It's that time.

Walk and load.

The Michael Derry Show is on the air.

Elena Zito is our guest.

Her forthcoming book, which I hope you'll pre-order today, is called Butler, the untold story of the near assassination of Donald Trump and the fight for America's heartland.

All right, Selena.

I know it's in the book, and we're going to buy the book, and we're going to read the book because you're a great writer and a great researcher and it's going to be thorough.

But what do we need to know?

I mean, I was never a conspiracy theorist.

I guess I can't say it I'm not anymore.

I now realize that a lot of those conspiracy theories are just the truth a few months from happening.

There's no way that some random dude with everything we know now shows up,

shoots the president, they blow his head off, and he goes away,

and with everything else we know now, so spill it.

Well, we know about as much as we know about Thomas Crook as we do about the Las Vegas shooter. I knew you were gonna say that.

Nothing.

Which is nothing.

And I, I, well, while I believe there was institutional failures all around,

by the way, not by local law enforcement.

Local law enforcement was on top of everything

and they were questioning everything.

Unfortunately, our institutions out of D.C.

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