BREAKING: Trump Assassination Attempt (Emergency Episode)

This episode is an emergency response to an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

1. An assassination attempt was made on Donald Trump during a public event.
2. Significant security failures occurred, allowing a firearm to bypass extensive security measures.
3. The identity and motive of the assailant remain unclear, pending investigation.
4. Bongino emphasizes the importance of not jumping to conclusions and letting investigations unfold.
5. The episode serves as a historical moment, highlighting potential threats to national security.

1: Immediate Reaction

Bongino shares his initial disbelief and the urgency of the broadcast, focusing on the need for prayer and national unity. He speculates about the security breaches involved. Dan Bongino: "Folks, this is an emergency broadcast. I hope you understand."

2: Details of the Incident

Discussion of the assassination attempt's mechanics, including the failure of magnetometers and speculation about the weapon's nature. Dan Bongino: "It appears to have been from the shots. It sounded like a small caliber type weapon that got into the event."

3: Speculations and Warnings

Bongino speculates on how security was bypassed and warns against speculation without facts, stressing the complexity of the security arrangements. Dan Bongino: "Don't jump to conclusions. Could be an inside attack."

4: Historical Context and Personal Reflections

Reflects on similar historical events and shares personal emotions about contacting Trump earlier that day. Dan Bongino: "It's time for a full presidential package for President Trump."

1. Stay Informed: Follow credible news sources for updates on significant events.
2. Reserve Judgment: Avoid jumping to conclusions without all the facts.
3. Understand Security Protocols: Learn about public event security measures to better understand news about such incidents.
4. Promote Responsible Discourse: Engage in discussions that are informed and free from unfounded speculation.
5. Support National Unity: Focus on common values and the importance of solidarity in times of crisis.

I warned this would happen...

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Discussion of violence and assassination attempts

Dan Bongino
So first, before we discuss, obviously, what just happened, I think it's all important that we, people like me, who've been blessed by God with a microphone, do everything we can do to make sure we understand that God's in charge, that Jesus Christ is my lord and savior. And right now, I think it's very important that we all pray to, and we all pray for our nation, because we are now, tragically and sadly, living through a moment in history, and certainly not a proud one.

I was just. Not that my backstory at this point matters.

Who really cares? But I gotta tell you, I was driving back from, I was watching a movie with Paula, and a friend of mine said Trump was shot. And I have to tell you, I think, like many of you, I thought it was a joke, and a pretty sick one at that. But the guy who texted me is a very serious guy.

He's not the type to joke around.

Folks, this is. You're living through history. I've got Evita. Michael, we just. I'm sorry we did. We don't have any theatrics for you today or any big elements or anything. I hope you understand this is an emergency broadcast. They were kind enough to come over, but I want to do a few minutes with you because there's a lot going on here. And I want to say we talk about the Bongino rule, and that definitely applies here. We don't know a lot, and we should say that in advance. What I don't know, I'm going to tell you when I'm speculating, I'm going to tell you, unfortunately, on.

There's some commentary out there now, and I'm not criticizing anyone. Please. I'm not. I'm just saying there's a lot of stuff out there. Now I'm hearing that's just totally, completely inaccurate. Okay, first, this apparent assassination attempt. I think we can all agree that that was apparently a firearm at this point appears to have been at least. Let's talk about the how and the why. I'm getting tons of questions from people. How could this possibly happen? The event has a secure perimeter with magnetometers. Magnetometers designed to detect weapons and metal coming into the event. How could a weapon get in there?

This is obviously an abysmal failure. Nobody should ever try to cover for this. I have a lot of loyalty to my colleagues at the secret Service. Their motto is, worthy of trust and confidence. However, this is an abysmal failure. There's no excusing that at this point. Whatever happened in there, we'll get the details. Whatever happened in there should not have happened, period.

We'll get the details later, but that should not have happened. No matter what, the protectee comes first at all times.

Let's just say it appears to be a firearm. At this point, we don't know that. I'm speculating again at that point, on the final conclusion, we will obviously get some forensics. Apparently the w, I think it was WTAE, is now reporting that there was a fatality at the event. It appears right now President Trump appears to be okay. However, as you saw, again, tragically with the Reagan shooting, which were all taught in secret service school, over and over, broken down like a case study, everybody thought Reagan was okay, too, until he started gurgling blood. So again, I would, I would caution anyone to jump to conclusions. I say appears to be a firearm because we haven't heard yet about the weapon actually being recovered. I want to see it. I heard around eight to ten shots. I'm not sure what you ladies and gentlemen heard out there, but I heard about eight to ten shots. It appears to have been from the shots. It sounded like a small caliber type weapon that got into the event. Now, let's get to the issue at hand. I'm getting from everyone. People are asking me, and I feel like I need to address in this emergency broadcast. Obviously, we're going to go into, going into extreme detail on Monday about this show. But, folks, things like this have happened in the past. And the way they bypass the magnetometer, in other words, secreting a weapon into an event, I'm not saying this happened here. People are asking me, hypothetically speaking, how would you get this thing in the way it's happened in the past?

Sometimes is they've buried these things.

Now, that's not easy to do. You've got dogs that go around the site. I'm not saying that's what happened here. You bury it. You know what Trump event is happening. You come in, you dig it out.

You're asking me for what could have happened in the past. I'm just giving you hypotheticals about scenarios we've gone over in the past another way. Don't assume this, this firearm is all, is an all metal device. However, there had to be some rounds.

Is it something that was 3d printed? I don't know.

Again, speculating at that point. We all know this, though, that should not have happened. How the magnetometers were bypassed, because it appears to have come from within the event. Although, again, again, that's not conclusive at this point, how this weapon bypassed, the magnetometers is going to be the big question. It's an apocalyptic security failure.

There will be reviews of this from. This will be what you're witnessing today, ladies and gentlemen. With me, your friend right now, and we're watching right now on live television, is actual living history, and it's important we get it right. And we speculate. We say it.

There is a possibility the shots may have come from outside the secure perimeter. However, ladies and gentlemen, that would be.

Try not to give away too much. That would be an oddity, too.

Envision a secure perimeter like a speech site where President Trump was. Shooters. Shooters dead, apparently being reported now. And also an attendee of the rally.

There are surveillance teams, an extensive network of surveillance teams, even outside the perimeter of the event.

It would be very unusual for someone with a small caliber weapon to be able to do that and pull that off without being noticed by someone. Obviously not impossible something happened, but it would be unusual. Don't assume that. Again, envisioning Donald Trump's event, you have this secure fencing, sometimes snow fencing, pipe and drape, whatever you may have. This is the secure area. You're not allowed in Area X without going through the magnetometers. Don't assume there's also not security outside those magnetometers. There is. It would be very difficult for you to walk around unnoticed, but not impossible to do that.

You get a firearm out.

Sorry if this is not. I'm just obviously, like you all, deeply disturbed by everything that happened. I know a lot of you, and I appreciate a lot of you reaching out, you know, saying, dan, you, you know, you predicted this, but this, I think we can all agree this isn't the time for that.

I didn't want to predict this.

However, if you, ladies and gentlemen out there, if you're interested in listening to why I thought this would happen, go back to episode 2079 on Rumble. And you can see how I laid out in advance why President Trump was at a severe security risk. And you'll see, sadly, a lot of what I said tragically has come to pass tonight. Thankfully, the president appears. Appears okay. Don't neglect the power of prayer.

Now, we talked about the, how someone bypassed the mags.

Somebody got around those mags, or somebody outside the mags managed to engage and avoid surveillance. How that happened, I don't know. Hopefully we'll know within hours. Hopefully we'll know by tomorrow. We should definitely know by Monday.

The why. And then some more important points. Why did this happen?

This is where I'm going to encourage you not to jump the gun. Folks, listen, I know the left is crazy. I get that. I understand that. But I'm going to caution you strongly to not do what they do right now. This is too important a moment in our nation's history. We don't know what the motive is, and this is not a virtue signal. I'm not going to bullshit you. There's no time for fucking around.

We just don't know the left is already spinning crazy fairy tale. Just let the facts guide you. I say that for a number of reasons.

For a number of reasons. One of the ways to bypass the mags, if you were really savvy, is it could have been an insider attack.

Speculating, I'm telling you I'm speculating. It's all we can do right now. But that's why I'm trying to disconnect people from jumping to a conclusion. The logical one is, yes, it was probably someone who hates Donald Trump. Pretty simple. Not complicated to figure out. Correct?

But sometimes logic doesn't apply.

Let these left wing lunatics do all their crazy nonsense stuff. Let's just let the facts guide us. President Trump did something today we haven't seen since, you know, Teddy Roosevelt. He likely got shot in the middle of a speech and wanted to continue going.

Don't jump to conclusions. Could be an inside attack. Someone with familiarity who had infiltrated the organization would likely know how. How to bypass the magnetometers through a different entrance. Remember, there are three, there are three separate groups of people that all have. That all get in through separate areas of the. And if you know that. I don't want to say who right now, but if you know that you can take advantage of different security mechanisms at everywhere, at every way, if you know what I'm talking about, let me just say it. There's, there's three different. You got the three p's, okay? Remember the three p's. The press, the protectee and the public, they all come in via different ways. You understand what I'm getting at? The public's flushed into the magnetometers. Don't assume that's how this weapon, whatever it may be, got in.

Did it come in through a press entrance? I don't know. But if you're an insider, you would know that. Did it come in through a protect the entrance somehow? I don't know. I doubt it.

But again, this is why I'm telling everyone out there, and please, to the commentators out there, much respect. I'm not criticizing anybody.

Please don't say what you don't know, because you're just going to spin people's wheels up and you're going to pollute the news cycle.

There are three separate entrances.

How this person got in will be very telling. Could be as easy as a simple failure at the magnetometer. But, folks, it's very unlikely somebody walked in with a magnetometer with that and just took it by chance that some Secret Service agent in a, in a uniform division team at a magnetometer was just going to be having a bad day and let it in. I find that highly unlikely.

Some important points moving forward to guide you in the coverage of this.

Number one, the Secret Service will not be investigating this. And now this is where, ladies and gentlemen, take it for what it is. The FBI now has its jurisdiction. There is an MOU, it's short for memorandum of understanding between the secret service and the FBI. The Secret Service does not investigate assassination attempts against its protectees because if the Secret Service failed, there'd be an incentive to hide it. Not saying that's what they're going to do, I'm saying that's the genesis of the memorandum of understanding. The MOU, the FBI, the Secret Service's job right now is to secure what is a crime scene. This is now a crime scene. It's not a rally anymore. I know you all understand that the FBI will now take over the investigation, the processing of the evidence. The Secret Service's job is now done with this particular incident. The FBI will be investigating.

Second, apparently Donald Trump was treated at the hospital and they're important points, takeaways.

Everything changed after Reagan, folks. When Reagan was shot, we didn't have a hospital agent, so this is what happened. They called the hospital and they said, we're coming with the president. He was shot. And you know what they did? They hung up on him. Look it up.

We don't do that anymore. We always have a route to the hospital. I was a transportation agent. That's what I did. I did it for two and a half years. There was always a dedicated route to the hospital.

Today, sadly, they used it. There's an agent at that hospital with a dedicated phone line. That phone line probably rang today.

The first time it's rang in a long time.

And I'll bet that agent was probably surprised when he picked it up.

Another important takeaway.

Someone had said on a news network before that the Secret Service doesn't have an intelligence division. That is inaccurate. The secret Service has a thoroughly staffed protective intelligence division. That is literally all they do is investigate threat cases. They have a PI squad in every office, protective intelligence, and it's run out of headquarters. The protective intelligence division exists and is real. I don't know why that person said that may have been a mistake. Again, this is not time to be critical or unnecessarily nitpicky about people's stuff. However, I don't want you to be misguided. Why is that important?

We're going to know shortly. The gunman's now dead, being reported on multiple news outlets. Right now. We're going to know the identity shortly. Was this person a monitored, what we would call unusual interest case? Was this person on a secret Service record in the past? Were they a class one, class two, class three, class three being really, really dangerous people who have shown an active interest in killing the president? I doubt it, because they're usually monitored when, when a protectee comes to district.

However, what the intelligence file, if there was one on this individual, is, is going to be fascinating if and when we find out the identity.

Couple more points.

And again, forgive me for the dour presentation. I just, I mean, I'm going to. Can I show you something on the phone? And I'm gonna show you something here. Yeah.

So this was this morning at 08:48 a.m. i at, uh.

Whoa.

Culp.

Did you just see that? No, I didn't.

Okay.

I called, called President Trump this morning. I'm a little banged up about it.

I feel like I distracted him or. I don't know, I feel terrible about it. I feel like I had to talk to him about something.

Sorry, I just, I'm really, like, cross about this whole thing.

I feel like. I don't know. I know. I just, I want to talk to him about something now. I feel like. I don't know, like I wasted his time.

This poor guy, what he went through today, something small I had to talk to him about.

I'm watching this on the screen. And another thing I wanted to put out.

The armor may have saved him. Ladies and gentlemen, if you look on the stage, that what appears to be the, you know, looks ceremonial. See, it looks kind of like the flag design with the red, white and blue.

That's likely armor. There's a darn good chance that that armor possibly saved them.

So, folks, that's something. Again, we don't know, but it looks like it was eight to ten shots. It was at a shot that hit his ear. It appears to be the case at this point, but I mean, what else could it have possibly been?

I want to end on a couple notes here.

This is one broadcast I really wish I'd never, ever done, ever.

It's time for a full presidential package for President Trump. If you go back and listen to episode 2079, President Trump does not have that. He doesn't have that. Now I get it. There are some legalities involved, but President Trump is a former president running for reelection. You essentially have two incumbents running, folks. He does not have a full presidential package right now. It is putting the man in danger. His threat level is apocalyptic and catastrophic. It is time right now for Kim Cheadle, the secret service director, to get her head out of her ass and do the right thing. I could tell you stories for days about her putting politics ahead of presidential protection. I am not being overly emotional because I've said it before. The secret service director is utterly unqualified right now to be doing what she's doing. It is time for her first to get this thing solved. It's an emergency situation right now and find out what happened. But she should step down immediately.

Some of the things she has told people on that detail about security arrangements, clearly making political statements, she is completely unqualified. It is time for President Trump to have a full presidential package.

I'll leave you with this. And then I'm asking you all, please, again, it's in these times where, you know, I'm not some freaking poet, man, so we don't need to do any of that stuff. I'm just saying, you know, like, when these people get lost at sea, they have lighthouses and stuff for a reason. You know, God's that one for you, and he's that one for us right now.

Just ask. Just open up. Prayer matters. It's not a joke.

It's not some scam.

What, do you think this was all created out of some kind of alien mist or something?

We need them right now. The nation needs them. We're still the United States of America, even though we got a lot of crazy people.

You don't want some foreign country right now taking advantage of this chaos.

And on this, listen, I say all the time, maybe put a little smile on your face in a really tragic time.

Campaigns are snapshots and soundbites. That's all they are.

Donald Trump's got a lot of guts, man, getting up there, exposing himself again to what he knew, what he knew was an assassination attempt and pounding his fist in the air.

That snapshot is going to live forever.

Hey, thanks for tuning in. And again, I'm really sorry about the kind of dower approach. I just. That's been on my mind, you know?

I just feel like. I don't know, like I wasted his time a little bit.

Thanks for tuning in, folks. I will see you from the RNC on Monday. God bless America.

You just heard the Dan Bongino show.