Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 519 ｜ President Donald Trump on Witch Hunts, Family + Mean Tweets

00:00:00.000 Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

00:00:14.600 Guys, do I have a guest for you. I put on Instagram, I put on Twitter that I had a big

00:00:23.400 surprise guest. Biggest interview that I've done. I have interviewed a ton of amazing people,

00:00:28.320 but this is definitely the best known guest that I've ever had. Some of you did guess it on

00:00:35.740 Instagram, but a lot of you are going to be very surprised. I'm not going to lead you on anymore.

00:00:42.860 I'm just going to tell you that after this interview, we're going to talk about a few

00:00:46.260 things that don't have to do with politics. We're going to talk about a few cultural stories.

00:00:51.100 We'll try to get to the comedian on Saturday Night Live talking about her abortion, my response to

00:00:57.320 that, the Travis Scott Astroworld Festival tragedy, and then also the drama that Chris Pratt has

00:01:05.120 unintentionally found himself. And so we'll be talking about that after this interview.

00:01:13.100 But first, here is my guest for today.

00:01:21.080 Hi, Ali Beth. How are you?

00:01:22.860 Hi, Mr. President. I'm doing well. How are you?

00:01:25.440 Good. You are doing well. I watch you a lot, and you do a great job.

00:01:29.400 Well, thank you.

00:01:30.640 We're lucky. At least we have some.

00:01:31.960 At least we have some, right?

00:01:33.560 Well, thank you.

00:01:34.620 Thank you so much. Thanks for taking the time to come on and join us. Gosh, there's so much,

00:01:40.220 so much I would love to talk to you about.

00:01:42.760 Good.

00:01:43.300 Yes. Okay, first, I've got to get your reaction, which I'm sure you have a lot to say,

00:01:47.320 about this bombshell story that a man by the name of Igor Janchenko, I think is how you pronounce it.

00:01:53.740 And just pardon me while I kind of catch my audience up a little bit. He was the source

00:01:58.340 for the dossier that served as the basis for spying all members of your campaign, the basis for the

00:02:03.700 whole Russia collusion investigation. He has been arrested because it has come out that he has lied to

00:02:10.060 the FBI. My question for you is, how deep do you think this goes? Who do you think knew that this

00:02:17.340 entire dossier was based on total fabrications, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, other FBI agents?

00:02:24.700 What's your take on that?

00:02:26.880 They all knew. It's incredible that it's finally coming out. Too bad it wasn't done sooner, but

00:02:33.020 a lot of good things can happen anyway. But they all knew about it, and Hillary led it,

00:02:39.220 and supposedly paid for it, and paid for it big, big money. We're not talking about a little money,

00:02:45.400 we're talking about millions and millions of dollars. And the DNC, the Democrat Party,

00:02:51.520 they knew about it. So just think about how bad that is, Alibeth, when you think.

00:02:58.260 They concocted the scheme of Russia, Russia, Russia. They knew it was a phony. Schiff knew it,

00:03:06.260 Hillary knew it, they all knew it. And they went out there and demanded that Trump and his children 0.98

00:03:13.760 be put in jail. Think of it. So they knew it was a phony deal. They were the ones that colluded with

00:03:21.080 Russia, not me. I had nothing to do with Russia, but they did. So they colluded with Russia. They 0.51

00:03:28.280 built a phony deal. And then they got up in news conference after news conference demanding jail

00:03:34.740 for Trump and his children. Think about how sick that is, and how evil it is. 0.85

00:03:41.080 It's so evil. And a lot of people, believe it or not, a lot of people listening to this

00:03:45.360 might not have followed all of the details over the past few years, because it just seems for a lot

00:03:51.360 of people too far off. They feel like it doesn't affect their everyday life. But can you explain

00:03:55.940 why the average American should care about this story, and everything that we have found out,

00:04:02.940 even over the past few weeks, about how much of a farce all of this was?

00:04:08.280 Well, first of all, it's totally dishonest. The lying, the cheating, the FISA, you know, 0.51

00:04:13.900 all of the things that took place in the FISA court, all of the things that happened were,

00:04:20.000 it was a con job. It was a con job. And frankly, it was very interesting. It may have not played to

00:04:27.260 her benefit. I don't know. I guess we'll never know that. But it was so evil. It was so sick and

00:04:33.320 so evil. And they play a vicious game. They play a dirty game. They do it continuously. This has been

00:04:41.220 happening from the day I came down the escalator. It's happening in New York, the same kind of stuff.

00:04:46.720 It's vicious. And it's dirty. And the lawyers representing the people looking to do things

00:04:55.000 are Hillary Clinton's lawyers. These are Hillary Clinton's lawyers in New York that are pushing

00:05:01.300 for bad things, which are wrong, by the way, which are totally wrong. But this continues from the day I

00:05:07.080 came down the escalator. This has been going on. I call it the witch hunt, the greatest witch hunt of

00:05:12.840 all time. And we won. And then we won a second time. We got many, many millions more votes. We

00:05:19.920 won a second time. And unfortunately, bad things happened. So we'll find out how that all works out.

00:05:28.300 But very bad things happened. But it's really something when you see this. And for those of you

00:05:34.100 and many of your listeners, because I know you have rabid listeners, people that enjoy politics,

00:05:40.780 you enjoy it less after this. But really think of it. They made up a scheme. They knew it was them

00:05:49.260 that made it up. I heard little tidbits years and years ago about Russia. Sir, do you know anything

00:05:55.120 about Russia with regard to this stuff? No, I don't have nothing to do with Russia. And after four or

00:06:00.920 five people asked me the question, I'd say, huh, what's going on with Russia? It was a concocted sick 0.93

00:06:08.120 scheme that blew up in their faces. Ultimately, Hillary lost, but it never ends. So her lawyers 0.93

00:06:16.240 head up investigations. Her lawyers are heading up investigations. This can only happen to me. 0.78

00:06:24.720 This can only happen to me. This can't happen to anybody else. But actually, I guess it can,

00:06:30.100 because a lot of people were hurt. A lot of people were destroyed over a hoax that was started by

00:06:37.900 Hillary and by the Democrat Party. It's really sick. Well, that was just one of many narratives 0.88

00:06:44.420 that were pushed about that was pushed about you by the mainstream media while you were in office.

00:06:49.540 And I just have to ask now that you're. Yes. And but now that you're no longer president,

00:06:54.860 are you relieved at all that you're not constantly having to deal with the media and confront kind

00:07:01.160 of the adversarial attitude that they had toward you while you were in office? Is it nice to kind of

00:07:05.920 take a break from that? Well, I still do, though. There's no break. You know, they have

00:07:11.560 every lawyer they can imagine going after me for anything they can think of years and years of

00:07:17.380 investigations, years and years. And it continues. And look at even the election. An election was won

00:07:25.340 in Virginia by a guy that I helped. If I didn't help him, he would have lost in a landslide.

00:07:30.660 And they say, oh, we have a new model now. We have a new model. That's not a new model. If I didn't

00:07:35.100 help him, he would have lost. He would have lost. The MAGA people were incredible. They all went out

00:07:39.820 to vote, but he would have lost in a landslide. And frankly, and but they go to. And it's very

00:07:45.720 interesting. I said to myself and I said to people, if he wins, they'll give him credit.

00:07:52.800 100%. If he loses, they'll blame me because that was the way. Youngkin. For instance, we had a great

00:08:00.640 congressman, Mike from Ohio, I call him. He won the congressional seat. They don't even talk about

00:08:07.220 it. He won it by a lot. He won it over a tough Democrat easily. He won it over many Republicans

00:08:14.040 getting the nomination. You never even hear about it. They don't talk about it. Right. It's an amazing.

00:08:20.100 It's an amazing phenomenon. Think of it. A man became a congressman on Tuesday. You don't even

00:08:27.240 read about it. I read stories about other elections that are much smaller, but you don't even read

00:08:33.160 about it because he was somebody I supported from the beginning, got him past the primary in a

00:08:38.200 landslide, got him past the election in a landslide. He was a great candidate. He's going to be a great

00:08:43.520 congressman. They refused to write about it. This is a major congressional race.

00:08:48.640 Right. It's amazing.

00:08:50.440 So no break from the false media narratives and kind of the animosity that the media has towards you.

00:08:56.820 One thing that I am hoping and I'm sure that you're able to do, and this is switching gears a

00:09:01.540 little bit, I'm sure that you're able to spend even more time with your family. And this is something

00:09:06.840 that I've wanted to ask you for a long time because I've really admired it about you, that you seem to

00:09:12.060 have such strong relationships with your kids and your grandkids, even as you have been so busy your

00:09:19.300 entire life building such a successful career. We've got so many moms, especially that listen to 1.00

00:09:25.280 this podcast, and I think they would just be interested to hear. This is not a political

00:09:29.220 question at all, but how have you been able to kind of cultivate and maintain what seem like such

00:09:35.000 healthy, strong relationships with all the people in your family?

00:09:37.720 Well, I really appreciate the question. I mean, it's such a nice question and it's such an

00:09:43.300 important question. Relationships and family have so much to do with success and with happiness and

00:09:51.020 everything else. And that's why one of the things that most bothers me, they go after my children

00:09:56.120 all the time. My children are good children. They work. They'll always be my children. They're adults

00:10:02.100 now, but with the exception of Barron, who's doing very well, but they're my children. And, you know,

00:10:08.660 when they go after your children, you take that differently. You take it so personally.

00:10:13.160 It's just an amazing, it's just an amazing thing. But the relationship has been so strong and that

00:10:19.180 really helps you. You know, when you're going through a time like, I don't think any other

00:10:23.620 presidents ever gone through anything like this, where it was hoaxes and they impeached me twice for no

00:10:28.960 reason. They just happen to have the votes. Because one thing with the Democrats, they stick

00:10:32.960 together. They've got horrible policy, but they stick together. Whether it's good or bad, you know,

00:10:37.900 defund the police, no voter ID. I mean, their policies are so bad and yet they stick together.

00:10:45.600 It's about the only thing they do well. And they do things on elections that you're not supposed to be

00:10:51.120 doing. But, you know, the children really get you by it and I stick with them and they stick with me.

00:10:56.500 So the relationship is so important. I think it's it's so important towards success and

00:11:01.780 toward happiness. There's no question about it. Yeah. And there's a there's a lot of moms that 1.00

00:11:07.080 are listening that they've noticed some of the tactics that you're talking about,

00:11:11.500 the Democrats sticking together on issues that they really push back against. And

00:11:15.080 you mentioned the Virginia election. A lot of a lot of the the support behind Youngkin was also

00:11:22.500 these moms going to school board meetings and pushing back against critical race theory and 0.95

00:11:27.320 things like that. What encouragement do you have for parents who are waking up to a lot of what the

00:11:32.800 Democratic Party is pushing? They don't like it and they want to make a difference. They want to push

00:11:37.900 back. What's what's your encouragement for them? Well, I thought the moms were incredible and 1.00

00:11:42.660 actually fathers, too. There were a lot of fathers out there. I would watch those rallies and

00:11:46.960 Loudon and I would watch the, you know, different the school boards and some of these school beds.

00:11:51.940 You say, where do they get these people? These people are like evil. Where do they have they get

00:11:56.560 on? And I think you're going to see that change. The the moms have been fantastic and they have been

00:12:03.360 unbelievable and they've been unrelenting and they see what's happening. Don't forget, I wrote out

00:12:08.620 during my administration all of this horrible stuff that they were teaching to our military and to our

00:12:15.260 federal employees and to schools. I took it all out. I wrote it out. Now, the day they came back in,

00:12:21.280 they put it back in and it's really bad stuff. And they have people getting paid hundreds of thousands

00:12:28.060 of dollars a year to teach this nonsense. But it's not nonsense to them. The really good thing,

00:12:36.600 I mean, it's just coming out more and more how bad it is. Now they try and say that the CRTO,

00:12:41.380 no, there is none. It's all in your imagination. No, it's not in the imagination. It's there and

00:12:47.600 it would have gotten worse. I just don't know if people are going to allow it to happen now. It's

00:12:51.880 just so bad. But the moms and dads did a fantastic job. I agree with that.

00:12:56.420 Yep. Now, a lot of these, a lot of these moms, a large portion of them, suburban women in particular,

00:13:04.060 support you. Now, a complaint that sometimes you hear from this particular demographic,

00:13:09.520 I represent that demographic. And a lot of people who are like me, you know, I voted for you twice,

00:13:14.340 but some people who said, you know, I like him, I like his policies, but his tweets bother me or his

00:13:21.260 rhetoric bothers me. He's a little bit too harsh. And in their minds, they're like, oh, Joe Biden is

00:13:26.460 so sweet and gentile and whatever it is. Do you have any regrets or would you change anything about

00:13:35.960 your rhetoric, about your tweets that may have turned off some suburban women from voting for

00:13:42.060 you? So the main thing, it's very interesting. I was under siege. The country was under siege.

00:13:50.840 We were both under siege. Everybody was when I first came in. First of all, they started with

00:13:57.800 phony investigations. The Russia, Russia, Russia was a phony investigation. The Mueller witch hunt

00:14:03.540 turned out to be no collusion whatsoever. I got impeached twice for no reason whatsoever.

00:14:10.720 I got impeached for a phone call congratulating somebody for being elected president to his country,

00:14:16.400 Ukraine, and so many different things. So we were under siege. And yet I think nobody's done

00:14:24.800 more as a president. I rebuilt the military. I got the largest tax cut in history,

00:14:29.000 largest regulation cuts in history, created Space Force. I mean, we did so much. And I also,

00:14:38.840 by the way, got the strongest border we've ever had, independent. We got energy independence. Think

00:14:45.120 of that. Energy independence. And now energy is going fuel. I read this morning in certain parts

00:14:51.240 of California, $7.70 a gallon. When I left, it was $1.83. And now it's even everywhere else. I mean,

00:14:59.360 it's going to catch up to California pretty soon because we don't have oil. We don't have fuel.

00:15:04.640 We stopped doing things that we were doing. We were bigger than Saudi Arabia, bigger than Russia. We

00:15:10.320 would have been bigger than both of them combined if we kept going. And we had good, clean, beautiful

00:15:16.460 energy. And it's a shame what happened. Now we're going to OPEC. I see where they're putting calls

00:15:21.780 for OPEC to help us. I filled up the national strategic reserves. I watched Maria Bartiroma

00:15:28.380 this morning, who I think is terrific, by the way. And she was saying that President Trump filled up the

00:15:33.380 strategic reserves. Many, many presidents let that go. And they were virtually empty. And I filled it up

00:15:40.660 with very inexpensive oil. We filled it up. I mean, I filled it up at a level that nobody can believe

00:15:45.880 right to the top. Now Biden wants to use that to try and get the energy prices down. The problem is

00:15:52.280 the oil price and the gasoline price. The problem with that is that that was used. That's there.

00:15:58.360 These are strategic reserves. That's used for an emergency. And again, many, many presidents,

00:16:05.460 because it's expensive, but I got a great deal. I got it when energy was at its lowest. I made a deal.

00:16:10.800 We filled it up. It also kept the energy companies, the oil companies going because we

00:16:16.440 had a going, I mean, at a level that nobody's ever seen before. So we had inexpensive energy. We had,

00:16:23.420 everybody was working. We created the greatest economy in the history of our country, but

00:16:28.260 I didn't have that much time. And again, we were under attack from the Democrats more so than anything

00:16:36.940 else. But other countries didn't like that. I was renegotiating trade deals. It was so bad.

00:16:41.560 You know, it's an America first policy that was so bad for America. And I guess I could have taken

00:16:47.560 an edge off, but you know, when you have that much work to do, you don't have that time for the

00:16:52.580 niceties, but I think they do appreciate the niceties. And I'll tell you one thing I did for

00:16:57.000 suburban, you know, I call it the suburban moms. I stopped low income housing from being built 1.00

00:17:03.560 right next to the house. And that was a big thing. And I never believed that I lost suburbia.

00:17:10.600 I never believed it. And to this day, I don't believe it.

00:17:13.680 Yeah. So what you're saying is that people should be mostly focusing on the policies that you put in

00:17:20.200 place while you were in office that benefited us rather than maybe some of the tweets that they

00:17:25.880 didn't like quite as much.

00:17:28.020 I was a hard worker and you don't have that much time. There were so many things to do.

00:17:33.040 There was so much wrong. Now, unfortunately, you know, what they've done is they're destroying

00:17:38.940 our country. We have millions and millions of people flowing into our country. We have no idea 0.99

00:17:45.100 where they're from. Forget about the mask and all of the other problems that, you know, when you look

00:17:50.200 at when you look at everybody has to be vaccinated except them. They're the only people don't have to

00:17:55.600 be, you know, donate. Don't even think. How about giving them $450,000 each? How about how about

00:18:01.680 that one? OK, 450,000. But veterans that are living on the streets get nothing. OK, it's it's sick.

00:18:09.740 It's a sick. Yeah, it's a sick policy. It's sick. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. 0.92

00:18:17.140 Yeah. So when people say to me, gee, I wish you were a little bit nicer. Actually, I think I was

00:18:21.980 nicer, but the end result was nicer because we produced pre-COVID and then I got it going again

00:18:27.000 after COVID. We produced the greatest, the single greatest economy in the history of the world.

00:18:33.240 And everybody agrees to that.

00:18:35.060 Yep. I think that we're seeing the consequences right now of people voting for something maybe

00:18:39.440 as superficial as, you know, something like tweets. But the policies are the things that do the

00:18:44.100 destroying. And that is certainly what we're seeing right now. All right. Final question.

00:18:48.680 The tweets did get the word out. The tweets got the word out. That's true. And a lot of

00:18:52.760 people loved them. I mean, they got the word out. And a lot of people didn't like to hear the word,

00:18:56.940 but the tweets got the word out. And now we're going to have our own site, which I think will

00:19:01.480 be fantastic. But in January, we're sometime like that. Yes, people are excited about that.

00:19:07.180 You know, by by putting that out, we were able to tell people what was going on. And it wasn't always

00:19:12.780 pleasant. So I can understand that. But, you know, I do think they served a good purpose.

00:19:19.120 Don't forget, we got almost 75 million votes, probably much more than that. But we got 75

00:19:25.980 million votes. No president, no sitting president ever got near that 12 million more votes than we

00:19:31.540 got last time. No president's ever gotten anywhere near 12 million votes. Usually they get less votes.

00:19:37.480 Even if they win, they get less votes. I was told if I got the same number, I couldn't lose.

00:19:41.660 And I got 12 million more. So we got all these votes. And so people say, oh, gee, I wonder if

00:19:48.220 you I said, look, you know, I got 75 million votes. You understand a lot of bad things happened.

00:19:55.680 Well, Mr. President, thank you so much. And I guess my last question is the question that you're

00:20:00.460 getting all the time. Are you running again? Well, I think you're going to be very happy.

00:20:06.880 Let me put it that way. You know, I'm not allowed to talk about it for campaign finance reasons.

00:20:11.020 And the campaign finance laws are really ridiculous. But I think you're going to be

00:20:17.320 very happy. And I think your audience is going to be very happy. And I love our country. And we put

00:20:22.140 America first and we make America great again. Now we have to make America great again, again.

00:20:27.620 You know, I say it again, again, because we made it great. But we're gonna have to do it again.

00:20:32.080 And so but I think people will be very happy. Well, thank you so much, Mr. President. I really

00:20:38.380 appreciate you taking the time to come on. And thank you very much. You have a great show. And

00:20:43.740 you do a great job. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

00:20:47.100 Okay, guys, I hope you enjoyed that conversation. I so enjoyed talking to President Trump. We have

00:20:57.540 been trying to get that interview for a very long time. My team has been very persistent in trying

00:21:06.320 to get him on the show when he was gracious enough to give me a few minutes of his very busy morning.

00:21:11.620 So I hope you guys enjoyed that. All right, so I first want to talk about Astroworld. So this is a

00:21:21.080 festival that's put on by the singer slash rapper Travis Scott. I can't say that I am the number one

00:21:30.100 Travis Scott fan. Like I don't I don't know if I could actually list any of his songs. But the reason

00:21:36.380 that we're talking about this is because this was a big story from over the weekend. It was trending.

00:21:41.220 And maybe you know, Travis Scott more as the father of Kylie Jenner's children, Kylie Jenner. They have

00:21:49.020 one like two year old maybe. And then she is also pregnant, but he's a very popular artist. People love

00:21:55.940 him. And so he had a festival over the weekend in Houston, Texas. And he's had these before. And I think

00:22:02.320 that there have there have been stories like the one that we are about to talk about previously,

00:22:08.400 previously, too. And the story is that eight people are dead. Dozens more are injured. And

00:22:16.460 it has to do there's apparently a variety of factors playing into this. But the 50,000 people that were

00:22:24.480 there when Travis Scott got on stage, they rushed towards the stage and some people got trampled.

00:22:29.240 Some people died of a heart attack because you can imagine the prospect of being trampled and feeling

00:22:35.720 claustrophobic, not knowing how you're going to be able to escape the crowd can cause really high

00:22:43.760 stress and can cause someone to actually suffer from cardiac arrest. But there are some there are

00:22:50.360 some other things that are going on there. Apparently, as a police officer who was delivering a press

00:22:56.780 conference, said there was apparently someone going around with some kind of mixture of drugs

00:23:02.940 and actually injecting it into people's body, like into people's neck. Now, I don't know. Obviously,

00:23:10.380 I wasn't there. I'm not able to verify that. That is the report that I saw of one police officer

00:23:15.620 that people were actually passing out after they were forcibly injected with drugs. 17 people were taken

00:23:22.960 into the hospital. So I'm guessing we'll probably learn more from those reports. One attendee wrote

00:23:29.300 this on Instagram. The rush of people became tighter and tighter. Breathing became something

00:23:33.340 only a few were capable of. The rest were crushed or unable to breathe in the thick, hot air. It was

00:23:39.260 like watching a Jenga tower topple. Person after person were sucked down. You were at the mercy of the

00:23:45.620 wave. We begged security to help us for the performer to see us and know something was wrong. None of that

00:23:50.540 came. We continued to drown. I mean, that is terrifying. If that sounds like a form of hell,

00:23:55.740 that's because I truly think that there is something demonic that goes on at these festivals.

00:24:00.360 People have actually, and we'll put this up on YouTube, if you're watching on YouTube,

00:24:04.280 people have actually showed that Astroworld, how it is designed. And if you're listening,

00:24:11.440 it's like there's this huge, I don't even know how tall it is, maybe like 40 feet high

00:24:16.760 statue, like the entrance of the Astroworld festival is Travis Scott's face, his head.

00:24:24.140 And then you're like entering through what looks like his mouth. People have been pointing out on

00:24:29.420 social media that there is an old depiction of hell that actually looks very similar. So

00:24:35.080 is it intentional? Is this supposed to look demonic? Is this supposed to look like some version of hell?

00:24:41.860 We've actually seen people playing around with the demonic and the satanic as far as the themes of

00:24:48.740 their videos and their music goes, especially recently. Lil Nas X coming out with his satanic

00:24:53.940 shoes and he had a music video where Satan was a central character. We talked about that when it

00:25:02.700 happened. We can link that previous episode to this. If this is intentionally satanic,

00:25:07.340 then that's certainly not the first time even recently an artist has tried to reflect the demonic.

00:25:16.380 And so I don't think that we can be surprised when people are basically enabling, encouraging

00:25:24.300 Satan worship, if that's what's going on here, when there are not just spiritual oppressive forces

00:25:31.900 at place, but also physically oppressive forces at play. We see destruction and death when we see

00:25:40.380 sin glorified. Certainly, I think that we can see that there was idolatry at play here. For someone to

00:25:47.040 become so animalistic, to lose their sense of rationality when they're at a concert, that they

00:25:53.040 would rush towards a stage with a human being on it whose music, I guess, they worship in some way,

00:26:00.140 or maybe who as an individual people worship, that they would be able to risk or be willing to risk

00:26:05.380 their lives and the lives of people around them. Like, even if this wasn't intentionally, you know,

00:26:10.700 some kind of Satan worshiping ritual, there is something certainly demonic in the idolatry that

00:26:18.380 we see at play here. And we know that Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And that's what 0.89

00:26:24.320 happened. At the very least, at the very least, like, if you don't want to go with me down the

00:26:28.060 spiritual path, okay. At the very least, it's irresponsible. There should have been more security. 0.99

00:26:32.820 There should have been better barriers. There should have been some rules at play. I don't know

00:26:38.140 if Travis Scott himself is culpable, but if everything kind of rises and falls on leadership,

00:26:44.280 then certainly he should be ensuring that there are these kinds of barriers, boundaries in place to

00:26:49.840 try to stop things like this from happening. There have been many big concerts with tens of

00:26:53.940 thousands of people attending them before where things like this don't happen. And like I said,

00:26:58.980 things like this have happened in the past. There are actually videos that came out on social media

00:27:02.800 of Travis Scott several years ago actually encouraging the crowd to beat up other people in the crowd.

00:27:09.840 And so when you look at that, it does seem like, okay, maybe there is some culpability on

00:27:15.620 his shoulders. He did release a statement that says, I'm absolutely devastated by what took place

00:27:22.100 last night. My prayers go out to the families and all those impacted by what happened at Astroworld

00:27:27.320 Festival. Houston PD has my total support as they continue to look into the tragic loss of life.

00:27:32.740 I'm committed to working together with the Houston community to heal and support the families in

00:27:36.580 need. Thank you to Houston PD, Fire Department, NRG Park for their immediate response and support.

00:27:42.900 Love you all. And Kylie Jenner also said that apparently her that she and Travis Scott

00:27:49.380 didn't know about the loss of life until the next day long after the event. She claims that Travis Scott

00:27:56.180 didn't see or didn't really know what was going on. And, you know, maybe that's true. But you've got

00:28:02.320 all these young people who went to a concert thinking that they were just going to have fun. Young people

00:28:07.720 very often think that they're invincible, that they would be able to rush a crowd and survive a

00:28:12.640 stampede of 50,000 people. And now their lives are over. I mean, we're talking probably teenagers,

00:28:18.300 people in their early 20s. Their families don't have a sister, a brother, a daughter, a son. Their

00:28:25.920 friends have lost a part of their community. I mean, that is devastating. And all for what? For what?

00:28:32.520 To idolize a singer who is just a fallible human being like everyone else? I mean, man,

00:28:37.560 idolatry kills. It's one thing to enjoy a concert. That's fine. But seeing the kind of animalistic

00:28:42.680 behavior that we saw at this show, like I said earlier, I think does speak to a form of, if not

00:28:48.620 demonic activity, certainly just darkness and idol worship, which I guess in a sense is all satanic

00:28:57.220 in a way. All right. Now I want to talk about this SNL clip that was going around. It was going

00:29:05.060 viral on Twitter. There were a lot of pro-abortion people that were applauding it. There is a woman

00:29:10.360 by the name of Cecily Strong. I haven't heard of her before, but that doesn't mean that much. I'm

00:29:15.660 not that plugged into Hollywood and certainly the people who profess to be comedians. I'm not paying

00:29:22.620 that much attention. But there are a lot of people who are fans of her and they applauded her for

00:29:27.240 acting like a clown on SNL and talking about an abortion that she got when she was 23. I will spare 0.55

00:29:34.720 you the entire clip, but I'll show you just a little bit of it so you know what I'm talking about.

00:29:38.880 I know I wouldn't be a clown on TV here today if it weren't for the abortion I had the day before my

00:29:43.760 23rd birthday. Clowns have been helping each other and their pregnancy since the caves. It's going to 0.89

00:29:48.860 happen so it ought to be safe, legal, and accessible. We will not go back to the alley.

00:29:53.680 I mean, the last thing anyone wants is a bunch of dead clowns in a dark alley.

00:29:57.360 So she goes on and on like that for a few minutes. Basically, she is trying to say she's saying that,

00:30:05.120 oh, clowns get abortions. Clowns need abortions. I wouldn't be a clown on TV if it weren't for a 1.00

00:30:10.620 clown abortion. So I guess they're trying to make the slaughter of unborn children funny. 0.99

00:30:15.500 I have a really hard time. Well, one, of course, I have a really hard time

00:30:20.720 seeing any humor in abortion. I mean, you're literally talking about killing a baby. What's 0.52

00:30:25.760 funny about that? She says that she is acting like a clown to make it more palatable. She says that 0.96

00:30:31.120 it's a rough subject and so she has to act like a clown, which that in itself is so telling.

00:30:36.260 If you can't talk about what abortion actually is, if you can't talk about the subject of abortion

00:30:41.200 without using euphemisms, as we've talked about so many times, without trying to turn

00:30:46.120 it into a joke, then don't you see that's probably because you're feeling a little defensive about it

00:30:51.180 because, you know, talking about what an abortion actually is, which is not just the ending of a

00:30:55.920 pregnancy, which is what she says in her little silly monologue, but it's actually ending the life 0.83

00:31:01.180 of the baby. If you can't talk about something realistically, if you can't talk about something

00:31:05.280 soberly, if you can't talk about what a procedure is, then why are you supporting it? Like maybe

00:31:11.800 you're on the wrong side. If your side can only be supported with euphemisms, with rhetorical games,

00:31:19.180 and with ridiculous jokes that aren't even funny. And that's the thing that I always say is that if

00:31:27.960 you're on the side that can use plain language, if you're on the side that you can say the truth

00:31:35.700 and the truth actually helps you, you can talk about the gory details of something, and that

00:31:40.660 actually helps your side, then you're probably on the right side. Like I have no fear of talking about

00:31:47.520 what an abortion is, as we have detailed many times on this podcast. It is brutal. It is grotesque.

00:31:52.540 It is painful. It is nothing other than killing a human being, killing a baby. You can call that 1.00

00:32:00.120 baby a fetus. That's fine. You can even call the baby a zygote at a certain stage. That's fine.

00:32:04.940 None of that changes what an abortion is, which is killing a human being. And then on the other side, 0.61

00:32:10.320 you see all of these euphemisms. You get people literally acting like clowns to be able to talk 0.94

00:32:14.720 about it because there is no way to actually make abortion not barbaric. There's no way to make this 0.95

00:32:21.200 subject actually palatable. Now, I want to touch on this claim that Strong makes that if abortion is

00:32:33.040 going to happen anyway, which she claims that it's always going to, then we might as well just make

00:32:37.180 it safe. That we don't want to outlaw abortion because people are going to get abortions and 0.92

00:32:41.980 outlawing abortion just outlaw safe abortion. That's what we hear. And people are just going to

00:32:47.000 use hangers and back alleys if we outlaw abortion. So let's at least make it safe for women. First of 1.00

00:32:52.100 all, let's point out the illogic of that statement. If something is wrong, it's wrong. We shouldn't

00:32:58.160 refuse to outlaw something because we are scared about the danger of the person or the threat that

00:33:07.480 it might pose to the person that is committing the crime. That's like saying, oh, well, we should

00:33:11.720 just make people are going to rape anyway. People are going to murder anyway. People are going to 0.96

00:33:15.600 steal anyway. And so we might as well make it safer for the person who is doing the murdering or the

00:33:20.800 raping or the stealing by not making it illegal. That's silly. Like that doesn't make sense. 0.97

00:33:25.860 We're not just when we say that abortion should be illegal. We're not just talking about reducing the

00:33:30.520 instance of abortion. We're not just talking about making it less likely. Of course, that's part of the

00:33:35.100 goal of the pro-life anti-abortion movement. Absolutely. We want to make abortion unthinkable, 0.86

00:33:40.140 which means there are a variety of tools in our tool belt to try to reduce the number of abortions 1.00

00:33:45.340 and reduce the desire to have an abortion. Absolutely. But that's not the only or I would

00:33:51.500 say even the primary driver of the pro-life movement. It is also about recognizing the dignity,

00:34:00.300 the humanity of life inside the womb. Because we believe babies inside the womb are human beings,

00:34:05.880 we believe that they are entitled to fundamental rights. The most fundamental being the right to

00:34:12.920 life, the right not to be murdered as an innocent, defenseless human being. That is the most fundamental

00:34:19.260 right that any human being has. And we believe that that should be granted to all humans, including

00:34:24.960 humans inside the womb. And there really is no logic behind saying, oh yeah, humans have a right to life

00:34:31.540 except for that human in the womb. Why? Because of location, because of size, because of dependency,

00:34:36.620 because of age. Those seem like all very flippant reasons to justify killing someone. And so the reason

00:34:44.660 why we believe that abortion should be illegal is not just because it actually does reduce the number

00:34:49.620 of abortions, but also because we think the law should recognize a fact that a human being inside the

00:34:57.920 womb is indeed a human being and is therefore entitled to fundamental human rights. And so, again,

00:35:06.100 the logic of, well, it's just going to happen anyway, so let's just make it legal so it can be safe,

00:35:10.940 that just doesn't really hold up. But also, there is a myth going on here. And the myth is that before

00:35:17.980 abortion was legal, before Roe v. Wade, everyone was having these back alley abortions, 1.00

00:35:22.760 and people were using coat hangers. Certainly that did happen, but this idea that it was so

00:35:28.360 prevalent and then Roe v. Wade happened and all of a sudden abortion was safe for the woman. First 0.97

00:35:32.720 of all, abortion is never safe because it actually intends to kill a person. So it's never safe.

00:35:38.460 Abortion is never, ever safe because it either seriously injures a human being inside the womb

00:35:44.900 and the mother, or it kills the human being inside the womb and injures the mother, or at the very least,

00:35:51.580 it kills the human being inside the womb. So abortion is never safe. But this idea that it's 0.50

00:35:56.340 safer for the woman when abortion is legal is a myth. This is reported by Live Action. Live Action

00:36:03.240 is a pro-life organization that does so much good work in this arena. And they report on Dr. Bernard

00:36:12.800 Nathanson. He was the co-founder of NARAL. That is a large abortion organization that obviously still

00:36:20.160 exists to this day. He discusses how the abortion industry purposely fabricated the number of illegal

00:36:25.400 abortions prior to Roe v. Wade. So Nathanson admitted that fictional polls were created in order

00:36:32.280 to convince the public of the need for legal abortion. We'll include the link to this article

00:36:37.220 in the description. This is according to a book that he wrote. He said abortion activists sold Americans

00:36:42.120 the lie that thousands of women were dying annually from back alley abortions when the actual figure

00:36:47.700 was in the hundreds. Knowing that if a poll were taken, we should be soundly defeated. We simply

00:36:54.760 fabricated the results of fictional polls, Nathanson said. We announced to the media that we had taken

00:37:01.500 polls and that 60% of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the 0.51

00:37:07.180 self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. So not only did they lie about the fact that

00:37:12.840 all of these thousands of women were dying of back alley abortions before Roe v. Wade, they also lied 1.00

00:37:19.060 about this statistic that 60% of Americans are in favor of permissive abortion, hoping that that would 0.90

00:37:25.620 psychologically trick people into then supporting abortion because no one wants to be in the minority.

00:37:30.080 No one wants to be what is seen as some kind of extremist. That's just something to keep in mind,

00:37:36.080 a principle that probably applies in a lot of different ways. It goes on to say,

00:37:40.840 we aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number

00:37:45.220 of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000,

00:37:50.240 but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1 million. Repeating the big lie often enough

00:37:55.520 convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200 to 250 people

00:38:01.220 annually. The figure constantly fed to the media was 10,000. And so then he also talks about

00:38:06.760 that took root in the consciousness of Americans. It convinced them that they had to crack abortion

00:38:13.020 law because all of these tens of thousands of women were dying of abortions. He says the annual

00:38:18.140 number of abortions has increased by 1,500% since legalization. So 1,500% annual abortions have

00:38:27.560 increased since it was legalized in the 1970s. And also this idea that keeping abortion legal and low

00:38:35.780 regulation around abortion keeps women safe, that's not true. Abortion centers today, there was one

00:38:41.660 that was reported on in New York City, they're inspected less than tanning salons. And so actually

00:38:46.960 there are plenty of cases. For example, Kermit Gosnell, there was another case that we talked about,

00:38:54.580 I think that it was in Indiana, where grotesque practices by abortionists, not just killing these

00:39:00.800 babies up to, you know, 42 weeks gestation, but also using unsanitary practices on mothers. Mothers

00:39:08.340 were then dying of these infections. This has happened just in the past few years. So this is

00:39:12.900 happening around the country. These abortion mills are not being inspected. So it's actually safe 1.00

00:39:17.920 for no one. Afterabortion.org says prior to legalization, 90% of illegal abortions were done

00:39:25.420 by physicians. And so this idea that people were just using hangers in the back alley,

00:39:30.340 that's actually not true. Most of the remainder were done by nurses, midwives, or others with at

00:39:35.160 least some medical training. So even before Roe v. Wade, people were still able to find some kind

00:39:42.360 of medical professional to perform their abortion. Even Planned Parenthood's own leading statisticians

00:39:49.320 admitted that the official statistics on deaths resulting from illegal abortion were very

00:39:53.520 were very accurately reported prior to 1973. In 1972, there were only 39 maternal deaths related

00:40:01.680 to illegal abortion, not the thousands proclaimed by pro-abortionists. So the point is, is that this

00:40:08.680 idea that thousands of women were dying from back alley abortions before Roe v. Wade is just not true.

00:40:14.860 It's just not true. Now, maybe that would be more true today because abortion has been so normalized 0.85

00:40:20.320 and women think that they have to sacrifice their children in order to be successful. I mean, 1.00

00:40:26.220 talk about demonic activity like we were talking about with Astroworld. I mean, literally sacrificing

00:40:32.440 your children to Malak for what? A mediocre comedic career? I don't even know this lady. Like, was it 1.00

00:40:40.100 worth killing your child when you were 23 years old to get the career that you have? I've never even 0.89

00:40:45.480 heard of you. And that child had to sacrifice their life for this so you could play a clown 0.93

00:40:52.140 on television? That's worth it to you? I mean, talk about demonic. Talk about satanic. I mean,

00:40:57.680 satanic. I mean, I feel bad for her in a sense because she's been deceived like so many women have

00:41:03.140 that you have to kill your child in order to be successful or be fulfilled in life. It's just not

00:41:10.340 true. It's just not true. And look, we can talk about all of the different policy proposals

00:41:14.260 and all of the different ways that we can create a culture of life and we can make sure that women 1.00

00:41:19.360 are taken care of so they don't feel like they have to sacrifice their children. Some women truly

00:41:24.660 are in desperate situations. I understand that. We can talk about all of those things, but let's

00:41:28.920 start at the fact that a human being in the womb is a human being and shouldn't be discarded for our

00:41:33.540 convenience or for any reason. It's not a laughing matter. People haven't been laughing at SNL for a

00:41:38.980 long time, but certainly when they try to make abortion into some kind of jest, it's just

00:41:44.140 so dark. It's so dark. And the truth is worth adhering to and it's worth talking about because

00:41:53.180 when it comes to abortion, the truth is on our side. So just be confident in that. When they're 0.97

00:41:59.240 having to make a joke of it, it's probably because they're insecure about just the immorality

00:42:07.240 and the shakiness of their position. All right. I just wanted to just quickly talk about this Chris

00:42:15.280 this Chris Pratt story because some of you were asking me about this and apparently became this big

00:42:20.500 drama on social media. And I was surprised by it because I didn't see anything wrong with the post,

00:42:27.780 but I'll get into why some people had had some trouble with it. We've just got all kinds of

00:42:32.520 celebrity news today. So Chris Pratt, who I like, I like all of his characters. We're Parks and Rec

00:42:38.780 fans in our family. And so, of course, we like Andy Dwyer and we just find him very likable. He has

00:42:44.580 been very supportive of the police, of the military. I don't know if he's an out-and-out Republican or

00:42:48.900 social conservative or anything like that, but he has talked about his faith before. He seems more

00:42:53.620 on the conservative side and you don't see that a lot in Hollywood. And so he's got a fan base,

00:42:59.000 I would say, spanning across the aisle. But in recent years, a lot of conservatives have

00:43:03.460 appreciated him kind of standing apart from the wokeness that we see in Hollywood. Well,

00:43:08.920 he was married before to Anna Faris. They have a son. Their son has pretty severe health issues. I

00:43:15.960 think he was born premature. He's had health issues since birth. He and Anna Faris got a divorce and now

00:43:21.080 he is married to Katherine Schwarzenegger. And they have a daughter together. I think she just gave birth

00:43:28.580 not too long ago. So he posted a picture with his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger. She's looking up

00:43:34.200 at him and adoringly. And he says this in his caption, guys, for real, look how she's looking at

00:43:40.360 me. I mean, find you somebody that looks at you like that. You know, we met in church. She's given

00:43:44.960 me an amazing life, a gorgeous, healthy daughter. She chews so loudly that sometimes I put my earbuds 0.99

00:43:49.520 in to drown it out. But that's love. She helps me with everything. In return, periodically, I open a jar

00:43:54.280 of pickles. That's the trade. Her heart is pure and it belongs to me. My greatest treasure right next

00:43:58.440 to my Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck rookie card, which if you know, you know is saying a lot.

00:44:03.480 It's her birthday in about six weeks. So if I don't get her anything, I'll tell her to look back

00:44:07.300 on this post. Love you, honey. I thought it was funny. He is a funny guy. He plays a lot of funny

00:44:12.940 characters. So obviously there was some seriousness sprinkled in with some humor. I thought that it was

00:44:18.900 pretty cute. Now, of course, as a Christian, am I sad about the entire situation with divorce and a

00:44:24.980 child that is, you know, with his previous wife. Divorce is always messy. The Christian church is 1.00

00:44:32.060 very clear about marriage and how two are becoming one and we are not to let man separate what God has

00:44:42.480 joined together. And so scripture is very clear about that. So whenever there is divorce, whenever

00:44:46.860 especially there's a child involved, of course, there is a tragic aspect to it. But even if we're not

00:44:53.100 looking at that, we're just, you know, looking at this particular post, is there anything problematic

00:44:57.500 with it? Some people thought so because he emphasized healthy daughter. They thought that

00:45:03.600 maybe he was taking a shot at his son with Anna Faris. And people thought that he was just kind of

00:45:12.180 being creepy, saying that Catherine Schwarzenegger's heart belongs to him. I think just the lesson that

00:45:18.560 we learn from this and some people are calling it cringy and people just don't like him because he's

00:45:22.740 maybe moderate or center right or whatever. I think it just goes to show that people are always

00:45:27.480 going to hyper scrutinize everything people online say. They're going to take it out of context.

00:45:33.780 They're going to try to apply meaning to it that just isn't there. And something that I do really

00:45:38.620 appreciate about Chris Pratt is that, you know what, like he's not going to apologize to people that

00:45:46.720 are criticizing him for reasons that he sees as pretty baseless. Apparently, he was sad about it.

00:45:53.540 He was sad about the pushback that he was getting. But he just said that, you know, all glory to God,

00:46:03.460 I'm not going to let these haters get me down. And you know what? Good for anyone who simply stands by

00:46:11.200 the things that they said and the things that they meant to say. If you weren't trying to be

00:46:15.360 offensive, if it honestly wasn't offensive, then there's really no reason to apologize for something

00:46:21.060 that you're not truly sorry for. And we just don't know. We don't know what goes on behind the scenes.

00:46:26.980 Maybe he has a great relationship with Anna Faris. I have no idea who are we to even talk about this

00:46:31.560 kind of stuff. Again, I think the theme is like people care too much about celebrity opinions,

00:46:38.400 and that it consumes their mind and it consumes their lives. And we just think too much about it.

00:46:44.060 We think too much about it. All right. That's all I have time for today. There's a lot more that I

00:46:48.720 could talk about, but we'll have to get into it tomorrow. Tomorrow, we've got Ben Shapiro. We're

00:46:52.640 talking about the vaccine mandate and everything that goes into that. So we will see you back here then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 08, 2021

Ep 519 ｜ President Donald Trump on Witch Hunts, Family + Mean Tweets

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