Biggest takeaways from Trump’s RNC speech



There’s something in the air at this year’s RNC — something that Glenn Beck hasn’t felt in a long time.

According to him, this is a “different party” than we’ve seen before, and that’s because the man who spoke on stage last night — the man who will lead the party and likely the nation — is a “very, very different Donald Trump.”

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“I’ve never seen him like this; I’ve never heard him speak this way; I’ve never seen him take the stage the way he did,” says Glenn, adding that this reformed Trump comes across as “humbled,” a stark contrast to his typical bombastic persona.

Trump’s newfound humility is almost certainly the result of nearly being murdered on live television. Coming face to face with death has clearly awakened the nominee’s spiritual side, as he claimed that “God saved [his] life” again in his RNC speech last night.

“Now, there's something else that happened that I haven't heard a lot of people talk about,” says Glenn. “Donald Trump has kind of shifted gears into this zone of, ‘I know what I know, I know what I feel, and I know who the other side is and they're dismissed.”’

“He's not fighting them like he was before,” he continues, adding that “it's almost as if [Trump] feels that the outcome is already there, and he doesn't need to push the envelope anymore; he just needs to say the truth.”

Another uncharacteristic thing he did was “[write] this speech himself,” which Glenn found to be “riveting material.”

He also said that he was “not going to mention [Joe Biden’s] name anymore.”

“To me that may be lowering the temperature a little bit,” says Glenn, but it’s also perhaps Trump’s way of acknowledging that “Joe Biden is not going to be the nominee.”

“Why waste his hour … 90 minutes of television making a case against a guy who's not going to be running?” he asks.

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'Blaze News Tonight' RECAP: Elon Musk's Trump donation, Secret Service failure, and a Jan. 6 victory



In the wake of Trump’s near-assassinaton, Elon Musk has not only endorsed Donald Trump for president but has also pledged $45 million a month to a Trump-affiliated PAC, likely making him an even bigger target for the left. Corrupt Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.) has been convicted on 16 counts, leading several Democrat senators to call for his resignation, even threatening to expel him if he refuses to step down. Next, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) gives her thoughts in an exclusive interview on Trump’s decision to appoint JD Vance as his running mate, as well as Biden’s calls for unity. Next, former Navy SEAL and security expert Erik Prince joins the show to shed light on the newly surfaced Iranian assassination plot, as well as the failure of the Secret Service not only at the rally but in general. However, there is a hopeful development in one January 6 case. A federal judge ordered the release of January 6 prisoner John Strand. Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker calls in to discuss the ruling.

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Senior politics editor and Washington correspondent for Blaze Media Christopher Bedford joins Jill and the panel on “Blaze News Tonight” from day two of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to discuss Elon Musk’s recent political moves and Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez’s conviction.

In regard to Musk’s donation pledge, Bedford says, “My gosh, he’s brave.”

Not only did Musk pledge “$45 million a month, a staggering amount of money,” to a Trump super PAC, but he also expressed his disapproval of Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bill that permits children to transition behind their parents’ backs by vowing to “move his space company to Texas.”

Further, Democrat Senator Bob Menendez, who Bedford says is “one of the more openly corrupt senators” and “an incredibly arrogant politician,” has been convicted on “federal corruption charges.”

Even “the Democrats just want him to go away,” says Bedford.

Further, Julio Rosas, Blaze Media’s national correspondent, who is also attending the RNC convention, spoke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) about her thoughts regarding Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance.

“It’s the direction I want the party to go in, and that’s going to be America first,” Greene said of Vance.

To Biden’s calls for “unity,” Greene was candid: “If Joe Biden and the Democrats were serious about unity, he would completely stop the weaponized Department of Justice that he has enabled, he would reel back Merrick Garland, he would drop all the charges against President Trump, [and] he would release political prisoners who are being held in prison for years now for protesting election fraud.”

Secret Service failure and Kimberly Cheatle’s refusal to step down

The Secret Service is on high alert after reports of an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump have surfaced. Former Navy SEAL and security expert Erik Prince joins the show to shed light on the threat.

“I think this is a desperate effort to deflect from a completely botched job of protecting the leading Republican candidate and front-runner for the next presidency,” Prince tells Jill, adding that he doesn’t give the threat “a whole lot of credibility.”

“We suffer from a from a whole collection of federal agencies that are bloated, obese, unaccountable, and ineffective, and we continue to steer away from a merit-based, execution-based excellent society to our detriment,” he continues, noting that had Trump been killed, “we could have literally torn the country asunder.”

When Prince points to the lack of merit in our federal agencies, he is, at least in part, referring to Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle’s DEI initiative to ensure 30% of the force is made up of women.

Even though Cheatle has technically “[taken] responsibility” for Trump’s near-assassination, she has nonetheless refused to step down from her position.

While the FBI has sworn to investigate Saturday’s unfortunate events, Jill questions the authenticity of their claims, given “the way that the federal agencies have handled Donald Trump-related issues in the past.”

Prince agrees, stating he has “zero confidence in the federal government being able to investigate itself.”

A January 6 victory

The tides have turned for one January 6 defendant, John Strand, who was ordered to be released by a federal judge this July.

Blaze News investigative journalist and fellow January 6 victim Steve Baker joins the show to explain the details of Strand’s case. Steve tells Jill and the panel that Strand is one of the more “high-profile cases” of all the January 6 defendants.

Strand attended the Capitol on January 6 because he was the friend and bodyguard of Dr. Simone Gold, who was deplatformed during the height of COVID for recommending “alternate therapies that were not part of the approved narrative from the administration.”

Dr. Gold was scheduled to speak at the Capitol that day — an event that was “legally permitted.” When the Oathkeepers and Strand escorted Dr. Gold to her speaking location, however, the chaos had already begun.

“John Strand and Simone Gold did not participate in violence; they did not participate in breaching the Capitol building whatsoever,” says Baker, “but when the doors opened, they, like so many hundreds and even thousands of others, did in fact go inside peacefully, and she actually decided to deliver her prepared remarks there in the Rotunda.”

After Dr. Gold delivered her speech, she and Strand “peacefully left.” However, both were “arrested very early on” and were “charged not only with a handful of misdemeanors,” but also with the “infamous 1512 obstruction of an official preceding felony, which carried up to 20 years potential imprisonment.”

While Gold ended up “taking a plea deal" involving “60 days in prison,” Strand decided that “he was going to be a warrior” and fight the charges. In the end, he was sentenced to “32 months in prison.”

“They committed exactly the same crimes, but because he wasted the government's time and he put them through the hassle of having to prepare for a trial … Simone got two months in prison and he got 32 months in prison,” says Baker.

However, the Supreme Court’s “overturning of 1512" led to Strand’s release.

'Blaze News Tonight' RECAP: Implications of Trump’s near-assassination, JD Vance, and eerie parallels between Trump and Roosevelt



Last weekend, President Trump came within a literal inch of death during an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania. The following Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed his classified documents case due to the unconstitutionality of Jack Smith's involvement. BlazeTV host of “Stu Does America” Stu Burguiere joins "Blaze News Tonight" to discuss the historic last few days for Donald Trump and what they could mean come November. Next, Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford and Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas tune in from the RNC convention in Milwaukee to discuss President Trump's VP pick — Ohio Senator JD Vance — and the anti-Trump protests raging in the streets outside the convention. Next, the panel discusses the group of attendees at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally who witnessed the shooter mount the roof and who called for help but were ignored. Former intelligence analyst for the Department of Defense and chief researcher for Glenn Beck Jason Buttrill joins to break down the failure of the Secret Service to protect former President Donald Trump from danger. Lastly, BlazeTV host of "The Glenn Beck Program" and Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck joins the show to discuss the parallels between the attempted assassination of Trump and that of President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Historic days for Donald Trump

At a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, former president Donald Trump was nearly assassinated when a shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire from a nearby rooftop, hitting Trump in the ear. Two days later, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Trump’s classified documents case, ruling that special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed.

“This is probably one of the craziest sequences of events that I've ever seen in politics,” says BlazeTV’s Stu Burguiere.

“To just have a bullet go through your ear, you're an inch away from dying, to have the presence of mind to stand up there and raise your fist and show America that … not only did this not hurt you, but we're going to keep going is one of the most incredible moments — the most bada** moment — I've ever seen,” he tells Jill.

According to Stu, Trump’s bold display of courage will likely result in “a bump” for him, meaning that people who have never considered voting for him before may find themselves “crossing that line for the first time because there is something really, truly American” about “the way [Trump] reacted.”

Further, Stu suspects the mainstream media will soften toward Trump for a while and conveniently “forget about all the rhetoric” it’s been spreading about his similarity to Hitler.

“You call somebody Hitler over and over and over again, it's going to create an impression among some unstable people that the correct, moral thing to do is to take him out,” says Stu, suggesting that the media’s rhetoric is at least partially to blame for Trump’s almost-assassination.

Republicans unite at Milwaukee RNC Convention, anti-Trump protests rage on

According to Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford, currently attending the RNC convention in Milwaukee, the events that occurred over the weekend seem to be unifying the right.

“The Republicans were already set to walk into this week more unified than the Democratic Party by an absolute long shot, but the historic deadly attack and the attempted assassination that we watched on television on Saturday has even heightened that,” says Bedford, adding that the spectrum of Republicans coming together ranges from warmongering Nikki Haley to 50 Cent.

As for Trump’s VP pick — Ohio Senator JD Vance — Bedford alleges that the majority of convention attendees seem “thrilled with this decision,” but there are certain individuals, “some of the old Tea Party conservatives,” for example, who are not so thrilled.

“What choosing Vance says — a young senator, 39 [years old], in his first term, a rising star, telegenic, intelligent — is it allows the MAGA movement to know that there's some kind of future, a potential successor, after Trump's second term in office if he wins,” Bedford explains.

For all the unity among Republicans, however, there seems to be equal solidarity among Trump-haters. Footage shows mass anti-Trump protests in the streets of Milwaukee, where Trump-Hitler rhetoric has not waned at all.

Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas tells Jill that in the press conference that followed the march on the RNC, protest leaders were “denouncing Trump,” likely realizing that his “popularity [is] rising in the aftermath” of the assassination attempt.

“One of the speakers did say that, generally speaking, she was against any assassination attempt on any politician, but then she caveated that by saying it's undeniable that Trump's rhetoric, policies, and actions has led to the legitimization of political violence by white nationalists,” Rosas reports.

Secret Service failure?

Police forces and Secret Service at the rally where President Trump was shot have come under intense scrutiny after a group of bystanders witnessed the armed shooter mount the roof but were ignored when they reported the threat.

Jill plays the footage of one witness recounting to the BBC’s Gary O'Donoghue that he “[pointed] at the guy crawling up the roof” to police and Secret Service and even told police that “there's guy on the roof with a rifle,” but nothing was done until after Crooks had already started firing.

He also asked: “Why is there not Secret Service on all of these roofs?”

Former intelligence analyst for the Department of Defense and chief researcher for Glenn Beck Jason Buttrill calls the situation “ridiculous” and “chaotic.”

Jason, who’s “worked alongside Secret Service,” says that he “cannot fathom how this happened,” as Secret Service — especially when the protective operation involves a president — will “show up weeks in advance” to conduct a “site survey” for the purpose of developing a “multi-tiered security plan.”

Part of that security plan involves setting up “firing positions” that fall “outside the perimeter,” completely debunking the narrative of the Secret Service director who claimed that “they’re not responsible outside that perimeter.”

All considered, it seems highly unlikely that the roof from which the shooter fired was not considered a high-risk area by the Secret Service prior to the rally.

Parallels between Teddy Roosevelt & Donald Trump’s almost-assassinations

Glenn Beck, a lover of history, couldn’t help but notice several parallels between Donald Trump’s near-death experience and that of Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.

When Roosevelt was shot, the bullet “didn't go into his lungs” but rather “lodged between two ribs because the speech and his glasses,” which he’d put into his front coat pocket, “caught that bullet,” says Glenn, adding that Roosevelt “went on to give the speech” despite his wound.

“The way Donald Trump handled the assassination attempt is almost identical to what Teddy Roosevelt did,” he tells Jill. “When Donald Trump got up and he said, ‘Wait, wait, wait,’ and then he looked at the crowd and held his fist up and he said ‘fight.’ I ... immediately thought of Theodore Roosevelt.”

Jill agrees, adding that Trump “never backs away from a fight,” which is also “what Teddy Roosevelt is known for.”

As for Trump’s decision to select JD Vance as his running mate, Glenn says, “I think it was a really good move.”

Vance, according to Glenn, has the potential to carry on Trump’s legacy and counteract the left’s narrative that Trump will refuse to leave office.

“You could interpret this as … Donald Trump saying, ‘I know I'm only going to be there four years,”’ says Glenn, meaning that Vance, if he runs for president in 2028, could actually accomplish much of what Trump set out to do — things that Trump knows are impossible to achieve in one term.

The biggest questions we NEED answered after Trump assassination attempt



The gunman responsible for shooting former President Donald Trump may have been neutralized, but there are still dozens of questions regarding the assassination attempt.

And Glenn Beck wants answers.

First, the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was somehow mysteriously able to access a secured area without tipping off the Secret Service — while supporters in the crowd were pointing him out before the shooting began.

“How does someone sneak a rifle onto the grounds? How does someone even know that building is there? How is [it] that he was acting so weird and pacing in front of the metal detectors? They tried to follow him, but oops, he got away,” Glenn says, conspiratorially.

“How could the kid possibly even think that the highest ground at the venue wouldn’t even be watched?” He adds, “and a handy ladder just happened to be there.”

“And nobody in the Secret Service, none of the drones, none of the things that we pay millions of dollars for, none of that caught him,” he says, noting that it’s not like they didn’t have help from the crowd, who were yelling that a man with a rifle was climbing up a ladder onto a roof before Crooks got his first shot off.

“Why did the sniper have him in his sights for over a minute before he took a shot? Why did a cop climb up the ladder to look around? When the guy pointed a gun at him he then ducked down and came down off the ladder,” Glenn says, adding, “Did he call anyone to warn?”

Not only are the circumstances surrounding the shooter himself interesting, but the Secret Service agents did not look like they were in charge of the situation.

“How is it the secret service has a bodyguard,” Glenn begins, “who is a woman that doesn’t even reach Trump’s nipples? How is she going to guard the president’s body with hers? How is it another female secret agent pulled her gun out a good four minutes too late, then looks around not knowing what to do, and then couldn’t get it back into the holster because she’s a Melissa McCarthy body double?”

Meanwhile, our country is almost $40 trillion in debt.

“You can’t hire a few guys to make sure our candidates are safe?” Glenn asks, bewildered.

“Now, Joe Biden is also saying that we shouldn’t make assumptions about the motive of the shooter. Well, I think we can assume one thing: He wanted to kill the Republican candidate for president. Can we agree on that?” He adds.


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While the media suggests there’s a mountain of evidence against Donald Trump in his hush money trial, the actual evidence tells a different story.

While Trump may have 34 counts of falsifying business records against him, they’re all for one payment. That payment is $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, which he is accused of covering up.

“There is no mountain of evidence that is standing in the way of anything other than a mistrial,” Glenn Beck says.

“How do you get to 34 counts when it’s basically one payment?” Stu Burguiere asks.

There were a total of 11 checks written, which landed Trump with 11 counts, which Stu says is “totally stretching.”

“It’s one payment broken into 11 times. Okay, that’s BS,” he says, noting that Michael Cohen then submitted 11 invoices, which takes Trump to 22 counts.

“So again, it’s still just one payment they’ve broken into 22 different charges,” Stu explains.

When the payments then went through in the general ledger for Trump’s trust, he used 12 entries to signify it. That represents another 12 counts against the former president.

“Anyone can recognize they’re trying to blow this number up to make it look more like it was a real series of criminal activity rather than just one thing,” Stu says, adding that “you can absolutely have a problem with that one payment, that is totally fine.”


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Glenn calls Donald Trump “the most persecuted man in ... American history,” and it’s no wonder since the former president has been indicted four times and now arrested.

Rumors have been circulating about how Trump would run his 2024 presidential campaign if he’s behind bars, but he joins Glenn to explain why he thinks that scenario is highly unlikely.

“They are serious about trying to put you in prison,” says Glenn. “Can I ask, will you and can you run a campaign from a jail cell?”

“Well, I don’t think that’s ever happening. We have a great case,” Trump explains, adding that all the charges brought against him are “a scam.”

The former president also notes that he has “the biggest lead [he’s] ever had,” especially after the Tucker interview that garnered 261 million views, “which is an all-time record,” he tells Glenn.

There’s also the mug shot to consider. In most contexts, a mug shot would tank someone’s reputation and career, but in Trump’s situation, it became instantaneously “iconic” and only served to inflate his popularity.

“I was doing well before this stuff, but it’s really driven my poll numbers up,” Trump says.


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