Carolyn Levitt (5:24)

This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators. Yes, by elected members of the Democrat Party and even some in the media. This hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years has helped to legitimize this violence and bring us to this dark moment. Those who constantly falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points are fueling this kind of violence. The left wing cult of hatred against the president and all of those who support him and work for him has gotten multiple people hurt and killed and it almost did so again this weekend.

Michael Popak (6:13)

Now, of course, this is right on cue. We just saw Dana, Dana Bash at cnn, which has now been captured by Donald Trump's right wing friends, the Ellison family, in a purchase last week. Go after Jamie Raskin and ask him if the political rhetoric of the Democratic Party is responsible for activating sleeper cells of political terrorists. I think the answer to that is a resounding no. But what is the purpose of trying to create a through line between the rhetoric and the attempted assassination? It is to crush dissent. See, every person must agree, fair minded person, a patriot, must agree that if we don't like the policies, if we don't like the laws, the assault on the rule of law, the assault on our Constitution, the assault on the separation of powers, the abuse of power by Donald Trump in real time. We are not only permitted to call it out, but we are commanded to do so by our Constitution and our obligation as fellow Americans and patriots. Because to sit by idly, quietly, silently bound and gagged, and allow Donald Trump to get away with this expansion of presidential power, these false claims of emergencies and national security matters in order to expand his presidential powers even beyond the outer limits allowed by the Supreme Court. If we were to allow all of that to happen and sit idly by, we would be complicit in the destruction of our democracy and the guardrails around it. That's exactly what Donald Trump wants to do in exploiting events like what happened on Saturday night. This is a playbook of Stephen Miller and those around Donald Trump. To exploit a moment of national crisis, a national tragedy that was averted, and use it for political gain. To distract from the underlying failures and lack of moral character of the president. To distract from the failures of that evening. Even Donald Trump had enough brains to say that that building isn't very secure. Whose idea was it to go to the Hilton for the correspondence dinner? And at the same time, which was the scene of Ronald Reagan getting clipped and almost assassinated, Donald Trump figured out that wasn't a secure building of two minutes after the event. And who in their right mind puts in one room so many people in the chain of succession under our Constitution and otherwise for the presidency. What idiot. Fill in the blank. Put TRUMP Number two, vice president number four, secretary of state, number five, treasury number six, secretary of defense number seven, attorney general in line to the throne, number eight, interior secretary number 12, health and human Services all in the same place. And then Carolyn Levitt said, no, we didn't have a Designated Survivor because there were a few people that were that weren't there. Play that clip.

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for instance, with a joint address to

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Congress for these large events and designating

Carolyn Levitt (10:04)

someone as the Designated Survivor for future large events that the Cabinet attends. Well, those conversations ahead of the WAKA Dinner did take place, but there were several members of the Cabinet in the line of succession who did not attend for various personal reasons, so designating one Survivor was not necessary as we had several members who were not there already.

Michael Popak (10:24)

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Trump and his FBI director accused of public drunkenness and excessive drinking and a secret Service heads, that's who. At the very same time we've got in order to make out the narrative that Donald Trump is doing to suppress dissent in America against his administration and blaming the Democrats, but no one else, for the politically heated moment that led to the attempted assassination. Once again deflecting attention from his own rhetoric, right? The salty language, the F bombs, the misogynistic comments, calling people disgusting, calling the press the enemy of the people. How soon we forget, right? Calling people stupid, undermining institutions, calling judges unelected Marxist activist criminals, going after their family, doxing them, going after reporters and the media, indicting the Southern Poverty Law center, issuing executive orders, making pariahs out of members of law and law firms, the media and the like, and then sit by and go because the Democrats respond with, with. With criticism, with appropriate First Amendment critics, criticism of his policies, we're to blame. See, a Donald Trump and his populist message can only get elected and reelected by putting Americans at each other's throats. See, Trump wants a seething cauldron of America. He doesn't want unity. He wants Americans to hate each other. And from that cauldron, he bubbles up. He doesn't want unity. He doesn't want harmony. He wants to pit American against American right and make his policies about the other and going after the other, whether the other is someone who's a transgender American, a black or brown American, a gay American, a Muslim American, a Jewish American. He goes after all the hyphens in order to get elected, reelected, scare the crap out of his base, his constituency, whatever's left of it. It's in shreds at his feet to try to get elected or reelected. And we call it out here through the prism, through the lens of independence of courage and conviction on the Midas Touch network on Legal AF YouTube channel. Because together we will support and protect and defend the democracy, the Constitution upon which it rests, the rule of law that is required for America to regain its foothold as the leader of the free world once again. See, I believe we can heal most of what Donald Trump has done in the first 16 months and beyond, when patriotic Americans and adults with gravitas come into office and public service and root out corruption and fix all of the policies and executive orders that Donald Trump put in place and take our place at the rightful head table of democracy and freedom around the world. And we will do it. And we will look back on this moment and we will say we were a part of the Midas Touch and Legal AF community. We were there. 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