Ep. 1532 - Knowles At The RNC: President Trump Returns!

Michael Knowles
Less than 72 hours after being shot and coming within a fraction of an inch of being assassinated, President Trump walked into the Republican National Convention on schedule.

Joe Biden
Tomorrow. All the things were born I worked for all my life.

Michael Knowles
Amazing.

You've got the required Lee Greenwood song. I actually ran into Lee Greenwood. He's one of the first guys I saw when I got here today.

Him emerging Trump with the bandage on his ear a couple days after having nearly been assassinated, brought some tears to the eyes. You can see, actually, Don Junior. Don Junior has got tears in his eyes, as did many people here.

There were prayers.

There were models.

There was a new running mate, JD Vance. This is the most historic national party convention since at least 1968 and possibly since 1892. And I am coming to you here from the heart of it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show. The RNC had not been underway for more than handful of hours before some fake news started spreading. The libs accusing Trump of falling asleep on day one. That is not what happened. And their misunderstanding tells you a lot about them. There's so much more to say. First, though, it's prime week. But instead of giving your money to Jeff Bezos, you should go to goodranchers.com and shop their prime deals on american meats.

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His opponent, Joe Biden, could not keep his thoughts together long enough to answer a simple question in an interview with Lester Holt on NBC.

Joe Biden
And they looked at me and concluded I didn't do a damn thing wrong. But my generic point is that it's.

Well.

Michael Knowles
And my point, the whole point of my campaign is the footage of the Himalayasu Xi Jinping. You know, you know the thing, he doesn't even say that. He doesn't even say that. He just trails off. And there is something profound to this rhetorical error here, because the Biden campaign no longer has a point. The point of the Biden campaign is that Donald Trump is Hitler, and Donald Trump represents an existential threat to America, to our democracy, to our system of government. That is the point of the campaign.

That's not my inference from Biden's rhetoric. That is the actual premise of his campaign in his own words, as he has told us time and time again.

Joe Biden
And singing the same antisemitic bio they sang when back in Germany. And what did, and the young woman got killed. They spoke to the mother and they asked him, they said, what do you think of those people? The people who, the ones got killed, the one who tried to stop it, and the ones he said, I think they're fine people on both sides. What american president would ever say, Nazis coming out of fields, carrying torches, singing the same antisemitic bile, carrying swastikas, were fine people.

This is the guy who says, Hitler's done some good things. I'd like to know what they are. The good things Hitler's done. That's what he said.

Michael Knowles
Nazis. They're Nazis. Trump likes Nazis. Trump's a Nazis. He likes Hitler. Trump does. He wants Hitler to do Hitler, nazi things and hes an existential threat to our democracy. Thats the point of the campaign. Biden says that he got into the race, he was going to retire from politics, but he got into the race in 2020 because Trumps a Nazi and he poses an existential threat now. He doesnt really believe that. The moment that Joe Biden tweeted out, im glad that Donald Trump is doing okay after the shooting, the moment he said, I called Donald Trump, im grateful that hes alive and hes doing well. The moment he said that, you knew he was completely full of it, comparing Trump to Hitler because you wouldn't hope that Hitler is okay.

The moment that Biden and all the Democrats said, you know, boy, by golly, I'm really happy that Trump has recovered and that he wasn't seriously injured. You knew that they didn't really believe you posed an existential threat to our democracy and our country. Because if someone really did pose an existential threat, the country dies.

If this Mandez carries on, then you wouldn't say that you were happy that he did. Well, that kind of rhetoric, those premises justify anything up to and including an assassination. So Biden can't defend that anymore. But he has to defend that if he wants to have a campaign. So he's struck dumb dumber than he previously was. Even Lester Holt. Then in this interview, the, I think the fifth attempt to restart the Biden campaign, don't forget the first attempt was the debate. That's why Biden proposed the debate, because he was slipping in the polls. That didn't work. Then it was the NATO press conference that didn't really work. Then it was the oval Office address after the assassination. That didn't really work. Now he's sitting down with Lester Holt on NBC. And Lester Holt raised the very point that I just made. You called your opponent an existential threat to the country.

You even said youd put him in a bullseye. What do you say now?

Lester Holt
You called your opponent an existential threat. On a call a week ago, you said its time to put Trump in the bullseye. Theres some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate crosshairs.

Joe Biden
I was talking about focus on, look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was theres very little focus on Trumps.

Lester Holt
Yeah, the term is bullseye.

Joe Biden
It was a mistake to use the word. I didn't say crosshairs. I mean bullseye. I mean focus on him. Focus on what he's doing.

Michael Knowles
Nobody said, you said crosshairs. Lester Holt said very clearly, you said you were gonna put Trump in a bullseye. I never said crosshairs.

Right. You said bullseye. Yeah.

Come on, man.

So here you have the closest thing we've seen yet to Biden admitting that he has been horribly irresponsible for his rhetoric and that his rhetoric established the premises that would justify assassination.

Ironically, once again, the very thing that they accused Trump of doing, Biden and the Democrats themselves actually did. And here, finally, I shouldn't have said that. And he's still trying to get out of it. I never said that thing that you never said that I said. But he's still trying to weasel his way out. And yet even Biden has to admit, okay, yeah, I probably should not have said that.

So then Lester Holt presses him further. Is this the first time that NBC has ever pressed a Democrat president? Lester Holt asks. Okay, so maybe you regret some of your rhetoric and you can't articulate what your campaign's about anymore.

Now, after this assassination attempt, why haven't you heard from your secret service director.

Lester Holt
Is it acceptable that you have still not heard, at least publicly, from the secret service director?

Joe Biden
Well, I've heard from them, but have.

Lester Holt
You heard from her publicly?

Joe Biden
Publicly? I've sat down in a situation room downstairs. The Secret Service, the FBI, the national security agencies, the homeland security, all the major elements.

Michael Knowles
Is it acceptable that you haven't heard from the secret service director? Oh, I've heard from him, actually.

It's a woman named Kimberly Cheadle who you appointed.

What are you talking about? I pal around at the secret service director all the time. Oh, yeah? He and I, the secret service director and I, we go to the swimming pool in Scranton, man. You know, we go. We shave our hairy legs together, man. He's a bad dude. That secret Service director's name's corn pop.

No, actually, he. Is she confusing these days? And her name is Kimberly Cheadle, and you obviously haven't heard from her because you don't even know what sex she is.

Then he goes on, no, I hear from the Secret Service. No, sir, you have Secret Service protection. You have significantly more Secret Service protection than Donald Trump had, which is why he was vulnerable to an assassination attempt that nearly killed him.

No responsibility, no accountability, no knowledge even of who the personnel are.

Nothing. The lights are on and no one's home. So let's focus on that secret service director. Seems to me if you're the director of the us secret service and a president or former president or a party nominee or the leading presidential candidate in the country is very nearly assassinated and only alive because of the grace of God and a movement of a head a nanosecond before a shot rang out, probably you should resign.

It seems to me the boss of the Secret service director, though, the secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, has just come out and fully endorsed Secret Service Director Kim Cheadle. Does the president have confidence in the Secret service director after Saturday's failures?

Joe Biden
I have 100% confidence in the director of the United States States Secret Service. I have 100% confidence in the United States Secret Service. And what you saw on stage on Saturday with respect to individuals putting their own lives at risk for the protection of another is exactly what the american public should see every single day. It is what I indeed do.

Michael Knowles
What we saw Saturday is what we should see every single day, according to the director of homeland security.

Secretary of Homeland security.

Every day, according to Secretary Mayorkas, we should see a former president very nearly murdered, shot through the ear and very nearly murdered every single day. We should see that because what a great job that was.

And then after the former president and presidential candidate is shot nearly through the brain, we should see Secret Service agents mishandling their firearms. One Secret Service agent who obviously is not physically capable of doing that job. Certainly not physically ideal.

Having trouble even holstering her weapon. That's what we should see. We should see a sniper getting off multiple rounds from an unsecure rooftop to nearly murder Donald Trump. We should see that every single day. And that's why, according to Mayorkas, he's got 100% confidence in the Secret Service director's ability.

So Biden doesn't know who the Secret Service director is? Mayorkas, the direct boss of the secret service director, has 100% confidence in her. What about her? Is she at least going to admit that this was a complete failure, the sort of failure we haven't seen in about 40 years?

And is she going to resign? Here's her answer.

Lester Holt
Who is most responsible for this happening?

Michael Knowles
What I would say is that the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former president.

Lester Holt
So the buck stops with you?

Michael Knowles
The buck stops with me. I am the director of the secret service. It was unacceptable, and it's something that shouldn't happen again.

Lester Holt
The president and Homeland Security secretary said today they had 100% confidence in you. But there are some members of Congress calling on you to resign.

Michael Knowles
I appreciate the secretary's comments, and we're going to continue to be transparent and communicate with people.

Lester Holt
You plan to stay on? Absolutely.

Michael Knowles
I do plan to stay on.

I take responsibility. The buck stops with me.

This was completely unacceptable, and that's why nothing will change whatsoever. I'm keeping my job. It's all my fault. I take full responsibility. The buck stops with me. What buck? Huh? Buck. Who's me? What are you talking about? Joe Biden doesn't know who I am anyway. Bye.

Do words mean anything anymore?

You cannot simultaneously hold that what occurred was completely unacceptable, as it obviously was, that you are taking responsibility and that you're going to keep your job.

Can't do it, but they will. There will be no accountability.

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Speaking of libs going into spin Overdrive, we have seen the most hilarious example of fake news that I've seen in quite a long time coming out of the RNC yesterday. And it was a video that went around social media of President Trump supposedly falling asleep on day one of the convention for Silicon Valley. Ever since he got here, he hasn't done anything.

The video is cropped very, very thin. You can only see Trump here. You can't see any of the people around him, none of their faces, no one on the floor. You can't even hear what's going on. You're just hearing the commentary from MSNBC. But he's got his eyes closed, so the libs are saying he fell asleep.

So there are a lot of confused libs out there. And I'm going to try to explain something, because maybe they genuinely don't know.

What President Trump is listening to in that video is something called a prayer.

Prayer is when people speak to God, when they contemplate God, sometimes when they ask things of God, when they consider God really at all, they do that. And it is common during prayer to close one's eyes.

And I bet there are a lot of libs out there who don't have any idea what I'm talking about. So in the spirit of charity and education, that's what's going on now, I suspect some of the libs who were sharing that knew full well that this was a prayer. And they just clipped it in a silly way to make it look like Trump fell asleep. By the way, he was shot in the head two days prior. If the man wanted to take a nap, I don't think anyone ought to begrudge him that nap. But that's not what happened.

He was shot. Part of his ear was blown off, back of his skull was nearly blown off. And then 48 hours later, he was at the convention. And he made a very important point. He said, the convention goes on as planned. No changes. We will not allow them to change this. They really wanted to change the convention by nearly murdering the president two or three days before he would officially become the nominee.

But no, nothing would change. And so he made it there. And he was bright eyed and bushy tailed.

And yes, he closed his eyes and listened to prayers.

And there were some really great prayers.

The convention opened with the Catholic archbishop of Milwaukee, who gave what I thought was a perfect prayer to open a national political convention in America.

Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee
And let us pray.

Lord, we thank you for our nation.

Our founding fathers held these truths self evident, that all are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

For 248 years, we have sustained this vision to guard the dignity of every life from conception to natural death, to protect their liberty, especially to speak freely and to worship you, and to support their pursuit of happiness through this life to the next.

We pray that you assist our elected officials and candidates always to protect our freedoms, to preserve our democracy, and to govern fairly.

Grant them the wisdom every day to place the good of our nation above personal interests, and to cherish our union.

Michael Knowles
This is a really beautiful prayer for this convention because it is a prayer specifically for America.

It's using american language, words and themes from the american tradition, and speaking to them in the light of spiritual truth. This prayer is seeing the state, which is distinct from the church, through, as if illuminated by the light that is reflected by the church.

Because both church and state derive their authority from God, and both church and state are necessary for man's ultimate ends.

We are christians believe we are pilgrims in this world.

I think everyone has to acknowledge we are not going to be here forever.

From the perspective of eternity, we are here for a pretty short time.

The material things of this world are not enough. That is not what we are made for. Money wont buy you happiness.

We Christians believe that we have greater ends, that there is a life of the world to come.

The state is necessary not only for man to achieve his natural ends. You know, feed his family, establish and maintain peace and order so that man can thrive and flourish in his family, in his business, in his community, in his fishing club, and all the things that we like to do from the perspective of nature. But the state is also necessary to help man to achieve his supernatural ends. Because it's very difficult to pray when there isn't peace.

We do it. You know, there are no atheists in foxholes.

But to really live out one's religion is greatly aided by peace and order, political stability.

So the two are necessary here. And this prayer is not. It doesn't ignore the natural and political order. Neither does it solely focus on the natural and political order. It gives you both. I thought that was really appropriate. There was another very charming christian prayer. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to gcu.edu. grand Canyon University, a private christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, believes that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. GCU believes in equal opportunity, and the american dream starts with purpose. GCU equips you to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing and create a ripple effect of transformation for generations to come. By honoring your career, calling you, impact your family, your friends, and your community. Change the world for good by putting others before yourself to glorify God. Whether your pursuit involves a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree, GCU's online, on campus, and hybrid learning environments are designed to help you achieve your unique academic, personal and professional goals.

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my second favorite prayer from day one of the RNC came from a lutheran pastor. This is how the lutheran pastor opened up.

Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee
A great pleasure to be here.

Michael Knowles
Great pleasure to see President Donald Trump safe and if I may, before the benediction, give you this promise.

You're going to be so blessed.

Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee
You'Re.

Michael Knowles
Going to be tired of being blessed. I guarantee it.

Great. Little bit. A nice moment of levity in this expression of gratitude that President Trump is safe. I thought it was great. He really seemed to get a kick out of it. The crowd went wild for it.

This was great and really appropriate because we're a christian country.

To quote John Adams, many of our founding fathers made important statements about the centrality of Christianity to the United States. John Adams put it quite well. He said the general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were.

He was quite prolix. So I'll cut out some words, but doesn't change the meaning at all.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. Now, I will avow that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.

Really good stuff. Beautifully done.

Lots of great prayers. There were some other prayers that missed the mark a little bit because we're a christian country and we have a longstanding tradition of religious tolerance, and that's great.

But we're not a penanteistic country. We're nothing polytheistic country.

We're not any of those things. We're a christian country. And the general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.

So if really all Americans in the political process, I think, ought to recognize that, and especially the conservative political party, we ought to recognize that very important thing. There is a controversial speech, probably the speech that made the most headlines during day one of the RNC came from someone named Amber Rose, someone I had never heard of before.

Seriously, I mentioned this to someone who said, oh, yeah, Michael, you never heard? Because apparently this gal did some sort of saucy things. But no, I had actually never heard of this woman before, and she was invited to speak at the RNC.

I guess she's got something of a colorful background, and she's espoused views that are quite naughty and done things that are quite naughty. But before you pass judgment, just listen to her speech.

Amber Rose
My entire family is racially diverse, and I believe the left wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist.

My father said, no, he's not. Amber, what are you talking about?

And when I insisted, he said, prove it.

So to prove my father wrong, I did my research and looked into all things Donald Trump.

People have to do their research.

I watched all the rallies, and I started meeting so many of you. His red hat wearing supporters.

I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don't care if you're black, white, gay, or straight. It's all love.

My message to you tonight comes from a humble place. The left told me to hate Trump, and even worse, to hate the other side, the people who support him. When you cut through the lies, you realize the truth.

American families were better when Donald Trump was president.

Michael Knowles
Why am I supposed to have a problem with this?

Why am I, as a conservative Republican supposed to have a problem with this? This woman didn't get up there advocating her views that are contrary to goodness and truth and the republican party platform.

She didn't get up there peddling abortion or something like that because God forbid, that would be awful. I would criticize that.

I'd be outraged by that. She didn't do that. What year? She apparently did some saucy photo shoots or something. Okay.

She was dressed quite elegantly there. That doesn't bother me. She. What? What's the problem? She said all sorts of crazy things about religion and. Okay. Was she talking about any of that? No. She got up there and she said, hey, I was told to hate Trump.

And I was, I was told by the media that Trump is awful and evil and racist and terrible. And I believed it. And then I realized it wasn't true. And so I'm telling people who look like me, who do things that I do, who talk the way that I talk, that are not usually part of the republican base. Hey, you're being lied to by the media. Take it from me, someone that you follow. Apparently this woman has 25 million Instagram followers.

I don't know what she's doing that I'm not doing on Instagram. She's got more than I do.

She's telling those people, hey, vote for Trump. That's it. I'm supposed to be upset by that. I'm supposed to be outraged by that. That's good. I'm glad she's doing it.

What do you think this is? What do you think were doing right now? Were at the republican party convention in a presidential year, were nominating a presidential candidate and now a running mate, JD Vance, and were going to go try to win an election in November.

The convention exists to help the candidate win the election. Thats it.

If this woman, Amber rose in any way, if she gets one extra vote for Trump, is worth it.

If she came here and changed the party platform, if she, I don't know, made President Trump rewrite his platform or something, I guess that could be bad. It's not what's happening. She's just going there and saying, hey, he's a good guy. He's not a racist. The media or liars vote for Trump. Thanks. That's great. A prominent person who usually wouldn't side with us is doing that. Fine by me, man. You got to put these things in their proper place.

We're not here at a philosophy symposium, okay? This is not some academic conference.

This is not some kind of purity ritual.

We're at a political party convention, we're going to get people excited about some candidates, and we're going to go try to win an election in November. That's it. That's what this is for. You know, a thing by what it's for. If we were in a philosophy convention, we might talk about good old Grandpa Aristotle, who recognized that, you know, things in large part by what they are for.

That's what conventions are for.

I think this convention's doing a pretty good job of it now.

Support is coming in from all sorts of places.

It's coming in from the amber Rosas of the world.

It's coming in from Elon Musk. There's a report out, Elon Musk is committing $45 million per month to a pro Trump super PAC after the unjust conviction of Trump by the Democrats in New York. I made the biggest political donation of my life, and it was significantly less than $45 million, and I only made it once.

Elon's making it every single month. That's great. So then let's ask the Amber Rose question. Is Elon a conservative?

I guess in some ways he's more conservative than Amber Rose. In some ways, maybe he's less conservative than Amber Rose.

He's pretty radically liberal in the classical sense, in a lot of his comportment, in a lot of his lifestyle.

I wouldn't call Elon Musk exactly a conservative, not really even close.

But is he going to help us?

Does he agree on some pretty important things?

And is he going to put his money where our mouths are and help us out to take back one of the big tech platforms so that it's not just pure liberal dominance all over big tech? Yeah, he is going to do that. He's going to put $44 billion there. Is he going to now donate to the Trump campaign or affiliated super Pacs? Yeah. Great. Thanks. Thanks, man. Thank you. What are all the complainers doing? What have the complainers ever done?

You got to win an election, guys.

You don't just win an election by being the purest guy on Twitter. It's not how it works.

Elon Musk isn't the purest guy on Twitter. He owns Twitter now. Speaking of cultural figures in the year of our lord 2024, I mentioned yesterday on the show that Jack Black, a popular movie star of the two thousands, he was at school of Rock, and, you know, a bunch of, bunch of. He's got this band, tenacious d with some other guy. It's Jack Black and some other guy. And some other guy.

Sat on stage right after the assassination attempt on Trump. He said that his greatest wish is that next time the shooter won't miss. And you could tell. I looked, I said, but did Jack black say that? And it wasn't Jack Black, it was the other guy. And Jack Black didn't really know what to say. So Jack Black has just come out and he said, I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form. After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the tenacious detour and all future creative plans are on hold. Whoa, that's pretty big. So he's saying, I'm canceling the tour that I'm currently on and I might be canceling the whole band because the other guy said something so egregious. And he says, I'm grateful to the fans for their support and understanding. This is a good message.

This is a good message. I'll take it. You know, we want to be gracious. We want to accept apologies. This is a pretty full throated apology.

I guess. He doesn't say the word sorry exactly. But he does say he would never condone what was said and he's going to cancel the tours. He's actually putting his money where his mouth is and he's saying he might cancel the whole band. This is the right thing to do. Good on Jack Black. Its the right thing to do. But importantly, its the only thing to do.

Whats he going to do now? Every interview he gives, this is going to come up. Dont forget, even the liberal press have turned on Biden here.

Biden was shocked that Lester Holt was asking him tough questions. Biden was shocked that even George Stephanopoulos, who is the hacks hack, he was the chief Democrat propagandist in the White House under Bill Clinton, that even George Stephanopoulos was asking him kind of tough questions about whether he'd stay in the race. That was before the assassination attempt.

Jack Black knows he's not going to be able to do any interviews. And what are the performances going to look like?

He's going to have people in the audience either booing him for condoning something so egregious, or it may be worse, applauding the murder of a former president.

Which do you want? I mean, it's arsenic or cyanide. Pick your poison.

And the predicament that Jack Black is in right now is the predicament of the Trump campaign. I'm sorry, of the Biden campaign. Now I sound like Joe Biden because I've been up all night and kind of wandering around and, I don't know, talking to corn pop or whatever we do here at the RNC.

It's the predicament of the campaign. It's the predicament of, like, every lib right now.

Admit that Trump is not Hitler and you have been lying for years.

Or justify his assassination, which very nearly occurred on Saturday.

Those are the two options.

Admit you're completely full of it.

Call for Trump's murder.

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My favorite comment yesterday is from the real captain Redbeard. Converting to Catholicism shows that he takes. I think this is JD Vance. JD Vance takes religion and truth seriously. You don't just convert for no reason, especially if you have a baptist background. Yeah, this is really good, even if you're not catholic and even if you don't like Catholicism.

This is something that makes me believe that JD Vance's political development is legit. A lot of libs now are saying, JD Vance, he's a grifter, he's a liar, he was a never trumper, whatever. He's totally changed his views on politics. Yeah, yeah. He's developed his views. They've deepened, as is true for all of us, by the way. But the fact that his political conversion was begun by a religious conversion, I think should give you much more faith.

At the very least, the political conversion, because all politics ultimately is theological. And so by now, and by the way, it's not as though he undertook this religious conversion because it was politically advantageous. This is America. Okay? Being a Catholic doesn't exactly confer a political advantage. He would have been better off remaining a baptist or an evangelical or. I don't remember exactly what denomination he was in which he was raised. But the fact, even if you don't like Catholicism or whatever, the fact that he took that leap and really planted a new flag, then his political views came from that. His political views, which were very much in line with catholic social teaching. In most cases, many cases at least. I think that should give you a little bit more confidence. I totally agree with that commenter.

Now, speaking of bizarre statements, after the assassination attempt, we turn from Jack Black to the Rhode Island State police.

I don't have much to say about this. It's just kind of weird. After the assassination attempt on Saturday, the Rhode Island State police said the Rhode island state police is in close contact with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. And our fusion center works twenty four seven to synthesize intelligence and provide us with actionable information.

We have no reason to believe that the incident in Pennsylvania has any connection to Rhode island.

That's the end of the statement.

Okay.

Rhode island is pretty far away from Pennsylvania.

I did not think Rhode island could in any way have anything to do with the attack on Saturday until the Rhode Island State police issued that statement. Now, I. Huh. What?

Just a real head scratcher that. It's just the cherry on top of all the other questions. This one, I assume, totally irrelevant. You know, it's, in a way, it's kind of a really bizarre instance of the line of scripture, the guilty flee where none pursueth.

You think, okay, why would you be involved? But it's just a little cherry on top of all the questions. How was there such a massive security failure? Why did President Trump not have anywhere near the security of a sitting president?

President Trump, who, sure, he was a former president, republican nominee in 2024. He's also being called Hitler and a threat to a democracy by all the top democrats. And how was this allowed to happen?

Now, speaking of speaking out of turn, Joe Biden got sick of Lester Holt during this interview on NBC. And after having to answer questions about his own inflammatory and violent rhetoric, after having to try to articulate the point of his campaign, which he wasn't able to do anymore after this, after that, he finally lost it. He said, hey, Lester, why aren't you talking about Trump?

Lester Holt
In your last tv interview, you were asked if you had watched the debate, and your answer was, I don't think so. No. Have you since seen it?

Joe Biden
I've seen pieces of it. I've not watched the whole debate.

Lester Holt
And the reason I asked, because I guess the question is, are you all on the same page? Are you seeing what they saw? Which was moments of, frankly, that appeared to be, you appeared to be confused, Lester.

Joe Biden
Look, why don't you guys ever talk about the 18 to 28 lies he told?

Where are you on this? Why didn't the press ever talk about that? 28 times. It was confirmed. He lied in that debate.

I had a bad, bad night.

I wasn't feeling well at all. And I had been without it making. I screwed up.

Lester Holt
But I just asked a question because the idea that you may or may not have seen what some of these other folks have seen, you're not on the same.

Joe Biden
I'd have to see. I was there.

I'd have to see it. I was there. And by the way, seriously, you won't answer the question, but why didn't the press talk about all the lies he told?

I didn't know anything about that.

Lester Holt
We have reported many of the issues.

Joe Biden
That came during that debate.

Lester Holt
No, you haven't, but we'll provide you with them.

Joe Biden
God love you.

Lester Holt
Okay.

Michael Knowles
I don't know which part is worse, the part where Biden stammers and stammers, you gotta talk about Trump, or the part where he just laughs like a maniac or the part at the end where he just wants to murder Lester. Old. God love you. God love you, Lester. Yeah. Cause the media never call Trump a liar.

I would say that's something we have a real dearth of in the establishment. Mediataindeh calling Trump a liar. You've never heard that, right?

And so I don't know what Biden's talking about. 28 lies or something. Yeah. The libs always report on all the lies of Donald Trump, many of which are not lies. But, but after that debate on CNN, even CNN had to come on air and talk about the lies. Not, not that Trump uttered, but that Biden uttered.

F
I'll give you some of them. He said he's the only president in a while who didn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world. Troops have, of course, died on his watch.

$15 per shot cap on insulin and Medicare. It's a $35 a month cap, he said it's a $200 cap on overall drug spending. In Medicare, it's $2,000 a year. He said the border now has fewer crossings than when Trump was in office. That's generally not true, he said, or at least strongly suggested. Unemployment was at 15% when he took office. It was actually 6.4. He said Trump wants to get rid of Social Security. Trump doesn't. He said billionaires pay 8.2% in taxes. It's much higher. He said Trump told Americans to inject bleach amid Covid we know Trump made foolish comments about scientists studying disinfectant injection, but didnt frame it as advice to people. And Biden said the Border Patrol endorsed him. No, its union supported the border bill. He supported, never endorsed him himself.

Michael Knowles
It goes on. It goes on. But its brutal.

Even they had to admit it. And so if youre Joe Biden, of course, your reaction is, why arent you talking about Trump?

And thats your reaction, because the media are supposed to talk about Trump. Its supposed to all be about Trump.

All of Trumps lies and many of his true statements that arent lies, but theyre going to call them lies.

And all of Trumps supposedly inflammatory rhetoric, which is nothing, its downright peaceable compared to the violent rhetoric coming from Joe Biden.

But thats just what hes come to expect. Joe Biden's been in politics for 50 years, more than 50 years.

He first got elected in 1970 to the New Castle County Council, I think, and then the Senate a couple years later. And he's been in DC ever since.

And all that time, the press does the Democrats bidding and attacks Republicans.

So now why is the press turning all of a sudden? Well, now the press is going a little bit easier on Trump because he was nearly murdered on Saturday night and because the premises that they have been articulating justified the assassination attempt. So that's why they're pulling off a little bit. But they were turning before because Joe Biden had lost the support of his own party.

His own party lost confidence in him, in part because of that terrible debate performance, because that terrible debate performance took away their ability to lie for him.

Had Joe Biden not challenged Trump to the debate, he wouldn't have done the debate. He could have just hit out in the White House or hid out at Camp David. And the media could have continued to lie and said, oh, no, he's not demented. He's not senile. He has a childhood stutter. He's working all the time.

He can spell his name. He knows, you know, which end is up and which end is down. And they could have done that. But because Joe Biden, he's the one who asked for the debate, because he showed the american people that he really is in decline.

He exposed the press for liars. So the press were angry about that. They had a crisis of their own credibility. And also he revealed that he's going to lose to Trump if nothing changes between now and November. So then there was an open insurrection in the Democrat party.

That word is overused these days. But this was a real insurrection. There's a real mutiny within the Democrat party to replace Biden. It included an op ed ostensibly written by George Clooney. Rumored to have been written by Barack Obama, or at least inspired by Barack Obama in the New York Times, saying, joe's got to go.

And then that didn't work.

But it was a game of chicken between Joe Biden and the liberal establishment. And Joe Biden told the liberal establishment, you got to back me or I'll destroy your chances of winning. And the liberal establishment said, well, no, you got to drop out or we're going to destroy your chances of winning. And theyre both just waiting for the other one to blink.

But now, I think finally, especially after the assassination attempt, the mutiny is over. Theres no political mojo to get it done. But now the press are going to have to live with everything theyve just said.

So now the establishment press have admitted he has dementia. Hes senile.

He lies a lot. Maybe he doesn't even lie because it's not intentional, because he doesn't even know which end is up.

And now all of a sudden, the Democrats are in despair. It's not even chaos. I don't think they can really replace them anymore. It's just despair. Meanwhile, at the republican national Convention, where our nominee was within a hair's breadth of being murdered two and a half days ago, the spirit, and I've been here all day. I left national in the middle of the night, and I've been here all day.

The spirit here is jubilant and grateful and excited for November.

And we'll see if the Republicans figure out a way to screw it up. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. See you tomorrow.

Ep. 1532 - Knowles At The RNC: President Trump Returns!

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