On today's show, Laura and Joey talk about the Trump Town Hall Watch Party in Iowa, a protest outside the Iowa State Capitol, and the Chris Christie exit from the primary race. Plus, the latest on the latest in the latest breaking news involving Chris Christie and the New Hampshire primary.
00:10:37.000Central and so I thought what better way than to have a Trump Town Hall watch party and also a meet-and-greet to meet all of these amazing MAGA patriots who are here behind me.
00:10:49.000You can see we got the we got the flat screens up, we got the projector up, we have pizza, we have meatballs, and I have Ron DeSantis.
00:10:59.000He will be irrelevant to pretty much everyone, which he kind of already has been for most of the race, but it will be the official pronouncement of his political death.
00:11:09.000Absolutely, and Joey and I have spent the entire day together.
00:11:11.000We just got back from Vivek Ramaswamy's press conference, and there was also a protest inside the Iowa State Capitol.
00:11:20.000No eminent domain for private gain, and it was great because, you know, you had Vivek Ramaswamy there, you had Congressman Steve King, who's on his way right now to my watch party, and also you had the Iowa State Director for President Trump.
00:11:35.000A lot of Trump supporters at this event.
00:11:39.000Yes, expressing their support for Iowa farmers and everyday Americans who are facing the threat of eminent domain where the government comes in and essentially they confiscate your property for pennies on the dollar.
00:11:58.000It was really great to see not just Vivek Ramaswamy there but also a ton of Trump supporters including a lot of Trump caucus chairs for the Iowa caucus.
00:12:08.000Right and it's very important to point out Vivek had some stuff to say about you and he really came out and defended you hard against Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis who unjustly threw you out of the events and he said an investigative journalist is allowed at my events and shame on them for not
00:12:25.000Allowing you there, so I thought that was a big deal.
00:12:27.000Yeah, and they actually had protesters climate change people showed up to protest and Instead of you know throwing them out like Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley would have done but they actually gave the lady the microphone
00:12:59.000I think that he is definitely laying the groundwork to be a nominee in 2028.
00:13:05.000I do believe Trump needs to be our nominee in 2024 so that we can take America back and save our country and right this wrong of a stolen election.
00:13:14.000But the vague is certainly, in my opinion, the number one contender for 2028.
00:13:18.000Well, we need a future of the movement.
00:13:21.000The movement can't end after Trump's second term.
00:13:38.000Ron showed us that he is not who we thought he was.
00:13:41.000He did a good, decent job in Florida for COVID.
00:13:44.000But the rest of the foreign policy and the rest of his attitude and who he's surrounded himself with really disqualifies him for future races.
00:13:53.000So we now have Vivek who can take the movement forward afterwards.
00:14:06.000Interesting timing, five days before the Iowa caucus and just a couple weeks before the January 23rd New Hampshire primary and he actually got caught on a hot mic today in which he said that Nikki Haley's gonna get smoked by Trump and he also said in this hot mic audio that Ron DeSantis called him petrified and said that Donald Trump is going to win Iowa and so I take that as an endorsement of President Trump from Chris
00:14:32.000Well, Chris Christie doesn't endorse anything but the KFC buckets, and this is a man who stayed with Trump for four years, supporting him, pseudo-supporting him.
00:14:43.000He did debate prep with him, and then when it became politically expedient, he got in the race and tried to do nothing but tear him down.
00:14:51.000Chris Christie is a pathetic politician.
00:14:53.000He actually helped Obama win in 2012, if you remember.
00:16:58.000Well, we have a lot of really interesting people here in the room tonight, and we're going to be watching President Trump's town hall, and in between commercial breaks, we're going to be interviewing people.
00:17:05.000Like I said, we have Congressman Steve King, we have several of the Iowa state representatives who have endorsed President Trump, who are here tonight with their families to show support.
00:17:16.000And people are trickling in still, because it is snowy and the roads are icy, so people are taking their time.
00:17:33.000Yeah, and big shout out to Destination Grill as well.
00:17:35.000If you live in Iowa or you're coming to visit, really amazing event venue.
00:17:39.000So if you're looking for events, the food is amazing, the owner is pro-Trump, and he believes in free speech.
00:17:45.000I mean, this is an owner who comped us tonight.
00:17:49.000A lot of, yeah, a lot of, he comped us the space because he supports Trump, but he believes in free speech, and he's hosted Ron DeSantis here for events, Vivek Ramaswamy, and when I said that I wanted to do a watch party here, he, you know, in the spirit of free speech, decided to comp some pizzas and drinks tonight, so really a big shout out to the owners here at Destination Grill.
00:18:12.000Amazing venue space, amazing food, so you're gonna want to check them out in Grimes, Iowa.
00:18:17.000I love the pizza and you know I'm a tough critic.
00:18:37.000We're going to be having the camera, you know, we're not going to be talking the entire time, but we're going to have the camera focused on the attendees tonight as well as the big screen
00:20:44.000The Trump 2024 signs look at how nice these are and They're great we got plenty of stuff we have those little show us those little green things over here this is the President Trump back-to-back Iowa champ 2016 2020 and most likely 2024 unless they pull some shenanigans which they really can't beat this landslide coming in Iowa, but Trump 2024
00:22:05.000I'm excited to see basically what he's gonna say if there's anything new that they're gonna come up with as far as the questioning about the case because what people are not talking about enough in this election is Donald Trump cannot run a campaign like he wants to
00:22:20.000Because he has to go back and forth to court.
00:22:23.000Trump's in Iowa tonight for the town hall, and then immediately tomorrow he has to go to New York for closing arguments.
00:22:29.000And then the judge today, Arthur Ngoron, was just being malicious.
00:22:34.000And in the email thread that I posted between Trump's lawyers and Arthur Ngoron, you see the judge just being so spiteful and saying, well, no, now you don't get to give your closing arguments.
00:23:31.000And that's just a preview of what's going to happen in the general election with him too.
00:23:35.000So what we're going to have to do is it's going to take people like us, people who really support to actually get out there.
00:23:41.000We're going to have to be holding events because there's no way he's going to be able to do everything on his own with what they're going to try to put him through.
00:24:09.000Yeah, because Chris Christie dropping out is a trick.
00:24:13.000I know we're all celebrating, haha, the fat man lost, he can go back to being the Michelin Man little representative, but the fact of the matter is, Haley is allegedly trailing him really closely in the polls.
00:24:24.000With Christie dropping out, if people push behind her, Trump could be in trouble in New Hampshire.
00:24:30.000So there is no room for complacency whatsoever when it comes to this race.
00:24:36.000They will try every trick in the book.
00:25:07.000We're going to get ready, and for the stream we're just going to have the camera panned on the audience, and then in between commercial breaks, of course, we are going to provide our commentary.
00:25:17.000But we wanted to have a continuous live stream so that people can see what's going on.
00:25:46.000We're gonna get the audio blasted now so that we can get ready for for President Trump to take the stage now and stay tuned be sure that you're reposting this live link share it on true social share it on X follow me on X and truth at Laura
00:26:48.000Gold Co., of course, is a big sponsor of free speech programming like Rumble, and I'm really grateful that Gold Co.
00:26:57.000is so invested in supporting my free speech activities, which is why all of you should support them as well, because you want to provide financial security to yourself and your family.
00:28:02.000And only idiots think that Hunter wants to answer questions.
00:28:05.000These hijinks are just going to force Republicans to fast-track impeachment.
00:28:09.000So this spring you'll have Trump in court, and it'll be counter-programmed with Biden's impeachment hearing.
00:28:15.000And if Trump wins the election, Biden will pardon his son during the lame duck.
00:28:19.000And if Biden wins re-election, they'll ride the tax cases out for a no-jail-plea deal or a midnight pardon.
00:28:25.000But the effect this is going to have on America's confidence in our political system and our judicial system
00:28:32.000It's only going to invigorate American populism.
00:28:36.000Let's bring in South Carolina Congressman Nancy Mays.
00:28:38.000She's a member of the Oversight Committee.
00:28:41.000Congressman, why didn't you just say, alright Hunter, game on, call your bluff, here's a glass of water, let's do the interview right now.
00:28:49.000Well, if you saw how many times the Democrats interrupted me in the hearing today, they didn't want to hear anything that I had to say, none of the facts that I had that I was throwing out there to Hunter Biden.
00:28:59.000I was the only Republican who was able to take him head-on because he fled as soon as it was over there for less than 10 minutes.
00:29:08.000That if this was one of your millions of viewers that defied a congressional subpoena, showed up and spit in the face of Congress by not coming before us, by not doing the deposition, and then walked out, you would be held in contempt of Congress, your viewers would, and they'd be thrown in jail.
00:29:27.000But instead, if your last name is Biden, it's a completely different standard.
00:29:31.000Whereas years before, with Trump and the Trump family, whenever they were subpoenaed,
00:29:38.000showed up how many times to a congressional subpoena?
00:29:41.000Dozens of hours before Congress, with depositions, because Donald Trump and every member of his family follows the law in this country, which is what we're about.
00:30:28.000And the other thing that I want to make the point about today is that I was the only member in the hearing today that has held both the right and the left accountable.
00:30:36.000So whatever the standard is in this country,
00:30:39.000Both sides got to be held accountable, and I pointed out the hypocrisy of the left on this issue.
00:30:44.000Every single one of them, because of how they voted in the past with congressional subpoena power, should have voted to hold Hunter Biden in contempt, but they're too scared to do that.
00:30:53.000Oh yeah, they're all hypocrites, all these people are.
00:30:56.000So is the full House going to hold Hunter in contempt, and does that mean that Biden's Justice Department is going to have to arrest him?
00:31:05.000He should be held in contempt like we've done with others in the past, but it'll be up to a particularly corrupt DOJ to throw him in jail and indict him on it, because all we can do is refer charges once it gets out of the House.
00:31:17.000All right, so it's not going to look good if he's voted to be held in contempt, and Biden's Justice Department, who I believe they arrested a bunch of Republicans who were held in contempt, doesn't lay a hand on poor little Hunter's head?
00:31:30.000The former president and the GOP frontrunner, and we note once again that none of the campaigns have input into who was invited, what the questions are that will be asked tonight.
00:31:40.000Thank you for being here, Mr. President.
00:31:45.000And before we begin, we want to offer our condolences to you and the former First Lady Melania Trump for the loss of her mother last night.
00:32:44.000And by some estimates, you're ahead by an average of 14 in the RealClearPolitics average polling in New Hampshire.
00:32:52.000So if that 12 goes to Nikki Haley, she could give you a run for your money there.
00:32:58.000Well, you know, you have Democrats in New Hampshire and they vote and you have independents in New Hampshire in large numbers and they vote.
00:33:06.000And I have polls that show me leading by a tremendous amount in New Hampshire and a lot in Iowa and nationwide we're leading by almost 60 points.
00:33:43.000He had a hot mic where he was talking to somebody about the weather and he happened to say that she doesn't have what it takes, she'll be creamed in the election.
00:33:52.000And, I mean, I know her very well and I happen to believe that Chris Christie's right.
00:33:55.000That's one of the few things he's been right about, actually.
00:33:59.000So you don't think it changes the dynamic much?
00:35:04.000Some of my friends that supported you in 2020 are not this time because they believe a Trump presidency will bring four years of chaos due to your haters.
00:38:42.000And interestingly, you see what happened in Georgia with Fannie Willis and a million dollars almost to her boyfriend is the prosecutor of Trump.
00:39:20.000They know that Biden has sold them down the tubes.
00:39:24.000With the electric cars, all electric car mandate, the craziest thing I've ever heard.
00:39:28.000And they're going to all be made in China too.
00:39:31.000So I think when you look at what we've done, we are doing a great job and we did a great job, and that's why I'm leading in the polls by 60 and 70 points.
00:39:40.000You know, in recent days, you seem to issue a warning that if in the courts, and even the US Supreme Court, if they didn't treat you fairly,
00:42:45.000No, I am firmly, I will be caucusing for DeSantis, but I will say, Mr. President, I am extremely grateful that in your first term you accomplished so many great things, but it was also with the help of many great people.
00:43:00.000Since that time, you have publicly criticized and personally demeaned so many of them.
00:43:06.000If you're given four more years, how will you convince good people to take the risk of working with you?
00:43:13.000So I have a lot of people that want to work with me.
00:45:09.000Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to announce... I do want to get to this other question before we move on to the big issues, and that is Jacqueline.
00:45:18.000She is from West Des Moines, and I think you said you're undecided, or you're making your decision.
00:46:43.000We even did something that hopefully nobody in this room needs so but right to try where we're able to use space age medicines that won't be approved for four or five years that work in many cases and I've saved thousands and thousands of lives with right to try.
00:47:36.000President Trump is out there and he's answering all the questions.
00:47:39.000And you know, the thing that strikes you most about President Trump is the personality.
00:47:56.000We're just going to keep talking here?
00:47:57.000I can't talk in front of Trump because I live in Florida, but I wanted to come out to support President Trump and, you know, just express my gratitude to him because he really is the greatest president we've ever had.
00:48:18.000And I want to recognize as well... Yes?
00:48:25.000I want to thank the owners tonight of Destination Grill, both of them who are here tonight, who were so generous to actually comp their venue tonight.
00:48:35.000And also... Mark, do you want to say a few words?
00:48:44.000Mark actually donated all of the food here tonight.
00:48:48.000All of the food and all of the drinks and his venue space tonight.
00:48:53.000He's a Trump supporter who believes in free speech.
00:48:56.000He's actually hosted events here for Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis, but he is a Trump supporter and when I flew in from Florida and said I wanted a place to host a watch party for everybody who couldn't get inside the Fox News Town Hall, he was more than welcome and he said, come on in and let me
00:50:02.000I also want to take a moment to recognize elected officials and previous elected officials who have joined us tonight.
00:50:09.000We are honored to have Congressman Steve King here with us tonight.
00:50:19.000Congressman Steve King has always been a strong supporter of President Trump.
00:50:23.000He's endorsed Vivek on the issue of eminent domain, but he has assured me that when President Trump wins the Iowa caucus, that he will be giving President Trump his endorsement.
00:50:34.000And so, you know, Steve King has always been a man of integrity and honor.
00:50:37.000He was one of the first to endorse me when I ran for Congress.
00:50:40.000And I think that means a lot that, you know, he can have differences on one issue, right, this issue of eminent domain, but still come out to support President Trump tonight and support free speech.
00:52:49.000Or, as he's known, Ron DeSanctimonious.
00:52:53.000He shut his state down very violently, actually, and shut the highways down, the roads down.
00:52:58.000But we had... I'm a Federalist, in a sense, because that's the Federalist way.
00:53:03.000No, I didn't actually have a shutdown, despite the fact that some people wanted to, and some people didn't want to.
00:53:08.000But we had some great governors, and the governors that did the best job were Republican governors, and they were the ones that didn't shut down.
00:55:50.000So with regard to, you know, when Governor Haley was here the other night, she talked about the $8 trillion added to the debt when you were president.
00:56:38.000He's the one that caused that war, both rhetorically and by the fact that he drove up the price of oil to $100 a barrel, which is getting close to record.
00:57:44.000Of energy, the highest cost of energy of any state in the nation.
00:57:48.000They should vote for me because I'm going to cut their energy price in half.
00:57:52.000So when Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis hit you again and again on this $8 trillion figure and call you a big government republic, what do you say?
00:57:59.000I say very simply, we were starting to pay down debt.
00:58:03.000We were going to pay down a lot of debt when COVID came along.
00:58:06.000If I didn't inject this country with money,
00:58:09.000You would have had a depression the likes of which you've never seen.
00:58:27.000And now, what they should be doing, instead of the kind of debt that they're building at record levels, they should be paying down their debt, and they ought to go into the energy business instead of this green new scam business that they're in.
01:01:37.000You just answered part of it, that our kids were displaced in New York City, in the place of illegal migrants.
01:01:45.000So, what I want to know, in the spirit of making America great again, can you do something about the sanctuary cities?
01:01:53.000Well, they're going to be ended because the Democrats are going to end them because you can't sustain it.
01:01:57.000If you look at New York, you have a mayor of New York who now is really hostile to the administration because New York City, that's my place.
01:03:53.000I mean, I think even the two of you would say they were absolutely stoned.
01:03:58.000And you know how much money they have now?
01:04:00.000In three years, under Biden, they have $250 billion.
01:04:05.000Again, the energy business is a big business.
01:04:08.000And not to mention the five hostages that they paid $6 billion for, not to mention they got $10 billion for supplying some electricity to Iraq, which, by the way, they own.
01:04:29.000Iraq—remember I used to say a long time ago when I was a civilian—now I'm sort of a civilian, but I think I'll never be quite a civilian again.
01:05:08.000Mr. President, you're talking a lot about policy.
01:05:09.000You get questions about what a second term is going to look like.
01:05:12.000When you're in your rallies, you spend a lot of time talking about retribution.
01:05:17.000And so there are questions about how much a second term of a Donald Trump presidency, second term, would be about retribution and looking backwards and grievances and how much would be looking forward.
01:05:29.000Well, first of all, a lot of people would say that that's not so bad.
01:06:57.000You remember the debate where Chris Wallace, how is he doing, I wonder, but Chris Wallace, when I said, when I said to Biden, I asked him a question.
01:07:05.000I said, how come you got three and a half million dollars from the mayor of Moscow's wife?
01:07:10.000And Chris Wallace wouldn't let me ask me.
01:07:15.000I got three and a half million dollars from the mayor of Moscow's wife.
01:07:18.000I tell you this, we're going to have a success that's so great that I won't have, hopefully, I won't have time for retribution.
01:07:25.000There won't be retribution, there'll be success.
01:07:28.000Mr. President, before we wrap up this, you know, there is this report, House Democrats, documents that say that nearly $8 million in payments to your businesses from foreign governments, China included, Saudi Arabia, while you were in office.
01:07:42.000They say Article 1 of the Constitution says you can't accept money from foreign governments while president.
01:07:46.000Would you pledge to divest from your business in the second term, as other presidents have done?
01:08:05.000In his essentially White House, which wasn't built, but they had an office, he had a business desk and he had a country desk right next to each other.
01:10:48.000We have Congressman Steve King who just showed up and you know he's endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy but he has assured me that when President Trump wins the nomination that he will be supporting President Trump, right?
01:12:23.000And so now, but I want to see Vivek step up because he's the strongest voice on property rights, the strongest voice on constitutional rights.
01:12:31.000And I'd love to see President Trump step in and take that same position.
01:12:37.000And if he would just use his megaphone between now and the caucus night, he could kill off that boondoggle CO2 pipeline that's trampling our property rights right now.
01:12:46.000I hope so as well, and I know that President Trump has, you know, spoken out about this issue.
01:12:52.000He spoke out last week, and hopefully, you know, I know that you committed to me when I asked you, well, you know, if President Trump wins the Iowa caucus and he's officially the GOP nominee, which I believe he will be, you said that he has your full support and endorsement, right?
01:13:23.000But when you see something like that happen, the American people need to rise up and say, that's the end of that.
01:13:29.000We are not going to tolerate you doing that to our candidates.
01:13:32.000And for him to walk through this minefield, this gauntlet that he's going through, the lawfare gauntlet, all of the tricks of the trade that are being used, we need to shut that down.
01:13:41.000We need a president that shuts that down.
01:13:43.000And Trump has the biggest reason to do that.
01:13:46.000And if he's a little bit vindictive on those evil people that are working against America, that's fine with me.
01:13:51.000Go find them all and perp-walk them out of here and clean it up and put our country back on a sound foundation again.
01:13:56.000Great, and you're hitting the campaign trail this week, right?
01:13:59.000You're with Vivek all week, and then what's going to happen after January 15th?
01:14:43.000I think we're getting back from the commercial break now, so anything you want to promote while we're on here right now?
01:14:49.000Well, I'd say that if people are interested in my book, which you know I was going to bring it up, but when I was, let's just say, politically less by Kevin McCartney, Liz Cheney, and some of those others that have since bitten the dust,
01:15:01.000I wrote a book about the whole saga of that political lich party that they had on me that lasted for about two years.
01:15:08.000The title of my book is, Walking Through the Fire, My Fight for the Heart and Soul of America.
01:15:14.000And it can be found at my website, steveking.com.
01:15:17.000They go to steveking.com, come to my warehouse with my autograph on it.
01:16:39.000It happened to coincide with that, because a lot of people say a lot of, you know, if you talk five or six weeks, a lot of women don't know if they're pregnant in five or six weeks.
01:16:48.000I want to get something where people are happy.
01:16:50.000You know, this has been tearing our country apart for 50 years.
01:17:25.000Want and people like I would love you to first of all you have to go with your heart, okay?
01:17:30.000You have to go with your heart first go with your heart your mind go with it But you do also have to put in there a little bit you have to win elections But if it weren't for me with Roe v. Wade you wouldn't even be talking about this up You wouldn't be asking that question because would write back.
01:19:50.000You know, I did a thing that was — I won't go into names, I won't go into specifics, but we did a thing that nobody thought was possible.
01:22:25.000Look, NATO is taking advantage of our country.
01:22:28.000The European countries took advantage of... I want to use a word starting with an S, but I don't want to do it because I see some young, very good-looking children in the audience, and I assume they're watching on television.
01:22:38.000But they took advantage of us on trade, and then they took advantage of us on our military protection.
01:22:44.000Of the 28 countries at the time, only 8 countries were paid up.
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01:24:13.000Yeah, well, we're here wrapping up this town hall.
01:24:16.000We're about a little bit halfway through.
01:24:17.000I'm here with Representative Steve King, one of the best here in Iowa.
01:24:21.000And what are you thinking of the night so far?
01:24:24.000Well, one thing, it's snowing pretty hard out here.
01:26:51.000I remember that Rick Santorum in 2012, I remember him saying this at a speech in Lyon County afterwards, he said, well, he said, I did 385 speeches in Iowa, and he won the caucus in 2012.
01:27:04.000I remember that, yeah, he beat by like 65 votes or something.
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01:31:42.000And so all that interactivity and all the ways that we've been able to help people over the years, wherever it might be, and I had my staff, 17 of them, and their job was to help people.
01:31:52.000And so we did a lot of that, and now as I go around the district, almost invariably somebody stands up and says, thank you for, and they explain what it was, they give me credit, it was usually my staff that did it, but that's what our object was, to help just make this world a smoother place.
01:32:09.000And more or less open the doors for people so they can just walk through with low stress.
01:32:13.000And I didn't realize either how many places I had been, how many things I'd done, how many countries I'd been to, how many different levels of government and business and for politics and personalities.
01:32:24.000But all of that experience gives me some insight so that people don't know how to navigate that.
01:32:29.000And they come to me and say, well, what do I do?
01:32:59.000But you've always been a man of integrity and honor, and so what did you think of the town hall?
01:33:03.000I mean, I know you're very popular, so I don't know how much of it you got to watch, but what did you think of the town hall, and what do you think about what's going on in Iowa?
01:33:11.000We've got a nice rhythm in here, and good people, and they're enthusiastic, and we did a little program a little while ago recognizing many of them.
01:33:18.000And I walk in here and I find some friends that I had seen before that are actually good friends.
01:34:36.000Did you have a nice dinner with your wife?
01:34:37.000Well, I did watch what was going on and I sent a bunch of texts in there to my former colleagues.
01:34:42.000And they let me know, too, that in the first election of McCarthy as Speaker, those 15 rounds of votes, they said that my name was there in those negotiations throughout.
01:36:04.000And he played those cards all the way up to the point where he face-planted on the floor.
01:36:08.000And I honestly, I personally think that Kevin McCarthy retired early from Congress to diminish the House majority because he wants Democrats to take back control of the House in the middle of our election year to screw President Donald Trump.
01:36:21.000I really do believe that because we have a one-seat majority right now.
01:36:25.000We have a one seat majority right now.
01:37:11.000But instead, it really was about the ideological component of that.
01:37:15.000They were rhino enough to vote for McCarthy, and I saw this happen in Texas.
01:37:20.000I got behind, I'll give his name, Roland Lopez, a solid, principled conservative, and he should have gone to Congress, but McCarthy found a person that fit his minority category more strongly than Lopez, put a million dollars in there and said, stay in your basement like Biden, we'll get you elected, and he did.
01:37:40.000There's a vote for Speaker when that happens.
01:38:45.000And I can't think of anybody more gracious than Sandra Day O'Connor.
01:38:48.000Yeah, I remember when I was a teen, I was like 16 years old and I snuck into the back room because I was so eager to meet her and I wasn't supposed to be back there and the administrators were like, what are you doing?
01:39:06.000You know what I do, I loomer people and I always was so excited, but I got to meet her.
01:39:09.000But the decision that she came down with, wrote the majority opinion on was, well, we kind of need this yet because we've still got racism in the country, but maybe in 25 years we can get rid of it.
01:39:33.000And so now here we are nearly 25 years later and you're seeing these decisions come down that are getting rid of affirmative action.
01:39:39.000We've got decisions in Texas that the universities in Texas closing down their diversity offices because the legislature has prohibited any of this further affirmative action.
01:39:51.000And now you have the presidents of elite universities like Harvard resigning, right?
01:40:07.000And the safety concerns, especially as it relates to this recent story that just broke about the airliner, right?
01:40:15.000And the plane that had a hard landing.
01:40:16.000I don't know if you heard about that story as well.
01:40:19.000But a lot of people are now starting to say, you know, I think we're tired of this DEI, you know, bullcrap.
01:40:24.000We need to get back to meritocracy, right?
01:40:26.000We need to get back to a system of merit.
01:40:29.000Well, who was it that when they got on, it might have been Muhammad Ali, when he'd get on a plane and he'd look in and he'd see the pilot and he would think, hmm, I don't want to have an affirmative action pilot.
01:40:39.000He also said, Muhammad Ali, I love the way he characterized things.
01:41:20.000We used to have family reunions, and my mother's family, there were five kids, and each of those kids, my aunts and uncles and my mother, had five kids.
01:41:28.000And so we'd do a family reunion, and there would be five picnic tables for the nuclear families.
01:43:22.000It adds a lot to the caucus process, and you're here in Iowa, and you're not just watching it.
01:43:27.000You're living it, and you're pushing it, and you're driving it.
01:43:29.000Well, and I wish that there wasn't, you know, torrential snow downpour right before the event started, because unfortunately
01:43:36.000Only a few people had to cancel because of the snow, but, you know, I do what I can, you know, and I want to come out and I want to meet everybody.
01:43:42.000I'm a grassroots person and so I want to do my part to take our country back.
01:43:46.000I don't want to live in a communist country.
01:43:48.000Let's just keep pounding away on those leftists and those idiots and the rhinos.
01:43:53.000And then we have to take on the World Economic Forum.
01:43:57.000And I just had this conversation back in the back of the room, but of all of the existential threats that we have, and there aren't many for the greatest country in the world, but
01:44:06.000China, Russia, the World Economic Forum is the number one most existential threat to the United States because they seek to break down our entire economy, our civilization, our constitution, our family life, every component of what makes America great is under assault.
01:44:22.000And we have to push back on that and eventually take them down.
01:44:41.000I have a lot of reservations about him trying to push for a contingent election.
01:44:47.000You know, pushing for a contingent election?
01:44:50.000Because I don't want Congress deciding who our next president is.
01:44:54.000And Kennedy is pushing for a contingent election.
01:44:57.000Yes, his whole entire strategy, as he just announced recently, is investing $15 million into getting on the ballot in key states so that they could push for a contingent election.
01:45:07.000And I think that that is the most globalist thing that you can do.
01:45:11.000It deprives the American people of their ability to actually select their own president.
01:45:16.000But yeah, I would agree that Donald Trump is the number one enemy to the World Economic Forum, which is why I support him.
01:45:36.000And there, if they'd like to pick up a book, Walking Through the Fire, that comes right out of my warehouse with my autograph on it, and I ship them out myself.
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