This is a rough transcript from “The Federalist Radio Hour” episode with Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle and Ken Valentine, former Secret Service special agent and author of the book Cheating Death: Three-Time Presidential Secret Service Agent Lives To Tell You How. Listen to “Retired Secret Service Agent Weighs In On Trump Assassination Attempt” here.
Matt Kittle: I can’t think of a more timely conversation to have right now. This book offers a unique view into, by design, a secret world. Ken, thank you so much for joining us on “The Federalist Radio Hour.”
Ken Valentine: Matt, I’m going to say it’s a pleasure to be with you, although it’s a tough time to use the word pleasure. Certainly had no idea when the book was published in April, that we would come so close to not cheating death in the Secret Service, and so it’s timely and appropriate to be with you. Thank you.
MK: Scary times these are and all the more scarier by what we saw, obviously, on Saturday in Pennsylvania. Just covering the Republican National Committee convention, I keep hearing the word “miracle” over and over again. I don’t think it’s hyperbole. I think that the miraculous series of events kept the former president and the GOP’s presidential nominee from serious harm’s way, or an assassination, which is indeed what was the goal here by a killer. It would seem to me, and a lot of people are asking the same questions, that this was
