Bill O'Reilly on Trump assassin (09-16-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump by coincidence. I happen to be joined today by

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Bill OReilly his new book is called confronting the president's no spin assessments from Washington to Biden

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Bill OReilly obviously the renowned broadcaster best-selling nonfiction author, I think 18 times over or something like that

[00:00:50] [SPEAKER_01]: He's got 19 million books in print a host of the no spin news broadcast weeknights

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_01]: 8 p.m. Until or sorry and at 11 p.m. On the first TV a new media network

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[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the program

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_01]: You know if you keep doing so much your bio your intro is going to take up the entire segment

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you were really I don't know what does that now?

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And how you been I've been all right, I've been alright so I gotta ask you first off about the

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: You know the the news

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll get to the book here, obviously

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_01]: But so I mean is there anything in your research and doing this book and being the historian that you are

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_01]: That have we seen stuff like this before to this extent that you're aware of

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The United States always been a dangerous country and continues to be that now

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: We've had nine presidents

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Attacked and

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Four were fatally killed

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So Lincoln Garfield McKinley JFK Ronald Reagan just barely survived

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So we've had nine and Trump leaves the league with two

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: So this is not anything new

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, and it is new is the vitriol in the country itself

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_00]: not since the Civil War

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Has the hatred been this high and hatred of course fuels violence?

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So I

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Was surprised like everybody else yesterday. I can't say I'm I'm not surprised

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That this guy would try it

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's a fairly routine story in the sense. It's the same old thing every one of the nine

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Assassination attempts on the president and you'll see because we go over every one of them in confronting the president's

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Were mentally unbalanced guys

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Never a woman. I'm sorry one exception the Manson follower with with four

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah as a woman squeaky from but they're all mentally unbalanced and there are just millions of Americans now

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Or mentally ill who are running around and anything could trigger them and that's what we're seeing

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_01]: So you've heard the term stochastic terrorism. I'm assuming in this this idea that you know political rhetoric

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_01]: can lead to

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_01]: violence

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_01]: When you know misinterpreted by by the crazies

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Do you do you put any stock in that and if so does this seem like it would fit that example?

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's always been that way though here in America since John Adams ran against Thomas Jefferson

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The only president that did he get it the hateful invective was Washington. He's the only one

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So the other 44 men all of them. I mean savage attacks

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Does that

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Light fuses? Yeah, it does

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think you need

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: That kind of a thing all you need for crime to happen is

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_00]: a

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_00]: sociopath or a psychopath

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Just getting up one more. You know, I'm gonna do this. That's it

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Look, you know find out this guy and why you they a Secret Service

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Stopped

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Yesterday was just a loon you can see already

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: From his writings on the internet and the same thing with the guy in Butler, Pennsylvania

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: These are crazy people who don't want to live they know their lives are over by doing this

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey thing get away with it. They're not gonna get away with it. Um

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not good for the country to have so much hatred. That's for sure

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But is it?

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: A cause and effect I would say no

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_01]: So in your numbers there 40 45 presidents and you say nine of them had attempts on them

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And so that's like one out of five. That's those are not very good odds

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And they and there were a lot of

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: assassination

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Lots that were stopped for example, sir. I'm saying tried very hard to kill Bush the younger

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: His father because his father, of course

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Defeated him in the first Gulf War and and those plots were foiled

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Iran would

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: absolutely wants to take Trump out and

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_00]: The CIA and the NSA have been able to prevent that

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're gonna run for president, you're a target and I'm not saying that with any flippancy at all

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala Harris is not believe me

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: They have to be all over her and same with Biden

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: because the

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Climate in this country is dangerous

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_01]: So, um, I think I've asked you this on one of your previous books as well

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But how did you go about doing the research and you're you've been working with this fellow Martin Dugard as well

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_01]: So how did y'all go about doing the research and then sort of curating what makes it into the book and what what doesn't?

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_00]: What we wanted to do is provide a narrative of all

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_00]: 45 presidents and

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Then let the reader

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Decide whether the president was good or bad for the country

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's what we honed in on the big things that happened

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: during the various administrations

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: plus

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: What they were really like is people

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Because public schools don't teach history anymore and we have a tendency to mythologize

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Presidents we didn't do that. We stripped it right down here. They are here's what they did

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Here's how they lived and here was the ultimate benefit or detriment to the country

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So is it clear when you read confronting the president said James Buchanan

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Who came before Abraham Lincoln was by far the worst president that we have ever had?

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just clear because he could have tamped down the Civil War. He could have stopped it early, but he was a coward

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, and when Trump goes around going Biden's the worst president, that's not true. Trump doesn't care if it's true

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He just wants to say that kind of stuff

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But the second worst president in our estimation my estimation is Joe Biden

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he brought the problems to the country

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He created the problems most of the failed presidents and about half of them were failures

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: They inherited problems and they couldn't solve a curb it over

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, the depression but Biden

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Not Congress not anybody else. He opened the border. He spurred inflation from 1.4 to 9 percent

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: He did it and so that's why I've got him is the second worst

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I was gonna ask you if you did rankings of these presidents and I don't rank them

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I did

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_00]: State that in the

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Essays that we wrote on by I stated that that I felt that way. I

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Feel that the reader has to know that

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_00]: but

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't rank the presence want the reader to rank them. Mm-hmm

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_01]: so in your estimation you've got Buchanan as though and I got it and that's the first one I've

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_01]: First time I've heard Buchanan is ranked the worst. It makes sense though when you say it

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And Biden like if you have a group of like a couple of them best and worst in your mind in your estimation

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Not a ranking but like these are the guys that did the best for the country given the circumstances they got handed

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you've got to get

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Washington is behind Lincoln because Washington it did a magnificent job of forging

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: The federal government and he had a lot of problems and you'll see what those problems were his mother didn't like him

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay FDR

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Made some pretty big mistakes

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But boy, you know when you're handed the Depression and then World War two and we come out of

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: The Depression and win World War two. He's got to be up there. Eddie Roosevelt was a magnificent president

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: and

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: James K. Pope nobody knows who he is

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But he was responsible for having the United States go from Atlantic to Pacific

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: His vision was incredible and he executed it. Well

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: so these are kinds of things you learn if you read the front of presence from

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Cover to cover you will know more about American history than most PhDs

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean given the state of higher academics today, I don't know if that's the

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Bill O'Reilly the book is called confronting the president's no spin assessments from Washington to Biden

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_01]: You can get it at bill O'Reilly calm and follow along with all of the stuff that bill is doing bill

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate your time as always. Good luck on the book. I

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate you. I'm a and Pete good to talk to you. Yes, sir. Take care

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[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_01]: All right. So who is Ryan Wesley?

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Routh or Ruth

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_01]: route

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Routh whatever

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_01]: the 58 year old man

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Accused of pointing an AK 47 at former President Donald Trump on Sunday afternoon

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Has a prolific arrest record that spans several decades

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_01]: One of the things that I always

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_01]: That I always talk about in the wake of any of these types of events is

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Beware of trusting first reports because

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Usually they are incorrect

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_01]: right things become known later on after investigation and

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Things that we thought were true. We're not turn out not to be true and then things that we

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Did not know or thought were not true turn out to be so

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So I just urge people not to you know adopt a position and then let that harden into a belief

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Right and now you have to defend the belief

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to do that. You can you can approach it with, you know an open mind and say okay

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Like what is the evidence right now?

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_01]: suggest

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_01]: my default

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Usually is as Bill O'Reilly just mentioned my default is crazy person

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_01]: That because that's usually the case and for somebody to do what a lot of these shooters

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Do I would submit you must be?

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_01]: evil and or crazy

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's not the actions of a normal person of a sane mind

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's where I that's sort of my baseline I start from that position

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: There is also you know when it comes to

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Terrorism and I would submit that assassination is a form of terrorism although it's not

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_01]: textbook because it's not

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Targeting, you know innocent civilians to affect the policy change. It's affecting a leader

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_01]: But it is of the same family and there are you know, three types of people that do it there are criminals crazies and crusaders and

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: The criminals and crazies all seem to think that they're going to survive it

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_01]: the crusaders generally do not

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_01]: so

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_01]: when it comes to this type of an event again, I

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Default to crazy but I am open to

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Evidence that suggests otherwise but so far it seems like the evidence that is

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Available looks like that is this this guy is this guy's nuts

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And apparently has been for a while

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_01]: He was arrested shortly after the incident at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_01]: authorities say Secret Service agents fired at him after seeing the muzzle of his

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_01]: AK-47 pointing through a chain link fence one hole ahead of where Trump was playing so the Secret Service they

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're on a hole in front of Trump as he you know

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_01]: makes his way around the course and so they go to the the next hole up and they they check it out and

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Credit where it's due. Thank goodness. They I they could see a

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_01]: gun barrel through the

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_01]: hedges that are

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_01]: up against the chain link fence

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Because if they hadn't seen it then this guy would have you know live-streamed his murder of

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Donald Trump because they found a GoPro camera there too. He had it

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Up against the like hanging on the fence

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_01]: authorities are treating the episode as an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump according to the reported Fox News a

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Background check on the name given by officials revealed that he currently lives in Hawaii and has faced dozens of run-ins with police

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Stretching back to at least the 1990s which by the way somebody might need to tell the guy's son

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Who seems to think that his dad?

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Would never do something like this has no history whatsoever to speak of on anything like that. Oh

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_01]: And he's also a registered voter still in North Carolina. I pulled his voter card

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[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna get into the stochastic terrorism angle in the next hour

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe a little bit sooner, I don't know no promises so

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Ryan Wesley Ruth or Ralph Ralph

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_01]: the alleged gunman at the Trump Golf Club down in Florida and

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_01]: When it turned out that he was a North Carolina native

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I do what I usually do which is head on over to the Board of Elections website and

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Punched in his name and lo and behold two results come back for him

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_01]: one of them is a

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Inactive account is one of the inactive account, which was

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_01]: theoretically removed

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So there are two different searches you can run on people one is for active voters

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And then the other one includes any that have been removed or are inactive

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and so if you run that search you'll find

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_01]: So he's got two different accounts basically one is for the inactive account and then one is for the active current account

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: so in the inactive account, he has registered unaffiliated and

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_01]: He had voted in only the general elections in

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Elections going back to 1988 through 2000

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so for 12 years he was voting in North Carolina

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_01]: But only in the general elections never in the primaries so you don't get any any indication as to what his

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Political affiliation is now before I go any further. Let me point out

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go with the idea that he took a shot at the Republican

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_01]: nominee for president and

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So I think his politics and again as I said earlier

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_01]: He's crazy, but I think that's a pretty good indication of what his ideology might be

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Also the

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris Walls

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Bumper sticker on his truck in Hawaii where he lives

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_01]: That's also a pretty good indication

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But he lives in Hawaii

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what the reports are saying that he lives in Hawaii. That's where the truck was pictured. That's where the house was

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_01]: But he still registered to vote in North Carolina. And in fact in the active voter profile

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: He has been voting since 2008

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Through this primary he voted in our March primary in the Democrat primary

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the only primary that he has voted in

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: now he has on social media he had a pretty big footprint on social media and

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_01]: He said he voted for Donald Trump in

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_01]: 2016 but then he got very angry at Donald Trump. He was disillusioned

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_01]: So for an eight-year period between

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_01]: 2000 and 2008 he was not voting in North Carolina

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he was in Hawaii during that time period but from 08 through 24

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_01]: He has been voting in North Carolina

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know how that squares with him being a resident or living in Hawaii

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't I don't understand that

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Not enough information at this time

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Also don't understand

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_01]: How he's affording this lifestyle that he is leading

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Not that he's living extravagantly, but he's traveling a lot

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_01]: He travels a lot mainly to Ukraine

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's he's been going over to Ukraine quite a bit made a couple of appearances up in DC as I understand it

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_01]: too, but mainly Ukraine where he has been

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Over the last what three years since the war or two years since the war in Ukraine began

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He's been trying to recruit mercenaries

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_01]: To fight against the Russians in Ukraine

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Totally regular behavior for a construction worker from North Carolina, right went out to Hawaii and then

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Went to Ukraine. I guess I don't know so when I see there are reports that he's a registered Democrat

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe those reports are correct because according to the Board of Elections

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_01]: He's a registered unaffiliated

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_01]: the only primary he has ever voted in was the North Carolina primary in March and

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he got to pick a presidential candidate there

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_01]: So he was voting in you know, the down-ballot races in the Democrat primary

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_01]: He is a native of North Carolina. Whereas list of arrests include simple drug possession driving without a license

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Expired inspection operating a vehicle with no insurance. Also the Greensboro News and Record reported that back in 2002

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_01]: So this would have been during the period where he wasn't voting anymore

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: He was no longer an active voter in North Carolina

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_01]: But 2002 he was arrested after barricading himself

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Inside his roofing company's office during a three-hour standoff

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_01]: That followed a traffic stop in which he put his hand on a gun before fleeing

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Ralph moved to Hawaii in 2017

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_01]: So this would have been during that that period don't know what he was doing in the nine years between oh eight

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, sorry. Oh eight and 24 is when he was a an active

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Registered voter in North Carolina

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_01]: But Ralph according to the record cited at Fox News moved to Hawaii in 2017

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Susie voting in Hawaii also, I know it's like oh come on Pete

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Like that's not a big deal in comparison to the assassination attempt and I agree. However

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Seems kind of important

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Right seem seems like this might be an issue is this guy voting in multiple states

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_01]: He has since launched another construction company in Hawaii that builds simple housing structures for homeless people according to a LinkedIn page

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_01]: That appears to belong to him

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Although he didn't get very good reviews

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_01]: there are a lot of people that left one star saying he didn't do the work and the work that he did do for others was

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_01]: so terrible that the roofs were leaking a

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Secret service member spotted the would-be gunman while Trump was playing on the course's fifth hole

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Officials say he had been abandoned in a K 47 a GoPro camera and two backpacks along a chain-link fence that borders

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_01]: The sixth hole of the course

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So when I was a kid my grandpa died with Alzheimer's and before he died my mom and my dad and all of us really helped

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Take care of him as he got progressively worse

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_01]: 40 years ago there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Things are different today because of the work of so many people including the Alzheimer's Association of Western, North Carolina

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great organization with awesome people. They've got huge hearts

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I've been a supporter for like 25 years. This cause means a lot to me

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte team this year

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_01]: It's called Pete's pack you can sign up and join the team and walk with me

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_01]: It's on October 19th at truest field in Uptown

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Sign up at ALC org slash walk and then just look for my team Pete's pack

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And there's also a link in the podcast description here

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Also, I'm gonna be MCing the Gastonia walk on October 5th

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_01]: So make a team and join us or make a donation to help me hit my goal. I would really appreciate it

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_01]: There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas and you can go to a LZ org for all of the dates and locations

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_01]: We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's and if you can help us get there we would really appreciate it

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Will you come walk with me for a different future for families for more time for treatments?

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why I walk

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_01]: So according to Fox News

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_01]: 58 year old Ryan Wesley Ruth or Ralph

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Do we have a pronunciation of this guy's name yet? Everybody keeps calling him Ruth, but I like Ralph and if you've seen him I

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Want to call him Ralph the mouth

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Is his mouth is there's something going on there anyway?

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_01]: He fled in an SUV after a member of the Secret Service fired on him

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_01]: He was soon arrested. There was apparently a witness that

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Took pictures of him and the car and got the license plate. So he got picked up very quickly

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I heard a report that he

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Thought that he had gotten away with it

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_01]: No, you did not also Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced that he's gonna be his

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Law enforcement agencies are gonna be conducting their own investigation into the matter as well, which I think is helpful

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_01]: a

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Couple of emails here a bunch of them

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Sue says no one seems to be asking the question of how did the potential shooter know that Trump was at the golf course?

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_01]: It seems strange to me that he just happened to be at hole five or six when Trump would be there

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_01]: What do you think great to listen your show sue?

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, thanks sue for listening. I appreciate it. I have heard this question asked I heard

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Vince

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Mentioned something along the lines this morning on his program

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_01]: that

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_01]: He was around Mar-a-Lago unbeknownst to him

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_01]: He he was not aware that he was in the vicinity

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_01]: but he just saw all of this law enforcement presence and stuff and

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_01]: According to Vince you can tell when the president is at Mar-a-Lago because the security profile is enhanced

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Now it's not enhanced to a level of say a sitting president

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Which by the way, that might be something you guys could you know look at changing now after the second attempt on Trump's life

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_01]: How about maybe giving him even more protection like a sitting president would have maybe okay just throwing that out there

[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_01]: But depending on like what this guy's itinerary was like for the last, you know week or two

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Suspect he stalked the location. I suspect he hung out there waiting for Trump to get back and

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_01]: again, if you're just kind of hanging out in the area, you'd be able to know if he's back and

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I got another message

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_01]: from John

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Who asks if I heard former congressman and former chief of staff to Donald Trump Mick Mulvaney

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_01]: He was on he's on regularly with the morning show here. Good morning BT and

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I heard part of it. I did not hear this part John

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Mulvaney knows that golf course well and described where the gunman was

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Literally just yards from the road

[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_01]: He mentioned how he had talked to the Secret Service about the security of that area a long time ago

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Right, so if you are doing recon work of the site

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I suspect you're going to be able to figure out where to to stand where you would have concealment

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_01]: not cover but concealment in the shrubs right and a sight line and

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_01]: That's how he ended up being at that location

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_01]: So again, I don't know the answer to whether or not the guy had looked up Trump's schedule

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't a publicly, you know released schedule

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_01]: But if you know Trump loves golf, which I think everybody knows that he loves to play golf then

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_01]: You can probably surmise when he's going to be making an appearance

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_01]: If you just hang out at the golf course all day and it seems like that might be what this is what Hodgkinson did

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_01]: remember the shooter at the

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_01]: The Republican softball field where he showed up and tried to assassinate

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_01]: You know a third of the members of the Republican caucus or conference

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_01]: He just he just drove around and you know, let's listen in to his favorite left-wing

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Programs and podcasts or whatever and he just staked out the location and like literally showed up that morning and

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_01]: asked a congressman in the parking lot after the

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_01]: The congressman was leaving and he I forget which one it may have been Duncan actually

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget who he asked but or maybe it was Wilson. I forget but he asked a congressman on his way out

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey is you know, are these Republicans out here? And the guy said yeah, and so

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Hodgkinson went back to his van

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Got his gun came back and opened fire

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So sometimes it is that I don't want to say random because there was a level of detail and planning that went into it

[00:30:00] obviously

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_01]: but opportunity

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Neighbors of the man accused of attempting to assassinate Trump at his golf club

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Described him as quote a little cuckoo and claimed he left everyone on the street terrified this according to the Daily Mail

[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_01]: His home in North Carolina was raided late Sunday night

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_01]: The pickup truck with a Biden Harris bumper sticker was found outside of his Hawaii home

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_01]: A woman who lived next door to Ruth or Ralph in North Carolina described the says registered Democrat

[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_01]: But I don't believe that's true as unusual

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Described him as unusual and revealed that she was not shocked to learn that guns were involved once again

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Right. They go and they talk to people that know the shooter and what do we find?

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_01]: People say yeah, I could totally see how he would be the one to get busted for that

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening

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