Former president Donald Trump was allegedly targeted for assassination a second time over the weekend, this time at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida. Glenn takes a close look at all that we currently know, and things look VERY suspicious. Glenn asks the questions the state-run media won't: Why did the potential attacker bring a Go-Pro and body armor (misleadingly referred to by the media as "ceramic tiles")? How did he even know Trump would be golfing at that time? Did the Secret Service actually do its job? Did the suspect, with all his ties to Ukraine and history of media interviews and donations to the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, have any outside help?
Transcript
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GLENN: Well, we'll all remember where we were when they tried to kill the president, the second time! Here's an idea.
What do you say, we just go to the ballot box? What do you say?
We're 50 days away? Can we take the next seven weeks and not try to assassinate somebody in this country? You want to talk about a banana republic. Gang, we're here.
I will tell you, I'm not doing the show today, that I had planned.
Because I was meeting with the president on Saturday. And he said something off-handed to me. And I was going in a direction of research on something.
And he said, Glenn, I think there is something that is bigger than the economy.
Right now. And he said, the economy, we're killing them on the economy.
He said with they have been no place to go on the economy. They have no record on the economy.
He said, but what's happening now in our cities with and be what's happening in Ohio. And elsewhere. In -- in Denver. He said, I think this is actually a bigger thing than the economy.
And he is absolutely right.
If you know some of the things that we've been doing research on.
Chris Rufo has already done his research on this.
This is something that they've known about. Well, I'll get into it, not today. Well, we'll probably get into it a little bit tomorrow.
But today, I have to talk about, a would-be assassin. Now, this one seems to be miraculous. You know, God saved, I believed. It was a miracle that Donald Trump turned his head, and -- and the bullet missed him. And only nicked his ear. Instead of going right to the center of his head. And all of us having clear, clear high-definition evidence of the president's head exploding. Live.
So I think God saved him. From the last one.
God may have saved him from this one, as well.
But this one was a miracle, in the darkest of ways, as well.
First, let me tell you what happened. Early reports said that police recovered an AK-47 from the bushes outside of the golf course, where the president was golfing, as well as a GoPro recording device. Now, why would you have a GoPro recording device?
Why would you have it attached to the fence, pointed out at the putting green? Why would you have that?
Unless you were planning on recording that, so that your deeds would live forever. Now, my question is: Is there anything else already reported on the GoPro? Is there maybe a statement? Because why would you record your deeds, without recording a message for all to hear? So I would like to know what was on the GoPro, if anything. But this guy obviously had an agenda.
Now, he, according to the press, oh. He was all wound up because of Trump's rhetoric. Was he now?
We'll get to that in a second stop they caught him, after he was in the bushes. And a Secret Service agent, was eagle-eyed enough, to spot the barrel of a gun, coming out from the bushes. This guy had taken two backpacks, and tied them to the fence. And they were on each side of where he would have been sitting, and the barrel of the gun, would have been right between them.
Now, it's really curious. I mean, I know the media, they're so smart. They know what everything means. They reported that he had ceramic tiles in his backpack. And I immediately thought, I thought he was a roofer? Not somebody that was going to lay tile in bathrooms. No! Could they explain what ceramic tiles mean? I know, because I've had to wear them. From time to time.
A ceramic tile is what you put inside the bulletproof vest, if you are expecting a chest shot. A bulletproof vest will not stop a high-powered rifle. However, ceramic tile will. So he put ceramic tile in his backpacks, right where he would have been crouched. With the gun. So he was expecting a shoot-out. Okay.
How did this Secret Service agent see it? I don't know. But I want to believe and take it at face value. That he was doing his job.
The reason why I say this time I believe it, at least this time I want to believe that that agent was doing his job. Is because I was with the president on Saturday. And I said on X, and I don't know where else I said it on Saturday, this is very first time I have seen the Secret Service in 15 years, actually do their job.
I have sat behind Mitt Romney, pass the Secret Service, with the guy next to me, and a gun in his back.
They missed it. I have come through security doors, that were supposed to be secure. And went past all of the Secret Service passage. All of their security. Went behind them, around them. And walked right directly to the president.
Now, if I can do that, who can't?
And I've been railing about this, for 15 years. Saturday was the first time, I thought Secret Service was taking it seriously.
There was no way, you were getting into the event that I was in, unless you were an invited guest, or you were supposed to be there.
And there was no way, you were getting close to the president.
So what happened?
Well, I want to believe, that -- I want to believe that the Secret Service was doing their job. There were two holes. One or two holes ahead of the president. And he was scoping it out. And he looks and he sees the barrel of a gun through the bushes. There's then a shoot-out. Apparently, they were shooting at each other. They were not shooting at the president.
I don't know, because things are still unclear. The reason why we caught him, is because somebody saw him run out of the bushes. And then get into his car. Somebody with the wherewithal to write down the plate number, and be able to remember what the car was.
They called police immediately. Said, here's the plate number. Here's what the car looks like. And because we have new AI, all over the freeways. All over our roads. It could read license plate numbers. Identify the car. And they found him almost immediately. Stopped him on the how.
They arrested him.
So now, now what?
Well, who is he?
Well, the first person. Well, as soon as the name was released, the Guardian was the first place to actually find his son.
His son is -- was, I believe, in Florida.
And they called him. His name is Orin Ralph. They called him, he picked up the phone. He hadn't heard the news. And he was asked for a comment. And he said, well, this is the first I've heard about it. Was my father shot or injured?
He then said, his father hates Donald Trump, as, quote, every reasonable person does.
Hmm. Okay. All right. He said, I don't like Trump either.
Now, this is just -- this is his immediate response, after hearing that his father tried to kill the president, he then says, well, he hates him just like every reasonable person, and I hate him too.
Oh, okay. But he said, his dad was not a violent person, and couldn't believe his father would target the president. He's my dad, and all that he's had is a couple of traffic tickets, as far as I know.
That's crazy. I know my dad. I love my dad, and that's nothing like him.
Is it? Is it really? Nothing like him. You know your dad?
Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Now, he said, I've got to go. Because I have to get more information. But I don't know any more, because weed a falling out. We've grown apart.
But he's not a violent person. He's a hardworker. He's a great dad. He's a great dude. He's a nice guy, who worked his whole F-ing life.
I've never known him to even own a gun or known him to do anything like this.
Okay. Well, I don't think you know your dad. I don't think you know your dad.
Because your dad seeming -- the evidence seems to point, that it was the same guy, with the same name. In the same state.
That barricaded himself into his office, a gun.
And that gun, well, the FBI said it was a weapon of mass destruction.
It was a fully automatic machine gun.
So he went to prison. Or, I'm sorry. Went to jail.
He was convicted. Of having a weapon of mass destruction.
Now, wow. That seems like that should have been a long sentence. But it wasn't. It wasn't.
And if you are -- if you're caught with an automatic weapon, and you don't have a -- a stamp for it.
A tag for it.
Well, then you are. You go to prison usually 20 years.
I don't know why he didn't go to jail for 20 years. But he didn't.
And then he got out. Now, remember, his dad is just a peaceful person.
Then he got out. And started to recruit people, to go to Ukraine!
To fight in Ukraine!
Now, this is where it gets really interesting.
By the way, after the son did verify that, yep, that is his dad.
He -- he made a public statement.
He said, I hate this game, every four years. And I think we all do. And if my father wants to be a martyr, to how broken and disassociated the process has become from the real problems and practical solutions, then that's his choice.
So see, that sounds like you're excusing your dad's actions.
I'm not saying that what he's done or what he's about, that's just my own rant, about being fed up with all of it, for my entire life.
South park said it best, every four years, we're forced to choose between a giant turd sandwich and a giant douche. And it all stays f'ed in the same ways by different degrees, and we're exhausted and embarrassed by it all.
Hmm. So the ends justifies the means, is what I'm hearing here.
Well, thank you for stopping by Saul Alinsky. Well, let me get back to who this guy is.
Because I have Eric Prince coming up in about half an hour. He's the guy who said to Ron DeSantis, you should take this investigation in-house, because I don't think you should just trust the FBI on it.
And, thank you, Eric. Neither do I.