BHS - 7A – Trump Assassination Attempt | Reaction: Secret Service Response

Trump assassination attempt... minute by minute timeline. Secret Service under scrutiny. America reverts to blaming the other side… Biden calls for unity. America’s long history of presidential assassination attempts.

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty, And this
is kf I AM six forty BillHandle here on a very busy Monday morning,
July fifteenth. News. That's justbreaking right now. As Amy just
said, the classified documents case inFlorida and Federal court has just been dismissed

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by Aileen Cannon, the judge orAleen Cannon. No surprise none. She
is a Trump appointee who has beenso biased in favor of Trump. I'm
surprised it took this long. Thatwas it going to be appealed? Probably
will the appeals court reinstate, whoknows, But we'll see what happens on

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that one. And by the way, it goes both sides. Merchant,
who was the judge, the countyjudge in New York when it came to
the cases of the last case.Oh God, just forgot what the New
York case was about. Amy,remind me of the New York case was
about. I just was about falsifyingbusiness falsifying. Thank you very much.

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That just there's so many How doyou keep track? Well, I just
had a Biden moment and so nolonger are they Seenior moments, by the
way, and the judge there mershandwas as anti Trump, although Trump did
go out of his way to pisshim off, calling him all kinds of
names, and so they didn't dothat in the trial in Florida, didn't

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have to. So anyway, thatjust came in. And of course the
assassination attempt that happened on Saturday.So let me give you a timeline before
I dive into it and talk aboutthe Secret Service, big problems with the
Secret Service. I'll do that nextsegment. So here we go, Saturday
evening six oh five. Trump stepsonto that outdoor stage and it was at

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a Pennsylvania farm. And of coursewhen you see it's kind of interesting because
now you get to see what theydo whenever there is a rally of a
presidential candidate, especially a former president, the kind of secret Service, the
kind of the just the planning thatgoes on the stage has to be built,

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the American flag on those construction cranes, the suv. I think it
was a Lincoln Navigator. As amatter of fact, I was talking to
someone and right next to the stageand doctors there. So anyway, shots
ring out literally eight minutes into hisspeech that everybody who was there had been

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screened. I had gone through amagnomometer, whatever the hell they call it,
one of those machines that you walkthrough metal detect detectors. There were
snipers, counter snipers on the roof. You could see those with the big
tripods and the big long weapons.And he's eight minutes into the speech.

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He's pointed to his huge chart,talks about immigration, and then he says,
take a look at that chart,take a look at the arrow at
the bottom, and he's pointing outhow horrible immigration is under Joe Biden.
And he says, and then theworst president in the history of our country
took over, and look what happenedto our country. He's pointing to the

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chart and just as he said,probably twenty million people obviously referring to how
many illegal aliens are were but itdidn't go beyond that. And all of
a sudden, popping sounds are heard, shots being fired, and one of
the attendees yelling he's got a gun, pointing up to the roof of a
building four hundred and fifty feet away. He's on the roof, he's got

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a gun. And the shots rangout and everybody panicked as you would think,
and dove for the tarmac or certainlygo for cover Trump. You see
him clutching his right ear and justgoing straight down, ducking behind the podium.
And it was a mess, anda couple of things happened. At
that point. A Secret Service agentswarmed over to cover Trump, yelling get

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down, get down. That wasthree agents. We're now finding out the
shooter, twenty year old kid,fired as many as eight rounds from his
AR fifteen. He was perched onthat rooftop four hundred and fifty feet away,
and as soon as the rounds,the eight rounds went off, they
went off that quickly. The countersnipers on the roof over the event just

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took him down. I mean,there was just no issue. One of
the spectators sitting behind the president washit. A firefighter was killed as he
was just covered his wife. He'dDovober's wife to protect her and being hailed
the hero. And it's pretty impressive. I mean, the guy gave up
his life and he should not clearlyhave been shot. And Secret Service agents

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then swiftly escort Trump off the stageand then onto that Lincoln, that big
navig that was parked right there atthe stage. You could see blood on
Trump's right ear and then what hedid, and this is and this was
not thought out. It shows you, I think, the kind of personality

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that Trump does, that he's sucha fighter. As he is being let
off the stage, he is pumpinghis fist, putting it in the air
and pumping it three times and showingeverybody I'm okay, I'm still fighting.
And it was I thought a brilliantmove, which by the way, was
not planned at all. As Isaid, I think this is just this

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kind of guy. He is afighter from minute one and so off he
goes to Butler Memorial Hospital eleven milesaway. The Secret Service detail right after
that, six forty two, withinhalf an hour not even issues a statement
saying that he was safe. Trumpis fine, being checked out at a

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local hospital. Joe Biden came backand a couple of hours later night,
even hour and a half later,said Jill and I are grateful of the
Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of
violence in America. We must unite, I mean the normal conversation and for
a moment all politics were off andright now all politics are off except for

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the crazies that are on the internetand the conspiracy theorists on both sides going
out of their mind. Eight fortytwo, about the same time on truth
Social he confirms he was shot abullet piercing the upper part of his my
right ear, he said, Hegoes, I knew immediately something was wrong.

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I heard a whizzing sound right bymy ear. Whoa, and realize
what was happening. And he thankedthe Secret Service for their fine actions and
great response. Yeah really, yeah, yeah, great job. So the
first question is, hang on aminute, how is the Secret Service allow

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a shooter on a roof four hundredand fifty feet from that stage. Well,
I'll tell you. I'll tell youhow that works. And that is
the way the Secret Service works onthese rallies. Is our three perimeters inside

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middle, outside perimeter, inside theperimeter. The closest one, Number one
is the Secret Service right around thepresident. You saw them jump up and
tackle him bring him to the ground. Two is the ones in the crowd.
You see that all the time withthe sunglasses and they're looking around away
from the President, at the crowd, and they're looking at any for any

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furtive move for any possible signs thatthere is someone who has a weapon or
an explosive or whatever. And thenthe third perimeter, and this is where
this building was that is left forlocal law enforcement. There were four counter

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snipers on the roof of the buildingsover the president, over the rally.
Two secret service to local And sothe argument's going to be this is the
way we do business, and itwas local law enforcement that should have gone
on the roof, should have checkedit out because this was line of sight

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from four hundred and fifty feet away. I was talking to Dane, our
security guy, last night and hedoes security for John and cannon for me
whenever we do our crazy events.And he was on a swat team when
he was in the police department.This is what he trained for. And
he said, this was a completescrew up. And at four hundred and
fifty feet you know, anybody whoknows how to shoot line of sight,

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well, obviously it has to beline of sight. That was not a
hard shot, and soon of theshots were heard. The guy poked his
head up, shot eight times immediatelyand was taken down almost instantly. So
now the question is, wow,how can they the Secret Service not have
secured that building. That is abig question that has to be answered.

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The other thing is the Secret Servicedetail around the president. If you notice
that I did almost immediately, isthey jumped up and were protecting the president.
Remember this as an overhead shot,and instead of cramming the president down
and covering him from the top withtheir arms, et cetera, that didn't

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happen. He was able to pumphis fist, show his face while being
shuffled off to the car. AndI'm thinking, what the hell is going
on? How can they not protecthim like that? How can they have
his head exposed after a shot?You can see the bleeding on his ear.

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And there were times as he wasbeing moved to the car, his
big SUV that was waiting there,and that's where he went to the hospital
in that vehicle. And here ismy misogyny. Half of those Secret Service
agents were women who are a lotshorter than Mendent. Former President Trump is

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six foot three. You would thinkthey would have all of the Secret Service,
all of them in that first perimeter, tall enough to cover the president.
How do you let someone a footshorter guard a president when you know

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there's gonna be or you suspect.And in this case it turned out that
a risk is from an overhead shot. And as he was being dragged off,
you could see some of the SecretService put their arms up in the
air over his head. But therewere times when he clear shot if someone

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had not been taken down and wasa good shot. There it is right
again, a clear shot to thepresident. And I would think, and
again I'm not in Secret Service atall. I would think that you just
dive on top of the president andyou cover him up, and if he
tries to raise his head, theSecret Service smashes his head down and screams

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say stay down, stay down.You know the Secret Service doesn't pay attention
to the president. I don't wantto be guarded too bad. I don't
want you that close too bad.Our duty is beyond you ordering it.
Our duty is to protect the Presidentof the United States, which you happen
to be. So I was wonderingwhy that happened when Ronald Ray was shot

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in Washington, d c. ByHinckley, and Hinckley had just come up
to him at point blank range firedinto Ronald Reagan. If you look at
the Secret Service, they grab him, and I mean they shove him into
awaiting SUV. I mean this guywas shoved hard. I mean he didn't

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have a chance to say or doanything. That's how the Secret Service acts.
And I'm surprised that there were SecretService agents that were a foot shorter
than the president. What are theydoing? Well, I'll tell you what's
going to happen. I think you'renot going to see that again. Now.
If there are some tall women,I think that's going to be fine.

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But six foot three that's who wehave as president. We're gonna have
taller people, I think now.Now I'm just extrapolating. Now that's my
take on it. And you're goingto see no longer ever, ever again
third level three perimeter where there isa line of sight and the possibility of

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shooting the president from a building thatthe Secret Service is now changing its tactic.
We will make sure it's not gonnabe law enforcement, local law enforcement.
Maybe there is in addition to SecretService, like the counter ciphers that
were up in the buildings above thepresident and above the rally. All right,

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the Trump shooting and of course instantlyyou have the beams and the response
on the internet coming up at eighttwenty. I'm gonna get into specifics of
what's going around, but let's talkabout some of the big players that are
out there who have responded. Andit's not necessarily part of the crazy conspiracy

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crowds, although you could argue itis. And Culter are conve commentators and
Coulter Eric Ericson absolutely a big timeplayers and guess what they were right out
there blaming Trump's political critics. Ericsonwrote on a daily basis, MSNBC tells
its audience that Trump is a threatto democracy and authoritarian in waiting, would

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be a dictator if no one stopshim. What do they think is happening?
Jd Vance Senator jd Vance a Trumpsupporter of biblical proportions. He's he's
on the short list for people onthe short list for vice president, and
he said that rhetoric anti Trump rhetoricis referring to led directly to President Trump's

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attempted assassination. The Republican DA inButler County, Pennsylvania, where this happened,
should immediately file charges against Joseph BIfor inciting an assassination straight out that
was GOP Representative Mike Collins, amember of Congress, wants to indict Biden

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for inciting an assassination. Directly Bidenordered the assassination and said, let someone
go out there and assassinate him.Now, that's in reference to what Trump
said, let's go down to theCapitol building and stop Mike Pence from certifying
the election, which, by theway, I think is a charge that

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makes no sense. Trump never saidoverrun the Capitol. He never said for
that crowd to beat up policemen.He said, let's go down there and
show them. And the argument isand can be made. I don't care
what his motives are, but theargument can be made that he just said
go down there and demonstrate. That'sit. And so this is even crazier.

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Now most of the rage and blameis coming from the president, former
president's fans. At the same time, you've got the other side. You've
got a former Republican supporter, BruceBartlett went online and invoked the Rice Dad
the Reichstag Fire. What was theReichstag fire. This is where when Adolph

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Hitler took power, became chancellor withinmonths of him taking power, basically the
president of Germany, much like asthis parliamentary system he instigated created and there's
no issue the fire at the Reichstag, their capitol building, and then claimed

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or then proclaimed martial law to catchthe perpetrators, and they got somebody,
some student, and it was totallytrumped up. I mean, they just
grabbed someone and they executed him.But that enabled Adolf Hitler to take complete
control of the government. Of coursehe never looked back. You're seeing the

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same thing happening now among trunk Trumpopponents. This was set up by Trump
and his followers because look, hejust got his ear just grazed. I
mean, look at this assassination attempt. He was shot at and he just
was grazed. So therefore this thingwas staged. That's what you're looking at.

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I mean, just crazy, typicalan ex user. And the only
reason I bring up this user whosaid this is the most stage crap except
not using the word crap I've everseen an active shooter and Secret Service just
allows him to stand back and allowthis effing fist up come on. Really,

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by the way, the reason Ibring that up is this post that
this has been viewed ten million timesnow, the vast majority of people responding
did so with horror. Also gracePresident Biden a lot of grace stopped politically
he had to do this, stoppedall the advertisement because it was all anti

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Trump, and in the course ofa day or two after the assassination has
to stop. And did you seethe video of those bone heads that weren't
looking at the stage, We're lookingat the cameras flipping the birds, screaming
f you, f you at thetop of their lungs. I mean,

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he had one guy who looked likehe came from you know, Alligator Land,
the swamp people, you know,the long beard, sort of straggly,
kind of looked well, do Iwant to get racist here? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah. He looked likehe had just come from hunt with
forty six guns in the back ofhis pickup truck and screaming I mean,

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f you, flipping the bird andhis wife presumably also, I mean,
pretty crazy stuff going on. Okay, now, let's look at America's history
of presidential assassination attempts. We thinkthat it's all third world stuff where you
have presidents assassinated the Philippines, whereelse you had in Africa. It's you

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know, it happens, is left, right, and center the United States
for a first world country. We'vehad our share and more than our share,
three of them, one, two, three, now four. I
have been alive and remember every moment, and I will talk about that.

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Let's go back to well one ofthem, famous one attempt, and this
is where a president was wounded grievouslyand I remember this like it was yesterday,
and most of us do, whoare around. We go back to
nineteen eighty one, Ronald Reagan aspresident walking out of the Washington Hilton Hotel.

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He had just addressed the crowd insideand he's on his way to the
White House. And you have aguess who. John Hinckley, twenty five
years old, crazy guy, theson of an energy executive, stops steps
out from the crowd and takes hissix shooter and unloads it at the president.

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And he was well, he washit. It was a ricochet bullet
that hit him, and it wasa twenty two and hit him in the
chest and went within millimeters of hisheart. He would have been dead.
And in a story related to whathappened, and I talked about this earlier,
what did the Secret Service do?Did they cover him up? Did?

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And we had I talked about howyou had Secret Service agents that were
shorter than Donald Trump by a longshot, were covering him and allowed his
head to come out an easy shotand do the fist up. They shows
his fists, punches the air withhis fists, and of course everybody went

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wild. I mean he acted,I thought he And by the way,
this wasn't planned. This goes toshow you who Donald Trump is. Acted
like, no one is going tostop me. A very moving moment.
So John Hinckley, who was impressedwith a pressed obsessed with Jodie Foster,

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he strikes three people. Brady whogot hit in the head. Brady was
the press secretary. And what theSecret Service did, if you look at
the video, they didn't hesitate.They took Ronald Reagan. Now the door
was open to is I think itwas either limousine or the suv, and
they threw him into the car,I mean literally threw him and then the

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door closing off. He went tothe hospital where he had surgery and he
came very close to dying. Wedidn't know that. So Reagan in nineteen
eighty one was the latest among politiciancultural figures who had been victims of this
whole strain of violence in American historygoing back one hundred and fifty years,

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because I just remember that there havebeen fifteen direct assaults on US presidents,
presidents elect presidential candidates. Five ofthem resulted in death, of course,
the first one being Abraham Lincoln.The first attempted presidential assassination came in eighteen
thirty five, and this was againstPresident Andrew Johnson. A very troubled,

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unemployed house painter, actually armed withtwo pistols, was hiding behind a pillar
in the US Capital to ambush PresidentJackson. Jackson was attending a funeral.
As he approached he's inside or rightoutside the Capitol. The painter points a
single shot derringer at the President's heart, pulls the trigger, and the gun

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goes off with a bang, acloud of smoke. But the gun had
misfired. The bullet didn't fly outof the weapon. So Jackson, who
was a pretty physical guy, hereacted. He was very Donald Trump in
the way he reacts. You attackhim, boy, does he attack you?

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So he starts hitting this guy witha cane. Lawrence, the house
painter pulls a second pistol and squeezesthe trigger that misfires. By the way,
he was later judged insane. Therewould be a whole lot more attempts
on the lives of US presidents.Four assassinations Abraham Lincoln eighteen sixty five,

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as we all, of course allknow, James Garfield and eighteen eighty one,
William McKinley in nineteen oh one,and that's what brought Teddy Roosevelt to
the presidency. And he was shotalso, and I'll go into that in
just a moment. I am readinga biography of Teddy Roosevelt now and it

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is absolutely fascinating. Teddy Roosevelt,and this is just an aside, was
one of the most extraordinary people.Forget about presidents. He was one of
the extraordinary people of the last century, maybe this century. And if I
should, I should actually do asegment on Teddy Roosevelt, because he is

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that extraordinary. And maybe I'll dothat on the podcast. By the way,
the podcast is out already. We'reon the iHeartRadio app right now.
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