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'ALL OF THIS IS INTENTIONAL': Trump Surrogate Blames Secret Service for Enabling Assassination Attempt

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A lawyer, media consultant, and surrogate for former President Donald Trump's reelection campaign blamed the Secret Service for "intentional" decisions that she said enabled the shooter to wound Trump and kill at least one other person. Mehek Cooke joined "The Daily Signal Podcast" at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, July 17th. I'm Tyler O'Neill.

0:11.2

I'm here at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and I sat down with Meheck

0:16.8

Cook a Trump campaign and RNC surrogate and lawyer who broke down the Trump legal cases, what they mean for the rule of law,

0:25.2

and why she thinks the Secret Service intentionally left an opening for the assassination

0:30.5

attempt on former President Trump.

0:33.7

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1:03.6

To learn more about the Heritage Foundation Job Bank, go to Heritage.org

1:08.3

slash Job-Dash Bank. This is Tyler O'Neill, managing editor at The Daily Signal.

1:17.8

I'm honored to be joined by Meheck Cook, who is a surrogate with the Trump campaign and with the Republican National

1:25.3

Committee. Mac it's great to have you here. Tyler, thank you so much for the

1:29.5

opportunity. What an amazing historic time to be alive and at the R&C.

1:34.0

Yeah, no talk about it.

1:36.0

I mean, I think one of the most exciting pieces of news we had came yesterday morning

1:42.0

when we learned that the Trump documents case had been

1:45.2

dismissed because Jack Smith was illegally appointed by Merrick Garland.

1:50.6

Can you walk us through like where this leaves Trump because that was long

1:55.9

considered to be the strongest of the cases against him? Now it's dead at

2:00.5

least for now. It is and I think lawfare is dead and this is going to continue to backfire amongst

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