00:00:49.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:57.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:11.000And today, less than eight months after our national launch, we are the largest network with hundreds of thousands of active member consumers and tens of thousands of businesses that are all aligned in their values so that there's trust as a part of every single transaction.
00:02:25.000This week, we had a major announcement.
00:02:29.000We are accompanied by the people, for the people, and soon we get to be owned by we the people.
00:02:35.000And so there's a great company, a SPAC, that's currently public called CLBR that is taking us public.
00:02:40.000It's a fantastic team that's like-minded in our values.
00:02:43.000And we're really looking forward to this because we've been a company that's been so grassroots built.
00:02:47.000It's been we the people that have built this.
00:02:49.000It's the only way that it's worked to date.
00:02:50.000We were a bunch of average people that just cared enough to do something.
00:02:54.000And now this company gets to be owned by average Americans that just want to support companies that do not hate them, that will help put purpose behind their purchase so that they can actually change the country with the power of their wallet.
00:03:06.000That's the best testimony we ever hear, Charlie, is when people say, I feel like I'm changing the country by purchasing a cup of coffee differently from this app where I get incentive to spend money in alignment with our values.
00:03:16.000So it's been a wild ride so far, but I can confidently tell you we are just getting started.
00:03:22.000And so what are the values of public square then?
00:03:24.000Because I mean, I can go example after example.
00:03:27.000In fact, let's play one here because instead of you telling me your values, let's just tell you, let's just see what they are not.
00:04:24.000The reality is the CEO of Hershey's, there is not one single iota of his being that actually believes that that commercial speaks to any semblance of reality.
00:04:34.000The only reason they're doing it is because there was some DEI officer at some rank of the company that said that this will help them win amongst a certain demographic that will roast them unless they puppet the message of the regime of the day.
00:04:47.000And so the reality is what companies like Hershey's need to learn is that the last emerging market in the world and a major, major market is the 100 million plus American consumers that are traditionally valued.
00:05:03.000They believe in biological gender, the reality that there is man and there is woman.
00:05:09.000They believe in truth and they're tired of being lectured by companies when they're just trying to buy a chocolate bar.
00:05:14.000And so what we've done is we've provided a marketplace where sanity wins.
00:05:18.000And in the process, not only is it very lucrative for the business owners because they're seeing their profits burst from consumers that are values driven to go there, it's also really liberating because there's a marketplace that embraces reality, embraces truth.
00:05:32.000And we're not trying to pick fights with anyone.
00:06:35.000Number four, we believe in the greatness of this nation and will always fight to defend it.
00:06:39.000We are nationalists at our core in the sense that we believe that the United States should take care of itself before it worries about the world because the best way we can actually serve the world is by serving as an example of what a healthy nation state looks like.
00:06:52.000And then finally, number five, our constitution is non-negotiable.
00:06:55.000Government is not the source of our rights, so it cannot take them away.
00:06:58.000And so when businesses sign up, they see those values and they say that they're going to respect those values.
00:07:03.000They're not going to spend time, money, or resource antagonistically against them.
00:07:06.000And they're off to the races connected to hundreds of thousands of consumers that are excited to put purpose behind them.
00:07:11.000I think you're just touching the surface here because what you're also trying to do, Michael, and build this out, we have a couple minutes, is you're trying to change the incentive structure, which I think is the most brilliant part of what you're doing.
00:07:23.000And it's not as clear on the surface because right now there is an incentive to be woke.
00:07:31.000The incentive is that you don't have these crazy people shouting at you and calling for your resignation.
00:08:14.000You saw some major corporate entities like Walmart and Amazon preaching about the need for further lockdowns.
00:08:21.000Meanwhile, the small businesses that couldn't lobby the government were locked down and they had no say in the matter and they were deemed non-essential.
00:08:29.000And so we're actually trying to rewrite the script here.
00:08:31.000We're trying to tell people a loud and clear message.
00:08:35.000Small businesses in this country that love their freedoms, love the liberties and the rights endowed by our creator, these unalienable rights, these businesses will actually win in the long run.
00:08:44.000We ran a market survey, Charlie, in 27 states when we got started.
00:08:48.000When I originally had this idea, we asked a few hundred consumers from around the country just to kind of test our idea.
00:08:54.000We said, how many of you, all of which were conservative, but they all came from different socioeconomic backgrounds, how many of you would drive 10 minutes farther or spend 10% more if you knew that every dollar you were spending was in alignment with your values?
00:09:09.000And so the beauty of what happens here, amen, amen.
00:09:12.000The beauty of what happens here, Charlie, is that not only will the right businesses win, the ones that have stood up for the freedoms of each and every consumer and has refused to infringe upon the rights or the values of literally 100 plus million Americans that are consumer age.
00:09:28.000Not only is that the case, but also we will send a very clear message to the Starbucks of the world, the targets of the world, the Walmarts of the world, the Disneys of the world, the Amazons of the world, the PayPals of the world, the PNC banks of the world that we're done.
00:10:29.000Companies that have strong values are going to thrive in this upcoming economic catastrophic recession.
00:10:39.000Look, it is time to consider a rollover of that 401k into an IRA.
00:10:44.000The investment world is completely different in 2023, and you cannot do the same thing as last year.
00:10:49.000Woke companies are aggressively implementing ESG.
00:10:54.000Interest rates are going up and inflation is still lingering.
00:10:57.000If you have over $150,000, now is the time to move your money to a biblical responsible investing strategy with my friends at PAX Financial Group.
00:11:05.000I put my money with PAX, and guess what?
00:11:06.000I just got to report it's up 12% since last year.
00:11:09.000And that's while everyone else is down.
00:12:26.000Some of them are actually being built currently, or they're a little bit smaller.
00:12:30.000So sometimes they take a little bit of inconvenience in order to get them up to speed.
00:12:34.000But I would cite Rumble as a great case study of what would happen when we actually support a company from its early stages that is trying to be an alternative to one of the big boys.
00:12:44.000You'll find that over time, as more and more people adopt and they put up with maybe a little bit less features than YouTube, you're going to find that the platform today, Rumble, can do everything YouTube can do.
00:13:29.000So you can actually help create a new iPhone one day by purchasing a cup of coffee from someone that doesn't hate you, from buying a new pair of clothes from someone that doesn't hate you, by using Rumble instead of YouTube.
00:13:41.000And you'll find that over time, this is a long game.
00:13:43.000The left understands that, by the way, they know it's a long game and they've been planning for this for 30, 40 years.
00:13:56.000It's why we have the long game longevity focused fight in mind.
00:14:01.000I will say confidently that I believe 20, 30 years from now, there will be massive, massive companies doing phenomenal work with the principles of American enterprise at the core of their being because regular patriots today in 2023 stepped up and for their daily consumer purchases to the best of their ability spent money in alignment with their values.
00:14:41.000I will tell you that the long-term vision of Public Square is that the app would exist as an ecosystem where businesses and consumers could gather together.
00:14:48.000Majority of the businesses on the platform will actually give you discounts for shopping there.
00:14:52.000So you can receive incentive for spending money in alignment with your values.
00:14:55.000We then use our search bar to understand what are consumers looking for?
00:15:00.000What are the products that are most popular to them?
00:15:03.000We go out to the market and we figure out where there are no good alternatives, and then we actually create our own alternatives and sell them back into the market so that we have alternatives in the spaces where they don't currently exist.
00:15:15.000And we're able to do it with better margins than our competitors because we already have the customer acquisition channel built into the model.
00:15:21.000So, yes, the short answer is absolutely consumer products are in our future.
00:15:27.000And to the person's question from earlier, we are paying close attention to where there are no alternatives for how we might be able to fulfill those needs.
00:15:34.000Yeah, there, and there's some kind of openings that I think people would be surprised where there's been some stealthy monopolization activity where all of a sudden you look around, you're like, wow, every company at my choice that I have to choose from, it's like four companies, and they all are against my values.
00:15:52.000And it could be anything from, I don't know, like, toothpaste to just stuff like that, where you wouldn't really think, like, wow, okay, Gillette, which you know is obviously into razors and also shaving green.
00:16:04.000By the way, be careful what kind of shaving cream you use.
00:16:06.000That's a separate issue because of all the chemicals and garbage.
00:16:09.000But they are some of the big trans push, like Gillette is huge in the trans thing.
00:16:14.000And obviously, they're a multi-multi-multi-billion dollar enterprise.
00:16:18.000So, in closing here, Michael, remind our audience: what is the public ticker symbol?
00:16:23.000And then, how can they individually download the app again?
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00:17:59.000Let's go to cut 74: the new parents' Bill of Rights being introduced in the House of Representatives, play cut 74.
00:18:08.000This bill by Julia Letlow kind of sits on five main pillars: the right to know what's being taught in the school, and for you to be able to see the reading materials, right?
00:18:22.000The right to be heard, the right to ski the school budgets and how they spend their money, the right to protect your child's privacy, and the right to be updated on any violent activity at the school.
00:18:38.000How is any of this even remotely controversial?
00:18:43.000The right to know what's being taught in your local public school, the right to be heard, the right to see school budgets, the right to protect your child's privacy, and the right to be updated on violent activity.
00:18:56.000And yet, there will be Democrats that vote against this.
00:19:01.000There will be Democrats that vote against this.
00:19:03.000This shows the Parents' Party has strength, and we need to lean in on that.
00:19:08.000That this idea of the Parents' Party can transcend demographic lines, income lines, political lines.
00:19:17.000Parents do not want to have their kids go to crummy schools.
00:19:21.000It happens time and time and time again.
00:19:25.000And so the Republicans in Congress are trying to put forward a very focused piece of legislation saying we want transparency in curriculum.
00:19:37.000We want to be able to be heard and have our voice actually be platformed.
00:19:43.000We want to be able to see your school's budgets.
00:19:47.000And we want to protect your child's privacy and they want to be updated on violent activity.
00:19:52.000Now, typically, I'm not a big fan of more federal regulation and all that, but isn't it interesting that with all of the Department of Education activity they have, that this is still not required out of government-funded taxpayer schools, the ability to be able to know what your kids are actually being taught.
00:20:13.000Do you understand how difficult it is to get just transparent answers from local school districts on whether or not there is pornography in eight-year-olds' curriculum, whether or not they're learning critical race theory, whether or not they're learning elements of critical race theory?
00:20:30.000And so the Republicans in Congress are fulfilling an election mandate.
00:20:34.000And I believe in 2024, crime should be right up there.
00:20:39.000But leaning in on a parent's right to be informed about what's happening in their local school is a political winner, and it is especially a political winner.
00:20:50.000I believe in the Hispanic and the black community.
00:20:53.000Upper-middle-class whites seem somewhat interested in this topic, but I'll be honest, just being in Chicago, the North Shore, Highland Park, they don't seem that fired up about what's going on in their schools.
00:21:04.000They just seem to be perfectly fine with it.
00:21:06.000But I do not believe, and I refuse to believe, that working-class Hispanics across the country will be thrilled to learn that their seven-year-olds are being taught that men can become pregnant.
00:21:22.000That is not a popular proposition in lower-income minority neighborhoods.
00:21:29.000And so, in some ways, this idea of education, which always used to be a Democrat issue, education always used to be an issue that Democrats would poll double digits better than Republicans.
00:21:41.000This is a particular moment in time where Republicans can seize this because these schools have become grooming and indoctrination factories, where the most sinister ideas you can imagine are being put through there.
00:21:54.000I mean, one example here in Arizona, I was just reading this the other day, it's unbelievable, where you have this Scott Menzel, who is the Scottsdale Unified School District superintendent, where he said, This is a quote.
00:22:08.000He said, the white race is problematic and meritocracy is a lie.
00:23:34.000And what the Democrats have been able to do for the last 20 or 30 years is intimidate parents.
00:23:44.000And just the amount of evidence that we could play on this program of one after the other after the other of schools that have gone so far off, they're off track.
00:23:54.000But parents can successfully reclaim that.
00:24:00.000But you have to have the right attitude.
00:24:03.000Doesn't matter what names they throw at you.
00:24:04.000It doesn't matter if they try to intimidate you or smear you or slander you.
00:24:08.000All those things they are going to do.
00:24:13.000Joining us now is Donald Trump Jr., who's experienced his own version of cancel culture, the cancel and then uncancellation.
00:24:34.000I mean, again, and if you think, you know, a guy like me with a pretty big platform and decent credit, we have MXM News.
00:24:41.000I know I've talked about it on your show that me, some friends, we put together a news aggregation app.
00:24:47.000We were sick of people not seeing, you know, important stories, like Hunter Biden laptop, Wuhan Lab Week as a possible theory for the few years.
00:24:56.000And so we put together an app that gathers news from all over the place.
00:24:59.000We have the New York Times down there.
00:25:04.000Our operating account was at PNC Bank.
00:25:08.000And Taylor Butterwich, who you know and his partner in the deal, he goes to check our operating account one morning and there's nothing in it.
00:25:14.000And he calls me like, we got bad news.
00:25:15.000I think we got hacked and they stole $750,000 out of the operating account.
00:25:19.000And he calls the bank immediately after speaking to me.
00:25:22.000And, oh, yeah, sorry, there's a FedEx on the way to you with a cashier's check for the entire amount.
00:25:54.000So I appreciate that because we have to highlight the attack that is going on on conservatives on a daily basis.
00:26:01.000They don't think we should be able to bank.
00:26:03.000There is a social credit system that's happening right now.
00:26:06.000And if we're going to wake up one day, if we don't get active and involved and push back and find out that, hey, we'll be locked out of your Tesla because they didn't like what you said and they're going to deem you parked for the next week or two weeks or months or ever.
00:26:20.000And this wasn't a phenomenon while Trump was in office.
00:26:25.000And again, if they can do it to a guy like me, who can't they do it to?
00:26:29.000And more importantly, who won't they do it to?
00:26:31.000I mean, it's not like they're naive that I don't have a platform to actually fight back or numerous.
00:26:36.000But the average American, a bank doesn't like that you actually also distributed some conservative content from, say, Breitbart News or the Charlie Kirk show.
00:26:47.000That was deemed enough to be like, we just, we wouldn't even think about doing business with you from TNC Bank.
00:26:52.000That's a real problem in America right now.
00:26:54.000So, you know, so much of what I've been talking about, even for the last year, it worked out so interestingly because my good friend Michael Seifert, who's taking Public Square, his company that aggregates all of the businesses that are willing to sign on and say, hey, we believe in free speech.
00:27:07.000We believe in these conservative values.
00:27:09.000Like literally the week he's taking Public Square public was the week that PNC Bank tried canceling me and my news app to be able to show both sides of the story.
00:27:20.000And it's why we have to be engaged in that battlefield, Charlie.
00:27:24.000We have to be voting with our wallets.
00:27:26.000We have to take the time, you know, download the Public Square app.
00:27:30.000Find a business that shares your values.
00:27:32.000You know, the coffee shop, the law firm, the doctor, whatever it is.
00:27:37.000Give them your money because if you don't, these other people will function with reckless abandon.
00:27:57.000I want to tell you guys about COVID tax relief.
00:28:00.000COVID Tax Relief is an amazing service that exists for you because of Washington, D.C.'s addiction to overspending.
00:28:09.000Again, I'm not a fan that this money exists or that's out there or that it's available, but as they say, it is what it is.
00:28:15.000Look, COVIDTaxRelief.org got a small retail business, almost $80,000.
00:28:20.000COVIDTaxRelief.org got a manufacturing business, nearly $250,000.
00:28:24.000COVIDTaxRelief.org got a large distribution business, almost $900,000.
00:28:29.000If you run a business, church or nonprofit, and paid your employees through all or part of the pandemic, you could qualify for up to $26,000 per employee through the Government Cares Act.
00:28:39.000COVIDtaxRelief.org receives a low commission, very reasonable, only after you receive the money.
00:29:01.000So I think things are a little out of whack, and I don't blame people for being down.
00:29:05.000You know, when you had a year, two years of the pandemic, kids out of school, the mental health problems in the country are seriously increased, especially among young people.
00:29:17.000Inflation is still higher than it should be.
00:29:20.000And, you know, everything from gasoline prices to a war going on in Ukraine.
00:29:26.000I mean, so I can't think of a time when there's been greater uncertainty.
00:29:31.000We're better off than virtually any other major nation in the world economically.
00:29:35.000But it's understandable why people are just down.
00:29:39.000There's a way to edit that video, Ryan, where it says Joe Biden brags about his accomplishments and he just goes to the whole thing.
00:29:46.000Inflation is still higher, it should be, gasoline prices, war in Ukraine, mental health problems.
00:30:42.000So in 2010, when Joe Biden wants to start thinking about how can I make money in the private sector while I'm still vice president, he has a conversation with Schwerwin.
00:31:17.000In 2015, as the effort by the Biden family accelerated to go get China money, Eric Schwerwin is in the middle of Hunter Biden and CEFC, the China energy company that ultimately gave the Biden family $5 million in an interest-free, forgivable loan, and a very large rock, a diamond that we all would know about now.
00:31:36.000Eric Schwerin was in the middle of that.
00:31:38.000He can connect the dots on most of the major foreign business deals that Hunter and Joe Biden were involved in.
00:31:46.000And really, this is less about Hunter and it really is about Joe Biden, isn't it?
00:31:51.000And so, look, I mean, John, exactly what.
00:31:54.000Can you just give me or the audience any assurance in about a minute and a half that they're not going to mess this up the way Trey Gowdy messed up the Benghazi investigation?
00:32:05.000Listen, we just had James Comer on the show.
00:32:07.000He talked exactly how they're going to pursue this.
00:32:09.000We're going to stay focused on James Comer or on Joe Biden.
00:32:13.000We're not going to get distracted by all the little circus things that Democrats do.
00:32:17.000We're not going to be reactive to Democrats.
00:32:19.000Stay focused on the prize, work our way up the train like a mob prosecutor.
00:32:23.000Start with the low guys, work up to the top, get the evidence.
00:32:26.000Don't shoot until you have the evidence.
00:32:28.000All of that is the key to how you do a great investigation.
00:32:31.000The greatest investigations in history have been run that way, like the China money one done in the 90s against the Clintons.
00:32:39.000The way James Comer is approaching it is the way the most successful congressional investigations in history have been run.
00:32:44.000We'll have to see if they can deliver, but they're on the right path.
00:32:47.000John, a minute remaining themes you're seeing at CPAC: energy.
00:32:50.000You know, how is Nikki Haley being received?
00:32:52.000What are you seeing in here in one minute remaining?
00:32:55.000Listen, I think there's so much energy.
00:32:56.000People realize there's a star-studded lineup from 20-year-olds to 75-year-olds, 78-year-olds.
00:33:02.000They're excited to go out and talk to people.
00:33:05.000Everybody here is not talking about pie charts.
00:33:07.000They're talking about engaging real Americans across this country, having a conversation, having it earlier than normal so that early voters can go out and vote Republican, not Democrat this time.
00:33:17.000That's a big change with the president.
00:33:19.000A lot of energy, some of the strongest energy I felt at CPAC in the 30 years that I've covered it.