July 17th, 2024

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, there’s a lot more information coming out about the Trump assassination attempt and it’s quite frightening. The Secret Service ID’ed Thomas Matthew Crooks as ‘suspicious’ over an hour before the shooting and still sent President Trump on stage. Why would the Secret Service allow this to happen? Something is very wrong here; this is a massive scandal. Also, there’s always a common thread with totalitarian regimes – they dehumanize their opponents. When someone creates a normal narrative that someone is Hitler or will kill you, that affects the psyche of individuals. It creates an environment where this becomes acceptable language and that can have a devasting impact on society. Biden dehumanizes individuals to win elections or a political argument. This is what Biden does. He dehumanizes Republicans, dehumanizes President Trump and Trump’s supporters. Later, right now Democrats are laying the groundwork to claim that if Trump is elected in November, he is an illegitimate president because he was convicted in a Manhattan court. They already want to impeach him before he’s even elected. Afterward, Chuck Schumer has told Biden he should end his campaign. The pile-on begins – Biden lost the support of Hakeem Jeffries and likely Nancy Pelosi. Democrats will begin rallying around this push and no doubt the media will join in.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Last evening, I spent a considerable amount of time. Talking about how it was the secret services response body, not local law enforcement with a very small police force. To protect outside the perimeter. And I don’t know how that building became outside the perimeter. For the for the killer, the climate and the latter climate go to the roof. People are yelling at him and, you know. There’s a lot more information and this is actually quite frightening. And Fox has got this information. We’re briefing that. Senators just received. And let me read to you as it’s breaking. The gunmen who attempted to assassinate former President Trump on Saturday was identified as suspicious by law enforcement more than an hour before he opened fire. Senator John Barrasso, Republican Wyoming, told Fox News after a briefing between Senate lawmakers and the U.S. Secret Service. Brazeau said he was identified as a character of suspicion because he had a rangefinder as well as a backpack. And this was over an hour before the shooting actually occurred. So you would think over the course of that hour, you shouldn’t lose sight of the individual. Somebody ought to be following up on those sorts of things. No evidence at all that that happened at all. Fox News was told that Secret Service was aware of the threat before Trump walked on the stage and narrowly survived an assassination attempt. So right there, why would they allow that to occur? You know what strikes me, Mr. Producer? And it’s not about me. Trust me. But it crossed my mind about 10 minutes ago if I had stayed on the phone with him longer. None of this might have happened. It’s a frightening thought. He called me. He’s on the tarmac. He’s in the plane. We’re talking 10 minutes, 15, 12, whatever it was. And he even joked, he said. I look at how much I think of you, There’s 50,000 people sitting out waiting for me. And here I am talking with you, Mark. Now, he called me to chat about a number of things. So I sit here, think about that. That’s. It’s almost chilling, you know. Now. Here we go. He’s Secret Service agent in charge of security for the event was on the phone with local and state police about the threat. While the shooting took place. Barroso said there was no talk of reports that local officers engaged with the shooter before he opened fire. They shut it after just a couple of questions and didn’t get to any of the meat of the matter. He called the US Secret Service director Kimberly Chase to resign. The American people shouldn’t feel comfortable with this, he said. This is a total failure on behalf of the Secret Service. We need a replacement at the top. And so they cut off the briefing. Senator Marsha Blackburn. Republican Tennessee also took part in a briefing with the Secret Service, and the FBI said she was appalled to learn the Secret Service knew about a threat prior to the president walking on the stage. I mean, what the hell is going on here? I have no confidence in the leadership of Director Cheadle and believe it is in the best interest of our nation if she steps down from her position. I’m not opposed to that. Of course. Fire her. She should step down. I mean, after all, she was a DEA Joe Biden appointee. Let’s not cover anything up. Everything’s on the table. But it’s not just her. There is somebody in charge. A protecting the president of United States with the Secret Service at Butler, Pennsylvania, Butler Township, Pennsylvania. And as I said last night, the idea that a small police force in a town of 6000 was told you guys cover outside the perimeter. I just don’t believe it. One lieutenant for detectives, 12 or 14 patrol cars, Two clerks. Are you kidding me? Nah. No way. And so now there is cover up mode. And our buddy Dan Bongino will be on with me on Saturdays, Life, Liberty and Levin, former Secret Service, among other things. He’s out there saying today that. What’s even worse. Go to Right Scoop. You can see what he said. Lots. Lots. That’s the figure out here. Look, as soon as we know more, you’re going to be the first to know. I am. On top of all of this in the most minor detail, nothing is passing my eyes without me taking a very close look at it and talking to people as well. You know, ladies and gentlemen. I’ve told you before, I read these books on totalitarianism, whether it’s Marxism or the Third Reich or Soviet Union or fascist, whatever it is. By people who escaped or survived these regimes. Recently we had one on one of these individuals as a guest on life, liberty and live in about North Korea. But there’s always a common thread. You dehumanize your targets. We’ve talked about this at length. I’ve written about this at length. I’ve posted about this at length. You dehumanize your targets. Now I want to play something for you not to say. See, I told you so. But to say. See, I warned them to stop. I warned them to stop Walmart. You can’t make a connection between the two folks. Listen to me. When you create a normal narrative. That somebody is Hitler or somebody is a genocidal murderer or somebody is going to execute his political opponents. That affects the psyche of the nation and it affects the psyche of individuals. And so I have to discuss this with you. There were warnings put out about this. By me. November 27, 2023. Right here on this program. Cut one. Go. And this man is sick. Did he say what I thought? He said. Here, Mr. Producer. This is Scarborough. Because he will do he will get away with he will in prison. He will execute whoever he’s allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Has anyone informed Jake TAPPER about this, Mr. Producer, Wolf BLITZER? The moron over at the White House press office does anyway. Has anybody even commented on this? No. One of the things I fear America is that Donald Trump. Is in grave danger. Because of comments like this. That he is personally and physically in grave danger because of comments like this. If you’re told. And Scarborough has called him Hitler. Mussolini. Stalin. I have it in my book on freedom of the press. Now, he says here, and there’s no twisting of words like they attempted on me. This is flat out. He says it repeatedly. He will in prison. He will execute whoever he’s allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. If you hear that from Scarborough on MSNBC, that if Donald Trump is elected, he will in prison. And execute. And drive from the country. Individuals. Those are fighting words. And I cannot believe the Comcast NBC, MSNBC allows this for this emotionally unstable, unhinged punk to say the things that he says like this. And it doesn’t come under any scrutiny. It doesn’t. It’s not condemned by any of his colleagues. It’s not condemned by any of the other cable networks. It’s not condemned at all. Again, I’m not tying this assassination attempt to him or to that. What I’m saying is, is you create an atmosphere, a culture, an environment. Well, this becomes acceptable talk. Acceptable language. That can have an enormously devastating impact on a society. And that these people need to take responsibility for what’s coming out of their mouths. And I’ve been calling it dehumanization, because all these people who fled from these regimes are survive these regimes. That’s what they said, the dehumanization of Jews. The dehumanization of people in the gulags, the dehumanization of the Wiggers. And the dehumanization of Donald Trump. I even talked about it as recently as Monday. But here we have July 2nd, two days before Independence Day of this year. Of this year. How could you not? We did. How could you not see this if you’re the. Executives at Comcast. Or Warner Brothers or The New York Times of The Washington Post. How can you not see this and hear this? Or the BBC. Cut to go. One British Broadcasting Corporation presenter, Presenter Excuse me. COVID seriously took it to a whole new level. They were openly encouraging Biden ready for this to assassinate his rival for the president. I’ve got to tell you, so I’ve told you this maybe twice before. Over the course of the years. I truly do fear for Donald Trump’s safety. I truly do. When you step back, put the politics aside and think about what he’s been called. The lies about his threats to. Humanity. His threats to democracy. The comparisons to Hitler. When you think about they say he’s going to kill people, lock people up. I really am worried. My wife and I talk about this a lot about the safety of Donald Trump. From the Democrat Party and the media starting at the top with Mr. No with nowhere to sign an ethnic name. Mr. Bruce and Mr. No, it’s now Mr. No. With. David Aaron out of that. If that is his name, who presents. BBC Radio Four’s briefing room programme had apparently clamored for the 45th President’s killing online, quote on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security. See what I mean? Posting on social media, he said If I was Biden, I would harry up and have Trump murdered. On the basis that he is a threat to America’s security, sparking instant outrage online. In response, some claim the presenter’s post had amounted to an open call for violence. Whether they’re suggesting people have had police visit for a lot less. All right, that’s enough. It’s enough. And I go on, of course. It is horrendous. You can see these things coming, but the details and the specifics. This dehumanization. This is what Joe Biden does to win elections or to win political arguments or to defeat nominees. He dehumanized Robert Bork. He dehumanizes even to this day, Clarence Thomas and. In court justices he disagrees with. He dehumanized Reagan, but he saved the worst of it for Trump. Aug 30, 2022. And I’ve talked about this dehumanization problem now probably for two decades, but it really has come to a pinnacle with Joe Biden. This is his creme de la creme. He’s the expert at the Leninist Alinsky dehumanization targeting of individuals. And that’s what he does. Do we have time for this, Rich? Okay, well, then I’ll have to do it after the break. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Not going to have time in this segment to do it. We will after the bottom of the hour. This dehumanization issue is key, is critical to what I’ve been talking about and writing about for decades. And that’s exactly the. While the model, the standard, the attack on Donald Trump. It’s also interesting. I’m looking at this stuff. You know, I look back at what I say not to find instances seem right, but to find instances. If me myself got it right, if I did something wrong, didn’t think it through properly. I’m very, very. Tough on myself. In many respects I’ve been comparing over the years Trump to Reagan, have I not, Mr. Producer, A lot. His foreign policy. His belief in the working people, blue collar people. You may recall, he was the one who won massive landslides by tapping into the Teamsters Union, endorsed Reagan. I worked in Reagan’s primary campaign in 76 and 80. A lot of people who are commenting. Obviously never worked for Reagan or with Reagan. Maybe to some extent they did, or they worked in the Bush campaigns or somebody else’s campaign. But the fact of the matter is. Reagan’s focus on making America great again. That was his campaign tagline in 1984. Tax cuts. That was the Reagan key core economic position, building up the military. That was Reagan peace through strength, which you hear about Trump now, that was Reagan. And I’ve tried to make the point over the years for the last eight years that there’s many, many, many similarities between Trump and Reagan, not necessarily in terms of their personalities. That doesn’t matter, but in terms of their substance. Naito was actually built up under Reagan because excuse me, under Trump, because he kept threatening to cut them out because they weren’t paying their fair share. I’m hearing echoes of this now. I know what Rush meant by echo chamber.

Segment 3
Well, let’s get to it, America. Time’s a wasting. The aim is to dehumanize your opponents. You seem dehumanize Brett Kavanaugh. Dehumanize Bob Bork. Dehumanize Clarence Thomas. Alito. Most of all dehumanize Donald Trump. It’s a very dangerous thing. Totalitarian regimes do it all the time. The dehumanisation of your opponent. And this is what Joe Biden does. Two years ago, August 30, 2020, to cut taiko the dehumanisation of your opponents. Which is extraordinarily dangerous. This is what regimes do, totalitarian regimes. They dehumanize their opponents. This is what Biden, again, a street thug, sleazeball politician. That’s all he’s ever been told is ever will be. That’s what the history books will say if they tell the truth. He’s trying to dehumanize Republicans. Dehumanize people, serve in state legislatures, dehumanize President Trump, dehumanize Trump supporters, dehumanize to Santos. That’s what he does. If you’re a semi fascist, you’ve been dehumanized. Now. He’s not a commentator. He’s not a. Political operative. He’s the president. He’s the president of the United States. And he’s playing with fire. They can attack Lindsey Graham all they want. People don’t like being treated this way. Not by the president, not by the authorities. Not by the people who rule over them. So this issue of dehumanization is a big deal and he’s going to stand there. An Independence Hall. And read the declaration. It’s all about humanity individual. God given rights. Unalienable rights. And he’s going to go up there and he’s going to say, our opponents. And of course, I don’t mean all Republicans. I don’t mean all conservatives. Yes, the people who voted against me, just the people who disagree with me. Yes. The people who aren’t criticizing January six, I don’t know how much more we can criticize the people who did damage on January six. The differences. We separate them from the people who did not. They don’t want you to believe that. Because they don’t believe in the individual. Again, they’re trying to dehumanize everybody who was at that protest. They have a scarlet letter on them. That’s what they want to send a signal. And all this targeting of Trump is again to send a signal. Dehumanization is a big deal. And that’s what genocidal regimes do. Jews aren’t human beings. They’re just not. Or at one time blacks aren’t human beings. Some parts of the world, it’s still treated that way. They’re still treated that way. Or for the Taliban. Women aren’t human beings. And so it justifies in their minds. All kinds of horrendous, inhuman acts. And so when a political leader in this country talks, you would never would have heard Ronald Reagan say anything like that, ever. Trump never said anything like this. However, my right maggot Haberman. Philly Bump, Sarah Trump and the rest of the gaggle. So what Biden is doing is horrendous. But he doesn’t know any better is a thoroughly stupid human being. He really is. Always has been. Dehumanization. Pick up any of the books. I point on that too. Excuse me. Excuse me. We got video going everywhere. Use the. Excuse me. I’m doing my best here, Mr. Producer. All right, So dehumanization, something we’ve discussed here at length. And if you think about the propaganda that’s being used, you know, I always say you’ve got to look at the Democrat Party through the lens of power. They want monopoly power. They will do anything for it. They’re about to go full bore against the United States Supreme Court. That’s why the borders open. They want voters. They want future voters. Everything they do. Is to centralize power in the Democrat Party. The purpose of the government, the purpose of the country, the purpose of the citizenry, is to serve the best interests. Of the Democrat Party. It’s like the Communist Party. The party comes first. The head of the party is Biden. And like these communist regimes, he’s an old man. He’s got dementia and he’s fighting to hang on. And he’s trying to use the instrumentalities of the Democrat primary process against those who try to take him out. When you look at this, doesn’t it remind you of the whole communist parties where they have fights within the parties between these thugs? That’s what’s happening now within the Democrat Party. And Biden will do anything and he’s trying to do anything to hold on. So now you have this power struggle within the Democrat Party, then, about the country. It’s not about the people. It’s about control. They got to win at all costs. And as I’ve pointed out here and on my Fox show, the similarities between Reagan and and Trump, I’m hearing it again, Mr. Producer, aren’t you? Peace through strength. It’s a Reagan phrase. It’s a Trump phrase. Make America great again to Reagan phrase. It’s a Trump phrase. Build up the military. Slash taxes. Support the police. The forgotten man who voted in the tens of millions left the Democrat Party to vote for President Reagan. There’s many similarities, not perfect similarities. Many similarities. And are some of our friends are starting to wake up to that fact? Nikki Haley isn’t a Reaganite. She’s a fortnight. She’s a Bush eight. Now, of course, you’re not allowed to criticize her anymore because we’re all united. But nonetheless, I’ll speak the truth. I thought her speech was kind of lame. It did what it needed to do. And that’s good. We need as many votes as we can get. But when I watch her speak, I think about is she future presidential material? Why? And then, of course, all the Bushies are out there saying we need to be have a bigger tent. Bigger tent? Yeah. We saw what happened to George H.W. Bush the second time he ran. We also saw George W Bush barely hold on in 2000. We need a big tent. But the way you get a big tent is through principle, through policy, through philosophy, through arguments, through persuasion. You don’t get a big tent by just saying you need a big tent. But what do I know? There’s quite a piece by Curtis Wilkie. Who the hell is Curtis work? Good question. Curtis Wilkie. President Biden should step aside to protect his country and his legacy. Now he’s writing this in the Mississippi today, which of course, we all get. He’s a retired journalist, author, professor who covered eight US presidential campaigns and subsequent White House administrations during his career. He writes, Biden should never have sought a second term. I have an unusual perspective on this discussion, he writes, Dominating American politics, considering I’ve known Joe Biden longer than any reporter who has ever covered him. I’ve witnessed over the years how the relentless demands of the presidency have ravaged other occupants of the White House. And I share with Biden the frailties of old age and grip us both. Have begun to diminish our physical and cognitive powers. This is not a new concern of mine. Produced by the President’s poor performance at last month’s debate. I reached this conclusion during a long conversation in March 2023 with two old friends who had closer political connections to Biden than my own. I felt his age and halting public appearances would make him vulnerable in 2020 for increasing the possibility of Donald Trump’s return. They all hate Trump, of course, but that’s not the point I’m going to. My friends. Sadly agreed. The man we remember and how. Now he goes on. My experience with Biden began in the summer of 1971 in Wilmington, Delaware. He was an ambitious 28 year old New Castle County councilman. I was two years older, a new reporter for the local news journal papers. I enjoyed getting to know him. He was smart with a touch of the smart ass, brash with a fondness for F-bombs and a cut above the average county councilman. We’ve both been inspired by John Kennedy’s promise in his inaugural address to pass the torch and the benign leadership of not only leaders to a new generation. And implicitly, Kennedy’s message was a call for activism. Biden chose politics. I chose journalism. Activism in journalism. But that says it all, doesn’t it? Then next year, Biden ran for a U.S. Senate seat held by an older, popular Republican incumbent. Biden’s campaign was widely thought folly, but he proved to be intellectually quick and attractive young candidate. He won in a year. Richard Nixon crushed his Democratic opposition across the country. Biden was not yet old enough to serve in the Senate. That would happen on his 30th birthday later in the month. The unions carried Biden to victory pretty much as what took place. I was assigned to write a long piece on Biden’s political progress, and I imagined it as young Mr. Biden goes to Washington. I spent a lot of time with him. He talked of his dreams. I don’t remember if he spoke about the White House, but he felt confident that that was his goal. One day I accompanied him on the Amtrak train to Washington. The journey took 75 minutes. Each way would become a daily ritual for him for 36 years. On Capitol Hill. He excitedly inspected his new home, and a Senate office building was careful to introduce himself to everyone he encountered. Otherwise, he said, They’re going to think I’m an elevator operator, a pet patronage job for young men on Capitol Hill. I spoke with his wife, Neilia, over a lunch at Wilmington’s finest restaurant, the Hotel DuPont’s Brandywine Room, where Precious Works of art by Andrew Wyeth were on permanent display. I found Neilia as glamorous as this setting. She worried that life in the fast lane might disrupt their happy family. Two young sons and a new daughter. And she dazzled me by volunteering that William Faulkner had been the subject of her college thesis. And I began to think of the Bidens as the perfect all-American couple with an enviable future. All of that was shattered a few days later. Mojo was visited while Joe visited Washington again. Excuse me. Neilia took their children shopping for a Christmas tree and never got home. It is a horrible accident. A collision involving the Bidens station wagon killed Neilia and their little girl. And seriously injured. Both pre-school sons have had the impact of a death in the family for the entire state of Delaware. Biden was prepared to give up his hard earned seat before he ever occupied it, but a delegation of Democratic senators assured him they would provide special assistance if he would come to Washington. And in a poignant public appearance in the hospital room with his sons, Biden announced that he would try to serve in the Senate but would resign if it didn’t work. He planned to come home to Wilmington on the Amtrak every night. Delaware could always get another senator, he said. But my boys can’t get another father. Biden’s story had become so convulsed. I never wrote the profile. Four years later, I wound up in Washington myself covering the White House for the Boston Globe. That we were working in the same city again, I saw a little a Biden congressman is not part of my beat. And Biden, who didn’t drink, went back to his sons rather than socialize in the nation’s capital at night. Despite his schedule, he developed a reputation as a rising star, laying the groundwork of eventual chairmanships for two of the most prestigious committees, Judiciary and Foreign Relations. And along the way, he also became known for his hair trigger tongue and delivered impolitic statements and inappropriate off the cuff comments punctuated by blue language. He still seemed smart, but not always so wise. Shortly after he announced in 1987 that he would run for his party’s next presidential nomination. I heard from my son, a student at Boston College, who wanted to drop out of school to work in the Biden campaign. He wanted to do so with my blessing, I said, but warned him. Joe’s going to implode. Implode. The implosion took place within weeks and his speeches, he regularly cited the words of Neil Kinnock, the British Labour Party leader, describing the Valar, the working class in English coal country one night in Iowa. Biden appropriated the story for himself. It fit his own background growing up amid coal mining hardships in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Reporters traveling with a candidate ignored Biden’s curious remarks. They considered that newsworthy because he had previously been crediting Kinnock by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, who had not been there, magnified the events that day. Later, with the help of the staff of Michael Dukakis, his rival campaign, with a front page account of Biden’s deception, it led to new accusations of plagiarism and so forth. His skills as a politician kept his name among credible contenders for president another 20 years. I’ve always felt that one side can be a measure of intelligence. When they’re bright, they usually reflect act of interest. When they’re dull, there’s less in the brain behind them. The last conversation I had with Biden took place in Oxford in 2007. He spoke at Square Books to promote an autobiography to establish affinity with his audience. He mentioned that his late wife had admired Faulkner. Afterward, we talked and I recalled my own interview with his wife 35 years earlier. I want to finish this article because we haven’t gotten to the part that I need to get to. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
We don’t have a lot of time. But let me get back to this. I began to notice Biden had some of the same handicaps he butchers names or can’t remember them at all. Sometimes he appears barmy. His enthusiasm seems withered. But when Biden walked on the set of the infamous debate last month, he did so with shuffling half staff. They gave him an old man. Meanwhile, I’m afflicted with his own disease. I won’t get into it. Constant pain has made me lame. I’ve not been able to walk for a year and use a rolling walker to move about. I try to be philosophical. But as a reporter, I saw relatively young men whose campaigns I covered dramatically Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W Bush becomes painful to watch Biden on TV trying to demonstrate he’s still capable of weathering the pressure. During his law career, he made some hard decisions. He bowed out of the presidential race as an 1828 2016 gracefully kept his honor intact for 2020. But that wisdom no longer is evident. The Democrat Party is faced with its worst nightmare, the distinct possibility of a sweeping victory in November for Trump and his MAGA followers. There’s a suck up reporters telling Biden, Get the hell out.