Ep 262 | Trump 2020 & the Real Reasons for the Riots | Guests: Lara Trump & Charlie Kirk
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Laura Trump and Charlie Kirk join me to talk about why Donald Trump is our best bet in November and why he is the best candidate to defeat Hillary Clinton in the election. We also talk about how President Trump has handled multiple crisis situations over the past few months and how he has been able to lead the country through them.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. So we have a very fun, different, exciting show for you
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today. I am first going to be talking to Laura Trump, and we are going to be talking about
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President Trump and his presidency and his campaign and his leadership over the past
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few months. And she is going to talk about the accomplishments that he has done and, of course,
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kind of make a pitch to you for why he is our best bet in November. And I'm also going to be
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talking to Charlie Kirk. He has been a big advocate of the president and a big supporter of the
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president. And we are going to ask them questions about everything that's going on right now
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and how we should be looking at how President Trump has handled these multiple crises over the past
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few months. Okay, without further ado, here is Laura Trump. Laura, thank you so much for joining me.
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Oh, you got it. Great to be with you. So the rallies are about to start up for the president. Do you
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think that America is ready for that kind of enthusiasm and excitement with everything that's
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going on right now? I think we're desperate for that kind of enthusiasm and excitement. I mean,
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if anyone has ever been to a Trump rally, it's just filled with such positivity, such great spirit,
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love for America. So I mean, I can't think of a better time to get everybody together to
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encourage people to love this country and come together as a community. We're so excited. I
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think that the president probably more so than anyone has been so looking forward to getting
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back to Trump rallies. So we're excited to start again and hopefully we'll be coming to a town near
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you very, very soon. The country has been through a lot. I don't think any of us could have ever
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anticipated or expected or planned for everything that we have been through since January. Can you
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tell me from your perspective how President Trump has done in leading the country, a very divided
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country through now multiple crises over a series of just a couple months?
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Yeah, it's been quite a 2020. I don't think any of us saw this coming. Then I heard about murder
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hornets and I was like, oh my God, like what, what are we doing? What's happening? It's always,
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it's constant. Look, it's been a very challenging year for sure for so many Americans. I don't think
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anyone has been untouched by what has happened in our country. So you start with coronavirus,
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which in January, the same exact day that Nancy Pelosi was handing out her impeachment pens,
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Donald Trump took the very bold step to stop travel coming from China to the United States.
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That saved, Ali, countless numbers of lives. I mean, who knows how many Americans,
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thousands and thousands of Americans arguably were saved by that step. Now, of course,
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he was criticized immediately by the Democrats. Joe Biden said it was xenophobic and fear-mongering
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to do such a thing. But thank God President Trump did that. Then he led us to the time where we had to
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sort of shut down the country. We were listening to the experts. We were doing what everybody said we
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should do. We flattened the curve out. And then you saw that we were on the way out of this.
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We just got the new jobs report, two and a half million new jobs added to this country last month
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when the experts predicted we were going to lose seven and a half million more. So, I mean, that's
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huge. They got it wrong by 10 million jobs. That's pretty amazing. And just when that happened,
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obviously, we had this terrible incident with George Floyd, which many people, I think,
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would say sparked what has become protesting across the country, mostly peaceful, but sadly
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has been hijacked by some very radical groups whose only goal is really to cause chaos and destruction.
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And I think ultimately their goal is to try and divide the country. And look, the president has
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been very clear on this from the very beginning. Donald Trump has said that we have to have law and
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order in place. And sadly, you see that a lot of these cities that have been just completely
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brutalized by the looting and the arson are all Democrat run cities. When Minneapolis said
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to the police department, hey, get out of there. Don't really worry about our city anymore. I mean,
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you saw that it took just hours for things to devolve to such a level that it was an unrecognizable
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city in the United States of America, things on fire and being looted and people being attacked.
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It was horrible. And so I think the president said, look, you need to get it together. And if you
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can't, then I'll have to step in. He had the National Guard ready to go. And obviously,
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some places utilize them. But I think overall, listen, he's done a great job. Who could ever
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say that they want to be the president of the United States in such a crazy time?
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But you got to give the guy a hand for, number one, setting up our economy so that we really
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weren't as badly hit as we otherwise could have been. We've already seen the jobs coming back.
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I think we're going to see the June jobs report even much higher than that. Hopefully,
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it's like a V instead of sort of a curve up with the jobs. But on top of that, look, this president
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has always been out there fighting for every single American. And what you have now in this country
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is a lot of black Americans saying, listen, we don't feel like we've been treated fairly.
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We still feel like there's injustice out there. Well, Donald Trump, from day one of his administration,
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took that very seriously. He signed into law the First Step Act, the first comprehensive prison reform
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in about 30 years in this country. It reversed the 1994 Clinton crime bill, which don't forget,
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Joe Biden was a big supporter of that. It disproportionately incarcerated young black men in this country.
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Donald Trump put forward opportunity zones and implemented those around the country,
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$100 billion of investment in our poorest communities and the forgotten about communities
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all across this country to revitalize them. And it was really taking hold and taking off,
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sadly, when coronavirus hit. But that will still continue. You see that this president has given
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more funding to HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities, than any president in history.
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So while the Democrats and the folks on the left want to talk about how they've been trying to help
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with race relations and level the playing field, Donald Trump has actually done it. He doesn't
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need to talk about it. He's done it. Look, I think that we're going to come out of this. I think that
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we do have several months until the election. And I think people are going to start to see why it's
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so important to have a man like Donald Trump at the helm as you come out of coronavirus and as we want
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to get things back to normal in this country. And I think people are waking up to the reality that
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Donald Trump has been used as a scapegoat for the failings of the Democratic Party for a few years,
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but especially over the past few months. I mean, we saw not only tragically that a lot of the cities
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that were hit the hardest by coronavirus, not just because of the seriousness of the virus, but because
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of incompetence in government leaders or democratic cities, some of the cities with the worst racial
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tensions. And unfortunately, tragically, the worst police brutality and the worst relationship
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between the police department and civilians are in Democratic-run cities. The most violent cities
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are Democratic-run cities and have been run by Democrats for several years. And a lot of these
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Democrats, a lot of these mayors and governors are turning around and saying, this is all Donald Trump's
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fault. I hope and I pray and I do think that I see this happening, that there are a lot of people
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waking up to that. I've even seen people and activists like Sean King, who is obviously on the
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left, a big Bernie supporter, saying, hang on just a second. All of these cities that we are seeing so
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much violence in right now and such horrible tensions in right now are run by Democrats top to
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bottom. And so are you hopeful? I mean, not that we ever would want these tragic situations to happen
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at all. But are you hopeful that people are going to kind of wake up to the fact that really Democrats
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are just using Donald Trump as a distraction in a lot of ways from their own corruption and incompetence?
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Yeah, it's pretty amazing, Hallie. Whenever you look at all of the things that they have accused Donald
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Trump of over the years, it turns out in many cases the Democrats themselves are doing them. You look back
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to Russia collusion, to the idea that the only way that Donald Trump and our campaign won the election
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in 2016 was that we colluded with Russia. Well, now, as we're seeing all the reports coming out,
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we're finding out more and more information that suggests that it wasn't obviously the Trump campaign.
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We spent $30 million of taxpayer money in two years in the Mueller report to find that out.
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It was actually the DNC and the Clinton campaign that had ties to Russia. So whenever you look back at
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all of the things that they like to try and pin on Donald Trump, it turns out they're the ones
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doing them. And I think people are waking up to it. I mean, we've already seen since Donald Trump was
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elected movements like Blexit, like Walk Away, like the Exodus movement. These are really powerful
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in this country because for so long, I think people were told, look, if you look a certain way,
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if you're of a certain gender, if you're of a certain sexual orientation,
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you can only vote for Democrats. And what people have very quickly realized is that Donald Trump
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is standing up for all Americans. He's fighting for everybody shot at the American dream. The
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American people have been lied to by the mainstream media. They have been basically like a marketing arm
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for the DNC. And I think people are getting the picture now that what they've been told all along
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about Donald Trump hasn't been accurate. And if they step back for a second and get out of the hysteria
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of the mainstream media, and they look at what Donald Trump was actually able to do in this
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country, they're realizing very, very quickly by the thousands and thousands of people, I think,
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that Donald Trump has done a great job as our president, that he doesn't care what they say
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about him out there in the media. He's fighting for the American people every single day.
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And I think that's going to be reflected on November 3rd. The Democrats have overplayed their hand.
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They do this all the time. They're doing it now. I just heard last night that they are trying to cancel
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Paw Patrol. If you tell my two-and-a-half-year-old son that, he's going to totally lose it. But this is
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the kind of culture that they've kind of pushed on the left. It's a cancel culture. It's if there's
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anything that we slightly think could be a problem, just cancel it all. We're talking about a cartoon of
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dogs that are policemen and firefighters. Are you guys crazy? Cancel Paw Patrol? I mean, I just think
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people see this stuff, and they say, this is not the United States of America. We're not supposed to
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just be canceling everything. So it's really going to be interesting to see the turnout on November 3rd.
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Look, I still maintain Donald Trump is going to get a historic number of votes from Black Americans,
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from Latino Americans, and from women as we head towards November 3rd. We'll have to wait and see.
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Yeah, let's talk about women for just a second, because that's the vast majority of this audience.
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Specifically, there are a lot of young working women, but also a lot of stay-at-home moms.
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And that kind of suburban mom demographic is a demographic that Democrats have been gunning for
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for a long time, specifically in this election. And if you were to make kind of a pitch, or if you were
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just sitting down, you know, drinking coffee with one of these moms who was trying to decide who to
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vote for in November, what would your pitch be for Donald Trump to her?
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Well, look, Joe Biden has been in politics for four decades, and he really hasn't done
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anything to help this country. Donald Trump has been in politics for three and a half years.
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He's been in politics since the day he announced he was running for president of the United States.
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And what he really has done in this country is historic. This is stuff that he's done in three
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years in office that for two terms in office, most presidents couldn't dream of doing.
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He revitalized and rebuilt our military. He has made sure that we are a safer country,
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that we actually have meaningful borders in this country, that everybody, like I said a minute ago,
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has their fair shot at the American dream. Because whenever you renegotiate bad trade deals,
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whenever you give American companies a better shot at things, they're going to hire more employees.
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I just, look, I know that there's this narrative out there that women don't support Donald Trump,
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but you can't be a woman in this country and look around at what has happened over the past couple
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of weeks. And you look at places like Seattle, where they literally have a zone where they have
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these rogue people have kind of cordoned off this area, said we are not part of the United States
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anymore. And the mayor is allowing this to happen. You see the violence again over the past two weeks
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that we've seen happen in this country under the Democrats' control, as you pointed out, in most of
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these cities. It is terrifying to me. I'm scared for my kids. And look, I am very lucky that I live in a nicer
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area. It doesn't matter where you live. They could come to you. They could come to any area of this country.
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And I think it scares a lot of young moms out there. I think it scares a lot of women.
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I have friends who live in New York City, single women who live alone. This has been a scary time for them,
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especially when you have talk of defunding police. If you could even imagine, Ali, how crazy it could get
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in a matter of hours if you defunded the police and the law enforcement in this country. These are the ideas
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on the left. And it's not the Democrat Party of 20 or 30 years ago. This is a very new, very radical Democrat Party.
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They are standing up for the wrong things. They are pushing the wrong things, again,
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like defunding police. And Donald Trump is standing up for your rights as an American. Donald Trump is
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standing up and upholding the Constitution every day and saying, your rights mean something. Our
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founding fathers had a vision for this country. And I want to make sure that every American gets their
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freedoms in this country. And it feels to a lot of people like the Democrats want to just get rid of
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the Constitution. Throw it out. Don't worry about it. It's really scary. And so there's so much
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at stake right now. Look, I want to know that this country works for my kids whenever they get out of
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school one day and want to get a job, because it was really challenging for me. I graduated from
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college in 2005. The market was not good. The job market prospects were not very good. Donald Trump is
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setting up our country now so that it doesn't just work for hopefully the eight years that he's in
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office, but that it works in the long term. When you look at things like renegotiating the trade
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deals with China, signing of the USMCA, these are going to be very impactful for a very, very long
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time in this country. So while the Democrats like to bully people and suggest that if you don't post
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certain things on your social media, you're a bad person, Donald Trump is actually enacting real
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change in this country. And it's keeping this country safe. It's making us the envy of the world
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again financially and job wise. And, you know, we have a man who is putting America first. That is
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a great thing. We have a president who wants this country to win first and foremost, and that should
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be something that we all champion. Yes. And what people need to realize is that at least a segment
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of the Democratic Party, the far left segment of the Democratic Party that the rest of the party is
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capitulating to, they want unrest. They want anarchy. They want you to be scared. They want you to be
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uneasy. They want you to feel perpetually victimized because those are all of the arguments and the
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foundations that they have built for the socialist revolution that they want. And so they don't want
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you to feel secure. So they don't want law and order. They don't want you to feel economically stable
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because economic instability and personal instability and insecurity, all of these things, they believe,
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build the argument for the new society that the far left segment of the Democratic Party,
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which is taking over the whole party, want. And so there is only one party. I'm not saying the
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entire Republican Party is perfect. I think that your father-in-law would agree with that. But there
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is one party who has an interest, has a personal vested interest in success, in security, in law,
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in order, in ending this chaos. And women, I mean, people of all kinds, but women need to be able to
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distinguish that. And it's not only that, it's also the issue for, I know a lot of people in my
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audience is the issue of abortion and just how radical Democrats have become on that, that it
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once was, you know, 20 years ago, safe, legal, and rare. Now it's through nine months on demand
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without apology. And what I want women to remember is that there is exactly one party,
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one presidential candidate who has ever said anything in the way or done anything in the way
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of protecting those very vulnerable, unborn children who are included in the groups of
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forgotten Americans that your father and his administration, or your father-in-law and his
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administration represent. Yeah, you're exactly right. Look, this president, I think arguably has
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been the most pro-life president in modern history. And look, he spoke at the March for Life. He's the
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first president to ever do that. He took federal funding away from Planned Parenthood.
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When you look, Ali, at what the Democrats, to your point, are trying to implement and the way they
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feel about abortion, 40-week abortions. Are you guys kidding me? Anyone out there that is a mom
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that has had gone into the doctor and seen whenever they do the ultrasound, the baby that lives inside
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your body, that baby is alive. They are alive from like six, they're alive from the inception,
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but at six weeks old, you can see a heartbeat. You're telling me that at 40 weeks, when a viable
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pregnancy, when a baby is fully able to live outside of the body, we're gonna kill it? This is,
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it's insanity. It doesn't get talked about enough. But thank God for President Trump, he stands up
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for the rights of all American born and unborn, because guess what? They have a life too.
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It's very scary, I think, to see that sort of thing as well for people out there, especially,
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again, mothers who, you can't be changed, like not changed by that. Whenever you go in and you go to
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the doctor for the first time, I remember the experience I had and my husband had too, and
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it changes your life and it changes a lot of people's views on that. And thank God we have a
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Yep. And people say, you mentioned, you know, 40 weeks, people say, oh, well, you know, that never
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happens. Well, we heard the governor of Virginia, Democratic governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam,
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say that that's possible. You can go listen to the tape on that if you don't, if you and the audience
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don't believe me. And if that never happened, then they wouldn't be trying so hard, especially in
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places like New York or New Mexico or Illinois, to make sure that those kinds of abortions are legal.
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If they never happen, then you shouldn't have any problem with making them illegal.
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And there's another issue that I know a lot of people listening to this care about,
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and that is the issue of religious liberty. They have seen over the past few months,
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especially Democratic politicians, but even some Republicans saying church is not essential.
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You can't gather, even if you're socially distancing, we do not trust churches to be able to make the
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right decisions for their congregants. So you can't go, you can't go to church and worship freely
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together. We might even put you in jail. We might fine you if you do that. And now we're watching
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hundreds of thousands of people slam together without masks. And that apparently is essential.
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But people exercising their First Amendment rights to worship their God freely, that apparently is not
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essential. Can you tell me how President Trump has exemplified his appreciation and his desire to
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protect that First Amendment right? Yeah, well, I think what you're talking about,
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first of all, is the hypocrisy knows no limits, I think, on the left. And I want everybody to pay
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very close attention here. Because if you wondered what the Democrats had in store, look at what they
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did here. They told us for three plus months that you can't go to church, you can't go to work,
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you have to lock everything down. They arrested people for trying to go to work. The woman that was in
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Texas who tried to go to her hair salon so that she could literally make money to feed her children
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got arrested. But then you have people out there, they flipped the script in about 24 hours and said,
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wait a minute, we're going to let thousands of people out in the streets together. Like you just
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said, Ali, no masks, no worry about it. We're all for the protests. Get out there and do it. Well,
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what happened? You just arrested people for trying to go to work and do things safely,
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like with a mask. Yet you're not even locking up the people that are setting fires to small
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businesses, destroying people's lives. This president has been very, very clear that he
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is standing up very strongly for your First Amendment rights and religious freedom across
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this country. You see what has happened in so many of these schools. They're trying to take out,
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take God totally out of everything. These are principles on which this country was founded.
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And you know what? We should be standing up and saluting our flag and putting our hand over our
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heart when we hear the national anthem. Those are our principal things that I think all Americans,
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you know, it brings us together. I remember doing that in school. You say the Pledge of Allegiance,
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stand up, put your hand over your heart. But President Trump has been looking out for
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religious liberties and religious freedoms from day one of his administration. And it's so funny
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because they try and characterize him as a guy that doesn't care, that doesn't really care about
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religion or God. And they, of course, tried to hit him for going over to St. John's Church
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with the Bible. That was a big problem for them. But I guess it wasn't a problem that somebody actually
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tried to burn it down the night before. So the hypocrisy here is very clear to so many people.
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But rest assured, Donald Trump is standing up for your freedom to practice your religion
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in the United States of America, because you know what? It is our First Amendment right. And we've
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got I mean, that is the foundation and principle of this country. Right. And I just want to clarify
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that you and I both support the First Amendment right to peacefully protest as well. But what we're
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pointing out, what we are pointing out is the hypocrisy of Democrats saying, well, you can't practice
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one part of the First Amendment, which is worshiping freely. But you can absolutely practice another
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part of the First Amendment, which is peacefully protesting and even not even just peacefully
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protesting, but also rioting. So you can get in trouble for going to church, but not burning it
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down. And I just hope people are able to see that dichotomy. Is there any just final words that you
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can give everyone, any encouragement or anywhere you want to send them for more information?
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Yeah, well, I would encourage everybody to tune in seven nights a week. We have what we call Team
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Trump online. 8 p.m. You can find it across all of our social media platforms at the campaign.
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On Wednesday Night's Alley, we started what we call The Right View. This is our take on,
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you might have heard of the show The View. We didn't feel like those ladies necessarily
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represented the views of all women in this country. So it's myself, Kimberly Guilfoyle,
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Katrina Pearson, and Mercedes Schlapp. And every Wednesday night at 8 p.m., we have The Right View.
00:23:25.540
And look, I just want to tell everybody, we all at the end of the day need to remember, again,
00:23:29.700
we're all Americans, that we are all in this together, and we will see this through. We
00:23:34.440
overcome everything, every challenge that's put in front of us, and this will be no different.
00:23:39.460
Well, thank you so much, Laura, for taking the time to talk to us.
00:23:43.740
Thank you. Okay, guys, I hope that you enjoyed that conversation. Now I am going to talk to my
00:23:50.260
friend, Charlie Kirk. Charlie, thank you so much for joining me.
00:23:56.020
So you've gotten into, which you are very used to, some controversial waters over the past couple
00:24:02.020
weeks or so, as all this stuff is going on around us, America, literally, literally burning to the
00:24:09.080
ground. And you've kind of shared what you think is an important counter-narrative about the facts
00:24:13.700
about police brutality and systemic racism. Can you kind of summarize some of the posts and videos
00:24:19.700
that you've been putting out that have caused such a stir?
00:24:22.120
Yeah. A stir, I guess, is something I'm used to at this point. I first say from the outset that
00:24:30.160
the death of George Floyd was a tragedy, and I hope the police officer is held to the fullest extent of
00:24:37.400
the law. And I've said that in every single video, and I will continue to say that. And I'm not
00:24:41.700
minimizing that, but I'm also trying to contribute to the conversation. Is this a trend? Is this
00:24:48.360
statistically happening at the rate at which the media is representing it? So I, early on,
00:24:54.260
started to talk about actually how police officers have saved hundreds of thousands of people's lives,
00:24:59.220
especially, let's just take about in New York City, for example. In the early 1990s, about 2,200
00:25:04.280
individuals, mostly Hispanic and black individuals, by the way, were dying every single year. 2,200
00:25:10.080
murders. Think about that, Allie. 2,200 people in the streets of New York. Mayor Giuliani does a full
00:25:14.940
offensive of hiring more police officers using data tracking, more innovative methods, and the
00:25:22.620
murders went down to 300 a year. So that's about 1,900 black and Hispanic individuals, year over
00:25:28.740
year, that were not being killed in the streets, thanks to policing measures. You multiply that over
00:25:33.640
a couple decades, and maybe they have children, they have grandchildren. You're talking about tens of
00:25:37.640
thousands of people that are living because of police officers just in New York City.
00:25:41.740
And so I was very disappointed about how quickly the national conversation went from an understandable
00:25:47.960
remembrance and kind of just conversation around what happened in that particular incident to just
00:25:54.500
indicting all of law enforcement. And so then I also got really upset when I started to see people that
00:25:59.440
I grew up with in the suburbs of Chicago who have benefited from police protection their entire life
00:26:04.220
all of a sudden post these black squares, and they have no understanding whatsoever of the movement
00:26:09.480
that is pushing that forward and the lie that America is systemically racist. And so I'm going
00:26:14.420
to say that today. I'm going to say it tomorrow. I'm never going to bow to the mob. And I will do that
00:26:19.080
also with acknowledging that George Floyd was murdered and that person should be held accountable.
00:26:25.300
I think you can do those things simultaneously without surrendering to the mob and paying your penance
00:26:34.520
But why is it that so many people seem to not be able to do that simultaneously? Why is it that if we
00:26:40.300
accept that it was an unjust death from what we know and from what we see, and that it was a tragedy,
00:26:45.880
that he was made in the image of God, and that in and of itself is enough to be sad about and to even
00:26:50.600
be outraged about? I was outraged when I saw the video and even asking questions, okay, does this happen a lot
00:26:56.920
in Minneapolis? Why is it that we can't take that critical approach and very serious approach? Why
00:27:02.220
does it have to turn into almost a cultural and political revolution is what we're seeing right now
00:27:08.180
with Christians, with even maybe some conservatives jumping on board? How did that happen?
00:27:13.760
Well, we lack courage and we lack clarity of thought. And I mean, you say it best, you have to ask yourself
00:27:18.940
the question, is this actually happening every single day? And so I go on social media and I see left-wing
00:27:24.480
activists, and I see activist members of our media saying that this is a epidemic. It's interesting
00:27:30.120
how they chose that word in this time in American history. But they say this is an epidemic. Unarmed
00:27:35.120
black men are being gunned down on the streets at record rates. And you look at the numbers.
00:27:38.920
I mean, the Washington Post data showed last year before they updated it in the last couple of weeks,
00:27:44.320
which is interesting, the last couple of weeks with the last week, which is interesting how they update
00:27:47.740
it as soon as people start using it. But originally they said 10 unarmed black men were killed in 2019.
00:27:53.520
And now they have said they've updated it and they've said that 15 unarmed black men died last
00:27:59.480
year. Now, understand, Ali, if you look at the definition of unarmed black men, it's very
00:28:04.940
questionable. OK, some of these people said they had weapons. Some of these people were grabbing for
00:28:08.780
the officer's weapon. Let's take it at face value. Let's say all 15 now were tragedies and were not
00:28:15.340
acceptable. OK, 385 million police interactions happen every single year in America. 385 million and 15
00:28:22.720
unarmed black men died. 52 police officers were killed last year in 2019. Twice as many black
00:28:28.580
police officers have died in the last two weeks than unarmed black men. David Dorn and Patrick
00:28:33.760
Underwood. Do you think Black Lives Matter activists know those two names? Do you think they know the
00:28:37.580
names of the 179 individuals that have been shot due to black on black crime in Chicago, Atlanta and
00:28:42.960
Philadelphia? So I think if we're serious about having this conversation about unjust death in America,
00:28:48.080
we can't allow an entire emotive quasi pathological conversation to hijack the American conversation,
00:28:55.540
hijack the entire narrative in our country. And I think it's very dangerous. And also,
00:29:00.260
it leads us to a place that does not create good public policy and divides the country unnecessarily.
00:29:04.940
Something I've been really sad about is seeing women and especially Christian women say that it is
00:29:10.180
callous to talk about those facts and to talk about the statistics or to bring up the side of the
00:29:15.140
police officers at all the good police officers because it is not showing proper compassion or
00:29:23.040
it's not showing enough sadness surrounding the tragedy. But what I want people to understand is
00:29:27.680
that you don't bring up statistics to say, oh, no bad people exist or no bad cops exist or we can't
00:29:33.060
talk about racism ever. It's because exactly what you said, if we allow narratives to go unchecked
00:29:39.440
without talking about statistics and facts, that's how people, especially on the left,
00:29:43.540
build public policy. They build public policies off of public narratives. And if that public
00:29:48.720
narrative is a lie, then you've got bad public policy that affects the lives of people. And we're
00:29:53.620
already seeing that in calls for abolishing the police. Who do you think is going to be affected
00:29:57.220
by abolishing the police? Not even primarily me and you, but women and children, disabled people,
00:30:02.360
elderly people in poor communities. Where's the compassion? Where are the activist groups for those
00:30:07.380
Yeah, well said, Ali. And so it's going to the Ferguson, the Ferguson effect is going to happen,
00:30:12.880
which after Ferguson, Missouri, with the lie that was peddled by the media that they said Michael
00:30:17.940
Brown put his hands up and said, hands up, don't shoot. Never happened. Did not happen. It's been
00:30:22.160
proven through witness testimony and also through an autopsy that that did not happen. But still,
00:30:28.100
that lie became a narrative within the media. And the Ferguson effect in Ferguson, Missouri ensued,
00:30:33.800
which essentially is the police retreated. People said, we don't want the police fine.
00:30:37.660
Crime went up. Rapes went up. Violent arrest went up. Violent crime, I should say, went up.
00:30:43.100
Every every sort of category of crime went up imaginable. And so as a byproduct of that,
00:30:48.740
who who actually were the ones suffering? The people in black communities. And so that as soon
00:30:53.900
as this happened, Ali, I said, this is a bad day for black America. It's a bad day because now police
00:30:59.540
officers, which are, by the way, mostly minority, majority police forces are going to be saying,
00:31:03.320
we don't want the police here. We don't want the police in our communities, which and again,
00:31:07.840
the other I want to also kind of put a sidestep tangent on this because you and I are both
00:31:12.140
outspoken Christians and I've gone after these, you know, woke Christians that think that they
00:31:17.220
have stumbled into an issue that makes them seem correct, where you have these pastors with these
00:31:21.760
massive social media followings putting black squares. And so one in particular said, this is the
00:31:27.180
biggest this is the biggest epidemic happening in America right now. He used the word epidemic,
00:31:31.660
epidemic, which, again, such a bizarre use of language when you're actually going through an
00:31:35.180
epidemic. But and I've never seen him post once about how 300000 black babies are aborted every
00:31:41.800
single year. Not once. I mean, and that that is the absolute definition of the stripping of innocence
00:31:47.160
of those that can't defend themselves. That's the absolute definition of unarmed is the crisis of
00:31:52.320
abortion in the black community, where upwards of 40 percent of all the abortions in America are by
00:31:56.880
three percent of the population, which are infant bearing black women abortions way out there.
00:32:03.300
They are far outside of the proportion of population towards the black community and towards any other
00:32:07.960
community. And yet Black Lives Matter wants more abortions. In fact, they stand side by side with
00:32:13.100
Planned Parenthood. And so I think it's very important for Christians out there to understand
00:32:17.600
you could strike a healthy balance between acknowledging a tragedy, but also standing for truth.
00:32:22.460
There's nothing indelicate. There's nothing abrasive about lovingly and compassionately
00:32:28.200
articulating what is actually happening in the world around data, science and statistics. And I
00:32:34.380
think we need more Christians to do that. And our lack of willingness to engage in that kind of
00:32:38.100
discussion will be the downfall of our of our entire country. And a lack of discussion about any real
00:32:44.020
solutions people point to. And I think you actually did a response to a video that's been going around.
00:32:50.580
It's a very well made video about what systemic racism looks like, the inequalities and graduation
00:32:55.340
rates and how much wealth is being owned by white families versus black families. And that is that's
00:33:01.660
what a lot of people point to when they say, OK, America is systemically endemically racist and
00:33:06.900
there's nothing we can really do to change it. Well, what is what would you say some of the solutions
00:33:12.840
are if you don't want to point to systemic racism? You could still say those are problems that are
00:33:17.280
happening. What would you say that we could discuss as solutions to help minority communities?
00:33:24.000
Yeah. And we want to be really specific with our language. Right. So saying that there are problems
00:33:29.080
in the black community and then also saying it's not because of systemic racism, you could still say
00:33:33.300
those two things. And so, I mean, when you say that you don't believe in systemic racism, it doesn't
00:33:37.720
mean you're saying there are no problems in black America or that there's no racism anywhere ever.
00:33:43.320
Yeah. And so but there's also other reasons why maybe black America is not succeeding outside of
00:33:49.560
racism. In fact, I think it is so intellectually lazy to blame every single problem. And I think
00:33:56.260
it's it's so wrong and dangerous to say, well, every problem in the black community is because of
00:34:00.760
racism. So, for example, a black child that is raised by a mom and a dad has a higher likelihood
00:34:07.140
of succeeding than a white kid that is just raised by a single mother. So it's not systemic racism.
00:34:12.020
It's systemic fatherlessness. That's what's really happening in the black community. Seventy
00:34:16.340
seven percent of black children are born without a father in the home. And so if you take up until
00:34:22.120
where the welfare state came in, the Great Society program by Lyndon Baines Johnson, the fatherless
00:34:27.360
rate was about twenty two percent more or less in 1965. And so then post Great Society went
00:34:33.740
up to seventy five percent. So as America got less racist, black fathers got removed from the
00:34:39.600
home. And so let's pretend for a second that the the casualty and the unspeakable byproduct
00:34:46.160
of segregation, Democrat policies of Jim Crow and slavery was twenty two percent fatherlessness.
00:34:52.080
Let's just accept that. OK, then how did it go from twenty two percent to seventy five percent
00:34:56.560
as America got less racist? Blacks got into political office. We elect a black president,
00:35:01.480
have a black attorney general. Blacks end up, you know, basically four thousand black individuals
00:35:05.960
run for public office and win. How is it that we got less racist in every single aspect imaginable?
00:35:11.560
We had the first black billionaire, the black CEOs. OK, all those things. How did the black
00:35:16.600
fatherlessness rate go up? It's because we subsidize fatherlessness. We actually send checks
00:35:21.320
to mothers to have children and not get married. And that's the Great Society program. And so I'm a big
00:35:27.160
believer in rebuilding the family. And if anyone out there still supports Black Lives Matter,
00:35:31.240
the movement, Ali, you go to blacklivesmatter.com, you know what it says right there? They says and I
00:35:36.080
could read it right here. We want to disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family. Right.
00:35:42.520
That's that's their goal. They want less fathers. Right. They want less built families. Also,
00:35:48.500
if you keep reading that, they will say, you know, to the extent that mothers and parents are
00:35:53.740
comfortable, they will never say fathers on their website. They'll talk about families. They talk about
00:35:57.740
mothers. They'll say parents. They will not say fathers when that is the biggest issue that
00:36:02.460
that is in in all communities. Like you said, the rate is disproportionately, unfortunately,
00:36:06.860
high in the black community. But fatherlessness affects individuals negatively, no matter what
00:36:12.760
the color of your skin is. I mean, that's just data. You have a higher rate of not your have a lower
00:36:18.140
likelihood of graduating from high school, higher rates of depression, of suicide, of teen pregnancy,
00:36:22.080
of teen being a juvenile delinquent. And then, you know, incarceration, all of these things that
00:36:28.540
are very cyclical in nature can be attributed, maybe not solely, but largely to fatherlessness.
00:36:36.120
But we don't want to have that conversation. It seems like too many people aren't ready to have
00:36:40.040
that conversation. Instead, we have very nebulous, unspecific, unsolved conversations about systemic
00:36:46.080
racism. And unfortunately, so many in the church are aiding and abetting a counterproductive
00:36:50.960
conversation about this. That's right. And I do not see the church through any of their
00:36:56.300
advocacy. Generally, some pastors are great. And I call I mentioned them in my videos that I know
00:37:00.960
personally that I've come across that have courage. Rob McCoy, Jack Hibbs and Jerry Follow Jr. from
00:37:05.640
Liberty. Obviously, I'm sporting the gear there. There's a couple that are out there in the Christian
00:37:09.300
world that stand for truth and have courage. But if the church was serious about solving these
00:37:14.140
problems, there's three there's three policy prescriptions that Black Lives Matter opposes that would
00:37:19.160
assuredly improve the black community. Number one, school choice for black kids. Break up the
00:37:24.060
Democrat controlled teacher union cartel and allow parents and families to use tax dollars to go to
00:37:29.900
functioning schools, parochial schools, charter schools, school choice for black kids. Five words
00:37:34.140
that could change America for the better. Number two, fatherlessness, whatever it takes, whatever policy
00:37:39.380
has proven to get fathers back in the home. So this has created weak and honestly feckless and
00:37:46.180
spineless men that think they can impregnate women and abdicate their responsibility. And it has create
00:37:52.320
overburdened, heroic single mothers that are not able to. I shouldn't say not able. That's not fair. But
00:38:00.260
the data shows it is less likely for them to be able to build a family with children that are going to be
00:38:07.200
able to succeed at the same levels as a nuclear family. I think that's a better and fairer way to say it.
00:38:11.440
The third thing that Black Lives Matter opposes is more police. And this is just something they want
00:38:17.160
to abolish the police. But we need more police. Now, if you want those police to be mostly minority
00:38:21.740
members, that's fine. I think that's actually a fair thing that if you want the black police force
00:38:27.120
in the black community to be mostly black, fine. But that's not a reason to abolish the police.
00:38:32.520
Right. So what went from a maybe a meaningful conversation alley where I could have sympathized a
00:38:36.340
little bit of, OK, more body cams and maybe get rid of chokeholds. OK, maybe I could all of a sudden
00:38:42.180
like, oh, let's get rid of the entire police force like that is insane. And I will stand up against
00:38:48.140
that. And anyone who dares by like corporate America, the churches, they're standing next to
00:38:52.360
this stuff. Right. And for these churches, who are you going to call if someone comes after your I mean,
00:38:58.120
your church? You're I mean, obviously not the police. So I think that it's a it's an outrageous
00:39:04.600
conversation. I think that we're seeing that it unfortunately, very tragically, has gotten
00:39:08.460
detached from being angry about the incident with George Floyd to becoming a cultural and
00:39:13.780
political and social revolution. That is it's established on this faulty idea that we know
00:39:19.440
as Christians is not true about human nature, that humans are inherently noble. And if you take away
00:39:25.580
their oppressors, so social oppressors like the police, then they'll make good decisions and
00:39:30.280
criminals won't commit crimes anymore. They don't believe that people do evil things simply for
00:39:34.480
the sake of evil. They believe that most people commit crimes based on some unmet need. It's
00:39:39.540
like this Rousseau idea of human nature. But leftists always get human nature wrong. They
00:39:47.580
always do. It's part of why communism never works, because human nature wants to own property,
00:39:52.600
wants to produce. It understands supply and demand. And we're seeing that again with the abolition
00:39:57.580
of the police, or at least that movement, the idea that crime is just going to stop.
00:40:01.700
Um, I want to ask you quickly, how you think Donald Trump has led through this crisis and
00:40:09.280
really these crises over the past few months? Yeah, it's been a very difficult hand he's been
00:40:14.180
dealt. And I think he has a great opportunity right now. I think he's done great. And I think
00:40:17.300
he has a great opportunity. He's got to play offense. And he's at his best when he's playing
00:40:21.200
offense and making the left compete on his terms. And so I think he should do the greatest rollout of
00:40:27.120
educational choice in American history, a Marshall plan. Uh, since we're into the business now of
00:40:31.840
spending trillions of dollars, we don't have, how about he does a 50 to a hundred billion dollar
00:40:35.720
plan for educational choice in our inner cities to put the truck, to put charter schools and private
00:40:40.360
schools and homeschooling back in the forefront of the American conversation and say, Hey, if you go to
00:40:46.400
one of the 13 Baltimore schools that are basically all black, where they can't find one kid that can read
00:40:51.460
or do math at grade level, you're allowed to leave that school and go to a private school with that
00:40:56.220
money. That would be so unbelievably popular alley. Number two is a serious conversation about black
00:41:01.820
fatherlessness. And then I think he has to, in my opinion, I think he has to sign the insurrection
00:41:06.540
act and go up against these white armed liberals that have decided to try to occupy the streets of
00:41:10.720
Seattle and Portland. This is a civil war action that they are putting. And I mean, I'm not saying that
00:41:16.580
lightly. If you take over the streets of America and you think you can self-police, that is the role of the
00:41:21.180
federal government to come in if the states cannot handle themselves. And Jay Inslee has literally
00:41:26.220
said he doesn't even know about it. It is the textbook definition of insurrection. And so I
00:41:30.460
believe that has to be stopped instantaneously. Yeah. How do you think he's done so far? Do you
00:41:35.740
think that he's been pretty good on rhetoric and the decisions that he's made, not just in this,
00:41:41.400
but also through coronavirus? Yeah, I think he's done well. And it's important to realize that the
00:41:47.060
media will never cover what he has done fairly. He handled the virus, I think, tremendously well from
00:41:53.900
a supply chain issue standpoint. And I think correctly calling out the Chinese. He left
00:41:58.600
these lockdowns to the states, as evidenced by how South Dakota correctly handled the lockdown.
00:42:05.100
I was never pro-lockdown. I was a skeptic towards lockdowns. And the president allowed the states to do
00:42:10.040
it. He offered guidelines. He said, hey, I believe in federalism. And when I say I was not lockdown,
00:42:15.260
I was not mass draconian lockdown advocate. OK, I understand that certain areas should have been
00:42:20.940
shielded. But Ali, if we're serious about it, 60 percent of coronavirus deaths were in New York
00:42:26.280
City, somewhere around 45 to 50 percent were nursing homes. This was a highly specific virus
00:42:32.240
that did not mostly impact young people. And we shut down schools and we had more people die of
00:42:36.340
suicides than of the coronavirus in California. And so I think that it would be a mistake not to
00:42:43.180
self-analyze and self-reflect. Were these lockdowns actually a good decision? And it is of my
00:42:49.160
conjecture that it was a mistake to do it to the extent that we did in a lot of these states.
00:42:53.500
And I do not I do not place that at the feet of the president because he allowed the states to
00:42:58.160
operate however they saw fit. Are you feeling optimistic about President Trump in November?
00:43:03.540
Yes, there's still there's still a lot of uncertainty. And look, I'm not the type of person
00:43:09.160
that thinks we're going to win no matter what. I always like to play like we're 10 points down.
00:43:13.200
But I also see that the left has a bloodthirstiness to them that I've never seen before, to be honest
00:43:18.340
with you. It seems like they want this more than anything they've ever wanted in the history of my
00:43:23.780
time doing politics. Right. They're willing to push the boundaries of civil discussion.
00:43:27.900
They're willing to cancel people, get extremely violent, as we have seen. And so I think that we as
00:43:33.400
conservatives have to almost regroup and regather and find the kind of discussion, the dividing lines
00:43:39.500
that we want to set the rules of engagement. I think some of that is naturally happening,
00:43:44.520
but I'm cautiously optimistic. Let's put it that way going into November.
00:43:48.460
I think the dichotomy has never been more clear between the right and the left. And, you know,
00:43:52.260
I have my own problems with the Republican Party. Certainly don't think every Republican
00:43:56.200
politician is perfect by any means. But right now you have one party that is for insurrection,
00:44:03.860
that is for abortion through 40 weeks of pregnancy, that is not for any kind of law and order, not for
00:44:09.780
any kind of border policy, not for anything that has made this country orderly and successful and
00:44:16.440
moral and good. And then you have another party and all of their imperfection that cares about the
00:44:21.740
things that Christians care about, that cares about security, that cares about law and order,
00:44:25.960
that cares about sovereignty of the nation, that cares about religious liberty and free speech and
00:44:31.780
all of the things that Christians should care about and have helped make this country great.
00:44:36.780
And if there are things in which we can meet in the middle between Republicans and Democrats,
00:44:40.600
problems we want to solve together, I think that's wonderful and great. But right now it's hard to
00:44:45.620
find any common ground when the two parties are so far apart. I completely agree. And that saddens me,
00:44:52.580
but we have to recognize that, Allie. And I mean, when you have people, you have an entire party that
00:44:58.040
supports post-birth abortion, that even supports third term abortion, that supports open borders and
00:45:05.000
is okay with the rioters and the anarchists. I do honestly ask the question, at what point are we
00:45:09.800
going to agree on anything? I know that sounds sad, but it's just, it's a true indication of what's
00:45:15.340
happening. I am a very vocal supporter of the president. And I'm also, you know, a very vocal
00:45:20.960
supporter of the policies he's putting in place, especially for life and for faith and for freedom
00:45:25.300
and for individual initiative. And, and look, I think that it's a very important moment for us to
00:45:31.520
recognize the philosophical differences. And you, you mentioned it, it's so brilliant, Allie, where you
00:45:37.000
said, now we're going to have a discussion on original sin. Like, do you believe in original sin or not?
00:45:42.160
That's basically the conversation, which interestingly enough is actually a healthier
00:45:46.280
conversation to have than high taxes or low taxes. It's actually a, yeah, it's the, probably the most
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important philosophical conversation you can have around humanity. Are we good by nature or not?
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Right. And I actually always start my campus talks that way. And I'm glad that we're going to have the
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left admit that they think human beings are great and everything around us makes us impure. I think
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anyone who has studied human history knows that not to be true. Right.
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And we're already seeing that in the Seattle autonomous zone or whatever it's called. They're
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already having to police their own people. Utopias don't work, but thank you so much for
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joining me. I really appreciate you taking the time. And if there's anywhere you want to send people
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Liberty and just God bless our great country. Thanks so much.