Trump 2.0: He’s Never Sounded Like This Before

previously on The. Daily we didn't want this to be some. fanfiction sitting around you know. smoking a pipe trying to imagine what a. second term of Trump would look like we. want it to be rooted in real reporting. back in April we introduced a series. focused on what a second Trump. presidency would look like and what it. would mean for American democracy it's. too much to say it's the end of. democracy per se it's Americans style.

democracy American style democracy in. part one my colleagues Jonathan Swan. Charlie Savage and Maggie hman explained. how in his first term Trump encountered. government systems and Personnel that. had blocked the most extreme parts of. his agenda and left Trump determined to. remove those obstacles if reelected we. focused very intently on things that. Donald Trump himself cares about and at. the heart of that is.

power in order to do that they found. Trump plans to systematically weed out. federal workers at all levels who would. stand in his way take control of. agencies that have long operated. independently and use the Department of. Justice to punish his. enemies the result would be a presidency. with few constraints on its power.

Today part two of our series Trump's. [Music]. message Charlie we are here at the. Republican National Convention on the. eve of the speech in which Donald Trump. is going to formally accept his party's. nomination and you and I had been. working on an episode about Trump's. campaign message for this series that.

the DA's been doing about what a second. Trump term would be like and candidly we. thought we were done with the episode. and then while Trump was out on the. campaign Trail delivering his message he. was shot at by a wouldbe. assassin how do you think about that. moment in the context of the. conversation that you and I had been. having I mean it was this obviously just. shocking and horrible moment and it you. know feels in that moment like the whole.

campaign the whole world is has. transformed in this you instant but also. the thing that became very clear very. quickly was that in a way this wasn't a. new story it felt like kind of a. continuation of the story that we'd been. talking about you know working on this. episode there's this view among Trump. supporters that he's just you know been. this target of persecution since the. moment he entered politics and this is. sort of the latest chapter in that you. know at this moment we know very little. about the gunman and what his motives.

were what his politics even were but. very quickly you see this sort of. narrative among Trump supporters and. among people close to Trump sort of. percolating online that this wasn't just. a tragedy it was an. inevitability I I do believe that Joe. Biden is responsible for the shooting. today everyone who has called him a. fascist everyone who has called him a. threat to democracy this was the result. of of Democrats and the media saying. over and over again you know Trump's a. threat to Dem.

Senator JD Vance commenting on X saying. the rhetoric led directly to president. Trump's attempted. assassination and that this was the. inevitable product of this kind of. Reckless language and it almost cost. Donald Trump his life Georgia. Congressman Mike Collins jessing Biden. ordered the shooting and calling and. some went even further than that. congresswoman marjerie Taylor green. saying that quote the Democrat Party is. flat out evil and yesterday they tried.

to murder president Trump saying that. Biden and the Democrats were responsible. for the shooting even though we know. very little about the politics or the. motive of of the gunman at this. [Music]. point but in their mind no matter what. the shooter's motive was the. assassination attempts was the climax. and the confirmation really of the story. that Trump had been telling for years. right and that is the story that we are. going to be talking about today the.

story that Trump has been telling about. the forces out to get him. exactly first they tried to ruin his. reputation and he's more popular now. than. ever and then they tried to bankrupt him. and then they tried to put him in prison. and he's Freer and has made other people. free with him and then last weekend they. tried to kill him and there he is over.

there alive and. [Applause]. [Music]. well from The New York Times I'm Michael. buaro this is a special episode of The. Daily since he began his latest campaign. for president Donald Trump's message has. changed becoming darker angrier and more. focused on those out to get him than.

ever. before it's a rhetorical shift that many. Americans have overlooked but one that. if Trump is elected could profoundly. shape his second. term my colleague Charles homans has. been studying the evolution of that. message and what exactly it means to his. supporters and for the country.

it's Thursday July. 18th Charlie thank you for being here in. the studio thanks for having me we first. spoke to Charlie before the attempt on. Trump's life so I've been attending. Trump rallies on and off since late 2016. shortly before he won the presidential. election that year and what was unusual. was that even after he won Trump kept.

doing these rallies he kept going out. and talking to people after he was. inaugurated throughout his first term in. office the man likes a rally he loves a. rally. fantastic he loves being around these. crowds thank you everybody what a great. welcome sit down relax we'll be here for. a while and then he kept doing them even. after he was President doing these sort. of Road Show appearances almost or on. behalf of candidates in the 22 elections. and then he really hits the gas in the. spring of last year as he's ramping up. his presidential campaign right in a.

sense he never really stopped talking. since 2015 2016 he never stopped talking. and I think that quite a long time ago a. lot of people who like him and a lot of. people who don't like him you know both. those groups kind of started to tune him. out so it can be a little tough to. really follow the ways in which what he. said has changed but it has changed in. ways that I think are really important. to pay attention to and to understand. because Donald Trump in 2024 is a very.

different Donald Trump than we saw in. 2016 and understanding that evolution in. his messaging is helpful to understand. how he's selling and justifying a second. term that would really be unlike. anything we've seen potentially in. modern US history so let's talk about. that how in your mind has Trump's. message changed and I think for context. we should go back to the beginning to. 2016 well first let me just acknowledge. what we all know which is that when. Donald Trump came on the scene so much.

of the language he used was really. unprecedented in modern politics is she. crooked or what okay give me a is she. crooked you he insulted people he used a. lot of dog whistles when he talked about. immigrants so with immigration you. better be smart and you better be tough. and they're taking your jobs and you. better be careful you better be careful. and I think that's what you know most. people remember about his message at. that time but I think what we might. forget or what people might have Miss is.

that he also spent a lot of time during. that campaign focused on creating this. sense of a political movement because. this is indeed a movement folks when you. look at this room and you look at. thousands of people outside this is not. just a normal situation this is a. movement and he spoke in the sort of. upbeat and optimistic way and and really. tried to conjure this sense of community. around this us that he was talking about. in his speeches why we're asking Bernie. Sanders voters to join our movement so.

together we can fix the system for all. Americans so. important and he talked a lot in his. speeches about us the media and the. political Elite don't know the pain and. the suffering these people are living. under but I figured it out a long time. ago and that's why I'm here I'm with you. rather than where I was I was on the. other side he didn't Define it really. specifically it was a sort of open. invitation for anyone who was.

disaffected with the status quo of. American politics and the. establishment when one part of America. hurts we all hurt and when one American. suffers an injustice all of America. suffers together we're all. together like you said Charlie it's very. easy I mean I'm guilty of it as much as. anyone of forgetting that there really. was a prominent unifying aspect to some.

of what Donald Trump was saying in 2016. and even into the early months of his. presidency I think that's right I mean. however divisive his rhetoric was and. and however conspiratorial it could be. and however you know xenophobic it could. be the flip side of this was he was. speaking of this new country that he was. aspiring to kind of lead that was really. United under his leadership January. 20th 2007 17 will be remembered as the.

day the people became the rulers of this. nation again and all that was required. for membership in that America was. support of Donald Trump no matter who. you were I love you look at this guy. keep shouting he loves I think that's. right you love me right okay hey you. know what he's a guy but I love him okay. he's a guy but I love. him and so what happen to the US this.

relatively broad us if you support Trump. once Trump actually becomes president so. once he settles into his presidency when. he's going out there and speaking to. people he's still talking about this us. but the tone and the focus really starts. to. [Music]. change what happens is he starts running. into these roadblocks to his presidency. and the roadblocks take several. different forms we're going to fight. this terrible ruling we're going to take.

our case as far as it needs to go. including all the way up to the Supreme. Court early on the courts are blocking. some of the executive orders he's issued. on the border wall immigration the ban. on citizens from Muslim majority. countries from entering the US and the. Russia investigation begins all we hear. about is this phony Russia Witch Hunt. that's all we hear about but it is. really unfair cuz it's like a Witch Hunt. the entire thing has been a Witch Hunt. and becomes this interminable thing that.

just becomes the backdrop to his whole. presidency and they just wanted to take. all of us they wanted to put us in. trouble and it's not working too well. I'll tell. you dis eventually his conversations. with the Ukrainian president lead to his. impeachment in Congress there is no. basis whatsoever for impeachment none uh. and it should never happen it should. never be allowed to happen to another. president again and no nobody should. have to go through that I'm leading in.

the polls they have no idea how they. stop me the only way they can try is. through. [Music]. impeachment and so you hear him growing. more and more frustrated and defensive. in these speeches throughout his time in. office our enemies are desperate to stop. us because they know that we are the. only ones who can stop them they know. that and the focus of his message starts. to become less about the us that he was. talking about before and and more about. these dark forces that are getting in.

his way you know the them today's. Democrat Party is held hostage by. left-wing haters angry mobs deep State. radicals establishment. cronies and their fake news. allies it's the Deep State it's the. Democrats it's the Republicans who still. don't like Trump it's the media they're. all trying to undermine his presidency. and by extension they're trying to. undermine the will will of his millions. of supporters and this reaches a real.

fever pitch this narrative when we get. to his 2020 election loss this election. was rigged everybody knows it I don't. mind if I lose an election but I want to. lose an election fair and square what I. don't want to do is have it stolen from. the American people you know at this. point the enemy that he's talking about. this them isn't just trying to sty him. and hamstring his presidency they've. taken things to a whole new level for. five straight years it has been a con.

job one after another one con job after. another a Non-Stop parade of fake. whistleblowers phony. investigations Twisted conspiracy. theories and very very perverted. lies so the US by this point is very. much receded it's in the background and. I think that brings us more or less up. to now and his 2024 campaign and how is.

Trump defining the them right now in. this. campaign let me answer that by first. describing how Trump launched his 2024. campaign he holds his first rally last. March well thank you very much. everybody and right before this rally. it's reported that he's about to be. indicted in the New York hush money case.

the first of several indictments he's. goingon to face over the course of the. year he decides to hold this rally right. after this news has come out in Waco. Texas which is a town that's Infamous. for a deadly showdown in the 90s between. this religious sect that was amassing. weapons illegally and the federal. government it was this big Fiasco a lot. of people were killed it becomes this. very you know prominent symbol on the. far right and for militia groups of. violent federal government overreach so. by launching his campaign here Trump's. message is is not subtle Biden regime's.

weaponization of law enforcement against. their political opponent is something. straight out of the stalinist. Russian horror show there's really only. one reason that you hold a rally in Waco. and that is to draw a clear line between. your own experience at the hands of the. federal government and what happened in. Waco in the 90s and the weaponization of. law enforcement Banana Republic that's. what we have become let. and as the campaign goes on the language.

that he's using to describe his enemies. is far more extreme really way off the. map of even how Trump has talked before. we pledge to you that we will root out. the Communists Marxist fascist and the. radical left thugs that live like Vermin. within the confines of our country that. lie and steal and cheat on elections and. we'll do anything possible they'll do. anything whether legally or illegally to.

destroy America and to destroy the. American dream the real threat at this. point they're not just his enemies he's. comparing them to Vermin he's using. really the ugliest possible language you. know words he's really never used before. this is the language of kind of. dehumanization yes and his message now. in 2024 is not only are these people. coming after him they're trying to. corrupt the entire country and to. destroy America from.

within and what is Trump saying about. how this dehumanized enemy from within. is now trying to destroy the country in. 2024 the message at the rallies is. really that these forces have continued. to wage this battle on a couple of. different fronts one of them is. immigration and in 2016 he talked about. immigrants as an external threat in 2024.

Biden's conduct on our border is by any. definition a conspiracy to overthrow the. United States of America you know he for. the first time he's really claiming that. this isn't just an invasion as he calls. it it's a deliberate plot by Joe Biden. by the Democratic party to import people. to form a permanent Democratic voting. class who will keep them in power for. the foreseeable future Biden and his. accomplice want to collapse the American.

system nullify the will of the actual. American voters and establish a new base. of power that gives them control for. Generations so the theory Trump is. evoking is that Democrats are. facilitating what they hope will be a. kind of self-perpetuating Democratic. party majority that will win them. elections we should say of course that. there is no evidence that that is true. that's right okay so you said that there. were couple of ways that Trump is.

speaking about this conspiracy this. enemy from within what are the other. ways the other way is that Biden and the. Democrats are wielding the power of this. corrupt weaponized justice. system all of this persecution is only. happening because we're leading so big. in the PSE if I wasn't running right now. or if I was in fifth place I wouldn't be. under indictment I wouldn't have any. problems right now we talked before. about the indictments and how Trump is. alleging that these indictments are.

evidence of the system's corruption he's. now taking that a step further to say. that they're planning to use this. weaponized justice system not only. against Trump but against anyone that. they want if they can do this to me they. can do this to anyone these are bad. people these are in many cases I believe. sick people he's saying look I was. President of the United States and they. still came after me so if they can do. that to me well they can do that to you. they want to silence me because I will. never let them silence.

[Music]. you and in his telling right now he's. just giv up this good life in Mar Lago. and potentially even his freedom for the. people who believe in him and that makes. him a martyr for all these people who. are supporting him and in the end. they're not after me they're after you. and I just happen to be standing in. their way it's my honor to do. so and what all this amounts to is is. Trump saying the only way to prevent. what happened to me from happening to. the rest of you is is to reelect me put.

me back in the white house and I will. make sure this weaponized justice system. does not set its sights on. you that while Joe Biden and the. Democrats accuse him of being this. threat to democracy that they are the. real threat to democracy and you hear. him talking about that very explicitly. the one you know they have like this. standard line Donald Trump is a threat. to democracy some advertising agency. wrote that down I'm not a threat I'm the. one that's ending the threat to. democracy.

[Music]. if you extend the logic of that argument. that Trump is making about Biden's. approach to immigration Biden's approach. to criminal justice and all the. prosecutions that Trump faces it feels. like what Trump is really arguing and. correct me if I'm wrong is that the only. way democracy endures is if he.

reclaims the presidency and if he. doesn't reclaim the presidency then what. we have is something short of democracy. that's right from the beginning of his. presidency Trump has presented himself. as this sort of completion of democracy. the president who really truly brought. democracy to the United States and. returned the country to its people and. what he's arguing now is an extension of. that that all these illegitimate forces. have been trying to undermine that real. American democ y from the beginning and.

now they're converging on his campaign. in an effort to stop him from coming. back what feels complicated about this. is that if I'm listening to Trump. deliver this message it feels like it's. not just a call to reelect him president. but a pretty strong case for Trump doing. whatever he thinks he needs to do as. president that might normally perhaps be. seen as undemocratic or anti-democratic. all the things that our colleagues have. talked about Trump wanting to do. consolidate power taking over agencies.

no president has taken over in the past. firing government bureaucrats who have. never been fired before if they get in. his way and then Trump could argue as he. seems to be right now look I'm doing. these things to safeguard democracy even. if many people look at these actions and. they say no you're actually undermining. democracy that's right the overall. message of his campaign is that America. is facing a threat so grave from. internal enemies that Extraordinary.

Measures might be necessary to stop them. and you know that's what the mission of. this second term will be when we win the. election a little more than a year from. now I will appoint a. real special prosecutor to expose the. Monumental Corruption of the Biden crime. family once and for all sometimes those. Extraordinary Measures are very specific. things the kind of things that our. colleagues have talked about one of them. being appointing what he's called the. real special prosecutor to go after Joe.

Biden and unlike the Witch Hunt that. I've been going through ever since we. came down that beautiful escalator in. Trump Tower they will be properly. prosecuted I promise you that they will. be looked at but other times he'll speak. in more general terms about the need for. Retribution and revenge and leave it for. people to decide what he means by that. in 2016 I declared I am your voice today. I add I am your Warrior I am your.

Warrior I am your Justice I am your. Justice and I took a lot of heat for. this one but I only mean it in the. proper way for those who have been. wronged and betrayed of which there are. many people out there that have been. wronged and betrayed I am your. retribution I am your retribution I am. your retribution we will take care of it. not going to let this we will take care. of. not going to let it.

[Music]. [Applause]. [Music]. happen and so the question is how are. his supporters and voters receiving that. message how literally do they take his. message about these threats to the. country and the need for. Retribution when he says all these. things that we're talking about here. what are people actually hearing. [Music]. we'll be right.

back hello how are you um found a little. the one tree to stand the one tree is. but we are here a few weeks ago Charlie. took those questions about Trump's. message directly to his supporters at a. trump rally in Philadelphia which he. attended with daily producers ASA chur V. and Eric krupky oh yeah Red Hats red. flags red shirts red umbrellas so what. did Trump's supporters tell you about.

what they are hearing in his message. it's worth saying that almost. universally the first thing that the. people that we talked to at this rally. brought up was not these threats to. democracy that Donald Trump is talking. about all the time One issues are. important to you in the. election my issues are probably like the. financial issues and um I feel the. economy yeah the economy and uh you know. it was the issue that's sort of central. to so many elections the economy you go. to the grocery store everything's insane.

I mean inflation is out of this world. there are crazy prices everywhere and I. think they were not created by accident. they were created in this. Administration and to them inflation is. out of control and it's all Joe Biden's. fault think and Donald Trump is the one. to fix it and what would you want him to. do for you um help with inflation right. now because uh Middle Class People Like. Us are hard it's harder for us to live. our r gone up $400 in the last what 3.

months we just paid a $900 light bill. man so anything would help because he's. trying for us the other thing they talk. about constantly is immigration the. Border crisis to me is a very big deal I. don't feel like we you know safe at all. anymore and I really think that. deportations really do need to happen at. least of those that are you know here. that have committed crimes and and you. notice is when you hear people talk.

about immigration they're often talking. about it in terms that really mirror. what Trump says about it in his speeches. I think it's very obvious why they're. doing this it's very obvious they want. to get votes you uh it's really. facilitating an invasion and it's it's. quite frankly. [Music]. treasonous so what you're hearing is. that Trump's message about threats and. retribution it may not be his overriding.

appeal which is not to say that it's not. part of his appeal though right I think. that's right and these things aren't. really mutually exclusive you know when. you keep talking when you get deeper. into the conversation it's clear that. these messages really are resonating and. shaping their view of this election and. the stakes of this election almost. everyone Echoes Trump's claims about. these internal threats facing the. country one guy we talked to about this. was named Tom turn excuse me uh my name. is Eric I'm with the New York Times you.

mind if I asked you a few questions sure. from Philadelphia in his early 20s yes. uh computer science nice okay and when. we met him he was buying this Trump. t-shirt what does it say can you just. read it up for me yes sir it says I'm. voting for The convicted felon godamn. right I am man make America great again. you start with your and he repeated. Trump's claims that the justice system. was being weaponized against him all in. an effort to keep him from winning in. November um the easiest way to shut. somebody up is to make them out to be a. CRI make them out to be crazy so I think.

that persecution is this is just another. tactic at uh just drowning out you know. what he has to say and uh taking his. platform away from him he said he did. believe that the Deep state was. conspiring to get Trump um you know. everybody's conspiring at the top so. it's a battle between both sides so I. don't think it's but despite all that. Tom says he's uncomfortable with the. idea of giving Trump the kind of power. as president that Trump has suggested. that he should have for example when it. comes to Trump's desire to have a. special PR. go after people like Joe Biden you know.

Tom just doesn't think it's right answer. is I don't know and I hope not though I. hope not it wouldn't be fair you know. can you say more about that why wouldn't. it be fair uh it's not I mean it's not. fair to for for a president to have the. power to appoint an agency like Ci or. FBI to directly Target you know like any. other candidate and we heard this from a. lot of people like this isn't something. that should happen in a democratic. country and I don't think that political. persecution in any type of form or. aiming to imprison political opponents. is the American way I think that's very. representative of uh you know more.

communist countries so so you wouldn't. want to see him do that um no and. interestingly he's also not that. concerned that Trump would even take. those kinds of steps in the first place. and he points to Trump's first term as. evidence of that dictate a lot but I. don't think that if Trump had that power. and he had the you know ability I'm. going to put you in jail almost like. when he said he's going to put Hillary. in jail didn't happen you know it didn't. happen so do I think he would do it I. don't if he did it I don't think it. would be. I don't why do you think he he said that.

he would put Hillary in jail I think I. think the people wanted to hear it I. can't say whether or not that he. actually you know intended to do that um. think Tom is basically saying that. because Trump didn't prosecute Hillary. Clinton in his first term even though he. said he wanted to that that's evidence. that he was just bloviating he was. exaggerating when he talks now about. Prosecuting his enemies but what we know. is that Trump did in in fact try to.

prosecute Clinton in his first term but. people stood in his way and told him no. you can't do that but a second term. based on our colleagues reporting will. ensure that those kinds of people will. not be around to hold him. back right and this is something you. hear it rallies a lot I mean often. people will take the fact that Trump. didn't succeed at doing something in his. first term as sort of evid that he's not. going to try it in the second term even.

if it's something that he did try to do. in the first term and was talked out of. or or wasn't able to do for one reason. or another a kind of magical thinking is. going on here a little bit that he's not. going to do the things he said he did. just because he didn't succeed the first. time right and to Tom and to a lot of. others I've met at Trump rallies all the. stuff Trump says is just political. theater how how do you differentiate. between you know when Trump is saying. something just to play to the crowd or. when he's being serious like is there. you can tell I mean so uh I suppose like.

in order to differentiate it it's kind. of hard because uh when people come here. I don't think that they're looking to. differentiate I don't really think that. they're looking to to separate what's. true and what's not I think the whole. idea of the rally is just to fire people. up and I think that's that's a big how. often do you encounter supporters who. take Trump quite literally on this. subject those people are definitely. there they're not in the majority I. would say of the people that I've met. but they're certainly there there mhm. you know they see the country as facing.

very dire threats and they think Trump. should do whatever it takes to deal with. those threats let's do it fast I'm not. going to miss the boss do you know when. there's well he's supposed to come out. at seven right yes okay for example. there's Ed Young from Brick New Jersey. he's heavily involved in the local. Republican party he's a member of his. County Republican Party Committee and he. said he's been do a lot of trump rallies. today is my 78th Trump rally 78th that's. right and he really wants Trump to see. retribution he talked about this a lot. with us he has a really Clear Vision of.

what that would look like when he gets. reelected I hope to God it's No More Mr. Nice Guy I hope we have a reckoning a. reckoning what would that look like uh. well you know this is my fantasy what. this what this country really needs I. mean it this won't happen my fantasy we. need a nberg style trial for our country. and and pretty much every elected. Democrat should be put on trial for. treason and if they're convicted. punished just like the Nazis at nurg I.

hope to God finally we're going to see. some criminal evil treasonous Democrats. arrested and sentenced you know I'd like. to see do so here's a voter saying to. you and I guess to Trump you have my. permission to deliver on this message. yeah and he's going further than Trump. has even in describing sort of what. retribution might look like uh but you. know we met other people at the rally. who were less Brash than Ed but were.

just as surprising about what steps. Trump should take mhm and give me an. example of that one was this guy that we. met a little bit after the rally had. ended his name was Tom to okay was this. your first Trump rally this was my first. Trump rally what' you think he's also in. his early 20s from downington. Pennsylvania Revolution I really think. that the government needs to realize. like how out of touch they are with what. the people really want you know um and I. think Trump's pretty in touch I think. he's I think that's why people like him. so much you think he's kind of a. necessary shock to the system to yeah I.

think so I think I think he he so we. asked him about the changes that Trump. wants to make some of the things that my. colleagues have reported on here you. know plans to fire civil servants and. replace them with Trump loyalists know I. I wouldn't be surprised if there was. like a totalitarian aspect to the plan. where it's like yeah obviously you know. if you're going to drain the swamp and. then you're going to put new people in. you're going to put in people that agree. with you though so like I don't. understand what they expect him to do if. he's going to drain the swamp right if. going to drain all people out what he's. going to do put in people that he. disagrees with like that makes no sense.

and not only is he into that idea he. takes it to his logical conclusion that. you know maybe we do need some form of. authoritarianism or dictatorship um and. if everybody agrees in the government. things get done and then it just comes. down to whether or not the people who. are getting things done care about the. people or not right and I mean and. that's also the whole thing with like. monarchies and things like that. dictatorships like you can have like a. wise and just king or you can have a. corrupt and foolish King and if if you. have a wise and just King to be honest. it it'll probably run better than than.

any other government because you can get. things done fast but then if you have a. corrupt King you have the worst. government on the planet and and. overstepped reach and no rights and. things like that so and Trump is a wise. and just King in your eyes uh I think. he's somewhere in the middle and I think. we have checks and balances in America. so I don't think that he can take full. totalitarian control but um I'm not. totally sold on whether or not you know. he is 100% for the people or anything. like that I think he's the best chance. we got. um as you're saying this I am reminded.

of what we said in the first half of our. conversation about how a way to. safeguard democracy to some Trump. supporters is to allow him to challenge. slash undermine our traditional Norms of. democracy because that would allow Trump. over time to preserve American democracy. which is kind of headyy and it doesn't. necess neily add up right I mean this. goes back to this idea that Trump has.

been saying all along which is that he. himself is this sort of perfect. realization of American democracy and. maybe it's necessary for him to act. outside of that democracy in order to. save. it and this is where the movement that. Trump has been building comes in this. us something that I've really noticed. going to a lot of these rallies is that. whether or not they're taking him. seriously and many of them are and some. of them aren't Trump supporters have.

this real bond with him you know they. love him and they trust him and they. trust that he's not going to abuse this. power well Charlie thank you very much. thanks for having. me just this dude's got so much just. love for the country I never seen. somebody that willing to the stuff that. he's going through you know what I mean. he can just kick his heels up and you. know what I mean it's hard to make a. billionaire president into a victim but.

it's happening I mean really is so it's. really nice to just feel like you know. the things that my grandfather and my. grandparents love so much about this. country are going to be saved Donald. Trump's our first Rockstar superhero. president he is the real Tony Stark he's. president Iron Man he really is he's a. superhero. [Music].

hey Shannon good morning to you the. Trump campaign says they are full steam. ahead with the RNC here in Milwaukee. they're going to be beefing up their. security at all their campaign offices. with 24/7 armed officers now that memo a. lot of people who are pro Trump have. been saying that this is the Playbook of. the day whether it's a deep state or you. know some shadowy interest in the. government first they try to cancel you. the second thing that they try to do is. they try to convict you of something and. then the third thing that they try to do.

is they try to kill you and that's just. what happened with Trump and he's. fighting on literally pumping his fist. and saying fight fight on there's. something deeper here this is a. spiritual battle we're locked in right. now here in the United States and he's. at the tip of the Spear of. [Music]. it Donald Trump is scheduled to address. the Republican National conven mention. tonight around 900.

[Music]. p.m. we'll be right. back here's what else you need to. another day the Democratic Rebellion. against President Biden intensified on. Wednesday Party leaders successfully. pushed to delay his nomination by a week. in order to prolong the debate over his. viability and the highest profile.

Democrat to date called on Biden to step. aside that Democrat representative Adam. Schiff of California said that he. doubted that Biden could defeat Donald. Trump in. November Schiff becomes the 23rd. Congressional Democrat to ask Biden to. end his. campaign and FBI officials have told. members of Congress that the gunman who. tried to kill Trump used his cell phone.

to search for images of both Trump and. Biden and to search for the dates of. trump appearances and the Democratic. National Convention most politically. motivated assassins leave a discernable. trail of views but so far there is no. evidence that the shooter in this case. had strong partisan feelings.

today's episode was produced by AA chur. and Eric krupy it was edited by Michael. benois and Rachel quer with help from. Lindsay Garrison was researched with. help from Susan Lee contains original. music by Marian Lozano Dan Powell Diane. Wong Rowan nisto and Pat mccusker and. was engineered by Alyssa Moxley our. theme music is by Jim runberg and Ben. work of Wonderland special thanks to.

Nick Pitman and Michael. [Music]. Bender that's it for the daily I'm. Michael babbaro see you tomorrow. [Music].