Trump's Latest Assassination Attempt Claim Under Scrutiny

0:00Ben Meiselas:Red flags are surfacing as the Trump regime is now claiming that Trump was subject to yet another assassination attempt, this time in California at Ranchos Palos Verdes at Donald Trump's golf course right over here in California. Donald Trump visited briefly on Tuesday where he held a fundraiser before going to Las Vegas. Apparently, a suspect was arrested on Sunday who Donald Trump's FBI claims was staking out the area in order to do this plot against Donald Trump. All the MAGA influencers to their right-wing echo chambers like Tim Pool and others were like, another assassination attempt. We need the ballroom for Donald.

0:46Ben Meiselas:He needs a ballroom. And it's the same system that we've seen before. Kash Patel, FBI, leaks the information to state regime media Fox. State regime media Fox is always the first to report it. They show a mugshot of the guy. And then the same day or the day after, Donald Trump talks about the need for the ballroom and how it's going to have a drone in port and it's going to be a shield and it's going to protect him. Now, this is like the sixth time that Donald Trump has claimed that there's been an assassination attempt. I mean, you go back to Butler, Pennsylvania during the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump still has not released the medical records from Butler.

1:33Ben Meiselas:There's also records that Trump continues to conceal about Butler, Pennsylvania. Even Donald Trump's former and a top legal people over at one of those right-wing justice leagues did a FOIA request and the FBI redacted everything, including conversations that purported to be between the shooter and even the local police or the FBI leading up to the incident, although the Trump regime says that's not what those documents purport to show. But Trump's own former legal team who made the FOIA request were out there saying that. Then in the past two months or so, maybe three months, what the Trump regime has claimed, there's been like four other assassination attempts, right?

2:20Ben Meiselas:There was the one at the ballroom at the White House. There was this one right here. Then they've been repeatedly claiming Iran try to kill him and they had to change the Qatari jet to the Qatari Air Force One to the new jet. And also whenever Donald Trump is on the ropes, whenever he is in a situation where he's surrendering to Iran, when he has a really awful news cycle where Jeanine Pirro, for example, is dismissing the criminal charges against David Hearn because they lied and tried to prosecute that's when these things pop up. And again, I'm not saying that this is not a serious matter. I don't want to downplay it.

3:05Ben Meiselas:I'm just raising the red flags that this seems to be happening all of the time. And also, I'll just say this as well. Unfortunately, the position of the presidency generally attracts a lot of bad people and a lot of psychologically ill people, a lot of dangerous people. I mean, let's be clear, we have dangerous war criminals in the Oval Office right now. We have a sexual predator in the Oval Office. We have a felon in the Oval Office. I'm not losing sight of that. I'm just talking generally about the presidency. I just think in the past, whether it was former President Biden, former President Obama, or Clinton, or George H.W.

3:49Ben Meiselas:Bush, they didn't make it a story every time there was a threat that they received because you can literally probably pick almost any day where a president experiences some sort of threat from somebody. But Donald Trump seems to use this as a way to kind of conjure sympathy, to build ballrooms while he's manipulating the markets. So here's what we learned. A man carrying ammunition with a gun in his car was arrested Sunday at Trump's Los Angeles area golf course in Ranchos Palos Verdes after appearing to monitor security preparations two days ahead of Trump's fundraiser there. Authorities say it's always Fox reporters who are the first to publish this.

4:28Ben Meiselas:Matt Finn of Fox from Fox News Channel knew the heavily armed suspect who was arrested at Trump National Golf Course in California ahead of Trump's visit claimed he worked for the State Department and was part of a security detail per the federal criminal complaint. janine john tail is charged with possession of an unregistered short barreled rifle it's interesting that they charge them with possession of an unregistered short barreled light rifle because if it was up to magas they would legalize that stuff they would want to have all of this legal take a look at the criminal complaint and affidavit on july 31st 2026 federal agents conducted a security assessment at Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles, located at One Trump National Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes.

5:18Ben Meiselas:This security assessment was conducted in advance of an anticipated visit to the Trump Golf Club by Trump on August 4th. So the visit was Tuesday, which, you know, I did a video on that this morning. This incident allegedly happened on Sunday. During the security assessment, federal agents saw a suspicious individual, later identified as tail on the Trump Golf Club. Specifically, federal agents saw tail walking throughout the golf course at the Trump Golf Club, wearing an earpiece and taking photographs and video of the federal agents, security planning activities, among other things. Federal agents saw tail leave the area in a 2012 Toyota Tundra with a license plate number, whatever it is.

6:00Ben Meiselas:On August 2nd, 2026, golf course staff at the Trump Golf Club notified federal agents who were continuing their security assessment that they saw Tal had returned to the Trump Golf Club. Tal approached the federal agents and stated in part and in substance, so he approached the agents. Okay. So the story is he shows up, sees the agents and says, hi, I'm employed by the United States State Department. And he was at the location for a security detail. Tale had a loaded firearm in his car, which was parked in the parking lot of the Trump Golf Club. Federal agents contacted the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and LASD deputies arrived at the Trump Golf Club using a law enforcement database.

6:45Ben Meiselas:And the LASD, this was the gun, they learned about his background. And as part of his background, they learned that he was involved in other crimes as well when they searched his vehicle, which was parked in the golf course and recovered a loaded pistol with a round in the chamber along with another loaded magazine containing a hollow point ammunition. Tale was initially arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm and possessing prohibited ammunition. Prosecutors later charged him with receiving a large capacity magazine, carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle and possession of a short barreled rifle or shotgun.

7:30Ben Meiselas:Separately, prosecutors also charged tail with second degree robbery in connection with an alleged November 4th, 2025 incident that was already under investigation by the El Segundo Police Department before Sunday's arrest at the golf course. And then of course, a spokesperson at the Trump organization thanked the FBI. We are incredibly grateful to the local law enforcement, the United States Secret Service, the FBI, and all supporting agencies for their swift response and dedication to keep everyone safe, the spokesperson said. I remember the other ones I was thinking about. I was listing all the recent assassination attempts that they were claiming lately.

8:10Ben Meiselas:I mean, obviously, there was the one in the White House correspondence dinner. There was the other one at the White House. and then right before the UFC fight, remember they claimed that there were going to be drones, the killer drone assassination attempt one, and they said that they busted a ring in Ohio of these like 19-year-old incel guys who were on 4chan, you know, running their mouth off. And so there was that. Then there's the Iranian assassination attempts they're claiming. And then you have Tim Pool. These guys, aren't these guys such clowns? These guys people. And then right on cue, Donald Trump posted on his social media platform a video from state regime media talking about this purported assassination attempt.

8:55Ben Meiselas:And it's one of Donald Trump's old advisors saying he's such a consequential person. These things are going to happen. It's so tragic when you're such a powerful and consequential human being. These are the things that you have to come to expect. And Donald Trump is so courageous. He's so, I mean, come on, seriously, this is what he was posting at midnight as well. Let me show you what they were posting on a social media platform about this purported, what, sixth assassination attempt, like in the past two months here, play it. You know, it's interesting. I, this is obviously my first time seeing the interview with the audience.

9:30And before the president even said what he said, I thought the exact same thing where he said, this only happens to people who are consequential. That's funny. That was my first thought because it's so true. You look at every American president who has had either, unfortunately, a successful assassination attempt or unsuccessful ones, Lincoln, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Donald J. Trump. In the weirdest way, it's a very good company to be in. But, you know, I really am impressed with the way that the president carries on every day, the resoluteness that he brings to the job. And it affirms for me how important his presidency is and why I want our Republican establishment to get on board and realize who we have at the helm and keep it going.

10:10We have a special guy. We got to do good things for him. You know, what's interesting about it, Katie, is that, you know, when you when you talk to the president about this, he you know, he initially will say something with it and then he kind of moves off the topic very quickly. But you you look at the you look at the Secret Service roaming around the Trump National Golf Club and they are I mean, they are on high alert and constantly moving. Yeah, they caught this guy two days ahead of President Trump arriving here, and that's better than they had at West Palm Beach with the first attempt, attempted assassination, Trey.

10:42So they're on high alert. They're doing exactly what they need to do. President Trump moved on so quickly at the White House, after the White House Correspondents Dinner. He was at the podium. He was in the Oval Office. He was making jokes. He moved on because he knows that the country is more important than what he feels is a threat to him.

11:00Ben Meiselas:And the question is, is you could always kind of link this to Donald Trump talking about the ballroom, right? So you have this happening Sunday. The story breaks yesterday and Trump talks about the ballroom, uh, right on cue, right before the story breaks. Here's what Trump said. Let's play it. It was a graffiti filled, crime filled mess. We turned it into Shangri-La. We turned it into a great place. Look outside. Look what's happening. Look at the beautiful ballroom and military center. It's a military center, much more than we have a drone port on top. We look at the grass at the front of the White House being all replaced with the top stuff.

11:39The parks are all being replaced. It starts very soon, actually. We'll do one at a time. It's about 700 acres of parks. We're all going to have brand new, the best grass you can get. Scott's, you know Scott's? Scottsboro could grow. They're doing it. They do great grass. What can I tell you? I got to give him a plug because he did the White House for free. Sir, a friend of mine, a guy that is terrific. We'd like to give you new grass at the White House. I said, I'll take it. How much? He said, free. I'll take it. Thank you. Thank you very much.

12:13Ben Meiselas:And here's how they were reporting it on state regime media. Fox, another assassination attempt against Donald Trump thwarted armed suspect arrested at Trump Golf Course. An armed man said to be monitoring security planning activities arrested on Sunday with a cache of weapons and body armor. This is all happening outside of Trump National Golf Course just a couple of days before the president's visit to the course in California. 38-year-old Janine John Talley from Downey, California, taken into custody in Rancho Palos Verdes by plainclothes FBI agents after they spotted his suspicious activity.

12:50Now, agents observed Talley walking through the golf course grounds, taking photos and videos, appearing to monitor security planning activities. They also found him with an illegally modified AR platform rifle, a couple of radio signal devices, a 1911 body armor, high capacity mags, hollow point ammo, and multiple notebooks containing, quote, concerning statements. Talley's vehicle was also searched and deputies say they recovered a loaded pistol with a chambered round in the car, along with more ammunition. Now, Talley also had a prior run in with law enforcement, a robbery charge out of El Segundo.

13:29As you know, the president is in Southern California to headline an RNC fundraising dinner. This would be yet another disturbing activity that could have potentially been a plot to assassinate the president. We've seen this. As though he was arrested on the day of. I mean, and the story is,

13:47Ben Meiselas:this guy walked over to the secret service and said hi i work for the state department and they said oh you look familiar you the guy from the el segundo robbery let's check your 2012 toyota tundra i don't mean to make light of it but it's like this is where this is what this is what they're this is what they're yeah this sure sure sure sure sure sure there you There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thank you all for watching. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all?

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