Ep. 1531 - Trump Picks His Vice President

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Abemus vice Presidentum President Trump has selected his running mate and it is. Drum roll please, Senator JD Vance from Ohio. Many people have only heard of JD Vance recently.

Some people are probably only now hearing of him for the first time. I, however, have been following Senator Vance's career for a long time. I'm a longtime admirer of him and I think he is absolutely the perfect VP pick, especially now.

This pic tells us something extremely important about Trump 2024, which is that this campaign is all about the future.

We will get into it, along with further fallout from Saturday's assassination attempt on President Trump. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

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Trump Vance 2024 I think this is a really great pick. There were a number of people who were, who were discussed as potential vp picks, who they ended up. You know, a lot of them didn't quite make the short list. But I've said for a long, long time I thought JD Vance would be an excellent choice. Here's what President Trump said. After lengthy deliberation and thought and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I've decided that the person best suited to assume the position of vice president of the United States is Senator JD Vance of the great state of Ohio. JD honorably served our country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, summa cum laude, and is a Yale Law School graduate where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal and president of the Yale Law Veterans Association. JD's book, Hillbilly Elegy, became a major bestseller and movie as it championed the hardworking men and women of our country. JD has had a very successful business career in technology and finance, and now, during the campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the american workers and farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond. As vice president, JD will continue to fight for our constitution, stand with our troops, and will do everything he can to help me make America great again. Congratulations to Senator JD Vance, his wife Usha, who also graduated from Yale Law School, and their three beautiful children.

Maga 2024. Others have noted that picking JD is, is in some ways an insurance pick.

Presidents even after the horrific attack on Saturday, presidents often want to pick at least what we would call impeachment insurance. Now you might say assassination insurance, someone that the liberals would really hate to have assumed the role. I think JD Vance provides that JD is solidly conservative. He is extremely intelligent. He knows what he believes.

One knock on JD I've seen from critics is that, well, you know, he used to be more liberal or something. He used to be more opposed to Trump or something like that. Yeah, that's true of a lot of people.

But JD's evolution of his thought and his and politics, I don't think is just a convenience. I don't think it's something that is disingenuous or happened overnight because I've followed it somewhat closely. Of note, JD is a convert to Catholicism.

He explored many of the themes that have now come to dominate his political vision and agenda in his best selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. And so, obviously, the seeds there were planted for a long time. When one does have a religious conversion, which had begun, it would seem, around 2015, 2016, and then he was baptized and received into the Catholic Church in 2019.

When one has a religious conversion, all politics ultimately is religious, as cardinal Manning reminds us. So that is going to lead you to rethink or clarify or deepen some of your political positions. I think that inasmuch as JD has developed his views over the years, I think they've developed in a really beautiful direction, very solidly conservative direction.

There are all sorts of factions to the Republican Party. There's the squish faction. There's the pro chamber of commerce faction. There's the bomb every country on earth faction. Those are kind of the neocons. There's the libertarian faction, which has great stuff to contribute, but is sometimes founded on shaky principles. And liberal principles sometimes can move left on certain issues. And you get 100 conservatives in a room, you're going to see them all disagree on something.

JD seems very much in line with the ways that President Trump, I won't say, has remade the Republican Party. I would say President Trump has restored the Republican Party in many ways to its roots. Don't forget, the Republican Party was founded on economic protection and saying, protecting american industry. Not to say we shouldn't trade with the rest of the world, but we've got to protect our own industry. We got to recognize that the economy is here. So we have a flourishing country, not the other way around. The country isn't here for the economy. The people aren't here to serve the GDP number. It's the other way around. A strong economy is good for us, but it's good for us. It's good for our political society. Good political societies have limits, restricting what has become now just total open borders and mass migration. That's important, too. Protecting american workers, encouraging the growth of american families, all of this kind of stuff, which a lot of the GOP neglects or undermines. Well, President Trump has made that a big focus of his campaign going back to 2016, JD Vance has focused on those issues tremendously. It was a big motivator behind his Ohio Senate run and his whole political vision going back to that memoir, which then became a big Hollywood movie. I'm sure Hollywood wouldn't make that movie. Now, the question about Trump's VP pick was, is he gonna pick a guy to be to balance out the ticket? You know, is he gonna pick someone, I don't know, pick a black guy just cause he's black, or pick a woman just cause she's a woman?

Identity politics pick to balance out the ticket? Or was Trump going to pick just a kind of a wallflower, a really boring guy because Trump is so eccentric, because Trump is such a showman, he takes up so much attention. Is he going to pick someone who just blends in with the furniture to balance that out? Or is he going to pick an old guy? An old guy so that hes totally innocuous? Orlando, is he going to pick someone like JD Vance?

JD Vance is young.

Hes brilliant. But its not that he would ever upstage Trump. I dont think he would do that at all. But hes clearly brilliant.

He has a strong political vision that is very much in line and could continue on the project that Trump is doing. And hes a candidate for 2028 or 2032 or whatever.

Hes young. Hes really at the beginning of his political career.

He hasnt hit the peak yet.

Its a pick about legacy.

When the libs tell you Trumps second term is just going to be all about revenge and settling old scores and just mollifying his ego or something, I think a pick like this is exhibit a. No, thats not what Trumps doing. Trump is setting up a political vision that he intends to extend far beyond 2024, maybe into 28, 2032, to solidify the restoration that he has brought in many ways to the GOP. Even if you don't like that language or you don't like Trump, you say, well, he's changed the GOP from the party of George Bush or even the party of Milton Friedman or Reagan or whatever.

What you would have to conclude, I think, even if you hated Donald Trump, is this is a guy who is oriented now toward the future and building a legacy. And I think that's a good thing.

Meanwhile, how is the White House reacting to everything?

How is the White House reacting to the assassination attempt on Saturday? You heard from Biden. He had that 6th sentence statement written by some staffer. Then he came out, he made some brief remarks, said nothing, then he came out, said some more, nothing. But what he focused on was he said, we need to lower the temperature and we need to unite America.

Biden obviously hasn't done that. And Biden has a big problem, because Biden's entire campaign is premised on Trump's posing an existential threat to democracy, akin to Adolf Hitler, whom Biden accuses Trump of admiring and channeling. So Corinne Jean Pierre, a president spokesman, was asked today, hey, is Biden going to keep. In the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Trump has part of his ear blown off, and a Trump supporter was murdered in cold blood, and two Trump supporters were critically injured at a rally. Is Biden to lead the way in lowering the temperature and uniting America? Is he going to stop calling Trump an existential threat to the country?

Here is Corinne Jean Pierre's answer.

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Are we going to continue to hear the president in official events or on the campaign trail, use the phrase threat to democracy specifically?

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I want to be very clear. The president is always going to denounce violence forcefully. It, he's always been against this throughout his career, throughout the last four years. We do not want to politicize this. It's unacceptable to do that. That's what the president has said. It is time to bring this country together, to bring american people together. That's what he wants to see. And so that's where I'm going to leave it. He wants to unite this country. And that is something that he's been saying since 2019.

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That could be really hard to do, though, if you're trying to make a shift away from what has been platform of this administration, of his campaign, in that the view is that Trump and the MAGA Republican agenda is a threat to democracy. So how do you get that message across while bringing the temperature down? How is that phrasing going to be replaced? Is it going to be replaced?

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Well, look, what I can say is we have our differences and it's okay to have our differences.

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But you're saying it's not okay to have our differences, that this is the quandary for the Biden campaign, and this reporter very astutely pointed it out.

Biden's campaign is not Trump and I have our differences. We both love America, but we have a very different vision for America. And I have a different economic agenda and different immigration agenda, different foreign policy agenda. We have our differences. We're gonna hash it out in the democratic system. Biden's campaign says Trump poses an existential threat to democracy itself. The election of Donald Trump represents the end of America. Donald Trump is Hitler.

That's not a Hitler. And I have our differences, but we respect each other. And my opponent wants to completely destroy democracy, but we have our.

That has not been the Biden campaign.

But now there's a quandary, because Biden's rhetoric, Biden's campaign premise, sets the stage to justify assassination.

But now that someone tried and very nearly was successful in assassinating Donald Trump, the Biden campaign has to turn away from that kind of rhetoric. But that's the whole campaign.

So the question for Biden right now, Kareem Jean Pierre can't answer it. She's dancing around it. She's got no answer. Joe Biden would have no answer. No Democrat has an answer. The option is admit that Donald Trump is not Hitler and admit that Donald Trump does not pose a threat to democracy and therefore abandon your campaign or continue to justify the assassination of Donald Trump.

Those are the only two options. Stop campaigning, effectively concede the 2024 presidential race. Cause you got nothing else.

Or continue to justify the assassination of Trump. Those are the only options. And if you, if you asked me if I were a gambling man, which one is it going to be? Theyre going to continue to justify the assassination of Trump. They have to, because hes not going to concede, but they dont have any other issue to run on.

This is why it was so insane. When you heard from Biden, you heard from AOC, you heard from all these top Democrats.

Oh, im so grateful that President Trump is ok. I thought he was Hitler.

You're grateful that Hitler's okay?

You're glad? Oh, I hope nothing bad happens to Hitler.

Listen, Hitler and I have our differences.

I thought Trump was an existential threat. I'm glad that the existential threat to our whole country is doing well.

That doesn't make any sense.

So what they're saying is completely senseless.

They call this a senseless act of violence, that the assassination, it's a very sensible act of violence if you believe the premises that they established.

The premise is that they can't deny. So after, what's it been, 24 out, 48 hours since the assassination attempt, Democrats are already going back to Trump as an existential threat to democracy. If Corinne Jean Pierre cannot say with 100% certainty, we will stop calling him a threat to democracy. We'll stop calling him Hitler.

That means they're right back to justifying the assassination of President Trump, which is what they've been doing for years. Awful. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to balanceofnature.com comma. Use promo code Knowles balance of nature fruits and veggies is the most important and convenient way to get whole fruits and vegetables daily. If you like me, are not having a totally balanced diet necessarily. This is one great way. Using an advanced cold vacuum process that encapsulates fruits and vegetables into whole food supplements without sacrificing their natural antioxidants. The capsules are completely void of additives, fillers, extracts, synthetics, pesticides or added sugar. The only thing in balance of nature is fruit and veggie capsules or fruits and veggies. Imagine trying to eat 31 different fruits and vegetables every day. That sounds miserable and time consuming. With balance of nature, theres never been an easier way to ensure you get your daily dose of fruits and vegetables. Go to balanceofnature.com comma use promo code Knowles kwles for 35% off your first order as a preferred customer. Plus get a free bottle of fiber and spice that is balanceofnature.com promo code Knowles Knowles balanceofnature.com promo code Knowles did you try to tune into morning Joe yesterday on MSNBC? You probably did not, because you're a reasonable person. But some people, I guess did. Some people watch that show and they will not have found morning Joe there. MSNBC made the decision to pull morning Joe from the air on the Monday after the execution attempt.

Successful in that it killed people? Not quite successful in that it only pierced Donald Trump's ear and didn't succeed in killing him.

MSNBC, one of its biggest shows, longstanding morning show, doesn't air that day. Why not? According to CNN, so it's not even a right wing news source. A left wing news source person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show's stable of two dozen plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and the network as a whole.

What does it say about mourning Joe?

That that's a concern? That the day after the biggest news source since September 11, 2001, or the Monday after that story, they couldn't even air the program because the executives knew that one of the hosts or one of the guests was going to say something so hideous, so vile that it would imperil their whole network? What does that say about the show? What does that say about the caliber of the guests and the hosts? What does that say about the rhetoric from the left? This is one of the most mainstream news shows on the left on one of the most mainstream left wing networks, and they were so afraid that one of their guests or hosts would say something so vile and hideous that could destroy the whole network. I thought all the nasty political rhetoric was coming from the right. It seems to be coming primarily, if not exclusively, from the left. And we know this.

We saw major left wing figures justifying the assassination attempt, mocking it, laughing about it.

Keith Olbermann, former host on MSNBC for that matter, saying all sorts of vile things about Trump, still saying he's still Hitler. He's still Hitler, still justifying him.

Tenacious D. You remember tenacious D? It's this rock band with Jack Black, the movie star, and some other guy, whoever, the other non Jack Black guys, they were just doing a show, right? As the news breaks of the assassination attempt on Trump, here's what they had to say on stage before a ton of people.

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Happy birthday.

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Make a wish, man.

Don't miss Trump next time.

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So you hear some people in the crow saying, whoa, whoa. But a lot of people laughing, clapping, applauding, and this is what they think.

Jack Black is not some fringe figure. He's a big movie star. I think he's not in much lately, but he just showed up to be a big fundraiser and surrogate for the Biden campaign just weeks ago, took a picture in a big Biden t shirt and american flag overalls.

That's what they think.

How is it, how do you come to that conclusion? Because you don't see the right celebrate when our opponents are killed or nearly killed or even die of natural causes.

Why not?

The reason that I don't celebrate when my political opponents die or are injured or are nearly assassinated is not because I like them a lot. I feel some human solidarity with them. I think there but for the grace of God go I. I am called to love my neighbors and to pray for my enemies.

The reason that I don't wish death upon them or celebrate when something bad happens to them is one, because if I have hatred for my neighbor, I've committed murder in my heart, according to my lord, and also because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell. And I don't want to offend God, who is all good and deserving of all my love. That's why. And so if you don't believe that stuff, if you don't believe in God, as many, if not most liberals don't, if you don't really believe in a moral order, not an objective moral order, maybe you think, I don't know, morals are just something we all came up with. We all in early evolution, we all just came up with it to kind of survive. If you don't believe it's real, if you don't believe in an afterlife, if you don't believe in the immortality of the soul, if you don't believe in the reality of things like justice, then why wouldn't you wish death on your enemies?

If all that really matters is just meat puppets are walking around with the illusion of love and truth and reason, and we're all going to just die. And the highest things in the world are just the political order, the contingent history, the principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness that govern this world in its fallenness.

If that's all there is, then yeah, why wouldn't you? Of course you would celebrate the death of your enemies.

And they do.

So it's very difficult for them to unite, very difficult for them to lower the temperature, because if they're saying we all need to lower the temperature, the right has already done that. The right just generally does that.

The right generally would like to unite, and the right generally recognize it as an objective moral order. The left doesn't. They don't want to do it.

There are platitudes about this to try to attract moderates months before a presidential campaign. They just ring hollow. It's so obviously disingenuous. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to puretalk.com. knowles, you've heard me say for a long time that cell phone service with PureTalk is half the cost of Verizon, ATT, or T Mobile. You might be thinking, what's the catch? There's no way Peertalk can offer unlimited talk, text and plenty of data for just dollar 20 a month. I say just ask the thousands of other listeners who have already switched. They are loving America's most dependable 5g network. They love PureTalk's us customer service. They love their selection of premium phones, and they love the money that they're saving month to month. So what are you waiting for? It is time to start supporting companies that share your beliefs, like beliefs in creating american jobs. The belief that it's important to support our veterans. It is time to switch your cell phone service to pure talk. Plus, with no contract and a 30 day money back guarantee, you have nothing to lose. Go to puretalk.com knowles, Canada wlas to upgrade your cell phone service to America's most dependable 5g network and save an extra 50% off your first month, 55 0% off your first month that is. Puretalk.com Knowles Today, President Biden couldn't even get out his oval Office address without a freudian slip.

The purpose of the Oval Office address after the assassination attempt was to say, we need to lower the temperature. We need to unify. We need to resolve our differences at the ballot box. Here's what he said. But in America, we resolve our differences at the battle box.

Now, that's how we do it at the battle box, not with bullets.

In America, we resolve our differences at the battle box.

And then he repeats it at the battle box.

That is, I believe, what the psychologists call a freudian slip. Freudian slip, where you say one thing but mean your mother, right? Is that what it is?

Biden doesnt really know how to speak anymore because he has dementia, which they denied. But then it became clearer at the presidential debate where Trump destroyed him. So then the Democrats were in complete crisis and it looked like there was no way to beat Trump other than to kill him. And then there was an attempt on Trumps life.

Survived it, it would seem, miraculously.

And so now theyre trying to downplay everything and they say, no. Were good Democrats lowercase D. We just want to resolve our differences democratically. Even though were prosecuting our opponents and were trying to put a former president in jail for the first time, top presidential candidate in jail for the first time. And, hey, there might be an assassination attempt. We might even celebrate it, some of us.

But even when Bidens trying to say that he gets that slip in there at the battle box, because that's what they think.

They don't think politics is a reasonable conversation where we persuade one another. They think it's all just about the irrational will, whose irrational will is going to win out? Who's got a bigger club that he can bop the other guy in the head with.

And so the address failed Biden. It failed Biden on a couple of levels. It failed in that it didn't, didnt really even seriously convey the message he wanted to say. He couldnt even get the words out right. And the words he got out actually were the opposite of the message he was trying to express.

But it failed at a deeper level. Biden did not reassure Americans of anything.

Biden got out there and he needed to convince people that he was the adult in the room. He was going to restore order. He was in command of his faculties. He didnt achieve any of those things.

He wasnt even able to speak properly.

So the Biden campaign is in complete disarray. Theres a report to axios now that a senior House Democrat has told axios that a lot of Democrats on the Hill have just resigned themselves to a second Trump term. Now, theres a lot of time between now and November, and theres nothing, theres nothing that these people wont do to stop Trump because they say hes Hitler. They say hes an existential threat to the country. Theres nothing they wont do. And now, speaking today, there's nothing they haven't tried against him. So speaking of that attack, who's the shooter? What information do we have? As I mentioned on the show yesterday, we don't know very much about him.

We know that he's 20. He is, he was 20 years old.

It would appear that he was a registered Republican. That's what all the left wing news networks are trying to point out. The thing that they don't want to say is that the only political donation he ever made, the only political activism he seems to have taken part in, is donating to Democrats, a progressive Democrat group. So that's kind of weird.

Why was he registered Republican and why did he donate exclusively to Democrats and progressives? I don't know. His dad apparently was a registered, is a registered libertarian. The mother is a registered Democrat. Who knows? Who knows? We now know that he had explosives in his home and in his car.

And this doesn't, doesnt make a lot of sense if hes crawling up on the roof and shooting at the president. He had to know that he was going to have his head blown off as soon as secretyou would think he would have understood that he would have his head blown off the minute he started to get those rounds off. Some people are wondering why he didnt have his head blown off sooner, why it took so long for the secret Service or local police to respond.

But then why would he have explosives in his car if he knew that he was going on a suicide mission? Very strange. Something even stranger has just turned up.

The shooter, the would be assassin, two years ago appeared in a tv commercial for Blackrock, possibly the most powerful financial institution in the world.

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My name is Brian Delalo. I teach AP and honors economics in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Financial well being to me is knowing that I can be free to do the things that I love to do.

I hope when I retire someday. They say that guy made this place a special place to come and gave as much as he could to help the community.

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There was him.

This isn't some conspiracy theory.

Blackrock acknowledges this. They've pulled the commercial down.

Blackrock has $9.1 trillion in assets under management.

When you take actual nation states out of the equation, when you take, I don't know, the Federal Reserve out of the equation, you're talking about basically the largest financial institution in the world.

What? So this is setting people, everyone's pulling out the tinfoil hat now.

What does it mean? What, how is the would be assassin who apparently doesn't have any social media? Hard to believe that in 2024 people don't have a trail on the Internet. They don't know social media we can find. And then he's registered Republican, but he donates to democrats. That's really weird. That doesn't really satisfy. It doesn't answer any political narrative. We don't. No manifesto, no nothing. What? And then he pops up in a colossi tv commercial two years ago for one of the most powerful and kind of has a reputation as a really swampy, politically involved financial institution with $9 trillion undermined. What now?

I don't know. I don't know. No one really knows.

Any assassination, successful or unsuccessful, of a president, I think legitimately should raise lots of questions about a conspiracy.

Not saying there was some conspiracy. Could have been acting alone, but you got to investigate that, obviously.

But im not convinced it had to be a conspiracy.

Im not convinced that this blackrock commercial has to have some particular meaning. And heres why. Heres why. It gets to exactly what I was talking about on my show yesterday. The entire introduction of my show yesterday, a 15 to 20 degree turn of Donald Trumps head, was the difference between him losing the top of his earth and him losing the back of his head.

A 15 to 20 degree turn of Donald Trumps head at the precise moment that had occurred just before the round went off from the assassins bullet or from the assassins gun, is the reason that Donald Trump is alive today so improbable that his head would have turned that way as to seem impossible to people unless you recognize that the cosmos, this is what christians would recognize, what religious people would recognize. The cosmos is so finely tuned to God's providence that when coincidences happen, a Christian would say, yes, of course, as a priest friend of mine points out, it's a wicked generation that seeks for signs and wonders, but it's a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders.

The christian vision of the world is a semiotic vision of the world, rich in symbols. Things mean something.

And when coincidences pop up, you don't always need to find out their particular meaning. It's a sign, as far as I'm concerned, that just, yeah, God exists. The universe is intelligible. There is a creator and creation implies a creator.

Just from reason, just from nature, you can come to that conclusion.

That might just be whats happening here.

If you can chalk up trumps turn of his head to the playing out of gods providence, you could attribute this coincidence to that as well. I dont know. I just dont know.

We dont really know very much. We dont know how this guy was allowed to get his rounds off, get up on that roof.

Local police are blaming the secret service. Secret service are blaming the local police.

There was an interview with a former secret service agent who made the obvious point.

Even if local police had been tasked with securing the area outside of the security perimeter of the rally, even if local law enforcement did drop the ball, it is the responsibility of secret service to ensure that everything is going according to plan. Even if the secret service says, hey, local police, I want you to secure those buildings over there, it nevertheless is the responsibility of secret service to make sure that happens. The job of us secret service is to protect the president. You show up to a small town of 12,000 people that has a handful of buildings of any size in it, and you're not going to go check those buildings when, according to reports, secret Service knew these were security threats. You're just going to trust that to some, almost certainly underfunded and understaffed local police department out of your mind if you think thats acceptable.

So ultimately, the buck stops with Secret Service.

When are we going to hear from the Secret Service director? When are we going to see any accountability?

As one source for these reports added, just because its outside the perimeter doesnt take it out of play for vulnerability, youve got to mitigate it in some fashion. Anthony Cangelosi, who is former secret service agent, hes now a professor at John Jay College in New York. He says you dont surrender the discretion of what's supposed to be done to the local police.

In other words, you guys have the outer perimeter, but you want to say, we need an officer on that roof. Not, that's your responsibility. Do what you see fit. You don't entrust the safety of the president, of the former president, or the future president in this case to a local police department.

It's so bizarre. Jim Kavanaugh, also in this report is a retired ATF agent, points out, he says the only way to stop that is you have a lot of people. You get there first. You command the high ground. This is basic. And the secret Service has done it for years, successfully. So I'm really surprised that they did not have that high ground from which the shooter shot covered.

That point is, the Secret Service has done this successfully for years. We haven't seen one of these attempts since the last really conservative president, actually Ronald Reagan.

Weird.

Weird.

How did that break down?

Somebody is responsible. This is not, oh, well, mistakes happen.

This is highly unusual.

We have video of a crowd of people saying, look, there's a guy on the roof. Look at him. What's that guy doing on the roof? That guy's got a rifle. Why isn't someone doing, why isn't something pulling Trump off stage doesn't get pulled off stage ever really. But for minutes, this is going on.

What happened? What broke down?

Now, theres, in addition to this, this must be the biggest Newsweek since September 11, 2001. You have the attempted, nearly successful assassination of Donald Trump. You then have the republican convention kicking off two days later. You then have the announcement of Trumps running mate, a major, very exciting announcement.

Then you have news out of the judiciary that probably the biggest case against Donald Trump in all of these four prosecutions, Joe Biden trying to throw his political opponent in jail.

That case gets dismissed. We'll get into that in just one moment. First, though, at the daily wire, we are all about action. The ticket is officially set. America's future is in our hands. Ultimately, it's in God's hands, but we need to cooperate with God. The daily Wire is offering a 47% presidential discount in honor of the future 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump. Equip yourself with the facts and perspectives you will not get from the mainstream media. With your membership, you will get access to our entire lineup of shows, podcasts, in depth investigative reporting, and live breaking news. No censorship, no pandering. This 47% off deal is a limited time offer for a crucial time in our nation's history. Go to Dailywire.com subscribe. Join us in the fight and get 47% off your new annual membership. Now, my favorite comment on yesterday was from Nashville. Predzfan 25 62 says, didn't Michael Knowles report last week that Joe Manchin wanted to wait for this weekend to say whether he wanted to support Joe Biden? What a big coincidence. This is a weird one. This has been playing out in my head. I didn't mention it on the show, but I did play it. I thought it was the strangest clip of last week where Manchin, rather was asked, this is a somewhat moderate Democrat senator from West Virginia, and I, potential presidential candidate, was asked, do you still support Joe Biden or should he drop out?

Manchin said he didn't want to answer the question. He said, look, I like Joe, support Joe. I think things are going to be a lot clearer after this weekend. So we're just going to wait and see for this weekend. So in retrospect, in light of the assassination attempt, this seems really ominous. This seems really eerie. And people are asking, did Joe Manchin know about the assassination? And I want to be explicit about this. I don't, I don't think Joe Manchin knew about the assassination attempt on Trump. I don't. I don't think, you know, he was part of some plot. If anybody were to be part of a plot or a conspiracy, I don't think it would be Joe Manchin. He's one of the last guys in Washington I would expect to be part of it. But it is odd in retrospect. In retrospect, it looks totally bizarre. We'll know more after this weekend. Muahahahahahahahaha.

That's why I point out there are sometimes little coincidences, little winks in history in retrospect, that can look very different from a different vantage.

If you play back the clip of when Trump is shot, he says, look at this.

I think those are his exact words. Look at this.

At the moment that we're all called to look, then the head turns slightly and the bullet grazes him instead of blowing his brains out.

Lots of there are no mere coincidences in the christian view of the world. Doesn't mean everybody's up to some crazy conspiracy plot, but the whole world is imbued with meaning, and we see that meaning played out in history in retrospect.

If we have time, we'll get to the meaning of history. Actually, that's a story I want to get to, but I don't know if I'll have time today. That might just be a tease. I do want to turn to a major news story, which is that Trump has had his biggest case against him dismissed. Judge Aileen Cannon, district judge, wrote a 93 page decision and said that the appointment of Jack Smith, the special counsel who's prosecuting the case against Trump, was, quote, unlawful.

It was unlawful. It was unconditional, or, I'm sorry, rather unconstitutional. The clerk is directed to close the case.

Attorney General Merrick Garland had appointed Smith back in 2022, and Trump's lawyers have been arguing that he did not have the right to do that, said the appointments clause of the Constitution, quote, does not permit the attorney general to appoint without Senate confirmation a private citizen and like minded political ally to wield the prosecutorial power of the United States. As such, Jack Smith lacks the authority to prosecute this action. Now, this is different than, say, the appointment of a special counsel or special prosecutor in the Hunter Biden case. Hunter Biden is being prosecuted for his lowest level crimes.

This is rather different because in that case, you had someone who was already working with the DOJ.

Weiss was already a us attorney, the prosecutor in the Biden case, Smith was a private citizen at the time that he was appointed. And Trump's lawyers argued that this was an illegitimate appointment. And the judge now agrees.

So what's going to happen? Does that mean Trump's off the hook? No, it means that Jack Smith is going to appeal. This is going to go to an appellate court.

But even if the appellate court rules in Smith's favor, even if it goes all the way up to the US Supreme Court, it means that this case is now, pretty much for certain, pushed until after the election. A major win for Trump. Really good move from Judge Cannon. Speaking of Trump victories, Don Junior, the president's son, just gave a masterclass in handling the hostile liberal establishment media from the Republican National Convention. Here is Don Junior talking to MSNBC.

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What is that change going to look like, Don? What practically your father as president, I think you would even say was a divisive figure. What's it going to look like in the second term? I don't think he was a divisive figure at all. I think the media created divisiveness around him. They lied about Russia, Russia collusion. They said he was a traitor. They went after him in every which way is possible. If the media actually starts being an honest broker, talking about the things that he did, the prosperity he brought, the peace deals that he signed around the world, rather than the disaster that we're living right now, I think you do everyone in the country a big favor. I know immigration is important to him. I covered the family separation crisis closely. Will we continue to see policies like separating 5000 children deliberately from their parents? You mean the Obama administration do that, sir?

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Will there be a second family separation policy? It's MSDNC, so I expect nothing less from you clowns. Even today, even 48 hours later, you couldn't wait. You couldn't wait with your lies and with your nonsense. So just get out of here.

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Love it. Love it as a masterclass.

You look at how he holds himself. He comports himself very well standing up straight. And first, what he does is politely and succinctly rips apart the liberal reporters nonsense. Does a very good job at that.

And then the liberal reporter, he doesn't want to hear it. So he pulls the microphone. He says, are you talking about the Obama era policies? The Obama era policies, putting kids in cages or whatever nonsense you're talking about? The reporter pulls the microphone away. He doesn't want Don Junior talking about that. Then the reporter just doubles down on his nonsense. And Don Junior recognizes this guy is immune to logic and reason. You're not really going to convince the liberal reporter. What you want to do is embarrass the liberal reporter for having his facts wrong. You want to persuade the public, who maybe the people on the fence who are watching the liberal reporters newscast.

But you say your piece, and then when the reporter just shoves his fingers in his ears and says, la la la, you say, okay.

Then you instruct the liberal reporter to go pound sand, which is what Don Junior did. Hes asked a question. He gives a very good answer to the question.

The reporter keeps pushing him. He observes the hypocrisy in the reporters rhetoric. The reporter then keeps trying to dig in and he says, okay, ive made my point. Youre not going to be persuaded.

I got two words for you, and theyre not happy birthday, buh bye. That's not bye bye either. And that's it. Beautiful, beautiful masterclass. Something we all ought to keep in mind for our debates. Now, speaking of the sons of presidents, there's a report, this is a really worried, a lot of worrying reports. Recently there's a report out that according to the Daily Beast, Joe Biden's acting chief of staff right now, the guy who's actually controlling access to the president and is directing the president's decisions is Hunter Biden, a former crackhead, a crook who's sold his father's influence in the government all over the world to some of the worst people on earth.

According to this report from the Daily Beasts as a left wing outlet, Joe's family is standing with him, his wife Jill and sister Valerie, who Democrats relied upon to provide wise counsel, not just cheerleading. His son Hunter has been seen at the White House so much lately that one well connected lawyer lobbyist Democrat dubbed him the acting chief of staff. He's the gatekeeper. He's the one who's bucking up his dad, which would explain a lot. That would explain a lot of Joe Biden's failures. But regardless, you see, the conclusion from the story is he's keeping that tight circle around him.

He's surrounding himself with family. And the very very close allies.

And so Obama wants him out. Joe doesn't give a damn.

The Clintons want him out. Nancy, Pelosi, Schumer, they all want him out.

What does Joe Biden care? What does Joe Biden have to gain by getting out of the race? What does he have to lose by staying in the race?

Nothing. Nothing.

And what's the campaign going to be? All Joe Biden's campaign is, is Trump, is Hitler and he's going to destroy our country.

And that's going to justify getting Trump killed. And they tried to kill Trump.

Some guy in Pennsylvania tried to kill Trump based on the premises established by the leading Democrats, including Joe Biden. So now Joe Biden cant even campaign on that. He can try. Hes going to continue to try. Its going to rub a lot of people the wrong way. Its going to rub a lot of moderates and independents the wrong way because theyre going to see the consequences of that kind of rhetoric, of those premises.

So hes got nothing. Okay.

Speaking of ancient things, im glad I did get to this.

We're talking about history.

You look back at history, your personal history, the history of your community, of your country, and things start to make sense. They don't always make sense. At the time things happen, you pull your hair out, why is this happening? But they start to make sense looking back. And God's providence, the intelligibility which christians believe in, liberals don't necessarily believe in it. They have their own progressive utopias. Actually, that comes up with a kind of an anti narrative, a very different kind of narrative. But christians believe, actually, things don't always seem to make sense in the short run. But in the arc of history, the story that God wants to tell is unfolding as he wishes.

There's a story, a news report that's just come out from the Daily Mail. Archaeologists find more evidence of Bible story about Moses leading his people to the promised land 3200 years ago. So without getting too much into the weeds of the story, there's more evidence coming out from the israeli antiques authority or antiquities authority that the story of the exodus told in the Old Testament, in the Book of Exodus, really did happen. It literally happened in history, which does not surprise me at all.

There are four layers of meaning.

We want to really go back in time.

The scholastics in the Middle Ages, the height of our civilization, they understood that there are four layers of meaning to a text. There's the literal meaning, there is the typological meaning, the allegorical meaning, there's the moral meaning, and there's the anagogical meaning meaning, the meaning from the perspective of eternity, of the end times.

So how does this play out? Well, a great example of this. Dante actually lays this out in a famous letter to his patron, Congrande della Scala.

He points to the book of exodus, and he said, this is a great example of the four layers of meaning.

What's the literal story of the book of Exodus? Moses leads the Israelites from Egypt into the promised land.

What is the typological meaning of the figurative meaning of this is the redemption won for us by Christ.

That's what that figures prefigures. What's the. What's the moral meaning? You kNow, like the moral of the story, the moral meaning is the struggle that each of us undergoes, from the misery of sin to the status of grace.

And then what's the analogical meaning?

It's the taking. And this is DanTE's words, the taking of the blessed soul, from the slavery of this corruption to the freedom of eternal glory.

And all of those meanings simultaneously are there in Exodus, and none of them takes away from any of the others.

Moses really did lead the Israelites out of Egypt, and that really means all of these other things for us individually and for us collectively politically.

A bullet really did. A bullet that was in line for President Trump's head really did miss his head and only took off part of his ear because he turned just a little bit right there at a rally in Pennsylvania. And what exactly that means, that literally happened, what exactly that means will become clearer with the retrospection of history. But what I can promise you is it does mean something.

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