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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Trump Slams Political Opportunism Amid Global Tragedies: Brown University, Australia, and Syria Attacks
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Donald Trump is now addressing the trio of attacks in Syria, Brown University and in Australia, all from the White House. So what do all these attacks have in common? He lays that out. And what does it mean for this country right now? And why are Democrats blaming Donald Trump for the attack at Brown University? Operation Overlord, the D Day beaches. You and I share a passion for history. So I hope you'll join me next spring on the D Day beaches in Normandy. That's right, the invasion that sealed Hitler's doom. Omaha and Utah. You're going to discover the sacred patch of sand with me. 10 days in Europe, luxury hotels and fully escorted by America's leading expert on France. And the D day invasion, Ken Chase. 57, 57. And that includes your airfare. You're going to stand at General Patton's gravesite, Baston Point du Hawk and Mulberry Harbor. Call my friends at Conservative Tours on your cell phone. 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And Democrats wasting no time using these tragedies to push their political agenda, demanding that we ban all AR15 style weapons, even though at Brownie diversity, what we've been told so far is that there was two handguns that were used. If that is the case, then they want to pass a law in the name of people that died at Brown that would have not had any impact on saving their lives. I want you to listen to what President Trump had to say of the trio of attacks and what he had to say about what we need to do moving forward. And before we begin, however, I want to just pay my respects to the people. Unfortunately, two are no longer with us. Brown University, nine injured, and two are looking down on us right now from heaven. And likewise in Australia, as you know, there was a terrible attack. 11 dead, 29 badly wounded. And that was an anti Semitic attack, obviously. And it. I just want to pay my respects to everybody, I must say, in Syria also, we had an attack in Syria and we had three great patriots terminated by bad people. And not the Syrian government, it was isis. Syrian government fought by our side. The new president fought by our side. But I just want to pay my respects to the families. We also had three injured, but two of them are already out of the hospital and one so going to be okay, but we lost three. So it was a rough. It was a rough day. But to Australia and the Prime Minister, to everybody that we know so well, we get along with so well. We have a great relationship. That's a terrible situation going on over there. Think of that. And Brown University, great school. Great, great. Really one of the greatest schools anywhere in the world. Things can happen. So to the nine injured, get well fast. And to the families of those two that are no longer with us, I pay my deepest regards and respects from the United States of America. Thank you very much. It's a very important thing to say and we mean it. I can tell you in Syria there will be a lot of damage done to the people that did it. They got the person, the individual person, but there'll be big damage done. And the other, supposedly they call him a person of interest. So I'll keep it along those lines so we don't get ourselves in any trouble. But they have a person of interest at Brown and in Australia, you probably read if it's been a very brave person actually who went and attacked frontally one of the shooters and saved a lot of lives. So very brave person who's right now in the hospital pretty seriously wounded. So I great respect to that man that did that. But we're here for a different reason. We're here to celebrate Christmas and to celebrate, and I think today we can first say loudly, we celebrate Hanukkah because that was such a horrible attack. That was a purely anti Semitic attack. The President of the United States of America pausing from the celebration at the White House to address all of those attacks. We look at the attack at Brown University first. The shooting occurred at Brown University in Providence, Rhode island during the second day of final exam. The attack taking place in the Barris and Holley Building which housed the School of Engineering and Physics. Shots were fired inside a classroom during an exam review session. We know that two people were killed as a result of the shooting. Nine others were wounded. Most were students. One injured person was hit by fragments rather than a direct bullet. Some of the wounded are in critical but stable condition and at least one remains in critical care. Authorities have detained a person of interest in connection with the shooting and you heard the President mention that a moment ago. The person of interest is described now as a 24 year old man from Wisconsin. He was apprehended at a hotel in rhode island about 15 to 17 miles from the Brown campus. Two firearms were found in his possession, including one they say with a laser sight. But officials have yet to formally charge him or confirm his role as the actual shooter. Law enforcement we know, including Province pd, state agencies, the FBI and ATF have been involved in the investigation. Security footage has been released showing the suspect walking near the campus, though his face was not clearly visible in the early videos. There was also initial confusion occurred regarding an arrest on Saturday evening. One person initially detained was later released after being determined unrelated to that shooting. Even though many on social media said we've got the shooter, that was not the case. We also know that Brown University activated a shelter in place alert during the shooting. After and after the shooting, students hid under desks with the lights turned off, waiting for police instructions. The campus lockdown was eventually lifted on Sunday morning. Brown has canceled the remaining classes, remaining exams and final assignments for the semester. In the aftermath of the horrific shooting, the university president Christina Paxson called the events devastating and know the community was in mourning. National local leaders have condemned the violence and offered support, including statements from elected officials and community vigils that are popping up. Brown University is an Ivy League institution located in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence. Preliminary reports indicate the shooter targeted an active academic setting, making this one of the most serious campus shootings in recent US History. And what are Democrats now saying? Going straight to politics. Senator Chris Murphy now blaming the Brown shooting on Donald Trump, saying Donald Trump is the man that is campaigning to increase violence in this country. This coming from the Democratic Party, the same Democratic Party that's fighting against Donald Trump taking out violent criminals in many different cities that they run. Places like Memphis, places like Chicago, places like Minneapolis, St. Paul. And yet when Donald Trump does Everything he can to get violent criminals off the street. They attack the President, stand in his way and try to stop him no matter what. These are the same crats that demonize law enforcement. ICE agents, the FBI, the list goes on and on. But when there's an actual attack that takes place on a college campus that was a, again, a liberal gun free zone that didn't work. It was a failure yet again. In fact, gun free zones are a failure 100% of the time when someone decides to break that rule. Chris Murphy doesn't look at that. No. Instead he says it is time to attack Trump, saying that Donald Trump's campaign is to increase violence in this country. Democrats also calling for gun control laws and the banning of guns that weren't even used in the attack based on the information we know. Because what do they say? Never let a crisis go to waste. So here we are with the President, United States of America standing up yet again for what's right in this country. There is now reports out that the attacker was yelling Allah Akbar. Just want to throw that out there for you. Of course, you know, that's certainly something we're not allowed to talk about. Right? We had to keep that PC. That's, that's, that is, that's not something that the police want you to know. Right. If that, like, like that is that, that's, that's just part of this conversation we're not allowed to have. Folks, you can't, you can't talk about a radical religion and how it's completely incompetent or incapable of mingling with freedom. Not just in America, anywhere around the world where there's freedom and democracy. It's incredibly frustrating. It is beyond frustrating. It drives me insane. Because political correctness is going to undo the United States of America. I want you to listen to what the police said about this attack at Brown University. And I'm going to go on a limb and say I'm guessing it has something to do with Ola. Now, they don't want to say that. No, no. They're going to say the guy just said something, but we're not going to tell you anything about it. Again, my condolences and thoughts and prayers with the families that were impacted by these actions. So, yeah, as the mayor stated, we have detained someone of interest. But I respect and to protect the integrity of the investigation, I would only be limited in my details. The next process for us is what we do best in our detectives is to coordinate with the prosecutors to collect evidence, to conduct interviews and then from there, we'll be able to, when it's appropriate and accurate to share more details with you all. But I'm pleased to say that the mayor stated that collaboration between our federal partners, our different municipalities in the state, it's all hands on deck. And you know, when there's incidents in the city that's Choctaw conscious, we know for a fact that we just step up. And the federal agents, our federal partners, I want to thank them for their assistance. But as well, every single municipality, the state police and every other chief in the state, we came together as a small state. It impacted a lot of us, the incident that occurred. And so again, I'm just happy to share with you that we're in the process now of coordinating with prosecution, conducting interviews and being able to collect evidence so that we can protect the integrity of the investigation and that we can hold the individuals accountable for their actions. Police have a suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University, but they're refusing to provide the suspect's age, race or motive, only stating the shooter yelled something, quote, unquote, before the attack and that the weapon used has a unique characteristic on it. So why would they not tell us that? Let's go to Fox News Channel. I'll give you another perspective of what journalism sounds like and called into police. I mean, the reality is, is that this is a seven story physics and engineering building that was unlocked. But this individual went to a specific classroom that was essentially in a study session for an exam on economics and chose that classroom. And we know from a witness inside that this gunman yelled something. We don't know what this individual yelled and then began shooting. We also know that this person reportedly used a handgun. So a lot of questions also as to whether or not they recovered that handgun or what kind of ballistics evidence may have led them perhaps to this individual as well. So we have more questions than answers other than the fact that we know the lockdown has been lifted. And and at least according to the mayor, this community can breathe a sigh of relief. But hopefully we hope to find out more and the coming hours. It's amazing. Fox News has to report the news the way that the police told it. That's what journalism is. They won't tell the journalists what was actually said. Now what Democrats will do instead of telling you the motive or what the man yelled, I'm going to guess that something to do with Allah. Going to go out on a limb here. If I'm wrong, I'll be the first to apologize. But Democrats don't want you to know what he yelled instead. What they do want to do is they want to tell you that somehow the Brown University shooting is the fault of Donald Trump. Never let a crisis go to waste. Senator Chris Murphy said this on State of the Union. Not shocking, because over the last year, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He is restoring gun rights to felons and people who have lost their ability to buy guns. He eliminated the White House Office of Gun Violence Protection and he has stopped funding mental health grants and community anti gun violence grants that Republicans and Democrats supported in that 2022 bill. So he has been engaged in a pretty deliberate campaign to try to make violence more likely in this country. And I think you're unfortunately going to see the results of that on the streets of America. That's a pretty big statement. He's in a campaign to make violence more likely, of course. I mean, he's knowingly restoring gun rights to dangerous people. He is cutting off grants that has, that have bipartisan support to try to interrupt violence in our cities or to try to get necessary mental health resources to families and children in need. The evidence tells you that when you stop funding mental health, when you stop funding community anti gun violence programs, when you give gun rights back to dangerous people, you are going to have an increase in violence that is knowable and that is foreseeable. That is your Democratic Party. And if that's not enough, I go back to gun violence. Oh, no, no. Now over at cnn, John Miller, he's now wanting you to be afraid of lasers. So that's the next thing they're going to want to ban. Forget guns now. No, no, we want to ban lasers on guns. Like a laser pointer is what it is. Listen, at 4 o' clock in the morning, hit this hotel room in Coventry and took this man into custody. What we're told from law enforcement sources now is that they seized two firearms from this 24 year old suspect. One of those firearms, we are told, was equipped with a laser sight device. This has significance because, number one, that's a fairly sophisticated device for a handgun. Where, by the way, that's a lie. It is not. The idea that this is a sophisticated device. That is what like making blank up really is, like pathological liar. People use these things to play with cats and make videos on the Internet, folks. That's how advanced they are. Okay, like if we're gonna, if we're gonna listen to crazy people say crazy things, then we should really just talk about how stupid they are. That is how stupid this guy is. He is sitting there trying to convince you that a product you can buy on Amazon that you use to play with cats is a quote, very sophisticated thing. I go, I go back to what I was saying a moment ago. This is total insanity by the radical left who sit there and they try to tell you every time this happens, don't ask the right question. No, no, no, ask a different one. What gun should we be getting rid of today? Now it's red dots and lasers because we should get rid of those today. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. And for more in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Podcast and we will see you back here tomorrow. 10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental health Breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down. This is Trainer Games. Watch it on prime video starting January 8th. 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