What's a Democratic Billionaire to do now? The party s donor class is still wrestling with Donald Trump s victory, worried about retribution, and sluggish liberal energy. Some rich Democrats are even considering leaving the country. The piece begins by saying this: "In the last few weeks, one of the biggest Democratic donors in the country has considered what would once be unthinkable for a Democrat who often talks about his patriotism, well, maybe that was all a facade."
00:00:38.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:01.000It shows the power of everybody in this audience.
00:02:03.000Every single one of you that chased ballots and registered voters, every single one of you that worked in the grassroots, that started Turning Point USA hubs and became a grassroots activist.
00:02:17.000And the losers of this last election just recently convened at the Salamander Hotel in Washington, D.C. When the Democrats would say that our democracy is under attack, what they were really saying is that our oligarchy is under attack.
00:02:33.000That the rule of the few, that those of us in the Council of Experts that know better than you, and this is very similar to the situation that we articulated yesterday of why Kash Patel matters so much.
00:02:44.000That the Kash Patel appointment is trying to restore the founders' vision for law enforcement and for the administration of justice.
00:02:51.000That it will not be its own Out of regulation, distant branch of government and bring it back into alignment with the consent of the governed.
00:03:02.000There is a remarkable piece in the New York Times that says this.
00:03:06.000What's a Democratic billionaire to do now?
00:03:11.000The party's donor class is still wrestling with Donald Trump's victory, worried about retribution and sluggish liberal energy.
00:03:17.000Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country.
00:03:21.000This is by Theodore Schleifer, who is a very, very talented reporter for The New York Times.
00:03:27.000Let me begin by first isolating one of the subheads here.
00:03:30.000Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country.
00:03:34.000Now, I'm sure there is an exception to what I'm about to say, but I do not know a single rich Republican that after Joe Biden became president in 2020 was contemplating leaving America.
00:04:12.000In the weeks after Election Day, one of the biggest donors in the Democrat Party, the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, has considered what would once be unthinkable for a billionaire who often talks about his patriotism, leaving the United States.
00:04:26.000Well, maybe his patriotism was all a facade.
00:04:29.000Mr. Hoffman, who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on politics over the last few years, has told friends and allies that he's weighing a move overseas, according to three people with knowledge of the talks, who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations.
00:04:43.000Hoffman declined to comment through a spokesperson and has helped pay for some of the most aggressive private litigation against Donald Trump.
00:04:53.000Several major donors or their advisors have privately floated the idea of moving abroad, saying that it would protect their assets from Mr. Trump's wrath.
00:05:04.000Some are distributing memos meant to guide the post-mortem analysis for Democrats, beginning to kick around the ideas for new media companies, or imploring their peers to not let liberal fundraising dry up.
00:05:16.000Now, this is a perfect segue, by the way, to another New York Times article that I want to draw your attention to before I continue on this one.
00:05:23.000So Democrats are meeting at the Salamander Hotel, and this is what it says here.
00:05:27.000The Salamander Hotel in Washington, where the typically sedate biannual meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a network of major liberal donors, became a four-day group therapy session.
00:05:37.000Dejected Democrats debate about what happened at early morning breakfast and evening drinks around a fire pit on the sidelines of the conference, the first gathering of its type since the election.
00:05:46.000The lobby was buzzing with Democrat donors, operatives, and interlopers caught up with friends.
00:05:52.000Now, let me just kind of put a pause on that article and then highlight another New York Times article that came out this weekend.
00:06:00.000And it was about Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.
00:06:03.000So you have a bunch of donors wondering, how did we lose?
00:06:15.000And all of you in this audience that support Turning Point USA, all of you in this audience that support Turning Point Action, all of you in this audience that support The Charlie Kirk Show, you're the reason why Democrats are crying into their white wine at the Salamander Hotel.
00:06:29.000Republicans built an ecosystem of influencers.
00:06:34.000Democrats were badly outflanked online in the election, and progressive influencers are now trying to create networks to be a left-wing answer to Turning Point USA. The article goes into great detail about how the left and how Democrat operatives Have been unable to build an influencer network like we have on the right.
00:06:57.000Now mind you, I wish I could take full credit for this.
00:06:59.000And to be fair, Turning Point has operated a multi-hundred person influencer network for the last five years.
00:07:08.000We have this grassroots organization that harmonizes with the influencer program.
00:07:15.000The New York Times article writes, Their goal is to eventually forge self-sustaining advocacy groups and networks, a left-wing answer to the nonprofit Turning Point USA. But first, they'll need buy-in and cash from Democrat donors and institutions to compete in a new attention economy where people's time is the currency.
00:08:16.000That we complain a lot about how they control the media.
00:08:19.000It turns out then going back to the other piece, these Democrat donors at a conference and a retreat are wondering, how is it that turning point and this army that we were told didn't exist beat us?
00:08:47.000And what they were eulogizing is the death of the modern Democrat Party.
00:08:53.000People are kind of shell-shocked trying to remember what has happened.
00:08:56.000Steve Silberstein, a software entrepreneur who has donated millions to the Democrats over the last decade, sent in an interview, quote, people are trying to adjust to reality and plot out a path forward.
00:09:09.000Carla Jurvetson, a major progressive donor, was there alongside of, guess who, Alexander Soros.
00:09:17.000Everybody, you beat the wealthiest, most powerful people on the planet.
00:09:22.000Our grassroots hustle, our bottom-up energy, the infrastructure that we all built together.
00:09:29.000Mr. Soros says, he's quoted in the piece, quote, I was always concerned about Mr. Trump's victory.
00:09:35.000He said, however, we're not going to give up.
00:09:38.000We're going to keep our commitment to progressive causes.
00:09:40.000There are so many takeaways here, everybody.
00:09:43.000But one of the major ones is going into Election Day, Democrats were convinced they were going to win.
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00:12:23.000One tech billionaire, the eBay founder, Pierre Omador, started a philanthropy called the Democracy Fund.
00:12:30.000Which recently sent a private memo to allies expressing urgency to protect the vulnerable.
00:12:35.000Donors should stand strong and surge dollars now.
00:12:39.000Democrat donors are all over the place here.
00:12:41.000And what makes this victory fundamentally different than 2016, and this is very important, everybody, is that they had four years to prepare for it.
00:12:52.000They had war rooms and committees and meetings.
00:12:55.000And you better believe lawfare was a huge element of this.
00:12:59.000The lawfare wrinkle is a huge, huge component.
00:13:03.000So they said, how do we prevent Donald Trump from being president?
00:13:06.000Now, they screwed up the timing, to be honest.
00:13:08.000If they really wanted to do it, they should have done those indictments a lot earlier.
00:14:19.000Turns out our ground game, working with, of course, the Trump campaign, James Blair, Susie Boyles, Susie Wiles, James Blair, Susie Wiles, the whole team.
00:14:27.000That our ground game was superior to anything on the left.
00:14:31.000They were talking about, oh yeah, we're knocking on 6 million doors or we're knocking on 8 million doors.
00:14:34.000Turns out we were actually chasing ballots and putting them into the system.
00:14:38.000Let me also, and by the way, these numbers are incredible because we're preparing for a very big weekend here at Turning Point.
00:14:45.000Our 1,000 biggest donors are coming in to Mar-a-Lago this weekend for a major event.
00:14:50.000And I was running through some of these numbers.
00:14:53.000And this is worth its own podcast episode.
00:14:55.000It's worth its own broadcast, which is very simple.
00:14:59.000Which is, we don't win without the youth vote and first-time voters.
00:15:16.000All Kamala Harris, forget all the other demographics, all Kamala Harris had to do was match Joe Biden's youth vote performance from 2020, and she would be president.
00:15:47.000So as the wealthiest people on the planet and some of the most sinister and evil people on the planet, P.R. Omador, Reid Hoffman, are crying themselves at a funeral at the Democracy Alliance.
00:15:59.000Even though we spent hundreds of millions and billions of dollars, you lost to a grassroots movement while your artificial synthetic machine was not able to convince millions of people to vote for them.
00:16:11.000And now we have a mandate the likes of which the country has never seen before.
00:16:15.000The New York Times article is, what's a Democrat billionaire to do now?
00:16:19.000That is a very good question, but I can tell you that the people defeated the oligarchs this election.
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00:18:32.000Now, I'm a father, and I have to say that if I was in Joe Biden's shoes and that was my child, I would probably have done the same thing.
00:18:41.000But what I would not have done and what he shouldn't have done was he should have never lied to the American people.
00:18:47.000There was no doubt in my mind he was going to do for Hunter Biden what he ended up doing, unless he was able to get Kamala Harris to do it.
00:18:53.000But I felt all along Trump was going to win, so Biden would have to do it.
00:18:56.000And Biden knew it, and he lied to the American people and treated them like chumps.
00:19:00.000But this is no surprise because Joe Biden has been a liar and a plagiarizer probably throughout his whole political career, which began way back in 1972. And I think the big crime, no pun intended, on the side of what Biden did was the fact that he lied to the American people.
00:19:26.000But I think one thing Biden can do to atone for some of this, what he did and the decision that he made, is he ought to pardon the January 6th protesters.
00:19:35.000And they ought to apply the same standard to the J6 protesters that was applied to Black Lives Matter protesters, where few, if any, of them were charged with crimes or convicted of crimes.
00:19:45.000In fact, I don't know that any of them were.
00:19:47.000And so why is it that those protesters don't get prosecuted, but the January 6th ones do?
00:19:53.000So if Biden wants to do something that would be constructive to heal the wounds in this divided country of ours, he ought to pardon the J6 protesters.
00:20:01.000And while he's at it, he may want to think about just giving a blanket pardon to Trump and everybody around Trump who was persecuted by those Democratic weaponized prosecutors who've abused the rule of law and are destroying our democracy.
00:20:12.000That is well said and well put, Governor.
00:20:15.000And just remember, you spent eight years behind bars.
00:20:58.000They upheld three fundraising requests where there was no quid pro quo.
00:21:02.000And at the second trial, because they failed to convict me at the first trial, the judge was totally corrupt.
00:21:08.000Wouldn't allow us to even bring up, say the words, quid pro quo, much less instruct the jury that you have to have a quid pro quo, express quid pro quo in order to convict anybody for fundraising requests that were made by third parties, not even made by me.
00:21:21.000So they put me in prison for 14 years because I fought back.
00:21:26.000And to this day, they're still covering up 98% of FBI tapes that they recorded that show that I was telling the truth and show that they were lying.
00:21:37.000And what they did to Trump was no surprise to me because I lived it myself.
00:21:41.000But the irony of it is, and the danger for our country, Charlie, is that what they were able to do to a Democrat governor at the AAA level, they believed they could successfully then do to a Republican president at the major league level, the leading opposition candidate of the party in power.
00:21:55.000And here again, this goes back to Biden.
00:21:57.000The other thing about Biden is the chutzpah to be able to say that his son was being targeted.
00:22:02.000When Biden himself and his DOJ, and I'm certain, because I know how the business works, that Biden knew that the DOJ was doing what they were doing.
00:22:12.000It came right out of the Oval Office, those fake charges that were leveled against Trump by Jack Smith and those other Democratic prosecutors in other places.
00:22:20.000So I want to ask you, Governor, and I want to go to our hometown of Chicago, which I care a lot about.
00:22:27.000This is Mayor Johnson receiving criticism and responding to his criticism about the migrant crisis.
00:22:34.000Play cut 47. Here's the budget shortfall for 2025, all right?
00:23:41.000And here's another example of how things are upside down with today's Democratic leaders.
00:23:46.000For it to be a sanctuary city, they are expressly defying federal law.
00:23:50.000And it is a crime to harbor immigrants who are in a community illegally.
00:23:57.000And if this mayor persists in keeping Chicago a sanctuary city and gets in the way of the homeland security effort to do the deportations and the other parts of the agenda that the Trump administration is committed to doing, that's a felony.
00:24:14.000And let's see whether or not these mayors like Johnson, this Governor Pritzker, and others who are pandering to the far left of the Democratic Party are going to continue to put the interests of illegal immigrants above ordinary, regular, everyday citizens.
00:24:26.000And Charlie, the community that gets hurt the worst Is the Black community.
00:24:30.000And here's another example of how the Democratic Party has this sort of soft racism where they really talk a big game but do little or nothing to uplift the lives of everyday Black Americans.
00:24:43.000And here in Chicago, the South Side in particular, the West Side, neighborhoods I'm very familiar with because I grew up on the West Side myself.
00:24:50.000Here's an example of putting the interests of immigrants who came illegally above I think those trends are going to continue with this kind of bad government that we're getting in Chicago by Brandon Johnson.
00:25:19.000Yeah, I want to ask you just about the future of the Democrat Party.
00:25:22.000Where do you see them going from here?
00:25:23.000Do you see them moderating and becoming kind of the Democrat Party that you represented, which is one that rejects the woke stuff, represents voters, wants borders?
00:25:33.000Or do you think that they're going to double and triple down on their radicalism?
00:25:38.000And I think the party's at a crossroads right now in what direction it's going in.
00:25:43.000If I were to guess, my guess is they're going to lean further towards the radicalism because the energy comes from the far left, the socialist wing of the party.
00:25:53.000I can see it by just watching the events in Washington.
00:25:56.000I also think the fact that Trump has remade the Republican Party and turned the Republican Party into a party of working people.
00:26:03.000It's the working class party now, this Trump Republican Party.
00:26:06.000I think that too is going to Not only grow the Republican Party under Trump, but I think it's also going to compel the Democrats to recognize that they, for political reasons, may just want to forget about working people altogether and just focus on the wealthy elites, And play the divisions that they play with identity politics that they've been so expert at doing.
00:26:29.000I don't think they're going to learn their lessons from this election because there are too many interest groups and too many activists in the party that are committed to moving the party in that direction and who genuinely and sincerely, which is terrifying, but they genuinely and sincerely believe in a lot of the stuff that they're trying to impose on the rest of us.
00:26:45.000Look, they don't have an obvious way out.
00:26:47.000I want you to think back, Governor, I'm sure you were in politics in some way, back to how Bill Clinton did it.
00:26:52.000How did Bill Clinton fend off the activist class in 1992 to successfully moderate the Democrat Party and then win the White House?
00:27:02.000That was their problem through the 80s, too radical, too extreme.
00:27:06.000How did Bill Clinton do it, and could that be duplicated in today's time?
00:27:12.000The way Bill Clinton did it was he basically gave a middle finger to the extreme left wing of the party.
00:27:20.000And he did it at one particular event that was actually a dramatic event when the Reverend Jesse Jackson and he were at an event among leaders of the black community.
00:27:32.000And there was this woman named Sister Soulja who had written a whole bunch of anti-white stuff.
00:27:36.000And Clinton very shrewdly and correctly took her on right then and there.
00:27:41.000And he was a different kind of Democrat at that time.
00:27:44.000And the word got out that this was a Democrat that was a lot less like, you know, the Kamala Harris, AOC, Democrats of that time, which was represented by Dukakis, who was the Democrat nominee in 88, and more like President Kennedy, the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, and and more like President Kennedy, the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy, John F. Kennedy,
00:28:04.000So I think something like that, but not just one event, but actually furthering policies that are more in line with, you know, common sense, I think helped Clinton.
00:28:18.000And he was the chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council.
00:28:40.000My suspicion is they're going to lean further left because the energy on the Bernie Sanders AOC wing of the party, the socialist wing of the party, is a lot stronger today than it was back in the 1990s.
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00:30:00.000We are on verdict watch, by the way, of Daniel Penny, who's an American hero, which if Daniel Penny goes to jail, there has to be some sort of federal recourse for this.
00:30:57.000You have a Marine sitting right there and then you got some lunatic screaming in people's faces, harassing them and physically harassing them and assaulting them.
00:31:07.000I want you to tell me in that situation what should have been done.
00:31:52.000The point being that it actually wasn't what people said it was, but the takeaway was that the public said, how could you dare see something bad and you would do nothing about it?
00:32:02.000That's the point of the story I'm going at.
00:32:04.000Now in New York, it's you see something bad, how dare you intervene?
00:32:09.000You see something bad, how dare you step up?
00:32:16.000Do you want men in particular who served in our military, whatever, when they see something evil, when they see a bully unfolding in front of them, do you want them to just kind of shrug their shoulders?
00:32:29.000And the women of this world, especially the unmarried liberal women of New York City who ride the subway, this verdict will make you in a far more dangerous situation.
00:32:43.000This verdict Will result in women being assaulted, raped, kidnapped, murdered, if it goes in against Daniel Penny.
00:32:54.000Their idea of masculinity is a feeling, emotions-based masculinity.
00:32:59.000It's one that tries to find the common ground with the harasser.
00:33:03.000Their type of masculinity is one where, oh, he must be going through so much because he's going up to women on the subway and harassing them and potentially assaulting them.
00:33:14.000Daniel Penny didn't just do nothing wrong, he did everything right.
00:33:18.000And now he might be punished for the rest of his life because of that.
00:33:24.000What would you rather have in that situation?
00:33:27.000Would you rather have men sit idly by?
00:33:32.000A liberal woman on Twitter the other day said, quote, this man on the subway was repeatedly harassing a woman, being disgusting and invading her space.
00:33:39.000Tell me why and the other women around try to intervene and just tell them off, but all the young fit guys just stood around and stood silent and looked at the ground.
00:34:02.000We criminalize the courageous, actually, is what this is.
00:34:07.000By design, if Daniel Penney spends a day in prison, I call on Pam Bondi to do the following.
00:34:14.000Pam Bondi should launch an immediate investigation of the New York justice system, just like the investigations Obama weaponized against big city police departments.
00:34:23.000Pam Bondi should immediately cut off the $3.4 billion federal grant going to MTA and all other federal funds and no taxpayer funds should subsidize transport systems in New York City that criminalize the innocent.
00:34:37.000Similarly, cut off all federal funds going to New York courts or prison systems and issue a blanket ban against hiring New York state prosecutors into federal positions.
00:34:46.000If Daniel Penny goes into jail, Which it looks like he might.