Ricochet is a super hero from the movie X-Men: First Class. He is a man of many talents, but I think he is the best at one thing, and that is to be bulletproof.
01:05:27.000We're going to get started in just a second, but if you can see, we're going to try to keep this area open for you guys to get drinks throughout the event.
01:05:35.000We know that's always been lame for everybody to have to wait so long to get drinks.
01:05:39.000So, if you guys come up, it's wrapped up, you can come over to the side and quietly get a drink.
01:06:55.000So you guys are welcome if there's an event right now.
01:07:07.000In case you're wondering why I'm doing all the events over the last couple months, it's because Brittany, our president, has been, she had a baby, she's kind of still on maternity leave, she's only about eight weeks out or something like that.
01:07:18.000She's also taking the bar exam today, so she won't be here, she won't be a part of this and everything, so if you shoot her a DM and say, hey we missed you,
01:07:29.000I'm excited for tonight because we have a great guest with a great background.
01:07:33.000I think that you describe yourself as the most bad woman in the country, right?
01:08:00.000Why I'm excited about having Laura here tonight is not just to talk about Trump and DeSantis, obviously we're going to talk about it a lot, but back when you did get banned from everything and you were getting debanked and all of these things, around the same time that Alex Jones was, people didn't say anything, right?
01:08:22.000So, I'm happy, you know, there's, you might, as you might imagine, we announced this event maybe two months ago or so.
01:08:39.000There are probably a lot of people out there that think we should be a new platform.
01:08:43.000So, I've heard of that for the last couple months, but again, usually when I hear that from Republicans or other people, then that makes me want to bring you here even more because that means
01:08:54.000We are going to do this kind of podcast style where we just go back and forth.
01:09:24.000And then I will, uh, we'll be trying to chill.
01:09:27.000Uh, but only members can ask questions, uh, to us, and then, uh, you know, the goal, like, one of the things, we bring this a little bit controversial, right?
01:09:35.000You know, we, we endorsed Ron DeSantis last month, or two months ago at this point, which, yeah, you can imagine.
01:09:56.000There's only a few in the entire country that insert themselves into national politics, or insert themselves into a national conversation, or a global conversation.
01:10:02.000So if we can do that from our little club here in Tampa, which is actually now the second largest nation, but it's still our little club, you know, we could absolutely do more than anything here.
01:10:11.000And, you know, the goal of this is not to be a debate.
01:10:15.000You know, our audience here are members of the
01:10:53.000But as far as the group goes, everybody here, this is not a debate between me and you about DeSantis, Trump, but we're going to have a nice conversation, and I'm going to sit up here with her, and we're going to chit-chat, and I hope that by the end of all of this, the Trump team will be upset with me, the DeSantis team will be upset with me, everyone will be upset with me, and I hope we get a good job of automating this thing, because we need to get somewhere where we actually have a good conversation.
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01:11:52.000People are not aware of your background.
01:11:54.000They're not aware of where you started, how you got yourself into politics.
01:11:57.000So let's just talk a little bit about how you got started in politics, what you were doing.
01:12:26.000I could have taken after one semester.
01:12:28.000So I transferred to this school called Barrett University, which is a Catholic school that I was able to get an honor scholarship for.
01:12:36.000And so I immediately transferred and started living in Miami, Florida, where I was the president of the College Republicans.
01:12:43.000And really, all throughout my time in college,
01:12:47.000I worked very hard to really resurrect the College Republican Club, and I used to joke that I was not only the president and vice president, but the treasurer and secretary, right?
01:12:57.000Because I ended up doing all the work.
01:13:02.000Because as you can imagine, it's always an uphill battle when you're trying to push a conservative ideology on your college campus.
01:13:10.000You know, I was threatened with expulsion for having events, and mind you, I had a 4.0 GPA, right?
01:13:15.000So they just hated me because of my few points.
01:13:18.000And ultimately, I ended up starting, I started working for Project Veritas my senior year of college.
01:13:26.000And I did an investigation on my own university with James O'Keefe.
01:13:31.000And when the university had threatened me, because while I was in college, I actually did some work doing voter registration with the Republican Party of Florida.
01:13:40.000And my university was like threatening to kick me out for some made up lie, right?
01:13:45.000And I thought to myself, wow, you know, they're so discriminatory towards Republicans.
01:13:49.000Let me come up with some crazy idea to expose my university.
01:13:53.000So I had this idea of creating an ISIS club to see if the university would be more open to me having a pro-ISIS club as opposed to a pro-ISIS club.
01:14:03.000So I got a hidden camera and I went to the school administrator and I was like, you know, I just I just feel like we're such a totalitarian country and desperate people do desperate things and so wouldn't it be okay if I started this club called Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?
01:14:19.000I'm going to be okay if I send student government funds overseas to ISIS.
01:14:32.000And we actually replicated the same script at Cornell.
01:14:36.000And long story short, the video came out and I was expelled from college a month before graduation.
01:14:42.000I was valedictorian, and I wasn't even allowed to go to my own college graduation, so I immediately then moved to New York, where I started working full-time undercover with James O'Keefe, and my first undercover assignment as a full-time undercover operative was in the Hillary Clinton campaign.
01:15:00.000So I was embedded in Iowa, New York, Arizona, New Hampshire, and
01:15:06.000Arizona, Nevada I believe, for a portion of, well really probably throughout the entire 2015-2016 election season.
01:15:15.000And long story short, I worked with Project Veritas for several years and then I decided I wanted to start my own media company where I started making my rumored conversation videos where I would livestream myself confronting politicians and
01:15:29.000Ultimately I just became too effective and controversial exposing politicians and I got banned on all social media and like you said I was really one of the canaries in the coal mine and you know we can get into all that but I then decided to run for Congress in 2020 down in Palm Beach and then with the redistricting I ran again in 2022 in the villages and
01:15:51.000Now that I have my Twitter account back, I'm back to doing a lot of my investigative reporting.
01:15:56.000But for about six years, I'd say, I was completely erased online, even though I have a very long history of doing undercover journalism.
01:16:07.000Yeah, that's what I wanted to hear you keep going on.
01:16:11.000For that, you know, it's one thing to get banned off social media, right?
01:16:15.000Even people on the right can make arguments that it's a private company.
01:16:26.000When all of them as CEOs sit around in a big cabal and say, hey, we're going to not just knock you off of Twitter and Facebook and all these other places, but also PayPal and Stripe and Interbank and all these other places and they get together and it's like, it's just all at once.
01:16:39.000So can you just talk about, I mean, it is really for people who are, you know, actual ISIS, you know, terrorists in the country, like that's really for people that I thought growing up that would get that kind of treatment.
01:16:50.000So talk a little bit about what it was like to be made a terrorist.
01:16:54.000So, it's funny that you say that, because I actually wrote a book, it's in the back there, it's called Loomer, and how I became the most banned woman in the world.
01:17:00.000And the concept of deplatforming was actually created and developed by the CIA and the intelligence agencies in our country as a way to deal with Islamic terrorism online.
01:17:12.000And so, in a sense, you could argue that
01:17:16.000Counterterrorism tactics have now been deployed against conservative Americans and Trump supporters and really just anybody as we saw during, you know, the COVID lockdowns as well.
01:17:26.000All you have to do is be a dissident and go against the mainstream media narrative and you will have these techniques that were deployed for the sake of combating jihadists, right, during the war on terror utilized against you.
01:17:38.000And so I wrote the story about Ilhan Omar marrying her brother before she was ever elected
01:17:48.000I was out in Minnesota doing all this reporting, and when I wrote this story, right, people said, oh, Laura Lieber is just some crazy anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist, right?
01:18:02.000And, you know, as a Jewish conservative woman, I did a lot of work exposing anti-Semitism, but also, too, exposing the
01:18:10.000The Islamification of our country, right, under the Obama administration, and how that then turned into the Islamification of our institutions, like our federal law enforcement agencies, as well as our Congress.
01:18:24.000We have Wolfram Tihadis serving in Congress today.
01:18:27.000And so they banned me for a tweet in which I said, Ilhan Omar is anti-Jewish and pro-Sharia.
01:18:34.000After that, they essentially used that as the excuse to ban me everywhere.
01:18:38.000So I was banned on Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Chase Bank shut me down from my online bank, I'm banned on Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, the list goes on and on.
01:18:48.000I'm banned on Teespring, I got banned on Clubhouse literally five minutes after I created my account.
01:18:57.000It's so hard for me sometimes to even remember all the places that I've been banned, and when I ran for Congress,
01:19:03.000I was the first candidate in United States history that was completely deplatformed on all social media.
01:19:08.000So here in the state of Florida, right?
01:19:10.000This is kind of my beat, but broadenest stance, this is where it all got started.
01:19:14.000You know, I ran as a Republican in 2020 in District 21, which is President Trump's home district, and I actually won my primary.
01:19:21.000It was to start a seven-way primary with zero social media.
01:19:24.000And even after I won my primary, I was still not allowed to have Facebook or Twitter.
01:19:29.000I was the only candidate in the nation that, as an individual in my official campaign,
01:19:34.000They actually invented new policies on Facebook and Twitter to keep me off.
01:19:38.000And Ron DeSantis did nothing about this.
01:19:41.000They refused to address it, even though I was an official candidate on the ballot for the general election.
01:19:47.000And then in 2021, Ron DeSantis was like, oh, we're going to create a big tech social media censorship bill in the state of Florida.
01:19:54.000We're going to make it illegal for companies to censor candidates running for office.
01:19:57.000Well, at the time, right, I was the only candidate in the state of Florida that this applied to, aside from Donald Trump.
01:20:04.000Because in 2021, right, he was de-platformed on January 8th, 2021, right, two days after January 6th.
01:20:10.000And so the only two people this would have really applied to was myself and Donald Trump.
01:20:17.000I actually raised $40,000 to do this on my own.
01:20:20.000The Florida State Capitol was locked down at the time, despite claims that Florida is like, you know, a free state that never had any lockdowns.
01:20:27.000And I had to literally get a lobbyist in order to have meetings.
01:20:50.000Well, not just the bank, but payment processing, or also too, Uber and Lyft.
01:20:55.000Like one example I gave when I was the only Floridian, believe it or not, who testified in front of the Florida House Appropriations Committee on this bill.
01:21:34.000So does that mean that because I'm banned by Big Tech, because they discriminate against me for being a conservative, that they would allow me to potentially die in a hurricane?
01:21:44.000It's a life or death matter when you think about it.
01:21:46.000We saw during COVID when they said, okay, you have to socially distance and you have to be home and get your news on Facebook and Twitter.
01:21:54.000And if you go back and you look at these briefings, the sheriffs and even Ron DeSantis himself were saying, oh, follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
01:22:01.000For life-saving information, when everybody thought that COVID was like the zombie apocalypse, right?
01:22:06.000And that we were all going to die before we realized that it was a flu with a 99.7% recovery rate, right?
01:22:12.000So imagine, imagine if it really was a serious outbreak, something like Ebola, okay?
01:22:18.000And you have your elected officials saying, okay, the only way you're going to get life-saving information is if you follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
01:22:25.000This is not just an issue of free speech, it's now a civil rights issue.
01:22:29.000So, I had advocated and really told the Florida legislature, listen, you guys need to approach this not from a standpoint of Section 230, but from a civil rights aspect.
01:22:40.000And the civil rights laws in Florida need to be updated to include political affiliation as a protected class so that conservatives are not discriminated against.
01:22:49.000It's not a free speech issue, it's a civil rights issue.
01:22:55.000Okay, you have Elon Musk now proclaiming that it's a digital public square, and when you decide to completely digitally exterminate somebody, and you are illegally interfering in the will of the people, when you combine all the people who live in District 21 and District 11,
01:23:10.000That's over 2 million people who had their election illegally interfered in with zero consequence whatsoever here in the state of Florida, while your governor, okay, our governor, unfortunately, is going on Fox News with Tucker Carlson saying, well, in Florida, under my leadership, it's illegal now to censor candidates.
01:23:29.000I'm walking, living, breathing proof that no big tech company has faced any consequence whatsoever for their illegal election interference and civil rights violations of Floridians.
01:23:40.000Yeah, I think there's obviously a lot to unpack there, and I think that, again, it does prove that, you know, you get banned from something, and it does, you want to run for Congress, you want to run for some sort of elected office, and it does, it is election interference, and we're obviously seeing it a lot now when it comes to the presidential election, and obviously you have it a lot back on Twitter, and so part of
01:24:20.000Yeah, so he did actually send me a letter today thanking me.
01:24:32.000Donald Trump doesn't use the computer, believe it or not.
01:24:34.000Everybody thinks that he's like the most online person ever because he tweets, but Donald Trump doesn't use computers.
01:24:40.000And so when you have a meeting with President Trump, like I did,
01:24:44.000It's so funny because he still uses a fax machine, believe it or not.
01:24:48.000He has his secretary print articles out, and so when you're sitting at his desk, you see it's like a mountain of just papers.
01:24:56.000And he has his secretary print out every single article, and then when he wants to reply to the person who wrote the article, he writes in big black Sharpies, you know?
01:25:05.000And then they scan it and they send it back to whoever wrote it.
01:25:09.000So I get these scanned messages from Trump all the time where it's like, oh, great job, love this article, you know, keep up the great work.
01:25:17.000And so it's really nice that he takes time to do that.
01:25:20.000But, you know, like you said, I've only been back on Twitter since December, still banned everywhere else, unfortunately.
01:25:27.000It's been a weird mixed reaction because some people are like, oh wow, I didn't even realize you were still around, you know?
01:25:33.000Because people tend to forget about you when you are digitally exterminated for like six years, right?
01:25:40.000Since I've been back, it's been nice in the sense that I've been able to actually utilize my journalistic talents again.
01:25:46.000They completely destroyed my livelihood because if you're a journalist like I am and you have a degree in this, you have to have social media in order to be an effective journalist in this day and age.
01:25:55.000Sometimes your job actually depends on it.
01:25:58.000And so you are either hired or not hired, depending on how much of a following you have.
01:26:03.000And if any of you are in influencer marketing, and I know some people of you, some of you are, and there are a lot of, you know, big social media influencers here in the state of Florida and Tampa, you know that your livelihood is directly tied to your following.
01:26:16.000So just imagine if you're trying to just push out your articles and even get a story out, and you're not even allowed to have access to anything because it just gets blocked.
01:26:25.000But there's still people that don't want me online, but like I said, it's just about informing people.
01:26:33.000And I feel like I'm doing a really big public service, even though a lot of people in Florida are pissed with me for going after Ron DeSantis the way I am, because people need to have integrity.
01:26:43.000And we voted for Ron DeSantis as governor because we thought that he was going to serve a second four-year term.
01:26:49.000And I think that it's very disingenuous and it's very deceptive for him to take, right, $200 million in donations from Trump supporters like he did.
01:26:58.000He broke fundraising records in 2022 when he ran for governor again.
01:27:03.000And then he held on to $100 million of those donations and now he's weaponized them against Donald Trump.
01:27:08.000I mean, how many of you donated to Ron DeSantis in 2022?
01:27:12.000And how many of you voted for Donald Trump?
01:27:14.000Do you like the fact that your donation money is going to be going towards attack ads on Donald Trump?
01:27:20.000Right, so it's not okay, it's not acceptable, and the fact that he also has weaponized and abused his power to change Florida law, like changing Florida's resign-to-run law, unacceptable.
01:27:30.000That's the kind of stuff that we would attack the left for.
01:27:33.000Yeah, one of the things about that rule, you know, I ran for
01:27:43.000It's not, and this is actually part of my argument, not just what's happening for a presidential election, but how it affects all of the people below that want to run for city council, or county commission, and all these other things.
01:27:54.000Like, we have a lot of people in the state, and they didn't change the rule, they only changed the rule for president, if you have a governor that wants to run for president, but, you know, if they would have changed the resign to run law, which is a fantastic law, right now we would have a lot of state house reps who would run for congress, then see their congressional race, and then, you know, pin out the way they wanted to, and then go right back into the state house.
01:28:12.000And this is something I, you know, as somebody who leads young Republicans around the state of Florida, you have to, this keeps us from running.
01:28:18.000It keeps young people from running because we only run when there's an opening, right?
01:28:22.000Because we want to run against an incumbent.
01:28:24.000You know, we can talk about that for a little bit.
01:28:26.000Like what's it like to run against an incumbent, a Republican party?
01:28:30.000You know, how does McCarthy treat you?
01:28:32.000You know, I can talk about my experience about how the GOP treats me here.
01:28:35.000You know, whether I want to challenge somebody or not, or whether you want to challenge somebody or not.
01:28:44.000Well, I think it's important for everybody to understand that just like Kevin McCarthy, right, controls all the congressional races, whether or not you want to believe that, it is true, right?
01:28:54.000He controls the flow of money from the NRCC, okay, into these races.
01:28:59.000And if Kevin McCarthy doesn't want you in, they're going to find ways to subvert your race and to throw dark money at your race to try to subvert you, especially if you are challenging an incumbent like I did.
01:29:09.000And in your case, right, you ran for, what, Florida House?
01:29:13.000And so Ron DeSantis controls the Florida GOP.
01:29:17.000People think, oh, it's Christian Ziegler, the chairman, or, oh, it's Evan Power.
01:29:20.000No, the Florida GOP is still controlled by Governor Ron DeSantis, right?
01:29:24.000They try to pretend like, oh, he moved out of our office, even though we had 24 of his staffers on our payroll up until the time that he filed to run for president.
01:29:33.000And so as you mentioned... Do you think that, like, do you think that the, uh,
01:29:38.000How popular Ron DeSantis became in the state of Florida changed the dynamic between the governor's office and the Senate and everything?
01:29:45.000It's not how popular he is, it's the fact that he acts like a dictator.
01:29:48.000He literally threatened the legislature and it's on record.
01:29:52.000You have legislators and lobbyists on record in Florida who said, oh, we were basically propositioned by Ron DeSantis' official campaign staff and his official taxpayer-funded staff in his gubernatorial office in Tallahassee.
01:30:06.000And they said, hey, if you don't write a max-out donation check to Ron DeSantis, you're not going to get any access and we're going to make sure your legislative efforts fail.
01:30:13.000There were articles written about and even confirmed by legislators.
01:30:29.000And so Ron DeSantis vetoed over $30 million of funds that were supposed to go towards projects to help improve the quality of life for residents of Sarasota as a form of retaliation against Joe Gerdes.
01:30:45.000And Joe Gerdes isn't the one that's going to be suffering.
01:30:49.000I don't think that that's effective leadership when you're literally threatening freshman lawmakers and saying, hey, be prepared to get a primary opponent when you run again if you don't endorse Ron DeSantis.
01:31:00.000Well, one thing I'll say to that, you know, we had Mike Beltran here last month, and we had, I want to say, 10 state reps or something like that that did not endorse Ron DeSantis or so.
01:31:16.000Well, he was the only one that came out vocally in support of Donald Trump the way he did, and then he was punished.
01:31:22.000But I guess my question was, in the past, when we had Jeb Bush and we had Rick Scott and some of these other governors, we had Senate presidents who maybe could push back on them, or maybe they didn't feel that the governor was popular enough that he could over...
01:31:36.000Well, it's bribery is what it is, so I actually just did a story about this, and I wrote a story about how when Ron DeSantis had the 100 million dollars left over, and it's all sourced, I'm not making this stuff up, you can see it,
01:32:00.000A lot of people don't want to talk about this because another thing that Ron DeSantis does is he threatens reporters.
01:32:05.000And this has been documented as well, where if you are a reporter and you push back on Ron DeSantis in the Florida media or the national press, and you hold his campaign accountable or question why they're doing certain things, you're blacklisted from his campaign events.
01:32:32.000And one of the things that he did was he appointed in May of 2022 a guy by the name of Cord Bird as the new Florida Secretary of State.
01:32:41.000And he quietly had Cord Bird change the Florida election handbook
01:32:46.000With regards to how you're allowed to transfer funds between state entities like state PACs and federal PACs.
01:32:53.000And so what Ron DeSantis did is he deceptively had the name of his PAC, Friends of Ron DeSantis, changed to the Empower Parents PAC.
01:33:00.000And then Blazin' Govlia, who's a state senator, okay, in the state of Florida, was listed as the chairman of the PAC.
01:33:07.000Then what they did is they quietly, right, days after the Florida legislature changed, resigned to run, and they said that they passed the amendment, they quietly transferred $1 million to a brand new PAC that got propped up days later after this legislation was approved.
01:33:24.000And guess who operates the new PAC called Empower Parents Florida?
01:33:27.000You see the same exact name except with Florida at the end to try to confuse people about the flow of money.
01:33:32.000Paul Renner, the Florida Speaker of the House.
01:33:34.000And so when you say, oh, do you think that
01:33:37.000You know, Ron DeSantis, it's just his strong leadership that gets the Senate President and the Florida Speaker of the House on board with him.
01:33:44.000If somebody comes to you and says, hey, you want a million dollars?
01:33:47.000Just make sure that the law's changed, right?
01:33:49.000So I think that there's a lot of bribery involved here.
01:33:53.000Ron DeSantis also appointed, what's her name, Pasadena, he appointed her daughter to the Utility Commission.
01:34:04.000Okay, so hey, I'll give your daughter a position on the Utility Commission, just do as I say.
01:34:09.000And a lot of people don't know this, right?
01:34:11.000They don't know all the wheeling and dealing that's taking place in the Florida legislature because, let's be honest, right?
01:34:17.000For some people, state politics just isn't as sexy as all the national political drama.
01:34:22.000So you have all this bribery and corruption that's happening here and I'm calling it out and I get called a hater when I'm just trying to inform you of an abuse of power that's taking place right under your noses.
01:34:49.000Well, they're liars, and I have the evidence.
01:34:59.000I'll tell you why they're liars right now.
01:35:00.000So, that's exactly what Blazin' Gogolio said.
01:35:03.000He goes, oh, we're gonna transfer the $82.5 million that's left over, okay, in the PAC.
01:35:09.000They changed the name to Empower Parents PAC.
01:35:11.000The Ron DeSantis, Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC.
01:35:15.000That was $82.5 million that was raised from Trump supporters for the sake of getting Rod DeSantis re-elected.
01:35:20.000They quietly have the Florida law changed so that you can transfer it to a federal entity, and then Blazing Goglia, okay, props up this fake website for the Empower Parents PAC.
01:35:31.000And they say, oh, we're going to help spread a message of parental rights, and we're going to help school board racism, yada, yada, yada, yada.
01:35:39.000They literally transferred the $82.5 million to the Never Back Down Super PAC, and then they sent a letter the next day to the Florida Division of Elections asking them to shutter the PAC.
01:35:53.000Like, oh yeah, let's make it seem like we're going to protect parents and support parents
01:35:58.000And then we're actually just going to transfer it to a federal race and we're going to quietly end the pack so that nobody knows, but we're going to keep the website active so that your average person really thinks that, wow, Ron is such a great guy.
01:36:10.000He just gave $82.5 million to support parents' rights.
01:36:32.000I guess my opinion personally over this kind of stuff is that, like, I see money moving from PAC to PAC to PAC in all these different places, and every candidate does it.
01:36:41.000I think that they, and it's not a good thing, right?
01:36:43.000I think that we've had bills here in Florida that have tried to stop it from happening, but they don't get passed, right?
01:36:49.000Because this is, but this is politics, right?
01:36:51.000Like, you see it, I see it when somebody wants to run again.
01:36:57.000A big part of his platform is that he's some savior for parents, right?
01:37:01.000And that's his whole shtick, like, oh, look at me, you know?
01:37:04.000I'm like Glenn Youngkin, I'm here to be the savior for your children.
01:37:07.000And then he says, okay, I'm going to give you guys $82.5 million because I'm so generous, and this money's going to go towards bolstering the parental rights movement.
01:37:35.000Through a joint fundraising effort through the PAC, the Never Back Down PAC, and the Ron DeSantis for President campaign.
01:37:40.000So they said, oh, DeSantis raised $20 million for his campaign.
01:37:44.000Oh, he raised so much more money than Trump because the PAC raised $130 million.
01:37:48.000Well, you didn't really raise $130 million on the PAC if you transferred $82.5 million from your gubernatorial PAC that was money.
01:37:56.000Trump supporters trusted that you were going to use that money to further your agenda as governor, not to stab the man in the back who you owe your
01:40:01.000They've already blown through millions of dollars, and all of the money has been earmarked for the Never Back Down Super PAC, which is now bankrolling in violation of election laws, the Ron DeSantis for President campaign, because he's not fiscally conservative, and he has blown through over 69% of his first quarter fundraising funds.
01:40:22.000So I would love to sit here and pontificate about, well, what if they decide to get involved in races and help out
01:40:44.000Having this red wave that's catapulted by the parental rights movement, but it's all fraudulent.
01:40:50.000And if you follow the money trail, as I've laid out with all the financial expenditure receipts and documentation, you'll see the PAC doesn't even exist anymore.
01:41:00.000It was a front to protect Ron DeSantis' name.
01:41:02.000I think that, um, I know that, um, you know, obviously you do this, you do this every day, right?
01:41:07.000And you are digging in probably more than anybody else in the country on some of like the reports and the FEC reports and all this other kind of stuff.
01:41:14.000Um, you know, I don't want to, I know we've got a big audience here and I don't know how, you know, directly involved they are in this kind of get to the weeds on Twitter every day.
01:41:20.000And so, can we talk, I know this is, this is partially like as a surrogate to Donald Trump's campaign, right?
01:41:26.000Unless Donald Trump wants to come to one of our events, if he's watching, you're welcome to come out to one of our events.
01:41:33.000We'll host the whole gala for you if you want to come out.
01:41:47.000One of the things I wanted to ask you, though, is to talk a little bit more about... No, I wanted you to talk a little bit more broadly about some of the appeal to Donald Trump.
01:41:54.000You were over DeSantis more than some of the nuances of some
01:41:59.000Yeah, well, and that's why I think, you know, that's why I was going to ask you when I tried grabbing the microphone.
01:42:04.000I was going to say, perhaps... We've got to share a microphone.
01:42:09.000Listen, all I was going to say is that perhaps now that, you know, the curtain, right, or the mask has been ripped off of Ron DeSantis,
01:42:17.000I mean, how many people or members of your club would be open to redoing the poll?
01:42:21.000Because I think a lot of people were duped into thinking that Ron DeSantis was somebody that he isn't.
01:42:25.000And I think that now that a lot of this information has come out, perhaps your club members would actually endorse Donald Trump over Ron DeSantis.
01:42:37.000We've, uh, we've had to do something within our board.
01:42:40.000We've talked about doing, uh, straw polls, like, along the way, because, uh, you know, things do change, obviously.
01:42:46.000I defend the decision that we made to do it at the very beginning of this election with everybody jumping in because I think, again, it brings attention to our club and I think it was the right thing to do, but the point is that we are going to probably be continuing to poll as we go throughout this entire thing, so it's something that we're going to be doing.
01:43:01.000Yeah, I mean, you guys, if you want to get attention, Tampa Bay Young Republicans rescinds endorsements of Governor Ron DeSantis!
01:43:13.000I think it would make national headlines.
01:43:17.000We're assuming it would make national headlines.
01:43:18.000So, like I said, what I do want to keep going on about is, again, I want to continue to talk broadly.
01:43:24.000What is the argument for Trump over DeSantis beyond just some of the things we've gotten to so far?
01:43:30.000Well, I think that, uh, you know, look, President Donald Trump, okay, he had four years of proven, effective policymaking.
01:43:38.000And the fact of the matter is, is we can go through policies all night long, but I think that integrity matters.
01:43:44.000And I think that, uh, Donald Trump's, uh, you know, phrase, his catchphrase of promises made, promises kept is important.
01:43:51.000And Ron DeSantis promised to be governor for another four years.
01:43:54.000Okay, it was rather selfish of him to rob another politically-minded, aspirational Republican of the opportunity to run for governor of Florida if he, in fact, didn't want to be a full-time governor.
01:44:09.000And so, we're coming up on hurricane season.
01:44:12.000I know here in Tampa you have the highest inflation in the state of Florida.
01:44:15.000Tampa has the highest inflation of any city in the state of Florida, and it's the highest inflation out of any city in the entire country.
01:44:23.000So, it's very expensive, and we have a housing market, an insurance crisis here, and I think that the fact that Governor Ron DeSantis is willing to completely abandon the needs, okay, and the concerns of the people that he took an oath to represent is all the evidence in the world that you need as to why he's not ready for primetime, why he is not
01:44:45.000I'm happy to answer questions about Donald Trump's policies all night long, but the fact of the matter is, is majority of Americans in this country
01:45:01.000Across party lines believe that the 2020 election was stolen or somehow fraudulent over 70% of Americans And so given that we now know that the election was fraudulent.
01:45:11.000Okay, we've seen the whistleblower testimony We've seen congressional testimony from the big tech executives that show that the FBI had weekly briefings leading up to the 2020 election and
01:45:23.000To censor information that otherwise polling indicates would have completely changed the results of the 2020 election, Donald Trump is entitled to the second term that was stolen from him.
01:45:38.000Because if we are a country, if we are a country that is just going to roll over and make excuses for this illegitimate communist regime that is occupying the White House right now to steal our election and deprive us of the representation that we are entitled to and the representation that we voted for, then we are a failed country.
01:45:59.000And I would say today that the American empire has collapsed.
01:46:04.000So 2024 is our last chance to prove the world whether or not Americans truly have a backbone, whether or not this great experiment is worth even preserving any longer.
01:46:14.000Because if we're not going to fight for election integrity, which is the most important issue facing our country and the entire world today, then I would say that we deserve to fail.
01:47:01.000We're trying to change the laws all over the country to get rid of all of the crazy COVID laws that still exist around here.
01:47:07.000About a third of the country has fixed them, but about maybe half the country has not.
01:47:11.000So I have very little faith that we're not going to see almost the exact same thing.
01:47:16.000In a lot of these states that are the swing states and everything.
01:47:19.000But we don't get anything changed like legally and in dollars without harvesting and all the sort of things we can talk about.
01:47:24.000But one of the things I think is interesting during this primary that we've almost like reverted to saying like, oh, they're going to take the election in 2024.
01:47:30.000But then we've got the entire primary, right?
01:47:33.000So I'm curious to get your thoughts on, you know, if we're talking about elections being stolen or any of that kind of stuff for 2024 and the general towards Biden, like what's your thoughts on a primary?
01:47:44.000Yeah, well, they are trying to steal the primary election nomination from Donald Trump, the Florida GOP specifically.
01:47:50.000And as I've exclusively, I broke this story actually, Evan Power, who is the vice chair of the Florida GOP, did you know that he is married?
01:47:59.000To Melissa Power, who is the CFO, the Chief Financial Officer of the Ron DeSantis for President campaign.
01:48:05.000I mean, talk about a conflict of interest, okay?
01:48:08.000And then on top of that, the Republican Party of Florida just changed their rules to make it so that if you don't sign a loyalty oath, you can't even be on the ballot in the state of Florida.
01:48:27.000I don't know if any of you saw my expose.
01:48:29.000Two weeks ago on the California GOP, they were literally trying to have a secret meeting, okay, to change California's winner-take-all delegation process for the process of awarding delegates in the GOP primary in California, which is always winner-take-all, to make it proportional, so that even if you won the California GOP primary... I got a piece of hair on my mouth or something, weird.
01:48:55.000Even if you won the California GOP primary,
01:48:59.000There's 169 delegates in California, which is the most delegates out of any state in the country, right?
01:49:04.000So California, believe it or not, plays a really big role in deciding who the GOP nominee is on the floor of the convention, right?
01:49:13.000And they were trying to make it so that even if you were to win, right, majority, you would still have to give the second place person, in this case, Ron DeSantis, right?
01:49:22.000We're looking at national poll trends right now.
01:49:28.000And that's a way, okay, to compromise for the fact that Ron DeSantis, they know, is not going to be able to win states like Iowa.
01:49:36.000He's not going to be able to win states like New Hampshire.
01:49:38.000And so, just like we saw the strategy in 2016 at the convention, right, where Ken Cuccinelli and all these Never Trumpers and Ted Cruzers tried to have a brokered convention where they had a delegate heist on the floor of the convention.
01:50:19.000It's these last-minute rule changes and procedural gimmicks.
01:50:22.000If Donald Trump is not able to be on the ballot in Florida, he can kiss the GOP nomination goodbye.
01:50:27.000So we need to hold the Florida GOP accountable, because they're literally trying to rig this election.
01:50:32.000That's something that, you know, I know you and Evan Power have gone back and forth about this on Twitter, and Christian Ziegler and these guys.
01:51:05.000And if you have a conflict of interest, right, you can't be on the jury.
01:51:08.000So what makes Evan Power think that he can be a neutral participant in overseeing the Florida GOP primary when his wife is literally getting paid by the Ron DeSantis for President campaign?
01:51:24.000You know, if I join the REC, which I'm part of the REC here, I have to take the loyalty to the Republican Party, and then the argument is that you don't want to get somebody on the stage in the debate when we have the Sunshine State Summit, and they use that platform to run as an independent.
01:51:42.000Punching right is good for our party, because it's not the Democrats that are the problem in this country.
01:51:46.000It's feckless rhinos, okay, who have subverted the Republican Party.
01:51:54.000Infighting is good for the Republican Party.
01:51:57.000Punching right is good for the Republican Party.
01:51:59.000Because if we don't start calling out our own, and we don't start having higher standards for all of these rhinos who are essentially Democrats with an R next to their name on the ballot, then, yo, you complain about the Uniparty, guess what?
01:52:13.000And if you're not willing to shake things up and have a little controversy, then, you know, you only have yourself to blame.
01:52:19.000And so I think that loyalty oath, taking an oath to a party,
01:52:23.000I mean, what happens if you find out that a nominee has child porn on their laptop and then they say, oh, you have to take an oath to support this person because they're our nominee.
01:52:33.000No, I'm not voting for anybody who I don't support.
01:52:36.000I am only supporting Donald Trump and I'm proudly an only Trumper voter.
01:52:40.000And I have publicly said... I have publicly said...
01:52:47.000That I will campaign against Ron DeSantis if he is the nominee.
01:52:51.000Because I'm not going to be told by the feckless, corrupt Republican Party that did nothing when Donald Trump was deplatformed, that did nothing when I was deplatformed in the state of Florida, that did nothing to fight back against the stolen election, who I'm going to vote for.
01:53:06.000I will vote for whoever I want to vote for, and all of you should vote for whoever you want to vote for.
01:53:13.000Loyalty oaths and the Reagan rule, this 11th commandment of never speak ill of another Republican needs to be put in the shredder on full speed.
01:53:40.000I do think it's good to have these conversations within the primary and do all that kind of stuff.
01:53:44.000I do think that when it comes to loyalties and all this kind of stuff, again, this is something that we do as a party because what I don't want to see is, and I know that you feel a certain way about Ron DeSantis, but ultimately when this primary is over, I think this is where you and I will disagree I think the most, is that
01:53:59.000We should be getting behind whoever the Republican nominee is, because if the alternative is Biden, I will vote for... I don't know everybody that's in the race, but just about everybody else in the Republican Party, I will take Ron DeSantis over him, I will take Biden over him, I will take all these different people over him, because I don't want another round of Biden in the Communist regime they've talked about.
01:54:21.000But that's exactly what we're going to have.
01:54:23.000Because if we allow for them to deprive Donald Trump of the nomination, we are then signing off our seal of approval for a rigged election.
01:54:32.000So I am not going to vote in the 2024 general election unless Donald Trump is the nominee.
01:54:37.000And that might seem like an extreme standpoint to have, but I just cannot.
01:54:46.000It's just a matter of principle for me.
01:55:25.000I view every single GOP candidate who's running against Donald Trump as a Democrat.
01:55:29.000Because if you're not willing to take a stand against the weaponization of government against Donald Trump, when everybody knows the election was stolen, everybody knows that it's a witch hunt, everybody knows that it's an abuse of power and a two-tiered justice system and a banana republic, then you're a Democrat.
01:55:46.000Oh, we're gonna go after the weaponization of government, but his entire political strategy for winning the 2024 GOP nomination is, oh, Donald Trump's gonna be indicted and go to jail, and then the pathway's gonna be cleared.
01:56:03.000I'm just really passionate about this because I just love Donald Trump so much.
01:56:07.000I just, I just feel it's not just about Donald Trump, it's about all of us and maybe it's because I have been targeted the same way that Donald Trump has and literally like the same judges who went after Donald Trump have gone after me politically.
01:56:22.000Like, it's a personal attack on me, you know?
01:56:25.000Like, I feel personally victimized by Ron DeSantis, by him running against Donald Trump, because I feel like it's an affront on election integrity, and I feel like it's an affront on all of the Americans, the 81 million Americans who had their votes defiled and robbed, you know?
01:56:40.000It's just such a slap in the face, and I don't know, I just feel so passionate about it, because so many people feel hopeless.
01:56:50.000And Donald Trump is the only thing that is going to give so many people in this country who are feeling a sense of hopelessness a purpose, right, for their future.
01:56:59.000And I really do... I know it sounds overdramatic, but I think 2024 is it.
01:57:03.000I think we really are a failed empire if Donald Trump doesn't get back in.
01:57:06.000And even then, he's only gonna be able to buy us a little bit more time because our society has a cancer, okay?
01:57:21.000And it has permeated and infiltrated every single institution in our country, especially our elections.
01:57:28.000And, you know, if we're not going to have much more time left in this country, then I want to enjoy it with somebody like Donald Trump as our leader for the time that we have.
01:59:21.000No, so it was kind of tricky for me because, you know, I'm involved in litigation, so I have an active RICO case right now against Twitter and Facebook, and I had a case against Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Apple that actually went all the way to the Supreme Court, and so during that time, of course, I wasn't able to have any fake accounts, and not that I ever had any fake accounts, but
01:59:42.000You know, the cancel culture environment is very
01:59:47.000Prevalent, I guess you could say, in the right-wing movement.
01:59:50.000And even though I approached certain conservative networks and I said, hey, I could write under a ghost name if your issue is just the association with me, some of them were just so terrified of anyone ever finding out that they said no.
02:00:03.000So it was very difficult because I really wasn't able.
02:00:05.000And Ed's laughing in the back because he knows.
02:00:07.000I've known Ed for years and he's helping me out, part of my production team.
02:00:13.000You know, people that you would think, or people that preach every single day about, oh, I'm so against cancel culture, right?
02:00:19.000They're scared of the mob coming from them.
02:00:21.000And that's the problem, right, is you have so many people in conning, because I like to say that, talk about how they're so anti-cancel culture, but I would say that I think I've been canceled more by the right than the left.
02:00:32.000Sure, the left, like, they banned me on social media, but Republicans didn't even speak up for me when I ran for Congress and I was an official America First candidate on the ballot.
02:00:43.000The Republican Party of Florida, when I won my election in 2020, and I was on the general election ballot, they called every single candidate who had won their primary to thank them and see how they could support them except for me.
02:00:56.000Do you wonder if your songlines are perhaps misconstrued?
02:01:01.000Well, I think that they lied about me, right, when they said that I was some anti-Muslim, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, right?
02:01:25.000You know, like, they have, they have fan clubs that come and protest for them.
02:01:29.000And yes, some people have, you know, written me nice fan mail and all, but it would have been nice to have some, some, uh, diehard stans when I was running for Congress who would have, you know, protested.
02:01:38.000And there were some people, like I said, there were tons of volunteers who, of course, stood up for me and voters and expressed support, but I can't really think of many people in the actual official Republican Party apparatus.
02:01:49.000And there are misconceptions about me because they believe lies.
02:01:52.000They think I'm a Nazi, even though I'm Jewish.
02:01:55.000Look, being against Sharia and calling for equal human rights and being against the Islamification of our country doesn't make me a Muslim hater.
02:02:05.000I am against Islam because I think that Islam is incompatible with Western civilization and tenets within Islam, okay?
02:02:13.000I'm glad we're doing this on Rumble because we would have
02:02:42.000Yeah, I mean, it's just, you know, it's just one of those things and I ran for Congress for that reason because, you know, it's sad when you see the Republican Party talk about how they care about free speech, but they won't even fight for a candidate that worked their ass off, okay, and secured a spot on the ballot.
02:03:01.000Regardless of what they think about me, it's not about me.
02:03:04.000It's about allowing for the voters of Florida to have their fair decision, right?
02:04:14.000Yeah, look, what I'm saying is that it's not that they're Democrats simply for running against Trump.
02:04:19.000What I'm saying is that if they're not going to speak out against the weaponization of government that's happening against Donald Trump, and they're going to simultaneously run against him, then they're no better than Democrats.
02:04:30.000In my admiration for Vivek, I actually interviewed him at the courthouse in front of the Miami courthouse where I organized the rally in support of President Trump.
02:04:38.000And I said, you know, this is my problem with Ron DeSantis.
02:04:43.000I said, look, I don't think you're going to win, Vivek, but I think that it's admirable that you're out here because at least you're taking a stand.
02:04:57.000He's running against the man he owes his entire political career to, and he's so... His animosity, or maybe his thirst, right?
02:05:07.000His thirst and his desire for political power supersedes his desire for justice and equal application of the law.
02:05:15.000And so with Vivek, you have a guy who's ambitious, okay?
02:05:19.000He's almost a billionaire from my understanding.
02:05:21.000He's certainly got enough money to self-finance his campaign, but he has enough political integrity and he's put principle over politics, right?
02:05:28.000So he knows that, yeah, he's running against Donald Trump, who's technically his opponent, but at the same time, he's going to have the integrity to speak out against a weaponized government.
02:05:37.000So if you're not going to do that, then yeah, you're like a Democrat.
02:05:40.000That's all I'm trying to say is that maybe I should have clarified it better, is if you're not going to speak out against the weaponization of government and simultaneously run, then you're no better than the Democrats.
02:05:51.000But everybody has a right to run, you know, and I like the Beck.
02:06:09.000No, I think it's valid to point out his Big Pharma... Like, I don't... I'm not saying I vouch for all of his policies and his background in Big Pharma.
02:06:17.000What I'm saying, though, is that out of all the candidates who are running against Donald Trump, he's really the only one that had the balls to stand in front of the courthouse in front of a predominantly pro-Trump audience.
02:06:27.000I think that's exactly what everybody should have been doing.
02:07:37.000When you make a statement, it's a claim.
02:07:39.000And I have not seen her medical records, and so I don't really know if it was stage 4 cancer or not.
02:07:44.000I'm not saying that she faked her cancer, but I do find it to be rather distasteful to run political ads in an attempt to, what I say is an attempt to get sympathy votes.
02:07:55.000I know I received a lot of heat for this.
02:07:56.000I'm not going to apologize for what I said.
02:07:58.000If people want to be offended with me, that's their problem, not mine.
02:08:01.000But the fact of the matter is, is your medical diagnosis should be between you and your doctor.
02:08:06.000And I don't really, if she doesn't currently have cancer, I don't understand why it needs to be brought up on the campaign trail unless it's like,
02:08:53.000So he could have run for president and taken care of his wife.
02:08:57.000But, um, I don't know, I just think it's distasteful and gross to, you know, try to use your cancer.
02:09:07.000So very face takes tonight, that's for sure.
02:09:09.000My question to you is just, you said that most or a lot of your censorship comes from people on the right, right?
02:09:14.000Obviously we've seen people like TPUSA leaders, and platform conservatives like you, other conservatives too, like American First leaders and whatnot.
02:09:21.000My question is to you, is who do we trust?
02:09:24.000And how do we gatekeep and prevent these people from taking over our institutions so that we're not having these conversations here today?
02:09:30.000Yeah, well, that's a really good question.
02:09:36.000And look, I mean, who people are going to trust depends on what their viewpoints are, because not everybody shares, not everybody on the right has the same viewpoints, right?
02:09:44.000Not everybody would classify themselves as the same type of conservative, right?
02:09:50.000I just encourage people to really seek out their own information and to try to meet people themselves and see all viewpoints before they just regurgitate things that are force-fed to them on Fox News.
02:10:26.000I do my own research, but there's a lot of alternative media platforms now that are popping up as a result of this anti-censorship movement.
02:10:36.000It's really up to everybody to seek out their own information, but because we live in a misinformation culture now, where it's so easy to just push information out, it's very important for people to verify that.
02:10:49.000Coming out tonight and listening to talks for yourself or, you know, digging into reports, learn some investigative skills, right?
02:10:56.000You could also learn how to read these FEC reports or, you know, do some investigative work on the side yourself, because even though the Republican Party sometimes tells you things, doesn't necessarily mean it's true.
02:11:07.000For example, the Republicans recently said, oh, we defunded the 87,000 IRS agents, right?
02:11:13.000And that's parroted by all the right-wing networks because they don't want to piss off McCarthy or lose access to these certain congressional candidates.
02:11:25.000Just like so much of what they say isn't true.
02:11:28.000And I think that the Republican Party is as much of a purveyor of fake news as the Democrat Party, and that's the crisis that we're living in today.
02:11:36.000We are really living in an information war, as Alex Jones would say, and it's up to all of us to resist the Uniparty.
02:11:47.000Yeah, if your listeners that are online don't know, the last endorsement that we did before this one was just anybody but McCarthy and anybody but McConnell as well.
02:13:06.000Mitch McConnell done absolutely nothing right and so it's pretty dismal when you think about it because they really honestly haven't done anything to change the situations that we found ourselves in in 2020 with all of this mail-in ballot fraud and so really ultimately I think that now that everybody is like really hypersensitive to voter fraud there's gonna be people that are more aware and they're more aware about the big tech social media censorship as well but
02:13:32.000The fact of the matter is, is the Republican Party has dropped the ball, and that's not Donald Trump's fault.
02:13:37.000Donald Trump is a candidate just like Ron DeSantis is a candidate, or Vivek, or any of these other candidates, but the Republican Party apparatus is behind.
02:13:47.000They are behind, and we see this on a national level where, you know, we should have been having
02:13:52.000Conversations about ballot harvesting techniques two years ago, right?
02:13:56.000We should have been having conversations two years ago about who was going to be Speaker of the House as opposed to Kevin McCarthy.
02:14:02.000And when you have all these state GOPs, like I pointed out, changing the rules as well, and we still have pervasive tech censorship.
02:14:10.000That's great and all, but there's still the issue of Facebook and Instagram and all the payment processors and the search engine manipulation as well.
02:14:40.000He shoots up in the polls another 10 points.
02:14:42.000And I think that the more that they persecute him, the more the average American realizes, oh my God, if they can get away with doing this to Donald Trump, they can get away with doing it to me.
02:14:52.000And I think that we have to really capitalize off of that energy going into 2024, because it's something that independents, Democrats, people who are not political at all, Republicans can relate to.
02:15:05.000The feeling of what it's like to be targeted, what it's like to be victimized by the federal government.
02:15:12.000Everybody knows what it feels like to be trapped in a situation that is unfair.
02:15:17.000And we have to capitalize off of the spirit of retribution and injustice that all Americans are feeling.
02:15:24.000And that is a feeling and an emotion that transcends political lines.
02:15:35.000Running around the country trying to change voting laws.
02:15:38.000Something that one of the supervisors of elections said of a fairly prominent state to me that every single election they end up with five lawsuits like six months before the election from like the League of Women Voters and the Democrats and all that stuff.
02:15:49.000So to exactly what your point is, it is the party's job, it is Robert McDaniel's job, and all these different people's job to be filing these lawsuits because we're in
02:15:56.000And I'll say too, you know, people always say, oh, you know, you're so far up Donald Trump's ass, you know, you never, you never criticize him.
02:17:19.000Well, you have to drive home, right, the understanding that, yeah, the media likes to pit us all against each other, left and right, Democrat, Republican, but at the end of the day, aren't we all fighting the same thing?
02:17:31.000Aren't we all just Americans who are sick and tired of not being represented adequately?
02:17:40.000We all want adequate representation, but it seems like whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, these incumbent politicians are just screwing us over.
02:17:49.000And, you know, they're getting away with insider trading.
02:18:11.000Trump is the leader of the Republican Party, okay?
02:18:14.000But Donald Trump is so much bigger than the Republican Party.
02:18:18.000And the thing that he did not do his first term, that we absolutely need to make sure happens this second term when he is reinstated as the 47th President of the United States, is we need to capitalize on his energy and his brand to do away with the uniparty structure
02:18:36.000And I am an advocate for, perhaps, a third party.
02:18:39.000A stronger third party that is truly representative of the American people, or a hostile takeover.
02:18:45.000An America First hostile takeover of the Republican Party.
02:19:04.000So, as fellow alumni of a previous organization, we know the power that a literal camera and a few seconds of footage can get.
02:19:13.000What are some organizations and or fellow influencers that you know, whereupon your boss only said that, you know what, not everyone can get in the trenches.
02:19:21.000But we can donate and support those that are in the trenches.
02:19:24.000Aside from our former bosses and stuff like that, who are some of your favorite people that you would recommend some of us chip in five bucks to on Judicial Watch or some of those types of guys?
02:19:37.000If you want to add any to some of my congress people that you like or any Republican or any politicians at all that you do trust, you do like.
02:20:36.000Yeah, there's a lot of independent content creators now, and the great part about it is you don't have to pay for cable.
02:20:43.000So if you're paying $85 a month for cable, if you were to chip in $5 per month instead of $85 per month, you could select so many content creators to support each month.
02:20:53.000You could support my work with my sub stack, lauralumar.substack.com.
02:20:57.000It's free, but you can sign up for a paid subscription.
02:21:00.000And you get all of your own content, and that way you're able to pick and choose what you want to see online.
02:21:07.000There's a lot of people to support out there, and I would just encourage people to explore, you know, see what you like, and go online, and read Substacks, and, you know, support who... I don't really like telling people what to do, but I will tell them, you know, just go, just go, believe it or not, just go, just go search it out yourself, right?
02:21:25.000Spend some time to really investigate who these people are.
02:21:30.000Yeah, look, these are all good questions, right?
02:21:38.000But she asked, for those of you who didn't hear, the question is, how does Trump get elected if we
02:22:22.000I'm not getting picked to be here tonight, which is fine with me because I love Donald Trump dearly and I'm happy to be here to make the case for him.
02:22:29.000But we all can be doing things like this, right?
02:22:40.000If you want to have a future for yourself, your children, your grandchildren, if you want to actually have a country that's... I mean, it's kind of a joke, right, to call ourselves a free country.
02:22:51.000We don't really have freedom in this country anymore, okay?
02:22:53.000We don't have freedom of association, no free and fair elections, no free speech.
02:23:10.000Not physically, but politically speaking, of course.
02:23:16.000You have to push back, and sometimes that requires you to find yourself in uncomfortable situations, and you're not gonna make a lot of friends.
02:23:34.000But I'm here to fight for the American people and to stick with the truth, and that requires us to call out both sides of the aisle, not just the Democrats, because we are not going to be able to surpass the Democrats and take our country back and destroy this illegitimate regime unless we dismantle the corruption and take out the trash in our own party first.
02:24:08.000Yeah, so I just want to thank everybody for coming out tonight.
02:24:29.000I hope that some of you who were preferring Ron DeSantis over Donald Trump either rescind your endorsement or have second thoughts now, right?
02:24:38.000And people can follow me on Twitter at Laura Loomer.
02:24:42.000You can follow me on Twitter at Laura Loomer as well.
02:25:21.000And then if you're like me and you truly believe that Donald Trump did nothing wrong, you can get your own Donald Trump did nothing wrong t-shirt in the back as well.
02:25:29.000And that goes towards all those funds that I generate from selling those shirts go towards my pro-Trump activism.
02:25:35.000And I travel all over the country as you've probably seen confronting people, holding rallies, and doing the best I can with journalism.
02:25:43.000But I want to say thank you for having the courage to invite me.
02:25:57.000There are a lot of people, even within our own party, who do not want you platformed.
02:26:01.000And they consider displatforming, even though it's your own livestream, but they consider it displatforming.
02:26:05.000And so we want to make sure that we have an environment that's... We're telegraphed, like I said!