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00:01:45.000I had a pretty interesting meeting that I want to share with you exclusively here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:01:53.000I was at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, and I had the opportunity to sit down with former President Trump.
00:01:58.000We had a great meeting, and we talked about a variety of different things.
00:02:03.000First of all, it is very clear that former President Trump is not just going to give up and go into the sunset and forget about politics.
00:02:17.000President Trump is going to stay actively engaged in Republican politics and the conservative movement.
00:02:25.000My advice to him, for whatever it's worth, my conversation with him was about focusing his support, focusing his followers on the positive.
00:02:41.000Now, without disclosing any private details, I can tell you that President Trump is going to dedicate his energy and his resources towards reforming our elections in our country.
00:03:00.000I'm a big believer that President Trump is at his best when he's optimistic, when he is forward-thinking, when he is solution-oriented, when he is creative.
00:03:12.000I think that some of the troubles emerge when he focuses too much on the negative.
00:03:22.000There were plenty of things that were thrown at him.
00:03:25.000One of the reasons why so many people adored him and followed him was his commitment to positivity.
00:03:32.000So instead of saying the election was stolen, instead, the right thing to say is our election system was interfered with and broken, and I am going to dedicate my life to fixing it.
00:03:43.000I think that is exactly what the American people want right now.
00:03:47.000I was stopped by a couple of people in the last couple days at a few events I was at, and they looked at me and they said, if you are going to go see President Trump, tell him to tell us what we can do to help reform our elections.
00:04:01.000Because if we do not reform our elections the way we actually elect our leaders, then nothing else matters.
00:04:07.000I believe that former President Trump can have the greatest positive impact on American politics.
00:04:16.000And he seemed to agree with this by focusing his time, energy, attention, resources, and following on two things: big tech and broken elections.
00:04:27.000More than anything else, those two things are impacting the future of the American Republic and our entire civilization.
00:04:39.000We also talked a lot about some of the up-and-coming voices in the Republican Party.
00:04:47.000It's hard to not be a fan of Ron DeSantis because we were meeting at Mar-a-Lago where the restaurant was open and he was able to have his club open to people.
00:04:56.000You can kind of see in real time how Ron DeSantis has been an effective and proven leader in the state of Florida.
00:05:03.000In fact, even self-described Democrats that I've been talking to in the last two weeks of being here in Florida love Ron DeSantis.
00:05:10.000When I travel, I like to talk to everybody.
00:05:14.000I like to talk to waiters and waitresses, people that own hair salons, you name it.
00:05:22.000What do you think of what's happening?
00:05:24.000Now, I'm sure that person is out there somewhere, but I have not met one person that has something negative to say about Ron DeSantis.
00:05:35.000And I'm talking about the muscular class.
00:05:37.000I'm talking about people that are lifting boxes.
00:05:38.000I'm talking about people that are driving cars.
00:05:40.000I'm talking about people that are not your traditional Republican supporters.
00:05:45.000But trusting the citizens of Florida to be responsible, trusting the citizens of Florida to act properly in the midst of this pandemic and not restricting their freedom turns out to be an incredibly popular political position.
00:06:04.000And so, one of my big takeaways with my sit-down with President Trump, and by the way, he looked great.
00:06:10.000He actually looked well-rested and more focused than anytime I have seen him in the last couple of years.
00:06:21.000And that's not a criticism of him in any way.
00:06:23.000But for anyone that might think he's worn down, for anyone that might think he's lost any spirit or energy, he's full of vitality.
00:06:33.000And some people are saying, well, it's time for President Trump to go away.
00:06:40.000So instead, you should be saying, I want President Trump to use his following, his resources, his attention, his influence for good.
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00:07:51.000So, being in the state of Florida, we sometimes forget how Ron DeSantis became governor.
00:07:58.000How did Ron DeSantis, who was a congressman from the Jacksonville region of Florida, become governor?
00:08:07.000Ron DeSantis was a long shot in the Republican primary.
00:08:11.000This is the 2018 gubernatorial election.
00:08:14.000Ron DeSantis was running up against very popular, well-financed, well-known candidate, Adam Putnam.
00:08:26.000Adam Putnam was the heir apparent to the Florida governor's mansion, very much in the tradition of Jeb Bush, very much in the leadership dynasty of Florida Republican leaders.
00:08:43.000Adam Putnam was supposed to be governor.
00:08:46.000Ron DeSantis decided to throw his hat into the ring.
00:09:05.000Ron DeSantis decided to take an early position against the Mueller investigation while he was in Congress.
00:09:14.000While he did that, he attracted the attention of the target of that investigation, Donald Trump.
00:09:22.000Ron DeSantis then flew on Air Force One and famously convinced Donald Trump to endorse Ron DeSantis while Adam Putnam was still putting together his campaign apparatus, taking the entire Florida political establishment by surprise.
00:09:37.000Ron DeSantis then wins the Florida primary convincingly by double digits.
00:09:43.000Going from down 40 to winning by double digits, Ron DeSantis then runs up against Andrew Gillum, who had the support of Barack Obama, who had the support of Bill Clinton, who had the support of all the Democrat establishment.
00:09:55.000And Ron DeSantis narrowly beat Andrew Gillum, narrowly.
00:10:03.000Donald Trump as a kingmaker saved the state of Florida.
00:10:09.000Donald Trump just saying, I endorse you and not you is the reason why Florida is the most prosperous, free, and open state in the entire country.
00:10:20.000What a great blueprint for Donald Trump to follow in the next year, year and a half.
00:10:26.000What a great example to say, I am going to pick the superstars of tomorrow.
00:10:36.000And whether he runs again or not is an unknown.
00:10:39.000But I can tell you this: seeing his focus, seeing his attention on what's happening in American politics, he's not going away.
00:10:52.000But wouldn't it be amazing if Donald Trump says, I want more Ron DeSantis?
00:10:57.000I want more people like that in positions of power.
00:11:01.000That's a very exciting prospect to get behind.
00:11:06.000We're talking about the state of Florida.
00:11:08.000So many people are moving here, including Democrats.
00:11:09.000You know, we were hanging out in Miami Beach the other day.
00:11:50.000And politics aside, you know success based on the movement of people.
00:11:55.000The way people move, they will vote with their movement.
00:11:59.000They'll vote with their pocketbook, but most importantly, they'll vote with their feet.
00:12:03.000Laboratories of democracy, as Louis Brandeis said.
00:12:06.000So you can be an ardent Democrat, Chuck Schumer supporter, Alexander Ecasio-Cortez rally attending Democrat, but cut it out as soon as you move your business down to the free state of Florida.
00:12:18.000Now, the point that I'm making is that Donald Trump, being heavily involved in American politics, can be a force for good.
00:12:25.000So if you are a fan of Ron DeSantis, which I know many of you are, is thanks to Donald Trump.
00:12:34.000Ron DeSantis won the primary, thanks to Trump's endorsement, by 20 points, 913,000 votes to 591,000 votes.
00:12:43.000The general election, which was very tight, versus the, let's say, very complicated man of Andrew Gillum, Andrew Gillum, who's a criminal and a liar.
00:13:01.000I kid you not, 33,000 votes separated the two of them.
00:13:07.000And that was with a corrupt Miami-Dade County, and that was with corrupt Brenda Snipes that took forever to count the ballots and bring the ballots in.
00:13:15.000And Ron DeSantis fired her on day one.
00:13:19.000Well, I don't know if it was day one, but it was in the first couple of days of his administration.
00:13:23.000And so Ron DeSantis is someone we've talked about quite a lot on this program.
00:13:29.000And I was just in Sarasota with my family.
00:14:12.000I have family in the state of Washington.
00:14:14.000They're getting crushed and they'll never recover.
00:14:18.000But Donald Trump's endorsement of DeSantis made that possible.
00:14:22.000And so in my meeting with Trump yesterday, I can tell you he wants to be heavily involved in the selection of candidates.
00:14:30.000And the more people that are courageous, intelligent, sharp, that he can get behind, the better.
00:14:39.000And I'm going to do everything I possibly can to try and assist President Trump with his movement, with his followers, to influence the party for good, influence the conservative movement around these types of candidates.
00:14:54.000To give an idea, if Ron DeSantis would not have beat Andrew Gillum, 33,000 votes, Florida would be locked down just like the state of Nevada.
00:15:05.000Nevada is completely and totally closed.
00:16:35.000It could be very difficult circumstances that you might be in.
00:16:39.000And yes, it could also be a big conglomerate of companies.
00:16:45.000And so these big tech companies need to be called out.
00:16:49.000We need to make the argument that it is not conservative to support multi-trillion dollar companies that want to destroy our way of life and thwart the will of Western civilization.
00:17:06.000I will say in my speech, and you can see it in its entirety on YouTube, but since we have a good relationship here, I want to give you a little preview.
00:17:17.000I'm going to say if you do not support breaking up and challenging the tech companies, you are not a conservative.
00:17:56.000I'm going to talk about why there is no Bill of Rights when it comes to tech companies and how the tech companies on a daily basis violate half the Bill of Rights.
00:18:09.000I'm going to talk about how the idea of a private company is a red herring argument when it comes to the tech companies.
00:18:18.000And I really believe the proper framing is Menlo Park versus America.
00:18:23.000I will ask the question, who is more powerful, Google or our government?
00:18:28.000You see, conservatism should be about the protection of naturally granted, God-given existence and rights, not the automatic or dogmatic defense of corporate America.
00:18:39.000That is not what conservatism is about.
00:18:42.000America is not just another colony for corporate interests to maximize their profits and move on.
00:18:51.000It has a culture, a language, a history, a people.
00:18:56.000And when a multi-trillion air class decides to collectivize their highly technological interests for a specific aim, we as conservatives must rise up against that.
00:19:12.000I'm also going to make the point of three words.
00:19:50.000Look, my big thing was, and this is something that we've been trying to talk about here on this program for quite some time, which is stay positive.
00:20:10.000You wear two masks when you go out in public.
00:20:11.000I mean, people are yearning for that optimistic, positive breakthrough.
00:20:16.000And that's part of what I was trying to communicate to President Trump, which is be the cheerleader for America and be the happy, joyful warrior.
00:20:26.000Metaphorical, of course, can't even say that anymore without someone coming after it.
00:20:30.000In juxtaposition with the Democrats that just seem to want to complain about everything.
00:20:38.000And so there's a very valid concern about how we do elections in this country.
00:20:42.000It's the number one concern of the conservative base.
00:21:28.000You see, the Democrats used to be the more positive party than the Republicans.
00:21:34.000You think, you remember back to Barack Obama?
00:21:36.000He was always, not when he was president as much, but when he was candid Obama, he kind of got into this, we can do this, we can build, we can thrive, we can succeed.
00:21:46.000And I got to admit, as a free market, conservative, constitutional guy, I was even won over by some of Obama's energy and charisma.
00:21:58.000And Mr. Producer is nodding his head, and he said I was too.
00:22:59.000But here's the point: Obama, when he was positive, not negative.
00:23:02.000So Obama, instead of talking about black empowerment, talking about lifting people up, I think Obama's become radicalized in recent years.
00:23:10.000And so the more radical a Democrat politician is publicly, the more negative they are by definition.
00:23:20.000They have to be against whatever power structure currently exists.
00:23:27.000And so the more positive Trump is, the more optimistic he is, the more forward-thinking he is, the more solution-oriented he is, the better.
00:23:38.000And when politicians decide to go against President Trump, what happens?
00:23:45.000Mitch McConnell has an approval rating 29 points lower than it was on Election Day, 29 points.
00:23:58.000Over 73% of all Republicans that were polled believe that President Biden's election was not legitimate.
00:24:12.000It also is something that I think President Trump could get hung up on if he is not talking about elevating candidates that care about election reform, care about middle class prosperity, care about giving a voice to the muscular class.
00:25:30.000Because Mitt Romney is trying to win the approval of an abusive parent.
00:25:38.000It's like someone who is in an abusive relationship.
00:25:41.000Mitt Romney was abused by the media in 2012.
00:25:45.000So instead of standing up to them, instead of treating them like the bully they are, Mitt Romney, who they slandered as saying that he drove around with dogs on the top of his car, he said the trees were the right height in Michigan, the 47% comment, everything Mitt Romney has done since has been trying to say, please like me.
00:26:16.000I know you didn't mean that stuff, but please like me.
00:26:20.000When in reality, Mitt Romney should have become more hardened by that experience.
00:26:26.000Mitt Romney should have saw who those people really were.
00:26:29.000Mitt Romney deep down always wanted to win the approval of the Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford class in our country, the intelligentsia.
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00:28:27.000I want to get to some questions here that were emailed to us: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:28:40.000A leftist friend of mine believes socialism is the only way to prevent poverty and uses the model of socialism of Nordic countries to back up her point.
00:28:49.000I was wondering how their system differs from other socialist countries.
00:28:53.000On a different note, I was wondering your opinion of taxpayer dollars going towards FAFSA.
00:29:00.000And rest assured, you're not the first person to encounter the Nordic socialism question.
00:29:07.000We've talked about this at great length and we've posted a couple videos about it, but here's the long and short of it: part of the Scandinavian model is actually more pro-free market than the American model.
00:29:20.000According to the World Economic Freedom Index, Norway, Sweden, Finland, when it comes to small business creation, is more economically free.
00:29:28.000They do have higher taxes, but their regulatory environment has a higher likelihood of being able to start businesses.
00:29:38.000So, this idea that they're completely socialist is a little bit of a false start.
00:29:44.000Rand Paul even talked about this in his book, The Case Against Socialism, where the head of the Denmark government said, Stop calling a socialist to Bernie Sanders.
00:29:54.000The book is called Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism.
00:29:58.000Number two is that Norway, Sweden, and Finland traditionally was able to find some form of model that worked because they had incredibly strict immigration.
00:30:08.000They had immigration levels that they were able to maintain and control.
00:30:12.000That is not something that the modern Democrat Party wants to entertain anymore.
00:30:16.000The modern Democrat Party wants complete and total open borders.
00:30:19.000Norway, which has the largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet, $1 trillion, has it largely because of oil and natural gas.
00:30:58.000And so there are aspects of the Scandinavian model that I think work really well.
00:31:04.000How they embrace small business, free enterprise, how they have always valued what it means to be a citizen of their country, how they take ownership of their country.
00:32:05.000They do not have to pay for a military because the United States of America subsidizes socialism in Europe by stationing our troops in Germany and funding most of NATO.
00:32:15.000Now, Donald Trump changed a lot of this by actually getting the European countries to participate in NATO.
00:32:22.000And just so we're all clear, in truth, most Nordic countries have actually reduced the size of government services and taxation in recent years because it was hurting economic growth.
00:32:32.000So there's some parts of the Nordic model I do not like.
00:32:35.000There's some parts that we could actually learn from.
00:32:38.000Now, the Nordic countries or the Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark.
00:32:42.000Those are the four Scandinavian countries.
00:32:48.000Sweden is opening up their borders completely and they're paying a huge price for it.
00:32:52.000And many people in Sweden are regretting it.
00:32:55.000So if they want to bring Nordic socialism here, that means they believe in using oil and gas, oil, natural gas, school choice, and closing our borders.
00:33:05.000That is at direct odds with everything the Democrat Party stands for.
00:33:12.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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