What Saturday’s wild events mean for Washington; new bombshell about teachers union politics - 10 Minute Drill

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Unpacking the fallout from the third assassination attempt against President Trump and what it means for our government and for our country. You won't believe just how much teachers unions have just spent on politics. And we're going to look at the first day of oral arguments in Supreme Court of Virginia as they analyze whether or not the redistricting nuclear option can go forward. All that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill.
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Everybody get up. Get up.
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The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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First up today, we alluded to this yesterday, but President Trump has called back the planes late last week from peace talks in Iran. And he expounded on this a little bit yesterday on Fox News.
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So if they want, they can call us. But again, they know what has to be in the agreement. Very simple. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. Otherwise, there's no reason to meet.
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Now, we hinted yesterday that Iran had come back with an offer that was if you stop the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, we will consider having talks about the nuclear issue. What President Trump clarified is there are no talks unless we're already talking about the nuclear issue. And they're not gonna give up their leverage just to do that. So we're, we will watch and see where this goes this week. But right now, all of Washington is hyper focused on our first story, which is the continued fallout after the assassination attempt against President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner. First, President Trump joined 60 Minutes on Sunday night to talk about some of this and had a very strange interview with Norah O'. Donnell.
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Mr. President, do you know if you were the target of the gunman?
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I don't know.
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Now, normally after an event like this that the entire nation watched and feels pretty upset about, you would expect an interview to really get into a lot more of the how you feel and how do you plan to sort of help bring the country back together after this? But Nora focused on some different things. First, she wanted to get President Trump to answer about some of the kookier conspiracy theories about what had happened.
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As you know, these conspiracy theories out there on the left and the right, that the event was staged or that it didn't happen.
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What, last night didn't have that.
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Yeah. That it was because it was your first time there or that Butler didn't happen. These conspiracy theories that are gaining traction on.
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We also now have seen a manifesto from the shooter making clear exactly why he was targeting President Trump and his administration. But Noor was playing a little bit dumb on that point.
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And he also wrote this. I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. What's your reaction to that?
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Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because. Cause you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.
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Oh, you didn't think he was referring to you?
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Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile.
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Those who had read this were pretty clear and also based on his past tweets, exactly who he was talking about in his manifesto. So I'm not really sure why Nora went the direction that she did with this, but one piece of intel that we had found out about this shooter that they discussed was his participation in the no Kings rallies.
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He had attended a no Kings protest in California.
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No Kings.
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What did security tell you about what may have been his motives?
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The reason you have people like that is you have people doing no Kings.
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I'm not a king.
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What?
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I am.
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If I was a king, I wouldn't be dealing with you.
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Which is true. If he were a king, he would not be doing 60 Minutes with Norah O'. Donnell. But this again highlights what we've been talking about with no Kings. This is a dark money op that has added to the radicalization of so many people. And that's something that we're really gonna get into today. First, I wanna look at some of his past tweets. What's scary is this person isn't using outright extreme language based on what we've come to expect about violent terms. He sounds a lot like your normal sort of blue anon, left wing, Twitter conspiracy theorist guy who's watching way too much of the angry Wine Moms on Instagram and starts to adopt their language. When you see what he's been tweeting, it's easy to see those sort of pipelines of radicalization. One of his favorites is Jennifer Rubin, who he regularly retweeted her messages about how Trump is basically Hitler. She tweeted, imagine obsessing over Polls in 1933 German election without covering Mein Kampf. Trump is instigating a pogrom. This is what fascists do. So you'll see a lot of this theme. The Trump is Hitler. Trump is a fascist. One thing that I've always said is Democrats have been calling Trump a dangerous fascist and are surprised or feigning surprise when people that follow these Democrats take them seriously and think that they need to neutralize the fascist threat. Another person that he liked to retweet quite a bit is former Republican Bill Kristol. The Trumpist authoritarian project of personalized, concentrated and arbitrary power is proceeding. Twitter user KaneoKatheGreat outlined a lot of these. And in one tweet, she highlighted four different sort of top tier members of the Blue Anon royal family. I would say you've got Lincoln Project's Fred Wellman, David Frum, JoJo from Jersey, and Don Winslow. These are all people. Most of them have blocked me on Twitter for pointing out when they were saying radical conspiracy theories online. But this was a part of this person's regular media diet is a constant flow through basically an IV of insane rhetoric and conspiracy theorists about how President Trump was destroying the country. That has become an incredibly lucrative industry on the left and it is impacting people all around you. But in the White House briefing yesterday, Caroline Levitt took it a step further and pointed out all the different elected officials who have been feeding directly into this very scary pipeline.
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I have a whole host of examples that we can share with you after. It is pages and pages of major Democrat Party elected officials saying, such as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries just this April, this month said, we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time. Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration. Senator Alex Padilla said people are, quote, dying because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration. Senator Elizabeth Warren, President Trump making the country look like a, quote, fascist state.
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That's an incredibly damning list and it goes all the way to the top. Democrats know that the only way to inspire their base is to use the most outrageous escalated rhetoric they possibly can to describe the threat of Donald Trump. Because for the last 12 years, the only thing holding their broken coalition together is hatred and fear of Donald Trump. And that's why every elected official has been saying things like that. And so it was interesting to see on Saturday night a number of them say things like, you know, we're concerned about what happened, or we're grateful that everyone is safe and healthy. You're grateful that the guy you're calling a Nazi and a fascist is healthy. I don't know if I believe you, but we're gonna get a little bit more on one of the worst of these cases at the end of this episode. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Virginia heard the first round of oral arguments on the statutory challenges to the Virginia Democrats nuclear option referendum but just a recap of what they're talking about here. The constitutional challenges focus on whether the amendment was properly advanced during a limited special session, whether a required intervening election occurred, whether the 90 day constitutional requirement was met, and whether the proposed maps meet contiguity and compactness standards. And then there are other statutory issues that are also going to be addressed in other arguments. Those were the extreme ballot language used and the lack of 90 day notice of the proposed amendment before the 2025 election and the 2026 referendum. The major question of yesterday's arguments focused on those issues of process. Did the people of Virginia have adequate access and information about what they're going to be voting on? The process pieces in here are intended to ensure none of this is rushed. None of this is sort of thrown together without the buy in of people. And one of the issues that they really focused on in this argument was the issue of an intervening election. There's a requirement that the legislature pass a new map once, hold an election, and then pass it again before it can be advanced. That intervening election is meant to allow this entire process to play out with voters essentially having an opportunity to have an early vote on that map by voting for members of the assembly if they voted for that map or not. Democrats short circuited this because Republicans argue that they had the first vote in the state assembly after the the election had already started. The early voting for the most recent election had already begun when the State assembly voted on this. Which means if you are an early voter, you can't go back and change your vote based on how your representative voted on this. And what was really interesting in the arguments yesterday was having Democrats argue that early voting doesn't really matter because the only thing that matters is Election Day. This happens at the same time as Democrats around the country are trying to extend early voting so that as well as these other process points are pretty, pretty cut and dry. It's pretty clear here that Virginia Democrats violated the law and that they took away the opportunity for the people of Virginia to have the normal required notice and access to information. But it goes even further when you recognize the fact that Abigail Spamberger blocked maps from being shown in polling places or on the ballots. And so Virginia Democrats clearly weren't concerned about giving as much information possible to voters. They simply wanted people to see this was an opportunity to fight against Donald Trump. So right now the Virginia map is still frozen, it is enjoined and we will wait and see where all these different points go. One Thing we talk about quite a bit here is follow the money. Where does the money come from that's having such a huge impact in our politics? Well, Defending Education has a new report highlighting just how much teachers unions have been putting into politics. This from Nicky Neely. Defending Education has released two new reports exposing how teachers unions have funneled more than $1 billion into political causes over the last decade. And from Fox News Watchdog report exposes teachers union political machine funneling more than $1 billion to liberal causes. Within that larger report there's a little bit more detail. The NEA and AFT have funneled over $699 million to political groups, advocacy orgs and campaigns since 2015. That includes tens of millions to PACs, progressive nonprofits and partisan efforts far removed from the classroom. And if you take a quick look at this table diverted $1 billion new report shows teachers unions spend over $1 billion on political and ideological causes. Where'd the money go? 106 million through California Teachers Association PACS 57 million from New York City teachers union spending and the list goes on and on and on. This funding is from teachers union due to and they are funding political causes. If you were to look at the long list of priorities for teachers unions, their political outcomes and securing political power for Democrats is number one somewhere like 500 bullets down might be doing something to help kids learn to read and write. But again, as Defending Education and Nikki Neely have always done very well, this highlights that teachers unions real purpose is essentially as the most effective, well funded super PAC for Democrats in the country. Today the House Ways and Means Committee is holding a hearing on healthcare costs focused specifically on hospitals. This is a theme that we've talked about quite a bit here. The fact that Democrats have found a way to use programs that give major tax benefits to hospitals that are also carrying out their political agendas. Consumers Research has highlighted two of these that will be appearing before the Ways and Means Committee today. At the hearing, two major nonprofit hospitals will be testifying, New York Presbyterian and Common Spirit Health. We wanted to make sure that Rep. Jason Smith and the rest of the committee are aware of how these two major hospitals are prioritizing advancing the WOKE agenda over providing the best possible patient care at the lowest possible price. And they put this@wokehospitals.com which you can check out. New York Presbyterian promotes DEI perform child sex changes and pushes climate activism. Common Spirit has an office of DEI and belonging to performed child sex changes and spent $100 million on race based hiring. This is one of several hearings that have been held to understand better this scheme where Democrats will tell us every day that there's not enough money being spent on healthcare. Meanwhile, they found these ways to divert the existing money into political agendas that aren't actually helping people who need good healthcare. And this woke 340B program and the abusive tax status that allows hospitals pretending to either be a radio rural facility or a sort of non profit charity center are actually pocketing tens of millions of dollars in small cases but in bigger places like Cleveland Clinic and others, billions of taxpayer dollars while not actually improving the quality of care for people. So those looking at waste, fraud and abuse, ding ding ding. We found some for you can't make it up segment today we have a slightly somber issue that we're nevertheless going to make fun of. The Tim Waltz after the events on Saturday night tweeted this political violence has become all too prevalent in America. I'm grateful for the swift response from law enforcement at White House Correspondents Dinner. Are you really, Tim? Because we've heard you say quite a few times just exactly what you think of Donald Trump, including going as far as musing about him dying.
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You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things and although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying, just saying there will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news.
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Yikes. Now we talked about this at the time. Tim Waltz is about as subtle as a shotgun.
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Yes, that's my theory.
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And it never fits quite right.
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Never fits quite right.
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It's not quite right.
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How do you give it back, Governor,
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what kind of gun is it? This is a Beretta A400 and that's video of Tim Waltz struggling with a shotgun. But this is not the only one of these. We saw a number of Democrats express concern about the president and what happened to him, who have been saying for years that he is a fascist Nazi who's a threat to them and their families. And again, if you're a Democrat who has said this, you cannot feign surprise when someone who stupidly follows you thinks that their only course of action is to neutralize that threat. It's simply absurd and outrageous. And I'm glad that we are holding some of these people accountable for their outrageous rhetoric that is poisoning America and our politics simply so they can get a few more clicks or small dollar donations. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe, leave us a review. Tell your friends and tune in later this week, yeah?

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10 Minute Drill — Episode Summary
Episode: "What Saturday’s wild events mean for Washington; new bombshell about teachers union politics"
Host: Matt Whitlock | Date: April 28, 2026

Episode Overview

This brisk episode of 10 Minute Drill, hosted by veteran strategist Matt Whitlock, focuses on the political and social ramifications following the third assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Whitlock dissects the media and political responses, the radicalization pipelines driving political violence, new revelations on teachers union political spending, and the latest developments in Virginia’s controversial redistricting case. The episode also critiques the politicization of healthcare and calls out public figures for inflammatory rhetoric.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Assassination Attempt Fallout & Media Coverage

Event Recap: President Trump survived his third assassination attempt, this time at the White House Correspondents Dinner, sparking national discussion about political violence and rhetoric.
Interview Highlights: Trump appeared on 60 Minutes with Norah O’Donnell, who pressed on conspiracy theories and the shooter's motives.
- Quote (Trump, 01:45): “I don't know.” (in response to whether he was the gunman's target)
Manifesto and Radicalization: The shooter’s manifesto made his motives clear, with specific accusations against Trump (“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”—[02:32]). Whitlock notes the resemblance between the shooter’s rhetoric and mainstream left-wing social media discourse.
- Quote (Trump, 02:41): “I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because...cause you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.”
No Kings Movement: Discussion of the “No Kings” protest movement, which the shooter had attended. Labeled by Whitlock as a “dark money op that has added to the radicalization.”

2. Radicalization Pipelines & Political Rhetoric

Media & Social Influence: The shooter’s social feeds were filled with high-profile anti-Trump voices (Jennifer Rubin, Bill Kristol, etc.), prominent Blue Anon figures, and conspiracy-laden accusations.
- Whitlock’s Commentary (04:15): “He sounds a lot like your normal sort of blue anon, left wing Twitter conspiracy theorist guy...”
Elected Officials’ Language: Whitlock, citing a list assembled by Caroline Levitt ([05:42]), argues that Democratic leaders employ extreme rhetoric out of political necessity.
- Quote (Levitt, 05:44): “I have a whole host of examples … major Democrat Party elected officials saying…'maximum warfare everywhere, all the time'...‘people are dying because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration’…‘making the country look like a fascist state.’”
Whitlock’s Critique (06:16): “The only thing holding their broken coalition together is hatred and fear of Donald Trump.”

3. Virginia Redistricting “Nuclear Option” & Supreme Court Proceedings

Issue at Stake: Oral arguments began in Virginia’s Supreme Court on several legal challenges to Democrats’ expedited redistricting amendment.
- Focus: Whether voters had adequate notice; if process requirements (like intervening election for public input) were met.
Key Process Critique ([07:41]): Democrats allegedly held the Assembly’s vote after early voting had already begun, undermining voters’ ability to act on the new information.
Whitlock’s Take: “It's pretty clear here that Virginia Democrats violated the law and that they took away the opportunity for the people of Virginia to have the normal required notice and access to information.”

4. Bombshell: Teachers Unions’ Political Spending

Defending Education Report ([09:42]): Teachers unions (NEA, AFT, and state/local affiliates) funneled over $1 billion into political and ideological causes in the last decade.
- Breakdown includes $106M from California and $57M from New York City teachers unions.
Whitlock’s Commentary (10:40): “Their political outcomes and securing political power for Democrats is number one...somewhere like 500 bullets down might be doing something to help kids learn to read and write.”
Core Argument: Teachers unions function as a “super PAC” for Democrats, deprioritizing classroom issues for political activism.

5. Healthcare Hearing: Hospitals and Political Agendas

Congressional Oversight: House Ways and Means Committee examines hospital spending on DEI, climate, and “woke” initiatives under the guise of nonprofit and charity tax breaks.
- New York Presbyterian and Common Spirit Health scrutinized for politicized healthcare spending.
Whitlock Promotes: Wokehospitals.com for details.
Summary: Systemic diversion of healthcare dollars for political causes, not patient outcomes.

6. "Can't Make It Up" Segment: Tim Walz & Political Violence

Focus: Governor Tim Walz’s (MN) public statements expressing concern after the shooting, juxtaposed with previous comments perceived as joking about Trump’s death.
- Quote (Walz, 13:27): “Just saying, just saying there will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news.”
Whitlock’s Critique (13:43): “Tim Walz is about as subtle as a shotgun.”
Broader Point: Hypocrisy of Democratic leaders decrying violence after years of inflammatory rhetoric.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

President Trump on 60 Minutes
- “I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because... cause you're horrible people. Horrible people.” — Trump to Norah O’Donnell, [02:41]
Caroline Levitt on Democratic Rhetoric
- “Pages and pages of major Democrat Party elected officials saying...‘maximum warfare everywhere, all the time.’” — Caroline Levitt, [05:44]
Whitlock on Teachers Unions
- “Somewhere like 500 bullets down might be doing something to help kids learn to read and write.” — Matt Whitlock, [10:40]
Tim Walz on Anticipating "News"
- “Just saying there will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news.” — Tim Walz, [13:37]

Timestamps for Important Segments

[01:02] — Trump explains hardline stance against Iran negotiations
[01:41] — Trump’s 60 Minutes interview, targeting, and conspiracy theories
[02:32] — Shooter’s manifesto and Trump’s live reaction
[04:15] — Analysis of shooter’s social media, mainstreaming of extreme rhetoric
[05:42] — Caroline Levitt details examples of Democratic incendiary rhetoric
[07:41] — Virginia redistricting controversy: process challenges explained
[09:42] — Defending Education report: Teachers union $1B political spend
[11:42] — Hospitals and politicization of nonprofit status
[13:27] — “Can’t Make It Up” segment: Tim Walz and political violence comments

Tone & Style

Direct, critical, and sometimes sarcastic in commentary.
Energetic and fast-paced; mixes humor with serious critique.
Whitlock uses “fun, fast, and light” delivery to underscore serious political points with biting commentary.

This summary encapsulates the breadth of political topics covered in the episode, including the aftermath of the Trump assassination attempt, the radicalizing effect of hyperbolic rhetoric, new reports on teachers union political operations, court battles over election procedure, and the ongoing politicization of American institutions.

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Unpacking the fallout from the third assassination attempt against President Trump and what it means for our government and for our country. You won't believe just how much teachers unions have just spent on politics. And we're going to look at the first day of oral arguments in Supreme Court of Virginia as they analyze whether or not the redistricting nuclear option can go forward. All that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill.
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Everybody get up. Get up.
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The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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First up today, we alluded to this yesterday, but President Trump has called back the planes late last week from peace talks in Iran. And he expounded on this a little bit yesterday on Fox News.
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So if they want, they can call us. But again, they know what has to be in the agreement. Very simple. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. Otherwise, there's no reason to meet.
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Now, we hinted yesterday that Iran had come back with an offer that was if you stop the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, we will consider having talks about the nuclear issue. What President Trump clarified is there are no talks unless we're already talking about the nuclear issue. And they're not gonna give up their leverage just to do that. So we're, we will watch and see where this goes this week. But right now, all of Washington is hyper focused on our first story, which is the continued fallout after the assassination attempt against President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner. First, President Trump joined 60 Minutes on Sunday night to talk about some of this and had a very strange interview with Norah O'. Donnell.
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Mr. President, do you know if you were the target of the gunman?
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I don't know.
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Now, normally after an event like this that the entire nation watched and feels pretty upset about, you would expect an interview to really get into a lot more of the how you feel and how do you plan to sort of help bring the country back together after this? But Nora focused on some different things. First, she wanted to get President Trump to answer about some of the kookier conspiracy theories about what had happened.
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As you know, these conspiracy theories out there on the left and the right, that the event was staged or that it didn't happen.
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What, last night didn't have that.
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Yeah. That it was because it was your first time there or that Butler didn't happen. These conspiracy theories that are gaining traction on.
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We also now have seen a manifesto from the shooter making clear exactly why he was targeting President Trump and his administration. But Noor was playing a little bit dumb on that point.
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And he also wrote this. I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. What's your reaction to that?
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Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because. Cause you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.
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Oh, you didn't think he was referring to you?
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Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile.
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Those who had read this were pretty clear and also based on his past tweets, exactly who he was talking about in his manifesto. So I'm not really sure why Nora went the direction that she did with this, but one piece of intel that we had found out about this shooter that they discussed was his participation in the no Kings rallies.
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He had attended a no Kings protest in California.
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No Kings.
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What did security tell you about what may have been his motives?
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The reason you have people like that is you have people doing no Kings.
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I'm not a king.
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What?
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I am.
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If I was a king, I wouldn't be dealing with you.
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Which is true. If he were a king, he would not be doing 60 Minutes with Norah O'. Donnell. But this again highlights what we've been talking about with no Kings. This is a dark money op that has added to the radicalization of so many people. And that's something that we're really gonna get into today. First, I wanna look at some of his past tweets. What's scary is this person isn't using outright extreme language based on what we've come to expect about violent terms. He sounds a lot like your normal sort of blue anon, left wing, Twitter conspiracy theorist guy who's watching way too much of the angry Wine Moms on Instagram and starts to adopt their language. When you see what he's been tweeting, it's easy to see those sort of pipelines of radicalization. One of his favorites is Jennifer Rubin, who he regularly retweeted her messages about how Trump is basically Hitler. She tweeted, imagine obsessing over Polls in 1933 German election without covering Mein Kampf. Trump is instigating a pogrom. This is what fascists do. So you'll see a lot of this theme. The Trump is Hitler. Trump is a fascist. One thing that I've always said is Democrats have been calling Trump a dangerous fascist and are surprised or feigning surprise when people that follow these Democrats take them seriously and think that they need to neutralize the fascist threat. Another person that he liked to retweet quite a bit is former Republican Bill Kristol. The Trumpist authoritarian project of personalized, concentrated and arbitrary power is proceeding. Twitter user KaneoKatheGreat outlined a lot of these. And in one tweet, she highlighted four different sort of top tier members of the Blue Anon royal family. I would say you've got Lincoln Project's Fred Wellman, David Frum, JoJo from Jersey, and Don Winslow. These are all people. Most of them have blocked me on Twitter for pointing out when they were saying radical conspiracy theories online. But this was a part of this person's regular media diet is a constant flow through basically an IV of insane rhetoric and conspiracy theorists about how President Trump was destroying the country. That has become an incredibly lucrative industry on the left and it is impacting people all around you. But in the White House briefing yesterday, Caroline Levitt took it a step further and pointed out all the different elected officials who have been feeding directly into this very scary pipeline.
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I have a whole host of examples that we can share with you after. It is pages and pages of major Democrat Party elected officials saying, such as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries just this April, this month said, we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time. Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration. Senator Alex Padilla said people are, quote, dying because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration. Senator Elizabeth Warren, President Trump making the country look like a, quote, fascist state.
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That's an incredibly damning list and it goes all the way to the top. Democrats know that the only way to inspire their base is to use the most outrageous escalated rhetoric they possibly can to describe the threat of Donald Trump. Because for the last 12 years, the only thing holding their broken coalition together is hatred and fear of Donald Trump. And that's why every elected official has been saying things like that. And so it was interesting to see on Saturday night a number of them say things like, you know, we're concerned about what happened, or we're grateful that everyone is safe and healthy. You're grateful that the guy you're calling a Nazi and a fascist is healthy. I don't know if I believe you, but we're gonna get a little bit more on one of the worst of these cases at the end of this episode. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Virginia heard the first round of oral arguments on the statutory challenges to the Virginia Democrats nuclear option referendum but just a recap of what they're talking about here. The constitutional challenges focus on whether the amendment was properly advanced during a limited special session, whether a required intervening election occurred, whether the 90 day constitutional requirement was met, and whether the proposed maps meet contiguity and compactness standards. And then there are other statutory issues that are also going to be addressed in other arguments. Those were the extreme ballot language used and the lack of 90 day notice of the proposed amendment before the 2025 election and the 2026 referendum. The major question of yesterday's arguments focused on those issues of process. Did the people of Virginia have adequate access and information about what they're going to be voting on? The process pieces in here are intended to ensure none of this is rushed. None of this is sort of thrown together without the buy in of people. And one of the issues that they really focused on in this argument was the issue of an intervening election. There's a requirement that the legislature pass a new map once, hold an election, and then pass it again before it can be advanced. That intervening election is meant to allow this entire process to play out with voters essentially having an opportunity to have an early vote on that map by voting for members of the assembly if they voted for that map or not. Democrats short circuited this because Republicans argue that they had the first vote in the state assembly after the the election had already started. The early voting for the most recent election had already begun when the State assembly voted on this. Which means if you are an early voter, you can't go back and change your vote based on how your representative voted on this. And what was really interesting in the arguments yesterday was having Democrats argue that early voting doesn't really matter because the only thing that matters is Election Day. This happens at the same time as Democrats around the country are trying to extend early voting so that as well as these other process points are pretty, pretty cut and dry. It's pretty clear here that Virginia Democrats violated the law and that they took away the opportunity for the people of Virginia to have the normal required notice and access to information. But it goes even further when you recognize the fact that Abigail Spamberger blocked maps from being shown in polling places or on the ballots. And so Virginia Democrats clearly weren't concerned about giving as much information possible to voters. They simply wanted people to see this was an opportunity to fight against Donald Trump. So right now the Virginia map is still frozen, it is enjoined and we will wait and see where all these different points go. One Thing we talk about quite a bit here is follow the money. Where does the money come from that's having such a huge impact in our politics? Well, Defending Education has a new report highlighting just how much teachers unions have been putting into politics. This from Nicky Neely. Defending Education has released two new reports exposing how teachers unions have funneled more than $1 billion into political causes over the last decade. And from Fox News Watchdog report exposes teachers union political machine funneling more than $1 billion to liberal causes. Within that larger report there's a little bit more detail. The NEA and AFT have funneled over $699 million to political groups, advocacy orgs and campaigns since 2015. That includes tens of millions to PACs, progressive nonprofits and partisan efforts far removed from the classroom. And if you take a quick look at this table diverted $1 billion new report shows teachers unions spend over $1 billion on political and ideological causes. Where'd the money go? 106 million through California Teachers Association PACS 57 million from New York City teachers union spending and the list goes on and on and on. This funding is from teachers union due to and they are funding political causes. If you were to look at the long list of priorities for teachers unions, their political outcomes and securing political power for Democrats is number one somewhere like 500 bullets down might be doing something to help kids learn to read and write. But again, as Defending Education and Nikki Neely have always done very well, this highlights that teachers unions real purpose is essentially as the most effective, well funded super PAC for Democrats in the country. Today the House Ways and Means Committee is holding a hearing on healthcare costs focused specifically on hospitals. This is a theme that we've talked about quite a bit here. The fact that Democrats have found a way to use programs that give major tax benefits to hospitals that are also carrying out their political agendas. Consumers Research has highlighted two of these that will be appearing before the Ways and Means Committee today. At the hearing, two major nonprofit hospitals will be testifying, New York Presbyterian and Common Spirit Health. We wanted to make sure that Rep. Jason Smith and the rest of the committee are aware of how these two major hospitals are prioritizing advancing the WOKE agenda over providing the best possible patient care at the lowest possible price. And they put this@wokehospitals.com which you can check out. New York Presbyterian promotes DEI perform child sex changes and pushes climate activism. Common Spirit has an office of DEI and belonging to performed child sex changes and spent $100 million on race based hiring. This is one of several hearings that have been held to understand better this scheme where Democrats will tell us every day that there's not enough money being spent on healthcare. Meanwhile, they found these ways to divert the existing money into political agendas that aren't actually helping people who need good healthcare. And this woke 340B program and the abusive tax status that allows hospitals pretending to either be a radio rural facility or a sort of non profit charity center are actually pocketing tens of millions of dollars in small cases but in bigger places like Cleveland Clinic and others, billions of taxpayer dollars while not actually improving the quality of care for people. So those looking at waste, fraud and abuse, ding ding ding. We found some for you can't make it up segment today we have a slightly somber issue that we're nevertheless going to make fun of. The Tim Waltz after the events on Saturday night tweeted this political violence has become all too prevalent in America. I'm grateful for the swift response from law enforcement at White House Correspondents Dinner. Are you really, Tim? Because we've heard you say quite a few times just exactly what you think of Donald Trump, including going as far as musing about him dying.
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You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things and although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying, just saying there will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news.
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Yikes. Now we talked about this at the time. Tim Waltz is about as subtle as a shotgun.
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Yes, that's my theory.
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And it never fits quite right.
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Never fits quite right.
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It's not quite right.
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How do you give it back, Governor,
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what kind of gun is it? This is a Beretta A400 and that's video of Tim Waltz struggling with a shotgun. But this is not the only one of these. We saw a number of Democrats express concern about the president and what happened to him, who have been saying for years that he is a fascist Nazi who's a threat to them and their families. And again, if you're a Democrat who has said this, you cannot feign surprise when someone who stupidly follows you thinks that their only course of action is to neutralize that threat. It's simply absurd and outrageous. And I'm glad that we are holding some of these people accountable for their outrageous rhetoric that is poisoning America and our politics simply so they can get a few more clicks or small dollar donations. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe, leave us a review. Tell your friends and tune in later this week, yeah?