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Were Trump rallygoers ATTACKED or accidentally injured in Tucson?

Rallygoers who sat behind Donald Trump’s podium at his recent rally in Tucson, Arizona, have reported suspicious injuries to their eyes. Some emergency physicians have suggested that these injuries could be the result of extreme exposure to lighting. But others believe that a chemical agent may have been deployed. So, what’s the truth? Glenn and Stu review the evidence. Plus, they run through some of the biggest oddities about the second failed Trump assassin: How did he get a gun as a convicted felon? Why did he appear to serve no jail time? And why are these attempted killers so often on the FBI’s radar?

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GLENN: What about the story, TheBlaze, spoke to a journalist, who then spoke to ten people, from Tucson.

Did you hear about the Trump rally in Tucson?

Let me give this story from TheBlaze.

After attending a Trump rally in Tucson, Arizona, last week. Roughly 20 attendees, reported mysterious symptoms such as blurred vision. And facial swelling, following the event. While we still don't know what happened, many are speculating that a chemical attack took place.

Could the strange illness, that affected the attendees be the result of more political violence, incited by Democrats and the mainstream media.

Political journalist, Christie Kelly. Joined Jill Savage and the Blaze News tonight panel to discuss this deeply concerning situation.

According to Kelly, this was not an ordinary rally. Primarily, because there was a lot of consternation going into the rally. The namesake of the venue. Linda Ronstadt, published a social media. A lengthy post, stating her displeasure with Trump for even being there.

You know, there's always something good that comes out of even the worse. I now know. I can answer the question if someone asks me: Is Linda Ronstadt still alive?

I know the answer. I know the answer. So let's look at the bright side.

Kelly who has spoken with a lot of people. Ten of them, who have come down with some sort of mystery illnesses, all of whom happen to be seated tremendously behind Donald Trump.

Blaze Media asked one of these people -- Kelly said those afflicted individuals reported that everything in the rally, went fine. However, right after the rally, strange maladies began setting in.

Every person that we spoke to, said 20 to 30 minutes after they left the rally, they began to get blurry eyes. Blurry vision. Some said, their nose started stinging. And they started feeling redness, that progressively got worse.

Adding that the majority of people she spoke with. Did then end up in the ER.

Some were referred to their ophthalmologist, gave me the paperwork. Which included, bilateral ocular chemical burn in the eye.

The emergency room physicians were less definitive indicating that the strange systems could have been, quote, a result of extreme exposure to lighting. Or potentially

An irritant in the air.

However, the opposite that ophthalmologist reports indicated that it was some sort of chemical burn. Despite both the event center and local law enforcement being notified of the situation, we have not received a statement from either the facility, or the Tucson police.

Thankfully, the Trump campaign is taking this initiative on to find out exactly what happened.

So what happened there? What happened there?

Does anybody -- I mean, does anybody care?

Seriously, does anyone care, anymore?

This is now -- and it could be just some chemical that we're on big -- I mean, they just don't use these lights anymore. But, you know, like, big stage lights that burn really hot. And maybe they were new. And they had some chemical.

I don't think that's happened since like 1971. But maybe. Maybe.

But why did it only affect the people that were directly behind Donald Trump?

Now, let's go back, and look at some of the other things.

So we have a problem with the FBI. And then we've talked about it before.

The FBI, the suspect was on our radar. Oh.

Were they? They were on your radar?

Oh, well, that's good. Do you mean radar range?

Is that a microwave you're looking at? Well, yeah. There was a sticky note. Put his name out on a stick zero note.

And just taped it to the microwave door. Because we were making popcorn. And thought, hey. Every time we make popcorn. You should look into that guy.

What does that mean, they're on their radar?

The FBI told Just The News on a statement on Tuesday, that it receives thousands of tapes every day, which is fielded through its National Threat Operations Center in West Virginia.

The tips involving a threat to life. Serious bodily injury. Or significant violent action are treated the highest priority. And are referred to the appropriate, FBI field office, or other relevant offices. Through this process, the FBI was notified about the dangers of certain people, that could pose at least a threat.

Five times they've received one. That was a potential threat.

That was on their radar.

That went on to commit mass shooting. Or attempts, to kill Donald Trump.

We know the most recent events. First assassination attempt. And now the second assassination attempt.

This guy, Ryan Westly Ralph, allegedly aimed an AK-47, that we know nothing about through the fence at the golf course.

He was charged with possession of a firearm, as a felon. And possession of a firearm, with an obliterated -- there's that word again.

STU: Yeah. Every time.

GLENN: -- serial number. He had been flagged by the FBI back in 2019.

So he was on the radar, for several years.

He was also, the subject of a previously closed tip to the FBI. Where he was allegedly.

Allegedly, he was a felon in possession of a firearm. Well, there was no allegedly about it. He was, for some reason, doesn't this sound strange.

Just ask yourself, gun owners. Would this happen to you?

If you had been a convicted felon, because you were even just brandishing a firearm.

But he went actually in and had a stnadoff with police. And he had a fully automatic weapon. Do you think you would have been judged guilty, in a court of law. And then just like, you know, you're on your own recognizance. And not paid any time in prison.

Why did that happen? He has several run-ins with the law, and he's never put in jail.
Why?

Now, you could come up with all kinds of theories. But they would involve conspiracies.

And I don't want to get into conspiracy theories. I'll get into conspiracy facts.

But I only have theories, on this one. One of those theories does not explain any of that.

But it does -- it does lead one to caution, that this government has so much information on all of us.

That within five minutes, of being asked, AI could find people like this.

That are unstable. That could be used. That have an axe to are grind. That have access to weapons. That they could just have AI suggest to them, in no way traceable. You know, you really have a responsibility to kill the president.

That's the world we're living in now.

And the government has that direct power.

I'm not saying that they have used it.

I'm saying, you cannot trust that kind of power, in the hands of a system, that you don't trust.

Who trusts it?

And I asked that of Democrats.

If you trust this, I mean, I think you're crazy. If you trust this system, what happens if Trump gets in? Do you trust that system?

See, unless you're planning on a one-party system. Somebody is going to get in, that doesn't agree with you. That's why, you don't want any of this stuff happening, no matter who is president.

Your guy or the other guy. You don't want this kind of power, in the hands of an out-of-control government.

And the only way you make sure that you don't have the power, in somebody's hands, that you don't trust, is that obey the law, and you demand that the law be enforced equally, all the time. Pragmatism I don't know how -- I really don't know how more Americans don't understand. The danger, that we're all in.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Why Your Actions Matter More Than Words in the Eyes of God

Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.

Watch the FULL Interview HERE

The American Dream is in CRISIS - How Freedom Was Replaced by Comfort

The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

Glenn Beck Warns of 3 Economic Outcomes That Could Change EVERYTHING | Ep 467

Socialism is spreading fast among America’s youth, and the shocking election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor in New York City marks a major cultural and economic shift. Glenn exposes how runaway debt, record home prices, AI job disruption, and the collapsing stake in capitalism have led many Millennials and members of Gen Z to embrace socialism and communism. He reveals the three possible economic futures for 2026: two that are disastrous and one that could change everything if the Trump administration’s global financial overhaul succeeds. Plus, Justin Haskins, president of the Heartland Institute, joins to reveal some terrifying truths about why young Americans are embracing socialism from a poll he conducted with Rasmussen Reports.

Glenn Beck warns: We're already in World War III

"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.