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Chapter 1: Who is the 17-year-old charged with assassinating President Trump?
Russia will be blamed for it. This is the goal, it says. This is the goal. This is directly from the FBI affidavit saying that the point of all of this chaos is to try and induce more anger at Russia, presumably right here in the United States of America.
Additionally, on page eight, they say that Trump's assassination is intended to save the white race from Jewish controlled politicians right here. That he called for the assassination of the president in order to foment a political revolution in the United States and say, quote, save the white race from Jewish controlled politicians.
The document goes on to show images of Adolf Hitler with text referring to hailing Hitler, hail the white race, hail victory, it says. And then there's excerpts here that further emphasize that they say the Jews control all of the white countries, they insist.
And then they go on to say that Trump getting rid of him and perhaps Vice President Harris is guaranteed to deliver the chaos that they want. And it will further bring into the public the idea that assassination is accelerating the collapse are possible things to do. Now, remember what we talked about last week. What is the broader left's view on the subject of assassination right now?
Well, quite unfortunately, a survey at the beginning of last week done in partnership with Rutgers University determined that 55% of American leftists, people who consider themselves on the center left or beyond to the more radical left, think that a political assassination of President Trump would be excusable, would be justifiable.
Nearly half of all people in the same category think that a political assassination of Elon Musk would again be justifiable. Things are getting really crazy. And this guy genuinely wanted to carry out that cruel act of assassination for the purpose of bringing the system down, for bringing the system down. That was the goal. Further, the affidavit here
found that the means by which this guy was intending to do it was the use of a drone. FBI personnel performing a preliminary review saw an image with information on how to utilize a drone as an attack drone.
The information contained directions on how to extend the range of the attack drone by using repeater drones and ways to avoid detection, such as making a drone from a kit rather than a commercial off the shelf brand. The instructions provided directions on how to use a small dropper from the drone itself. to drop an explosive or a Molotov cocktail or a very strong topical poison.
Additionally, to avoid detection, the instructions advised to not bring a cell phone. They didn't want this guy getting caught as they encouraged him over and over and over again. The FBI performing the review saw a telegram message with a guy who I can't even pronounce whatever this is, who writes in Cyrillic and has a Ukrainian mobile telephone number.
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Chapter 2: What extremist ideologies influenced the assassination attempt?
And so if you're a law-abiding citizen, if you're the kind of person who's like, oh, I don't want to do that, well, the warning would serve its purpose because you would turn the thing around.
But if you are looking to commit a crime with one of those drones or to menace, say, even an airplane as it's taking off or landing or try to commit a terror attack of some kind, you think the warning that says, hey, you're about to break U.S. law is going to preclude you from doing that? Well, hell no. By definition, criminals don't care what the laws are.
They just seek to commit their violent acts, their illegal acts. So this is a really important component to that, the fact that this guy, this 17-year-old, was being urged to use a drone to commit this type of attack. It is good that the feds caught him. It's –
It's insanity, but also it's yet another sign that we have some very dangerous ideologies right here in the United States that are animating people to attempt to do or perhaps even do, in some cases, very violent things. And this is not, I should point out, the first time we've seen a Trump assassination attempt linked to somebody in Ukraine. We saw it with Ryan Ruth.
We saw it with the guy who was camped outside of the golf course in Florida, right on the perimeter, who was looking to gun down President Trump as he came by in a round of golf. Luckily, a Secret Service agent seeing him, although amazingly, the Secret Service agent opened fire and the reports indicate that he missed from very close range over and over and over again.
I still don't feel like we have any good answers as to why that occurred. The guy gets away. Eventually, thanks to a good Samaritan nearby who saw the license plate in the getaway vehicle, cops were able to stop the guy, take him into custody. And we found out since then he's a full blown Ukrainian. He was trying to obtain weapons from Ukraine to attack President Trump.
So how is it that Ukraine keeps getting lumped in to subsequent Trump assassination attempts? That's probably worth more exploration. In a moment, I want to take a look at another guy who committed a terror attack this weekend.
successfully so, on the governor of Pennsylvania, the emerging details about that guy, what might have motivated him, and how, again, the left has really breathed life into some very dangerous characters in the United States. And it doesn't look like it's stopping anytime soon. More on that in just a moment as Vince continues.
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Chapter 3: How was a drone planned to be used in the assassination attempt?
But that's another way of saying that he's a radical leftist, a radical leftist who just staged a very violent attack on the governor of Pennsylvania and used Molotov cocktails to do it. Now, this is where the affidavit comes into play. I want to share that with you because I think this is very relevant here. What's inside this affidavit? Here we go. Take a look. Here is the affidavit
They say Pennsylvania State Police this weekend, yesterday, were advised of a fire that occurred at the governor's residence. They learned that numerous security cameras had captured footage depicting an individual forcing entry into the residence and intentionally igniting the fire.
Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro were inside the residence at the time, as well as some additional guests and staff members. Video footage was obtained from the security cameras. And what they found was that Cody Balmer, the suspect, was observed climbing over an exterior perimeter fence. The defendant was observed wearing a black snap-on jacket, black boots, and carrying a bag.
The defendant approached the piano room windows on the south side of the governor's residence. Think of this. So you have state police protecting the mansion. Nobody sees this guy. He jumps the fence. He comes up to the piano room of the mansion. And then he broke an exterior window. He then threw an incendiary device into the residence through the broken window.
And then after he threw the device, flames were observed on the interior of the residence. Now, that would be presumably the Heineken bottle filled with gasoline. The defendant then moved to an adjacent window and again broke the glass. The defendant proceeded through the broken window and then entered the residence. This guy got into the building.
Once inside, the defendant deployed a secondary incendiary device in the dining room. resulting in additional areas of the residence catching fire, and then approached the dining room exit. Additional footage captured by surveillance cameras at this location made it apparent that the defendant was wearing two different colored gloves, one orange, one yellow.
He kicked the dining room door open and then exited the residence. He was observed leaving the property the same direction that he had entered. So then they continue a subsequent investigation here and then talk about the way that he left. He had gloves he disposed of in a trash can. They found the gloves. They smelled of gasoline.
During the investigation, they said the cops in Harrisburg were contacted by a female who said that her ex-boyfriend, Cody Balmer, was the individual responsible for the attack, was the individual responsible. So this – Then subsequently, he goes and turns himself into state troopers, and then he says he was responsible for the fire.
In the midst of this, he admitted to harboring hatred towards Governor Shapiro. He explained that he took gasoline out of a lawnmower, poured it into Heineken bottles, and then walked for an hour from his own residence to the governor's residence with the intention of conducting this attack. He knew it was likely that there will be people inside of the home.
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Chapter 4: What happened during the arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's mansion?
There's one item that I always remember when I think about the Steele dossier. In the dossier, he claims that something happened at the Russian consulate in Miami. This is a claim he makes. There is no Russian consulate in Miami. So on its face, you have a single piece of information right away that demonstrates that everything else in that document is suspect.
And and and nobody ever talks about that component, which is like there were lies that were obvious if you just read the document.
Right. Correct. It was full of massive problems just on a cursory read of it. And the FBI was never able to substantiate a single actual substantive thing. These claims that he was making of conspiracy between Trump and the Russians. There was no there was no there was nothing to it.
The FBI knew it at the time when they got the dossier, as they deployed the dossier to use in FISA warrants, as they continued to use the dossier into 2017, as they brought on Steele's main source, Igor Danchenko, and kept him on for years and paid him huge sums of money.
And they knew it when Comey tried to use the dossier in the intelligence community assessment of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election. Comey wanted to put the dossier in the body of this intelligence community assessment. He got pushback from NSA Director Mike Rogers, and the compromise that they came to was including the dossier in an annex to the Intelligence Community Assessment.
Now, another thing about Mike Rogers that we found in these documents is we found the interview that Mike Rogers did with Mueller's team. And something key about that is he was asked directly about a Washington Post story from May 2017, a Washington Post story that was among the Washington Post stories that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
A Pulitzer Prize, by the way, that Trump is suing the Pulitzer board for defamation over. Mike Rogers is asked about that Washington Post story a month after the Washington Post story was published. And Mike Rogers says that it was bunk. And Mike Rogers would know because this was a story that was about a phone call that Trump had with Rogers.
And Rogers basically said this entire, the crux of this story about what Trump told me, about what Trump told me to do, the story is not true. And so that's a Pulitzer Prize winning story that we now know the main subject of, shot down.
That he said it was fake news, that he said it was fake news. Okay, finally, just a quick tour down memory lane with Mike Rogers. I need to emphasize something here. Mike Rogers, In 2016, after the election, after the election, after President Trump wins the election, he went and he paid a visit to President Trump in Trump Tower.
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Chapter 5: Who is Cody Balmer and what motivated his attack on Governor Shapiro?
They diverged from the rest of the IC, from John Brennan and from James Comey. The NSA was not as certain about why Putin had done some of the things that he had done in 2016. And I think that that actually makes sense when you look at
all of this stuff together, you look at the potential that the Steele dossier was not just a sort of a democratic playbook, but also had Russian disinformation injected into it to hurt Trump. Funded by Hillary Clinton. And potentially there have been a lot of revelations about the potential that Russian disinformation may have also been injected into the dossier.
I mean, Chris Steele was working for a, you know, a Russian oligarch at the exact same time as he was putting the dossier together. And so, yeah, Admiral Rogers and the NSA, they were not they were not as certain about sort of Putin's intentions in 2016 as the rest of the idea.
All right, well, Jerry Dunleavy, congratulations again for all your excellent reporting over at Just the News. You're doing fantastic, and I'm very grateful for your time today. And I just want to say I know you're eager for that interview too, but I'm putting out an open invitation right now to Admiral Mike Rogers. If he ever wants to come out of hiding and do an interview, I'm all ears, baby.
I'd love to chat with you, sir. Thank you very much, Jerry. Good to talk to you today.
Good to talk to you and congrats on the show, Vince. We're all very excited.
Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. This is Jerry Dunleavy, Just the News. A great operation there. Spent the weekend digging through a lot of really important records to try and get to the bottom of a very important story. What the hell happened to our country? And who sold us out? A lot more information coming out on that.
Hey, one more story that I want to dive into with you right now, which is over the weekend, you saw a number of headlines suggesting that President Trump had carved out some sort of exemption for China when it came to cell phones, electronics. And President Trump wants you to know that is horse crap that there was an exemption made this weekend.
President Trump himself posted to Truth Social this weekend that there was no exemption made. Take a look at this. Here's the president saying, nobody is getting off the hook for unfair trade balances and non-monetary tariff barriers. The other countries that other countries have used against us, especially not China, which by far treats us the worst. There was no tariff exception.
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Chapter 6: What security failures allowed the arson attack on the Pennsylvania governor's residence?
So he's emphasizing that not only is it fake that he's getting rid of the tariff, they have a 20% tariff there, that all of these categories of products are still being reviewed for more tariffs going forward. That's the message that the president wants you to hear, that there was no flip-flop this weekend. For more on this, I want to show you Stephen Miller, one of the president's top advisors.
Here he is, Stephen Miller, explaining very carefully this weekend what actually occurred. Pay attention to this.
You were targeting specific items from day one. Walk us through these exemptions, Stephen, and what they mean.
Yes, this is just another great example of how President Trump had a detailed plan from the beginning that's being executed exactly as directed. And unfortunately, some in the media are deliberately misportraying that plan.
The original 20% AIPA, that's the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, for China poisoning our citizens with fentanyl, that 20% rate continues to be applied to all imports from China. When the president issued his reciprocal tariffs,
Our government at the time specifically said that ships and semiconductors, which are critical components of our national security, were going to be dealt with through a separate commerce authority known as a 232.
That was always the plan because those components are so... Okay, here's what I want you to say. So that particular thing where he says this was in the original order from the White House, this isn't new. These exemptions were originally put in here. Take a look at this. I just went right to the original order. This is from April 2nd.
And it says, the following goods as set forth in Annex II to this order consistent with the law shall not be subject to the ad valorem rates of duty under this order. In other words, shall not be subject to the reciprocal tariffs.
And it goes on to say that it's anything in Annex II, including copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, lumber articles, certain critical minerals, and energy and energy products. That's in the original statement. This is not a new development that semiconductors will not be subject to the reciprocal tariffs. That is super critical here. Okay, let's listen more to Stephen Miller.
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