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00:02:46.000Democrats are ignoring the law, ignoring a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in Philadelphia County and Bucks County and Center County and just counting illegal ballots.
00:02:57.000These are ballots that do not have a secrecy envelope or these are ballots that do not have a date or ballots that do not have a signature.
00:03:04.000Any way you slice it, these ballots are illegal.
00:03:08.000And the Democrats are thumbing their nose at the courts and saying, I don't care what the courts say.
00:03:13.000We're going to violate the law right out in public.
00:03:16.000And the great irony of this, Charlie, and this is something that I've been intimately involved with since 2020, because I was on the ballot with President Trump in 2020 and PA-17 in Western Pennsylvania and Allegheny County, and I saw them do the exact same thing.
00:03:36.000And so when the media says, oh, we have, you know, these are just conspiracy theorists or election deniers, I will never be gaslit into believing anything else.
00:03:44.000What they did in 2020 is no different than what they're doing today.
00:03:48.000And the crazy thing about it, Charlie, is that Josh Shapiro, then attorney general of Pennsylvania, and John Fetterman, then lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, were smugly out there every day attacking me, Donald Trump, Don Jr., or any other Republican that dared step forward and say, hey, or any other Republican that dared step forward and say, hey, what you did in Pennsylvania in 2020 violated the And guess what?
00:04:11.000Look at what the Democrats are doing right out in the open.
00:04:14.000If they are willing to cheat right out in the open, For the whole world to see, what do you think they will do behind closed doors?
00:04:24.000It's what they've been doing in this country since 1864.
00:04:28.000And Republicans, just as you said, in these battleground states, cannot back down and have to call it out over and over again because the media and the Democrats don't want us talking about this.
00:05:19.000Who controls the handcuffs in this situation?
00:05:22.000Well, it would be the Pennsylvania Attorney General and the governor, Josh Shapiro, who, by the way, wants to be the Democrat nominee for president in 2028.
00:05:30.000And here he is willingly and openly allowing the law to be violated in his own state because he thinks it will benefit a Democrat.
00:05:38.000I mean, the then Attorney General was Josh Shapiro in 2020.
00:05:42.000And Charlie, even before the election, he was already laying the groundwork to go after Republicans who challenged an election that was fraught with issues.
00:05:56.000And back then, he was doing that because he knew that there were major issues with 2020, and he knew that Republicans would stand to benefit from it.
00:06:04.000But now that Democrats stand to benefit from this, he's completely silent.
00:06:10.000As is John Fetterman, who was on with Jake Tapper yesterday, saying it's only a couple hundred ballots.
00:06:16.000Well, nothing could be further from the truth, Charlie.
00:06:18.000It's far more than a couple hundred ballots.
00:06:20.000The truth is it's tens of thousands of ballots.
00:06:22.000And the court has said, or Al Schmidt, who was our Secretary of State, has said, well...
00:06:30.000And so make sure you set those ballots aside because if another court ruling comes down, like, well, we're going to have to act on that.
00:06:37.000It's like the court has already ruled on this.
00:06:39.000The court has already said these ballots are illegal.
00:06:42.000And if these county commissioners in these Democrat-controlled counties...
00:06:46.000Are already willing to count illegal ballots right out in the open.
00:06:50.000What hope do we have that any of these ballots will be segregated?
00:06:53.000Because once they're thrown in, once they're separated from the secrecy envelope and lumped in with every other ballot, the chain of custody is completely broken and you can't check anything.
00:07:04.000And so it's going to be critical for the incoming Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, to investigate this on a national level because I don't think we have any hope of our local elected officials here in Pennsylvania.
00:07:16.000And I don't like using I mean, because at some point, if everyone's in on it, if the secretary of state is in on it and the attorney general is in on it and the governor is in on it and everyone's in on it and saying they're openly ignoring the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the federal government, you know, Matt Gaetz's attorney general should just go arrest them.
00:07:38.000And by the way, this does not go away, meaning it's not like we're going to forget about this.
00:07:43.000Sean, would it be appropriate By February, Matt Gaetz sends in federal marshals, sends in the FBI, conducts a very quick investigation, finds that they defied the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
00:07:56.000I mean, there has to be a federal law here at some point, right?
00:08:13.000It's not like these elections are a surprise.
00:08:15.000And I don't think that it would require any sort of in-depth investigation into what happened in some of these Democrat-controlled counties.
00:08:22.000Some of these boards of elections and these commissioners in charge, Democrat commissioners in charge of these counties, are on video saying, I don't really care about the law.
00:08:32.000And so, yeah, it would not be unprecedented for Matt Gaetz or the FBI or whoever the appropriate investigating authority would be to come in and investigate this because there absolutely have to be consequences here.
00:08:45.000What's maddening to me, Charlie, is these Democrats, they'll be out, oh, we have to count every vote.
00:10:15.000I'm not going to second that, mostly because I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want.
00:10:25.000So, for me, if I violate this law, it's because I want a court to pay attention to it.
00:10:32.000I mean, that's one of the most outrageous statements I've ever heard.
00:10:39.000Andrew, let's tweet that out and say she needs to go to federal prison.
00:10:43.000Again, you can't put up with this, guys.
00:10:45.000If all of a sudden, like, for example, if somebody in Pima County, Arizona, says, hey, I want to be able to count ballots by illegal aliens because I want to, even though a judge says I can't.
00:10:55.000At some point, people need to go to jail for this.
00:10:58.000Well, Charlie, these are just the Democrat counties that we know about.
00:11:03.000They're the ones just being open and honest about it.
00:11:05.000A couple thousand ballots across 67 counties that are illegally counted could absolutely sway an election and sway the power in the House and the Senate.
00:11:15.000If there aren't consequences for it, it will absolutely happen again.
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00:12:19.000That is patriotmobile.com slash charlie or call 972-PATRIOT. Byron York tweets, 13 days after the election, an extraordinary situation in Pennsylvania.
00:12:29.000Officials in Philadelphia and surrounding counties are ignoring the law, counting illegal ballots and openly defying anyone to stop them.
00:13:12.000I mean, you ever notice that as ballots are counted after Election Day, the longer that that process draws on, it exclusively benefits Democrats?
00:13:21.000Isn't that just the, isn't that just the darndest thing?
00:13:53.000Having been on the ballot twice in Pennsylvania and see how these Democrats operate and been on the ground with the grassroots almost every day for four years since 2020, this is very personal.
00:14:04.000And people who are listening and watching can probably tell that I get really fired up about election integrity because every single day on the ground with people, people ask me, Sean, how are we going to stop the Democrats from cheating?
00:14:16.000What are we going to do about our elections in this state?
00:14:22.000Voting in this country is a sacred process, and we have to do everything we can to protect our grassroots, protect the citizens of our Commonwealth, make sure that their voices are heard, because they chose President Trump in historic fashion.
00:14:35.000They chose Dave McCormick in historic fashion, in a historic landslide.
00:14:39.000Pennsylvania was the first Rust Belt state to fall, and It was because of the hard work of organizations like yours with Scott Presser.
00:14:47.000We had a skip the line PA.vote which was an early vote and vote by mail banking operation here in Pennsylvania and Cliff Maloney and PHA, a tripartite effort.
00:14:58.000That led us to victory here in Pennsylvania.
00:15:01.000And we got to make sure that all the hard work of the people who move the ball down the field is honored and all the citizens in our Commonwealth who voted and showed up too big to rig, their voices are heard.
00:15:21.000Again, I just, can we comment on this though, Sean?
00:15:24.000Imagine if Trump was only up 50,000 ballots.
00:15:27.000If they're willing to do this against Casey McCormick, what would they have been willing to do if Donald Trump was within the margin of 30, 40, 50,000 ballots?
00:15:37.000Well, I'll tell you right now, if it were Republicans doing this and the situations were reversed, the Biden Department of Justice would have already intervened and started arresting people.
00:15:46.000I mean, the Biden Department of Justice is still arresting people from the 2020 election and putting them in jail.
00:15:53.000So, yeah, I think that this would be a very, very...
00:15:58.000I mean, I've been saying from the very beginning that the whole concept of too big to rig...
00:16:05.000And President Trump and allies like yourself were very smart to leverage that tagline, just get as many people to the polls as humanly possible.
00:16:13.000But you can bet that if this was even close, the Democrats would be pulling on every lever of power To stop, use lawfare against Republicans who were fighting to make sure that people's voices were heard.
00:16:29.000I mean, I shudder to think what would happen would the situations be reversed.
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00:19:15.000We're watching the cultural shift happen before our eyes, where MAGA, America First, however you want to look at it, has been stigmatized, it's been criticized.
00:19:24.000If you said anything like that, you were one of the ists, you were racist, you were a misogynist, you were whatever.
00:19:30.000Watching what happened there, Jon Jones coming out, whether you won a fight, whether you lost a fight, Bo Nickel, all coming over to my father, all embracing America, putting America first, being actually vocal and psyched about it was epic.
00:19:44.000Then you turn on what happened on Sunday on NFL. I mean, the NFL, one of the wokest places in the world.
00:19:51.000All the players we probably knew didn't actually buy into the nonsense put out there by leadership.
00:19:57.000I'm watching guys do the Trump YMCA dance in the end zone time after time.
00:20:09.000They're no longer cool, and people are embracing America first.
00:20:13.000Across the board, every demographic, every age group, it's just spectacular to watch in real time.
00:20:19.000Yeah, and so, Don, you've been around these fights for quite a while and you've seen, I mean, just walk through that realignment where many people thought the Trump movement was dead to rights on January 7th, 2021.
00:20:33.000And now, look, four years later, it is the most popular.
00:20:37.000I mean, I'm sure, Don, you can comment on this.
00:20:39.000Friends you haven't talked to in a long time are calling, hey, Don, how you doing?
00:20:44.000You know, I mean, everyone wants to get back in right now.
00:20:47.000Talk about how that culture realignment occurred.
00:20:50.000Well, I mean, Charlie, you were there with me from day one back in 2015.
00:21:22.000Because you could be with us before, but if you sold out, if you bought into the narrative, if you said, oh my God, it's worse than Pearl Harbor and 9-11 combined on January 7th, that's the new day one.
00:21:35.000I mean, I put up a tweet earlier this morning basically saying, hey, Democrats, had you not been insane, had you not cheated, had you not played every game in the book, you'd be done with Trump in 60 days.
00:21:48.000You would have had the same guys in the administration that were slow rolling him, that were doing the bidding basically of the Democrat Party or of the D.C. Uni Party and the swamp.
00:21:59.000Now, now you got four years where we know what we're doing, where we have a chance to start from scratch with people who we know are absolute warriors for the movement.
00:22:10.000Now you're stuck with that for four years.
00:22:12.000Now, as Billy Madison would say, now you're all in big, big trouble.
00:22:43.000I mean, you know, it's the third all-nighter I've seen my father pull in like two weeks since he won when he did two all-nighters in a row.
00:23:35.000And Elon talking about the things that we're going to do.
00:23:37.000I mean, that's where the Democrats have a real problem.
00:23:40.000You would never have had this kind of buy-in from people with that level of expertise.
00:23:44.000Again, whether it's Bobby, whether it's Chelsea, whether it's Elon, people from all different sides who've also taken the crap from the swamp, who don't just buy in arbitrarily to the dogma of one side or the other.
00:23:56.000It was actually one of the most epic conversations.
00:23:59.000I mean, you're sitting there, you know, for three hours on a plane.
00:24:29.000It's so totally worth it to be able to have this chance to really have a complete realignment.
00:24:34.000And again, if the Democrats hadn't lost their minds, if they had been reasonable, if they'd let it actually play out, if they didn't pull off every stop, if they didn't start the lawfare, whether it was the financial lawfare, whether it was the Lawfare in D.C. itself.
00:24:49.000If they didn't expose their underbelly of just how evil and sick they have become, if they didn't prioritize things that don't mean anything to the average American, if they weren't out there screaming, I don't care if you can't afford your home or your groceries or your children are getting murdered by illegals.
00:25:53.000When you think about all of the things that he's done, and it's not just, you know, buying Twitter and, you know, taking a $42 billion gamble to preserve free speech.
00:26:02.000You know, when you have what he's doing in Neuralink, when you have what he's doing in Tesla, when you have what he's doing in SpaceX, what he's doing with The Boring Company.
00:26:07.000I mean, any one of these things would have been a crowning achievement of a genius.
00:26:14.000You know, you just had to do one of them.
00:27:58.000So Elon and Vivek are doing the Department of Government Efficiency.
00:28:01.000Your father has been making excellent picks from Matt Gaetz to Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegsatz, Bobby Kennedy.
00:28:08.000Don, what is your message to Senate Republicans that might be thinking to vote against your father's cabinet picks?
00:28:15.000The reality is for people in the Senate, I love the new guys that have come in.
00:28:20.000I think we're really reforming the Senate.
00:28:23.000The Senate is where Republican values go to die.
00:28:26.000They roll over, they appease the swamp, they would rather have a nice article written about them in the Washington Post, people who would put them in the gulags if they could otherwise.
00:28:46.000He would not have beaten a 50-year veteran of the swamp, Sherrod Brown, in Ohio.
00:28:51.000If it wasn't for Trump, that mandate, being able to ride on those coattails, that doesn't take away from Bernie, but those people have to understand.
00:28:59.000John Thune in leadership has to understand he's only the Senate majority leader because of Donald Trump.
00:29:05.000Without that, you'd be relegated to insignificance.
00:29:25.000You know, I'd gladly extend that olive branch, despite what a lot of these guys, even on our side, tried to do to me, tried to do to my father.
00:29:34.000But they have to understand this is a movement of Donald Trump.
00:29:45.000It's palpable to everyone who's watching.
00:29:47.000And it's great to see people buy into that.
00:29:50.000And I hope that Senate leadership truly understands that and embraces that.
00:29:53.000And if they do, I think they're going to continue to be able to have that majority.
00:29:58.000Their people will continue to vote for them.
00:30:00.000Without it, if they try to slow play that, if they try to do what they did the last few years under Mitch McConnell's leadership, they're going to lose all of that power and it's going to go elsewhere.
00:30:14.000If they don't give Trump his cabinet, there will be a backlash the likes of which Senate leadership has never seen before.
00:30:20.000They're only in Senate leadership thanks to Donald Trump.
00:30:22.000So the least they can do is give him what Donald Trump earned.
00:32:48.000I'm reading news for literally 14 hours a day, constantly reading articles.
00:32:52.000I was in a transition meeting here in Palm Beach, and part of the meeting and the briefing, somebody said, hey, just so you guys know, about 85% more or less of the federal workforce works from home and only has to come in one day a month.
00:33:10.000In fact, of any given day, only 17% of all the federal workforce is in a federal building.
00:33:17.000Only 6% of federal workers are working full-time in their offices.
00:33:25.000According to the Federal News Network survey this spring, some agencies are using less than 10% of all their space.
00:33:31.00017 out of 24 federal agencies were only using about one quarter of their headquarter space as of 2023.
00:33:38.000So they've expanded and extended all the COVID rules, where now a lot of these workers are now working at home, not actually doing their job, and a lot of them have other work.
00:33:48.000So they're working as independent contractors, which is against the law.
00:33:51.000Just for the record, it is against the law, if you work for the federal government, to take other work.
00:33:58.000It is a permanent COVID vacation for federal workers, but only for the federal worker class.
00:34:04.000Big tech realized this does not work, so they sent everybody back to work.
00:34:09.000Schools realized this doesn't work, so they sent everybody back to work.
00:34:12.000Everyone has realized that this doesn't work, except the federal government, where your taxpayer dollars, you are slaving yourself at work to write a check to the federal government so that somebody can just sit at home and not even do work.
00:34:27.000Federal workers think they don't have to work.
00:36:16.000I don't think the majority of our audience knows that Only 17% of federal workers are coming in.
00:36:22.000And let me just tell you how this works.
00:36:23.000So according to the new COVID rules that the union negotiated, you have to come in for one day a month.
00:36:29.000So the way that they do it is that almost every federal worker will find a way to buttress up the end of the month with the start of the month.
00:36:38.000So for example, in January of 2025, I'm looking at the calendar.
00:36:42.000That actually doesn't work very well this year because almost all of the new months are on the weekend.
00:36:47.000But let's say that it becomes a new month on a Wednesday.
00:36:50.000So you come in on Tuesday, Wednesday, and you don't have to come in for that whole previous month or the next month.