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Chapter 1: What happened during the terrorist attack in Washington, D.C.?
Well, folks, there was a terrorist attack last night outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. It happened about 9, 10 p.m., according to Cassie Akiva, writing for The Daily Wire. The attack occurred outside the Young Diplomats reception for young Jewish professionals hosted by the American Jewish Committee.
Two staffers, one is named Yaron Lashinsky, who's 30, and Sarah Milgram, who's 26, were shot at close range. They were murdered. They were murdered by a man who is shouting, free Palestine. at the time.
In fact, here is a video of the shooter screaming free Palestine, not just screaming it, by the way, chanting in full campus mode, free, free Palestine, which, by the way, this is a good indicator of what the free Palestine globalized the Intifada movement actually is. This is the pro-Palestinian cause in a nutshell, standing for a
presumptive terror state with genocidal intentions against Jews and Israelis is the stuff that's been happening on college campuses across America with the full aid and support of a compliant legacy media. Here's the video of the shooter standing outside. Apparently, he committed the shooting and he went inside. He looked a little bit shaken.
And so people inside didn't realize he was the shooter and started offering him refreshments and water before realizing that he was, in fact, the alleged murderer. He then walked outside when he was arrested, whipped out a red keffiyeh and started chanting this way.
Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine!
Okay, so this is a leftist activist, this shooter. We'll give you some background on the shooter in a moment. First, President Trump immediately released a statement saying these horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on anti-Semitism, must end now. Hatred and radicalism have no place in the United States. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen.
God bless you all. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, put out a similar statement. saying, we condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of two staff members from the embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Our prayers are with their loved ones. This is a brazen act of cowardly antisemitic violence. Make no mistake, we'll track down those responsible and bring them to justice.
We have information about the two people who were killed. They were, in fact, a young couple who were about to be engaged to be married. Apparently, the young man had just bought a ring to propose engagement to the young woman, Sarah Milgram. Again, according to Cassie Akiva, the young couple was gunned down at close range.
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Chapter 2: Who were the victims of the shooting?
Here's what he had to say.
The couple that was gunned down tonight in the name of free Palestine. It's a young couple about to be engaged. The young man purchased a ring this week with the intention of proposing to his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem. They were a beautiful couple who came to enjoy an evening in Washington's cultural center.
Lashinsky, according to Cassie Akiva reporting, was a German-Israeli dual citizen and a devout evangelical Christian who immigrated to Israel at the age of 16 and served in the Israel Defense Forces. He studied Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was fluent in German, Hebrew, English, and Japanese. He moved to work as a political analyst at the Israeli embassy in 2022.
According to Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosser, He said that he was his master's student at Reichman University. He said he was a Christian, a true lover of Israel, served in the IDF and chose to dedicate his life to the state of Israel and the Zionist cause. He embodied the Judeo-Christian values and set an example for young people worldwide.
One of his teachers, Ronen Chaval, said Lashinsky moved to Israel based on his faith and decided to immigrate to Israel, serve in the IDF, and later dedicate his life to the state of Israel.
He was a Christian, a great lover of Israel, who immigrated to Israel, served in the army, and decided to dedicate his life to the state of Israel and Zionism, a wonderful life story of a man with moral clarity. He said, Lashinsky's LinkedIn page, again, this is the young man who was murdered.
He wrote that he is an ardent believer in the vision that was outlined in the Abraham Accords and believed that expanding the circle of peace with our Arab neighbors and pursuing regional cooperation is in the best interest of the state of Israel and the Middle East as a whole. To this end, I advocate for interfaith dialogue. Again, none of that mattered to the shooter, obviously.
Milgram grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, the young woman who was murdered. She was a full-time employee at the embassy's Department of Public Diplomacy. She got her Master of Arts at American University, and she was also a graduate of the University for Peace.
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Chapter 3: What statements were made by President Trump and others regarding the attack?
She talked in her About section on LinkedIn that her passion lies at the intersection of peace-building, religious engagement, and environmental work. So certainly, these were not members of the so-called political right, very clearly. The shooter was clearly a member of the political left. The shooter was apparently a member of a group known as the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Ryan Morrow, who's an investigative researcher for Capital Research, he notes that that group is one of 150 pro-terrorism groups he identified as responsible for the anti-Israel protests and his marching towards violence study. The group is Marxist-Communist, endorsed the October 7th attacks, pro-Iran, as well as linked to China.
The shooter also released a manifesto that is replete with the same lies that you have heard from the quote-unquote free Palestine movement, which is effectively just a pro-terrorist movement. In this manifesto released by the shooter, and again, the shooter is just a Marxist leftist. The shooter is not Muslim. The shooter appears to be secular, but is a member of the radical left.
He writes in his manifesto, the atrocities committed by the Israelis against Palestine defy description and defy quantification. At the time of writing, the Gaza health ministry records 53,000 killed by traumatic force and the Gaza health ministry would be Hamas. He says the Gaza information office includes the 10,000 under the rubble with the dead in their own count.
He says, like the Yemen death toll, which has been frozen at some few thousand for years under Saudi UK US bombardment before being belatedly revealed to stand at 500,000 dead. All of these figures are almost surely a criminal undercount. I have no trouble believing the estimates that put the toll at 100,000 or more.
He then justifies his violence by saying, an armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions. Nonviolent protests in the opening weeks of the genocide, and again, we'll note that word genocide, seemed to signal some sort of turning point.
Never before had so many tens of thousands joined the Palestinians in the streets across the West. Never before had so many American politicians been forced to concede that, rhetorically at least, the Palestinians were human beings too. Public opinion has shifted against the genocidal apartheid state, writes the terrorist murderer.
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Chapter 4: What is the background of the shooter?
And the American government has simply shrugged and they'll do without public opinion, then criminalize it when they can, suffocate it with bland reassurances. They're doing all they can to restrain Israel where it cannot criminalize protest outright.
And then the shooter, cat's hips, Aaron Bushnell, who is, of course, the soldier who set himself on fire based on propagandistic lies about Israel's actions in Gaza. The shooter wrote, the impunity that representatives of our government feel at abetting this slaughter should be revealed as an illusion.
And he then suggests a word about the morality of armed demonstration. Those of us against the genocide take satisfaction in arguing that the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity. I sympathize with this viewpoint and understand its value in soothing the psyche, which cannot bear to accept the atrocities it witnesses, even mediated through the screen.
But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, posaically human. A perpetrator may then be a loving parent, a filial child, a generous and charitable friend, an amiable stranger capable of moral strength at times when it suits him, and sometimes even when it does not, and yet be a monster all the same.
And then he suggests that actually these sorts of shootings should have been taking place 11 years ago, well before October 7th and well before the October 7th war during Operation Protective Edge, which he says, which was the time, quote, I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. So this person is, of course, a radical leftist who is promoting lies.
Of course, this person and his positions find some sympathy with the radical left, even in Congress. Representative Ilhan Omar, who, of course, is rhetorically in the past a supporter of various terror atrocities. Here she was responding to the news of the shooting this morning.
Congresswoman Omar, can I get your reaction to the shooting that happened in D.C. last night?
I'm going to go for now.
She's going to go. She has nothing to say, no reaction to the shooting, not even the sort of AOC bland assertion that the murder of two people walking away from a Jewish event is actually bad.
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Chapter 5: How does the left respond to violence against Jews?
They announced and conducted daily pauses of all operations to allow any civilians left in combat areas to evacuate. As far as humanitarian aid, Israel shipped in literally tons of humanitarian aid into the very same area where the hostages were being held, where civilians were helping to hold the hostages.
You may have noticed there's been no popular movement in the Gaza Strip to free the hostages. None. Zero. It doesn't exist. Even the protests that are out there against Hamas, our protests against Hamas, they are not protests to free the hostages. Not one. Zero. Zero.
And yet Israel has been supplying humanitarian aid throughout the war to that exact same population at the expense of its own hostages because Hamas routinely steals that aid and then uses it in order to prop itself up. And the media, of course, have been complicit in this lie.
Zach Goldberg, an independent researcher formerly at the Manhattan Institute, points out a massive spike in the use of the word genocide with regard to Israel in reporting from every single outlet.
He points out that actually coverage linking Israel to so-called genocide now exceeds that of every actual or widely recognized genocide of the last 40 years, including Rwanda, Darfur, Bosnia, Myanmar, and the Yazidis.
He points out in the New York Times, the spike in 2023, 2024 mentions of genocide along Israel is more than nine times larger than the peak for Rwanda in the mid 1990s and nearly six times the peak for more recent Darfur genocide. These are lies. They are clear and obvious lies. And yet these lies have become quite popular. And it turns out that lies have consequences.
So we understand why the genocide lie is so popular with those who wish to overtly destroy the state of Israel. We get it, obviously, because it means they win the PR war. Countries in the UN, for example, who are enthralled to their Muslim populations. Yes, I'm looking at you, France and the UK.
Or countries who might want to please their Chinese paymasters who are seeking to foster anti-Americanism in the Middle East. And yes, that would be you, like Canada and South Africa. And I think we all get why Hamas is playing the genocide game. It gives Hamas an excuse to continue to exist and to be as actually genocidal as they want to be.
I mean, their literal founding document calls for genocide. But the real question here is why this genocide lie has become so popular in the West more generally. And as we stated, it is in fact a lie. By no definition is what is happening in the Gaza Strip a genocide. The answer is because our civilization, largely speaking, has fallen in thrall to a great conspiracy theory.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the South African land expropriation policy?
That's probably just a couple of people we know.
Those are the three people we got.
You never know. Okay, again, that would be Omid Malik and Don Jr. sitting at the Qatar Economic Forum in a session that was originally titled Monetizing MAGA. Not a great look. Not a great look. By the way, Tucker Carlson, who is funded by Omid Malik and Don Jr. at 1789 Capital, has said, not a particularly good look.
He's right about that. It is not, in fact, a good look. I'm just going to put it out there right now. No. No. Okay, dynasties are un-American. They are not good.
George W., after George H.W., was not great for the country.
The idea of Michelle Obama for Barack Obama, not great for the country. The idea of Hillary Clinton for Bill Clinton, not great for the country.
No. We elected Donald Trump for a reason, but connection with President Trump's name does not mean that you should be president of the United States. President Trump ran against dynasties when he opposed Jeb Bush in 2016. This was literally one of his leading gambits, was attacking Jeb Bush for being part of a political dynasty. Why the American obsession with political dynasties?
And that's not a critique of Donald Trump Jr. as a person or as a future, that's just a reality that dynasties in American politics are typically bad. Kennedy dynasties, Bush dynasties, none of this is good. And when you combine that with the fact that many of the organizations that Donald Trump Jr.
is connected to are making an enormous amount of money during this period of time when his father is president, which raises awkward questions, certainly, about Trump administration policy. ranging from Trump mean coin to world liberty financial to gigantic real estate deals in Qatar, none of this is an amazingly good look.
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Chapter 7: What is the relationship between Trump and Ramaphosa?
while President Trump is president in countries that President Trump is attempting to negotiate with. That is not a good thing. At the very least, it is not a useful thing. Meanwhile, President Trump seems to be coming to better conclusions with regard to Vladimir Putin and Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal.
On a call Monday, President Trump told European leaders Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't ready to end the Ukraine war because he thinks he's winning, according to senior European officials familiar with the conversation. Good. That is actually a realization of reality from President Trump. Obviously, that's true.
In a statement after an earlier version of this article from the Wall Street Journal, Caroline Leavitt disputed the account, saying that President Trump says he believes Putin is winning the war, but he never said Putin isn't ready to end the war. Leavitt said that Trump said several times during the call that he believes Putin wants peace and wants the war to be over.
One of the officials who was on the call said Trump began the discussion by saying, I think Vladimir does not want peace. Well, I certainly hope the Europeans are right and Caroline Lovett is incorrect here because Putin does not want peace. I would like to see one single solitary piece of evidence that Vladimir Putin wants peace. Seriously, like one. That's all. That's all I'm asking for.
Like one sign, one indicator. President Trump lives in reality. I'll say it again. And reality never lies. Reality is reality. And the reality is that Vladimir Putin obviously does not want peace, which is why he's avoiding direct negotiations and has been for months. While Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine is literally doing every... President Trump says to Zelensky at this point, jump.
And Zelensky says, how high? That is the relationship between the United States and Ukraine. Clearly. Apparently, Trump held an earlier call with European leaders on Sunday, a day before his two-hour conversation with Putin. It indicated he could impose sanctions if Putin refused to cease fire, according to officials. By Monday, he shifted again.
Instead, he said he wanted lower-level talks between Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican. So Europe is seeing some upside here. The entire process is showing that Vladimir Putin actually is not particularly interested in serious negotiations, which of course he is not. Putin is waiting everybody out. That's all. America's enemies are waiting America out, which by the way, not a bad strategy.
Traditionally speaking, waiting America out in Afghanistan, in Iraq, anywhere is a good strategy. The American people get bored and they get tired, and their presidents like pulling them out of places, even if it ends in ignominious defeat, as it did in, for example, Afghanistan. Speaking of ignominious defeat and ignominious people, the scandal surrounding Joe Biden continues. Who knew what when?
Jake Tapper has been making the round with his new book, Original Sin. Say what you will about Tapper's coverage of the president's infirmity over the past several years. And you can say a lot. Tapper is now saying many true things. OK, that is just the reality.
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Chapter 8: What does the term 'white genocide' refer to in the South African context?
Are you kidding? Like that's the part that's astonishing. And I think the only plausible explanation for some people buying into the idea that Biden wasn't quite as senile as it seemed was you would have to be insane to trot a senile man out. In the middle of a campaign to do a debate with his chief opponent, who is a debate bulldog, like just rips people apart.
like bulldog jaws on President Trump in debate, like the meanest debater of all time. He's a mean man when he debates. There's no question. Like putting him in the debate ring with challenging Trump to debate. A lot of people must say, oh, well, maybe he's better than he looks. I mean, you'd have to be like a complete nut or maybe senile in order to, you know, challenge Trump. And then he did it.
According to the book, The event at a high school gym in Biden's home state of Delaware was supposed to be the basis for a campaign commercial. The idea was to create scenes of Biden taking off the cup questions from voters that could be used in ads. The campaign had a pre-screened list of questions the voters would ask. The cameras rolled for 90 minutes with Biden on stage.
Apparently, some blamed the lighting for the problem. The problem was not the lighting. The problem was, I'm sure, his performance. The campaign regularly needed recorded remarks from Biden that could be played at events or used in fundraising pitches, but the candidate was often unable to tape even mundane remarks without botching the lines.
When supportive groups requested a taped five-minute video address from Biden, the White House would respond by saying the video could be one or two minutes. What? What? What? What? As a workaround, Biden would be filmed with two cameras instead of one. So any flubbed lines could be smooth with jump cuts. And by the way, we knew this, right? We were covering this on the show.
We literally play tape of Biden. And then we would have like a counter in the corner of the screen going like one, two, three, four, eight jump cuts in 13 seconds. Because that's evidence that the dude couldn't speak words from his face hole. Unbelievable.
Staff, apparently, according to the book, blamed Biden's inability to find words or stay on a train of thought, not his stutter for the issue, despite the fact that the media kept claiming that it was a stutter. Thompson and Tapper write, every shoot was anxiety-inducing for Biden's team. Meanwhile, Jill Biden continues to push back. The Biden spokespeople are not commenting on any of this.
Shocker there. Of course, they're not commenting on any of this. The minute they comment, they're finished. Meanwhile, it's fun to watch Democrats scurry around trying to avoid the consequences of their own complicity. It's really, really funny.
According to Politico, 24 hours after the Sunday announcement that President Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer, one of his staunchest supporters, Representative Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, said Monday he had yet to connect with him. Another Close Hill ally, Senator Chris Coons, had not spoken with Biden as of mid-afternoon on Tuesday.
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