Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.
I watched Donald Trump swat at his ear as if being swung by a bee. And then he fell to the ground.
I was about to appear on ‘The Big Weekend Show’ that hot Saturday afternoon on July 13, 2024, and was watching all of this unfold from the Studio M Green Room at Fox News headquarters in New York.
After what was about a minute, in what felt like hours, I watched as Trump rose to his feet. At that moment, almost anyone, including myself, would have kept their head down and let the Secret Service rush them to the closest vehicle to get the hell out of there.
Trump did the opposite.
‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’ he declared defiantly with blood on his face, the result of being struck in the ear by a bullet.
‘I think he just won the election,’ I said to no one in particular in the Green Room.
Two days later, Trump would choose Ohio Senator JD Vance to be his running mate. Three days after that, he accepted his party’s nomination for the third time. And three days after that, Joe Biden — at the urging of his own party and George Clooney — would bow out of the race.
Kamala Harris, the most unpopular vice president in polling history and a failed 2020 presidential candidate who didn’t even get to 2020 before dropping out, became the nominee instead despite not receiving one vote from the public.
From there, Harris rode a wave of slobbering press through August. At one point, according to the Media Research Center, ABC News did 100 straight ‘news’ stories on her campaign where every single one was positive.
The network also hosted the one and only debate between Trump and Harris, which ended up being a textbook example of overwhelming bias and dishonesty. ABC’s news division is run by Dana Walden, who is not only best friends with Harris, she even set the former vice president up with her current husband, Doug Emhoff.
Overall, Trump got fact-checked five times by moderators during his single presidential debate with Harris and was on the receiving end of six follow-up questions. Harris was not fact-checked or followed up with once. The legacy media declared Harris the big winner, while I argued on the air that it was incumbent on her to make the sale on her policies, especially the economy. She failed miserably. Her poll numbers would only drift downward from there.
