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How Glenn would respond if these ATF agents visited HIM

What happens if the ATF shows up at your door? Such an occurrence happened recently to one American, who tells the two agents in a recently posted video that he’s the owner of Moonlight Industries. Glenn plays the video in this clip, which shows two ATF agents explain that they are there to ‘pick up’ Forced Reset Triggers the man had recently purchased. Then, Glenn explains how HE would respond to the agents if he found himself in the same situation…

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GLENN: I'm going to play some really disturbing video.

A man who is claiming to be the owner of Moonlight Industries. This is a company that specializes in making chest rigs for Special Forces operators.

He posted a video on YouTube showing two ATF agents, visiting him. And saying that they're there to pick up a recently purchased, legally purchased FRT.

This is a device that resets the trigger, faster than others. And if you replace your trigger with this trigger, it's much faster and so now, the ATF, after these are being sold legally.

Now they're saying, you have to turn them in. They're illegal. Could be a felony.

They show up at this guy's house. Well, you don't have to register an FRT.

What -- what -- how did they even know?

Listen. And if you're watching the Blaze TV, watch what happened.

VOICE: So the reason why we're here is because I'm sure you're aware, that just recently, the ATF classified FRTs. The four triggers.

VOICE: Sure.

VOICE: As machine guns.

VOICE: Yeah.

VOICE: So we are aware that you may have purchased some of these FRTs. So now we are having -- the whole agency is basically reaching out to these purchasers.

VOICE: That's incredible. Yeah.

VOICE: And we have to --

GLENN: It is.

VOICE: -- pick them up. They're illegal.

VOICE: So I won't be answering any questions today.

I don't have any comments this subject. I won't be giving you anything.

VOICE: Okay.

VOICE: So are you refusing to give us the triggers?

VOICE: I'm not refusing anything. I won't be answering any questions.

VOICE: Okay. But okay. So we are aware that you do -- you did purchase FRTs. Again, you wouldn't be in trouble, if you just give those up to us. Or if you sold them, you can tell us you sold them. Again, you won't be in trouble for that.

VOICE: I understand.

VOICE: We're just here honestly to pick them up.

VOICE: I understand.

VOICE: I don't want to be here, any more if you want me to be here.

VOICE: The problem is, you are the people who -- who go and knock on the doors. Right? So when they make new laws and you break them or you go against the citizens, because they've spoken, what they buy and what they do. The citizens are speaking. But the government is making their decisions on what they think. They're not being servants to the citizens. Right? And I understand you have families to feed. You're just doing what you're told, so you don't get fired from your job. But there is a problem that exists. And at some point, you have to make a decision what side of the team you're on. So I won't be answering any questions. If I'm not being detained, I'm not under arrest, I'll just be leaving now.

GLENN: You already said too much.

VOICE: Okay.

VOICE: I won't be able to help you with what you're trying to find.

VOICE: Okay.

STU: What do you do in that situation?

GLENN: Not what he did.

STU: No?

GLENN: Do what he did. You know what, wow. I really respect you stopping by. I'll be contacting my attorney. And because this is the first time hearing about any of this.

And so I can't make any comment or help you at all, because I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about.

Or -- or what's legal, what's not legal at this point.

So are you --

STU: I'll go through my attorneys.

VOICE: Are you refusing?

VOICE: No. No. Not at all. I appreciate -- I appreciate the professionalism that you've displayed. And I -- and I'm a good American citizen. And I respect the law.

I just can't help you today, because this is coming as a surprise to me.

STU: Now, could they do something here? Could they force him to do it? Could they arrest this person?

GLENN: I don't know. It's the ATF. They can make it up as they go along now.

STU: Apparently.

GLENN: But what they're trying to do, I think. Is put people into categories.

Notice, they say, are you refusing?

Once you refuse, that opens up a whole bunch of other legal doors.

Okay?

So there's a great guy, ask one of our producers. They know -- we had him on the air for our special on the out-of-control weaponization of government.

When we did that special. He's a guy who makes videos. They're on YouTube.

You may have seen him. I just can't remember his name off the top of my head. But he goes through this, and shows you exactly how to react.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Because once they -- they use words, that you may not think, like are you refusing?

Well, yeah. I mean, yeah. Right now, I am.

No, no, no, no, no. Because by saying you're refusing, it puts you into another category.

STU: You said earlier on the show, that you believe this audience was the most prepared audience out there. And this is exactly what you're talking about, right? Who would have thought, this is a thing that you had to deal with. But if you're watching -- if you're on Blaze TV, if you were watching, you would have already known those details.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: But this is the type of stuff you have to be prepared for now.

GLENN: Yeah. You cannot look at --

STU: Jeez.

GLENN: You cannot look at an agent of the federal government, as the way you used to look at them. We used to look at them. And like, dude, it's the FBI. I'll help you any way I can. What do you need?

We're all on the same team.

No. We're not necessarily on the same team.

I'm on the team that is supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States of America. And I will follow to the letter, the Constitution of the United States of America.

But I don't think that everyone on the other team, is doing so.

All the way to the president.

They -- they pick and choose. You have the president right now, talking about just taking the power of the debt ceiling.

And saying, I'm just going to raise it.

Well, you can't. That is constitutionally illegal for the president to do.

But he knows.

And they keep doing these things, over and over and over again.

It doesn't matter what the Supreme Court says. It doesn't matter what the Constitution says.

Well, to many of us in America, it does.

And I'm not a revolutionary. I am not calling for the overthrow of the American government.

Or the overthrow of -- of our system.

I'm asking for the implementation of our system. I'm the one saying, excuse me.

You have taken revolutionary tactics here. And you are not protecting, defending, or even reading the Constitution. Something you took an oath to protect and defend.

I didn't take that oath. You did. And you are no longer doing those things. So I can't help you.

I would like to.

But I can't help you right now.

And I'll talk to an attorney, because this is just coming as a surprise to me. I just didn't. I don't know.

And I want to be absolutely law-abiding, and do the right thing.

But I don't know what's going on.

STU: It shouldn't be our relationship with the government.

GLENN: No. It shouldn't be. But it is the relationship all of our founders said we have. George Washington, when he's president, he said, basically. Don't trust me.

Don't trust any of us. Don't.

Man is man, and government should be viewed as a fire.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: When you're in control of it, it's great. When it's in control of you, it's deadly.

STU: Yeah. But that's -- that's different.

This is -- it's almost a fearful -- what you're describing is someone who is fearful.

GLENN: They've given you reason.

STU: And I'm not saying you're wrong. Believe me. But you think of the people, by the people, for the people. That's not a description of that.

GLENN: You know, I have to tell you, I've never seen the government look at its citizens as the problem.

Never seen that. Never seen that.

And that's what's happening now.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.