Special Assistant to the President Harrison Fields - Live From the White House
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Summary
Harrison Fields is a special assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for the White House press corps. In this episode, Harrison talks about what it's like to work for the Trump administration, what it means to be a White House reporter, and what it takes to get the job done.
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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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Special assistant to the president and deputy press secretary for the White House.
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I just have to say, I really appreciate you guys doing this podcast, Roe.
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The way that you're reaching out to new media, engaging new voices.
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It's about all the people who follow us, who retweet us, that are out there in the mix.
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It really feels like this time around, the admin just gets it when it comes to comps.
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I mean, we are no longer in that generation where you flip through the paper every morning.
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We're consuming media in a totally different way than we did even five years ago.
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So we're adjusting to the times like we're doing really throughout the entire administration.
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I mean, Doge is an old idea that we're making fetch right now in 2025.
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And we're just trying to make it more efficient.
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So we're just trying to bring our country into 2025.
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Hopefully, we get to see you in the new media seat in the briefing room.
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But, you know, and it's amazing, too, because you're even breaking stories yourselves, for example, because I keep seeing this.
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I tell people all the time, and it seems like this admin is the first one that actually has embraced it.
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The power of someone just filming something, a selfie video, or turning the camera on themselves, just on an iPhone, and to be able to get something up on X is fascinating.
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So I wake up this morning and got up a little earlier than usual to get here on time.
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And little did I know, there's an MS-13 raid that's been going on, like, down the street, practically, you know, right here in the National Capital Region.
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Because it's already trending on X, because the administration's put it out, because members, I think, Attorney General Bondi had posted it.
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And that's a way to drive the news cycle, in addition to not only getting the massive W out there, but it drives the news cycle in a way that I don't think the traditional comms people even quite understand.
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Yeah, it's a strategy I try to embrace when I worked for Byron Donalds.
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I was just like, sir, instead of just facing the camera, turn the camera on you and talk.
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He's one of the most authentic people out there.
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And one of the few that can actually do it, too.
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He's built an incredible digital team, a videographer team, photography team that gets this stuff.
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I mean, you have, at 4 or 5 in the morning, members of our cabinet in Northern Virginia taking down,
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one of the leaders of MS-13, a guy that was really sleeping in your backyard.
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Knowing that he lives so close, probably 15 minutes from where I live.
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To know that MS-13 was that close to my house, in high-tax Fairfax County, they're taxing everything.
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The crazy thing about it is that luckily we have a governor in Glenn Youngkin that cooperated with our administration.
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Had we not had a Republican governor in that position, they would have given safe harbor to someone like an MS-13 gang member,
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which is another reason why we've got to make sure we have more Republican governors.
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Have there been times that, you know, if you can, don't have to say where exactly,
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but where ICE or the FBI has wanted to go in somewhere and a governor has been trying to block it?
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I mean, the governor of Illinois, Pritzker, and the mayor of Chicago has already said proudly that they will not cooperate with ICE.
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They will not cooperate with the federal government.
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But compare that to a mayor like Eric Adams of New York City, the largest city in the world,
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he's cooperating because he understands it's a problem.
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When you have black people in the south side of Chicago going to city councils
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and demanding that they as Americans are prioritized over the rights of these illegal immigrants that are tearing apart,
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especially minority urban neighborhoods, you know you've got a problem.
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But you still have a Democratic Party that's so resistant because at the end of the day, they do want to make them voters.
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I mean, this is slowly becoming like an 80-20 issue in the president's favor.
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Oh, we're from the Philadelphia area originally.
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And I remember when Congressman Donald's would come down and he came to find that, hey, guess what?
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And what they've done to Kensington Beach and some of those areas of Philadelphia,
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which, by the way, that was an area when I was a kid, you could go shopping there on a Sunday with your family.
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You go to church, you'd ride the train down, ride the L, Mark Frankford.
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You'd get off, you'd do a little shopping, whatever, get some water ice and do whatever.
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But now I look at that, that's when I say, I can't take my kid there.
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And I refuse to believe that when I hear the left talk about this, particularly cities,
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you just get this gobbledygook of, well, it's socioeconomic factors and this and the migration.
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And you're just like, you're getting like a PhD dissertation.
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The Democrats mantra last campaign cycle was we're not turning, we're turning the page
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And a lot of us were saying, we actually want to go back.
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We want to go back to a time when there was sanity, a time where you remember you were
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able to go to these areas of Philadelphia and feel safe.
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So many Americans are saying, wait, wait, wait, I'll give you one, I'll give you one.
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This is so funny because this came up the other day.
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I don't know why, I don't know what you're talking about publicly.
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In the 90s, my grandmother lived in Center City, Baltimore.
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And there was no, you know, we knew because back then it was like, okay, there's certain
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You go down, you go to Inner Harbor, you know, it's totally fine.
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Well, because part of this whole dissertation theology of the Democratic Party is that they're
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testing out this whole, well, let's not prioritize the victims.
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She worked every single day to make sure that she protected victims and took care of criminals.
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They're not able to do their job because of this liberal mentality in which you cannot
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There's some old, that old movie Vertigo with, oh, Jimmy Short.
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When you go watch that, as great of a movie as it is, I found myself watching it, you know,
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And, and, you know, actually in, in Chinese, they call it a Jojinshan.
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So it's, they call it, it's the old golden mountain.
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So they literally refer to it as like the city on a golden mountain.
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I have no affinity for, for California or something, but it's like, wait a minute.
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This wasn't that long ago when all of these cities were amazing.
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And yet for some reason we in this country have decided to prioritize things that are,
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you know, thousands of miles away and halfway around the world versus, Hey, guess what?
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The people who live there, those are American citizens and we're American citizens.
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And why do we allow conditions like this ever in our society?
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My oldest brother, he lives in Queens, born and raised in Queens, a political guy really
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But one thing he always says is that our backyard is hurting.
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The crime hasn't stopped, but yet we're selling billions of dollars overseas.
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We're over here funding trans theater in South America.
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And this is why the president won because he was just bringing it back to common sense
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and bringing it back to things that the American people can actually hold onto.
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They want to be able to thrive in their communities.
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And the Democrats are running on some crazy nonsense that they don't understand themselves.
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And President Trump is making what really is easy decisions, but tough decisions in a
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Like it's not controversial to deport members of TDA.
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And yet you have a judge that is trampling on the president's Article 2 powers to get rid of
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And yet you have liberal judges in Seattle, of all places, that are saying, yeah, you can't
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I mean, I always say put this into another country, right?
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So imagine there was a transnational gang that had invaded China.
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Do you think you think China would sit there and say, oh, well, you know, Judge Bozberg or
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whatever it is, you know, he says a ruling and we have to do this to get him out.
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Any snow serious country would or my wife comes from Eastern Europe and she looks at it from
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And she also says, well, I would say up until last year, but she would say she would say,
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why haven't you thrown your president out of office?
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If he if he is allowing these things to go on, he was kind of thrown out.
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Luckily, we did through an election, through election.
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But you know what I mean, the American people finally said, you know, enough is enough.
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So the question is, I guess, then from your standpoint, do you think four years is enough
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Do you think it's it's enough to change the mindset and get things moving in the direction?
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And I would say I think the last four years under Joe Biden did us a favor in that a lot
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of the American people were saying, do we want to live like this?
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So I actually think you're seeing it was a wake up call.
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The psyche of our country has slowly been shifting.
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So I think President Trump is at an advantage right now that everything that he's doing that
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the American people voted for him to do is kind of like that dopamine hit to the brain
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So he has this mandate to push forward because the last four years has been a disaster.
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So I think the American psyche has totally did a 180.
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We're moving away from the policies of the left.
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And I think you're seeing that across the country.
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If you look at the election results in places like the Bronx, you had 15 percent swings for
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I mean, when you talk about New Jersey being won by President Trump in single digits, you
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know, the country is shifting in a way that is great for us and great for the Constitutional
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By the way, in Pennsylvania, which was one of the swingiest of the swing states, we had
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Those swings in Philadelphia helped us to win the entire state.
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You're seeing members of my generation, Generics and Gen Z, they're all shifting.
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There's a shift happening, not just in our country.
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If you look at other countries, there's a shift happening as well.
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Even the left doesn't like living in the shit that they create.
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Look at what they did to Chesa Boudin in San Francisco.
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Oh, we'll talk about generational and Chesa Boudin.
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And I think the good thing about it is President Trump had the four years.
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That's why a lot of the left is like, hey, we really don't know what to do because he gets
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This is a cabinet that is in lockstep with the president of the United States.
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Everyone is so committed to the agenda that there's a reason why we've been able to move
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And the American people are really like, wow, he came here with a mandate and he's delivering.
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Obviously, people understand that this Trump speed, warp speed is all going on right now.
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Do you think things will slow down as we move into the first 200 days, the next 100 days?
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Or does this pace seem to be really set by the president?
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Does he show any signs that he wants to slow it down?
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This was a day one commitment when I was a day one hire here, January 20th.
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And I knew this was going to be the speed of all four years.
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So we need to make sure every single hour of every single day is being used to our good.
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The next step now is the connection with Congress.
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I was talking to a alleged guy this morning on the way into work.
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President Trump wants to have a tax deduction that if you have your car made in the USA,
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That was an idea that they used to have in the 80s.
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My mom would tell me that you would be able to have a tax deduction on your vehicle back in the 80s.
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It makes sense, especially if your car is made in the USA.
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And we started that when Ford didn't take the bailout.
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I mean, you're talking about what they're doing at Tesla.
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I was, Tucker actually had me in when they did the Cybertruck.
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And I hear the I hear the the Waymo's are coming to D.C. now.
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But I just I can't I just don't know if I can do it yet.
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Hey, you know, I think the one thing if people have the money and luckily under the Trump
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economy, they will just as a sign of like the left has gone so crazy and just buy themselves
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I can't endorse the car, so I'm not going to go there.
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But I think the left is just they're in shambles.
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Literally, we were talking about that recently, and it shows how the left truly is programmable
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by TV or whatever they're reading online, because I can't go to somebody on the right
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But you go to them and say Tesla was it was the flagship of the left.
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This was the the apotheosis of the green movement of the climate change agenda was the electric
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And to see them in in an instant turn it into a symbol of derision, of hate and destruction
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On one hand, I would say it blows my mind, but it's actually revealing.
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They just want to tear down everything in this country and this civilization that's ever
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Well, the support of EVs was already kind of like a head scratcher, because if you look
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at the components of what it what it costs, the the materials of the cobalt, these people
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are like the biggest white privileged people out there just walking around, like feel so
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bad that they're white, let alone the Tesla or the other cars that they were driving.
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The cobalt that goes into the battery was made from slave hands.
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So I was like, listen, stop your virtue signaling.
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You guys are you don't have a single bone of principle.
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I think what if I could sum up and I don't I want to be respectful of your time.
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If I had to sum up, I guess I would say it's one side found themselves living in a fantasy
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And I think if that keeps going, I think you're going to see more and more successes from this
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Want to say thank you, of course, to the White House, to the press team for bringing us in
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today for arranging these interviews, giving us a behind the scenes inside look to what's
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This is a testament to how the Trump administration is now reaching out to new media, to new audiences.
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And it's not about just us here about Human Events Daily, but everyone that we go out
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and touch as we share this information and tell the truth about what's going on behind
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the scenes of the White House here for you in the confines of the incredible People's
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Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.