This has to stop..

Where Trump calls on Disney and ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Oh my God. So, I'm going to be honest. I hate Jimmy Kimmel. I think he is the biggest like I can't say the word that I think he is, which means that you guys all know what it is. I hate him. I hate I I think he is the most insufferable, obnoxious person. Like and and the reason why I really hate Jimmy Kimmel is the two-facedness of him, right? Like I I I respect people like in a way I respect people like Joy Reid more than Jimmy Kimmel because Joy Reid is just a dumb, racist That's all she is. And she never pretends like she's not. She never tries to act like anything else. That's what she is. And that's fine. But the problem what I really hate is the fact that Jimmy Kimmel goes out there and goes on political monologues non-stop, but then says, "Oh, but I'm just a comedian. Oh, you can't go after me. I'm just a little old comedian." Well, then what do you Well, then why is nobody laughing? Why do you need a laugh track? Like you go to a comedy club, there's no laugh tracks there. And so anyway, he yeah, he he's pretending like he's not flagged for PvP. He is. He's flagged for PvP. He's doing this and and look at this here. Jimmy Kimmel crying about ice in Minnesota. Jimmy Kimmel making jokes about Melania being a wido. So, what's the difference here? It's like you're laughing about this. You're making jokes about this. And simultaneously you're crying about people that got uh that got killed. This is so annoying. And uh no, I I think this is ridiculous trash bag is. I mean, saying that somebody looks like an expecting widow is a very like there's no like where's the punchline there? It doesn't even make sense. So, it's just basically more assassination baiting, more baiting of violent rhetoric and violent language. So, how is it that you're crying over a person that got shot? Meanwhile, the police officer that shot this person didn't even have an investigation because it was so obvious that they were in the right. Meanwhile, you're trying to, you know, uh you know, make excuses for and talk about how it's it's funny that like the the first lady is going to be expecting widow. It's disgusting. And so, no, I I absolutely I absolutely hate this person. I I do. I totally hate this person. And I hope Trump puts more pressure on him and it makes things worse for him. I think this I hope the same thing that happened to Colbert happens to him, too. And uh yeah, you know, he he should be sacked for comments like he should be sacked for comments like that. I mean, I think that Trump should definitely like this is always my outlook, right? Is that I think about what would a person like this do to you? And then I just do that to them. Like that's what I would do. Like that that that's my outlook on it, right? Like I don't think about like, oh well, you know, like what's fair. Like I'm like, well, what would what would they do, right? And it's like, okay, well, they they like I mean, Jimmy Kimmel like, oh my God. But where's the this is the Let me see. Hospitals get any more overcrowded, they're going to have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bed. And that choice doesn't seem so tough to me. Vaccinated person having a heart attack, yes, come right on in. We'll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo, rest in peace, Weezy. You're So, there it is, right? And so, this is And the reason why I don't like Jimmy Kimmel is because like I respect his freedom of speech, but I don't respect his political speech under the disguise of a comedy show. I don't I don't like the idea that you have used your show as a vehicle to push political ideology, but then whenever you get pushback for that political ideology, now you act like, well, I'm just a comedian. I think that it's totally fine for him to say this. I don't have a problem with him saying this. Like I mean, legally, right? I think he's a piece of and he's totally wrong, but like I don't have a problem like, you know, like ethically with him saying this, right? But the problem is that you you go on and it's Colbert's the same way is that they go on and they make political statements and they have a very, very one-dimensional political bias that they exercise. And then the moment that they get any pushback for that political bias, now somehow this is a big uh you know, now it's a victim parade. Now that comedians like him don't aim for laughs, but for clapping and approval. I like that. I think that's a really that's a really good analysis. Yeah, they're not looking for laughs, they're looking for claps and approval. Or like cheers. He's on public broadcasting airwaves, that's a problem. I don't really care about that. I mean, like I I just I just don't, right? I mean, you you can Now, obviously like you should use every method possible to attack your enemies. It doesn't matter whether it's hypocritical, it doesn't matter whether it's unfair. You should always attack your enemies in every way that you can. Now, I so I'm not I'm not trying to like, you know, tone police you. But what I'm saying is that like you're asking me my opinion on it. I don't really care about that. Like it's not like that's just really what it comes down to me. Him talking about polish polishes like Billie Eilish land talk, they shouldn't be talking about the topic. Well, Billie Eilish, the thing is that I mean, she doesn't really do politics a lot. She's made like what? Four political comments in her entire life. Who cares? So, it's [music] like I don't really care about that as much as, you know, a guy like Jimmy Kimmel that does this as a career for like, you know, 15 years. Like I mean, who cares some pop star has a has a libtarded opinion. Oh my God, it must be a day that ends with Y. Like I don't really give a And so, who the even watches cable anymore? I don't know who watches this guy at all. I really don't. And so anyway, he's been getting a lot of pushback for this. And so, let let let me listen to a few more of these. Much of the manifesto of the would-be assassin is indistinguishable from the words that we hear daily from so many. Yeah, that's where he got it from. as the first lady of the United States pointed out this morning, just 2 days prior to the shooting, ABC's late-night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called First Lady Melania Trump an expectant widow. Yep. Who in their right minds says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband? It's sick. It's totally sick. And and the thing is that everybody knows this. We all know this. But the people that support it play this gaslighting game as if they don't. It's so obvious what you're doing. It everybody know we all know this. It's terrible to say. It's foolish to say. And and here's the reality, too, is that if you had right-wing people utilizing the same language, do you think Jimmy Kimmel would be going up there? And especially like theoretically, like let's say a Democratic politician has an attempt on their life, you know, like heaven forbid, but let's let's assume this happens. And there's some right-wing person that like 3 days ago said, "Oh, we need to pop this guy off." Or, you know, like I I wonder what his family's going to be like whenever they find out that, you know, he's dead. And everybody would be playing that clip. All of the same people that are playing and saying that it's freedom of speech and comedy, they would be out of their mind trying to get this person deplatformed, screaming from every rooftop they possibly can. So, the entire idea that this is freedom of speech or anything else, this is purely politics. It is 100% politics. And right now, there are enough people that are naive and stupid enough to think that these people genuinely care about the Constitution. Meanwhile, we just saw a video of them saying that yes, let's systematically kill unvaccinated people indirectly by not giving them hospital admission. That's no problem for them to say, but at the same time, you can't go and say something like this. It's crazy. And so, Jimmy needs to port it. It's But you so, what did Republicans say about Michelle Horton? What did I I I don't know what Republicans said about it. But like let me look at what I said. Asmondgold um demo Minnesota uh How do you spell How do you spell Minnesota? I I I can't I can't I just can't spell. Like I don't know what you want me to say. Like I I literally like it's like a mental disorder. Like I I just can't spell. Uh Minnesota uh assassination. Okay. And uh anyway, so can I find this here? Uh killer of Minnesota lawmakers found they assassinated a lawmaker. So, these right here, these are two videos that I made, I guess probably one or two days apart from each other uh talking about the person that did the killing. So, the and and I I didn't say that it was good. Uh Brett is dumb. No, I I I don't know why. Like I can remember numbers, but for some reason I just can't remember the ordering of letters. Like I I like spelling naive. Like I've I've tried to remember how to spell naive and I just can't do it. Like I don't I don't know why. Like I I really don't. I mean, yeah, it's it's very, very odd. And I it's weird because usually like I have no problem being able to do things like that, but I just I I I just I can't do it. Like cuz I was saying this word I was typing this word to somebody out of practice. Well, no, I type it regularly to people, honestly. Like it's one of my favorite words and I still say it wrong every single time. It's just there's something Yeah, there's something wrong with my head there. I I don't I don't understand it. But anyway, um so, uh I I I immediately called that out. I mean, the assassination of those two Minnesota lawmakers and also the husband, I think, as well uh was disgusting. And uh this person was a sick freak and I think they should execute him. That's what I think, right? And uh there's literally no there's no fine print to that. Like I mean whether he was a Democrat or like I mean I'm sorry you show up to somebody's house like this. I don't care what political party you're from. You're from the political party of Halloween, okay? Like you're nuts. So yeah, I don't care about that. The idea about this period is that it's sick and nobody should be supporting this at all. Tim also want that happen. He worked for Walls literally. Yeah, he worked for Walls. His friend said he was a Trump supporter. It's a wash. It is. It's a wash. Who knows what happened? Who knows why he did this? He had flyers in his car that were kind of skits. So it's very hard to say. The point is that you have people like Jimmy Kimmel that openly espouse assassination rhetoric on broadcast television. They do this plainly. Like they they say there's no implication here. It's just obvious. And having experienced what I did with the first lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that. This kind of rhetoric about the president, the first lady, and his supporters is completely deranged and it's unbelievable that the American people are consuming it night after night after night. As President Then do something about it. Then create a new rule. Do something to shut down public broadcast television that's advocating for violence or murder. Like put some lawsuit against ABC or whoever is running the show. Like do something about it to make like how like how did you get rid of Colbert, right? I mean just do that too. So I I I don't know what this is. We need padded rooms for these people. Yes, definitely. And so why isn't the FBI at his door? Yeah, exactly. Like why isn't this happening? And so like this is the problem that I have. I want to get your opinion. Well, how do you highlight the difference between her expecting shots fired to Jimmy Kimmel's joke? I know there's a difference. I want to get your input. Well, I mean like so what do you what do you think? If you know there's a difference then why would you even say it, right? I mean like why why would you even why would you create this dichotomy or this comparison if you know that there's an obvious difference? Like why would you even do that? Like I mean I I don't I I don't like engaging with devil's advocates. I don't like doing that. I think it's a waste of my time. Like if if we're all on the same page with this then I don't think we need to waste time, you know, retracing, you know, and retreading ground that everybody's already walked on. We know we know what's going on with this, right? And so What you did I feel that? Yeah, that's not a human to type that. No, no, there's a lot of people that do that. It's just that I I have a and I'm not mad at you for saying that. I'm not like I'm not trying to be like a dick or anything. It's just that like I have a lot of people that do that and it's just it does it's kind of a pet peeve of mine, but I'm not you know, I'm not offended, right? That's just my opinion. Then Trump said on Saturday night at this podium, we as Americans must recommit ourselves to resolving our differences peacefully and uniting around the shared values that make our country great. The deranged lies and smears against the president, his family, his supporters have led crazy people to believe crazy things and they are inspired to commit violence because of those words. It has to stop. Yeah, I mean there's been an intentional and deliberate effort in order to turn up the temperature of rhetoric by everybody. I think Trump doesn't Trump does this. I think Democrats do this. I think that the worst the worst angle of this is the Democrats supporters that are going out there and you know, chanting and saying crazy stuff and then the Democratic lawmakers and the representatives don't spend enough enough time rebuking them. Like anytime that for example, a Republican or somebody like that is um you know, like they're like caught being racist or you know, like something like this. They're immediately you expect every Republican to come out and say that well, this person is like a bad this is a bad person and immediately call them out. Like for example, like I don't know I I have no idea. Like I don't think anybody was saying this was some kind of like a cover-up or you know, some sort of a setup job or anything like that. But the problem is that now you have people that do that in order to deliberately you know, make it less important. Trump is an incendiary counterweight to the left's 10 years of random insanity. Well, I think that the real way to handle it is just simply to enforce laws. What would a reasonable law against this behavior be that doesn't backfire in the future by corrupt usage? So everything can like the so being worried about corrupt usage of something is in my opinion a it's a it's a logical fallacy because corrupt usage implies that it's not being used by a person that is in good faith in the first place. So why would you expect a person who's acting in bad faith to need a law to do that? A bad faith actor will do whatever they want regardless of what the laws are. They'll twist whatever they want to make whatever conclusion they need to. So the idea that you need to write things and do things in a way to prevent a bad actor in the future from taking advantage of them it's just impossible to do that. It is because and the reason why is because those people that would do that in the future will not care about what the law says. They'll just simply apply whatever their viewpoint is period. I think that you can look at the you know, the COVID tyranny is a great example of that. You needed no precedent for this. All you need is the opportunity. So anyway, going back to what your question was, how do you actually make a law? I think that anybody that's advocating for Well, actually we don't need to make a law. What what am I talking about? We don't need to make a law. We already have them. There are already dozens of laws on the books about, you know, like advocating for violence, you know, like you know, like trying to solicit you know, like any sort like a domestic terrorism, etc. So we don't need to invent new laws. All we need to do is apply the existing ones. So that's what I think that we should do. It seems very obvious. And punishment is the deterrent. Exactly. It's important to have somebody to hold someone responsible against. Vague laws make it harder to hold bad actors against. Well, we already have the laws, right? Like I don't think that we need any new laws. Like that's really the that's really the the answer is that all we need are the existing laws, things for you know, inciting like Let me let me just like list of inciting laws of of laws against inciting violence against a a group of people actually against people against someone in the US. So I mean like yeah, let's just go ahead and and we'll go through this. Yes. Solicitation to commit a crime of violence. Anti-riot act. Insurrection or rebellion. Threat statutes. Hate crime and civil rights statutes. Incitement to riot or violence. Terroristic threats. Hate crime enhancements. Hate crimes So hate crimes are it's like a like it's like a damage multiplier, right? So like a hate crime is not a crime in itself, but if you do something and you did it because of a racial reason, it's like a multiplier, right? So it's like added cold damage or like you know, an added it's like a basically it's a critical strike. And but if you don't get a hit, you can't get a crit either. What is this? The left is not the only people doing this and the right That's crazy. That's not the only people doing this. Okay. does it just as much online. You can understand They No, they don't. It's just obviously not true. I mean like it every polling and statistics says that's not true. Why we're on edge as conservatives though. Three times the president, Steve Scalise, Brett Kavanaugh, Charlie Kirk. Heck, there was even a plot against Russ Vought the other day who's the head of of the Office of Management and Budget. I mean conservatives are I think rightfully on edge because this keeps happening over and over and over again and people keep calling Donald Trump a Nazi and they keep calling him a fascist and they keep repeating lies about him that have that are not true yet they keep getting repeated regarding Epstein and other things. I'm just telling you as a conservative who lives in this everyday, my friend was murdered last year. My president's had three assassination attempts. I have a knot in my stomach about it everyday that [music] I wake up. I want to hear what Scott Jennings thinks about designating some of these groups as terrorist organizations and then weaponizing the National Guard and the military against them directly. Because if you're not willing to do that, you're not willing to solve this problem. I want to I want to know what he thinks about taking all of these violent protesters, these rioters and just simply arresting and hog-tying all of them and putting them inside of basically containment camps and federal containment camps and then ignoring any state orders to let them out. Because unless you're willing to do that, you don't want to solve this Yeah, send them to Guantanamo Bay. Black bag them. Like they always talk about black bagging. I mean Might as well do it. That's the way I see it. Apologize So so so so unless you're willing unless you're willing to go to that level, you can't dial these people down. They're not There's no language they understand other than violence and force. That's it. That's it. That's all I can say. I thought Yeah, exactly. You want to be a victim? Yeah, that's what I always say. You want to be a victim? Great. Let's make you earn it. That's how I see it. I agree with most of the narrative coming out the GOP. I don't understand how lacking the security was. Did you get a chance to read the manifesto? The bro literally called out how easy it was to set up this plan. It doesn't matter because the guy didn't even get into the room with Trump. Like there were obviously two different layers of security. He got through the first layer and we're supposed to imagine it's secret service. Like how many assassination attempts do you think he's had on Trump that we don't even know about, right? I mean, no, very clearly like yeah, he failed. He didn't even get in the room. So I think people are vastly overestimating this entirely. They accuse Trump of the things they want themselves want to do. Yes, of course. Maybe couldn't even detect the cameras. Maybe you're right. I have no idea. So anyway, that's what I that's what my question is to Scott Jennings, right? Is like unless you're willing to actually go Old Testament on these people, then you will continue to have this culture of political violence. That that's that's literally it. And let's see here. Does anyone else have a knuckleball I have to respond to today at all? I don't care I don't care I don't care about the shooting. But honestly like I it's the shooting isn't what matters, it's the reaction to it. It's the culture around it. Like even the thing itself happening isn't the big thing, it's the culture It's like Charlie Kirk, right? Charlie Kirk being killed, like political activists get killed pretty regularly, right? I mean Martin Luther King was killed, Malcolm X was killed, Charlie Kirk was killed, you have Abraham Lincoln was killed. Like there's tons of people that get assassinated regularly. It happens. Like Shinzo Abe was killed. Like this is it's not uncommon or unthinkable that could happen. The the problem is the reaction to it. JFK, yep, there's another one, right? Charlie was a podcaster? Yeah, he was a podcaster and he got killed. I'm confused. Like are you trying to So are you like so so do you do you think that like What do you What do you mean by saying he was a podcaster? What are you trying to say? You you got you got pulled up for this. You did. You got pulled up. William McKinley got assassinated, too? I don't know about that. 6-7? [laughter] More like '07. Get the out of here, you idiot. And so anyway, no. No, cuz you know you're being an idiot. Everybody knows that when you're making lists of people, you're not comparing them. You're not saying that oh, Charlie Kirk is the same as Abraham Lincoln. Everybody knows that, but you're you're drawing this distinction as if it's not already understood in order to like minimize it or to downplay it. That's that's what you were doing. It was obvious that's what you were doing. And then you're dishonest about it because you know you can't defend what you're saying. You're just being an idiot. So anyway, and that that's what I think. So it's not a brainwashed idiot. It's like that, dude. They're not brainwashed, they're just stupid. That's the reason why. It's a little bit different. But anyway, That was funny. Shouldn't have banned him? I don't know. I thought it was funny to ban him. So I mean like really, it seems like it's about the same. I don't like people that are dishonest. I don't. I don't like people that are dishonest and annoying. [snorts] And it's annoying. And oh, this is the guy they uh This is the guy they they charged. That's it. Reading this from our colleague in the courtroom, Jake Gibson, [music] Cole Allen Cole Allen is facing three counts. Count [music] one, attempt to assassinate the president of the United States to life in prison. I'm just reading this on my phone in real time. Transporting a firearm across state lines, 10 years and $250,000 fine. what that is. This third count is discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, a mandatory [music] minimum of 10 years. So the first is attempt to assassinate cooked. Totally cooked. Good. Uh-huh. Wow, how about that? But Biden's son didn't get 10 years for the same charge? Well, that's the reason why nobody cares about I think that's the reason why nobody really cared about Trump you know, committing crimes is that I mean you had you had Hunter Biden that was playing Grand Theft Auto in real life and nothing was happening to him. Nothing was happening to him. And how is it that you can have the president's son that has video recordings of him driving like 100 and something miles an hour with a hooker in the car and smoking crack without a shirt on and nothing ever happened to this guy. He's not in jail. Well, it's obvious why. It's because it's the president's son. So how can you respect a like a like what's the word for it? Like a stance on law and order when you have such a blatant hypocrisy there? How can you You sound jealous? I mean Look, he had some nice cars, okay? He did. He had some nice cars. So what a time, exactly. Our next president, exactly. And they don't want law and order. Yeah, they just want control. And correction prostitute in the trunk. Oh, he had two of them? I don't know. And so yeah. Yeah, but here, what is this here? And didn't Hunter also leave the country recently, too? I have no idea. And where is this here if I can find it. And where did this go? And if you're transporting from state to state, it becomes federal. Well, of course I think that makes sense. I mean definitely. The current president's son's insider trading and making billions, which one's worse? Which one is worse? One of them like whether he's insider trading or not, this is not something that is evident as for example, somebody driving and smoking crack in a car. Like everybody knows driving and smoking crack in a car is wrong. Like there's no trial that needs to happen for that. It is a blatant and obvious violation of the law. Now, if somebody else is doing something wrong, then obviously they should get in trouble. But what I'm saying is that a idea of insider trading is not as obvious as driving a car with hookers in it while you're smoking crack. One of them is a lot more obvious than the other. And if you try to play that game, all you're doing is making excuses for it. That's it. That's what my point is. And what do you think of all the missing scientists? I think that there's something going on and I don't think that anybody knows what. I think that's really what it is. I don't I I don't even know if they're dead in some cases. I really don't. And let me scroll down. I'll find a few of these and and go through them. Did you might be advertised welcome back to the party for firing squad? Well, I don't know. Would you do it if you were him? No, absolutely not. No, 100%. What does it have to do with it though? They should go after both. They should, of course. Obviously insider trading should be punished. Like I mean yeah, duh. Like I don't know if that's happening or not. But what I'm saying is that one of them one of them is very evident and I don't I don't know about insider trading. Insider trading is a complex white-collar crime that has to be investigated by a bunch of about like third-party entities, right? Like you have to go into this and and look into it thoroughly. You can't just be certain that there's something that's insider trading because you've you know, read a news article. Like it's completely different. Anyway, I thought this was pretty funny. Now even Israelis have their own version of the great replacement. Here we go. White people are being replaced in Israel. [music] I guess it must be Israel. White people in Israel is not primarily of European Jews who do not believe in it. They're now a tiny minority, used to be a dominant minority. Israel is rapidly becoming a Muslim-style theocracy for Talmudics, moving away from the West. This is driven by a new majority of Israelis, Arab Jews and Talmudics. The visionaries of Israel were all Europeans who believed the Jewish state should be European in nature and we are all Zionist pioneers who built it. Netanyahu is a villain who facilitated the replacement to maintain his political power. He gives to human degenerates like this random person political power in order to appeal the Judeo-Jihadist third world this and keep it up. Israeli democracy is decaying as the government increasingly caters to the ultra-Orthodox who leech They Oh God, I can't read it all. God promised them his Oh no, uh-oh. Oh wow. And Israel so basically they're having the like What what's their excuse though? Because like our excuse is Israel's doing it to us. So is Israel's excuse is Israel doing it to itself? Is it America doing it to Israel? Like what is this, right? And the animation's fire though. I guess so. I'm Israeli, I can confirm. I have no idea. Okay, man. Like you know, I have no interest in you know, the the politics over there as long as it's not bombing Americans, right? And yeah, Israeli leftist crashing out. I guess so. I just I I don't even know what it is. Also, so this same girl, remember this girl yesterday? Political violence on the left is so normalized, it's absolutely insane. They're mad the shooter didn't kill any Republicans. So this girl um Let's see here. Let's keep you away from the children, pedo. Go kill yourself as a favor. Everyone upset Everyone's upset you didn't get the shot in the head last night. Now, why did she make this post? That's why. That's obviously why. And everybody knows it. It is. Mad because fat There's a lot of examples of this. There are many such cases. And there is nothing that women hate more than attractive women. Nothing. Every single time like and and that is the one thing that you can guarantee like if you want to find the hate in a person's heart, ask a fat woman what she thinks about like some pretty girl. Oh my god, lard opinions. Yes, and obese opinions, right? And she'd be stealing the wine if she was there? No, she'd probably go for the mashed potatoes. But, you know, maybe she'd just go for all the gravy instead. Who knows? Crabs in a bucket? Yeah, well, these people are at the bottom of the bucket. They're weighing it down. And so anyway, I did see this. I thought it was kind of funny. I hope you get shot in the head. This is what a normal hog thinks like, right? And again, like I don't know, maybe she hasn't maybe she hasn't eaten for like three or four hours, so you know, she's hangry. Like, you know how these things happen, right? And she's going hog wild. I get it. It's what happens. Oink pinions, yeah, it's a nasty thing to say. Yeah, it's a very weird thing for somebody like this to say. But yeah, three to four minutes, yeah. Give her a Snickers bar. I like that. And they're so obnoxious, aren't they? It's wild how the right sat respectfully for years while Joe Joe at the wheel. Could you imagine the same behavior come from the right at that time? Yeah, I don't think that really happened. I mean, who cares? And I did see also it it it's always funny to see my Sicilian father. Some random guy from Italy, right? Some guy that grew up on some random island on Italy his entire life. He probably didn't get the internet until like 2018 or something like this. Stop arguing with these idiots. Who cares if they think the shooting was staged? They're the same people who believe men can get pregnant and still can't tell you how many genders there are. Let them go plan their next abortion while they talk about how we need stricter gun laws for children. Todd Blanche live? Are they talking about this again? Let me see if it's true. And if they have some update or something going on. What is this? It's an hour ago. It seems like there's not really a lot happening. Maybe there is. Let me go and see. Oh, here we go. One secret off Secret Service officer was shot in the chest but was wearing a ballistic vest that worked. This is today. This heroic officer who was hit fired five times at Allen who was not shot but fell to the ground and was promptly arrested. Mhm. I want to thank everybody who worked tirelessly on Saturday, Sunday, and continuing today. This includes members of the FBI and Director Patel's going to address that in a minute. It includes members of the Metropolitan Police Department who were immediately on the scene, the chief, the mayor to make sure that law enforcement was available to do their jobs and had had all the tools they needed to do so. And lastly, the United States Attorney's Office here in DC our US Attorney Janine Piro and her team prosecutors stayed up all night long didn't sleep all day yesterday making sure that we got what we needed from all over the country. It included search warrants in California, search warrants here in DC multiple interviews that have been conducted already of witnesses and of of family members of of the charged individual and and continue to work hard today. This investigation is ongoing. It's not complete. A lot of the information that that the media is hearing through leaks or sources some of it is true and at the right time you will hear information from us as appropriate. I'd like to ask our US Attorney Janine Piro to say a few words and then followed by Director Patel. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Attorney General. Cole Allen's journey of accountability in the criminal justice system starts today. Todd Blanche just indicated to you the charges. Those charges are only three charges that are in the complaint that has been presented in federal district court about an hour ago. There will be additional charges as this investigation continues to unfold. But make no mistake this was an attempted assassination of the President of the United States Seemingly. with the defendant making clear what his intent was. And that intent was to bring down as many of the high-ranking cabinet officials as he could. This is the kind of situation that we cannot tolerate. And as the Attorney General has just indicated it could have been so much worse but for the reality that we had the Secret Service as well as the Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI. Now the facts make it very clear what this intent was. You may recall that it was on March 2nd that the President indicated that he would be attending this public event at the at the Hilton. And on April 6th that's when Cole Allen first made a hotel reservation at the Washington Hilton for three nights, the 24th, the 25th, and the 26th. It was on April 21st that he traveled all the way from the West Coast. God damn. From home from his home near LA way to drive over nothing. on April 23rd and has he arrives in DC on the 24th and he checks into the hotel at about 3:00 p.m. He stays overnight. He is very much aware that the President and the First Lady entered the ballroom at 8:00 p.m. And it was at 8:40 that he made a decision to rush the ballroom. Uh-oh. And thank goodness law enforcement the Secret Service was able to prevent him from getting [music] into that ballroom. He was not injured other than some kind of scrape on his knee. Now as indicated, these are the weapons that the defendant had on his person. You can see that's a 12-gauge pump-action Mossberg shotgun. It's a .38 semi-automatic. He had at least three knives and all kinds of paraphernalia. So, any any suggestion that he wasn't there to do harm is absurd. Mhm. We will prove when he purchased [music] these guns they were purchased in California. Why is that relevant? It is relevant because he crossed interstate lines with those firearms. Shouldn't have done that. And those are the firearms that he used on the night of the 25th or attempted to use they said about Kyle Rittenhouse for that. Now, the manifesto also makes clear Yeah. about his expected rules of engagement. Mhm. You know, you can look at it and read it and it may seem kind of la-la-la but at the end, make no mistake, he says I am targeting the administration officials. They are my targets and I'm prioritizing from the top down. The highest ranking from the lowest. Mhm. And I will not hesitate to get involved in any kind of encounter with anyone who blocks me from the President. Now finally, let me say one thing. Mhm. Within days of the President nominating me to be the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia I was at the scene of a double homicide where one Elias Rodriguez crossed state lines from Chicago with a firearm to commit a felony in the District. Uh-oh. He's now indicted for the murder of two individuals Loron Leshinski and Sarah Milgram here in Washington. App tense up like that? Not long after Wamala Lockenwall I'd be mad. crossed state lines again with a firearm with intent to commit a felony here in Washington. He traveled from the state of Washington. He is now indicted with the murder of Sarah Beckstrom, a National Guardsman and the attempted murder of National Guard Andrew Wolf. Today we have Cole Allen, another individual charged with crossing state lines coming from California [music] with a firearm with the intent to commit a felony here in the District. Let this be a message to anyone who thinks that Washington, D.C. is the place [music] to act out political violence. And if you are willing to do so with a firearm and cross state lines we will find you. We will track your steps from the inception of your plan Good. and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. to do it more. Washington, D.C. is not the place to travel to commit acts of The Constitution and the laws of the United States permit us to register our views through our voices and our votes. What they don't permit is making your views known through violence, especially violence directed at the President of the United States. This is anti-democratic at its core. Well, yeah. I mean, like that's a huge Yeah, they they didn't like the election, so they want to shoot the guy. Excuse me. Thank you, General. Duh. This one hits a little differently. Mhm. We were all there. Yeah. Many of you were there. Many of you watching were there as well. Recent immediate social media accounts. I'll talk about that in a bit. The cabinet was there. And what you saw described by the General and the US Attorney is absolutely true. The President spoke on late Saturday evening with the message of unity and a backing of law enforcement and we have followed through on that message of unity and the effectuation of law enforcement across this country. This FBI is grateful to the United States Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and our interagency partners, including the Metropolitan Police Department, for swiftly jumping into action. All of us on there put us in a unique position, but all of us also acted uniquely. The Washington Field Office jumped into action immediately, sending a mobile command center to the scene along with our evidence response technicians, who showed up in speedy fashion to make sure we could collect the evidence that the prosecutors in the department needed to make this announcement today. Mhm. Also on Is this live? Yeah, it's live. we were told about the brave heroics of the United States Secret Service and other members of law enforcement. And that should be celebrated by every single American. They did exactly what they were trained to do. They stopped a massive attack from becoming even worse. They stood in the way, they safeguarded America, and they should be nothing but applauded for their bravery and their dedication to their mission and their selfless sacrifice to this country. The FBI, along with standing up mobile command units, evidence tech response team, and Washington SWAT on scene, also established our NC3, our National Crisis Coordination Center, almost immediately. And almost immediately in parallel, we stood up our command center at the Washington Field Office and directed their leadership. Throughout the evening, Wasn't Secret Service we immediately began working with our Department of Justice partners to find the evidence necessary to effectuate the legal process necessary and enter into the suspect's room at the Washington Hilton successfully and lawfully and obtain the relevant evidence for exploitation that was on scene. Back at the Headquarters Division and the Washington Field Office, we were coordinating a national-scale investigation that literally spanned from coast to coast. As you heard, FBI agents, along with the interagency, were immediately dispatched to the suspect's home in California, where we conducted interviews that provided critical information about this horrific attack. We also dispatched investigators and agents to New London, Connecticut, where we conducted further interviews that provided necessary information that you will find in this criminal complaint, as the United States Attorney has just laid out. While officers were working diligently through the night to conduct those interviews, we were also conducting interviews of witnesses on scene. Those interviews are ongoing. Can you imagine if they had Pam Bondi doing this? We are sifting [music] through and prioritizing who to talk to. And And we will get to each and every one of you with any bit of relevant information. Again, we ask everybody who has any relevant information, like I did on Saturday night with the president, 1-800, call FBI. What? Any piece of information is information we want to have and must receive. On top of the um on-scene response by this FBI, the headquarters response, and the Washington Field Office response, the FBI flipped on its enterprise-wide response to this critical incident. What does that mean? We dispatched fixed-wing assets across the country so that we could immediately transport evidence that was acquired in California and Connecticut and sent it to our laboratories in Quantico for analysis. We collected the shell casings on scene, including the firearms and the weapons that the judge talked about. Those were also sent to our Quantico laboratories for immediate analysis. Should not interfere with shooting the lefty correspondent. A lot of those people are just crazy anyway. The president rightly said that we will act in a unified fashion, and it's because of President Trump's leadership and backing of the blue, every single person in law enforcement that I stood with into late evening hours on Saturday, early evening hours on Sunday, and all day yesterday and today are thrilled to wear the badge and defend this country. Each and every one of them deserves our thanks, and I encourage everyone listening to go out there and shake the hand of a federal agent or police officer and say thank you for doing their job. Thank you for doing your duty to make sure they meet the mission requirements. And to for me, as the director of the FBI, I want to thank our headquarters components for working diligently with our prosecutors and make sure that the American public knows it's not just federal agents that do this work. It's our intelligence analysts, our support staff, our laboratories, our fixed-wing assets, our critical incident response groups, our hostage rescue teams. Agents sprung into action, got out of bed, and haven't slept since. These prosecutors haven't slept since, and I promise you they're not going to be sleeping. They are going to give you every piece of evidence. As the journal said, we will make public, when appropriate to protect the integrity of this investigation, to make sure that due process is served, and we will meet the highest standards of the Constitution as we always do. And that is when we will continue to disclose information. I know the public has a yearning for information, Yeah. but just remind yourself of how much information you have already received, how transparent this administration has been in less than 48 hours. You know almost every single thing we know. And what we have not told you yet, we will tell you in short order. So once again, from me, as the director of the FBI, I want to thank the interagency, I want to thank the United States Secret Service and their director, Mark Wayne Mullen, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and United States Attorney Piero, and Ada Cox for springing into action on a night that should have been celebrating free speech, but we will be doing it again shortly, as the president said, and we look forward to seeing you all there. Man, all right. Here. Two questions, please. Uh beyond the evidence in what the judge described as the manifesto, what other evidence can you point to that tells us that the president was the primary target of the suspect? Uh Is We're at the early stages of the investigation. As as you've as we talked about earlier, Well, he he implied that it was about devices from various locations, the hotel room, and also his um Yeah. We have started that process. There's nothing more that would be appropriate to share at this time um until we have have have thoroughly gone through it, which we're doing, and and we'll we'll share that information as appropriate in the future. Second question, go ahead. Beyond the assassination attempts against President Trump, you had someone try to burn down the mansion where the governor lives in Pennsylvania. Oh. those state lawmakers attacked in Minnesota. Yeah. You had Not attacked, they got killed. family embassy staff members [music] murdered in this city here. You had the Charlie Kirk assassination. Yeah. the National Guardsmen True. uh killed in the city. Can you, each of you, describe the current threat environment and what DOJ's stance is about? Yeah, what are y'all doing about scratch the the current threat environment pretty clearly. around a while. has has got to stop. And that's something President Trump said the incident on Saturday night is something that that Carolyn Levitt talked about a couple hours ago. It is something that is when you have a president who who and many people in this room, if we're going to be honest about it, have done it has done as well. They're just as guilty as a lot of people on X. When you have when you have reporters, when you have media media just being overly critical and and calling the president horrible names for no reason and without evidence, without proof, it shouldn't surprise us that this type of rhetoric takes place. If you look at what Yeah, but you should go after people saying the crazy on this defendant had in his past. We're talking about somebody who was college-educated, Yeah. who has a job, who was otherwise living his life, and and we'll find out more about him as I expect in the coming days and weeks, uh but that but he chose to do what he did, and so our threat environment is we we are ready. I mean, I'm not going to go through what what the what Director Patel just talked about with the way we responded, but this this was something that we will always be prepared for, and and it's sad that it has to happen, but it is not a new thing, unfortunately. That that's that's reassuring. Nothing's going to happen. Have you been able to determine whether the gunman fired shots, if so, how many shots he fired, and who exactly whose bullets hit the agent? We're still Do something, God. So we're still looking at that. We It appears, and I don't want to to overstate cuz we are still looking at this, that there were five five shots that that law enforcement fired. We are [snorts] we we have all the evidence is being examined very carefully and expeditiously, and we'll know more soon. We do believe that as the complaint lays out, that the suspect that the defendant fired it out of his shotgun, and and we know that that happened, but as far as getting into exacting ballistics, um I'm not going to do that today because it's still being being looked at and finalized. Yeah, it's not a surprise. Uh thank you for taking my question. You personally have called for a construction of this ballroom at the White House. The president has called for it as well. Of course. The ballroom again. They're grateful that everybody's okay, but and I quote, "We are not planning to voluntary dismiss our lawsuit, which endangers no one, and which respectfully ask the administration to follow the law. Ballroom construction is continuing unabated until June 5th at the earliest because the injunction is on hold." Where does the Justice Department go from here, and then I have a follow-up on that? Well, we filed a motion today asking the court to do what what the plaintiffs refused to do. We absolutely believe that there is no better example of why this ballroom is necessary, aside from all the the very positive things the ballroom will bring to this country and to Washington, D.C. Jesus, who cares? on Saturday night. many of you all were there. That's one of the only places in D.C. that you can hold an event like that due to due to the its size and and and the structure of what we need. So we're basically stuck at this point in the city with having an event like that at a hotel, so underneath a ton of hotel rooms. And so the fact that we aside again aside from the fact that the ballroom is spectacular, it's going to be beautiful, it's going to make this country look great every time it's used, it's also a meaningful safety issue, and so I'm not I I very much wish that the plaintiffs and their counsel Yeah. would take a different view, but if they don't, we are going to continue to fight in court like we have been, and and hopefully the the judges at the D.C. Circuit Court will will will do the right thing. Are you aware are you aware of Not you, the red. Thank you. Are you investigating connections that Cole Allen allegedly had to left-wing groups? I think one is called the White Awakes. Yeah. Yes. We're We're course we're investigating that. Now you. Are you aware of his video game development past including a potential shooter style RPG game? What? the news reports that that talk about the positive and negative RPG game. the positives and negatives of of this type of case is that What? is that there's a lot of people investigating this right now including the FBI but the only investigations What the is he talking about? that matter in the court of law are the ones that Derek Patel and and his men and women are doing so we'll wait for them to to do that and get an answer. It was a science game. It's not even true. Do you know anything about his alleged Christian past Christian faith past because he said something about it in the manifesto? I I have read reports in the news and I've I've read reports that say various things regarding his views of Christianity, his views of the past of Christianity Yeah, I want to know. I'm certainly not going to speak to the news reports I will wait as I hope all of you would for the investigation to to continue until we actually have answers. Yeah. I just a little technical question. You You mentioned that you guys so far you think that Allen fired at least one shot. That doesn't say that in the affidavit yet so I'm just curious if you can explain the discharging of weapon charge at this point. Are they trying to paint Sessions as Republican views? No, not really. just discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence so by definition that charge means a firearm was discharged. I can tell you from what I know with the understanding that that we're a day and a half in that this this this is the gun that he discharged and as those of us that have ever shot one of these know what happens when you shoot that is the the casing stays inside the firearm and then if you reload it it pops it out. My understanding is inside the the firearm but not hadn't been ejected which means that that it it hadn't been pulled back again but again I I want folks to understand I'm the acting Attorney General I'm not on [snorts] the ground doing the investigation so so I'm I'm telling you what I've been told and and we'll if if that information changes I'm sure that we'll let you know. Yeah. Yeah. Just want to ask you about this letter that you posted yesterday that's the same from Brett Kavanaugh to the plaintiffs in that lawsuit. You said it says that the Washington Hilton is quote demonstrably unsafe for the President of the United States. It said that with the ballroom that Trump will no longer need to venture beyond the safety of the White House perimeter. Just engage with those lines. Was there an assessment in advance of the dinner that the Hilton was demonstrably demonstrably unsafe and if so why was the President allowed to attend it and then separately just the idea that by building the ballroom that President Trump wouldn't need to go outside of the confines of the White House. I mean is that something that the American people you know should find acceptable that the President would have to be confined to the White House seems like a pretty reasonable request. It seems like a pretty reasonable request. That is obviously not what he means by that. If you and the fact that that question is comes with respect to President Trump is laughable in the extreme. I mean laughable in the extreme. You have a President who willingly speaks with you guys multiple times a day. I would say seven days a week. He is active all over the country. I think what that what what that implies for the force of that statement when he says demonstrably it's demonstrated by what happened on Saturday night. It doesn't mean that the Secret Service would let whatever let the President go into an unsafe environment. I know that the director of the Secret Service will be focused on making sure that that we always keep him safe and by the way as we said before and as anybody that was in that room knows we were safe. We were safe. We heard a lot of loud noises that at the time many of us thought were guns going off. It was mostly plates falling because of the staff understandably were were running. So so my reaction to that is I'll leave anything with respect to security up to the the great men and women of the Secret Service but but when we talk about having an environment like the ballroom it's an environment like what you saw last night. So an environment where you have a unique blend of of cabinet members, leadership of this country, leadership of Congress, reporters and members of the public coming together for that like that's different like oh my god. Public facing situations which I have no doubt President Trump will continue to do as he said he would on on Saturday [snorts] night. Yeah. Jesus, can we talk about something else? Gives a Other credible threats at this time related to events in the city including King Charles and then separately the manifesto I don't really want to give too much weight to this did mention your name in it as someone that they maybe were not targeting. Do you want to elaborate on that and then also the political motivations there? As the latter no as to the former the FBI and the interagency is constantly evaluating intelligence provided to us by interagency collection methods, our partners in the federal and state and local levels. We are constantly relaying that information to the White House to the Attorney General to the United States Attorney specifically here in DC and we will always assess each piece of intelligence and base it on the credibility that it was received and give it the due weight that it has. But as the US Attorney has stated and as President Trump's task force for Washington DC has shown we have reduced crime in this city by historic levels and we will continue to do so and we will continue to safeguard the people of Washington DC they're home. People bitching about the ballroom isn't Trump paying for it himself. I don't even know. Acting Attorney General in paragraph 14 of the complaint today it says that the suspect fell and you said that he was tackled. I just want to see if we can try to make sure we understand Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. and I I would rely on the complaint because that was sworn to by an agent and not by the words out of the acting Attorney General who most certainly was not there. or did he The the Did he trip? yesterday also mentioned that one of the charges possibly would be for assault on an officer and I noticed today it's a different charge. Is this because you've determined that what he shot didn't actually strike the officer? We're still looking at at that and I I think that that's something that you'll hear about in the coming days as we know that it doesn't legally matter in that situation but but you know when when after an event like this happens not surprisingly there's initial charges that we consider then you have the the US Attorney's team and the FBI looking through the evidence and figuring out what's the best thing to do and that's what you have. All right, just one more question. I I two quick questions. I just wanted to clarify you said the one officer fired their weapon five times. Was that the only officer who discharged a firearm? I want to be very careful in answering that question because this is when you do do ballistics evidentiary collection and research it is very complicated so when you fire a bullet the bullet ends up somewhere. Sometimes you find it and sometimes you don't. And so from from that with that qualifier we believe right now that there was five shots fired from the same from the same firearm. But this is there's a team of folks looking at this that are experts and the evidence collection team that that were in that area of the of the hotel where the the shots were fired have have worked all night. They they have the evidence they collected but but it's it's not an exact science from the standpoint that for example the the buckshot when when that shot it scatters everywhere and sometimes it just disappears actually depending on where it hits. So you don't have to hopefully with that qualifier that's where we are right now. What about the timeline sir? Hold on. I just wanted to ask what what law enforcement has learned about why he was targeting President Trump. Do you guys believe he was upset about a certain policy or a decision by the President? The complaint lays out the what I think is described as a manifesto which is something that that he allegedly sent to to many folks his family. That's what we have so far as far as his motivation as as as the US Attorney said a few minutes ago what is clear from the complaint and from what we have so far is he was targeting President Trump. He described that in his manifesto. He was targeting administration officials. He described that. But as far as us understanding additional motivation that's for the FBI and and law enforcement. All right, thanks a lot guys. I appreciate it. Wow. Wow. Well, that was a total waste of time. That was stupid as hell. That didn't answer anything. That didn't help anybody. God damn. That didn't do a thing. Sure. Gives a any other credible at this time to events including King Charles and then separately the manifesto I don't really want to give too much weight to this did mention your name in it as someone that they maybe were not targeting elaborate on also the political motivations there. As the latter no as to the former the FBI and the interagency is constantly evaluating intelligence provided to us by collection methods our partners in the federal and state and local levels are constantly relaying that information White House to the Attorney General United States Attorney specifically here in DC and we will always assess each piece of intelligence and base it on the give it the due weight that it has but to do so and we will safeguard the even know. Acting Attorney General paragraph 14 of the