Sean Spicer
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520 appearances
10 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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Yeah. So two was what I call strategic incompetence, where where Trump was deliberately left vulnerable. And I think that for a whole host of reasons, one that I'm conscious and I've been alive. But right after the shooting, I. My wife and I were together working on home projects and we hadn't been paying attention to our phones and so started getting texts from people.
My wife got a text from her friend, Trump's been shot. Like we're just kind of like stunned, like immediately pray because we don't know what the result is. A couple minutes later, text that he's okay. And then right after that, my phone starts going crazy. I'm getting texts and everything.
And one of the most interesting texts I got, which I tweeted about, was that the Secret Service Special Operations Division, which is kind of like the elite division within the Secret Service, if you can say that, they had been asking for more protection for years for Trump, repeatedly, over and over and again. And it was denied, repeatedly. Denied so much that they just stopped asking for it.
Because it was kind of viewed as if you ask for something you're not going to get, it's like gauche within the agency. Denied by whom? Another great question we don't have an answer to. So Secret Service is now under the umbrella of DHS. Yeah, it was always under Treasury. Yeah, it was. And then they moved it, I don't know, five, ten years ago. Yeah.
So under Mayorkas, like a real competent public servant there. Patriot, yeah. Yeah. So you've got him. Did the rejections come from DHS? I don't know. You've got Cheadle up there, who's an idiot. Did it come from her? I don't know.
I don't think we know. Actually, no, I'm going to assume she's doing security for like a Fortune 500 CEO. Yeah, exactly.
Nope. Don't know why, who, how often. And that weekend, so I put that out, it gets some traction. Secret Service spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, something like that, spent the whole weekend calling reporters and telling them I was making it up. That never happened. Puts out a statement, it's not true. He's never denied anything.
Well, you're asking who's Thomas Crooks. We know more about Joe the plumber. You remember Joe the plumber? Very well. He died, unfortunately. He did. I knew him. Yeah. He asked a question about taxes to Obama, like in a rope line.
They gave that dude like the media digital colonoscopy within like five minutes. We know more about a guy who asked Obama a question about taxes than we do about a guy who shot Trump in the head. Well, of course.
Do you know how Crooks' father found out his son was the shooter? No. CNN called him. Really? Yeah. Well, we're talking about kind of like weird, creepy media stuff. Yeah. So there's no ID on Thomas Crooks. They get to the body. He's dead. They don't know who he is. The only thing they have is a serial number on his rifle.
So they call up ATF and they do what's called an urgent trace to figure out where was this gun bought. And I think it takes them – Dettelbach, the ATF director, says it took him 30 minutes. I think it took like two hours. But they know by around like 8.30, definitely by 9-ish, that the dad bought the gun and where he bought it from. And it was from a retailer that had since been closed.
They put together a report, like a pretty narrow distribution of people. I think it went to Pennsylvania State Police, so local police could go stake the place out. Went to FBI, ATF had it, but it's a very, very small distribution. And we know because we got the testimony from the guy who sent it out. ATF and a couple cops are sent to go do a stakeout on Crooks' father's house.
So they get there, we'll call it like 10 or 10.30. At that point, they're already seeing cars slowly drive by in ways that obviously they don't live on that street. And I think 10.56, they get a word from a dispatcher that Crooks' father has called 911 to report his son missing. At that point, they're no longer doing a stakeout. They have to go confront him because obviously he knows something.
They go up to his door. He meets them out there. And he says, is it true? Was it my son? And they ask him, why would you say that? He said, CNN called me and told me. He got two calls from CNN and a call from an NBC producer. That does not make sense at all.
They had it from the ATF report that had the trace of the serial number. So somebody, yeah, the ATF report, somebody had that and decided, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to call CNN in NBC. They don't know who did it.
Well, because at that point, did we know the age of the person? I don't think we knew anything. Yeah. CNN called me and told me. And... When I found that out, by the way, I'm still angry about the whole Roger Stone raid. I am just thinking that exact thing. That's so funny. CNN happened to be there that morning right before the cops got there. Liars. They are liars. They are liars.
They absolutely had it leaked to them. Oh, I know. And so I saw that and it just instantly reminded me of the Roger Stone thing and then made me angry again.
But, you know, that leak, it materially changed how the police responded. They found bombs. They're trying to get a perimeter. They're trying to keep an eye on things. They're waiting to get the signal to actually go confront the family. And because this guy got... I'm convinced that he called police after being called by CNN. Yeah. It's not in the report, but you'll never convince me otherwise.
Materially changed how the cops had to approach the home of the shooter. To me, it's just unconscionable.
I think that was the Trump FBI still, although it's all the same.
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