It's Wednesday, September the 24th, 2025, and this is Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.

We're glad you've joined us. I'm narrator, Chris Elkins, voicing today's daily article,

written by our co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison. I watched President Donald Trump's hour-long speech at the United Nations yesterday.

Since the UN was founded 80 years ago, every U.S. President has addressed the General Assembly.

However, there is a scenario by which the event could have made history for cataclysmic reasons.

The Secret Service announced

before the president's address that the agency had disrupted a sprawling telecommunications

network in the New York tri-state area. Investigators say this network could have disrupted

telecom systems and threatened the UN meetings this week. The servers were so powerful that they could have disabled cell phone towers

and blocked emergency communications like EMS and police dispatch.

If an attack had been staged on the President and the UN gathering,

a network outage could have prevented security forces from responding.

There was a time when we would perhaps not have thought to connect the president's UN speech

and the Secret Services discovery. But after Charlie Kirk's murder and two assassination attempts

on the president, the second of which resulted in a conviction yesterday, this is not that time.

The good news is that the bad news of our day is fertile ground for the best news of all.

Cultural commentator Jof Schoenberger notes that there was a time when the lone assassin

dominated political violence.

For example, the years between 1963 and the early

1980s witnessed the murders of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr., and the attempted assassinations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

Then came a shift toward mass shootings.

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