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Join John OConnor for fearless conservative political commentary and investigative analysis on OConnors Right Stand. Each week, get unfiltered perspectives on current events, government accountability, and judicial failures that mainstream media wont cover. Hard-hitting episodes featuring in-depth political analysis, breaking news commentary, and the conservative viewpoints you need to hear.
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Good Thursday morning, Patriots. Welcome back to O'Connor's Right Stand. I'm your host, John O'Connor. Software programmer by day, conservative truth seeker by night. Hope everyone is doing well. Have you checked out O'Connor's Quick Strike yet? I'm seriously asking. I cannot tell as my podcast download tracker doesn't seem to be working properly for that podcast. So I have no idea of how many times it's been viewed, downloaded, or all that good jazz. Anyways.
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We are on episode two and averaging about 13 minutes an episode. So not too long, covering three political news stories, often less reported ones and giving you my take as well as what you need to know. So today's episode here on O'Connor's right stand, we're talking about what happened when president Trump went to address the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday. What unfolded wasn't just a series of unfortunate technical difficulties. It was a pattern of suspicious malfunctions
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that raise serious questions about both UN staff competence and, more importantly, catastrophic Secret Service security failures. Let me paint you the picture of what actually happened, because the mainstream media is trying to sweep this under the rug as a series of innocent mishaps. They're not. When you connect the dots, and, Patriots, we're going to connect every single one, you'll see...
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A disturbing pattern that should terrify every American who cares about our president's safety. If you think you know the full story, I bet you don't have the complete picture. So let me give you all the nuggets of information. The right stand starts now.
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Before we dive into Tuesday's events, we need to go back to Sunday, September 21st. The Times of London, that's the British newspaper folks, published a report that should have set off alarm bells at the Secret Service headquarters. The report stated, and I quote, to mark Trump's arrival, UN staff members have joked that they may turn off escalators and elevators and simply tell him they've ran out of money so he has to walk up the stairs. I'll say that again, patriots.
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UN staffers were openly joking about sabotaging basic infrastructure during the president's visit. They thought it would be funny to make the leader of the free world walk upstairs like some common tourist. These globalist bureaucrats at the UN thought it would be hilarious to humiliate the president of the United States. Now, here's where it gets interesting, and by interesting, I mean absolutely infuriating. This wasn't some random comment overheard in a coffee shop.
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This was reported in a major international newspaper two days before Trump's visit. The Secret Service, the UN security team, and everyone responsible for protecting our president had advance notice that UN staff were disgusting, even in jest, sabotaging escalators during Trump's arrival. What did they do with this intelligence? Well, apparently nothing. Because guess what happened on Tuesday morning?
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exactly as the London Times reported these UN staffers were joking about. At exactly 9.50am on Tuesday morning, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto an escalator at UN headquarters. The moment, and I mean the exact moment, they stepped onto that escalator, it ground to a halt. Not a minute later, not after they reached the top
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but the instant they committed to riding it up to address world leaders. Video footage shows the president looking around, clearly caught off guard, before he and the first lady were forced to walk up the stopped escalator like they were climbing stairs. Exactly what those UN staffers had joked about making him do. Now, here's what should terrify us. The Secret Service response to this incident, or rather, complete lack of response,
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When that escalator stopped, creating what security experts correctly identified as a choke point, a confined space where the president becomes a sitting target, what did our supposedly elite Secret Service agents do? Well, they stood there. They looked around. They hoped someone would fix the problem.
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Patriots, this is not an exaggeration. RealClearPolitics correspondent Susan Crabtree, who has extensive Secret Service sources, reported exactly what had happened. She said sources within the Secret Service community were very concerned about what they witnessed from fellow agents when Trump was stalled and vulnerable. She compared it directly to the delayed Secret Service response during the July 13th assassination attempt when it took them far too long
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to get Trump off stage after a bullet grazed his ear. Think about this tactically for a moment. The president of the United States, a man who has survived two assassination attempts in 2024 alone, is trapped on a stopped escalator. He cannot truly move forward quickly, he cannot retreat, and he's slightly elevated above the crowd like a target on a shooting range. In that moment,
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Secret Service Protocol should have agents immediately surrounding him, creating a human shield and evacuating him from that vulnerable position. Instead, they stood around looking like confused mall security guards. Jack Posubic, a respected conservative commentator, captured what every American should be thinking, and I quote, I can't believe the President and First Lady were allowed to wait on a stopped escalator. How is this even possible? Mike Cernovich.
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another sharp political observer was even more blunt. And I quote, the second it stopped, guns should have been out and a perimeter secured. This was a tactical failure. It sent the wrong message. But wait, it gets worse. After the White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, rightfully demanded an investigation, the UN scrambled to provide an explanation. The UN spokesperson claimed that a videographer from Trump's own delegation had somehow
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triggered a safety mechanism at the top of the escalator. Let me break down their story. They're claiming that a White House videographer walking backward up the escalator to film the president's arrival somehow triggered a comb-step safety mechanism that immediately shut down the entire escalator the moment Trump stepped on it at the bottom. This explanation is oddly convenient. It's almost insulting to our intelligence.
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After UN staffers were caught on record joking about shutting off escalators, suddenly we're supposed to believe it was just Trump's own videographer who accidentally caused the exact scenario those same UN staffers had been fantasizing about? The UN claims they conducted a thorough investigation, including reading the escalator central processing unit. How thorough can an investigation be when it's completed within hours of the incident?
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They're asking us to believe that in less than a day, they identified the exact cause, cleared themselves of any wrongdoing, and presented a neat little narrative that absolves UN staff of any responsibility. But the escalator incident was just the beginning. When President Trump finally made it to that podium to address the General Assembly, his teleprompter mysteriously stopped working. Not before his speech, not after.
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but the moment he was supposed to begin speaking to 193 world leaders. Trump handled it with his typical grace under pressure, telling the assembly, don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter because the teleprompter is not working. I feel very happy to be up here with you. Nevertheless, and that way you speak more from the heart, I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble. The audience laughed, but Patriots
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This isn't funny. This was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the president's address to the world leaders. And here's the kicker. The UN admits they don't operate the teleprompter for visiting dignitaries. Each delegation brings their own equipment and operators. So how exactly did Trump's teleprompter fail right on cue? According to sources familiar with the situation, the White House delegation may not have had the adequate time to properly set up their equipment. They arrived to find that
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their preparation time was somehow insufficient to ensure their technology was plugged in and ready to go. Isn't it convenient that both the escalator and the teleprompter failed at precisely the moments that would have caused the maximum embarrassment and disruption to the president? And isn't it even more convenient that the UN had an explanation that absolves their staff of any responsibility for either incident? But wait, there's more.
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Town Hall's Katie Pavlich, who was given a seat in the press pool to cover the historic speech, noticed something else suspicious. The audio levels in the room were dramatically different for President Trump compared to the previous speaker, the Brazilian president. Pavlich reported that the microphones were audible for the previous speaker but were not amplifying sound at the same level when Trump started speaking. It was literally hard to hear the President of the United States in the room where he was speaking to World
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leaders. Then, as if the audio manipulation wasn't enough, the main UN feed to television news channels mysteriously switched to a foreign language translation toward the end of Trump's speech, obscuring his words from an international television audience. Let me get this straight. The escalator stops the moment Trump steps on it. The teleprompter fails at the moment he begins speaking.
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The audio levels are mysteriously lower for his speech than the previous speakers, and the international television feed gets switched to a foreign language translation during his remarks. Four separate technical failures, all targeting the same person, all occurring at the worst possible moments. What are the odds? To her credit, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt didn't let this slide.
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She immediately connected the dots between the London Times report and Tuesday's events, stating unequivocally, if someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately. On Jesse Watters' primetime, Levitt was even more direct, and I quote, that's definitely what it appears to be to me. There was some concerning reporting over the weekend from the London Times that UN globalist staffers
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were basically plotting to set up the President of the United States. The Secret Service has now launched an investigation, but patriots, this is classic government reaction. Investigate after the threat has already materialized instead of preventing it when you had advanced intelligence. We knew that from the London Times report that UN staffers were talking about sabotaging escalators. We knew they had motives.
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They're globalist bureaucrats who despise Trump's America First agenda. We knew they had an opportunity. They controlled the building where Trump would be speaking. Yet, somehow, with all this foreign knowledge, our security apparatus failed to protect the president from exactly the kind of incident that had been publicly discussed in international media. Despite all these obstacles,
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President Trump delivered a masterful speech that perfectly captured the dysfunction he was experiencing in real time when he told the assembled world leaders, these are the two things I got from the United Nations, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. He wasn't just making a joke. He was exposing the incompetence and possible malice of the organization that's supposed to facilitate international diplomacy.
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Trump used these incidents to illustrate his broader point about UN ineffectiveness. He told world leaders that the UN offers nothing but empty words, and empty words don't solve wars. He reminded them that he had ended seven wars during his first presidency, without receiving a single phone call from the UN offering assistance. All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle, Trump said.
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If the First Lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen. This wasn't just political theater. It was a perfect metaphor for the UN's inability to provide even basic services, let alone solve international conflicts. The implications of this incident extend far beyond one embarrassing day at the United Nations. This represents a fundamental breakdown in the security apparatus that's supposed to protect our president, and by extension, our democracy.
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If the Secret Service cannot properly respond to a stopped escalator in a controlled environment like the UN headquarters, how can we trust them to protect the president in truly dangerous situations? If they're still making the same kinds of delayed response mistakes that nearly cost Trump his life in July of last year, what does that say about their ability to learn from failure and improve their protocols?
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If international organizations like the UN can create hostile environments for American officials, whether through malicious intent or gross negligence, what does that say about our standing in the world and our ability to conduct diplomacy from a position of strength? These are not abstract questions. President Trump faces real threats from real enemies who would love nothing more than to see him eliminated. Every security failure, every delayed response,
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Every moment of confusion or hesitation by his protective detail creates opportunities for those enemies to act. So, what needs to happen now? First and most immediately, the Secret Service investigation needs to be thorough, transparent, and result in concrete changes to protective protocols. We cannot have another situation where the President is left vulnerable while his security detail stands around looking confused. Second,
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Anyone at the UN who is involved in discussing, planning, or implementing any form of sabotage against American officials needs to be identified and then held accountable. This includes termination of employment and potential criminal prosecution if evidence of intentional interference is found. Third, the United States needs to seriously reconsider its relationship with an organization that treats our President with such obvious contempt.
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We are the largest contributor to the U.N. providing billions in funding to an organization whose staff joke about sabotaging our leaders. And finally, Americans need to understand that these incidents are not isolated embarrassments. They are symptoms of a broader problem where our institutions, both domestic and international, have been compromised by people who oppose everything our country stands for.
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Patriots, what happened at the UN on Tuesday wasn't just about escalators and teleprompters. It was about respect, security, and the fundamental question of whether American leadership will be allowed to operate effectively in an increasingly hostile international environment. When UN staffers feel comfortable joking about sabotaging American officials, when our Secret Service fails to respond appropriately to security threats,
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When technical failures mysteriously target our American speakers, these aren't coincidences. They're coordinated attacks on our sovereignty and our leadership.
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President Trump handled these challenges with the grace and strength that made him a great president and will make him great again. But he shouldn't have to overcome sabotage and security failures just to address world leaders. He should be able to count on professional, competent protection and basic respect from international organizations. The fact that he can't reveals how much work we still have to do to restore American strength and credibility on the world stage.
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It shows why we need leaders who understand that American First isn't just a slogan. It's a necessity in a world where even our supposed allies work to undermine us. Well, that's our show for today, Patriots. The truth is out there, but you have to be willing to connect the dots and ask the hard questions. Keep fighting for America, and I'll keep bringing you the analysis you won't get anywhere else. If you haven't already,
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Until then, stay strong, stay informed, and never stop fighting for the country we love. Until next time, this is John O'Connor, signing off.