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Ron Simmons

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

And so he wasn't just some drifter or some unemployed homeless person or anything like that.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

Now, he had been radicalized.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

There's no question about that.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

But he planned this out very well.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

If you've read any of his manifesto and some of the other things he's written on social media, this was not something that just he thought about doing overnight.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

In fact, he took a train from.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

From L.A.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

to Chicago and on to New York in order to be able to not go through this levels of security that he would have had to go through had he taken a plane.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

He checked into the hotel the night on Friday night before.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

And that hotel has about three.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

You can put about 3000 people in that hotel.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

So that's.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

I'm not sure having an event like that at a hotel that's so public is the right thing to do.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

I'm sure they'll reassess this.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

Of course, one of the things to do is get the ballroom finished so that they can have that totally secure and be able to protect all of the people that are in attendance at these types of events.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

He had a manifesto.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

Here's a few things that were on the manifesto.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

His intent was,

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

was to take down administrative officials, for some reason, not the FBI director, Mr. Patel.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1341 | ABC and NYT Normalize Leftist Calls for Violence | Ron Simmons

I'm not exactly sure why that is.