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The Big Ben Show

Eight Days in July That Changed Everything

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5576 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this encore episode, Ben recalls one of the most monumental weeks in American political history in mid-July. It was a week that included former President Trump narrowly surviving an assassination attempt, accepting a Presidential nomination, and selecting a Vice-Presidential nominee all within around 52 hours.  Plus, the wagons were circling President Biden as a key ally of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) publicly called for the President to step aside, as the 46th President of the United States would eventually do so, just 2 days after the original release of this podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Fox News Radio.

0:11.4

I'm Ben Dominic.

0:13.2

Obviously, an enormous number of things has happened since the last time that I spoke to you all.

0:19.7

We've seen in many ways some of the most significant events in our political history in this 21st century happen over the last week.

0:30.6

The former President of the United States survived an assassination attempt, the first one of its nature, in more than 40 years,

0:39.4

against a current or former president, something that jarred the people who were around it

0:46.1

and obviously has resulted in a number of questions being raised about the United States

0:51.5

Secret Service and its role in protecting the former president.

0:55.8

You saw the White House admit for the first time that they ought to have provided greater security to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., acknowledging that they were going to offer that in what seems to be an admission of spite.

1:11.8

You saw an interview with the current president, Joe Biden, in which he meandered and seemed to have difficulty answering questions, even in a pre-taped and comfortable environment.

1:24.9

He's also engaged in a number of behaviors since then that seemed to be

1:30.5

rousing once again the effort to remove him from leading the ticket in the fall. And of course,

1:37.8

you saw the selection of the vice presidential nominee by Donald Trump in J.D. Vance, the young senator from Ohio, with very

1:47.0

little political experience or electoral experience, but a compelling personal story and someone

1:52.6

who definitely doubles down on the kind of populist politics of Donald Trump. So let's dig

1:59.4

into all of these issues and talk through a bit of what's happened in the

2:05.2

past several days.

2:06.8

It hasn't even been a week.

2:09.5

First off, I think that it's important to talk about what happened in the Butler,

2:14.7

Pennsylvania situation, the rally that saw the attempted attack on Donald Trump

2:23.6

that ultimately shot a piece of his ear off, had him in that iconic stance in terms of a photo

2:32.2

that immediately entered the American Pantheon.

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