Rick and Tristan Snell Talk About the Real Causes of the Assassination Attempt

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, Rick Wilson and legal analyst Tristan Snell discuss Judge Cannon’s dismissal of Trump’s case, the recent assassination attempt on Trump, and its impact on political discourse. They also explore the issues of broken young men, online extremism, and legal immunity for the tech and gun industries. Follow Tristan Snell an X at @TristanSnell, read his Substack at www.tristansnell.com and buy his book “Taking Down Trump” at fine booksellers everywhere. Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow us on X at @ProjectLincoln. And please subscribe, rate and review this podcast, thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks I'm recording this on July 15th. It is Monday. On Saturday
0:06.8	Donald Trump was shot by a troubled young man on a rooftop near a event he was conducting in Pennsylvania.
0:17.6	He was struck either by a bullet or by glass from a teleprompter that the bullet struck in his ear.
0:24.4	He was hustled off stage.
0:26.8	It was a moment where the long unfortunate sad sorry history of American violence,
0:33.7	struck a former president.
0:37.2	We have had presidents assassinated in this country,
0:40.6	candidates assassinated in this country,
0:42.3	candidates attacked in this country, candidates attacked in this country, more times
0:46.0	than the glowing shining city on a hill Western civilized democracy should have. Those attacks have come in large
0:57.2	forms and small. They've come in serious and terrible consequences, JFK, and and consequences that were tragic for those who were there such
1:09.5	as the assassination attempt done Ronald Reagan by John Hinkley in which James Brady was
1:14.3	permanently injured. They've come in all kinds of packages in all kinds of places.
1:21.5	They've come from sick people. They've come from broken people. They've come from sick people.
1:23.0	They've come from broken people.
1:25.0	They've come from criminals.
1:26.0	They've come from people who were truly driven by demons we cannot ever understand.
1:35.0	This attack has been ascribed by many people in the MAGA media
1:40.0	as having been provoked by criticism of Donald Trump.
1:43.3	I am here today to tell you that that argument
1:46.6	falls short in every dimension.
1:48.8	The political criticism of Donald Trump has never led to a Charlottesville.
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