Radical Leftist Assassination Culture in America | Victor Davis Hanson

It's been not even two years, 2024 when Crooks tried to kill Trump, right? So three assassination attempts. If you count the Mar-a-Lago where the Martin fellow, the young kid went in there and tried to kill Trump, but he wasn't there, four. At that rate we're going, he's got two more, two and a half years. So we could see five more of these, four. I'm not trying to be funny. It's tragic because on the one hand, I really thought from the videos that the secret service was really brave inside the actual ballroom. But when you look at that video very carefully, it looked like they were almost dismantling one of the, there was those magnet monitors, those, but they looked like they were already, you know, closing up shop. People had gone in and they were going to just, and the other thing was, and I don't know if this is confirmed. He shot once and his magazine, I think had six shotgun shells and he had a bunch of pouches and maybe he had 30 or 40 shells. He had a, sometimes people said it was a 45 or 38. I didn't know what they meant when they said it was a 1911 38. I thought 1911 automatics were 45s, but nonetheless, he had a, and he had a lot of knives. Yeah. He had taken selfies of himself, all armed. He was a narcissist. He had a little wet tie on. But my point is that he's running fast and then they tackle. Why did they shoot five times? There were six shots and they couldn't hit him once. And why, when you look at the whole thing, I understand that he wasn't on the same floor. He had to go down into the basement to get to the ballroom. But that being said, what would have been so hard to say that for two days before the event, every single person who checked into that hotel would have to go through a magnetic corridor and have everything checked every time they went in and out just to do that. He wouldn't have been able to come in there. And then why wouldn't they have a secret service person during two hours before the ballroom and during the festivities? Why wouldn't you have secret service people going up and down the stairs all the time? Because you thought if any guy wants to shoot somebody, I mean, you remember Fugitive where, oh, no, it wasn't. Yeah, it was, wasn't it the Fugitive where the guy goes and tries to burst in? Oh, no, it was a Clint East movie with John Malkovich. He was a psycho. And he was ready to shoot people. But the point is, even in the films and fantasy, people take, you know what I mean? They try to think what the person would do if I was going to kill somebody. So what I'm getting at is when you look at the breakdown with Crooks, the breakdown with Ruth, there's individual really great agents that are willing to, when that guy, as soon as he heard that shotgun blast, he stood up in front of everybody, in front of Trump, like, shoot me, but don't hit the president. But my point is that I think maybe it's a carryover from the Obama-Biden years, and the director under Biden. But I don't know if it's DEI or what, but why don't they emphasize shooting ability all the time? It seemed like the old guard, the old breed in the 1960s and stuff, they were pretty good about that. I mean, there was a lot of assassinations. But my premise is this, they're in a unique situation that they have a president that has now been the target of three attempted assassinations in which shots were fired one way or the other. We've never had that in the history of the country. We've never seen this level of abuse, not against Lincoln, not against Roosevelt, not against LBJ, not against Nixon, not against George Bush. There's hatred out there. And there's a whole melange, a whole series of little clips that are on social media now about all the people who posted that they were crying, upset that Cole, Thomas, Allen missed, missed. Oh, he missed. It's really sick. So my point is this very quickly, why wouldn't you just say, we are in a red alert. We're going to look at every operation of the secret service because we've had three breakdowns. Crook should have never been on that roof. Ruth should have never been anywhere near that golf course. You should have had somebody patrolling the whole golf course on a golf cart with a machine gun, 10 of them. And we, this man should have never been in that hotel. And especially not in the lobby areas. So they're not doing that. And if they don't do it, they're going to kill Trump. Because another thing is when you read the guy's manifesto, he was even arrogant that he was giving them a critique of why they didn't stop him. He was making fun of how bad the security was. And then he talked about himself and all of these arrested development, young men, they're sick, but they all have a feeling of, they all feel that they are going to be heroic. They're going to be famous. And when you have this nut Hassan Piker telling everybody, you know, that, Hey, somebody has to do it. Somebody has to do it. Oh, you know what I mean? Meaning Trump has to be killed. And then he says, you know, Luigi Mangione was, he murdered, that was a social murder. That was okay. Meaning he wasn't, we declare him an enemy of the people, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. So when you have that lower in the bar and plus all of the Hitler stuff, these people are going to keep coming out of the woodwork and everyone's going to think, I can be like Luigi Mangione only on steroids because look what they're making out of him. And he didn't even get killed. And Alan didn't get killed either. I can go and shoot the president. I might live. And then if I live, I would be like Hinckley or somebody. I'd be a hero to people. You mean we don't have capital punishment is what you're saying. So if we had some capital punishment. It wouldn't be alive today if they had been able to shoot straight. I'm not, I don't know what the angle of the shots were, but the five shots at somebody in the same room and you miss every one of them. So I don't know. Get back to the range. Get back to the range, get politics out of everything. When I saw that they wanted to impeach Pete Hexeth, I thought, what do you want to impeach him for? He got 65,000 additional soldiers when we were short 40,000 under Lloyd Austin. He helped organize the bombing of his Pentagon, the bombing, the first one of last June where there was nothing lost. He was oversaw the kidnapping or extradition of Maduro or this particular program. They're all, they've all worked flawlessly and recruits up and he's trying to get new sources of procurement and, you know, more is better than a few platforms. But the key to all that is he just got rid of all the ideology. We're not here to fast track DEI. We're not here to fast track trans. We're not here to do any of that. You use us because you don't have any of the Sturm und Drang and none of the back and forth in Congress. You tell us to do it and we do it. So they look at the Pentagon as a fast track social network. And from what we've seen the last years of, especially under Obama, all the agents that remember in South America, they were being partying and they had to kick some off and drinking and carousing. You get the impression that, I don't know, there's other concerns other than I am going to ensure Donald Trump is not going to be shot. And when you add the other thing to the equation that no president takes more risks than he does, open rallies, talks, walking down the corridor. Hey, Mr. Pratt stops, turns around, walks over, talks for 20 minutes. Somebody else yells, talks, gets on the phone, talks to anybody. You know what I mean? They need to be in a crisis mode is what I'm saying and not complacent.