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A screenshot compilation of four social media posts (on X/Twitter, formatted as reposted/embedded tweets, each with a "Follow" button, a verified checkmark, and a small "government official" icon next to the name) from Republican senators, all discussing building a White House ballroom and political violence. The posters shown are Rick Scott (@SenRickScott), Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks), Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn), and Tim Sheehy (@TimSheehyMT), each shown with a small circular profile photo.

Text in image: Rick Scott ✓ 🏛 @SenRickScott Follow It's time for the Democrats to show up and start acting like AMERICANS. STOP defunding DHS. STOP blocking the White House ballroom. STOP elevating people who call for political violence. Stop letting TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME guide every single decision you make. Enough is enough! Senator Jim Banks ✓ 🏛 @SenatorBanks Follow Rogue district judges are putting the president's life at risk. It's time for Congress to stop them and build the ballroom!!! Sen. Marsha Blackburn ✓ 🏛 @MarshaBlackburn Follow Build the ballroom. Tim Sheehy ✓ 🏛 @TimSheehyMT Follow This week I will introduce and seek unanimous consent for legislation providing express approval for construction of a Presidential ballroom. It is an embarrassment to the strongest nation on earth that we cannot host gatherings in our nation's capital, including ones attended by our President, without the threat of violence and attempted assassinations. There is no place for political violence in America. Unfortunately, it seems, too many people believe trying to kill our President and members of our government is acceptable. A President of any party should be able to host events in a secure area without attendees worrying about their safety. This is common sense. Let's get it done.

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>> Hello and welcome to another edition of Prop Carson's What in the World. I for one am quite thankful that our president and his cabinet are okay. Donald Trump returned to the White House Correspondence Dinner and a madman no king supporter who gave money to Kamala Harris campaign and rallied against Trump using the language of Democrats and attempted to storm the ballroom to kill the president. And MS Now has no clue about his motivation. >> We do not yet know what the shooter's intended target was, yes, obviously. Okay, so we don't know what the intended target was. >> This was an event that was well publicized that the president would be attending. >> And now we know the intended target. >> He has not attended this event since 2015. >> And there's a reason why there that he was the intended target. >> But it was a room of over 1,000 people, there were reporters, there were lawmakers. >> He might have been there to go after the guy who had the basket with the bread and the tongs. And then he's like, the guy didn't want pumpernickel and like, how dare you give me pumpernickel? >> Nobody likes pumpernickel. >> Business leaders, they were members of Congress. >> Could have been a bartender for all we know. I asked for Chardonnay. >> Members of the administration, and yes, of course, they were the president and first lady Melania Trump. But we do not yet know who specifically was the target. >> The alleged gunman Cole Allen wrote a manifesto where he said of the president, I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, coat my hands with his crimes. All of this verbiage has come from the mouths of Democrats over the past decade, intensifying since Trump was reelected. Democrat JB Raskin still acted clueless when asked about it by CNN's Dana Bash. >> You have, and as many of your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. >> You know, like a fascist, white supremacist, racist. >> And do you think twice about that when something like this happens? >> What rhetoric do you have in mind? >> Please. >> Talking about some of the fact that he is terrible for this country and so on and so forth. I understand. >> Magafascist, enemy of democracy. >> That that's your democratic right? But overall, do you have a responsibility- >> I have no personal problem with Donald Trump at all. >> Then why do you say all of those awful, awful things about him? >> I talked about the policies of this administration, the authority- >> No, actually you don't. You also name call. >> Criterionism like we saw on display in Minneapolis, where two of our citizens were gunned down in the streets simply for exercising. >> Yeah, that isn't true. Not one little bit. It's also called a lie. >> The First Amendment rights, Renee Good, Alex Predi, and others- >> I mean, it's like you can't even try to run over an ICE agent and what happens? >> You know, died in custody- >> He is a cyborg, isn't he? Now we know. >> I'm talking about policies. I don't personalize it and I- >> Sure, it's about policy. >> Certainly they've never called the press the enemy of the people. I think the press are the people's best- >> No, but you've called the president the enemy of the people. >> Best friend and that's why it's written right there into the First Amendment. We need the press to be a vigilant watchdog against every level of government, federal, state, local, all of it. >> Yeah, that's like the big bad wolf sag. I don't know what happened to the three little pigs, straw and stick houses. I didn't see nothing. >> The morning of the White House Correspondent Center, Ken Martin, the chair of the DNC actually called Donald Trump a fascist. >> There are a lot of things that Republicans seem to be working on. >> I always forget if he's key or appeal. >> Whether they're in the judiciary or the White House or- >> Regardless, he's hilarious. >> Congress or advisors and folks on the ground that are gonna make it actually more difficult for you guys. >> Yeah, I mean, look, we are seeing a desperate man, a narcissist, a fascist in the White House who is so- >> Wow, he just called the president a fascist. See, that's not about policy there, Jamie. That's about name calling. >> Asper to hold on the power. I think over these next 191 days left until the election, we're gonna see an unprecedented assault on our elections. >> No, no, actually, we just wanna make sure there aren't any dead people or illegals voting. >> On voting rights, we've already seen that, right? >> Yeah, Democrats have been name calling and inciting people. It's called stochastic terrorism. It incites crazy people to commit acts of violence. >> In a statement that aged as well as spoiled Melch, CNN's Jake Tapper and 249 of his colleagues said before the event, they were going to forcefully demonstrate opposition to Donald Trump. Sounds like a big hug, doesn't it? Voice of America leader, Kerry Lake, told Newsmax when she saw Jake after the incident, she gave him a little what-fur. >> I will tell you, I'm sorry, but guys, I walked out and I walked out as a complete, I'm sorry, he's a fool. Walking out next to Jake Tapper and I looked- >> Wait, wait, wait, are you seeing him? >> Yeah, the guy that denied Joe Biden's cognitive decline for years until it was obvious that the debate that he hosted and then after Joe Biden left office and was defeated by Trump, he wrote a book about Joe Biden's cognitive decline is clueless. >> I said to him and I said, how dare you? You have caused so much division in this country pushing lives. I said, we're not gonna call it gas lighting anymore, you've lied to the people. How dare you do that? And I saw so many people from all of these news outlets who've just spread abject lies about President Trump over the years. >> Yeah, like the Russia collusion hoax and now the impeachment hoax and- >> They're part to blame of this and I don't mean to get dramatic tonight. >> I think you should be very dramatic because a third assassination attempt is pretty dramatic. >> But I, as an American mother and an American, I'm tired of it. And I'm tired of the fake news that has just spread nothing but lies, trying to hurt this president, trying to go against the American people. And I couldn't sit there silent and walk out next to somebody like a Jake Tapper and act like he's a good guy. >> Yeah, Jake apparently got his feelings hurt by being confronted by the truth with Carrie Lake. It's hard when rock tossers get rocks thrown back at him. >> But this crusade against Kimmel was predictable because the Trump administration's attempt to use Saturday shooting as justification to stop all critical coverage, whether journalists- >> Yeah, it's about ending all critical coverage, which by the way is CNN, 97% of the time. >> Or comedic of Donald Trump. That started even before the ballroom emptied because Carrie Lake, the election denier who's currently in charge of- >> Who, by the way, could totally kick your butt, clean up between your shoulders. >> Voice of America. She approached a CNN table after the shooting and blamed journalists for the attempted attack and personally insulted one of our correspondents as a quote midget is now being matched with social media posts and more from the White House trying to use this horrific tragedy to demonize any criticism. >> No, I'm thinking actually the demonizing of Donald Trump caused the incident, you see. >> It's calls for violence and the president has been making little calls for violence since 2015. >> No, he hasn't actually, he's been responding to vitriol and violence against him. >> I'm not even gonna go into them, you're familiar with them but- >> No, why don't you go ahead and get into them. Tell us the examples exactly, please. >> Literal calls for violence. Now, a reminder that the president's tone immediately after the attack on Saturday was praised by Democrats and Republicans. >> Which was much bigger than you guys would ever, ever consider being. >> And it was far more conciliatory. >> I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts and resolving our differences. >> This is what being a leader is all about, Jake. >> Conference peacefully, we have to resolve our differences. >> That sentiment clearly did not last long. >> Some reporters unlike Jake Taber had a bit of a come to Jesus moment as the president showed grace and bravery in the face of his third assassination attempt. Even ABC's George Stephanopoulos appeared slack-jawed as John Carl recounted what Trump did later that night. >> John, your phone rang early this morning? >> Yeah, my phone rang shortly after 7 AM. My landline, George, actually. >> Hold on, landline, that sounds like a news story. When was the last time you were somebody who had a landline? >> See a number that few people call and it was President Trump calling. He said at first, he was calling to see if I was okay with what happened. >> Well, he's clearly a Nazi and Hitler and white supremacist. >> The last night, are you okay? And then he- >> Who wants the press murdered? >> He reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night, emphasizing the unity that he felt in that moment. >> Yeah, you might wanna take a dose of that unity there, Jake Taber. >> And he said absolutely, and he was quite firm about this, that dinner must be rescheduled. It must be rescheduled. >> He was kind of like returning to the campaign trail after Butler. >> He knows that I was a former president of the White House Corresponds Association and it worked with him on a dinner that never actually happened back during COVID. And he was saying, we've got to get this dinner back on, it has to happen. >> My God, what a monster Donald Trump is. Nora O'Donnell got to interview the president immediately following and she showed the grace and class of a Jerry Springer show panelist, while quoting from the attempted assassin's manifesto. And the president, of course, tossed it right back in her face. I like to call this verbal corporal punishment. >> The so called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. >> Yeah, let me go ahead and just read the screed from the attempted assassin who just tried to kill you. >> He writes this quote, administration officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this, I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crime. >> Why the hell did she need to bring this up, I wonder, just right after the assassination attempt. >> What's your reaction to that? >> Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would. >> And now comes the corporal punishment. >> But you're horrible people, horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist, I didn't rape anybody. >> No, you think he was referring to you? >> Excuse me, excuse me, what the what, what? >> I'm not a pedophile, you read that crap from some sick person. >> Crap, now we know what the C in CBS stands for. >> I got associated with- >> And the BS. >> All the stuff that has nothing to do with me, I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let's say Epstein or other things. >> Boom, Mr. President.

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Just days ago, a young U.S. Marine Corps veteran named Nicholas Quetz from Arizona was driving through Mexico very routinely. Who would think this could happen? For a beach weekend with his great friends, everybody loved to meet a lot of friends, when he was viciously gunned down on the highway and murdered by members of a Mexican cartel. And we're joined today by Nick's wife, Carrie, his father, Douglas, his mother, Patricia, his sister, Alexis, and his brother-in-law, Phil, and their beautiful people. And if they'd like to come up, I'd love to have them just to honor their beautiful boy. (Applause.) I'd love to have them. Come on up. Go good. (Applause.) That's great. This is a great family, a perfect family. And what happened to them should happen to nobody. So unscripted, I really wasn't planning on being here. Two weeks ago, I was a completely apolitical actor. Anybody outside my own home wouldn't have known who I would have voted for. Today, the situation changed for me. Last week, two weeks ago, Friday, my son was murdered by cowards and shot in the back on the way to the beach in Mexico. The reason I bring that up, and some people have questioned why was he in Mexico. He was in Mexico going to pursue his life, enjoy his life. We grew up as a military family, had been around the water. He loved it. We don't have Arizona Beach, so we call Rocky Point, Arizona's beach. A lot of people go there, hundreds of thousands a year, I think, transit there, plenty of Americans own property down there. So that happened. We got the call from the State Department, very professional, that night. No news in the United States to speak of. Sunday, still no news. Monday, still no news. Other than the very most local level with no publication, tried to get in contact with elected leaders, heard nothing. Tuesday, reached out to my local representative, he put me in contact with Senator Vance. Senator Vance coincidentally was coming to Tucson for a speech that day. I can't imagine how busy Senator Vance, President Trump, are running their campaign. Senator Vance asked for two minutes to talk to him, and I've met in my line of work, and I'm actually still a current federal employee, that's one of the reasons I've stayed apolitical. I'm a 20 year military retiree, so I've dedicated my entire life to this country. My son, who was murdered as a four year military veteran, the United States Marine Corps, he did, he worked on vertical assault from the Osprey, so he fast drove by the helicopters. My daughter is actually a drilling army reservist, and my son-in-law recently medically retired due to issues sustained on active duty, so our family is a military family with generations and generations of service. I bring these things up as an apolitical actor and somebody who struggled, the kind of Americans many are, who probably sit around their table and say, who are we going to vote for, go back and forth, decide what we think is important. And we struggle on that, and we actually prey on it, and many people ask me, how can I stand up here today, 13 days after my son was killed and talked in front of groups, and it is through the grace of God, and I do believe in God in a higher being. I do believe my son, Nicholas, has given me the power to be here, has given my wife the power to be here, has given my daughter, Nick, Karime, who is Nick's wife, and my son-in-law, Phillip, and Phillip has done such a great job, so now I have one living son, and that is Phil, because one was stolen by the cartel. So when I met with Senator Vance, and because I am apolitical, I've met many political, many leaders from up to the level of National Security Council, plenty of times working different issues for this government. I asked him a question, and I said, sir, before we talk, I need to know if I'm speaking to the candidate, the senator, or the marine. And he said, I'm JD, I need you to tell me what I can do for you, and you tell me what you can do for me. And he met it as a way of helping him to help me. So JD Vance was awesome. I asked for 90 seconds, he gave me 15 minutes. The very next morning, and after having tried to reach my elected officials for five days, President Trump's office called me. President Trump, in the fight of his life, offered to meet with us. President Trump gave me 15 minutes of his time to talk about what we could do. I asked him for some things, and he helped. I asked him, A, for U.S. involvement, and we know he's candidate Trump right now, and there is a seated president. I asked for U.S. involvement in the investigation with the Mexicans. I asked for extradition of the killers after I found out under the current U.S. code, not all can be extradited only if they're tied to RICO activities. In this case, they probably are tied to RICO activities, they are probably coming back, but I'll defer all questions on his investigation to the FBI. And I asked for a working policy in Mexico. In my career, one of the things I worked on was Plan Colombia, a very similar situation in security as to what we have in Mexico today. It was supported by Senator Biden. That's out in public record, you can look at it. We have no working policy with Mexico right now. Count the numbers of illegal immigrants, whether they're private, whether they're dangerous or not dangerous, and you'll see a number of about 25 million crossing back and forth. And then when somebody says, "Why was Nick in Mexico? My son was an hour from our house when he was executed by cowards." That's how close it is. But it is a national security challenge, not a local border state challenge. We have these type of things with Trandayagua and MS-13, anybody else you want to name, plus unnamed criminal organizations. The cartels, they operate with impunity in Mexico, they've infiltrated every level of their government. The local police are helpless because they're not properly equipped, state police a little bit better, but not in the federal. But we need to work with the Mexicans on this to go forward. So what I'm leaving you with, and I'll give this back to President Trump to whom you came to listen, not me, is this, for most of us in this room, and honestly, I would not have been in this room because it wouldn't have been political two weeks ago. You know who you're going to vote for. But for the sound bite and the people looking at this, after 12 days, I received a call from Senator Mark Kelly. That was the 12th day. And he was gracious, and he offered his condolences. And I told him, sir, I appreciate that because I'm a respectful person, I'll work with anybody. But what I want is sponsorship of a couple of things. One is change to U.S. code so that if people are, if committed crime against U.S. persons, especially murder, they are brought back here to face our justice. Number two is legislation that is enacted that takes us someplace closer to Plan Mexico that will institute not only military capability but also institution building. And if we break out the numbers of what it costs, we can do that for much less than we spend on illegal immigrants, and we can make both sides of the border secure. People are coming here. Some come from economic, and we talk about that. But many of those people are actually fleeing due to the insecurity in their own country. If we can help them, we can help ourselves. Senator Kelly, and as I said, so this is bipartisan, but we need a leader who can enact it. And the leader is standing right next to me because he's promised to enact it. Bipartisan. And I will tell you, former President Trump, however you want to name him, and I had some really good conversations there. We had conversations between ourselves, two men looking at each other. The man had a tear in his eye when he saw the picture of my son. And the person that those that are on the – that are not – have not committed and don't know, he's a decent man. He tried to help us, and he promised to help us. He also made a promise to me that will be between the two of us, but if he's elected, I do believe he'll keep it. Sir, I can't thank you enough – sir, I can't thank you enough for what you've done for my family in terms of calling attention to this. It was unreported in the media. Go back and check for anybody who looks. And I will tell you – and importantly – and importantly, like I said, Senator Wal – our Governor Walz was in Arizona last Saturday, he had a convention, we tried to go, we asked to go. I've got electronic proof of it so we can show pictures of our going to release the media. We're told it was full. It was in a high school auditorium, and we weren't allowed to speak with him. So when you wonder about where America really is and what the stories are, you don't have to wonder anymore. The man next to me and his vice presidential nominee, a current seated senator, both met with me within 36 hours of asking. And both took up the call. And for any troll that is out there and says your son shouldn't have been in Mexico, if it's safe for 25 million people to come here, how can it not be safe for my son to go an hour south of the border? And for the trolls that say we're politicizing my son's death, I will tell you to go to the root of the word. It is the policy that contributed to my son being killed. It is the policy that's contributing to the death of other Americans, just like the video you saw that young lady. It is the policy that's contributing to fentanyl coming into the United States. Those are political failures. And we need to end them. Thank you for your time. I'm asking you, help us get justice for Nicholas. I'm asking you, help us get justice for Nicholas. I'm asking you, help us get justice for Nicholas. That's incredible. And frankly to do that, to be able to do that, literally just a few days after this horrible event happened is pretty amazing, I'll tell you. We'll take care of it. We're going to take care of it. We're going to get that guy. We're going to get him. We're going to get him. They know who he is. Can you believe it? They know who he is. Nothing's done. Mexico's going to give him to us. Mexico's going to give him to us. They have to. They have to. It's going to be real easy.

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And I just don't feel comfortable acting like the creeps on the other side who hunt us for political reasons. Take, for example, this, in a secret recording for Steven Crowder's "Mug Club," a spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office admits what we already knew. The hush money case against Trump was nothing more than Alvin Bragg engaging in lawfare to boost his own political image. Watch. - Those felonies did nothing to stop Trump from running. - No, in fact, they made him more relevant. - Did that backfire? - Sure did. - And those things is disgusting. They're just all together. - And that's why I like the surgery of the brothers. You know, it's a perversion of justice. - Why? - Because I think the case is not nuanced. Before he decided to prosecute Trump, did you know who it was? - Thank God for the secret hidden vagina cam. (audience laughing) Now, that dude in the video told the New York Post, he said all of that in private to a stranger that he was trying to impress, which makes sense. It's the oldest trick in the book. If you want to get something from someone you just put on a thong and pretend you're interested. That's how I got this job. (audience laughing) But his confession is also true. We always knew this leftist law fair (beep) was real and it pisses all of us off and it should. But do we want to be like them, scumbags, who will imprison you for political purposes?

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Fox News alert, the judge in Donald Trump's January 6th case just set a big trap for the former president. If you read the headlines, you'd believe that Judge Tanya Chutkin came out and ruled in Trump's favor on the state's proposed gag order, which would have completely barred him from discussing his case, documents, evidence, witnesses, the whole thing. Chutkin ruled that Trump is only barred from discussing sensitive information. Okay. Well, what constitutes sensitive information? Oh, nothing, just every single person interviewed by prosecutors because they could be witnesses. Well, that's going to be a problem because Trump happens to be running a presidential campaign against Mike Pence. Now, is Trump going to debate Mike Pence if he can't talk about Mike Pence? Chutkin doesn't care. During the hearings today, she told Trump's attorneys this. The fact that he is running a political campaign currently has to yield to the administration of justice. And if that means he can't say exactly what he wants to say in a political speech, that is just going to how it's going to be half to, adding that she'll be scrutinizing his statements very carefully. Do you really expect Trump to abide by these rules? The case is a ridiculous case. It's a first amendment case, but we don't want Trump to speak. So they want me, they take away your rights on first amendment. Now they sue because, so now I have one of these lunatic reporters back there saying, sir, we'd like to talk to you about your case or I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to talk about it. Somehow that's not good for votes. Do you agree? When we say I can't talk, I'd love to, I will talk about it. I will. They're not taking away my first amendment. Trump's at his best when he's riffing off the cuff, obviously, and this order is just another attempt to keep him from speaking freely. Biden's Justice Department's already trying to lock him up in a courtroom from January until May, and anytime he steps out onto the trail, there's going to be a whole bunch of booby traps out there waiting for him. And that's the goal. Will Kane's a Fox and Friends weekend co-host. So Will, what do you think the chances are that he busts through this gag order the first night on the trail 100% sure bet, Jesse, take it to the bank and this will be a problem. This will be something for the judge to decide. Will I continue or will I be a participant in what's become lawfare? You know, it's true that you can restrict the defendant's speech. Jesse, you can say, look, a criminal trial takes precedent and normal circumstances you would say, well, that shows the lack of wisdom in the original prosecutor, the DOJ in going after Trump, you'd say, well, what evidence of humility shows some wisdom. You've compromised a political process by your pursuit of these weak charges. But I want to say this is not a normal situation. So what we're seeing play out is exactly as intended. It's not a lack of wisdom. It is purpose and intention. This is lawfare. This is using the justice system, the DOJ, the court system to influence an election. If you could control and good luck with actually implementing the control, but if you can control a candidate and what he says, then you can control the outcome of an election. So Barr is also off limits. If you think about it, I'm sure he was interviewed by the January 6th investigators. And so Trump can never bring up the fact that Barr knocked out the Mueller situation. He can never bring up this fact. He can't even tout his record as attorney general in his administration while running for office. Yeah. You know, when it comes to, for example, Mike Pence, I'm not worried. I don't think anybody should be worried about the interaction between Donald Trump and Mike Pence on a stage. And I say I'm not worried because I'm someone who would be worried about interference in the political process, not rooting for a particular outcome. I don't think there's going to be anything that influences the chasm between Mike Pence and Donald Trump. But what happens is Mike Pence can lodge all types of accusations. He can tell a story that Donald Trump can't rebut. And that can affect him then in turn in his general against Joe Biden. You know, and same thing as you point out with Barr, he just can't address any of the other allegations that people make. But the real question will be in the gray area. To your point earlier, he's not going to abide by this. So then the judge is going to have to decide how much am I going to get into the muck? How much am I going to sort out exactly all these statements and play referee in a political election, a presidential election? That's unbelievable. I mean, January 6th, prosecutors probably interviewed Nancy Pelosi. So I guess Trump can't talk about Nancy Pelosi either. Shots fired one way. This is going to be a fun one. Right. Exactly. Well, thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Thank you.

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