Did the Media Just Try to Cover Up a Presidential Assassination? (I Can't Believe This is Real)

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they dissect the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. This in-depth discussion covers the media's initial attempts to downplay the event, the political implications, and broader concerns about the state of American democracy. The Collins family offers their unique perspective on this shocking event, its aftermath, and what it means for the upcoming election.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] It's no longer the deep state is a conspiracy. We are now at the deep state is real and is running for president.

Simone Collins: But I think you also have to get back to that reality.

People are okay.

Malcolm Collins: And so now the question is the deep state actually responsible for these felony charges? Are they responsible for the assassination attempt? And what scares me is I'm leaning towards no, I'm leaning towards all just malfeasance and stupidity and inaction, but I think it's plausibly yes.

Simone Collins: Yeah, but people are okay with that. That's what scares me if somebody did shoot something at another person, what should happen to them?

Octavian Collins: You know.

They can get hurt.

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Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone.

What a crazy day to be alive and an American. And. For you to be running for office in the middle of all of this this is again one of those moments so weird that this happened so soon after that I think a [00:01:00] pivotal debate, which in many ways felt like a turning point in American history. And then you have this.

Simone Collins: Yeah, this summer really puts the crazy in

Malcolm Collins: democracy. The crazy in democracy. So yeah, we are going to go over a few things here. One that we'll go over later is I want to give a full account of what actually happened and how it happened, because I notice that the newspapers have done a very poor job of that.

Two, I want to talk about that within the context of this current political battle and what this means. Yeah. But the thing I want to start with because it's what genuinely chilled me the most and for those who don't know I don't know who you are. But somebody just tried to assassinate Trump. And they it was a 20 year old That means that this person would have been 12 when Trump first came into office they shot at Trump they just grazed him his ear but two

Simone Collins: people were killed, including the shooter and two people were critically [00:02:00] injured and Trump had his ear pierced by a bullet.

Malcolm Collins: Two critical injures one victim deaths, one shooter deaths, and then Trump's ear being grazed and obviously the optics of this for Trump are fantastic in terms of him coming out, shouting, fight fight, fight, you know, I think a lot of people after that debate uh, this is something that I've heard in my friend circles.

Said, Oh, they're going to try to have him assassinated. You just, I thought they were crazy. They're like two weeks.

Simone Collins: And literally like in a campaign strategy call recently, maybe just a couple of days ago, Biden said that we have to put Trump in the crosshairs, which now is just such bad wording.

Oh, and

Malcolm Collins: I remember when there was the attempted shooting or there was a shooting of some democratic representatives and somebody had said something like that, or there was a time when The Sarah Palin used crosshairs in one of her political ads,

Simone Collins: And then Gabby Giffords was shot, and this was about 15 years ago.

Another politician, if you're not in the U. S. And then later Sarah Palin actually sued someone who blamed her for this. So I, I. I believe a media publication for defamation [00:03:00] or libel. But the left

Malcolm Collins: was like, she needs to withdraw. She needs to like, that is how seriously they took this.

And yet they treat this like nothing when it's Biden. And when it's a president who was almost assassinated. We need to the thing that was most chilling to me about this because I want to start with this was what you found Simone in terms of the newspapers trying to hide from the public that this had happened.

So can you go over some of the initial headlines?

Simone Collins: Yeah. So Trump escorted away after loud noises at PA rally from the Washington post, CNN, loud noises at PA rally, loud noises. CNN reported secret service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally, which just makes it sound like, he was tremendously old, like Biden or something.

Took a spill which is not great. And then here's USA Today. Trump removed from stage by Secret Service after loud noises startles [00:04:00] former president crowd.

Malcolm Collins: Startles former president? Somebody's head friggin exploded on stage. Now, in case you're like a lefty here and you're like, oh, it was very You know, like it was a loud thing.

Lots of people didn't know what was fully going on. You need to keep in mind a few things. Uh, one person was, like, there's blood everywhere. It was very clear in the moment it was a someone in

Simone Collins: the actual bleachers Did get shot in the head and did die. So that is important to note.

So some people are literally around a dead person. Trump's ear was grazed. . And what was I think really interesting was, I was listening to some Australian coverage of this because we're recording this fewer than 24 hours since this actually happened.

And the Australian coverage, it was so funny. They're like these Americans, guns are really big in America. So they've been, training with school shooter drillings for most of their lives. So everyone knew immediately what to do once the shooter. Started firing, everyone hit the floor, but they also recovered really quickly.

Within moments they were chanting USA after adjusting to it. So there's [00:05:00] painting Americans as these people like, Oh it's an, it's like that South Park school shooting episode,

Stanley, well, do you want to tell your father about what happened at school today? I flunked my math quiz. No, the other thing. What other thing? Oh, the school shooting? Yes, the school shooting! Oh yeah, some kids shot up the school. Was it you? No.

Did you get shot? No. Oh. Well, what's this about failing a math quiz?

Malcolm Collins: It seems that almost everyone immediately knew this was an active shooting.

So much so that the BBC was doing a piece on this. So we'll get to this in a second. But it's actually really important that everyone in the crowd realized this was an active shooting very quickly. And reporters who were not part of the American media establishment and didn't know they were supposed to spin this as a non active shooting situation, specifically the BBC.

immediately reported this as an act of shooting. Oh, yeah. Instead of a loud

Simone Collins: noise.

Malcolm Collins: Instead of a loud noise. One of

Simone Collins: our friends even sent us a picture [00:06:00] of the bullet that was captured mid frame. You can see a line in the air. Yeah. And I wrote back, I'm like, that's a very fascinating looking loud noise.

Malcolm Collins: But. This matters because we lived in an environment up until recently where the U. S. media was able to get away with this kind of lying to the American public.

Simone Collins: Yeah. And I think now there were this was a rally. So finally, we're in a situation where there were hu