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00:01:57.000If you would have told us two or three years ago that banks would be coming through your personal commentary and what stores you're shopping at, you would have been called a conspiracy theorist.
00:02:10.000Oh, come on, go back in the basement, put on your tinpole hat.
00:02:13.000However, two or three years ago, Ben Carson, myself, Larry Elder, and several other people were talking about this, especially after watching what Justin Trudeau did to the truckers in Canada when he froze all their bank accounts to break up their protests.
00:02:26.000We said, listen, this is going to come to America.
00:02:30.000Whether they freeze your bank accounts or not, they are going to cow tail to the federal government.
00:02:36.000They're going to turn all your information over.
00:02:37.000They're going to turn you in and they're going to play ball with the feds.
00:02:40.000So we got to build a new situation that people can move their money to where that will not happen.
00:02:45.000So Old Glory Bank was formed for that exact reason.
00:03:41.000So a lot of people are under the misconception that if the federal government calls a bank, aka Bank of America, and they say, hey, Bank of America, I want to know where Charlie Kirk has been shopping.
00:03:55.000We want to know what words Charlie Kirk has been saying when he's shopping, or what brands is he buying.
00:04:03.000That bank, Bank of America, then has two choices.
00:04:06.000They can do what the government says, which is what they just did, and most all of them will, or that bank can say, you know what, we'll see you in court.
00:04:15.000Take two of these and call me in the morning, if you know what I mean.
00:04:49.000So we talked about a number of issues backstage, which I've actually championed in this race that I do think would be beneficial to the America First Movement for President Trump to take on.
00:04:58.000And I think he was very amenable to many of them.
00:05:00.000Opposition to a central bank digital currency.
00:05:03.000And tonight I'm also making another promise to protect Americans from government tyranny as your president.
00:05:09.000I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency.
00:05:37.000And so, for Trump to step forward, the only candidate I've heard step forward and say, I will not allow that to happen to our country, might be the biggest thing, in my opinion, that he's ever said to this point.
00:05:51.000Because if they're ever able to pull that off, a digital currency like that, it's game over for all of us.
00:06:53.000Well, this last time when Rana was up for the vote and Harmet went out and challenged her, I actually went to California with Carrie Lake.
00:07:01.000Carrie and I flew all the way out there, and we had meetings on the side in little rooms at the hotel talking to these guys and gals that were going to be voting.
00:07:09.000And we said, Listen, if you keep her in there after what we've learned about how she spends this money and how she shafts certain opponents like Trump, we're never going to send you another dime.
00:07:37.000But man, what a comment that the RNC is refusing to get behind Donald Trump.
00:07:43.000Not only that, if you've got 30 more seconds, when I really understood the RNC is when they were running ads after the last election and they were running ads saying, We're fighting for Trump, we're fighting for Trump, send in your money.
00:07:55.000And this was when the whole election was being debated.
00:08:00.000My own grandmother sent in $50 from her social security check to the RNC because they said they were fighting for Trump, only to find out that they had been telling Trump's attorneys to cease and desist, sit out and shut up.
00:08:12.000You're running the future of the Republican Party.
00:08:14.000Okay, so they're a bunch of scoundrels and they need to replace their leadership with somebody that can push ahead in a legitimate way that speaks and moves like the constituents do.
00:08:26.000John Rich, in closing here, what is the call to action then?
00:08:29.000If the RNC is not going to do it, we're trying to do it at Turning Point Action.
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00:11:16.000He's America's greatest governor and remains that.
00:11:18.000Well, he was when he was actually being a governor, not going to all 99 counties in Iowa, which how that helps you be governor of Florida and then you still lose by 30 is beyond me.
00:11:28.000And then his laughingstock, awful, historically terrible presidential campaign.
00:11:34.000Now, I've been doing this for 11 years.
00:11:36.000And the one thing I have learned about presidential campaigns is that it's just as much, if not more, art than it is science.
00:11:47.000You can have some guiding principles that should not move and should not change.
00:11:52.000But when you try to overly script things and you try to centrally plan elections, it does not go well.
00:11:58.000Whenever someone tells you that we have a plan, we've kind of built this out over the six or nine months, they're almost always going to lose.
00:12:07.000Politics is as much about spirit and enthusiasm and vibe.
00:12:13.000And Donald Trump, to his credit, is the best at that.
00:12:20.000At least in 2016 was not as much science.
00:12:22.000This time, the Trump campaign team, by the way, the inverse of this, I might write this article, which is the disciplined 10 out of 10 Trump campaign that Susie Wiles and that team did.
00:12:33.000And if you know the backstory there, Susie Wiles, campaign manager for Donald Trump, who's great, I really like her.
00:13:18.000Okay, so just so we're clear, this article is a lot of pent-up Florida rage.
00:13:22.000Castellanos is a Miami-based guy, and he has probably just been wanting to write this article for quite some time, probably because DeSantis kicked out the Bush people out of a lot of stuff.
00:13:32.000So you just got to take this with a little bit of a grain of salt.
00:13:35.000Start with an indisputable fact, Castellanos writes.
00:13:38.000At the beginning of 2023, Governor DeSantis was in first place, ahead of former President Donald Trump, then acknowledged that DeSantis' campaign in Super PAC raised more money than any other campaign.
00:13:46.000Many in the GOP billionaire class gushed over DeSantis, promising to spend whatever it would take to vanish the former president.
00:13:54.000This article is extraordinary, and it goes through, and let me just tell you from our personal perspective, what we saw.
00:14:00.000We have always been Team Trump, but at the same time, I wanted a spirited primary.
00:14:05.000I wanted an exciting primary, and I wanted DeSantis to be the best version of himself because I really truly believe what DeSantis did in Florida could be a model for the rest of the country, especially other governors.
00:14:20.000And I also think that iron sharpens iron.
00:15:40.000The base is angry because Alvin Bragg is being deployed on a local level on a bad indictment to indict, you know, to go after a former president.
00:16:09.000If he can't take advice, if his team snobbishly and arrogantly kind of tells us to brush off, via Condios, Team DeSantis, because you're going to need it.
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00:17:28.000So we just came out with this this morning.
00:17:31.000So this is a kind of first look at these analysis of American opinion.
00:17:38.000And what we basically the framework of this is we looked at how ordinary average Main Street Americans view America and how many, how the kind of cultural elite, the people who went to Ivy League schools, by the way, I don't think you went to an Ivy League school, Charlie, did you?
00:18:06.000Yeah, this was people who went to Ivy League schools, people who have a graduate degree, people who live in New York City or Washington, D.C. or Silicon Valley in these kind of urban areas, and people who are in the top 1% or 2% of income.
00:18:23.000And what we found, we call these people the cultural elite.
00:18:28.000And what we found is these people are completely out of touch with ordinary Americans.
00:18:34.000So let me give you a couple of examples.
00:18:37.000If you ask ordinary Americans, how are your finances doing?
00:18:41.000Most Americans are saying not very well.
00:18:44.000About 60, 70% say things are not going well for them financially.
00:18:49.000But for these super elite, they're 80, 70 to 80% say they're doing really well.
00:18:55.000So they have a totally disconnect with what's happening with the kitchen table issues for most Americans, which is why people like Paul Krugman of the New York Times and people like Joe Biden and others say, gee, why are people so angry?
00:19:08.000Everything's going so well for the country.
00:20:10.000These people are so out of touch with the, with the kind of concerns and the anxieties of average Americans.
00:20:20.000And it explains a lot, I think, about why Trump is so popular, because he represents the average Main Street American, whereas Joe Biden represents these top elite 1%.
00:20:31.000Incidentally, of those people in that group that we were looking at, the cultural elites, 80% of them say they support Biden.
00:21:16.000Well, first of all, it is at an all-time high enumerable number, but if you adjust for inflation, the S ⁇ P 500 was actually higher under Trump than it is now.
00:21:24.000I mean, one of the reasons the S ⁇ P went up is because, you know, prices went up so much.
00:21:29.000But look, we do have a bull market right now.
00:21:40.000But the problem is that the wages and salaries of average middle-class blue-collar workers, those are not keeping up with inflation.
00:21:49.000And, you know, good news is inflation is down, but still the average American family has lost about ready for this $2,000 in purchasing power in real terms since Biden came into office.
00:22:01.000I looked up these numbers and actually just presented them to President Trump a few weeks ago.
00:22:21.000In four years, $6,400 increase, whereas the average family has lost $2,000 to $2,500 under Biden.
00:22:29.000So, you know, my feeling is if Trump just looks into that camera when he debates Biden, if Biden is their nominee, and I'm doubtful if that's going to be the case.
00:22:37.000But if he is, he just asks the American people, are you better off today than you were four years ago?
00:22:41.000And most people are going to say, hell no, I'm not.
00:22:44.000And I mean, just to expound on that even further, Steve, what your survey shows, the community, the committee to unleash prosperity, is that the numbers and the disconnect is reaching a place of, it's not spinnable.
00:22:57.000If some of these numbers were closer together, a well-tailored, persuasive advertising campaign could maybe convince some people and the moderates.
00:23:22.000Some of these results were just, you know, I thought there would be a gap between the rich cultural elite and the rest of the country, but I didn't think it would be this big.
00:23:30.000So here's another one about the issue of, you know, what, again, I mentioned the one about what should be banned.
00:23:37.000How much are you willing to pay for climate change?
00:23:39.000Well, you know, most Americans, if you ask them, are you concerned about climate change?
00:23:42.000They'll say, yeah, sure, I'm concerned about it.
00:23:44.000But they realize they have other issues that are a lot more important than what the planet's going to be like 100 years from now.
00:23:51.000And yet, so you've asked people how much you're willing to pay to deal with climate change.
00:23:56.000The average number was about $50 a year.
00:23:59.000But for the elite, they say, most of them say over $5,000.
00:24:02.000And a lot of them say, I'm willing to pay whatever it takes.
00:24:06.000This is a cultural elite issue, climate change.
00:24:08.000This is the same thing with LGBTQ issues.
00:24:11.000You think the average guy on Main Street thinks a lot about that issue?
00:24:33.000And so let me ask you, it's fascinating to me if there is any move, if that will ever change, because in some ways, you want the elites to care about the middle class not doing well.
00:24:46.000It doesn't seem as if there's any concern.
00:24:55.000And I, can you riff on that, Steve, please?
00:24:59.000Yeah, it's, it's, you used the word contempt.
00:25:01.000I use the word arrogance, but you were talking about the same thing.
00:25:04.000And, you know, the reason Trump won in 2016, I really believe, because I worked on that campaign, was Americans are onto this.
00:25:11.000They understand that the cultural elite are arrogant, that they thumb their nose at, you know, main street, middle-class, patriotic Americans.
00:25:21.000But, you know, I was only half joking.
00:25:22.000You know, I've known you for a long time, so I know you didn't go to an Ivy League school.
00:25:26.000But the reason I mentioned that was because we also did a separate survey, you know, with the same questions of people who graduated from these elite universities.
00:25:36.000Charlie, those people are completely crazy.
00:25:40.000I mean, 80% of them say we should ban all this stuff.
00:25:44.000Most of them say there's too much freedom in America.
00:25:47.000Most of them would get rid of gas cars and they would get rid of, they want to get rid of non-essential air travel.
00:26:12.000So, Steve, in closing here, the president thinks really highly of you.
00:26:16.000What is your advice based on this survey?
00:26:19.000How President Trump, if he's going to be the nominee, which it looks like he will be based on every indicator, how should he take this data and run on it successfully in 2024?
00:26:29.000He should basically say, I represent middle America.
00:26:33.000I represent the people who are working 40, 50 hours a week.
00:26:37.000I don't represent the people who went to the elite Ivy League schools or the people who live in these kind of bubble cities like Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley and Wall Street that are so disconnected from the anxieties and the fears and the concerns of mainstream Americans.
00:27:09.000You demonstrate a little bit, but it's ideology that's actually the true divider, isn't it, Steve?
00:27:15.000It is if you believe in this cult of abstractions that you believe in banning non-essential air travel and gas stoves and getting rid of fossil fuels, you have something deeply wrong with you.
00:27:26.000And the election should be a referendum against you.
00:28:53.000So you have the Hookers and Blow convention in Davos, Switzerland, of the world elite and CEOs that take their private jets to the mountains where they're around a bunch of degenerates and nonsense.
00:29:08.000And a narrative is popping out of Davos.
00:31:34.000This smells to high heaven, everybody.
00:31:37.000So we go from that he's the biggest threat to democracy to we need Nikki Haley to joking about his assassination to now he does well in Iowa and overnight at the Hookers and Blow convention, they're all saying that it's a certainty that Donald Trump is going to become president.
00:31:59.000Sucking up to Trump, that was Jamie Dimon's whole thing.
00:32:02.000And I think a lot of people missed the Jamie Dimon thing.
00:32:38.000I actually would be more used to that.
00:32:41.000So there's one of two explanations that they think that there is this inevitable correction event happening in November and there's nothing they can do about it or that they're playing with us and taunting with us.
00:32:53.000And the best explanation I have, again, this is a guess.
00:32:57.000And when I'm guessing, I'll tell you guys, is that they're trying to wake up their side, that they're trying to scare the activists, scare the donors, and that this may or may not be true, that in reality, it's a 50-50 shot, that this is a wake-up call.
00:33:12.000In fact, I spoke like this in the summer of 2020 when I felt that a lot of people before COVID, I'm sorry, in the winter of 2020, right before COVID, I was like, hey, guys, I don't know if we're going to win reelection.
00:33:26.000I was like the only one that was going to say not.
00:33:28.000So I've done this before as a way, I believed it, to wake people up and to be contrarian.
00:33:34.000But something smells, something smells when all of a sudden the consensus at the World Economic Forum in Davos is that Trump is going to be president does not feel right.
00:33:51.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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