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Did the Media Just Try to Cover Up a Presidential Assassination? (I Can't Believe This is Real)
Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they dissect the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. This in-depth discussion covers the media's initial attempts to downplay the event, the political implications, and broader concerns about the state of American democracy. The Collins family offers their unique perspective on this shocking event, its aftermath, and what it means for the upcoming election.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] It's no longer the deep state is a conspiracy. We are now at the deep state is real and is running for president.
Simone Collins: But I think you also have to get back to that reality.
People are okay.
Malcolm Collins: And so now the question is the deep state actually responsible for these felony charges? Are they responsible for the assassination attempt? And what scares me is I'm leaning towards no, I'm leaning towards all just malfeasance and stupidity and inaction, but I think it's plausibly yes.
Simone Collins: Yeah, but people are okay with that. That's what scares me if somebody did shoot something at another person, what should happen to them?
Octavian Collins: You know.
They can get hurt.
Would you like to know more?
Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone.
What a crazy day to be alive and an American. And. For you to be running for office in the middle of all of this this is again one of those moments so weird that this happened so soon after that I think a [00:01:00] pivotal debate, which in many ways felt like a turning point in American history. And then you have this.
Simone Collins: Yeah, this summer really puts the crazy in
Malcolm Collins: democracy. The crazy in democracy. So yeah, we are going to go over a few things here. One that we'll go over later is I want to give a full account of what actually happened and how it happened, because I notice that the newspapers have done a very poor job of that.
Two, I want to talk about that within the context of this current political battle and what this means. Yeah. But the thing I want to start with because it's what genuinely chilled me the most and for those who don't know I don't know who you are. But somebody just tried to assassinate Trump. And they it was a 20 year old That means that this person would have been 12 when Trump first came into office they shot at Trump they just grazed him his ear but two
Simone Collins: people were killed, including the shooter and two people were critically [00:02:00] injured and Trump had his ear pierced by a bullet.
Malcolm Collins: Two critical injures one victim deaths, one shooter deaths, and then Trump's ear being grazed and obviously the optics of this for Trump are fantastic in terms of him coming out, shouting, fight fight, fight, you know, I think a lot of people after that debate uh, this is something that I've heard in my friend circles.
Said, Oh, they're going to try to have him assassinated. You just, I thought they were crazy. They're like two weeks.
Simone Collins: And literally like in a campaign strategy call recently, maybe just a couple of days ago, Biden said that we have to put Trump in the crosshairs, which now is just such bad wording.
Oh, and
Malcolm Collins: I remember when there was the attempted shooting or there was a shooting of some democratic representatives and somebody had said something like that, or there was a time when The Sarah Palin used crosshairs in one of her political ads,
Simone Collins: And then Gabby Giffords was shot, and this was about 15 years ago.
Another politician, if you're not in the U. S. And then later Sarah Palin actually sued someone who blamed her for this. So I, I. I believe a media public
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