The Highwire with Del Bigtree - DONALD TRUMP AND THE TOLL OF VITRIOL

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

Nearly a decade of increasingly dangerous rhetoric and bias from corporate ‘journalists’ and those in power have prepared the grounds for violence. Who is to blame??Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

I'd like to talk about the media's role in creating the atmosphere for something like this to happen. And for years past, the media, corporate media I'm talking about specifically, has had monopoly on creating narratives. They weren't really challenged. And even up until COVID, it took about a year or so for a critical mass of people to start questioning the evidence behind the lockdowns or the science behind the vaccines. And this is something that has rapidly increased. There's even a book on this by Noam Chomsky called Manufacturing Consent. This has been known for a long time. This is how the media and the power classes of the U.S. do these things.

And so when we saw the incident happen to Donald Trump, we immediately saw the media go into headlines like this. This is Associated Press. They wrote, Donald Trump escorted off stage by Secret Service during a rally after loud noises ring out and crowd. CNN says Secret Service rushes Trump off stage, after he falls at Rally. Now, I'm not wanting to defend corporate media,

but in their defense, these were early headlines, but still, anybody, any citizen journalist or anybody on social media was already scooping that story and going into the real narratives. So we're seeing, I think for the first time, is unraveling of narratives in real time by citizen journalists, by just regular people. This is a phenomenon I've never seen in my lifetime.

So it'll be fascinating to see how this unfolds. But really going back to the media, general violence becomes more acceptable. And the chances of events like this happening, what happened to Trump, increase when the media has been doing this for several years. Check this out. Donald J. Trump presents a clear and present danger to our democracy. If this is what we're going to be, this won't be a democracy. That's a monarchy. It was repugnant. An actual Trump-led wannabe empire is the end of democracy. a re-election of Donald Trump put me in the end of democracy.

He's showed how dark his soul is, but now he is proving himself to be a truly dangerous man. Increasingly, Donald Trump is turning this nation into Nazi Germany. I hate comparing Trump to Hitler because Hitler could concentrate for more than 30 seconds. I want to start using the word fascist. Yeah, he's a fascist. And the tendencies, many tendencies like Adolf Hitler. You don't have a president, as you said, talking about exterminating.

Right. Latina. This is not a reach. I could go back and talk about Nazi Germany and I do it, I do it without any concerns whatsoever. And if people can't start drawing the parallels, well, you're just stupid or you're one of them. We're on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system. That'd be ready to throw a punch. We have to be ready to throw a punch. Donald Trump, I think you need to go back and then punch him in a face.

That I thought he should have punched him in the face. I feel like punching him. I'd like to take him behind the gym if I were in high school. We're in high school. I'd take you behind the gym and beat the hell out of them. No, I wish you were in high school. to take him behind the gym. I will go and take Trump out tonight.

Take him out now. When was the last time an actor assassinated the president? I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the one house. If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be? Does one of us have to come out alive? They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. Jeffrey, we lived through that, Jeffrey, but seeing

it like that, no words, no words for that. I mean, we all watch that, and I would hope to think that a large portion of the country watch that and discuss, not because it's Donald Trump, but because of the power the media does wield still and the influence it has on society to shape minds. And even elected officials were caught up in that. This is New York Representative Dan Goldman. He had to apologize in the past after saying Trump has to be eliminated. And so there is precedent for this.

John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. And before he arrived in Dallas, days before he arrived in Dallas, this flyer, about 5,000 copies of it were distributed and put around the area. And, you know, it's like kind of like wanted dead or alive poster. And accusing him a range of offenses from not upholding the Constitution, lying to American, supporting communism, basically a threat to demise. Where have we heard that before? So with media being so supercharged right now and social media, what they have been doing is extremely dangerous.

And you know it's bad, even when Snoops, the fact checker, has to come out and say, yeah, we kind of did that. The president even said put Trump in the bull's eye. But here's the context. He didn't really mean it. So when Snopes comes out and says you're correct, you know that there's definitely something amiss. For sure. Right. And so post-assination attempt, here we are.

And a political action committee called the Lincoln Project is still running ads. They're still not toning down the rhetoric. So this is still dangerous. So people need to understand this is their tweet on X just a couple days ago to almost three million followers. And it shows videos of Hitler. It says Hitler's power wasn't taken. It was given.

And once he had control, he enacted his horrifying dictatorial agenda, the same dynamic is at play with Trump. And so we really need to check ourselves here because we can have honest debate and discussion. There's no need to do this and it's continuing to create an atmosphere. I still think it's extremely dangerous right now for political candidates. And when we talk about the media, censoring views, opposing views, censoring conversation, there's nothing new after living through the COVID response, especially for our audience. But when government starts to direct it, then it becomes historically dangerous, this runaway, this breakaway speed.

And we saw this with the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board. That came out to really shut down speech on COVID to protect election integrity. And that was shut down almost immediately by the people. The pushback was instant from within and without government. And shortly after that, we have Mayorkas announcing this. Secretary Mayorkas announced his establishment of Homeland Intelligence Experts Group. So this is an outside group that was going to, kind of feed information and intelligence to Homeland Security.

And who was in this group? Well, John Brennan, James Clapper, Paul Kolb. These are former directors of CIA, National Intelligence, and high-level people in those organizations, essentially part of the deep state. And those people are the same people that signed on to the Hunter Biden Russian disinfo laptop story. They were three of the 51 intelligence agents.

And that headline was in 2020 in the run-up to the election saying that 100 Biden's opt-top really didn't exist. This was Russian disinformation. Those people are now recycled into advising DHS from an outside perspective. Well, thanks to the work of America First Legal, news broke that that has been disbanded. America's first legal put forward a legal, basically a legal case. And this was the headline on X. The Biden administration will dissolve and disband its unlawful DHS intelligence experts group.

But the best part of this says they are also turning over their internal documents to our possession. So what has been basically discovered in these internal documents is absolutely shocking. This was one of the releases, the press releases they just put out. Brennan Clapper Group pushed DHS to adopt covert influence campaigns to crush political opposition. And it says in there moreover the group discussed redefining political dissent as a public health crisis. At first, the group wanted this messaging to come from the White House. So that's saying political speech, only certain political speech can be censored. And it's going to be under the heading of a public health crisis.

We're seeing those climate change. People have seen those headlines. Climate change is a public health crisis. So why are they doing that? Well, you know, we've had work from Dr. Michael Nils, he wrote an indoctrinated brain. The public is primed because of the psychological operations during COVID to accept a public health crisis. Anything under that kind of heading is going to get a reaction from the public.

So these are what these CIA heads, these ex-intelligence heads are saying, let's just loop it under a public health crisis, and people will accept us censoring their political speech. That's what's being talked about at the highest levels. You know, it's crazy. I cover Missouri v. Biden. Obviously, it's a, you know, a wide-ranging anti-censorship case for lack of a better word. And they address all of this.

And the Supreme Court just a couple weeks ago basically gave the government, it's manual on how to get around this, doing basically what you're talking about right now. You know, any bureaucracy they can find that they can use to get the CIA operating on American soil, they seem to be doing. And of course, I'm being a little hyperbolic there, but you get what I'm saying, Jeffrey. Absolutely.