NCAA Hall of Fame football coach Lou Holtz had one question when asked about the attempted assassination of former President Trump: How?
“How the hell did that happen?” Holtz replied when OutKick's Dan Dakich asked him about Saturday afternoon's miraculous glitch.
“There had to be some kind of [Secret Service] mistake… Think about this: he was shot and only by the grace of God he was not killed, but do you know what kind of mistake happened? Who is in charge of the case? [Secret Service/law enforcement] “asylum?” he continued.
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President Trump presents the Medal of Freedom to former college football coach Lou Holtz in the Oval Office on December 3, 2020. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)
However, the 87-year-old national champion coach does not believe there was any sort of grand conspiracy.
“If you had done it intentionally, you wouldn't have been able to screw up any more in this world.”
Holtz's comments come just four days after 20-year-old Thomas Crooks grazed former President Trump's ear with a rifle shot during an outdoor campaign appearance in Butler, Pennsylvania. While Holtz has condemned the assassination attempt, others, including the entire NBA, have remained silent on the matter.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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While Crooks' motives remain unknown, President Biden's recent comments in which he said Trump had a “target” on him, as well as some in the media constantly comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler, may have led to the assassination attempt.
“You can't trust the media. They all have their own agenda and they try to push it. I'm not worried about being politically correct, I'm just worried about being right, and that's much more important in the future. But I don't think we seem to feel that way today,” Holtz told Dakich.
The former ESPN College Football Gameday analyst also revealed the two things he looks for in the media, politicians, his friends or even his former players.
“First of all, can I trust you? Are you saying what you mean and are you honest about it?” Holtz began. “Second of all, you have to be totally committed to excellence, you want to make this country great, you want to give me the opportunity to be good.”
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Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz speaks during a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun attended by President Trump at the County War Memorial Coliseum, November 5, 2018, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
Holtz also talked about how he used to be a Democrat and how society and party lines have changed over the decades. The legendary coach said we need to go back to the time when “society didn’t have a problem, just a disagreement” and when politicians from both parties “wanted to keep you safe, wanted to give you a chance to be successful and raise your family in a proper way,” but “that doesn’t exist anymore.”
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