Top Podcasts on Political Violence Against Trump

“We've had three assassination attempts on Donald Trump since July of 2024, and the market didn't move... I guess, have we gotten so crazy with the Trump administration that we normalized the abnormal... Maybe this is a moment to think about the language that all of us use, because I think that is all being driven online.”

“This is another act of political violence. We have seen way too much of this over the past few years, whether it's Charlie Kirk, whether it's other people assassinating the Minnesota lawmakers. Absolutely despicable. I do not like this. I do not like when people are trying to use weapons to inflict their political beliefs on other people. That is damaging and it actually goes against what I'm doing here in DC.”

“But the fact is that this perpetrator was not there for that. He was there for Republicans who work for Donald Trump and they were there for Donald Trump. The media I think absolutely plays a huge role in all of this, but now they found themselves a little bit in the crossfire. Do you think this will change them at all? I'd like to say yes but I don't think so.”

“"Nobody in recent years has faced more bullets and more violence than President Trump. You see how they're using this incident to further divide this country and actually stoke political violence in doing so? That's what the Trump regime is doing here... It inspires them to do crazy things. And unfortunately, it's not just the media. It is the entire Democrat Party..."”

“Why do they commit these acts of violence? In the wake of these acts of violence, why do they respond the way they respond with the trying to spread blame around or even just trying to flat out blame you or tell outright lies? I don't understand. How are you not? They just tried to kill Trump again. How are you not on television right now, right now, saying I'm going to tone down the rhetoric.”

“In the environment that we're in, we've had three assassination attempts. We are looking at a different type of protection plan here that needs to come into place. So it's pushing out the security perimeter. That magnetometer checkpoint, it's really the first line of defense. The question that's being raised is, is it too close? Do you want a tighter perimeter? Do you want to push it out?”

“We need to be pointing out to these MAGA freaks that they are the ones who are ramping up the tension in American politics. Them, along with social media algorithms, along with Elon Musk and other bad faith actors like Russia, China, Iran, they all want to weaken the cohesion of our society by ramping up hatred. But you know who does it the most, who pushes it the most? Is Donald J. Trump.”

“The left-wing in this country has convinced many of their crazy left-wing adherents that Donald Trump is Hitler. These people believe they're heroes. They tried to kill him in Butler. They tried to kill him in West Palm Beach. and now they try to kill him in Washington, D.C. They're going to be trying to kill President Trump for the rest of his life.”

“In this new threat environment, where the president's been targeted three times already... it feels closer to 1968 than 2028 at the moment. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will reportedly hold a meeting with the people in charge of Trump's security now to discuss security protocol. They say that she's been a big backer of the Secret Service and a defender of them. And I think she's finally coming to see maybe she's been a little too defensive of them.”

“Joe Kent, who you can dismiss as a wacko or a traitor, but you can't say he doesn't know what he's talking about... He believes that is connected to the control that Israel has over the United States government, the demonstrable control. He also pointed to a couple of pretty shocking violations of the president's personal security by the secret service they allowed things to happen that never happen around a president.”

“"I actually feel bad for this guy, Pat. This guy was radicalized by a machine, political propaganda machine that made him literally go there to try to kill the president of the United States and anybody that got in his way. Adam. Yeah. I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting this feeling that they really want to kill Trump."”

“If you are a member of Federal Protective Service and law enforcement in any capacity, it is your requirement. It is your responsibility. If you're anywhere in the chain of command, if this was the military, Steve, if this was the military, the chain of command would be fired. If this was the military, the chain of command would be fired after a security lapse like this.”

“Here is Trump, I thought this was, well, this is, again, this is quintessential. That's the word of the day. This is quintessential Donald Trump on why these attempts keep happening to him. I ask respectfully why do you think this keeps happening to you Well you know I studied assassinations and I must tell you the most impactful people the people that do the most, you take a look at the people, Abraham Lincoln, I mean, you go through the people that have gone through this where they got them, but the people that do the most, the people that make the biggest impact, they're the ones that they go after.”

“"Donald Trump has the largest voice and platform in this country, and he's used it since his beginning of politics to say that Obama was not born in this country. That's hateful and divisive, and that is a conspiratorial racist lie. He used it to say that Hillary Clinton should be locked up for her many crimes... Donald Trump then said the election was stolen. He's been the biggest purveyor of divisiveness."”

“I do think there's a real problem with these types of large scale events. There was no ID required to get in. There was no security really checking any list whatsoever to verify that somebody should be on the ground. You had no magnetometers anywhere throughout the building except right outside the ballroom. And the fact that this gentleman was able to get from the 10th floor down a vacant stairwell to the ballroom area obviously is disconcerting.”

“Yes, they're flooding me with information. But yes, I honestly, I always say that these agents acted heroically. They said they subdued and they interdicted this terrible madman guy. And so they deserve praise for that. But the larger plan, I don't I think it's similar to Butler. These Secret Service agents rank and file Secret Service agents and officers were set up to fail.”

“I've asked all of my friends, you know, again, I know intelligence officers from all over the world. you know, their assessments of Donald Trump, you know, and some of them would say, well, you know, go watch The Sopranos. It's a mob boss. You know, everything's very transactional. And we all kind of laughed at that. But now he looks like someone who's unhinged.”

“I mean, the kind of political outrage and intellectual dishonesty that we're seeing and we can continue to see over such a long time now, it feels like, in our politics has become a kind of toxic fuel for this kind of environment. I mean, people are angry, But the president sets the tone. He called for the destruction of an entire civilization. He celebrated the death of a former FBI director and Robert Mueller.”

“And it's unbelievable that the American people are consuming it night after night after night. Just from the rhetoric, you mentioned the first lady and Jimmy Kimmel... there does seem to be a normalization of rhetoric about assassinating this particular president. How can this administration try to put an end to this? Well I think you heard it directly from the President on Saturday night Aisha that in his words we need to recommit ourselves as a country to toning down the rhetoric and to unifying around what makes our country great.”

“The extremity of Trump's threats, coupled with his growing desperation to find a way out of the conflict, has increased fears that a volatile president could try to use a nuclear weapon. Under the U.S. system, a U.S. president has sole authority to order a nuclear launch. To do so, he would summon a security conference call of the National Military Command Center, which would typically involve top officials since it's the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, so he's not going to veto this, the Armed Forces Commander, and others.”