never have to do that.
But just the contrast of strength versusweakness. Dan, nobody's talking about JD's
wife and are incredible background, anothergreat point, tremendous job. Brian Kelly
as well join us tomorrow, somuch more ahead on this amazing week on
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the Dan Kapla Shilt.
This is Dan Caples and welcome totoday's online podcast edition of The Dan Caplis
Show. Please be sure to giveus a five star rating if you'd be
so kind, and to subscribe,download and listen to the show every single
day on your favorite podcast platform.And I know a lot has happened today,
including the VP pick, and wewill get to all of that,
but we've got to we've got tofully appreciate what happens Saturday in terms of
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long term impact in this country.And it was a remarkable moment. Very
few who ever lived get to seea moment quite like that, and we
all wish it had not happened,right, but since evil did visit that
day, you know the response ofDonald Trump to that evil and to what
was inflicted, I'm in and thefact that it occurred so quickly, and
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that's so rapidly instantly he was ableto be so courageous, so strong,
so quick thinking and react in thatway where he showed remarkable leadership in a
moment when who could blame him oranybody else, even the strongest, toughest
man or woman, if in thatmoment they just said, get me the
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blank guy here. But he showedthat kind of courage and leadership under those
circumstances and left. You know,I kind of cant inter right, that's
the terminology, But he left thismarked much more importantly in the brains of
every American who saw that, whetherthey're a Trump hater, a Trump lover,
or somewhere in between, everybody couldsee in that very raw and real,
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unscripted minute that nobody can ever preparefor. In that instant, they
saw a level of character, Theysaw a level of intelligence, They saw
a level of poise and courage thatvery few possess. And I think it
changed a lot of people's view ofTrump. The vast majority will never admit
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it, right, but I thinkit changed the view of Trump. It
somebody use the phrase gave people permissionnow to vote for Trump, I say,
a reason to vote for Trump thatthey didn't have before. You know,
it was a way, maybe therewasn't any other way to cut through
that the false, hateful media narrativeabout Trump and let people see him in
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this moment of completely exposed humanity andsee how he handled it. And I
think you have an awful lot ofpeople who didn't like him before, who
said you know that that's who Iwant on the wall in this very dangerous
world. That's who I want protectingme from all these evil forces in the
world, and evil forces at homeas well. There's so much crime.
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And so I think that that itwonders for Trump, not just in terms
of winning the election, because winningthe election it's critical, right or else
we're not going to have a countryas we know it. But it's not
just enough to win the election.You have to win after the election.
You have to be able to lead. You have to be able to defeat
evil out there, conquer these problemsthat are ahead of us, some of
which we can't even imagine now,and then you have to be able to
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accomplish the good things on the positiveside. So the lasting, the lasting
value of what we wish had neverhappen Saturday. But the lasting value of
that goes far beyond winning this election. It goes to the ability to lead
this country in the future. AndDonald Trump, now after winning this election,
will have an ability to succeed andto lead that he would not have
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had had he not handled that momentthe way he did. So lots to
talk about about that moment, andyes, we're talking of course about the
VP pick and so much more that'sunfolding before our eyes as we now.
Oh, Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee isgiving the invocation as they now open the
convention at seven O nine eastern.Well, Milwaukee's central right. I'm sorry,
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central correct, six nine central rightnow seven o nine eastern. But
very wise to have the Catholic archbishopgive the invocation. You win Wisconsin,
very very very hard for the Demsto win any of those. I mean,
it's such a looking map for DonaldTrump right now. Pennsylvania, where
unfortunately the assassination attempt took place.I anticipate his numbers will soar in that
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state. He's competitive in Virginia evena poll released today. Dan. My
question for you, though, isdo you see may equib for a second?
Yep, new word to save ustime other than the explanation. But
here's why, a quib Ryan,I don't doubt that we'll see a bump
in the polls for Trump combination ofhis incredible heroism on Saturday and the convention.
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But here's the point, my brother, So much of this support,
this new support, isn't going toshow up until election Day because people aren't
going to admit it to their bestfriend. They're not going to admit it
to a polster. They're not goingto admit it to everybody anybody. They're
not going to admit it to theperson they sleep with. They're just going
to vote for him. Strongly disagree. I've seen so many people on Facebook,
Dan who I never knew were Trumpsupporters that put that iconic photo up
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as their profile picture. I thinkTrump's shyness is going out the window.
I think people are not proud tosupport Trump. I think there are people
like me to think if Trump willtake a bullet for us, the least
we can do is wear a hatfor him, or put a lawn sign
out for him or those Look atwhat Elon Musk did. He was kind
of you know, you think maybehe was gonna and then as soon as
that happened, he's like, Ifully endorse Donald Trump. I hope for
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his complete recovery. There's a lotof that coming out of the woodwork.
Muscow came out and said JD Vanceequals assassination insurance, meaning I mean the
point being, and my concern andI've talked about before, My point has
been that the most significant threat toDonald Trump's life is from Iran, I
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believe. Now, obviously there areothers, and we saw that on Saturday.
But if all of a sudden,your vice president is somebody who that
nation state that's trying to take youout, that nation state knows your vice
president is going to be every bitis hard on you and is probably going
to seek maximum revenge for what you'vedone and certainly sture Advance, which serve
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that. I'm not suggesting that's whyhe was selected. I think he was
selected because Donald Trump gets it.It's how he won in sixteen. He
gets that, it's what the GOPhas to be committed to and because it's
right, but also to win,which is to be the party of working
people, and I think JD Vancewill help a lot on that front.
Agreed, And have you seen alot of these off the record anonymous high
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ranking DEM sources and reaction to whathappened Saturday, the iconic images, Dan,
they're packing up. They're packing itup. They're not even going to
fight to get Biden off the ticketanymore. They've resigned themselves to losing this
selection. I'm talking about direct quotes, Dan, where they said they saw
that photo, blood on his face, fist in the air, flag behind
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him, Secret Service next to him. We can't beat that. Bill Mahers
admitted that, and they're going tojust focus on the down ballot races now
to try to salvage the Senate inthe House, I think they think that
the race is over. Let mepull that Mars sound and you've bleeped this
right of course. Okay, it'sa little hard to union. I had
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long things and that he lost thepopy of the book. Yeah, and
it's uh and Ryan did the verybest he could with that sound. It's
just caught of him in an auditorium. But yeah, the point being right
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that you think of all the differentways what happens Saturday, and we wish
it hadn't, But what happens Saturdayhas changed things. The Dems now are
stuck with Biden for at least anothercouple of weeks, right, I know
you think they're stuck with him forgood? Yes? No, no,
Dad, they're admitting and I'm offthe record and these but anonymously, how
are they damn? This changed everythingon Saturday. It blew the entire race
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out of the water. It did, it did so why bother at this
point? Well, first of all, question is would any of these other
Dems want it? Now? No? Okay, right, that's that's that's
a fair question because what they're hoping, right is that Okay, you know
this gets Kamala out of the picture. You know she's tied to Biden.
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They lose this time around, andthen everything opens up for twenty eight because
Trump only gets one more term.But yeah, I get that. But
first question, I do pose itas a question, not a conclusion.
Do you think any of this usualgang of suspects would police want the nomination?
Now? No, he was nevergoing to I'm sorry, two things.
Who wants to run against Teddy Roosevelt. Now, this guy is an
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icon, He's an American folk hero. Dan, I'm not overstating this.
That's what happens Saturday. Yeah,no, No, you don't have to
convince me. But secondary to thatpoint, I mean, they are out
of options on the chessboard right now. But here's my point, right,
Joe Biden, and I know you'vesaid this and know it for a very
long time, has not been capableof serving as president of the United States.
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We do not have a president rightnow in the classic definition. Sometime
very very soon, and I don'twish him anything ill, but we know
it sometime very very soon, he'sgoing to have another total freeze up.
He's going to have another total meltdown. It's not going to be an option
to run him. It's just notwhether the candidate has to be Jason Crow.
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It's not going to be an optionto run him. He's not functional
now, he hasn't been functional fora long time, and he's going to
be less functional soon. That's allI'm saying. Eight five to five for
zero five eight two five five thenumber. Hey, we've got to take
this hard break when we come back, so much to talk about treated as
open lines, because I know wehave everything from that iconic seismic moment that
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will live in American history on fromSaturday, all the different ways it affects
things. Some we've been talking about, some we haven't gotten to yet.
We've got to talk about the JD. Vance pick. Talk about what I'd
like to see Trump do during theconvention. Do you want this to change
him? He's already said he's tornup his convention speech and he's going to
talk about you instead of Biden.Do you want to see those changes or
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not. You're on the Dan CaplaShow And now back to the Dan Kaplass
Show podcast. But Dan, Iincluded that last lyric because I was talking
to Kelly during the break and sheand I were together with Christian Total a
couple other friends when we found outthat Donald Trump had been shot on Saturday.
And the more I think about,the more I reflect. I see
his comments, I see our reactionI see tonight. Did Donald Trump become
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Superman after Saturday? I think thathe did. I think he literally,
like I said, he's an Americanfull hero. I think he's Teddy Roosevelt,
and I think he's indefatigable, andhe's he's Teflon Don. He can't
beat it, I can't beat Ithink the word is hero. I think
he was a great American hero beforeSaturday for the reasons we've discussed. But
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Saturday, right that that just allowedeverybody to see it. And then you
had that image and again a momentthat can't be prepared for or scripted.
It's that kind of moment that revealstrue character and true capable ability and true
courage. And imagine the quick thinkingthat had to go on there. I
mean, yes, so he wasI think confirmed as a great American hero
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born in the minds of many whodidn't like him before, now as a
great American hero in a time ryanwhen we crave heroes, we need heroes,
and so now I agree with allof that. My big focus is
beyond election day. My big focusnow, Yeah, you got to win
the election, and nothing's given tillit's done, and people cannot get complacent
and shouldn't let up. And there'sno danger of that now after Saturday.
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After Saturday, any existing Trump supporterlike me just can't wait to cast the
ballot for him. I am fiftytimes more likely to go to a Trump
rally now than I would have before. So there's not going to be any
danger of complacency among the base oramong those who were intending to vote for
him. I'm just saying that.I think the biggest benefit, because I
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think he was on try to winthe race anyway. I think the biggest
benefit that's going to come from Americansgetting this chance to see him in this
raw moment and see that greatness isgoing to come after election Day. It's
going to help him, it's goingto help him lead this nation, and
I think you're going to get thatlong term benefit eight five five four zero
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five two five five text d Anfive seven seventh, three nineties. We
go to the phone line. Ryan. I know that you had a question
about shoes. Why was Donald Trumpso insistent in that moment that he'd be
allowed to put his shoes on beforethey take him out of the line of
fire. You know, you andI were talking about during the break,
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and you have a theory I hadn'tthought about. Oh no, it's not
a theory. Oh it is thetrunks. It is the reality. But
it just goes to the remarkable mindof this man and his ability to think
so quickly in that situation. It'sall about the shoes piece of it.
It's all about Hillary Clinton. It'sall about Hillary Clinton, the image that
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destroyed her, that ended her campaign. And I understand komy Kim later and
all that stuff, but it waswhen she was dragged into that van and
rend her shoes were laying in thestreet, all right, and he just
he did not want that image outthere. He wanted his shoes on.
I think Donald Trump is arguably themost street smart president we've ever had,
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and to that point in that momentof crisis where many people would melt right,
Donald Trump has a steel spine.He proved that on Saturday. We
knew that beforehand, but the presenceof mind. Even Ross Kaminsky was talking
to me about this earlier when hewas on my show, to know,
like you said, be aware inthat moment, put a shoes on that
moment, want to raise his fistto the crowd in that moment, tell
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them the fight in that moment thathe had all of that going on,
It shows you his mental acuity.And again, Dan, it goes to
the next level projecting this matchup betweenDonald Trump's strength, oh yeah, and
Joe Biden's weakness. Yea yeah.And obviously you can't get a more stark
contrast than the two, but Isuggest it could be anybody right now.
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You know what else this accomplished isSaturday, it keeps Michelle Obama out of
the race because, as I've alwayssaid, the one thing that would keep
her out of the race is shecould not bear losing to Donald Trump.
This keeps Michelle Obama out of therace. Rosiel in North Denver, You're
on the Dan Caplis Show. WelcomeHey, Rosiel, our friend Rosiel,
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hopefully not asleep at the wheel,but always remember a couple of things,
a refresher course for our listeners.When you call in, one, turn
your radios down. Two. Ifyou don't, you'll notice that there is
a delay, and so that cankind of affect your response time to Dan
in real time. So just listento him through the phone, and if
you can take phone off a speaker, especially while you're driving. I'm saying,
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all good advice, All good advice, my friend. I agree with
every morsel of it. Eight fivefive, five to five the number text
d AN five seven, seven threenine. So much more we need to
tackle that. We haven't even hada chance to get to this monumental ruling
from the federal judge down in Florida, you know, tossing out the document's
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case that the court concluding that theSpecial Council didn't have proper legal authority to
be serving in that role. Thatis of monumental importance. Now does it
dictate what the federal trial court isgoing to do in the DC cases.
No, but it's already an instancewhere those cases aren't getting to trial before
election day. But so very significantdown there, But you know, it
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is a busy news day when youdon't even have time to get to that.
But again, all of this combines, you think of how the dynamics
change. And I know you've alreadythought about this, but it's it's sure
we're talking about from this moment onSaturday, when when Trump Trump rose with
such courage and strengths and brilliant allin the blink of an eye, and
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everything it changes. Now. Ithink that it makes this abuse of the
legal system to attack him, thislaw fair looks so much more heinous and
despicable in the eyes of so manymore Americans, right It just I think
it has that effect. Obviously forBiden. It'll be very interesting because I
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heard it maybe it was on yourshow, Ryan, somebody was talking about
reporting that Lester Holton has interview withBiden today, that Biden said he was
wrong to have used the term bullseyefor Trump. Yeah, and then Sheriff
Steve Reams reached out to me viatext from will County and said that he
should have used crosshairs. You know. And but the point being listen,
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in my position is I am notsaying that any of this demonizing, vilifying,
language such as Biden with bullseye ormecastical Sen, he's worse than Hitler
and Mussolini. You go right ondown the line. I'm not saying any
of that cause this. My pointis that every one of them when they
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made those statements, they're smart people. It was foreseeable to them that it
might. I'm not saying it didcause it, but it was foreseeable to
them. When you go out inthis kind of environment, you talk about
somebody like Donald Trump that way,use their term bulls eye. You say
worse than Hitler and Mussolini. Youknow, you say must be eliminated.
You know, doesn't mean you're causingthat to happen, but it is foreseeable
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to you that it might green lighta wackle. Yes, and it's intellectually
dishonest. They don't believe it whatthey said. Those they know it's not
true what they're saying. They're doingit for effect. They're doing it to
foment fear and to inspire people tovote against Donald Trump. That's it.
Do you think any of them werehoping it would cause somebody to just engage
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enviolence. They were lying. Theydidn't believe what they were saying, Hey,
when we come back, I askso many questions. Any aspect to
this you want to talk about.I do want to talk about the JD
vance selection, but also is theelection over? Do you believe that God
did save Donald Trump? I'll giveyou my answer to that on the Dan
Kaplis Shook. You're listening to theDan Kaplis Show podcast. America now has
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a real superman. And no matterwhat you thought of Trump before, when
you saw him on that stage Saturday, that's what a lot of people had
to think, especially with the Americanflag in the background, the blood on
his face, the incredibly quick thinking, the courage, and the ability to
lead in that moment. Yeah,we are lucky to have May five to
five for zero five eight two fivefive the number. Hey, what do
you think of the JD vance selectionfor VP? We want to get your
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take on that as well. Youcan text Dan Daan five seven seven three
nine. I'll go back to thephone lines now. We have been talking
about and we love your take ondid God save Donald Trump? The President
has alluded to it. There's nodoubt in my mind that divine intervention is
real. There's also no doubt thatwe are just not capable as humans of
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completely understanding or even close the mindof God, and so we're not capable
of answering the question totally as toyou know, okay, if the president's
right, if I'm right, andmore importantly others that God did intervene on
Saturday, than why not intervene tosave the amazing man who was killed?
All very fair questions, obviously,But think about it. As humans,
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it wasn't that long ago. Wecould not even imagine an automobile. You
know. We think we're all thisand that, but we are so very
limited. But yet at the sametime we're capable of great things. But
yes, I believe there was divineintervention. I believe divine intervention exists.
Obviously the founders did. It's theonly reason we have this country, right,
they wrote it and the Declaration ofIndependence with reliance on divine providence.
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We pledge to each other, ourlives, our fortunes are sacred honor.
And they had the longest of longshot bets that they were going to be
able to knock off the Brits.And I think the only reason this country
was created, has survived and hasthrived is because of divine intervention. I
believe that we are meant to savethe world. We're meant to help lead
the world to what it's supposed tobe. And the reality is that without
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America, the world would have beenplunged into darkness, controlled by darkness,
the worst form of evil at thelatest by nineteen forty five. So yeah,
I believe in that. And asI look at it, can I
be certain, No, not untilhopefully I find out after this life.
But yeah, I absolutely believe init. And you could see why.
You could see why Donald Trump didmore in his first term to stop evil
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around the world, effectively stop evilaround the world, and there is grave
evil acting around the globe right now. I mean, see what's been unleashed
through the weakness of Biden. Andthe world needs Donald Trump again, Lord
knows this country does. And interms of morality, it's so interesting people
on the left want to talk aboutpersonal moral flaws of Donald Trump. We
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all have personal money flaws, Butin terms of morality of what he did
in office, he's been one ofthe most moral presidents in our history.
Whether you talk about saving innocent humanlife, stopping evil around the world from
slaughtering innocent human life of all faithor no faith at all. You talk
about Donald Trump preserving religious freedom.He's been one of the most moral presidents
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in the history of the country.So yeah, I could, even given
my limitations as a human, Icould certainly see why God would intervene to
save him. On Saturday, let'sgo back to the phone lines at in
Westminster. You're on the Dan Kaplisshow. Welcome, Yeah, Dan,
thanks for having my college. Justa couple of thoughts. You know,
I believe that the hand of Godhas been in Toohn's corner. But I
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also believe that in that senset,and I thought that this shot couldn't have
been any face else in the world. Was if a miss to the light,
it would have killed him. Ifa miss to the left, we
would have been talking about assassination.It would have been coming out that this
was a serial killer that shot acouple of people on there, and that
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Trump just happened to be there.But the fact that he did get hit,
he got hit in an ear Igave proof that he was an assassination
attempt, and that that gave itthem around to go forward with the assassination.
But if it happened this either way, we'd been talking about completely different.
Oh man, yes, so sotrue, so true. Ed.
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Sure do appreciate your calling. IsEd leads us to such an important place.
And listen, I'm not trying toget your blood pressure up. I'm
not, you know, trying toincrease the anger or intensity. But we
just this exposed the press in away on Saturday. I know it's more
confirmational, but the depth of thedishonesty, the depth of the hatred for
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Trump that so wildly distorts the truthand the news. When you saw these
early headlines and I got the news, Ryan, I was at actually walking
into church for thirty Mass at AllSouls. I got the news. Lois,
a friend of mine, texted meand said Trump's been shot. And
I'm walking into church as I getthat message. So I call Amy and
I say a turn on the TVand tell me what's going on here before
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I go into church. And soshe said, here's here's the early reporting.
So at that point I knew hewas alive. So I walk into
church and standing right at the backof church because it's just about to go
down the aisle is Father, He'sabout to start the Mass, and I
had to make that quick judgment calldo I tell him or not? What
would you have done in that situation? Ryan, I think you would have
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been well within You're right then thenalso I think doing a service to provide
that information. Yes, I wouldhave said, yes, Yes. I
had to make a split second decisionbecause I knew two things. I knew
President Trump, thank god, wasalive, and I didn't know all the
details. I decided to wait tillafter Mass. Those qualifiers. Yeah,
right, So it's kind of atough call. But then I get out
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of church and you know, soI turn, I turn on my phone
and I see this CNN story.It was something like Trump leaves stage because
of loud noises I'm paraphrasing, butgoofy And then all these goofy headlines and
then the Denver Post the next daygunman dies in attack. I mean,
(24:18):
my lord, and you know,I reached out to the Denver Post,
and I really respect some folks thereand asked, how can somebody come on
and explain this headline? And didn'thear back from anybody. I mean,
that is so patently wrong on everysingle level. Why couldn't they bring themselves
why couldn't they bring themselves to accuratelyreport this through the headline assassination attack.
(24:42):
But they didn't want to make itabout Trump. They didn't want to do
anything that would help Trump. Listento ABC Ryan if we go back and
listen at the top of this hour, they're calling it the Trump rally shooter,
like the guy you know shot outa light somewhere, rather than the
attempt assassin. They just they can'tgive Donald Trump an inch. They can't
(25:03):
give him any quarter. They won'tbe honest about it. They can't give
him a headline that would help him. Dan, this is a theory.
I had a profanity laced post onx that went viral about that Denver Post
headline, and they deserve to becalled out. That is absolutely unconscionable,
that headline that you would leave outthe fact this was a survived assassination attempt.
(25:29):
Talk about burying the lead Oh notye never right and making it about
the gunmen and it you know it'sintentional, Well, it is, obviously,
But that's the thing is they mustrealize that these are smart people.
They must realize that they're just showingthe world openly that they can't be trusted
to report honestly when it comes toTrump or Republicans that that journalism's out the
(25:49):
window. Truce out the window.They are political activists. And it's so
sad because listen, I've known alot of these people. They are talented
people, but they have simply becomepolitical activists and frauds. Let's call them
what they are. But Dan,one other thing. I'm glad you brought
this up because it extends to thereason why Joe Biden's locked into this race,
and it goes one further point.It's all those clips you had me
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edit about these fools like Claire McCaskill, whoever else. Trump is an existential
threat to democracy. Well, guesswhat, Dan, they can't run on
that anymore. They try to runon that, they'll be accused of trying
to get another assassination attempt against Trump. They have. Trump has neutralized that
entire storyline in this campaign. It'sgone. It's out the window. They
can't win now because of that.Well, you're right, but are you
(26:37):
wrong? I'll answer that when weshould back for zero five eight two five
five, the numbers so obviously treatedhis open lines. I do want to
talk about the selection of jad Vanswhen we come back as well, and
why while there were some other greatpicks out there to be made, I
think eventually this will turn out tobe an absolutely brilliant and in some ways
(26:57):
transformative pick. You're on the DanCaplas Show and now back to the Dankapless
Show podcast. I wonder if alot of Americans, not just Trump's supporters,
after Trump survived on Saturday and lookingahead, are feeling a little lighter
on their feet right now because thatwas a true, raw, unfakable moment
(27:18):
of American strength and heroism at itsbest, tested by fire in the worst
kind of situation. Very quick thinking, very courageous, immediately thinking about leading
the people again, just what Americaneeds right now in a very very dangerous
world. So yeah, I thinka lot of people probably have a little
extra bounce in their stats. Well, quick question about that with you,
(27:41):
Dan and how you experienced that,And I said it on my program.
I think this is one of thosemoments in history that you'll remember where you
were when it happened and the storyattached to that, and what I recall
I was with Kelly and it wasChristian Toto with Alexo with Frandy down in
the Springs waiting to see Jimmy Faylain Colorado Springs. Yeah, and when
this news came and I'm watching Danonginoand watching the video and we weren't really
(28:02):
sure, like was he okay?Did he get hit? And that the
panic of that moment, I gotpretty emotional. I got a comit.
I got really choked up, quiteFranklin, I'm wondering how you felt to
that moment and then, And thankyou for that because it lets me clarify
something that's very important, because Iwas telling you I was walking into church
when a friend, Lois, textedme Trump's been shot and it's like,
oh, I'm Jay, and Isaid, I called to Amy and asked
(28:25):
her to turn on the TV.I want to make it clear. I
realized afterwards I may have given theimpression Amy wasn't going to church with me.
No. Amy was at home helpingour daughter get ready for a big
movie premiere that night. Our daughteracts thro Babcock Studios in addition to her
day job. So Amy was helpingour daughter and she was going to Mass
on Sunday. I was going onSaturday because I had to work on Sunday.
(28:48):
God forgive me for that. Butwe're getting ready for a trial.
So anyway, I didn't want anybodyto think Amy wasn't going to church,
but it was Ryan. That wasso hard to walk into church. Give
me that info, because like mostpeople listening to the show, I can't
separate myself from my phone. ButI couldn't sit there on my phone in
church. So to go that hournot knowing that was really really hard.
(29:14):
Mark and beautiful Strasburg. You're onthe Dan Kaplas Show. Welcome. Yeah,
Dan, I don't know you've everheard of the Hermit of Loreto.
No, you need to google foryour divine intervention. Yeah, the Hermit
of Loreto and Donald Trump. Iwill do that. Can you give us
a little peak, little tease.This is a guy, this is like
(29:37):
four years fifty years ago. Yeah, and he talked about the savior of
to bring God back to America.Yeah, he said it was going to
be Donald Trump. Well I willtake a look at that. Thank you,
my friend. I will definitely takea look at that. Hey,
I wanted to mention as we goback to the phone lines to jadvance thing.
Listen, Trump had a Cornercopia ofRich. If he had announced today
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Glenn Youngkin, a lot of peoplewould say this race is over right,
the race hopefully over anyway, butyou get Virginia, et cetera, et
cetera. Would have been a greatchoice. Marco Rubio, same thing for
all the reasons I was pushing Rubio. There is an excitement of brilliance in
the JD. Vance pick, thoughthat extends beyond Both of those two gentlemen
(30:22):
would have brought tremendous things to thetable, and I'd be thrilled with either
of them. But with JD.Vance you get back to and I'll put
it in a shorter nutshell here forthe Republican Party, it's how we won
he won in sixteen, and it'sthe only way Republicans can win long term.
And it's the way Republicans should winlong term because it'll be great for
the country, and that is byserving working people. But being the party
(30:45):
of the working people, and JD. Vance can help advance that tremendously.
Given his life story, he canalso, you know, being from Ohio
and having really lived a lot ofthose challenges I think relate in particular to
a lot of other folks in theupper Midwest, and if you get any
of them Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, then again it becomes almost impossible for
(31:07):
Biden to win. Patty in Denver, you're on the dan Kaplis, She'll
welcome. I Dan you you andI had this exact same thought because I
was sitting up in the front ofthe church. I was one of the
lectors, and I kept looking atfather, going, you don't know my
phone, my watch, everything's blowingup, right, And I just I
(31:30):
didn't know. I almost got up, but I didn't, And I'm glad
I didn't. I'm glad you didn'tcheated a beautiful homily on Sunday, So
and just really you know, Yeah, those moments hurt. Yeah, difficult.
Yeah, I was so torn.Do I tell him? If,
of course, if God forbid,the news had been as I walked into
(31:52):
church that the president had been killedor gravely wounded, I would have told
him because then I think he wouldhave wanted everybody to pray for President Trump.
But it being uncertain at that pointhow severe the injuries were. Yeah,
I hope I made the right call. If I didn't, I better
get the confession. Yeah, Iuse my phone for a prayer app.
(32:13):
So I, ah, so youhad it on, Yeah, but you
were cheating, you were watching thepop ups? Well I did. I
did kind of know what was happening, and I was thankful that he you
know that he wasn't the way Ithought when I first knew it. So
anyway, anyway, so I know, uh, so I know there's somebody
(32:34):
else watching out for father at math. That's right, thanks Patty. As
if he needs he doesn't need it, but thank you for that. Oh
I wish we had two three morehours today. There'll be so much more
to talk about tomorrow. Trump isgoing to be there tonight. I expect
to be there every night, ashe should be, and and particularly in
this moment, I can't even imaginethe energy in there Ryan. Any chance
(32:58):
that what I'm hoping for and we'venever seen before will happen, which is
throughout the week, Trump will beannouncing cabinet picks if I win. Marco
Rubio is going to be my secretaryof State. Glenn Youenkin's going to be
this because young Cain only gets oneterm the way they do it in Virginia.
So and so is going to bemy Secretary of Defense. Do you
think we'll see any of that?He just made a comment in an interview
(33:20):
about how he views this as beingkind of like an episode of the Apprentice,
So I wouldn't put it past himthat he wants to put that theater
out there and speak it into existence. Dan, When people can visualize I
can see Doug Bergham as a Secretaryof Energy, then yeah, you make
it real to a voter like,yeah, I could see that and I'm
going to vote for that. SoI think he might interesting text, Dan,
a miracle from God. Thank youfor asking the question for our listeners.
JB from Loveland. Hey, it'sobviously the question, right. The
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President raised it himself, And yeah, personally, I do believe there was
divine intervention there. Dan Biden saysa Texter said he would only step down
if God Almighty himself said he should. Perhaps Saturday shooting was God Almighty speaking
to Joe. Fascinating thought. Anotherand God does not cause evil to happen,
right, but saving Trump the responsefrom that evil, the response of
(34:07):
Trump another texture, What a brilliantthought. What would have happened to Biden
if the Secret Service had to tacklehim like that, and I'm glad the
Secret Service is not, and Ihope they never have to do that.
But just the contrast of strength versusweakness. Dan, nobody's talking about JD's
wife and are incredible background, anothergreat point, tremendous job. Brian Kelly
as well join us tomorrow, somuch more ahead on this amazing week on
(34:30):
the Dan Kapla Shilt.
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