Ep. 2414 - INSANE: ANOTHER Trump Assassination Attempt!

The Ben Shapiro Show

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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A would-be assassin tries to take out President Trump and members of the cabinet at the White House Correspondents Association dinner; we examine the roots of Left-wing violence; and we ask whether this trend will accelerate. Ep. 2414 - - - Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://dwplus.watch/BenShapiroMemberExclusive - - - Today's Sponsors: Balance of Nature - Go to https://BalanceofNature.com to subscribe and save over 30% today. American Beverage Association - Learn more at https://WeDeliverForAmerica.org ExpressVPN - Go to https://expressvpn.com/ben and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free! - - - DailyWire+: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe 📲 Download the free Daily Wire app today on iPhone, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Samsung, and more. 📘 My book "Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America (and Her Critics)" is available here: https://dwplus.shop/LionsandScavengers 👕 Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://dwplus.shop/BenShapiroMerch - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On Saturday night, somebody tried to murder Donald Trump, again, for the third time in two years.
0:05.8	We'll talk about the security shortcomings that led a gun-wielding maniac once again within audio
0:10.7	distance of the president of the United States. But today, we're really going to talk about something
0:15.3	more, the permission structures for violence that have been created by the left. This stuff is not going to stop.
0:22.8	It's not going to stop because the left has decided to mainstream it. You cannot hug
0:27.5	Luigi Mangione and pretend you hate political violence. You cannot celebrate and hug
0:32.7	Hassan Piker and claim to oppose political violence. You can't spread wild, evidence-free conspiracy theories
0:39.2	about the president of the United States, calling him a pedophile, the Antichrist, a child
0:43.6	killer, Hitler, and then pretend they are kind of shocked when someone picks up a gun and tries
0:48.3	to kill him. For the third time, we'll get to all of it. This is The Ben Shapiro show.
1:02.8	All right, so I'm going to start with the timeline, according to the Wall Street Journal.
1:07.5	What exactly happened on Saturday night? I came off of Sabbath, and already this news had begun to break. Basically, 8 p.m. Eastern, the White House Correspondents Association
1:12.9	dinner had begun. It began a little bit after eight, and a lot of the cabinet was there.
1:19.4	The President of the United States was there. The Vice President was there. The Secretary of
1:22.3	Defense was there. The White House Press Secretary, Catherine, Caroline Levitt, was there.
1:27.8	First Lady Melania Trump was there.
1:29.3	They were all on the dais.
1:31.0	About 8.30 p.m., as guests were taking their first bites of their meals in the ballroom,
1:36.8	outside the ballroom in the lobby.
1:39.0	It's kind of the lobby area.
1:40.2	It's not really kind of the main lobby.
1:42.3	A man runs right by a Secret Service checkpoint.
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