362: Rick and Tristan Snell Talk About the Real Causes of the Assassination Attempt
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
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In this episode, Rick Wilson and legal analyst Tristan Snell discuss Judge Cannon’s dismissal of Trump’s case, the recent assassination attempt on Trump, and its impact on political discourse. They also explore the issues of broken young men, online extremism, and legal immunity for the tech and gun industries.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks. I'm recording this on July 15th. It is Monday. On Saturday, Donald Trump was shot by a troubled |
| 0:09.0 | young man on a rooftop near a event he was conducting in Pennsylvania. He was struck either by a |
| 0:19.8 | bullet or by glass from a teleprompter that the bullet struck in his ear. |
| 0:23.9 | He was hustled off stage. |
| 0:26.2 | It was a moment where the long, unfortunate, sad, sorry history of American violence struck a former president. |
| 0:36.9 | We have had presidents assassinated in this country, |
| 0:40.7 | candidates assassinated in this country, |
| 0:42.4 | candidates attacked in this country, |
| 0:44.9 | more times than the glowing, shining city on a hill |
| 0:50.4 | Western civilized democracy should have. |
| 0:54.0 | Those attacks have come in large forms and small. |
| 0:58.3 | They've come in serious and terrible consequences, JFK, and consequences that were tragic for those who were there, such as the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan by John Hinkley, |
| 1:12.1 | in which James Brady was, was permanently injured. |
| 1:16.1 | They've come in all kinds of packages in all kinds of places. |
| 1:21.3 | They've come from sick people. |
| 1:23.1 | They've come from broken people. |
| 1:24.4 | They've come from criminals. |
| 1:26.0 | They've come from people who were truly driven by demons we cannot ever understand. |
| 1:35.8 | This attack has been ascribed by many people in the MAGA media as having been provoked by criticism of Donald Trump. |
| 1:43.9 | I am here today to tell you that that argument falls short in every dimension. |
| 1:50.1 | The political criticism of Donald Trump has never led to a Charlottesville. |
| 1:55.3 | It's never led to a January 6th. |
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