Will Cain Country - Would-Be Assassins of Former President Donald Trump Go 0-2! Erik Prince Breaks It Down

Episode Date: September 16, 2024

Story #1: The second attempted assassination of Former President Donald Trump. We break down what went wrong with Host of ‘Off Leash’ with Erik Prince; Author of ‘Civilian Warriors’; Founder of private military company Blackwater, Eric Prince. Story #2: FOX News Digital Political Correspondent, Brooke Singman had the first exclusive interview with Donald Trump. She gives us the insights on his state of mind. Story #3: Mass psychosis created by the media that has led to an environment that leads to assassination. A conversation with Fox News Contributor, Joe Concha.   Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail]   Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show!   Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One, the second attempted assassination of Donald Trump. We break down what went wrong. And what we can read into, two assassination attempts within two months of a former president and the leading presidential candidate for the United States of America, with the former founder of Blackwater, Eric Prince. Two, Fox News, digital reporter Brooke Singman has the first exclusive interview with Donald Trump, and she joins us live here on The Will Cain Show. Three, mass psychosis created by the media.

You'll hear the clips from MSNBC. You'll hear the clips from NBC. You'll see the tweets and ask, has this not led to an environment of mass psychosis that leads to assassination? It is the Will Cain Show streaming live. Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page. Terrestrial radio, market-to-market, and always on demand by subscribing at Apple or Spotify. Or if you'd rather watch the Will Cain Show, as you should, every Monday through Thursday at 12 o'clock Eastern Time, simply subscribe on YouTube. It's the second assassination attempt of Donald Trump within two months.

58-year-old Hawaii resident, North Carolinian, Ryan Wesley Ralph, detained, arrested, caught after sneaking just outside the property of Trump International Golf Course in Palm Beach, Florida. He approached a tree line from a public street, approached a fence line, armed with an AK-47 two backpacks and several ceramic tiles for personal protection. He pointed a scoped rifle onto the golf course, approximately one hole ahead of the hole being played by Donald Trump. Apparently Donald Trump was on the fourth hole, and Roth was somewhere around the fifth or sixth hole.

A secret service agent scouring the golf course ahead of Donald Trump, noticed the barrel of the rifle and opened fire on the alleged assassinate. He took off, got into his car where he was photographed, both car and his license plate and his image, by a witness. Within minutes, he was tracked down on I-95 and arrested. He is now in custody, and there will be much to learn. There will be questions like, what led to this kind of insanity, what led to this attempt on President Donald Trump? There are tweets where he says things like democracy is on the ballot. He was also, for what it's worth, a fanatic when it came to the war in Ukraine.

going so far as to die half of his head blue and going to Kiev in trying to raise civilian soldiers to fight for Ukraine. He gave several interviews. In fact, he's been interviewed by the Financial Times, the New York Times, and many other media outlets. And here he is, just to give you a taste of the alleged assassin, talking to Newsweek.

This is about good versus evil. This is a storybook. You know, any movie we've ever watched, this is definitely evil against good. I mean, we're battling a situation here where, you know, the Ukrainians and the rest of the world are caring and kind and generous and unselfish and take care of one another. And it's just a matter of, you know, we need to stand up for that. That is the most important thing in the world is just to show human beings that we're kind and we're caring and that we take care of one another. What led a man to go all the way to Ukraine, die half his head blue, become a fanatic.

when it comes to Ukraine to tweet things like Donald Trump wants to be a modern American slave master to suggest that democracy is on the ballot. We're going to break down the role of the media a little bit later here on the Will Cain show with Fox News media analyst Joe Concha. But questions about exactly how this man knew Donald Trump was playing golf, when he was playing golf, is it just simply the second lucky circumstance for a would-be assassin within two months? And what is going wrong? around the protection of former President Donald Trump. Let's get into all of that right now with story number one.

Eric Prince is the founder of the private military company Blackwater. He hosts off-leash with Eric Prince. He's also the author of Civilian Warriors and the founder of the Unplugged Phone, which you should check out at Unplugged.com. He is an expert that we are very privileged to have this morning with us in the wake of this news. Eric, I'll just start very open with you. saw this yesterday. You've had less than 24 hours, but about 18 hours to reflect. What are your thoughts about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump? It's the fruit of the constant

over-the-top tactics of the left saying Donald Trump is Hitler, democracy is at stake, all the rest. It empowers every nut job on the periphery of the left to say, I'm going to self-actualize, and kill Donald Trump to save democracy. That's why this guy literally made his final firing position with ballistic plates against the fence and a GoPro mounted because he was going to film himself killing Donald Trump. It was a trophy hunt for him. And it's disgusting.

And it's disgusting for every Democrat politician, activist, or whatever, saying anything to eliminate Donald Trump, to take him out, to take him all the pejoratives they use, It's disgusting, and this is what causes it. And I suppose they're going to keep doing it until they're successful or until they feel consequences for the kind of threatening language that they're using. So just to illustrate your point, Eric, I want to play a clip. This is from Claire McCaskill, Senator, talking about how she views Donald Trump. A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler and the use

of the terminology like Vermin and the drive that those men had towards autocracy and dictatorship. The difference, though, I think, makes Donald Trump even more dangerous, and that is he has no philosophy he believes in. He is not trying to expand the boundaries of the United States of America. That's former senator from Missouri, Claire Muskaskill. Now, to your point, Eric, did that motivate? I think a deeper conversation we need to have is about the formation of mass psychosis, an entire society that is given into hysteria,

or at least a portion of society that's given into hysteria. And then you apply it to a single individual. This one, Ryan alleged assassin Ryan Ralph. Here is what he tweeted. I think we have as we put it up on the screen. he tweeted at the president of the United States. This is Joe Biden in April 22nd of 2024. POTUS, your campaign should be called something like K-A-D-A-F,

keep America democratic and free. Trumps should be M-A-S-A, M-A-S-A, M-A-A-Massa, make Americans slaves again, master. Democracy is on the ballot, and we cannot lose, we cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way. Now, Eric, I don't, this is a, Crazy man. But the point I think that you're making we all should be focused on today is how much a

crazy man can be motivated by people that should know better by their rhetoric and the environment they create in America. He is a fellow traveler of the hard left, the irresponsible left, the people that created the mass hysteria around COVID as well and whipped people into a frenzy to phone in their neighbors if they weren't wearing a mask in their cars. So, yeah, and now they've convinced, look, the left is about power. It's about holding on to power, and they see Donald Trump's popularity and his success in the polls as being a threat to their continuation of power. And so they whip up all kinds of masked words short of calling directly for his execution, although I think Dan Goldman called for his elimination. So I'm not sure what that even means.

Look, they've tried everything. Tucker Carlson was right. They've tried lawfare. They've tried lawsuits. They've tried removing him from the ballots. Now they're trying to remove him from the earth. And it's disgusting and it's wrong. And perhaps the left needs to be warned that if their language continues and something

happens to Donald Trump, there will be consequences and repercussions that they cannot even imagine. I think the term so the wind, reap the whirlwind, might be appropriate. Tucker Carlson saying some months ago that there would be an assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life. We talked about that here on the Will Cane show in February with Matt Taibi, that it is the inevitable result. When you call someone Hitler, why would you not expect them to stop Hitler? What I didn't, I can't speak to Tucker, Eric, what I didn't consider was the potentiality for multiple attempts on Donald Trump. but now that we've crossed that bridge, why should we assume it stops at two?

If you have motivated crazy people, and I will submit, the thing about it is, obviously not everyone on the left is crazy, and not everyone on the left wants to be an assassin, but if you create mass psychosis, you give motivation to those that are crazy. So what I would say is,

is how do they protect? What I would ask, Eric, is let's get into a little bit of the protection around Donald Trump. When you hear this, Okay, they're scouting a hole or two ahead. It's a public golf course. There's public roadways around the golf course. Do you see success or failure of the Secret Service here?

I honestly sometimes wonder, like, can you protect somebody that has so many crazy people motivated around them? Like, there's a limit at some point, is there not, to what you can do to protect someone? What do you see here with the Secret Service? Well, here's the thing, whether it's thoroughly sweeping that entire course or having more patrols out or dog teams or whatever that are looking and hunting. Just doing one hole ahead is clearly, clearly not enough. The fact that, I mean, thank God that advanced guy saw the barrel, saw this firing position, if the crazy shooter had actually worn a gilly suit like a professional. Sniper would have done, this would be a different outcome because you can literally walk up to within a meter or two of somebody with a gilly suit and you won't see him. But the fact that this idiot put ballistic panels against the fence with the barrel, ready to go with his GoPro, again, trophy hunting.

Disgusting. I'm very disappointed that the four rounds that the Secret Service fired were not effective that didn't score. I really hope they scrub his electronics to see what he looked at to radicalize him this much. Who influenced him that much? And Trump should sue all the people that were in this guy's feed that stimulated him to commit attempted murder. You know something else I'd want to know scrubbing his electronics, Eric? This seems to me, I've heard somebody say it. I'm not, I'm not, this isn't my own independent, um, original thought or not my sole independent original question.

Somebody said, this is a million dollar question. How did he know that Donald Trump was playing golf that day? How did he know what time Donald Trump would be on the golf course? Somebody point out there's three options here. The three options are, um, one he was scouting Donald Trump, tailing Donald Trump, keeping up with his movements in some way for some extended period of time, which then would raise more questions about the security around Donald Trump and those that can see if he's got, you know, a stalker in this way.

Second option, he got incredibly lucky. He just climbed out there, maybe hung out. We don't know how long he hung out. We don't know how long he was on the course, buried in the woods. But he got lucky, which was the same thing sort of said about Butler, Pennsylvania. We got a 22-year-old, 20-year-old kid who just gets lucky in picking the perfect sniper position. Or three, Eric, he had knowledge.

He had information somehow from somewhere. about Donald Trump's movements that day. Yeah, whether it's a staffer at the club, a grounds crew, a federal official, who knows. That's why I called for last night for Rhonda Santis to seize control of the investigation, because I have no confidence in the FBI actually doing an honest, apolitical job at investigating this. The nonsense around the Butler-Pensivania shooter is a, is a memory hole. It's a black hole. It's where did this kid learn to do the explosives in Butler, Pennsylvania? There's an enormous amount of unanswered detail. Nothing. Nothing is forgotten from the

FBI. Ron DeSantis did come out last night and said Florida would run an independent parallel investigation. I wish it was not parallel. It should be primary. If I were this governor of Florida, I would not have turned over this idiot to the feds at all. I would have had him investigated, interrogated, all his electronics before the feds get to touch anything because the feds have again failed to do their job we have a federal government that's supposed to do national security stuff well they're oh for two so our would-be assassins as donald trump tweeted out or truth socialed out yesterday oh for two i saw you say that eric i saw you call for that investigation from governor ron desantis and i hear you today saying well you know he should have held on to the prisoner the the

Interesting thing about that is he didn't. So I wonder how limited his investigative abilities are, because now everything has to run through the feds, right? So he can run a parallel investigation, but isn't he somewhat now beholden to the feds? Like he's going to, he doesn't have any firsthand access to at least electronic information I would think and things like that. I just wonder how effective his investigation can be

because it's going to be inherently subservient to the federal investigation. Yeah. Again, I guess the jury's out on that. But look, it is a, it is a repetitive failure of federal institutions to actually do their job. Thank God that advanced person was heads up enough to notice a final firing position against defense. I think this guy set up. So Trump was about to play the fifth hole, which is in the northeast corner of the country club. And there's a canal running east to west along the top side of the course. And so this guy, I think, got between the canal and the course, came in and along that tree line, and that's probably where he set up. And so he would have, that would have, I looked, the closest he could have gotten, or as soon as he could have gotten line of sight, would have been about 150-yard shot. again very easy with a scoped rifle to hit 150 yard shot again a very very lucky save by the Secret Service

so Eric you have obviously a lot of life experience in theaters like Ukraine what do you take from this guy okay I just want to share with the audience there is some question out there people are trying to draw questions about his political affiliations They seem pretty clear. He did tweet favorably about Vake Ramoswami. A hard for leftist.

Right. They're pointing to tweets he said about Vivek Ramaswami or whatnot, but the vast majority of what he had to say was about in anti-Trump, pro-Biden Harris. I have here, it looks like financial contributions to act blue. I mean, numerous. They're all small numbers, $10, $15, to act blue, the progressive political action committee. but then there's the Ukraine thing Eric like what do you make this um this is where your life experience comes in I mean on one hand it's almost comical here he is with half his head dyed blue you know

and he seems like this ridiculous guy that wants to show up in Kiev and throw some pop-up tents for civilian fighters downtown occupy Kiev on the other hand I can point to half a dozen weirdly interviews he's done now they weren't all favorable but meaning they're all weren't calling him a hero. Some of them were calling him a boob, but, you know, F.T., New York Times, on and on. What am I supposed to process about this guy and him wanting to be a freedom fighter in Ukraine? I'd asked other people I know, and they'd heard of him around the Afghan evacuation and around his efforts to get to recruit Afghan fighters out of Iran with fake Pakistani docks to go to Ukraine to fight.

And so somehow, again, this mass psychosis effect, he convinced his ill brain that it was the next holy war he should be involved in, and that was what he was all in on. So, yeah, clearly the guy is a mentally ill left-wing crazy, and thank God. But again, the mass psychosis they've created. of Trump as Hitler is what stimulates lots of people like this. The fact that, and here's the thing.

Again, lucky that he was stopped, but a professional team would have been successful yesterday. Right. A professional assault, a professional hit team, a gilly suit, a drone attack, a longer rifle shot, shot from an elevated position. There is an enormous amount of reckless disregard. going on from these federal agencies, and it needs to be stopped. I understand just a whistleblower on the Butler, Pennsylvania stuff, that Senator Hawley released, and it said that the agent in charge failed some key tests, a Homeland Security person, failed but was waived by Director Cheeto then, and that most of the DHS agents

had no formal VIP executive protection training, but it only attended a two-hour video course, like a Zoom course, a two-hour Zoom lecture, and that's what's qualifying them to protect Donald J. Trump, then the candidate for president in the United States. Former and former president. It's absolutely ludicrous.

And I just compare that to what even we as Blackwater were required to do for very high threat protection work in a war zone for the State Department, we had to have significant military or law enforcement tactical experience. And then we had to do not a two-hour course, but 23 days of training at 10 to 12 hours a day, plus psych evaluations, plus all kinds of testing in the middle of that. Two hours versus 23 days. It's a very different math. And so again, you have a lot of unserious people put in positions of responsibility that they're just not qualified or worthy of being in. And sadly, I think that's a microcosm of our entire government. A lot of very

unsurious people that are just run amok and unaccountable. And the next administration has to just burn a lot of this down. Not all of it, but my God, the whole thing needs to be put in a severe diet because there's a there's just a ungodly amount of wastage to the point of insanity and embarrassment and this is not what built our society in the first place two more questions uh here with eric prince before we let him go about his day really appreciate your time here eric but bringing back in your experience in theaters of war is this alleged ashen ryan ralph is his involvement both in afghanistan and ukraine is it simply evidence of mass psychosis? That's not to question the existence of mass psychosis. What I'm asking is, does that

evidence only point to mass psychosis? Because from my seat, obviously, as a civilian who's not been in a theater of war, it seems crazy that some dude who's like a small contractor in Hawaii could just go, I'm going to be somebody at the center of getting people out of Afghanistan. I'm going to be a civilian fighter in Ukraine. And by the way, one of the reporters that interviewed him said, well, I found out about him because I spoke to an Afghan fighter on our side who then got into Iran and wanted to get out of Iran and saw that Ukraine was an opportunity to get out of Iran and he connected with this guy somehow, Ralph. So he gets in, right? My point is he is crazy. It does seem to be he is kind of a nut, meaning, I mean, he got all at least the superficial characteristics.

And there are reports from people in his past life neighbors who said there's always kind of a wing nut. But I'm just wondering, like, is it that easy, Eric, or is his involvement in some things that are pretty high level, I would think, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and his connections, something worthy of much more investigation? Certainly worth asking those questions, but people I've talked to in both the Afghan evacuation and around Ukraine, they had heard of him, and they had prior knowledge of. of him being crazy and not to be taken seriously in any way. He claims he was part of the Ukrainian Foreign Legion and he was not. I mean, he wanted to, but he had no experience and no, no merit to it. So look, I think another leftist mentally ill that was then made it, you know, from being a savior in Afghanistan to Ukraine being the, the holy war for him,

And then his holy war became destroying Donald Trump. And so there's a lot of those questions that need to be answered. And I just don't trust the FBI to get those answers and to release them in a public way. Look, federal agencies never want to investigate themselves. When when Robert Hanson, the FBI head of counterintelligence was finally caught for spying after the CIA got evidence on it, The whole Hansen Damage Assessment team basically shut down prematurely because they just didn't want to even know how bad it was. No bureaucracy ever wants to actually clean up its own act. It can only be done what it is imposed on them.

And that's my point. Discipline, accountability, efficiency, effectiveness must be imposed on these governed entities. reference to Robert Hansen one of the most famous Soviet spies at the highest levels of the FBI has been movies made books written about what happened with Robert Hansen last question you've said more than once and you said it in our past conversation as well when we talked about the Butler Pennsylvania incident Eric you said any type of professional attempt and we know there are we know specifically with Iran desires to end Donald Trump's life threats to end Donald Trump's life fact that in, right? Now you have two assassination attempts in two months, and as to your point, neither of them appear to be real professional. Factoring in that this is what you get when it's unprofessional. What would you get when it's professional? How concerned are you for the ongoing threat to Donald Trump's life? Extremely, because a six or an eight-man team is a very, very different, much more dangerous scenario. I'm sure there was probably not even vehicle barriers.

If somebody wanted to crash a vehicle and move a bigger team onto that golf course, they probably had the means to do that through some of those outer perimeters of that fence. I'm sure there was not hard physical stop. So the permutations of problems. Why, if you're going to, and if you're going to supplement the Secret Service on this, you have to not just say, say Secret Service, heal yourself, but have some outside mentorship. And you have to put predators around the president that will look, especially in the advance team, to say, these are the 10 ways that I'm going to attack and kill Donald Trump. And then you make sure you plug every one of those holes.

If you're not doing that, you are not effective about your job. There's an enormous amount of latent J-Soc capacity at Delta and SEAL Team 6 right now. detail five and five take five of their best people supplement the secret service that way put them on the advanced team you'll see a very very different performance because those guys are predators they know how to hunt that's how you have to do this he knows what he's talking about he's the founder of the private military company blackwater you can catch him on off leash with eric prince or check out his book civilian warriors and he's also got a phone to help you with your privacy, the unplugged phone, go to unplugged.com to check that out.

Really appreciate your time. It's important day, Eric. Thank you so much. You bet, Will. Good luck. All right, take care. That's Eric Prince here on the Will Kane show. Okay, we're going to break down exactly mass psychosis in the role played.

How is it created? This is no small topic, but it is one that you can already, you can feel the wind and you can see the hand waving off of, you can feel the wind off of the hand waving to do away with that conversation. No, no, no. let's not focus on a second attempt on the life of Donald Trump. Let's focus on Springfield, Ohio. Let's get into that mass psychosis.

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a Zelensky official, I am an American coming to fight with you in Ukraine. I'm flying into Krakow and will take any transport to Kiev to meet you and fight to the death. We must get every civilian in the world to come and join the fight. I will be the exact. I will be the example attack moscow now i mean this is the ranting of a madman but a madman fed in my unequivocal opinion by the mainstream media but let's break down the latest fox news digital reporter brook singman is with us now and this morning brooke as i understand excuse me you sat down with the former president I think it's his first interview since the attempted assassination. And I'd love to hear about what you heard from Donald Trump.

Yeah, well, thanks for having me. So we didn't sit down, but we did chat on the phone. But I will say, you're not alone in that thought that this man was fed by the mainstream media. Actually, that's what former President Trump told me on the phone this morning. He said, you know, he is, he was fed by the media who continues to take the words of former president, I mean, current President Biden, Vice President Harris, and their rhetoric. calling Trump a threat to democracy. Democrats are constantly calling Trump a threat to this nation, a threat to democracy, a threat

to the world. And a lot of them, even, you know, House Minority Leader of Hakeem Jeffries just yesterday said we must stop them, referring to Republicans and Donald Trump. So Trump said that the media is also to blame. But really what he said is he feels that Biden and Harris and Democrats rhetoric is what is causing for him to be shot at is what he said. And, you know, this is really crazy. We are here.

It's Monday. It's a Monday in September. We're 50 days out from Election Day. We should just be covering campaign trail stuff, right? But this is the second assassination attempt against a former U.S. president, the Republican presidential nominee, who's leading in many polls. And it feels like people are desensitized to it. And I think I talked about this a little bit last week with some of our colleagues here at Fox.

you know, the former president of the United States was shot in July, but we don't talk about it anymore. I mean, we do here, but you don't see people talking about this in the media anymore. And so Trump, of course, this morning, he says he's fine. He said he's safe. He praised the Secret Service for, you know, rushing him to safety. Was glad everyone was safe yesterday. But, you know, to have gone through that another time in just what, not even two months, I mean, it's insane. Right. I like your point about the attention span, Brooke, because it's moved on within two months of literally a bullet that struck the president. And, okay, there's two levels to this. There's the insane, but helping form mass psychosis wing of the left.

And I'm going to give you and everyone listening and watching an illustration of that. This is Rachel Vindman. Now, her handle on Twitter is Natsack hobbyist. Okay, her husband, Alexander Vindman, famed witness in the impeachment against Donald Trump over his call to Ukraine. She tweeted yesterday, I was about to say last night, but it was not last night. It was at 3.16 p.m. The attempted assassination, this story yesterday went down at 1.15 Eastern time. Two hours later, she tweets, no ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.

Okay, so an immediate dismissal of an attempted assassination, and I will wave my hand at her as a crazy wing of the left, okay? Now, here's the thing about your point about attention span. There's also the non-crazy portion of society that just rides along the surface of the news. I often talk about that, Brooke. And I do wonder with them, how long will they last on this story? I almost feel it already going, already moving. Like this story will be gone.

I'm not saying it should, but I have a feeling it will be gone. And the attention will move on from yet another assassination attempt of Donald Trump. I agree with you. I mean, just I'm looking down at my phone to just read you exactly what Trump. said to me today. He said, the media is made up of fools that will spew Democrats garbage and spew their sick philosophies and will protect Democrats at all cost. And they can't believe they get away with it. Democrats are totally protected by the media. And that's what he said. And it just goes along with what you had started this block of the show with. I mean,

who knows how long this story will go for? Of course, it's Monday. It's the day after. But, you know, you would think that this is a story that we would and should be talking about for weeks and months. But of course, we know that outside of Fox, people have stopped talking about the assassination attempt in July. He was shot in July. He wasn't shot yesterday. So how long did that assassination attempt get coverage for not that long? He didn't get shot yesterday, as that person on Twitter said. So how long will the media coverage? this. We don't know. But Trump is, is blaming Democrats. He's blaming the media. He's blaming the rhetoric. And, you know, you've seen President Biden. You've seen Vice President Harris. And this has

been going on since they took power, took over in 2021 from Trump. And they've called Trump a threat to democracy over and over. But Trump says that they are actually the real threat to this nation. He said they're destroying the nation from the inside and from the outside. He said they're allowing illegals to pour into the country and on the world stage, the United States is not even close to as strong as it was under his administration just four years ago. So we'll have to take a look and see how this second assassination attempt will impact him in the polls. Will it mobilize, you know, his voters further? I'm sure there's a lot of energy behind the Trump support in terms of getting to the polls on election day. But what about those people on the fence?

Will this help them? And will they, you know, listen to what he's saying about the fact that it's not his rhetoric that is causing violence? It's actually from the left or that's at least what he's saying today. A couple of quick questions, Brooke, about your phone call with Donald Trump. What was his demeanor? What was he like on the phone? You know, I spoke to him yesterday and he was steady yesterday. He was fine yesterday.

Today he was a little bit, you know, he was, he was, he was, he was, fine and he was strong and he was he sounded like normal president trump but you could tell that the reality kind of set in a little and it he sounded not angry but i mean firm in what he believes right now because this is a man who is facing dozens of charges obviously he's seen a lot of somewhat victories in in those lawsuits that he's been facing for for the last several months second assassination attempt. They're always after him. He's been defending himself against the media against Democrats against everything for the past. Was he rattled at all? I don't think so. I don't think he's rattled at all. I think he just wants it to be known that he realizes what's happening

to him and he just wants to fight for this country. He just repeatedly kept saying they are the threat to democracy. I will save this country. And, you know, that's just his line. And I believe he really means it. Like, he loves this country and that is why he's running. And so to be able to speak with him today was a great opportunity, obviously, to get his thoughts. I did reach out to the White House. They have not responded to my request for comment. I did reach out to the Harris campaign, and tried to get a comment from Tim Walls, her VP picks campaign staff. And, you know, they haven't responded. So they didn't decline to comment yet, but they just haven't responded.

So we're waiting to see what they'll say. Obviously, just to add this balance in here, the White House did say that they were relieved that the president was okay yesterday. They did come out quickly with a statement to say that they were relieved, that Trump was safe. And they all now keep saying there is no room for political. violence in our country, and there isn't. But of course, Trump is saying that their rhetoric surrounding him and how much they, they really, that whole Trump derangement syndrome thing that he says

people have, he believes that that is the cause of this. And of course, this man, this, this would-be assassin, he's donated to Democrats. He is obviously, as I'm sure you've seen on social media. He has been kind of repeating the Biden campaign, the Harris campaign slogans of, you know, protecting democracy from Trump. So he was a supporter of Democrats. And this is crazy to see, but it's not the first time that we've seen it. I mean, dating back all the way to 2017, Will, the congressional baseball practice when House majority whip, Steve Scalise was shot, that was a Democrat supporter as well. So there's a lot of inflammatory, language in our politics today and so this is right this could well good job good job getting that

phone call with donald trump last night and again this morning we appreciate to jump on the will cane show to give us the latest from from the former president brook singman thank you all right all right so let's do this let's listen to the media let's listen to what they've had to say not before they might have led to the climate the climate that is a second assassination attempt of don't trump but let's listen the media after okay has there been a change in the rhetoric Has there been any self-reflection? I know you're going to be disappointed. But let's listen to the media and break it down with Joe Concha next on the Will Cain Show.

This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason in the House podcast. Join me every Monday to dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests. Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com. Or wherever you download podcasts. If what we're looking at is mass formation psychosis, the same type of thing that we've seen with COVID. And not a province exclusively owned by the left, but monopolized by the left. Well, then let's dive into what the media has said since the second assassination attempt of Donald Trump. It's the Will Kane Show streaming live at Fox News.com, the Fox News YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page.

Hit subscribe at Apple or Spotify and you can listen to the Will Kane show. five days a week, including a Friday Canaan Sports edition of the Will Cain Show. And then we'll also set reminders for you to jump in with us every day at 12 o'clock Eastern Time on YouTube and Facebook. Jump into the comment section and become a part of the community, become a part of the Will Cain Show. So this made its rounds yesterday. This is after the reported second assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

This is NBC's August, esteemed, quote unquote, dignified voice of the most mainstream of mainstreamy media. This is Lester Holt of the NBC Nightly News talking about Donald Trump. Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself. Mr. Trump has running made JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb threats in that town. That is how they reported or made the transition from reporting on the attempted life of Donald Trump into Springfield, Ohio. This attempt on the president's life comes amid hateful and violent rhetoric from the former president.

Why don't you just say he's asking for it? Why don't you just say her skirt was really short? Why don't you just say that why are you making us try to murder you, Donald Trump? Those are all legitimate translations of NBC. I was watching the Big Weekend show on Fox yesterday when I first heard that clip and I heard a fired up Joe Concha at that moment who was appalled at the words of Lesterholt. And here he is now, Joe Concha on the Will Cain show. What's up, Joe? Hey, well, thanks for watching the Big Weekend show.

And yeah, I saw that on social media, the clip of Lesterholt saying that. interviewing Mark Levin at the time and I you know you have to call that out that that's in the immediate aftermath just a couple hours after the second assassination attempt of us former U.S. President Republican nominee second time in 60 days and that is the crap the utter crap that Lester Holt remember this isn't MSNBC I would kind of expect it from them I guess uh but this is NBC news the nightly news uh former home of tom brokaw and and that was the dot that they connected that Donald Trump's been saying these things about Haitian migrants overtaking this town in Springfield, Ohio. He's asking for it.

That's exactly the way it should have been interpreted to your point earlier. You know, and your point about Lester Holt and NBC is not without merit because people have learned to dismiss MSNBC. I think most people see, most rational people see a clip of Joy Reid and know they're in for a treat. Meaning they're in for a laugh. They're in for so hyperbole. They're in for some insanity. but I know people and I know people make the joke about old people

in fact I make fun of my friend who's not an old person relatively who watches NBC Nightly News he watches Lesterholt and I'm like why do you watch first of all why do you need a recap of the day in 30 minutes at 6 p.m. I don't understand that

and second like why is this like your household considers this like objective but it doesn't matter how much I make fun of my friend or I ask the rhetorical question of why the point is people still do. And so that's why this one matters so much because I know Lester Hold is, I'm virtually certain Lesterolt's on the left. And you and I and many people listening to

know NBC News, not just MSNBC, is on the left. But still, this is something coming from Lester Holt. Yeah. And then you turn over to CBS after the NFL football will and you see 60 minutes running a segment on how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. Like, do you guys read the room in any way, shape, or front? I mean, the fact that somebody got within 300 yards of a president on a golf course with an AK, with a scope, where, you know, if you talk to people who I don't handle firearms, you know, I'm more of a num chuck's guy than than firearms, but that's fine. But you talk to people who are experts in this stuff, and it's a three-inch pot to hit somebody. We were so lucky again that he wasn't killed in this situation. And then you have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

They couldn't get in front of a microphone in some way, shape, or form to show some semblance of empathy. You put out a statement on Twitter, all right, I guess, but no, I would like to have heard from the sitting president, yes, he still is president, Joe Biden, to denounce this up and say no matter how you vote, this should be unacceptable. Kamala Harris, same thing, Tim Wall, same thing. And all we get are these basically pie in the sky, denying statements on how this is unacceptable. Well, I want to hear from you directly. And the media

should be demanding that as well. And, of course, we just ain't seeing that. And then that debate last week, totally fixed in Kamal Harris's favor. You see, the suspect today is laughing in court. And I think the coverage of Will Smith slapping at the Oscars of Chris Rock probably got more coverage in the aftermath than we saw after the aftermath of the first assassination. Well, you know what they were fired about. Go away so quickly. Yeah, go ahead. you know what they were fired up about yesterday man and they weren't just fired up I got texts I forget tweets you know ex post I got texts because I have friends a diverse group of friends like I got a text from a guy that said your boy's losing it and I didn't know what he was talking

about this was before the assassination attempt I think he was talking about I haven't reached out to him to find out but I think he was talking about the I hate Taylor Swift post on truth like that was the biggest deal in the world and by the way I don't think that was very smart by Donald Trump to post, I hate Taylor Swift, just why motivate? There's like a, if you're weighing pros and cons, there's not a lot of pros. We can, we can analyze the cons, like, but my point is, is, I have two points on this. The extent of which there's a hyperbolic nature about, oh, my God, your boy, you know, he's hateful, he's hateful, he's this, right? And then this idea that he's created this, this, as Lester Holt describes it, I don't know, amped up.

Did Lesterholt say violent? He may have said hateful. I don't know what word he used there. But they are saying violent. Is what he said. And he made baseball claims about Haitian immigrants, which totally glosses over the fact. But they do say violent.

Yes, 20,000 people. They do say violent in that. Okay. I don't have the exact point. No, no, no. There are examples of them saying Donald Trump creates a violent atmosphere, right? And he, but I started thinking like, what I just wonder, I'm really being honest here, Joe.

Like, what's a good example of violent rhetoric from Donald Trump? Like, I hate Taylor Swift. Is that violent saying they're, forget the truth or, falsehood of they're eating the pets, right? Is that violent? I don't understand. Like, that's not a violent atmosphere. I mean, I do think calling him Hitler, I don't know if that's a violent atmosphere, but I do think it leads to a violent atmosphere. Oh, yeah. I remember Brian Stelter had a show on Reliable Sources on CNN. He had a guest on that said that Donald Trump had killed more people, murdered more people than Stalin, Hitler, and Mao combined.

Come on. sat there and just let him say I swear to God that happened we could we could get the clip and throw it in but yeah actually said that and stealthor then later said oh my audio went out I didn't hear him to say that's the worst liar like ever so yeah I'm pretty sure that that is is more hateful but again I mean the fact that two months ago you you had a 20 year old outflank the entire secret service local law enforcement he gets a rifle and hides it behind an air conditioner no one sees it it's only 130 yards from the stage then he gets on this roof but the best line of sight, again, another one inch pot in terms of making that shot.

And if Donald Trump doesn't turn far to his left to read a chart on immigration, then, yeah, he's dead. There is no second assassination attempt because he would have been taken out in the first. And why is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, these are the questions the media should be asking. Why is Joe Biden and Kamal Harris allowing leadership in the Secret Service to keep their jobs? Is there any accountability? Not one person's lost their job in two assassination attempts. How is that possible?

Do you think you'll see any change in the media? Okay, and let's, yeah, I'm here to talk to you about media, but it's also politicians, to your point. They're the one saying it. The media says it in, as an echo chamber, all these, these implications of Donald Trump's threat to America, creating what I've said today is a mass formation psychosis that doesn't turn everybody into a would-be assassin.

It doesn't turn everybody into a crazy person, necessarily. But it does, it does actually make everybody a little bit delusional about reality, they believe in this hysteria, and then it certainly motivates the crazies. And at some point, like two assassination attempts in two months, you've got a trend. And you would just hope a trend led to some self-reflection in the media. It does not happen. And look, if you were to try to define Will, what is the Kamala Harris campaign cycle? What's the bumper sticker?

What was Joe Biden's bumper sticker? If I were to really nail that down, I would think it is democracy is on the ballot. but Donald Trump must be stopped. Hakeem Jeffries literally tweeted that out after the assassination saying Trump must be stopped. Okay, how do you stop them exactly? Oh, do you mean at the ballot box? Or you mean by other means?

Either way, most people will be, well, of course, stop means you make sure he doesn't get in office again by winning the election. But the crazies out there, to your point, like this current assassin now, as we're seeing, they take their cues from the media and Democratic politicians who keep saying, well, we got to take Trump out.

Well, yeah. How do you do that? And there you go. Oh, sorry about that. Yeah. So again, here we are at this point, NBC News causing calling this attempt in a headline right afterwards, the Trump golf course incident. No, it was an attempted assassination attempt. And the fact they're trying to gloss over this, just like remember last time, you had some folks on MSNBC news who were not even news, just MSNBC, saying, well, do you think really that Trump got shot or, you know, wasn't some glass? that hit him, like actually questioning whether the bandage on his ear was a prop or not. I mean, this is going to be dismissed and just kind of like blown it aside, just like it was last time. We've seen this movie before. Unfortunately, we're going to see it again. Yeah, unfortunately. Alleged assassin Ryan, Wesley, Ralph, seemed to be consuming that stuff by the pitcher. Joe Concha, Fox News, News, contribute. Always great to have you here on the Will Cain show. Thank you so much. We'll check you out. Thanks, Joe. All right, that's going to do for us today here on the Wilcane show.

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