700% Spike in ICE Attacks Sparks Political Firestorm plus Secret Service Faces Backlash Over Security Lapses
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
1. Violence Against ICE Agents and Political Rhetoric
- Ben accuses Democratic politicians of inciting violence against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
- It cites a 700% increase in assaults on ICE agents and attributes this to inflammatory rhetoric from Democratic leaders.
- Specific incidents are mentioned, including a July 4th ambush near a Texas detention center where an ICE officer was shot.
- Several Democratic figures are quoted or paraphrased as having made statements critical of ICE, which the commentary frames as dangerous or inciting.
- The text also criticizes proposed legislation requiring ICE agents to wear visible IDs and not wear masks, arguing this endangers their safety.
2. Secret Service Failures During Trump Assassination Attempt
- The second half of the document discusses the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
- It reports that six Secret Service agents were suspended (10–45 days) due to security failures, including:
- Unsecured rooftops
- Missing radios
- Poor coordination with local law enforcement
- The shooter was allegedly spotted 10 minutes before Trump took the stage, but no action was taken.
- The commentary expresses outrage over the lack of firings, arguing that in the private sector, such failures would lead to immediate termination.
- It includes reactions from the public and officials, including the widow of a bystander who was killed, and a bipartisan task force that deemed the attack “preventable.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Two Democratic senators now, Cory Booker and Alex Padilla, have a new bill out. |
| 0:08.7 | They want to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible IDs, |
| 0:12.8 | and they don't want CBP or ICE officers covering their faces. |
| 0:17.1 | Would you ever sign that? |
| 0:18.5 | Well, they wouldn't be saying that if they didn't hate our country. |
| 0:22.7 | This is the problem with the Democrats. |
| 0:24.5 | They have a lot of bad things going on in their heads. |
| 0:28.0 | They've lost their confidence, number one, and they've really become somewhat deranged. |
| 0:33.5 | You're listening to the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson. |
| 0:37.6 | Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson. Good Friday morning. |
| 0:38.5 | Nice to have you with us on the 47 morning update, and we've got two major stories for you that we're going to cover. |
| 0:43.6 | First up, the White House blaming Democrats now for a massive spike in assaults on ice agents up more than 700%. |
| 0:53.6 | Why is this happening? |
| 0:55.0 | We've got the receipts from Democrats who've been calling for the assault on ice agents, |
| 1:00.0 | and we will expose them in a moment. |
| 1:02.0 | Also, we are seeing now that some secret service agents are being held accountable |
| 1:07.0 | for the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and Butler, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:11.9 | Sort of. |
| 1:13.2 | Why did they hardly get anything? |
| 1:15.7 | We'll give you the details on that coming up as well. |
| 1:18.6 | It's the 47 morning update and it starts right now. |
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