WHCD Assassination Attempt & Our Broken New Normal: Political Violence and Betrayed Allies. QUICK HIT MEDIA BLITZ POD

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Righteous Media | Bleav

Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

There was an attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend. Paul opens with a clear-eyed take on what that means: this is not a new normal, this is the normal, and the silence from the president and Congress is its own kind of failure. Political violence is now a permanent feature of the American landscape, and we still don't have a national security strategy that treats it as one. Stay vigilant doesn't mean stay anxious — it means demand that the people we pay to protect this republic actually do the work.

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0:00.0	My two interpreters are doing amazingly well.
0:02.1	They're great American citizens.
0:03.4	They have children.
0:04.5	My interpreter, Muhammad, lives in Nashville.
0:06.4	His son's playing football.
0:07.9	His daughter's doing well in school.
0:09.1	They're a great American success story.
0:11.1	If we left him in Baghdad, he'd be dead.
0:13.3	His family might be dead, too.
0:14.9	Thank you. Welcome to Independent Americans.
0:32.9	Welcome to episode 504.
0:36.5	I'm your host, Paul Reichoff. It has been a wild and eventful weekend,
0:42.0	highlighted, of course, by the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondence dinner.
0:47.9	A couple of quick thoughts, and I'll have a longer show later today with much more expanded
0:52.7	ideas and reactions. But number one, a testament to our
0:56.9	secret service, our law enforcement, and so many folks below the radar whose names will never know.
1:02.0	They kept not only the president safe, but countless other people who could have been wounded
1:05.4	and killed. It's another example of how many people are on the lines for us every single day,
1:10.5	no matter who's in office.
1:12.1	Number two, this is our demented, distorted, unfortunate normal.
1:18.3	Not our new normal.
1:19.6	This is our normal now where violence and especially political violence is expected.
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