The Charlie Kirk Show - January 12, 2024


Trump's War on the Warmongerers


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Trump Declares War on the Warmongers! President Trump speaks at a rally in support of Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, a new organization that fights for freedom on college campuses across the U.S. President Trump has declared war on the warmongering warmongers.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, war.
00:00:01.000 What is it good for?
00:00:02.000 Well, honestly, profits.
00:00:04.000 We go back into the history books to find out how Trump picked a fight and declared war on the warmongers.
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00:00:17.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:17.000 Here, we go.
00:00:18.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:20.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:22.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:25.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:29.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:30.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:31.000 His 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.
00:00:39.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:17.000 I must have missed the congressional war authorization.
00:01:21.000 I know I'm busy.
00:01:22.000 You're busy.
00:01:22.000 Did anyone see the vote in the House of Representatives or the Senate where everyone lined up?
00:01:27.000 We did a roll call vote, yes or no, that we should declare war in Yemen?
00:01:34.000 Must have missed that.
00:01:36.000 Well, last evening, we decided to enact drone strikes in Yemen.
00:01:45.000 So for those of you that may not be aware, Yemen is on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
00:01:50.000 It borders Oman and Saudi Arabia.
00:01:53.000 And for the last eight to 10 years, last decade, there has been this civil war that has been unfolding.
00:02:00.000 Now, how this impacts American national security is quite a stretch.
00:02:06.000 It is quite a stretch how this impacts our national security.
00:02:10.000 We're being invaded, 15,000 people a day on our southern border, and we get drone strikes in Yemen.
00:02:16.000 Now, maybe we could get drones over our southern border.
00:02:19.000 I'm not saying we need drone strikes over the southern border.
00:02:21.000 Well, the cartel should be striked.
00:02:23.000 But can we get drones over our southern border, finding out who is coming across the border, where they're coming from?
00:02:28.000 No, no, no.
00:02:29.000 Like all things Washington, D.C. and all things neoliberal, what happens abroad is the priority.
00:02:36.000 What happens domestic is ignored.
00:02:39.000 So we're getting into the latest intervention into now another perpetual quagmire in the Middle East.
00:02:46.000 We launched airstrikes against the Houthis, a radical Islamic military group that controls a large amount of the country of Yemen.
00:02:56.000 Now, let me just press pause.
00:02:57.000 Who are the Houthis?
00:02:58.000 How many of you in the audience have neighbors, friends, family members that have died because of the Houthis?
00:03:06.000 Anybody?
00:03:07.000 The United Kingdom collaborated in these strikes.
00:03:09.000 Overall, more than 60 targets were hit all over western Yemen using more than 100 missiles.
00:03:15.000 The justification for these strikes is that they are a self-defense in response to repeated Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea area.
00:03:23.000 Along with the strikes, the U.S. has imposed the new waves of sanctions on companies that we claim indirectly financially support the Houthis.
00:03:30.000 For background, Houthis are a tribe in northern Yemen that is associated with the Shiite Islamic religious movement.
00:03:37.000 The Houthis have been fighting a civil war in Yemen for the last 10 years.
00:03:41.000 They control about half the country, and they actually control the country's capital.
00:03:46.000 The Houthis are sponsored by Iran, and they're opposed most strongly by Saudi Arabia, which has been fighting a war in Yemen for years now.
00:03:54.000 It's another less famous of the Middle East's forever wars.
00:03:58.000 The U.S. has supported the Saudi war effort in 2019.
00:04:02.000 Congress voted to cut off that support after Saudis killed Jamal Khashoggi.
00:04:07.000 But Trump vetoed that bill, saying, sorry, you don't get in the way of our diplomacy.
00:04:12.000 And the Saudis are allies and they're tough. 0.96
00:04:15.000 Well, it didn't get any more diplomatic benefits with the Houthis. 0.73
00:04:18.000 They're still radically anti-America, anti-Israel, and pro-Hamas.
00:04:22.000 So after the latest war in Gaza broke out, the Houthis started using rockets and drones against ships trying to pass through the Red Sea to the Suez Canal.
00:04:32.000 On November 18th, they captured a cargo vessel called the Galaxy Leader, which they've been exhibiting as a tourist attraction in Yemen.
00:04:39.000 In the short run, the group has vowed to remain defiant despite U.S. strikes, and they've apparently seen an increase in support and recruitment due to enthusiasm over the war in Gaza.
00:04:49.000 So why is the United States doing this?
00:04:54.000 Why is this in our national security interest?
00:04:57.000 Well, as we mentioned, the Houthis have been firing at shipping, and there's a lot of U.S. credibility based on the Navy acting as a security force for international trade.
00:05:05.000 There might be some geopolitics we don't know about.
00:05:08.000 The one idea that I came up with is maybe the Saudis are going to take Gazan refugees, and they called America. 0.89
00:05:15.000 They said, we'll go take Gazan refugees if you go bomb some of our enemies in Yemen.
00:05:22.000 However, it's more likely that Biden needs a distraction, that Biden needs some sort of foreign conflict to take the eyes away from his domestic failures.
00:05:37.000 The most likely scenario is we get nothing for this.
00:05:40.000 Saudi Arabia isn't even helping us with the airstrikes.
00:05:43.000 They're the ones who are supposed to hate the Houthis.
00:05:45.000 Overall, this is another example of the world flying into pieces under the Biden regime.
00:05:51.000 Even if the specific strikes were justified, they happen in the context of us getting one international crisis after another under Joe Biden, who is a failure as a president here domestically.
00:06:04.000 And so taking a step back, how does Joe Biden have the power to do this?
00:06:09.000 Well, technically, there is the War Powers Act, which allows you to do strikes and military operations in a very targeted manner.
00:06:18.000 But you look at what's happened in Ukraine, what's happening in Israel, what's happening in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
00:06:26.000 Crime, war is breaking out at every possible vector across the world.
00:06:32.000 We have conflicts in Ukraine, Hamas, Hezbollah, Yemen, Iranian proxies in Iraq.
00:06:37.000 And not to mention the most important, we are being illegally invaded every single day.
00:06:44.000 Our cities have become war zones.
00:06:46.000 Our schools are being converted into migrant illegal shelters in New York City.
00:06:53.000 What is the justification for this?
00:06:55.000 Well, they don't have to actually justify it.
00:06:57.000 And from allegedly his hospital bed, Lloyd Austin approved these airstrikes.
00:07:03.000 How is this in the best interest of American national security?
00:07:07.000 And the answer is it isn't.
00:07:09.000 It helps the war profiteers.
00:07:11.000 It helps the warmongers, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman. 1.00
00:07:15.000 They all get wealthier because of this.
00:07:19.000 In addition, Lady Graham is celebrating.
00:07:22.000 Lady Graham is going on television.
00:07:24.000 Could we get the Lady Graham tweet up?
00:07:25.000 He is excited. 0.92
00:07:26.000 Bomb Iran. 0.99
00:07:30.000 Lady Graham is singing from the high heavens that we might finally have a war in every hemisphere.
00:07:36.000 His dream of having a war in every possible continent might actually be realized.
00:07:43.000 Lady Graham says, quote, I'm very supportive of the Biden administration's decision to strike Housei rebels who have been harassing international shipping and trying to attack Israeli and American interest. 0.82
00:07:54.000 It's long past time to let Iran know we'll hold them accountable for their actions or their proxies. 1.00
00:07:58.000 In this case, the Houthi rebels.
00:08:00.000 The only language radical Islamic groups understand is force.
00:08:04.000 I hope the Biden administration understands that the deterrence policy has completely failed.
00:08:08.000 They must continue using military, continue using military force in the face of aggression from Iran and their proxies. 0.98
00:08:18.000 A hundred years ago, politicians promised a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.
00:08:24.000 Now politicians promise troops in every country and a war on every continent.
00:08:30.000 Does this make you wealthier?
00:08:32.000 And it should make you so angry that the American government is willing to use force against Houthi rebels that have not impacted your communities, that have not even remotely threatened your way of life.
00:08:48.000 And yet we can't secure our own border.
00:08:53.000 It's perfectly acceptable to do airstrikes on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. 1.00
00:08:59.000 In fact, Lady Graham says this is amazing.
00:09:01.000 This is in American interests.
00:09:03.000 Why don't we do airstrikes against the cartels?
00:09:06.000 How about the Sinaola cartel, which we had an amazing episode yesterday?
00:09:09.000 I encourage you guys to check it out on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page.
00:09:12.000 The fentanyl coming into the country.
00:09:14.000 The new sex slaves that are being trafficked into North America. 0.87
00:09:20.000 Wouldn't that justify a military response?
00:09:23.000 But of course not.
00:09:24.000 The American national security regime does not care if the homeland is invaded.
00:09:31.000 In fact, they're supportive of the great replacement.
00:09:33.000 They're supportive of the invasion. 0.68
00:09:36.000 But the big concern is that some rebel group is going after sea lanes in the Middle East.
00:09:45.000 Even the lowest Mexican cartels is more worthy of our attention than the worst terror group in Yemen or Syria.
00:09:54.000 And the national security regime knows what they're doing because this actually makes the rebels' case stronger.
00:10:01.000 If you want to increase the likelihood of war, this is what you do.
00:10:05.000 If you want to increase their resolve, this is what they do.
00:10:08.000 It's enough to provoke the rebels to increase their recruitment.
00:10:14.000 They say they're going to respond.
00:10:15.000 They're going to go after Western forces. 0.51
00:10:18.000 Did Congress vote on this?
00:10:19.000 Why is Joe Biden allowed to do this?
00:10:22.000 And why is it in our national security interest while we are currently being invaded?
00:10:32.000 Traditional media is crumbling.
00:10:33.000 Why?
00:10:34.000 Because they're hiding something, something big.
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00:11:32.000 So to even play devil's advocate, might say, but shipping lanes are so important.
00:11:35.000 And all this, hold on a second.
00:11:37.000 Do you trust this military with your current DOD secretary who recently went under general anesthesia from a hospital bed to manage this war?
00:11:45.000 Number two, have you seen any evidence that our military is ready for several conflicts, proxy war in Ukraine against nuclear powered Russia?
00:11:45.000 Number one.
00:11:55.000 Nuclear armed Russia, I should say. 0.95
00:11:57.000 What's going on with Israel and Gaza now on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula?
00:12:01.000 This feels like quagmire after quagmire and quagmire and quagmire.
00:12:06.000 Third, spare me the lecture about shipping lanes when the thousands of miles of border of our own country are being overrun.
00:12:16.000 Wouldn't it make sense to prioritize the gashing, gushing headwound over the little annoying mosquito? 0.99
00:12:23.000 The Houthi rebels, at best, could be a little annoying mosquito. 0.95
00:12:26.000 We have a top-five artery wound happening on the southern border, and our leaders just don't care.
00:12:35.000 It's called priorities.
00:12:36.000 And finally, I've seen enough.
00:12:39.000 I've been doing this for 11 years, whether it be airstrikes in Syria, whether it be airstrikes in Libya, whether it be the airstrikes in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
00:12:49.000 There are only a few examples I can point to, maybe one or two out of dozens, where the desired objective was even remotely accomplished.
00:12:57.000 The only one that I could point to is when Trump was in charge and we went after ISIS.
00:13:02.000 I'll give you that one.
00:13:03.000 I will concede to that point.
00:13:05.000 I will concede the ISIS point. 0.97
00:13:07.000 This feels more like the hill dog, Gaddafi, Libya debacle.
00:13:12.000 Remember that?
00:13:14.000 Hillary Rodham Clinton was Secretary of State.
00:13:16.000 Barack Hussein Obama was president of the United States.
00:13:19.000 You had this alleged Arab Spring going all across the Middle East.
00:13:23.000 And we decided: hey, let's get rid of Gaddafi.
00:13:25.000 Why?
00:13:26.000 Because it sounded good.
00:13:27.000 Because they had it on a list for a while.
00:13:29.000 We got to get rid of this guy.
00:13:30.000 Was Gaddafi a good guy? 0.98
00:13:31.000 No, he's a bad dude.
00:13:32.000 But he had the country stable.
00:13:34.000 By the way, Libya is a very, very difficult country to govern.
00:13:38.000 Lots of tribes, very medieval.
00:13:41.000 So we get rid of Qaddafi.
00:13:43.000 How did that work out?
00:13:44.000 It's still a country that is basically a civil war.
00:13:48.000 Be very careful intervening into other countries' civil wars.
00:13:51.000 And by the way, the Ukraine-Russian dispute feels more like a civil war than it does actually of two different powers fighting one another.
00:13:59.000 The war in Iraq, which will go down as one of the worst geopolitical decisions by the American national security regime in history, we get rid of Saddam Hussein.
00:14:11.000 We spend over a trillion dollars, probably spent even more.
00:14:13.000 We rebuild the country.
00:14:16.000 And who is the check against Iran? 0.96
00:14:19.000 You know who was fighting the Iranians? 0.99
00:14:21.000 You know who was fighting ISIS?
00:14:22.000 Saddam Hussein was fighting ISIS.
00:14:25.000 And Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11.
00:14:28.000 Again, Saddam Hussein was not a good guy, but be careful what you wish for. 0.99
00:14:32.000 You go and you displace Saddam Hussein, you get ISIS, and now you have Iran that loved that. 0.98
00:14:38.000 They were thrilled with that.
00:14:40.000 Why did we ever invade Iraq?
00:14:42.000 It's because we were sold lies by Condoleezza Rice, by Colin Powell, by Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush.
00:14:51.000 They capitalized on the understandable, bloodthirsty attitude that we had after 9-11.
00:14:59.000 We all had it, totally get it.
00:15:00.000 We were attacked, and they took advantage of us.
00:15:04.000 Instead of Afghanistan, you could make an argument, targeted strikes, you know, forces there, not a huge ground operation, never should have happened.
00:15:12.000 But we quickly went from Al-Qaeda and then to the Taliban, and then we go to invading Iraq.
00:15:19.000 And what do we have to show for it?
00:15:20.000 Lots of lives lost.
00:15:22.000 I believe it's 18 or 23 vets that kill themselves every single day.
00:15:28.000 Or is it 21?
00:15:29.000 I don't want to get my numbers wrong.
00:15:30.000 It's something like that.
00:15:31.000 Every day.
00:15:32.000 A destabilized region, a military morale that goes down.
00:15:37.000 And it starts sometimes with airstrikes like this.
00:15:40.000 It's 17 a day.
00:15:41.000 Thank you.
00:15:42.000 17 a day.
00:15:43.000 And the administrative state is laying the groundwork for a Gulf of Tonkin incident.
00:15:50.000 And there is some generational disagreement here.
00:15:53.000 I'm very firm on this because being 30 years old, I know nothing but a nation at war focused on the abroad, focused on the foreign while the domestic collapses.
00:16:07.000 And I don't like the DC line.
00:16:08.000 Well, you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:16:10.000 We've proven that you actually can't. 0.97
00:16:12.000 We've seen dumb war after dumb conflict and dumb war after dumb conflict. 0.89
00:16:18.000 I'll concede the ISIS point under Trump. 0.85
00:16:20.000 That's the only one that I'll concede.
00:16:21.000 Besides that, you have Libya that was a disaster. 1.00
00:16:24.000 The Syrian civil war.
00:16:26.000 You still have Assad, and you got millions of Muslims now in Europe, and that whole country was completely obliterated. 0.92
00:16:32.000 The Iraq war, the Afghanistan war.
00:16:34.000 Where has the national security regime in the last 30 years been able to point to and say, well, that was a success.
00:16:41.000 That was amazing.
00:16:42.000 That was a success.
00:16:43.000 No, instead, they perpetually occupy.
00:16:46.000 They don't win.
00:16:48.000 And now they're doing airstrikes in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
00:16:52.000 How about you prioritize our nation, America, not Yemen? 0.67
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00:18:19.000 I want to play a piece of tape here as we dive deeper into here.
00:18:23.000 One of the things that I attempted to do in 2020 when Donald Trump was running for re-election, and again, there were so many other issues.
00:18:33.000 There were so many other things that were happening that I wish Trump would have talked more about how he was the peace president.
00:18:41.000 Of all the accomplishments of the first Trump administration, the one that really silences critics is no new wars.
00:18:51.000 And of all the Trump accomplishments, I think this is one of the most noteworthy because it took daily opposition to the war industry.
00:19:00.000 I'm going to play this tape.
00:19:01.000 This is a true story, and it was documented either by CNN or something.
00:19:05.000 But there was a meeting.
00:19:10.000 You could call it a trap.
00:19:12.000 So Donald Trump was out campaigning or doing something for the midterms.
00:19:16.000 And he kept on saying, we're getting out of Afghanistan.
00:19:18.000 We're going to do it the right way.
00:19:19.000 We're going to sunset this war.
00:19:21.000 We're going to reduce troops.
00:19:22.000 And at the time, it was Rex Tillerson.
00:19:25.000 It was Mad Dog Mattis.
00:19:27.000 And it was Mike Pence.
00:19:31.000 And they all agreed that we must be in Afghanistan till 3,800, right?
00:19:36.000 We have to be there at least for another 1,800 years minimum.
00:19:41.000 And they were really bothered that Donald Trump was reducing the troop count.
00:19:46.000 So they planned a meeting, and they knew Trump was going to be coming back from campaigning on the campaign trail.
00:19:52.000 So, what they did is they sat in the room and they actually rehearsed how they were going to try and persuade President Trump.
00:20:01.000 In fact, try to convince him to keep troops in Afghanistan.
00:20:05.000 I want you to think about this.
00:20:07.000 These are people that are supposed to serve at the direction of the president of the United States that are secretly and quietly using their time to meet privately to rehearse how they can try to manipulate Donald Trump to keep the war machine going.
00:20:24.000 So, Donald Trump comes into the meeting and he smells a rat and he says, No, no.
00:20:31.000 Every day they would come in with his national security briefing.
00:20:34.000 Well, President Trump, you got to entertain some.
00:20:36.000 Can't go to North Korea.
00:20:36.000 Nope.
00:20:37.000 No, I will.
00:20:38.000 You have to bend the knee to NATO.
00:20:41.000 One of the great accomplishments of President Trump's first term, you might love him, you might hate him, you might think he's despicable, you might not like the tweets.
00:20:47.000 I don't care.
00:20:47.000 It is a fact.
00:20:48.000 Even if you are a left-wing activist and you hate war, I hope you hate war, you must acknowledge that the man that you are supposed to hate, the man that they're trying to put in jail for 700 years, was the first president in 72 years with no new wars.
00:21:03.000 And maybe that's the reason.
00:21:04.000 This is Tucker Carlson's theory.
00:21:07.000 And I think Tucker's onto something.
00:21:09.000 Tucker believes they hate Donald Trump largely because of his skepticism towards the war machine.
00:21:16.000 And it's hard to disagree at that.
00:21:18.000 It's hard to find any sort of something wrong with that argument.
00:21:24.000 You think about it.
00:21:25.000 The 2016 election was supposed to be what?
00:21:28.000 It was supposed to be Jeb Bush against Hillary Clinton, who were identical on the following issues: identical on immigration, identical on Wall Street's dominance, identical on big tech, identical on trade, identical on the FBI having unlimited power, and identical on foreign wars.
00:21:52.000 And Donald Trump comes in and he's different on all those, but the war machine is the sugar high that D.C. enjoys.
00:22:01.000 It's where both parties can agree that we must invade the world, invite the world, occupy endlessly.
00:22:10.000 Play cut 95.
00:22:12.000 Remember, they're with phoning Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:22:15.000 I mean, if you look at Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, everything was phony.
00:22:19.000 The Pfizer warrants, the lying to Congress, they had chaos.
00:22:24.000 They were the ones that caused the chaos.
00:22:26.000 We got the biggest tax cuts in history, the biggest regulation cuts in history.
00:22:26.000 We didn't have chaos.
00:22:31.000 I had no wars.
00:22:32.000 I'm the only president in 72 years.
00:22:34.000 I didn't have any wars.
00:22:37.000 And Biden has several.
00:22:38.000 Obama campaigned on a peaceful presidency.
00:22:43.000 Trump actually delivered on what Obama campaigned on.
00:22:48.000 Producer Andrew will agree with this.
00:22:50.000 Producer Andrew was caught up in some of the Obama fear, and that's okay.
00:22:54.000 There was a lot of, by the way, I was kind of caught up in it.
00:22:56.000 I was in eighth grade, so you got to cut me some slack.
00:22:58.000 Suburbs of Chicago.
00:23:00.000 And I would say a significant component of the energy of the Obama movement was: were people sick of the Iraq war?
00:23:15.000 The anti-war movement was an animating force of Barack Hussein Obama's campaign in 2008.
00:23:25.000 Turns out that Obama had a trigger finger that is worse than even Donald Trump.
00:23:31.000 Dictator displacement in Libya, continuing what was happening in Afghanistan, known as Mr. Drone. 0.64
00:23:39.000 Why?
00:23:40.000 Was it because Obama was ideologically really big into nation building and war building?
00:23:47.000 No.
00:23:48.000 It's because Obama, and this is so, he made all these promises.
00:23:51.000 I'm going to shut down Gitmo and we're going to stop the spying on citizens.
00:23:55.000 We're going to put all bills up on whitehouse.gov before we vote on it.
00:23:58.000 It was all a fraud because Obama, once he became president, he learned something.
00:24:04.000 Mr. Obama, you can either end up like JFK or you can end up as the most liked celebrity after eight years and just do what you're told.
00:24:18.000 And he said, okay.
00:24:20.000 And the administrative state and all of these people, they said, just do what you're told.
00:24:25.000 You keep the wars going, you keep the spying going, you keep the foreigners coming in, you don't close Gitmo, and just continue as we tell you. 1.00
00:24:36.000 And Obama is into the celebrity. 0.95
00:24:38.000 He's a very lazy person.
00:24:38.000 He's into the lifestyle.
00:24:39.000 It's well documented.
00:24:40.000 He doesn't work hard.
00:24:41.000 So Obama said, well, I'm not a revolutionary like that.
00:24:44.000 I like the lifestyle.
00:24:46.000 And the administrative state delighted.
00:24:49.000 They said, you're trying to tell me we have a guy that talks like a revolutionary, but is actually the most establishment type president imaginable, a guy that just wants to go to Hawaii and fly in Air Force One and sleep until 10 or 11 a.m. and get the profiles and kind of just moderately manage the bureaucracy and do some racialized stuff on the courts.
00:25:08.000 The administrative state could not believe what they received with Obama.
00:25:12.000 And Obama swindled the anti-war left-wing base.
00:25:16.000 And Bernie Sanders talks a good game with anti-war stuff, but he doesn't do anything about it.
00:25:16.000 He swindled.
00:25:21.000 And here's Donald Trump, the guy that comes from the war-mongering party, the party that gave you the Iraq war, the party that gave you the Patriot Act, the party that gave you the Afghan war.
00:25:32.000 And Donald Trump works his way through that primary.
00:25:35.000 And Tucker Carlson made this point, but if you can get this clip, it's so unbelievable.
00:25:39.000 Remember, Donald Trump didn't win Iowa in 2016, and then Trump won New Hampshire.
00:25:43.000 And it was still kind of a question of what's going to happen.
00:25:46.000 South Carolina defined the 2016 Republican primary.
00:25:49.000 And there was this very famous debate, and we have to get it, where Donald Trump shows up on stage and he just starts going after the Iraq war.
00:25:54.000 And he goes after the Iraq war in 2016 in a state that had a disproportionate amount of veterans.
00:26:01.000 And he just goes after it.
00:26:03.000 And he just says, look, I got to be perfectly honest with you, that the Iraq war is a mistake and the Bushes are to blame for it. 0.99
00:26:09.000 And here we go.
00:26:11.000 So Donald Trump actually ended up being the peacetime president that Obama campaigned on in 2008, 2012.
00:26:19.000 And Joe Biden is continuing exactly what Obama did because Joe Biden, they got the goods on Joe Biden.
00:26:26.000 Remember, this kind of like fake indictment investigation of Hunter Biden, this kid glove, it's a daily reminder, Joe Biden, do what you're told.
00:26:33.000 They love Joe Biden.
00:26:34.000 They got so much blackmail on this guy.
00:26:36.000 They have so much dirt on this guy. 0.99
00:26:38.000 They have so much nonsense. 0.98
00:26:39.000 They have so much leverage on him.
00:26:42.000 They just do everything he's told.
00:26:43.000 Yes, sir.
00:26:44.000 Yes, sir.
00:26:44.000 Again, he's not exactly all there, but it's enough where they have the kids involved, the whole thing.
00:26:49.000 Whatever they want, he does.
00:26:52.000 And Trump is different.
00:26:54.000 And Trump is like a dog with the bone on the Iraq thing.
00:26:58.000 He says, I don't want this.
00:26:59.000 This doesn't make sense.
00:27:00.000 Not in our country's national interest.
00:27:03.000 And here we have Biden doing what the administrative state does best: new wars.
00:27:10.000 Out of all the criticisms you could launch against Trump, I just, it's painful that he does not receive the credit for launching no new wars.
00:27:22.000 That took a spine.
00:27:25.000 It took a daily effort to fend off these people.
00:27:30.000 Every day they're coming into his office.
00:27:32.000 Mr. President, would you like to invade Venezuela?
00:27:35.000 Like John Bolton, literally, John Bolton has this notebook where he says, like, what, 9,000 troops to Venezuela.
00:27:44.000 There were many crises, by the way, where they were trying to set the preconditions.
00:27:49.000 Airstrikes to Syria, several with Iran.
00:27:51.000 This wasn't simple.
00:27:53.000 And Trump time and time again had to call in meetings to the Oval Office.
00:27:57.000 No, They're coming in.
00:28:05.000 And he didn't take the bait.
00:28:06.000 Instead, he did the opposite.
00:28:08.000 He went to North Korea.
00:28:10.000 He de-escalated with Putin.
00:28:12.000 I'll never forget one of the most ridiculed moments of the Trump presidency turned out to be one of his greatest diplomatic accomplishments.
00:28:20.000 It was right after the World Cup.
00:28:22.000 It was in Helsinki, Finland.
00:28:24.000 And it was when Donald Trump did that joint press conference with Vladimir Putin.
00:28:28.000 And Angela Cotavia, may he rest in peace, was one of the few people that said he was an amazing president.
00:28:34.000 Remember that?
00:28:34.000 Even Hannity came out and said, I don't like this press conference with Putin.
00:28:38.000 Turns out that Donald Trump's willingness to engage with Putin might have prevented Putin from invading Ukraine while Trump was president.
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00:30:42.000 It takes remarkable courage to stand up to the war machine, to stand up to Northrop Grumman, to stand up to Lockheed Martin, to stand up to Boeing, the defense contractors.
00:30:52.000 They got everybody on the take.
00:30:53.000 Literally, Nikki Haley was on the take.
00:30:56.000 Here's how it works.
00:30:57.000 You show up and you do a couple speeches at think tanks and you read a prepared marks.
00:31:02.000 And by the way, here's how you know this.
00:31:03.000 Your spidey senses should always be just kind of off.
00:31:08.000 America is stronger when we stand with our allies.
00:31:12.000 Red flag one.
00:31:13.000 America is strong when we present and project strength abroad.
00:31:18.000 Red flag two.
00:31:20.000 We need to build up our military in the spirit of Ronald Reagan because in an ever-present dangerous world, our enemies must fear us.
00:31:30.000 All these kind of platitudes.
00:31:32.000 All of it.
00:31:34.000 And you go and you give a couple speeches at think tanks, and all of a sudden this cheap money flow starts coming in.
00:31:39.000 And by cheap, meaning you don't have to really raise it.
00:31:41.000 It just kind of comes in.
00:31:42.000 And then they say we must protect freedom and democracy.
00:31:45.000 And it's their 1776 moment in Ukraine.
00:31:48.000 And they play on all of this Americana imagery, and it's so nauseating.
00:31:51.000 And Nikki Haley's been talking about this, and you hear this from many people.
00:31:55.000 Chris Christie.
00:31:56.000 And then all of a sudden, you have Boeing and Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, and then you were purchased.
00:32:01.000 You were a purchased candidate.
00:32:02.000 Donald Trump never did that because they underestimated him, which ended up being one of the great opportunities.
00:32:08.000 Because they underestimated him, he had a moment to build support.
00:32:12.000 This is one of the most courageous moments of Trump's 2016 race.
00:32:17.000 And this was during the South Carolina primary, and he was booed and he just endured it.
00:32:21.000 He just endured it, he just plowed through it.
00:32:23.000 He didn't care.
00:32:24.000 I don't care if you boo me.
00:32:25.000 I know I'm right.
00:32:26.000 And he governed with this kind of spirit.
00:32:28.000 Because if John Ellis Bush would have become president, we would have had war in Ukraine and war in the Arabian Peninsula.
00:32:36.000 But Trump governed with this spirit.
00:32:39.000 One of the great threats on the horizon, everybody, not to mention the invasion on the southern border that Trump will get cleaned up or the economy and all this, is that Biden is going to leave nine or ten different wars that Trump's going to have to figure out.
00:32:51.000 160, please.
00:32:52.000 Took him five days before his people told him what to say.
00:32:56.000 And he ultimately said it was a mistake.
00:32:59.000 The war in Iraq, we spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives.
00:33:03.000 We don't even have it.
00:33:04.000 Iran is taking over Iraq with the second largest oil reserves in the world.
00:33:08.000 Obviously, it was a mistake.
00:33:10.000 So George Bush made a mistake.
00:33:12.000 We can make mistakes, but that one was a beauty.
00:33:14.000 We should have never been in Iraq. 0.99
00:33:16.000 We have destabilized the Middle East. 1.00
00:33:20.000 So you still think he should be in prison?
00:33:22.000 I think it's my turn.
00:33:23.000 You do whatever you want.
00:33:24.000 You call it whatever you want.
00:33:25.000 I want to tell you, they lied.
00:33:27.000 They said there were weapons of mass destruction.
00:33:29.000 There were none.
00:33:30.000 And they knew there were none.
00:33:32.000 There were no weapons of mass.
00:33:34.000 Okay.
00:33:34.000 All right.
00:33:35.000 Governor Bush.
00:33:36.000 You want to know why they want to put Donald Trump in federal prison for 700 years?
00:33:40.000 You want to know why Liz Cheney won't layoff?
00:33:42.000 Why Dick Cheney has all of his goons going after him?
00:33:46.000 Ken Buck, who's very close with Liz Cheney, they will not forget that clip because he exposed one of the great lies of modernity.
00:33:53.000 And one of the great lies of modernity was the post-9-11 administrative state.
00:33:59.000 What happened after 9-11, our reaction 9-11, DHS, TSA, spying on American citizens, the absolute sacrificing of Fourth Amendment privileges and protections and rights.
00:34:10.000 Here's John Ellis Bush's response: Play Cut 161.
00:34:14.000 I could care less about the insults that Donald Trump gives to me.
00:34:18.000 It's blood sport for him.
00:34:20.000 He enjoys it, and I'm glad he's happy about it.
00:34:22.000 But I have 22 million dollars.
00:34:23.000 I am sick and tired of him going after my family.
00:34:26.000 My dad is the greatest man alive, in my mind.
00:34:32.000 While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe.
00:34:39.000 And I'm proud of what he did.
00:34:44.000 He's had the gall to go after the World Trade Center came down.
00:34:47.000 He had the gall to go after my mother.
00:34:49.000 Hold on.
00:34:50.000 Let me finish this.
00:34:52.000 He's had the gall to go after my mother.
00:34:53.000 That's not keeping me.
00:34:54.000 I won the lottery.
00:34:55.000 And all the South Carolina donors that are friends with Lady Graham boo Trump, and he didn't care.
00:35:01.000 The same people that are booing Trump in that clip are praising Biden.
00:35:05.000 They're warmongers.
00:35:06.000 They don't care if we get invaded.
00:35:08.000 They don't care if there's drugs coming across the border.
00:35:11.000 They don't care about fentanyl.
00:35:12.000 They don't care about any of that.
00:35:14.000 That clip was the beginning of the end of the neocons.
00:35:19.000 I cannot emphasize the moral courage in that clip.
00:35:24.000 And now Biden is just continuing it, continuing to invade the world, invite the world, Arabian Peninsula, Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, you name it.
00:35:33.000 And one man, there is one person running who disagrees with that consensus.
00:35:38.000 Biden thinks that way.
00:35:40.000 Nemerada thinks that way.
00:35:42.000 Ron DeSantis feels that way.
00:35:44.000 And that's why they want to put him in federal prison.
00:35:48.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:50.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:53.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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