Trump announces he s running for re-election in 2020. President Trump speaks at Mar-A-Lago to the MAGA posse and speaks with Boris Epstein, a senior advisor to President Trump and a member of his 2020 campaign team.
00:01:04.580Okay, welcome. It's Wednesday, 16 November, in the year of our Lord, 2022. We're jammed today.
00:01:13.760In the war room, of course, the massive announcement last night, President Trump's running again for the three-peat.
00:01:21.160I want to bring in one of the senior advisors, Boris Epstein, from Mar-a-Lago.
00:01:26.000Boris, the New York Times, I think, had seven op-eds ready to go.
00:01:30.100National Review had a whole cover of, you know, just like the Never Trump cover they did back in 16, you know, unmistakable, won't do it.
00:01:38.780Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Roe Steam.
00:01:41.760Give us your sense of the forces aligned against the president.
00:01:46.080And tell me how this campaign is going to chop its way through this quite thick jungle.
00:01:51.660Steve, honor to be with you. Honor to be with the posse. Great to see everybody yesterday.
00:01:57.940Unbelievable presence from the war room at Mar-a-Lago yesterday with all your correspondence.
00:02:03.960President Trump has now declared that he's going to once again fight against the establishment, drain the swamp, and beat back all those who oppose American greatness.
00:02:14.840Because that's what it's all about. You've seen the globalists. You've seen the establishment. You've seen the swamp creatures come out and attack President Trump.
00:02:21.880But President Trump laid out a vision yesterday, a vision for American greatness, for the American future, for strength on the border, for strength on the economy, for not letting China overrun us.
00:02:35.240You know, Steve Schwartin wants to go out there and attack. Hey, that's up to him.
00:02:38.560But we know what his businesses do. We know whose businesses are aligned with. President Trump is aligned with American manufacturing.
00:02:44.980He's aligned with American strength. He's aligned with American future.
00:02:50.360And that's what that was all about. It was a historic night here at Mar-a-Lago.
00:02:54.440And now, this historic campaign marches on to take our country back in 2024, to rebuild the border, to rebuild broad national dominance, full-spectrum energy independence, to get the dollar back to where it should be so America is the dominant economic force in the world once again.
00:03:13.440And make sure that our adversaries and allies alike are respecting the United States of America.
00:03:18.860President Trump was firing on all cylinders last night and will continue to do so every single day of this campaign, as he fights for the American people, as he gives the voice to the American people, who are way too often forgotten.
00:03:31.580As the woke, as the woke radical left, but also the establishment elites, line their pockets, strengthen themselves, and do so at the negative impact. Do so at the cost to Americans.
00:03:47.940Boris, thanks. I know you've got to jump in meetings. We'll get you back on in the afternoon show for a summary. Boris, real quickly, what's the social media so people can follow you?
00:03:56.980Steve, before I go, here's what I want to say.
00:03:58.940To the posse, to the MAGA movement, to the war room under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, this is a new day in this country.
00:04:09.240It's an exciting day. I've seen it. I've heard it from so many people on social media.
00:04:14.300Those of you reaching out to me directly, I want to thank every single one and want to say that we are going to be fighting for everybody, for every member of the posse.
00:04:22.460This is your campaign, and this campaign is going to be all about taking our country back.
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00:05:14.900It's not about Ron DeSantis or Governor Youngkin.
00:05:17.680It's not about those. They're just vessels.
00:05:19.760What the moneyed interest is looking for is a vessel to come after Trump, a vessel to come after and stop and blunt the populist nationalist movement in this country.
00:05:29.860It won't happen, but it's going to be – we have some work to do.
00:06:20.820And, you know, California is, you know, in many ways apart from the rest of the country, but in other ways, it's sort of, you know, a preview of what the rest of the country has in store if we continue going down this radical path that the Biden administration
00:06:35.860and Nancy Pelosi's Congress have us on.
00:06:38.400And, in fact, Gavin Newsom has explicitly said many times California is a model for the nation or a roadmap to success for the rest of the country.
00:06:47.460But, you know, when you look at the sort of issues that are plaguing our country right now and where there are record levels of public dissatisfaction when it comes to immigration, when it comes to the economy, when it comes to crime,
00:06:58.900Californians are experiencing those failed policies, you know, many times over now with, you know, at the state level, at the national level, in some cases, at the city or county level.
00:07:09.880And so I think there is a desire for change within the state, even among the more left-leaning parts of the state.
00:07:16.280And I think that you're seeing that in the outcome of some of the races for Congress, that we were very competitive, if not one seat, that, you know, did not go our way in the last election by double digits.
00:07:26.040So I think that, you know, if we're looking to California as a preview for what's to come for the rest of the country, Californians themselves are starting to say enough is enough.
00:07:35.500And so I think that's a really good sign.
00:07:36.620Kevin, I want to walk through and I want you to walk the audience through kind of the arc of your career, because you kind of went from a gadfly, right, of just because Newsom and really the California model of the Democratic left is so overwhelming at every aspect since the Republican Party kind of retreated in California in the last 20 years.
00:07:57.380You went from gadfly to a real voice of opposition and knew how to knew how to work in opposition to now you've won.
00:08:05.860And I think people would say when you first start a long shot bid for Congress.
00:08:09.460And now you're going in as the guy that really delivered through your campaign, the majority.
00:08:14.500There's a couple other seats coming in and you're going to go as a voice in this freshman class that people are going to have to pay attention to.
00:08:20.920So walk us through, how did you go from gadfly to a member, real leading the opposition in California against Newsom to today?
00:08:29.580Well, you know, I refuse to accept the idea that when you're part of the minority, that there's nothing that you can actually do.
00:08:34.580I mean, we have 19 seats in the assembly right now in California out of 80.
00:08:38.220So we're like a super minority, super duper minority, not to mention the fact that Gavin Newsom effectively abolished the legislature for much of the COVID shutdowns.
00:08:47.400But, you know, I decided that I was elected to fight for my constituents, to fight to move our state in a new direction.
00:08:54.100So I tried to use whatever tools, whatever levers were available to fight back.
00:08:59.260And so, for example, when Gavin Newsom shut down the state, effectively shut down the legislature, made himself into an autocrat.
00:09:06.720I went into a state superior court, along with another member of the legislature, James Gallagher, and we sued him for abusing his emergency powers and won a trial in state superior court.
00:09:18.160And, you know, what I saw is that when we did that, that actually set an example where people at other levels of government could fight back as well.
00:09:26.380And so I think that, you know, now coming into Congress, being part of the House of Representatives is a time when this is the one part of the government we control.
00:09:36.760That's a very useful experience because I know how to, you know, fight back and to bring accountability to those who are in power, to those who are abusing their powers.
00:09:44.900And the House of Representatives is really going to be where the action is in this next Congress, where we engage in the sort of oversight and accountability that is needed for this administration more than perhaps any other in our country's history.
00:10:00.120Where would you like, where's your focus going to be?
00:10:02.620Where's Kevin Kiley going to sit there and say, hey, I think this is where I've got to spend my time?
00:10:08.380Well, that's a hard question just because so many things are so messed up right now when it comes to national policy.
00:10:15.120I mean, I think everyone's going to be focused very clearly on getting the economy back on track, dealing with the border situation, getting crime under control and supporting law enforcement.
00:10:22.960And, you know, just exercising accountability, bringing in members of the administration, asking them questions, exercising subpoena power that we will have as part of the majority.
00:10:33.640And, you know, frankly, a lot of what Gavin Newsom has done in terms of sort of ruling by decree, Biden is doing the same thing.
00:10:40.740His student loan program just got struck down or held up by the courts.
00:10:44.640And so trying to, you know, assure that we have a truly representative government, as opposed to one in which one person is simply making policy and enforcing it upon hundreds of millions of people, I think is going to be a focus as well.
00:10:58.340You're coming in as someone that's gone up against Newsom for years.
00:11:06.960They're going to, because of the economic and financial crisis, the Democrats are going to quickly tire of Biden and look for alternatives.
00:11:13.700What is your warning to people on Capitol Hill about the California model and Gavin Newsom, sir?
00:11:19.920Well, that's exactly the word, Steve, is it a warning?
00:11:22.380I mean, Gavin Newsom says California is a model for the nation.
00:11:26.020California is not a model for the nation.
00:12:12.080We have among the worst public schools, worst infrastructure, you know, highest levels of inequality.
00:12:18.660And, you know, that doesn't even begin to talk about what happened over the last two years.
00:12:22.280And we had by far the worst lockdowns, worst school shutdowns, worst mandates, most onerous limits on personal freedom and all the rest.
00:12:30.540And so, you know, it's very clear what these policies have done to our state.
00:12:35.060And if we don't have a major force correction right now, the same thing is going to happen to our country.
00:12:39.280The good news is, though, that voters have just, using the sort of most immediate lever at their disposal, electing a new majority in the House called for change.
00:12:49.340This is the part of our government that is most closest to the people, most responsive to public opinion.
00:12:54.740We didn't elect a new president in 2022.
00:12:58.620We did elect a new House, and voters have voted for change.
00:13:01.480And so I think it's incumbent on us in the majority to get to work immediately to bring that change.
00:13:05.260Kevin, how can people find out more about you?
00:13:09.620What site do they go to, and how do they follow you on social media?
00:13:13.240Yeah, I'd like kevinkiley.com is my website, K-I-L-E-Y, Kevin Kiley, and then just at kevinkiley, C-A, as in California, on Twitter.
00:13:26.260Kevin, thank you for joining us, and particularly thank you for fighting through winning this incredibly important seat and giving us the majority.
00:13:49.520That's the cover they gave us in 2016.
00:13:54.400National Review is coming out saying, under no circumstances can Trump be the nominee.
00:13:58.840Seven editorials in the New York Times.
00:14:03.960And, of course, the Democrats have just put forward, or they're going to put forward this afternoon, they've tipped their hand, legislation in the House and then to the Senate to bar President Trump from actually running.
00:14:14.560They're going to actually try to pass a law to bar President Trump from running.
00:14:17.380Not that they fear him at all, and not that they fear MAGA, not that they fear the Trump movement, putting forth legislation to stop that.
00:14:24.500Okay, we've got a lot to go through, and we've got a lot of people that are going to walk us through it.
00:14:28.380The show's packed today, from Arizona to Capitol Hill to the Trump campaign to all of it.
00:25:44.880My wife and I worked like a dog our entire life.
00:25:48.940And when we went in the 2008 crash, when we lost our home, we lost our savings, we lost everything in the bank, we lost our college fund, my daughter couldn't go to college, my son had to work two jobs, we were homeless for two years, nobody gave a crap if we lived or died.
00:26:27.280You know, we can sit back now, we gripe and browse about don't like a tweet, or we don't like a true social, or we don't like something he said, or we're tired of the insult.
00:26:37.320But let's go back for Trump to remind people of where we were.
00:26:42.020Yeah, you've got Ken Griffin out there raising what, hundreds of millions of dollars for Ronda Stanton, for whomever, whose name is not Trump, so they can control Wall Street and continue to screw the middle class as they've done for 60 years because the whole thing is rigged.
00:27:01.500But when you lose everything you've worked for, and you are staring at a family in a pay-by-the-day motel, and your daughter has to drop out of college, and your son's in Mississippi working two jobs, and you failed as a husband and failed as a man and a father.
00:27:27.740It reminds people of what they've done.
00:27:31.800And it's why I've been with Trump from the beginning, and while I fight to the death until the day I'm gone, because the only guy that told the truth, that one clip about when he went to Detroit, and he told those people who were going to take their jobs away,
00:27:47.420hey, hey, you go to Mexico, I'm going to slap you with a 35% tariff, your business is gone, you'll never sell a car.
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00:29:32.480Right now, 0.5% of our nation, 0.5%, and that would include Ken Griffin and Steve Schwartzman and all these guys that are the anti-Trump wing, the anti-Trump money wing.
00:29:46.520The 0.5% own more assets than the bottom 90% of the nation.
00:29:57.120This is exactly what we fought a revolution against, an aristocracy, not just a landed aristocracy in England, but also a merchant, a rising oligarchy of merchants, the British East India Company.
00:30:13.980The revolutionary generation knew what was going to happen to America unless we broke off from an empire on the rise, an empire just hitting their inflection point of really becoming most powerful.
00:30:24.140That's the shocking thing about the revolution because they understood what was going to happen, and here we are today.
00:30:30.320And if you don't think times – if you don't think financial and economic times are going to get a lot tougher, then you're certainly not watching the war room, okay, because it's going to get a lot tougher.
00:30:40.760It's going to get a lot – you know who's going to get a lot tougher for it?
00:30:42.880It's not going to get a lot tougher for Ken Griffin.
00:30:44.880It's not going to get a lot tougher for Steve Schwartzman.
00:30:47.200It's going to get a lot tougher for you.
00:31:59.340Wall Street is going to line up against them because they want to squeeze and eviscerate what's left of the middle class in this country because that's where the money is.
00:32:09.180That's why Biden's taxed on the middle class.
00:32:22.320And look, there's a lot of grousing about different things that Trump has done or speech was too long or he should have done this or he should have done that.
00:32:29.600But to see that film and understand the impetus, the embryo, why Trump ran, why Trump, what he stands for, what he believes in, this is what we have to get back to.
00:32:55.580And then he laid out in 15 things what he was going to do in the future.
00:32:59.740But people have to remember, out of Donald J. Trump, we're going to get back to the champs, the unipart, the game that's played, the stock trades, everything else to take your money to fool you into giving it to them.
00:33:14.860And then they say, take it away, just like they did in 2008.
00:36:18.080You know, it's gotten to the point now where, you know, you can sit there and smirk, right, with your nice job at NBC where you steal your nonsense, right?
00:41:42.680We're going to get Darren Beattie in here about the FBI and about FTX, the money laundering operation that connects the Ukraine to the Democratic Party.
00:41:51.220All of it because it's Fight Club today, the day after the announcement.
00:44:08.040You can start to see this rolling now through the economy, and we're going to be on top of it.
00:44:12.860Make sure you understand exactly what is in store for you as an American citizen because of the failed policies of the Biden regime, coupled with their buddies on Wall Street and the global corporatists and, of course, the oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
00:47:29.760I don't know if you've got the technical aspect worked out for it, but I thought ABC News said that this can pass with a majority in the Senate, too.
00:47:36.920It does not – you can't filibuster this?
00:47:39.720Yeah, our lawyers have been looking at this, Steve, and people are kind of scrambling to get a hold on it right now.
00:47:46.380We just have the – well, I sent you what they have.
00:47:48.900That was sort of the email sent out to members of Congress asking them to get onto the bill.
00:47:54.760But if they were to put it in some type of reconciliation or something like that, people think they could be able to jam it through with a simple majority.
00:48:03.400So we might have an update later as we're looking into exactly how this is going to come out.
00:48:07.500I think we'll see it probably drop on the floor within the week.
00:48:11.780Usually if you're getting your co-sponsors, it's going to come out shortly after that.
00:48:15.940So it's really heating up, Steve, and I think it shows their hand.
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