Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And today, when it comes to the failed assassination attempts, plural, on Donald Trump, understand clearly what this means. What they feel about Trump and what they want to do to Trump is precisely what they feel about you and what they want to do to you. And so our title today, Trump First, Then You.

The most recent assassination attempt occurred Sunday, September 15, at Trump's splendid golf course in Palm Beach, Florida. He was leisurely playing on hole number five when Ryan Wesley Routh waited for him in the vicinity of hole number six in the thick foliage which surrounds the course. He held an SKS-45 rifle. It fires a 7.62-millimeter round, Russian-made, with a scope and a device to record it and broadcast it on social media live. Fortunately for Trump and the United States of America, a Secret Service officer noticed the muzzle of the SKS poking through the chain-link fence in the foliage and engaged the shooter with his weapon.

Now, Routh dropped his SKS and fled to his nearby vehicle and calmly drove away and melted into the busy traffic of Palm Beach. But little did he know that a bystander caught and recorded a clear photo of him and his car tag. Local sheriff's deputies soon pulled him over and arrested him without incident. Now, the shooter is a real piece of work. Ryan Wesley Routh.

He's been to Ukraine to recruit for the army there after serving in the Ukraine Foreign Legion. He is closely associated with the CIA. And the FBI thinks that the shooter had an informant within the Trump organization who kept him informed of Trump's whereabouts and schedule, including when he would be on the golf course. It is more than a coincidence that Routh knew when and where Trump would be that afternoon for a spontaneous, unscheduled golf game. Routh was an avid, enthusiastic progressive who supported Kamala Harris and thoroughly hated Donald Trump.

He has an exhaustive arrest record for a variety of weapons violations, over 100 of them, including one for possessing and developing weapons of mass destruction. Quite a piece of work. All of this points to Ryan Wesley Routh as being far more than a mere lone gunman on the prowl for Donald Trump. No, this assassination attempt had connections and, quote-unquote, coincidences. That is, connections to forces deep within our established power structure.

That is, the deep state, including the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Biden administration. Don't be fooled. The mainstream media and deep state apparatus of the federal government will attempt to memory hole this incident and whitewash the importance and significance of it. Don't let them. We must keep this ever before the American public.

Well, the first assassination attempt occurred on July 13, 2024, at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. President Trump was speaking to a large crowd at the Butler Farm Show grounds and, in what can only be described, in hindsight, as a carefully crafted deep state operation. At a point where Trump turned his head to look at a graph he had on the screen, a bullet went whizzing past his head, grazing his right ear. In the ensuing chaos, eight shots were fired, and it's still unclear to me exactly from where and from whom and how many shooters there were.

And these eight shots resulted in one rally participant being killed, tragically, and two others being wounded. Trump himself was immediately swarmed and smothered by Secret Service agents and ushered off the stage to a hospital where his ear was treated and bandaged. But not before standing tall. That is, right after the agents had covered him and begun to lead him toward the exit, he stood with blood on his face and exclaiming, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, while pumping his fist in the air.

It was a spontaneous, iconic moment that will live in American history and inspire patriots as long as liberty and courage survived, dear listener. Now, what the deep state conspirators, who hate and fear Trump so, could not have calculated, even if they did factor that the attempt might fail, what they could not calculate is that a providential God would magnify, enlarge, and strengthen Donald Trump rather than destroy, humiliate, and kill him.

There were so many anomalies in this story that professionals who deal with these things every day, people like retired Secret Service agents, SWAT team officers, FBI agents, security professionals, they all agree that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had inside help and was in all likelihood a patsy chosen by the conspirators to take the fall for the assassination, a la Lee Harvey Oswald in the JFK assassination. First of all, Thomas Matthew Crooks was a 21-year-old local who had been training on an AR-15 for over a year, and he was practicing at a range frequented by professional security, police, and FBI agents.

The Heritage Foundation has discovered through cell phone records that Crooks had been in steady contact with the FBI for over a year. In fact, they found that nine devices were employed by Crooks in his communication and preparation for his mission with the FBI. Crooks purchased a ladder on the day of the assassination, which he used to climb up a utility building only 120 yards from where Trump was speaking. That's a chip shot for a shooter. He was seen entering and wandering the grounds with that ladder without ever being challenged or questioned.

Bystanders reported Crooks in the area with a range finder only an hour before the shooting. He was never stopped or even questioned for having a range fighter. What do you do with that, huh? Although people in the crowd reported him to authorities, they did nothing. He also flew a drone over the area prior to the shooting, reconnoitering the area that he would be shooting from, of course.

And as Trump was speaking, just moments before commencing fire, bystanders noticed him on the roof with his AR-15 and shouted and pleaded with law enforcement to do something. No one did. These warnings were ignored. A local police officer, not Secret Service, saw him up on the roof of the utility building and hoisted himself on the edge of the roof and saw Crooks lying prone with his rifle aimed at Trump. When Crooks saw the officer, he turned to him with his weapon.

Well, the officer fell from his position, trying to avoid being shot, and he injured himself in the fall. Moments later, knowing he had been discovered, Crooks opened fire. And although a few local law enforcement officers attempted to call in these reports to Command Central, staffed by the Secret Service, their warnings and pleas and urgent reports of an active shooter were ignored. These are just a few of the most egregious examples of security, quote-unquote, lapses. That's giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Quote-unquote, security lapses by the Secret Service. Joe Bongino, for example, a former Secret Service agent, says that there is no way any trained, competent Secret Service agent would let any of these lapses happen unless they were designed to happen, planned to happen. The shooter was being helped, not hindered. This characterization of the assassination attempt and its surrounding circumstances has been corroborated by dozens of other professionals, including snipers and counter-snipers, security professionals, SWAT team officers, and former Secret Service agents.

One is left with the distinct impression that our government is deliberately trying to kill Donald Trump, former president and now avowed enemy of the illegitimate fourth branch of government, the intelligence branch, in addition to the executive, legislative, and judicial branch established by the Constitution. You can scan and comb your Constitution back and forth. Time and again, you'll never find a fourth branch of government, the intelligence branch, but we nevertheless have one now. Now, the American Free News Network asserts that this shadowy branch of government has firm control of the executive and legislative branches.

This is for a variety of reasons, a variety of power plays that have been executed. Also, they've been doing this for decades, and this is a rich vein of research and study for future broadcasts. I will be taking this apart piece by piece in future broadcasts. Well, while this fourth branch of government does not yet have this kind of stranglehold control over the judiciary branch, that is, the Supreme Court, they soon hope to by packing the court, as Democrats want to do, that is, loading up the present nine-judge panel with three to five others who would tip the balance in favor of the Marxist tyranny of the deep state.

Well, the bottom line is that Trump and the MAGA movement is an existential threat to the power of the deep state, to the power and wealth of this fourth branch of government. This is why Donald Trump cannot be allowed to hold another term of office. This is expressly stated by so many representatives of the deep state. Donald Trump cannot be allowed under any circumstances to hold another term of office, even if it means assassinating him. And there is no other way.

The deep state actors have telegraphed their intentions to eliminate this popular, savvy, and able leader, Donald Trump. For example, former CIA counterterrorism official Phil Mudd said on CNN a while back that, owing to Trump's disruption of the CIA's operations abroad, that, and I quote, the government is going to kill this guy. Yes, former CIA counterterrorism official Phil Mudd has said on television, CNN, that the government is going to kill this guy. You may remember Senator Chuck Schumer warned Trump shortly after he was elected in 2016.

He said that, let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, unquote. And the Lincoln Project founder, Rick Wilson, who is a rhino, a Republican in name only, he is a rabidly anti-Trump person. Well, he told a CNN host a while back that Republican donors have to, and I quote, go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. That's just a fact, unquote. Yes, Rick Wilson, go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.

That's just a fact, unquote. Well, that's just a sample of the threats to Donald Trump's life that have been brought to him when nothing's been done about these either. The deep state, the intelligence branch of government has been telling us in no uncertain terms that precisely what we see happening before our eyes today is what they have planned for years and are now executing. And only naive, brainwashed Pollyannas can come to any other conclusion, dear listener.

But if it is only Donald Trump that so infuriates and exercises progressives and the deep state, then one might ask, why not make him a sacrificial lamb and maybe find another candidate that won't incite this kind of reaction, huh? Oh, that's just what they want to hear. But it's an easy answer. It is we, the people they are after in the end. It is we, the people that the deep state, that the fourth branch of government, the intelligence branch is after in the end.

Donald Trump is a populist candidate. That is, he represents the people. What he wants, they want. What he says, they would say if in his place. And consequently, there is an identity between Trump and us, a thing which our enemies see clearly if not all of us do.

Many of us do not. Trump has said repeatedly that all that is happening to him is not so much about him as it is about you. They, that is the deep state, are trying to get to us, but must first go through Donald Trump. Can you see this truth? You must drop any naive pretense that your government cares about you and wants to protect you and provide for you.

They do not. They hate you. They want to destroy you. Their hero is not George Washington, but George Soros. It is not we, the people, who establish the Constitution and become the ultimate authority in a constitutional republic, but for them it is we, the pampered, not we, the people.

There is not liberty and justice for all. No, there is no justice for them, but just us. They are the parasite feeding off the host. That is you. Government has never produced one nickel of wealth ever in history.

They always feed off of the people in order to establish their power and their tyranny. They are the parasite feeding off of you, the host. Oh, and they also piously, do they not? The mainstream media, speaking on behalf of the deep state, piously maintain that they want to protect the territorial borders of Ukraine when they flagrantly open ours. They say they want to protect the liberty and freedom of Ukraine when they tyrannize over us.

You are the worst kind of naive brainwashed Pollyanna if you think that the United States government has your best interests at heart. Your eyes are closed. Your brain is dead. Your conscience is on a railroad sidetrack. You are wishfully projecting your good intentions upon the people who do not deserve that benefit of the doubt.

If, indeed, you think the U.S. government has your best interests at heart, you are a low-information voter who is profoundly incurious about your world. Those who rule over us hate us. They want to kill us. Note, for example, they poison us with a vaccine or really an experimental mRNA injection after subjecting us to COVID tyranny.

There still needs to be an accounting for unleashing a lab-manufactured virus on the world which became the pretense for injecting a largely unsuspecting population with a deadly cocktail of spike proteins and other elements which destroy the immune system of the victim and then afflict him also with a multitude of medical conditions like myocarditis. While we know we must hold big pharma giants like Pfizer and Moderna accountable, we also know we can start to hold a gang of individuals accountable beginning with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Well, what the big state, deep state, fourth branch of government, the intelligence branch, also has done to us is flood us with anti-American hostiles from across our wide-open borders. Naive, virtue-signaling justice warriors are waking up today to find Haitian illegal immigrants stealing and eating their pet cat Fluffy or their dog Hillary and the geese from the city park. Low-information voters who flatter themselves as progressive suddenly wake up to find Venezuelan gang members from Tren de Aragua, which translates to the Aragua train.

They find these Venezuelan gang members at their door requiring that rent be paid to them henceforth if you are to remain in your residence. This is just the beginning. Tip of the iceberg, dear listener. Wait until the thousands of military-aged Chinese men now resident in the United States are activated. Or the Iranian sleeper cells that are called upon to begin killing and destroying in response to the outbreak of war in the Middle East.

Wait till they get going. Well, your elected officials also long ago committed treason by consenting to this plan of invasion and conquest by foreign powers. Your very own government, dear listener, do not be naive. Your very own government is complicit and bought off by foreign agents to your enslavement and to your tyrannization and to your colonization. We are being colonized by foreign powers with the cooperation and treasonous activity of those in elected office.

And fourthly, the deep state, the fourth branch of government, the intelligence branch, imprisoned patriots who only wanted to see a fair election represented on January 6, 2021, didn't they? There are dozens of men and women who languish in the D.C. gulags, which your government has decided must be made examples, these people, to the rest of America. Most of them hurt no one, destroyed no property. Rather, it was the state who murdered Ashley Babbitt and two other women, but they have been subjected to draconian prison sentences to be taught a lesson. And what is that lesson?

Oh, it is indeed even expressed by Nancy Pelosi that protest our tyranny over you and you'll pay a terrible price. Oh, all of this and much, much more, dear listener. But what is exasperating and frustrating to the deep state tyranny is that Donald Trump and his political aspirations stand in the way of their ambitions. If what he says is true, then all will be lost for them. That is why it's important for the state to eliminate Trump first and methodically work their way through others like Elon Musk or Robert Kennedy Jr. and eventually get to to you and me.

They want to silence alternative voices to the government narrative, so they first ban Trump from Twitter and ignore him and his words on mainstream media. If they can do that to him, they can do it to you. Trump first, then you. If they want to frame you for crimes you didn't commit, they first frame Trump on fabricated charges and convict him in rigged show trials. Trump is presently involved in four kangaroo court cases where the state is desperately trying to put him in jail.

One is reminded of the head of the Soviet Union secret police, excuse me, Lavrentiy Beria and his famous quip to Joseph Stalin, show me the man and I'll show you a crime. Unquote. If they can do that to him, they can do it to you. First Trump, then you. If they want to lie about you and distort who you are and what you stand for, they first lie about Donald Trump and make him out to be someone he is not.

He's the orange man. He's Hitler. He's the threat to democracy. He'll throw his enemies in jail if elected. All of this distorted, inflated, hyperbolic rhetoric is really nothing more than projection on their part.

That is, it's what they are doing to us but projecting onto us as our motives. It is a classic Marxist tactic. If they can do that to him, they can do it to you. Trump first, then you. And if you refuse to submit, if you are not a naive, brainwashed Pollyanna when it comes to government propaganda, then they will find a way to eliminate you.

That is, kill you. The camps are being prepared. It is difficult to overestimate the assassination attempts on Donald Trump. If they can do it to him, they can do it to you. Trump first, then you.

We are engaged in what is shaping up to be an epic struggle in our generation. Liberty versus tyranny. Most of America has until recently been content to let all of this go by and stick to their nine-to-five lives and stay out of the way of politics. But that's changing. Tyranny is encroaching on all of our daily lives.

From food to fuel, the state is pricing us out of normal living. If it hasn't happened to us yet, we hear stories of government intrusion and overreach into our finances and freedoms. And we see all of this happening with the full force of the state to a man who would, if he could, begin to destroy this monolith, this draconian state. And consequently, the state seeks to destroy this populist candidate, this classic American who has the pluck and the nerve to challenge them. It is rumored that Donald Trump has confessed Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior in the recent past, largely due to the trials and tribulations he has undergone.

Much has been made clear to him. The attempts on his life recently have only deepened his faith and his commitment to his Lord. Now, I can't verify personally any of this, but I hope and pray that it is true. Whatever the case may be, God is certainly in providential oversight of Donald Trump and his labors. Please pray, dear listener, please pray that God will continue to protect and preserve him and bless his work on behalf of liberty and the United States of America.

And if you haven't yet, I pray that you too would confess Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, even as Mr. Trump has done. Now, yeah, this is the Trump first-then-you progression. I would like to see that you confess Jesus Christ even as he has. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a moment of truth. Now, New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard.

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