Episode 3825： The State of Play and The Trump Campaign Cont.
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with a woman who grew up in a communist family in Cuba. Her family fled Fidel Castro's communist regime. She shares her story of growing up in the shadow of the Castro regime and how she was able to escape.
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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
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but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Hey, Peter K. Navarro in for Stephen K. Bannon.
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I'm going to be with you Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
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If the posse throws me out, I'll be gone otherwise.
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One of the things I want to do is to have you get to know a little better
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some of the folks who you've seen there out on the campaign trail on TV,
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But I want to do a little bit more personal kind of look and get you to know these folks.
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And Danielle Alvarez, I think, is precisely the kind of surrogate we need out on TV across the networks
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to essentially better target some of the swing voters, which include a lot of Latinos,
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which include a lot of young folks, and a lot of folks in between.
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Now, we talked a little off the air, and you told me that you're a Cuban American.
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My family has, in our community, a very typical story.
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She was in a very small town in Las Villas called Santi Espiritu.
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And was she under, was she one of the intellectuals there?
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You know, if you remember, Batista was a very unpopular president.
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And for a while, Cuban citizens were duped into supporting Fidel.
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And then all of a sudden, he comes down the mountains, Batista flees,
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and he disavows Catholicism, which is the predominant religion in Cuba.
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My family is very Catholic, practicing Catholics, and, you know, embraces communism and socialism.
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And so, suddenly, he started going back on certain promises.
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And one of the first things he said was, you know, we're going to indoctrinate all the children as part of the revolution.
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And so, my mother's oldest sister, you know, was going to be taken into an agricultural school away from her family.
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It became so deeply unpopular that that's where that Peter Pan flights took place.
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And it was the firstborn children of many families who came by themselves.
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So, as a Catholic Church was expelled from Cuba.
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A lot of the family said, we don't want our children to be indoctrinated by the revolution.
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They didn't have very many options at the time.
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And so, a lot of young children came by themselves with the church if they were lucky, like my aunt was.
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She got to live with an uncle and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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But she wasn't reunified with her family until she was an adult.
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Did you talk a lot about this with your mother when you were younger, like pre, you know, when you're in high school, junior high?
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Did she give you a sense of those values and what you had to fear if that happened again here, for example?
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Yes, but Cubans are very stoic and like many Cubans, they kind of left everything behind, including those feelings that they sort of like boxed up.
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And came here for economic opportunity, came here even, she always told me, she's like, even if I couldn't, you know, do much for myself because she was suddenly trying to learn a second language and couldn't finish school.
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She said, I wanted you to have every opportunity and every educational opportunity especially.
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So we talked about it lightly and it was only more recently that I sat her down and I said, your story is so important to me that, you know, I want to know.
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And she told me, you know, they took her, he reneged the first child, children left, he reneged.
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And so since she was the second, she got taken to the agricultural camp away from her family.
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And they tried to put her into the youth military and that's when her family, our family said, absolutely not, we've got to go.
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I mean, no need to get hyperbolic here, but there are some emerging parallels on the left.
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I mean, you could start with the indoctrination of our children.
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As a Catholic, there seems to be increasing persecution of Catholics.
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I mean, what do you see in Trump as a Latina that got you behind this campaign?
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For me, I will be honest, it's a little bit of everything.
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It's, again, having that Hispanic heritage, you know, understanding what he did for Latin America and being tough on dictators.
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You know, standing up to communism, standing up to socialism.
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I mean, I was married in 2016 and, you know, my generation, when we got out of college, it was tough to get a job.
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It's a lot that this Gen Z generation is also dealing with.
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And the economy was strengthened and I was able to buy a home under President Trump.
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After he got out of the Marine Corps, my husband became a police officer.
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You know, so it's really across the board, every facet of life, whether you're white, black, Hispanic, is all of our issues at our core are the same.
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Now that I'm a mom of two, I have a four year old and an eight month old.
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I mean, especially those educational issues are so important to me.
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It's why we left D.C. and came back to Florida.
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Explain to folks how more and more Latinos, Latinas are coming to Trump's America.
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Because the initial spin and the counterintuitiveness of it is if you crack down on the border with a lot of Latinos coming across that border, somehow Latinos would knee jerk oppose that.
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And we've seen the polling shows that Hispanics support secure borders.
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Like, I'll give the example, our Hispanic communications director, who's given me permission to tell this story, he was a journalist in Colombia.
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And when he was in Colombia, he was speaking truth on his radio program and he got a hit on him, put on by the FARC, the terrorist organization that the Biden administration removed from the terrorist organization.
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And he said, you know, suddenly I had to move with my wife and my two daughters to the United States.
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And I knew, and it was the first time that I knew, that I could come to this country and when I kissed my girls goodbye in the morning, I'd give them a kiss when I returned home.
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And that's not always something that we see in our countries, the notion of a free press, the ability to engage in politics.
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I mean, we just saw the elections in Venezuela.
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But what I'm getting at here is like, okay, you got literally millions of Latinos coming over.
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And I hate painting with a broad brush, but generally speaking, we're very family oriented.
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And when we come here, you know, we want to be Americans and contribute and be able to build our family, to build our wealth, to build savings in our pockets, which we can't do now, and to do so in a legal way.
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What do you say to women who might swing to Kamala Harris's side because she's a woman?
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You go out and you're on whatever, Fox, whichever, whoever you go on, what's your message?
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I'm the person in my household that balances the checkbooks every month.
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And it's really painful when, you know, again, I've got two kids and I've got to do groceries every month.
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You know, we sit down and we talk about how do we pay our mortgage if you're a renter?
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And I think, you know, it's not exclusively a woman's role, but I think women are very attuned to those economic issues and those inflationary issues.
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And I would say, you know, what is best for you when you're having those kitchen table conversations with your family?
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And then if you happen to be a mom like I am, you know, how do you hope to raise your kids?
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I always look for the opportunity to be the mom who teaches my kids.
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It may be a tough conversation, but I want to do that.
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I don't want school to take that right from me.
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I hate to admit this on air, but I missed the private school deadline.
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Not sure that I could have even afforded private school in Washington, D.C.
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But suddenly I was in the lottery public school system in D.C.
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And for my three year old at orientation, the principal of that school was speaking to about 40, you know, individuals.
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And said, well, part of our curriculum will include gender and sexuality.
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I looked at my husband and I said, we're leaving.
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Yeah, he thought I meant like, we're leaving the presentation.
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I looked at him when we got in the car and I was like, no, no, we're moving back to Florida, honey.
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My children are not children of the community as Kamala would have you believe.
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They're my children and I'll choose the community and I'll have those tough conversations.
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The school is not going to tell my children, you know, that they at three are learning about gender and sexuality.
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So what do you tell, what do you tell a woman maybe your age who is just going to vote for the other side on the abortion issue?
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Well, I think that the president's been really clear that this issue needs to go back to the states.
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And so that gives, that moves the abortion issue and the pro-life issue much closer to each voter.
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And so you get to decide instead of congressional members who, you know, we know Congress really struggles to get anything accomplished, anything done.
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But, I mean, you know that you're asking them to move to, out of their red state to a blue state.
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If, it's, it's, I mean, there's got to be more to it than that.
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And, you know, the president has, in addition to saying that he, you know, supports this as a state's issue,
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he has said that he supports exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.
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I mean, really, and we talk about this all the time.
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It's Kamala Harris and Democrats who are very radical, who, you know, if there's a botched abortion, they have supported bills to prevent life saving care for that baby.
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And in some cases, you've heard really extreme rhetoric about abortion, you know, partial birth abortion and beyond.
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So, I think the challenge that exists is cutting through the noise, right?
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I actually, you know, and making sure to really listen to those substantive issues, right?
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Because Kamala now is like in this honeymoon rebranding phase where luckily we have folks like Rav and War Room, but mainstream media is all honeymooning with Kamala Harris.
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And making sure to look at her record because despite the fact that she may want to rebrand herself and say, well, she was never the border star.
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They had to put out their own memo saying, please don't use this phrase anymore.
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You know, she's trying to rebrand herself and talk about what she's going to do on inflation.
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She's not just tied to the Harris-Biden administration as a whole.
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She had to go from the Naval Observatory over to the halls of Congress and cast that deciding vote that rocketed us into inflation.
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We're going to dive, do the best deep historical dive on this stolen valor issue with Kamala Harris' mistake, a.k.a. Tim Walzer, VP.
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Let's get back with Danielle Alvarez from the Trump campaign.
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One of the folks who I think will be one of the most effective messengers to the people that we need to reach in the now less than 90 days.
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We talked a little bit about a bunch of issues.
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What I want to do, though, is talk a little bit about your husband, who is a Marine.
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And I want to do that within the context of this thing with Tim Wallace, the Minnesota governor, and kind of get your...
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What went on at home when all that went down, as it were?
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And during that time, he was a body bearer, world-famous body bearers.
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And so he was stationed at 8th and I in Washington, D.C.
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And so basically, for those who don't know, a body bearer is essentially a pallbearer.
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A couple hundred funerals of any Marines killed in action or, you know, any veterans who passed
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I mean, when I was in the White House, I was there for all four years.
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I would have occasion to go up to Walter Reed and pass by the workout areas where you'd
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see men and women missing an arm, a leg, and wore all their limbs.
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It really drives home one of the key features of Trump's MAGA policies.
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It's a secure border, but one of the anchors to that is the end of the endless war.
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So I can't imagine a job in the military where you would see more of that death up front
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If you've ever seen any of those iconic photos where a Marine is kneeled down in front of
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So when, I mean, what's your read on the Stolen Valor thing?
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We've heard from a lot of folks in his community and different branches as well.
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My husband comes from a service-oriented family where many members have served.
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He's the first Marine, but served in the Navy, served as Coasties.
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He did a lot of work with the Coasties when I was in the White House.
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And, you know, he comes from a very service-oriented family.
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I'm very blessed to have married into such an incredible family.
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Whether it's his friends, whether it's anecdotally other folks, colleagues on the campaign that
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I mean, just really appalled at that record of lying and just feeling so...
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And feeling so comfortable in the lie and then continuing the lie.
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How did it end up on his challenge coin, his rank, you know, his supposed rank when he
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I didn't know what a challenge coin is before I went in the White House.
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But when you're in the White House and you get visitors come and go, they give you these
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You could have it if you're an elected official, but it stems from my understanding in the military.
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And so, you know, once you hit like a certain rank or if you're in a specialized unit, you'll
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have a special coin made that, you know, kind of has a visual and some sort of memorabilia
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from, again, either your unit or your rank or your leadership position.
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And I would see them with the cabinet officials and things like that.
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I guess what's equally frustrating to me is how the mainstream media...
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They're the people who want offshore jobs and insure illegal aliens.
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But it's amazing how they immediately put up the protective walls and reverse the spin.
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I will certainly jump in front of a camera on big moments, right?
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The debate or convention or when I get really great opportunities here at the War Room with
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you too, but I tend to do a lot of my work behind the scenes trying to shape the media.
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And we've actually forced the media to fact check.
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Well, we have a much higher standard, obviously, than the left does.
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And so, you know, you got to get all your information in a row and...
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Yeah, some of my text messages maybe are not as kind as they should be to force the issue
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because, you know, they will try to get away with it if they can.
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The first is that Tim Walz did not retire at the rank that he claims he retired at.
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It's a huge issue within the military community and it should be...
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It should be within the civilian community as well.
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The second is that he was set to deploy and he was the highest enlisted official and he,
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And, of course, you know, 20-some years of service, but left his folks high and dry.
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Would it be fair to say that when he retired he knew damn well he was going to go to Iraq or not?
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Our research team is definitely trying to look into that.
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This is a February-March kind of thing, but my view is that if you're smart, no, the puck's going there.
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You know that, so you maybe anticipate and you do what he did.
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Sure, and the claim from their side is that he had filed his paperwork to run for office
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and then the deployment came and, you know, our team is certainly looking into that.
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The third part, which really matters as it relates to that, walking away from that deployment, is the claim he has made.
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And it's both happened directly and indirectly.
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Where he, you know, either has stated it or leads people to believe that he carried weapons of war in a battleground.
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I mean, if you took his blood pressure and pulse at that time, I mean, he was, he was like, he was hot.
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And he was like, like, letting people know he, you know, I'm a guy that's been there, right?
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That's just something that you don't do from, you know, like...
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And they say, like, well, be careful with that, because Trump wasn't in the military.
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And so, and by the way, you know, that conversation has happened.
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This conversation is unfolding before us right now.
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I think that's probably the best asset, you know, from my perspective, when you say, like, how do you fight behind the scenes, is we have them in their own words.
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Danielle Alvarez, I would say give her a hand if...
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John Kerry has not been honest about what happened in Vietnam.
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I know John Kerry is lying about his first Purple Heart because I treated him for that injury.
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His account of what happened and what actually happened are the difference between night and day.
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When the chips were down, you could not count on John Kerry.
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John Kerry betrayed the men and women he served with in Vietnam.
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The Swift Boat incident that sunk, pun intended, John Kerry.
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John Kerry, there's these TV ads in presidential campaigns that you remember vividly that almost alone had the ability to change the entire campaign.
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As I mentioned earlier in the show, the little girl nuclear holocaust ad that Johnson used on Barry Goldwater to stow fears.
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John Kerry, that Swift Boat ad, man, that thing, that thing, that thing sunk him pretty good.
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And when Tim Waltz, when I saw the clips of Tim Waltz basically talking about holding a gun and going to war and this, that and the other thing, and then we find out he's lying about his rank and everything like that and begins to get hit for what they call stolen valor.
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I thought, I thought, I thought that by convention time, Wells would be off the ticket.
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And to me, like historically, but the difference, the difference in this is that the corporate media immediately circled wagons around Teflon, Tim, and at least so far he hasn't borne the appropriate American reaction, at least the reaction which I would think was appropriate.
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So I immediately thought of one of my favorite guests that Steve always has on The War Room, one of the great military historians of our time, Patrick K. O'Donnell.
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Just talk to me, Patrick, about how you see this incident with Waltz.
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First, I'd say this is about three things, judgment, character and leadership.
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This is Kamala Harris's first major decision as a candidate, and it was disastrous.
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It demonstrates her lack of judgment, complete and utter lack of judgment.
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This is a guy that adds no value whatsoever to the campaign, whereas somebody like Shapiro could have potentially added value in Pennsylvania, as well as some of the other candidates.
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This is a candidate that doesn't really add much.
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In fact, they doubled down on socialism and their far left platform.
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So in many ways, this is a gift to the Trump campaign, and let's hope that they keep him, because he's absolutely a disaster.
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Now we go to the second point, which is character.
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The character that has been exhibited here is one of lying, and it's very provable.
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He retired as an E-8 or a master sergeant, but on his website, he listed command sergeant major, as well as on his challenge coin, which recently came up.
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Let me just ask you on this one, because we had Daniel Alvarez, who has a husband, a former Marine.
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We know it's a big deal to the military to do what he did on that, but is it a big deal to anybody else?
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The next point I was going to make was leadership.
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The president of the United States of America is the leader of the free world.
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This is somebody that has to lead and lead by example.
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Neither Kamala Harris nor Tim Walsh fits that bill.
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I mean, his leadership has been lacking, according to the men that he served with.
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That's that's surfaced in multiple reports on Breitbart and elsewhere.
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And I'm sure as time goes on, there may be a swift boat type commercial that demonstrates that in their own words.
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Is there anything in military history that you've studied and written about that has anything to say about his conduct in this matter versus some of the brave men and women you've featured so often in your books?
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But I'm just wondering if there's any historical.
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Just starting with George Washington, who was the indispensable man of the Revolutionary war that, you know, led by example.
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He was in combat and is an 18th century general.
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general, you can literally lead from the saddle. You know, leading his men at Princeton, for
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instance, you know, follow me as they crushed the British at Princeton. And he was on horseback
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and bullets literally flew, you know, hundreds of bullets literally flew. But he had, you know,
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this armor of God. It was a miracle in many ways that he was never hit by any of these bullets.
00:36:30.320
This happened countless times. You know, from my perspective, I was a volunteer combat historian
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attached to the Marine Corps in the Battle of Fallujah. And I saw, what I saw there is something
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that is seared in my mind like a branding iron. I can never forget the bravery and courage of those
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young Marines, those Lance corporals, those corporals, those privates that would never give up.
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And the most poignant example was on November 17, 2004, it's the Battle of Fallujah. We were in the
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Jolan area. I was with a Marine rifle platoon in 3-1 Lima Company. And the platoon was down to maybe
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eight, 10 men. The casualties in 3-1 were enormous, 60% in most cases or more. And we had multiple men
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that literally were wounded multiple times, purple, multiple purple harvests. But they would leave the
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aid station without the doctor's orders. They would just go AWOL to rejoin their brothers.
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And during the ambush, we were ambushed by Chechens. And the Marine in front of me was killed. He was
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shot in the eye. I dragged him out under fire from that ambush. And his best friend was right next to
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me after that ambush. And he just looked at everybody. We were positioned, he said, the next
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house. And we moved forward. He just lost the best friend in the world. But he continued to do his
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duty. And this is something that I will never forget. We had multiple Marines in that unit.
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The classic example was Private Stone Stokes, the lowest-ranking member of 3-1. This is all
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documented in a book called We Were One, which is on the multiple commandant's reading list, which
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required reading for the Marine Corps. And he went AWOL right before the battle to protect his
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family member from domestic violence. Tested positive for smoking pot later on. And went back
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in under the rank of private. But he led all of the assaults. He was armed with a shotgun. And he was
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the breach man on all those units, on all those actions. One of the most courageous Marines I've
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ever met. And after the deployment, he would not, he was not able to re-enlist. This is about a year
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later. And he wanted to, because of what happened. But he wanted to be a Marine so bad that he was
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going to combat. He was going to war. So they gave him a six-month temporary enlistment. And he was
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killed in action. Patrick, let me make one point here. And I don't know if I'm right about this. But
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I think in the minds of many Americans, they don't think that Iraq was as dangerous a war as a lot of
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them that America has been in. And I think that perception might come because at the beginning of
00:39:49.000
that war, things went pretty easy. Sure, there were some casualties, but relatively small relative to
00:39:56.340
some of the other kinds of things. Yet the real danger came down the road in places
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like Fallujah. And I think when people evaluate the stolen value of Tim Waltz, I think they have to
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do so within the context of understanding that he was sending his brothers
00:40:18.260
into battle where they could lose their life or limbs. And he made that choice. And that's reflective
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of his own character. Does that resonate? Is his crime one of cowardice or the line about having been there?
00:40:42.980
I think it's about character, Peter. And as we mentioned, there are multiple demonstrable lies
00:40:51.620
here. But it's also about leadership and leading people by example, doing things as a leader.
00:41:00.980
And that is lacking here. According to all the accounts that are out, for many of the accounts
00:41:06.500
that were out there by his own men, there was a lack of leadership. So that is the issue here.
00:41:14.580
And, you know, we're not talking about running a storm.
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We're talking about the most important job in the world, the presidency and the vice presidency.
00:41:25.940
Do you think do you think this one's going to catch up to him? What's your what's your take on this?
00:41:32.500
Is it something only only military people who support President Trump anyway care about? Or is
00:41:37.860
this something that's going to resonate with with the broader public? What's your gut on this?
00:41:42.740
I think this is a slow, you know, slow leeching thing that is that is that is problematic for their
00:41:51.540
campaign. And he doesn't add any value, as I mentioned. And the other thing you you talked
00:41:57.540
about is how the the corporate media has circled the wagons. And, you know, I wrote this book back
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here, The Unvanquished, which is about the civil war and irregular warfare. But it's also about election
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interference. And it's about influencing the press. And one of my favorite lines in that book is how the
00:42:17.620
democracy, which was the term that the Democrats love to use since the 1850s for themselves. It was
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self aggrandizing term. My favorite term in there is from George Sanders that said the democracy is
00:42:29.220
in possession of the press. And that was the case in 1860, as it is now. The democracy, the corporate
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media controls the press, and they are now rebranding Kamala Harris. And they're also circling the wagons on
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this situation in providing interference for their candidates.
00:42:49.300
And what we're doing here on the war room is trying to cut through that. Sir, Patrick K. O'Donnell,
00:42:55.220
I recommend all his books. He is a treasure here on the war room. Thank you for joining us today. And we
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will see you soon. And if they do a swift boat commercial, we're going to have you right back.
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10 to 12. And next week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 to 12. Tell you folks, we got a lot of work to do.
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What we did today, I think, was really important. We basically did a chessboard view of where the
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campaign is at and what we need to do. I think the big takeaway is that we're in basically a battle
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the Harris-Waltz ticket is. I want to do just a couple. We're going to have Mike Lindell to get us out,
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