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Today on Sekulow, President Trump delivers his nomination speech just days after assassination attempt. Keeping you informed and engaged. Now more than ever, this is Sekulow. We want to hear from you.

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Will Haynes is there for us to keep that ship down. And again, last night, the most important night of the convention, I think probably one of the most important nights that we've seen in politics in many years. And that's because you had an attempted assassination attempt of a former President who is currently the nominated candidate for one of the two major political parties in the country. And at the same time, so we got the first time really he spoke to the American people. I think last night people are making a big deal about the speech being long. But I actually think when you take a step back, you have to realize that there were two major speeches within that one speech in the first 45 minutes. Of course, you've got a lot of crowd applause.

You've got a lot of things that are taking up time when you're at that convention setting. But that first 45 minutes, Will, was spent on addressing the American people, not really even the convention so much, but the American people about what happened on Saturday in Pennsylvania honoring the firefighter who was killed. And Donald Trump with a very somber tone about what he personally went through. He said, this is the only time you're going to hear it from me because it's too hard to tell.

And I will tell you just even the facial expressions. And then I think when he got into the second part of the speech, which was the more traditional political speech, you'll notice he even said, I'm not going to say Biden's name again. So you did what we kind of predicted on the show, which was already getting ready for an unknown potential candidate. Some people joking already that he already beat. What else does he have to do? Six legal cases, two impeachments. He won an election. There was the contested election, and then he may have beat Joe Biden before even election day in this race. And he's up against an unknown Democrat candidate at this point because of how well he did in that debate.

So you've got the left trying to seize on. It was a long second part of the speech. But in reality, there were two speeches there. I think it took some time, Will, to ramp up to the political speech after you're giving the speech about, you know, as he said, that he felt like he should not even necessarily be here yesterday because of how close that shooter was with that kind of high powered weapon.

That's right, Jordan. And as Axios called it, it was a convention speech in two acts. So almost like a two act play or something that, as you mentioned, it was it was a different tone than you've seen from President Trump. Even when he got into the more policy side of the speech, it was a lot different tone than you're used to hearing from him when he gives a speech. It wasn't that fiery fight, fight, fight that we have seen from President Trump. It was a humbled and more subdued tone than you've heard from him. And I think that that's going to be the big question of what goes forward because he looked different.

He sounded different. But by all accounts, it was a very powerful moment in the history of the Republican Party, as well as a very powerful moment in the history of this country. What's clear is obviously with J.D. Vance, with Donald Trump, is that you've got a Republican Party which has fundamentally changed for the good. I think that a lot of us who are grassroots activists fought a long time just to get a seat at the table of the Republican Party because of pro-life views, conservative views on the economy, the border security. But just getting a seat at the table isn't running the table. And now I see so many of those activists that we didn't get to see four years ago because of COVID come back together again. But I will tell you, when your leader of the party has just been shot in an assassination attempt and it has to go in front of a packed arena, I don't care if you're Donald Trump or someone who's in the military and used to that kind of being under fire. That is a kind of tough situation.

So I think all the speakers did a great job, including President Trump, who again used it for that first time to address the nation. We want to hear from you too. 1-800-684-31. Tim, we'll take your phone calls.

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So I'm in Milwaukee, heading home today. Will is in our studio. We're back in the studio on Monday. And last night, of course, at the Republican National Convention, I think a speech the whole country was waiting to see.

One, because we knew that President Trump would address what happened on Saturday. And Will, we discussed it last night, being in that room, obviously it's very loud. Almost even when you're close, it can be hard to hear the speaker. And again, because it's not a rock concert. It's not a sporting event. It's one person on a microphone.

So when you are, you really have to kind of focus in. And it was easier to do that, of course, the first, I'd say, you know, the first part of that speech, because it wasn't really, it wasn't a speech to the crowd to get the crowd excited. You know, it was are the issues it was. What did Donald Trump go through on Saturday? How did that change him? And even his thought process about moving forward as President, all of all of those issues, kind of the way he was talking to his family, even from the stage.

And of course, looking at it, of course, all these admirers. But that was the same situation he was in in Pennsylvania. So you can see that, you know, the security was very intense in Milwaukee, but everything worked out just fine.

And that was great. But I will tell you, in that convention setting, though you are talking to the crowd, you really are. Again, this is a made for TV event and no one is trying to hide that fact.

So when you're there, you really have to kind of key in to even list, be able to hear that the the speakers. I will tell you, for that first 40 minutes before it became more of a rally speech, Will, it was very easy to follow along with Donald Trump. It was a serious moment. People were in tears talking about the firefighter who lost his life, talking about how even Donald Trump realized what he was looking at. He had that picture of him on the ground with the blood and his eyes were open and how he could hear people at that time.

People thought he was dead. So he had this kind of like moment where he hopped back up and did the raise his fist with the fight, fight, fight, as he said, just to let people really there know in Pennsylvania, because he didn't know at that point if he had been shot in other places. He said that, you know, at that point you're thrown out to the ground and adrenaline's pumping. But he did that to just let the people know he was OK. And so I think, again, it was just an insight into someone going through an assassination attempt just days ago. I mean, I don't remember any moment in my lifetime where you get that kind of speech or this kind of moment so close to an event like that.

That's right. And the fact that the tone changed and right from the beginning it was a call for unity. And it's something that I'm sure the left will spend and say, well, he doesn't really mean unity for everyone. But his words were very clear.

And I think this is an important bite that we should play. And I want to get your take on it, Jordan. This was right at near the top of his speech. This is how he opened it. This is how he set the tone for receiving his nomination. This is bite one from President Trump last night. Together we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity and freedom for citizens of every race, religion, color and creed. The discord and division in our society must be healed.

We must heal it quickly. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together or we fall apart.

I am running to be President for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America. Yeah, I mean, this, of course, this is the Donald Trump I remember from four years from eight years ago when he ran for President the first time. Though people thought he was being divisive, he was actually being unifying.

And, Will, I don't know if it comes out to how the media spends it exactly, but I will tell you from being at the convention over four nights and being at three or four other conventions, working for conventions before in my career. This is the most diverse Republican Party I've ever walked through. And just walking through the convention, people from different backgrounds, different economically, racial, people who have immigrated to the country and become citizens and they support the message from Donald Trump. And I really think we're also in this very bizarre moment where not only is he having to address an assassination attempt and talking about, I think, you know, if you remember, it's the Democrats and Biden who have been vindictive, who sent the DOJ after Donald Trump. Donald Trump did not send the DOJ after Hillary Clinton, even after that long campaign of people chanting, lock her up.

He realized as President at that time, that would be a waste, that you need to unite the country to work on those big economic issues that matter most and people being able to be successful, that that's not what you do is continue. Like he said, you don't win for half the country, even if you only get half the country's support. The issue here, though, is, like he said, I'm not going to bring up Biden again. Has Donald Trump already beat Joe Biden? And who is going to be the we're hearing about potentially four Democrats running for office and Joe Biden not endorsing Harris and him pushing back the campaign, pushing back today. It is a bizarre time in U.S. Presidential politics when you're already through one of the major party's conventions.

That's right, Jordan. We even talked about that yesterday. We said just one of these stories, whether it be the weaponization of the DOJ, whether it be the failed assassination attempt, any of these disastrous debate performance would be election defining news items or moments in any normal cycle.

And we're getting a new bombshell every single week. It feels like we're not like you said last night as the the candidate for the Republicans, Donald Trump, was accepting his nomination, you were getting a deluge of reporting from Washington Post, New York Times, Axios, all of these big political reporters putting out stories about. Well, it could be Sunday that Joe Biden decides I'm out. It could be him endorsing Kamala Harris.

It could be him saying, let's do an open convention. I think AOC last night did a live on Instagram that was as long as Donald Trump's speech trying to comfort her supporters, but also basically sounding like she's done with Joe Biden and all in on Kamala, but also trying to say she's not made that decision yet. It's a wild time.

They are fractured. But I think we should play one more bite, Jordan, before the end of this segment. And this goes to the weaponization of of the DOJ by the Democrats. And and Donald Trump brought this up last night. And I thought it was a powerful moment.

Let's go ahead and play by three. And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what's been happening in our country lately at a level that nobody has ever seen before. In that spirit, the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy.

Especially since that is not true. In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country. And very big news, as you probably just read on Monday, a major ruling was handed down from a highly respected federal judge in Florida, Eileen Cannon, finding that the prosecutor and the fake documents case against me. We're totally unconstitutional. And the entire case was thrown out of court with all of that publicity thrown out of court. If Democrats want to unify our country, they should drop these partisan witch hunts, which I have been going through for approximately eight years. And they should do that without delay and allow an election to proceed that is worthy of our people.

We're going to win it anyway. And Jordan, that comes with the news that Jack Smith has filed notice of appeal in that documents case. Yeah, I would imagine so because it affects, of course, that case because it just said he's the illegitimate prosecutor that could affect, of course, what's going on in Washington, D.C. and this idea that they would continue prosecutions even after the election.

I think, listen, we will have the conventions in one one aspect are you get through them. This one was going to have a lot of extra attention on it because Donald Trump is a major name. He was shot on Saturday. And within 10 days, well, I mean, think about this 10 day stretch of Saturday from in Pennsylvania by, like you said, Saturday or Sunday this weekend, we could have had one of the leading candidates shot and the current President who would usually who would be the nominee for his party stepped down after being in a debate, potentially putting up one of the most unpopular vice Presidents in our history.

And I mean, somebody was just taking that ability to kind of build your profile. And it's it's been a disaster. But yet you've got Democrats. Do they rally around Harris? Do they tried someone new?

How do you move this money around legally? There's a lot of things they've got to figure out before they decide just to boot Joe Biden. And obviously his campaign is pushing back today. But I'll tell you, I've been in campaigns before that are not on the winning side of history.

And you already know that. And you still are not going to, of course, come out and dump on your candidate until that moment. First of all, legally and also until all of those issues we just discussed are figured out, like where does the money go?

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All right, folks, welcome back to secular. I'm in Milwaukee. I'll be back in studio Monday.

Will is in the studio at our team there. It's been great to still come to you each day this week from the convention and give you kind of a flair of what we're doing at the ACLJ and ACLJ action here. Of course, meeting a lot of these delegates are also frontline grassroots activists that have their own smaller organizations. A lot of those groups that we represented in those tea party cases are people who became become delegates to the convention. We've got a lot of friends running for office.

If you follow our social media as well, it is great to see them in this week where everyone is together from not only this federal candidates and people running in Washington, D.C., but you get the people running in different states. And, of course, that's very important now. But I think, Will, to go to a moment, we mentioned it right off the beginning of the show, it was probably the only time in my life, and I worked on the 2004 convention that was in New York City after 9-11 that the Republican Party decided to have in New York, even though it was a pretty hostile place. I think it was still the largest protest in history, convention history, was outside Madison Square Garden during the Republican National Convention with George W. Bush. But it was also a time when the Republican Party came together very united after those three years. We were at war, we were dealing with terrorism inside our own country, and we decided as a party to go to New York, host the convention there.

That was a very serious moment. But I will tell you, it still did not reach a moment where six days ago the person on stage accepting the party's nomination was shot in the head and still has a very large bandage on his ear and a part of his ear that is no longer there. And so I wanted to play this bite right from the early part of the speech because it was different. Usually in a convention speech, you come out and it's very hard hitting from the top.

You want the crowd going wild. But President Trump knew he had to address this event on Saturday, and he said this is the only time he will be addressing it. It's too painful for him. He thanked the Secret Service team, they got around and protected him. He's obviously going to let the investigators and the people that are going to do that to get to the bottom of it, like we are at the ACLJ, take that on.

Him personally, he's got to move on as a candidate for the country. Take a listen. I'm not supposed to be here tonight. Not supposed to be here.

But I'm not. And I'll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God. I mean, I think, Will, you know, whatever you want to say about President Trump and his personal faith or who he is, we've seen him as President, we've seen him on the issues, we've seen who he'll nominate, who he fights for at the court. Of course, we fought for him before with Mueller, with the first impeachment.

I mean, you're talking about someone who was impeached when he wasn't even President, who's had to sit through criminal trials. And when you demonize people, like President Trump talked about, and when he made that call to knock this off, to stop calling people enemies of democracy, to stop calling people Hitler, because if you killed Hitler, you would think you were doing something good. You were doing something that would be applauded. And this is likely, you know, encouraging people to take this kind of action.

But I think, Will, again, it was a very somber and sobering moment for the country. And you kind of are looking at Donald Trump and saying, you kind of do that check, like, would I even be here right now? Not if this similar kind of thing even happened to you. If you had had the pain of a rifle injury on your ear and you are giving an address to accept the nomination for the biggest job in the world while you're still healing from that gunshot. And yet it's not you whose people are talking about dropping out of the race. It's your opponent thinking about dropping out of the race for not being able to stick with it. And then that, of course, raises a lot of issues about whether or not Joe Biden's entire cabinet has allowed him to go on as President.

And how could he really stay in office as President, finish out the term if he doesn't feel like he's competent to be on the ballot in two months? That's right, Jordan. And in that tone that you heard from President Trump, it was very reflective. He like you said, he went into great detail telling the story. And that's what took the large portion of that first act of his speech last night. But you even hear with that that bite about I'm not supposed to be here tonight in the tone of the bite we played in the previous segment about, you know, the I want to be President.

I'm running for President for all America, not half America. And that's not what he always believed. But the circumstances of what's happened have almost given him a new liberty to speak in that way with a different tone that is not what you'd expect from the fighter Donald Trump. But him having this life experience and this this tragedy and this horrific attack and seeing supporters of his, which he loves his supporters. He is very much on their team. He loves the firefighters.

He loves the police. He sees this happen. He sees this tragedy around him. It almost gives him the liberty to speak in this tone. And I don't think this is the last time we'll see him being in this more somber, reflective tone. Well, still, I'm sure as this campaign goes on and whoever he's running against, you'll still see the fiery speeches. You hopefully will see another debate, especially if it's a different candidate. But I do think that there is a difference in a liberty that he has to speak in a different way that you wouldn't expect from President Trump just a week ago.

Yeah, and I think, again, it's a self reflected self reflection. You saw the interaction from his grandkids at the convention, his, of course, his sons and his family coming together and being there. I think, again, a strong symbol and yet someone who is, again, went through an experience where they said even though the crowd said no, of course, they believe, like most people believe, that he was saved almost supernaturally. And as he acknowledged that he really shouldn't be there based off the just the facts of where the shooter was, the kind of weapon they had, how close they were, how many shots they were able to get off. And of course, not forgetting that someone did lose their life. It wasn't like this shooter was missing people or missed Donald Trump shot of the head.

He just happened to turn his head in the right way at the right moment in the right second in history. Or he wouldn't have been there this week and we'd be a very different country. I think the only reason that even like the MSNBC types could even be critical last night was because Donald Trump is back on stage as the nominee. And they were also covering for a mess which is happening inside their own party, which is whether or not Joe Biden is going to survive as as the candidate for the Democrat Party. What happens to Harris?

What is it? Michelle Obama? What happens to all of them in this money they've raised? It's a mess. And so I think honestly, this convention, you will remember that moment will because of what happened in Pennsylvania. But for the most part, you get through this week. It's not it's not so defining to your campaign.

J.D. Vance has a lot of work to do to still introduce himself to the country. And Donald Trump has a lot of work to do. But if you can get through this week without without kind of a mess or without any missteps, that's smooth enough. And that happened.

The convention was smooth. The speakers ran the gamut of diversity, a difference even of opinion who come together under the Make America Great Again banner. So, folks, I encourage you support the work of the ACLJ. We're getting to the bottom of these issues with the weaponization of our legal system, of course, and fighting back against that at the ACLJ.

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1-800-684-3110. We'll be joined by Professor Harry Hutcheson in the next segment. We're going to talk a little bit more about that bite that we played earlier in the broadcast about Donald Trump condemning the political prosecutions from the Democrats as well as making reference to the Jack Smith prosecution in Florida that was thrown out earlier this week at the beginning of the convention by Judge Eileen Cannon in Florida.

We're going to get into that and talk a little bit about the appeal that has been filed by the special counsel Jack Smith in that case with Professor Hutcheson in the next segment. But I want to go ahead and take a call. I see a lot of you are calling in now. I appreciate that. And we'll get to your calls here throughout the broadcast. But let's first go to Danielle in Iowa on Line 2. Danielle, you're on Sekulow. Hi. I just wanted to say I think it was very telling that this is the only situation in recent history that the left and the liberal media is not screaming or even mentioning the idea of gun control.

Danielle, it is interesting. And the statements that came out normally after a mass casualty, mass shooting event, that is the first place that the left goes. It wasn't the case here. I think that a lot of that may have to do with them trying to be cautious to not look overtly political. So they weren't going to push forward an agenda item when the opposing candidate of their party was nearly assassinated. That's my read on it, why they probably didn't go there. I have seen a lot of commentators that are liberal leaning go there.

But you're right. Kamala Harris and President Biden did not go there. They instead went the unity track. Now, their unity track was completely different than the unity track that President Trump talked about last night. He went forward and said, I will be President for all Americans, not just half the country.

We need to heal this division and we need to heal it quickly. Those are not the same type of statements that you heard from the President and the vice President in the wake of this tragedy last weekend. You heard President Biden give an Oval Office address calling for unity and then went through a litany of political violence moments where he talked about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband. He brought up Gabby Giffords. Obviously that over a decade ago now, but still very fresh in the minds of a lot of people, especially in Arizona, when a sitting congresswoman was shot on stage. Now, what was glaringly absent from the litany of attacks is he paid reference to the content in the context of President Trump being almost assassinated, but then gave a lot of attacks that were against people on the left. But some of the notable missing instances was Steve Scalise getting shot as he practiced for the congressional baseball game and also the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh. If you were trying to prevent present a more unified picture about condemning violence, political violence, those are two examples in recent history that should have been included in that list to say, look, this doesn't belong anywhere. But instead it was littered with political statements to make it seem like the people who are responsible for this are his political opponents instead of saying we both need to cool it and we need to move forward and not incite violence.

He tried to spin it back towards the right. Folks, we are in our life and liberty drive right now, as we've seen the world can change in the blink of an eye. And that's why we need your support during our life and liberty drive. Your gifts are doubled by going to ACLJ.org. And also it's why our champions are so vital for us here.

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Jordan is now you saw him in the first half hour. He's traveling back from Milwaukee and will be back in studio with us on Monday. I'm joined now by Professor Harry Hutcheson. And I wanted to get more into this discussion that was raised by President Trump last night about stopping the political prosecutions. He referenced the Judge Cannon case where she dismissed Jack Smith's charges against President Trump because of two sections of the United States Constitution, both the appointments clause and the appropriations clause, saying that, one, he was not in a position of authority because the special counsel was not appointed through the normal process, which is set out in our laws. And then also that the fact that Jack Smith had nearly an unlimited budget to continue to run this prosecution, that was even something that was brought up in the hearing she held about whether or not he could remain on the case. She brought up, well, where does your funding come from? And the lawyers for the Department of Justice said, well, you know, we have this place we can go.

But if that runs out, we'll just get money from wherever, completely eliminating the role of oversight that Congress has with the power of the purse to appropriate money to the executive branch. So I want to play this bite, and it's a little bit longer. We played it earlier in the broadcast, but it really encapsulates everything we've been talking about here at ACLJ for months and years, really, when it comes to lawfare that's being waged by the left. Jordan hosted a panel at the RNC with Rick Rinnell and Ben Sisney, an attorney here at ACLJ, on this very topic of lawfare earlier in the week on Tuesday. And we got readouts from him on that earlier in the broadcast this week, so you should go check that out on Tuesday's broadcast to hear about that panel if you missed it. But I want to go ahead and play this sound bite, and then I'll go to Professor Harry Hutchison to talk about what he reads from this and kind of where the state of that case goes as Jack Smith filed a notice of appeal on Wednesday to fight the ruling of the judge in that case.

Let's go ahead and play bite three from President Trump last night. And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what's been happening in our country lately at a level that nobody has ever seen before. In that spirit, the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy, especially since that is not true.

In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country. And very big news, as you probably just read, on Monday a major ruling was handed down from a highly respected federal judge in Florida, Eileen Cannon. Finding that the prosecutor and the fake documents case against me were totally unconstitutional and the entire case was thrown out of court. With all of that publicity thrown out of court. If Democrats want to unify our country, they should drop these partisan witch hunts, which I have been going through for approximately eight years. And they should do that without delay and allow an election to proceed that is worthy of our people.

We're going to win it anyway. Professor Hutchison, that bite there, he went through the litany of it. He even goes back to that he's been going through this witch hunt or this lawfare against him for nearly eight years, starting with the Russia collusion narrative, which was disproven in the hiring of a special counsel. He's very familiar with special counsels, but now what we see out of Florida is a judge in the district level saying that the appointment of these special counsels flies in the face of the Constitution. What was your take on the bite from President Trump and as well the state of that case?

Well, of course, President Trump was precisely correct. And so that raises the question, why has Donald Trump face several state criminal cases in New York and in Georgia? Why has he faced two federal criminal cases in Florida and DC? Why have lawyers throughout the country from Colorado to Maine sought to disqualify Donald Trump from seeking the presidency? Why has he faced two impeachment cases in addition to the Russia collusion case, which was prosecuted by Adam Schiff and essentially by Bob Mueller? He's faced these attacks as part of a lawfare campaign because the claim is he is a threat to democracy.

In reality, Donald Trump is a threat. He's a threat to the progressive agenda, which systematically seeks to subvert the interest of middle class and lower class Americans who believe in the Constitution, who believe in the rule of law. And at the ACLJ, we have partnered, if you will, with President Trump in a number of legal cases by filing amicus briefs designed to defend the Constitution.

And so if you focus, for instance, on the documents case in Florida, which Judge Eileen Cannon dismissed, in that particular case, we had two provisions of the Constitution which basically defied Jack Smith's claim to jurisdiction. And most Americans understand the appropriations clause and the appointments clause, and it is clear beyond question that Jack Smith was appointed in defiance of those constitutional provisions. And that is one way of clawing back from this lawfare campaign that the Democrats insist upon. Something that Rick Grenell often says on this broadcast is when the left accuses you of doing something nefarious, it's oftentimes the case that they are the ones doing it themselves. And when you look at their claims that he's subverting democracy, he's against democracy, going so far as to say he's a threat to democracy or could end democracy, a lot of the things the left has been doing against President Trump is undemocratic for lack of a better term.

Whether it be trying to utilize the courts and the legal system to prevent him from running, whether it be the 14th Amendment challenges, which we at the ACLJ represented the Colorado Republican Party to try to ensure that voters there could vote for the candidate of their choice, because he had qualified to be on the ballot and they tried to keep him off. Very undemocratic move. Now you see them pushing very hard against their own nominee, the sitting President of the United States, that voters voted for in a primary and are sending delegates to a convention to put him as their nominee.

When the threat of them holding power is slipping from their hands, they will do anything but go through with the democratic process to try to hang on to that power. And then you look at Jack Smith using the special counsel, which many people have criticized the appointments of special counsels for many years, that as soon as the independent counsel statute ran out and special counsels became a thing, now you're looking at them using something that very much could fly in the face of the Constitution to go after a political opponent, that in and of itself is very undemocratic and that's what the left is doing. But Harry, we saw that Jack Smith, he filed a notice of appeal with the appeals court, the 11th District, which is out of Atlanta, to try to appeal this ruling from Judge Cannon. What are your thoughts on what could happen at the appeals court and do you think it even matters at the appeals court, this is probably going to the Supreme Court no matter what?

Very good questions. First, I would say this case is probably going to the Supreme Court no matter what. But number two, if we simply focus on the legal merits of Jack Smith's appeal, it is clear beyond question, in my opinion, that what we are dealing with is the elites' belief that they have the sole right to rule. So elites, by their very nature, are anti-democratic and that includes members of the Department of Justice, it includes Jack Smith, but it also includes the talking heads on many of the so-called mainstream media channels who believe that it is their preferences that should be controlled or control the country. And so they basically oppose rule by the American people.

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Go to ACLJ.org and have your donation doubled today. Welcome back to Sekulow. Executive producer Will Haines in the host chair today. You heard from Jordan earlier in this broadcast. He was able to join us for the first half hour before making his way back home from Milwaukee. You'll see him back in studio on Monday. One of the biggest disappointments from this broadcast today is that Logan is not here with me today because I think maybe the most peak political Logan Sekulow moment happened last night. And that is when Hulk Hogan, former WWE professional wrestler, took the stage, ripped off his shirt in normal fashion of Hulk Hogan, tearing his shirt to reveal a tank top that said Trump Vance underneath.

And he said he called it Trumpamania as a play on WrestleMania. So I am saddened that Logan's not here because I think it would have been a completely different broadcast this hour. We probably would have only talked about professional wrestling.

But we are not. Logan will join us next week as well. But I do want to get to your calls here as well. Let's go to line four. Yvette calling from New York. Yvette, you're on the air. Oh, wow. Hello. Thank you for taking my call.

I guess the first thing I would say was between you, me and the doorpost. To me, the second part of President Trump's speech was a little bit meandering, but that's not my main point. My main point was that, you know, you had that clip of President Trump saying that he wanted to be President of the whole country, not half the country. You never hear that on the mainstream media.

And there was also, oh, dear, I think it was the Independent newspaper from Britain on their website. They said that Hulk Hogan introduced the President. No, he was one of the speakers. It was the fellow from mixed martial arts, you know, who introduced the President.

I mean, it's a flashy weirdo sport, but at least he's a real businessman. And I mean, you can't even get a straight story from these people. I agree, Yvette. The media didn't know what to do last night with the speech from President Trump.

I agree with you, though. They are, as they say in the media world, they're burying the lead by missing the message of unity that he gave right up front. And it was a powerful message. It had a very humble tone to it, a very sober tone about the reality of where we are, even saying that the discord and division in our society must be healed. That's what the left is claiming President Trump is waging on our society.

He's calling for a healing. And he almost called their bluff the way that the left responded. Even David Axelrod said the Trump speech is the first good thing that's happened to Democrats in weeks. And I understand criticizing maybe the length of it. A lot of people don't like long speeches.

It's his prerogative to do what he would like. And there was a lot to fit in with the almost two act speech, as we have seen it framed, that the first was about the assassination attempt and then the second act was more of a traditional rally style Trump speech that you would see if you were to go to see him at a rally in a local city. But you're right. The fact that they're not highlighting that and talking about it and maybe critiquing it if they don't agree with it or they don't believe him, that should be really the message that everyone took away. And that's why it was right up front at the speech.

But instead, they're trying to get into style and substance. And honestly, it was a unique speech. There are people that could say, well, you know, he was off teleprompter and it got rambling throughout the end of the speech.

That is all fair to describe it. But you can't not address the message of unity and hope, really, that was given at the beginning about healing society. That's what everyone wants. That's what people have been calling on him to give. They've specifically said, where is President Trump calling on healing and unity?

It was right there at the Republican National Convention in his acceptance speech of the nomination. But when he gives the words that they've been calling for, they ignore it because it's not convenient for them. They want to continue to paint him as a divider.

And you're going to see that going forward. All of their calls for toning down the rhetoric. It's not meant for them. It's meant for conservatives. And so when they get something positive out of President Trump, like a unity call, they're going to ignore it because they don't really mean it when they want unity.

What they want is unity for them, not for everyone else. Let's go to another call. Let's go to Patty from Virginia calling on Line 1.

Patty, you're on Sekulow. Hi. Glad to be on. I'm a champion, but whatever.

That's not what I'm calling. Thank you. You're welcome. It's my pleasure.

I'm calling with a question that I had long before last Saturday, but last Saturday kind of clears it up. We are all Americans and we all live in the same country. And the one thing we could have different ways of looking at it, but we all would want the best, best, best person to be our President. And if I thought Joe Biden were a good guy, he's from my neck of the woods. I'm from Northeastern Pennsylvania, but he's not a good man. And he's not a well man. And he won't be a good President. Now, I want the best, best, best person to be President.

And I don't think that that in any way makes me extra smart or a rocket scientist. Where is this country to say they want to run somebody like Joe Biden? I don't think he ever had it, but even if he did, he doesn't have it now. And why would you want him to be the head of the most powerful country in the world? It raises a lot of questions. And I think that's what the Democrat Party is trying to reckon with right now, is that President Biden originally said he was a bridge President. He was going to be a transitional figure, someone to bridge the gap between the end of the Trump presidency and the next chapter. A lot of people didn't expect him to run for reelection, but he did. He's here and his heels are dug in now.

And that's the infighting you're seeing. And it's still very much up in the air whether or not he will be their nominee. Their convention doesn't start until August 19th. They were trying to rush it early with a digital vote, a digital roll call over Zoom to be able to get him as the official nominee before their actual convention. Because the people that are wanting to keep him as the nominee realize we've got to do something quick.

And those that don't want him are crying foul. Be like, no, I don't care if the voter is elected. We've got to get somebody else. We may lose democratically. We may lose. We have to find a way out of this.

So it is tough. And I agree, Patty. You said, I don't know why, but I just want the best person to be President. That just makes you an American. That's what it means. But the way that many of those on the left are operating right now just comes across as very un-American.

And all the ideals and traditions and constitutional framework that we have here. I'm going to get to Diane from Virginia. Diane, we're under a minute. I want to hear you real quick, though.

I know you're hurt for time. So the investigation, first of all, my question real quick is and you don't have to answer right now. Does Biden really have the authority to launch his own investigation because into the shooting? Because my concern is that then nobody will have to answer to Congress because they'll all be saying I can't I can't comment on a current investigation.

Diane, I'm only cutting you off because I've got 30 seconds. I believe he can order a review because he's the leader of the executive branch and that's under his purview. But also, Congress does have oversight.

And I don't think that they can get around that. We're going to see a lot Monday because the Secret Service director has been subpoenaed to appear before Congress. So we'll cover that Monday. Thank you, everyone, for watching this week with our coverage of the RNC. And don't forget, vote. Go to ACLJ.org and donate today to have your gifts doubled ACLJ.org.