00:00:08.000Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, I am joined by my friend Donald Trump Jr. about his new book, Liberal Privilege.
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00:01:12.000Welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:14.000I am joined by my friend Donald Trump Jr., who has an incredible new book out Liberal Privilege, Joe Biden and the Democrats' Defense of the Indefensible.
00:01:23.000Don, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show and tell us about why you wrote this book and the significance for this book heading into this very important election.
00:01:34.000I know you were such a big part of, you know, Triggered and even the book tour and everything like that.
00:01:38.000I had no intention of writing another book.
00:01:40.000It was sort of one of the unintended consequences really of the quarantine, right?
00:01:44.000When we were in lockdown, I started writing this book and I decided to self-publish because if that would have lasted two, three, four, five weeks, I wouldn't have actually had time to finish.
00:01:52.000But with four months, I just started looking.
00:02:42.000It's the ability to destroy the American manufacturing, American jobs, the middle class, and be able to run on that platform as though you're magically going to now save it despite having spent 50 years destroying it and not being held accountable, not being called out by a mainstream media that you and I have spoken about many times, Charlie, have just totally abdicated their responsibility to inform the American people to be activists for the far left.
00:03:07.000I mean, I know we've been the recipients of their ire on more than a few occasions, but that's what it is.
00:03:13.000So I go through Joe Biden's voting record, NAFTA, TPP, China permanent status in the World Trade Organization that destroyed the working class.
00:03:23.000I interviewed Ronnie Jackson, Admiral Ronnie Jackson, the former White House doctor who observed Joe Biden over years and sees him now, talking about, I wouldn't feel comfortable as a citizen of America to let this guy with obvious cognitive decline be president.
00:03:40.000And again, if Donald Trump mispronounces a complicated name, every telepsychologist in America is on TV saying he's in the later stages of Alzheimer's and dementia.
00:03:50.000Joe Biden can't remember where he is most of the time.
00:03:54.000I mean, he needs a teleprompter to speak to three people.
00:03:56.000You see when he's doing these sort of cush, like that Anderson Cooper interview, you know, one of the few times he actually answers a question.
00:04:02.000He's reading notes off the side of the screen because he can't remember basic talking points.
00:04:06.000I mean, if you've been doing this for half a century, you can't remember like the basic talk.
00:05:37.000I want you to imagine, this is liberal privilege in its worst form.
00:05:41.000Imagine if 4,000 Trump supporters were waiting outside of the Obama White House and were screaming at people that were coming after an evening address on the White House lawn, and Senator Bernie Sanders was assaulted outside of there.
00:06:04.000But Rand Paul, I mean, he gets assaulted with his wife.
00:06:08.000And it's not even a single person, not one of his colleagues in Congress even denounced it from the other side.
00:06:14.000It's like, it's as though it didn't happen, or they're just tacitly accepting of it happening.
00:06:18.000What's worse about it, though, and it shows you sort of the level of, I guess it's the lack of intellect of these protesters, is they're screaming at Rand Paul, say her name, talking about Breonna Taylor, not knowing that Rand Paul is the guy that introduced the legislation with her name on it for no knock raids.
00:06:46.000They were given the bullet points and they were told to go make trouble.
00:06:49.000If you're doing it from a genuine standpoint, if you're doing it with any sort of modicum of decency and intellectual honesty, you would know what's going on in the case.
00:06:59.000You wouldn't assault the one senator that actually brought forth this sort of legislation.
00:07:04.000It just shows you how out of touch they are.
00:07:09.000You know, you saw the DNC with their hate-filled, you know, it was a one-week long I Hate America Zoom call with the production value of my kids' kindergarten Zoom class.
00:07:20.000And not one person denounced three, four months of rioting.
00:07:57.000Well, and I thought the Republican Convention did an amazing job, and there's a lot of different other positives from it.
00:08:02.000You remember back in 2016 at the Republican convention in Cleveland, these things are glorified circuses, right?
00:08:08.000I mean, you have reporters everywhere, people that leak, people that there's fights that break out.
00:08:13.000What was really interesting, Don, is that there was none of that extra drama around this week's convention.
00:08:17.000And I just thought of this the other day because I went back in the archives and I read all the coverage of the 2016 convention.
00:08:23.000And most of the media coverage was happening outside of the convention, not inside of it.
00:08:27.000And actually, in a very bizarre way, in like one of the greatest cell phones in history, since the Democrats have shut down the entire country, basically, and we were forced to do a virtual convention, which is understandable, the message actually became the top-tier issue instead of all the other kind of protests and pageantry and people screaming at each other.
00:08:52.000If there was rioting and looting outside of the RNA, then if one Trump supporters brought this Charlotte, look at what they brought here.
00:08:59.000And if one Trump supporter would have said something mean to somebody, that would have been the front page of everywhere and it would have been distraction from all these other speakers.
00:09:07.000So, you know, the unintended consequence is that we got to tell a real story, a vision for America, one that explains how America is the greatest country in the world.
00:09:16.000And again, if you looked at the Democrats, you'd say you live in the most oppressive nation in the world, which is not sellable in any modern context other than when the mainstream media is your marketing wing.
00:09:29.000And you compare those two things, and it's no wonder they got no bounce and we did.
00:09:40.000I encourage everyone to check it out: Liberal Privilege.
00:09:42.000And I think it is the most comprehensive takedown of Joe Biden.
00:09:46.000And what I love most about this book is that it dives deep into the record of Joe Biden, where some conservatives, I hear this quite often, people say, oh, Joe Biden's such a good guy, and I guess he's harmless.
00:09:56.000You do not take that approach in this book.
00:11:07.000Like, I don't think anyone in America is dumb enough to believe that Joe Biden's now going to do that.
00:11:13.000He's going to be the savior of the middle class and working Americans.
00:11:16.000Well, it's sort of weird when you spend the first half a century of your career building China, destroying the middle class, destroying American manufacturing.
00:11:24.000Again, TPP, NAFTA, and World Permanent Status of the World Trade Organization.
00:11:30.000I mean, these did irreparable damage to America, but the media is running like these are champion of blue-collar workers because he says he is, and no one's calling him out.
00:11:39.000So, because they've abdicated their role, someone had to step up.
00:11:43.000And so, like I said, the unintended consequence of the quarantine was I had the time to do this work, and I couldn't believe how much there is that is so damaging, so bad.
00:11:51.000So this isn't even a book, you know, for guys like you and me who this is really a book for people who don't know, for people who are independents, but realize that the media is just playing favorites, realizing the media is a cheerleader for the left, wanting to hear the alternative, wanting to hear some facts about the other side so they can actually make an informed decision going into November.
00:12:11.000This book is designed for them because when you realize what's going on, what Joe Biden's really about, you realize, you know, he's not moderate blue-collar Joe from Scranton.
00:12:20.000He's the Loch Ness monster of the swamp.
00:12:23.000And you say it so well in chapter two.
00:12:24.000Quote, Joe Biden might be the original swamp monster.
00:12:38.000But is today's gaff-prone Biden the same one who started his liberal crusade?
00:12:43.000The guy we have now, the guy we have now, can't even remember what state he's in half the time.
00:12:49.000He confuses his wife with his sister, which I hope doesn't happen at home.
00:12:53.000And to make matters worse, while he's running for president, Biden told voters in South Carolina he was running for a United States Senate seat.
00:12:59.000And you go on further here and you detail exactly the policies that he argues for.
00:13:03.000Can you also talk about what he has promised to do through his entire deal with Bernie Sanders?
00:13:09.000If I'm not mistaken, you also have Bernie Sanders or Chuck Schumer on your cover and you talk about it.
00:13:15.000And I don't want to misspeak here, but you talk about how this is an entire radical takeover of our government.
00:13:45.000They got the Bernie Sanders Joint Unity platform on Joe's website where you, the American taxpayer, Charlie, have the privilege of spending $4 trillion in a tax hike that he's saying.
00:13:56.000Middle-class America, we're going to tax you so you can pay for free health care, free education, free lawyers for illegal immigrants to make sure that they get those benefits.
00:14:06.000Now, you don't have the privilege, Charlie, of getting that for yourself or for your kids.
00:14:10.000You have to pay for that on top of all of it, but you can pay for it for others.
00:14:14.000I mean, this is a radical Marxist platform.
00:14:17.000The destruction of the suburbs, you know, where we're going to say, you know what, all these big cities that you escaped, that you pay a lot of taxes to live in the suburbs.
00:14:37.000We're going to give them power over the suburbs, you know, just to give everyone a little bit more.
00:14:42.000I mean, what this will do to the American middle class, what will do to that sort of suburban American ideal and dream and tradition, it will destroy it along with your property values and ultimately your schools.
00:14:56.000But again, if a Republican was proposing legislation this radical, like people would talk about it.
00:15:02.000The media is pretending like, no, no, no, it's just great moderate legislation while they're laughing that they're probably able to sell a strong and a large portion of the American populace that that's actually true when it's not.
00:15:13.000And that's why this book is so important.
00:15:14.000Since literally, I feel like I'm the only person in America, you perhaps with me, actually highlighting these things.
00:15:21.000Against a mainstream media complex that's David and Goliath.
00:15:24.000I mean, these are billion-dollar companies pushing a narrative, jamming it down your throat, spoon feeding it to you all day, even though it's a lie, not telling the counterpoint, even remotely.
00:15:34.000Well, what I love about this book is that you challenge the premise.
00:15:38.000A lot of these conservative circles that we both run in, I hear from even media people on the radio and on television, they say, well, Joe Biden's harmless.
00:15:46.000And you say, no, your baseline is that he's not harmless.
00:15:50.000He's actually more harmful because more people will vote for him thinking the policies are different than what they actually are.
00:16:16.000It will drive our economy into the ground.
00:16:19.000It will drive already stressed systems, whether that be education or healthcare or anything, into the ground, and it will destroy so much of the American dream to a point where it's probably irreparable.
00:16:29.000You take that with some of the radical ideas of the left, whether it's stacking courts, statehood for D.C., statehood for Puerto Rico.
00:16:36.000That way they get a control of the Senate with another four senators.
00:16:39.000And you have a 50-year power shift where you'd never have, you'd probably never get it back.
00:16:46.000You'd never get the Supreme Court back.
00:16:59.000You spent a lot of time around liberals, not around leftists.
00:17:02.000Can you talk about how your upbringing, how you have seen what used to be called a liberal now turn into just a radical insurrectionist?
00:17:10.000This is very helpful for a lot of our younger listeners who sometimes conflate terms because you grew up around what would be called as liberal America, but that's not what's happening right now.
00:17:23.000I mean, I think, you know, if you looked at John F. Kennedy today, you know, a hero of the left, he would be considered alt-right.
00:17:30.000You know, he'd be a neo-Nazi according to the left today.
00:17:33.000You know, this isn't your grandfather's Democrat Party.
00:17:36.000This isn't the party that represents working class Americans anymore.
00:17:39.000And you don't believe me, just look at their platform.
00:17:41.000It literally, it spends more time focusing on helping people who are here illegally than it does actually American citizens.
00:17:47.000Look at what's going on into some of the bills over the last couple of months for coronavirus.
00:17:52.000I mean, Nancy Pelosi is sitting there fighting for billionaires and millionaires to get their salt deductions back.
00:17:58.000But when my father says, hey, I want to implement a payroll tax to put dollars back into Americans' wallets, meaning your taxpayer dollars, we want to give them back to you.
00:18:07.000She wants to give it back to billionaires.
00:18:10.000I mean, that probably costs me six figures a year, but I want it to go to the American people.
00:18:24.000I mean, again, I grew up in a place I've always been conservative, but I grew in a place I used to be able to have a dialogue with some of these people.
00:18:30.000And now, like, I could argue their standpoint.
00:18:33.000I could even put myself in their shoes and credibly argue their case.
00:18:36.000Now I do that, and it's like, you can't even have the conversation.
00:18:40.000I can't even fathom where they're coming from.
00:19:02.000And this is where the Democrat Party is going.
00:19:04.000And only liberals with liberal privilege could get away with being able to say, we're going to defend stealing private property from lower income business owners.
00:19:15.000This is the first time in American history where the Democrat platform seems to be, hey, you'll get arrested for opening up your business to put food on your family's table, but you won't get arrested for looting someone else's business.
00:19:40.000People were losing their business licenses.
00:19:42.000Those are three pretty simple basic tenets of just American ideals.
00:19:47.000But looting, rioting, you know, that's acceptable because it's for political purposes.
00:19:51.000Just like you saw, you got a social distance at the Trump White House, but if you have 50,000 people marching in protest, all of a sudden you're immune to COVID-19.
00:20:10.000But you've also had a whole campaign of fear manipulating around the virus, especially with what you saw from the CDC coming out where, well, only 6% of the cases were actually people that didn't have some sort of really comorbidity, pre-existing conditions that some of these people may not have made it through the rest of the year with or without COVID, but they can rack that up because they can use that fear to control you.
00:20:30.000They can use that fear to drive their agenda.
00:20:32.000No difference than the rioting and looting.
00:20:34.000Like I said, they only came out against it once CNN said, oh, man, it's kind of hurting you in the polls, guys.
00:20:41.000Magically, after 90 days, we're going to come out and actually say something.
00:20:45.000I'd like to believe no one's dumb enough to buy what they're selling.
00:20:49.000But when you have billions pushing it, when you have guys that are consuming a couple of minutes of news a day, Charlie, you know, and it's all negative, it's still hard to overcome that.
00:20:56.000That's why we have to work that much better and more efficiently and harder to overcome the deficits that are sort of just natural to our side of the equation.
00:21:04.000Well, I want to give the listeners a little bit of hope here.
00:21:08.000And so does the Trump campaign for staying the course and keeping faith.
00:21:12.000Because according even to the latest betting odds, which is a really interesting indicator, it's basically a statistical tie right now between President Trump and Joe Biden.
00:21:20.000The latest real clear politics average in the Battleground states have almost every single state within the margin of error.
00:21:25.000Absent just Pennsylvania with one poll, but I think we know that some of these polls can be a little bit skewed.
00:21:29.000But even if you think these polls are skewed, it's right there.
00:21:34.000And your book is able to address Joe Biden and bring down, in my opinion, his favorability, which is way too high even amongst moderate Republicans and moderate voters.
00:21:43.000What is your opinion of the state of the race right now?
00:22:26.000I want to make sure they can't play games.
00:22:27.000I want to make sure they can't just say, hey, we're just not going to release it.
00:22:30.000This is the definitive sort of dossier on Joe Biden.
00:22:34.000This is all of the things the media should be doing but has refused to do.
00:22:38.000These are all of the things that you have to do to understand not just his terrible voting record, but the personality, the family.
00:22:45.000It is not the image that the mainstream media has sold you of the Bidens and everything they're doing.
00:22:50.000And again, that's not just Hunter and the drugs and the running from child support and alimony and the cush deals that no one, no reasonable business person could possibly get from China and the Ukraine, but it's the brother and the housing contracts in Iraq that he magically never built a house in his life, but congratulations.
00:23:08.000It's that pay-to-play aspect of Washington, D.C. that so many people hate that the Bidens are such a big part of.
00:23:15.000I mean, they're the ultimate swamp creature, right?
00:23:18.000And I think with this book, when people read it, when they show it to their friends, when they use this as the basis to have an argument with their friends that are either on the fence or even on the other side to be like, but did you know?
00:23:29.000It's going to be like me because you and I do this all the time.
00:23:47.000He's literally had two aneurysms that could almost kill you.
00:23:49.000If you asked a doctor, if you had one aneurysm that put him in a coma, essentially, for quite a bit of time, even one, the chances of you having, you know, not having cognitive issues later on is almost impossible.
00:25:10.000We encourage everyone to, whatever book provider they have, I encourage everyone to go buy one or two, three copies, but most importantly, go buy a copy for liberal friends or for people in the middle, right?
00:25:21.000And I say quite often, and you make the case throughout the whole book, if the left did not have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all, whether it be Hillary Clinton smashing devices under subpoena, whether it be Joe Biden doing billions of dollars of business, our greatest enemy, China, if Republicans did any of this or creating a terrorist mob outside of the White House going after Trump's.
00:25:39.000How about encouraging someone to not concede an election, even if you lose?
00:25:41.000I mean, Hillary Clinton basically did that.
00:26:04.000I know, you know, Amazon, obviously, the usual Barnes ⁇ Noble, it'll be available there because I'm self-publishing.
00:26:09.000I also offered it to a lot of, you know, I know a lot of guys in our world, in conservative world, are like, I don't want to give money to the Amazon Washington Post.
00:26:16.000So I actually made it available on my website as well.
00:27:06.000I'm the son of a billionaire from New York City.
00:27:08.000So I'm, you know, I'm not allowed to have an opinion and I'm white privileged and all of these things.
00:27:12.000But like, you know that I do spend a lot of time in sort of real America and the amount of sort of Trump signs I see.
00:27:18.000And again, strongholds that were former Democrat strongholds, you know, blue-collar Democrat areas, Northeast PA where my farm is and I spend my weekends there.
00:27:25.000I mean, it's Trump signs everywhere, upstate New York, Trump signs everywhere.
00:27:30.000You know, it's literally probably 50 to 1.
00:27:34.000People see a guy that's fighting for them, that doesn't need this, that isn't part of the swamp, that's sort of the anti-politician politician.
00:27:41.000And I think they're excited about that.
00:27:42.000They're excited to have someone finally willing to fight for them, to take it on, to not care what the press says and just keep going to battle every day.
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