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00:04:50.000That framing is a home run grand slam winner.
00:04:54.000There were five moments of the debate, more or less, where Donald Trump was able to make a broader, more important, truthful point about what was really happening in the debate and in this presidential election.
00:05:19.000If Donald Trump thought that the country was being run wonderfully and things were going in the right direction and things were trending beautifully, Donald Trump never would have run for the presidency and challenged the orthodoxy on immigration, on trade, and on some of these very controversial issues that the Republican Party had almost pre-existing dogmatic viewpoints on.
00:05:41.000I wouldn't have run, Joe, if you would have done your job.
00:05:45.000And that is the baseline of the Democrat Party.
00:05:50.000The Democrat Party and Joe Biden is we are going to represent positions one way, despite never actually delivering them for the last couple generations.
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00:06:55.000Joe Biden was just old man screaming at the cloud, confusing everything as if he's saying, why are you doing so well tonight?
00:07:03.000And why are you making my job so difficult?
00:07:05.000I think it was all summarized in one moment when President, they were talking about China.
00:07:13.000And this is something that always irritates me.
00:07:15.000And it is called a politician's sleight of hand.
00:07:20.000You're talking about something in a debate, and then all of a sudden, the politician realizes that the topic that is being discussed is unfavorable to the candidate.
00:07:30.000So instead of actually talking about the topic, they completely ignore it and they pivot to the camera and they talk about people around the kitchen table.
00:07:38.000How many times have you seen this the last 10 or 15 years?
00:07:41.000Instead of actually addressing what the topic was, they do almost like a Houdini sleight of hand.
00:07:46.000And next thing you know, we're talking about people around a kitchen table.
00:08:41.000And despite, and you can say whatever you want about Trump's tone or whatever, you can't make the argument that tonight that Donald Trump was rude.
00:08:51.000You can't say Donald Trump was inconsiderate.
00:09:19.000No offense if I mispronounce his name.
00:09:22.000Two hours before the debate says that I met with him in a hotel and we were talking about Chinese business dealings.
00:09:28.000If I was Joe Biden, I wouldn't be in a good mood either.
00:09:31.000And there was a real policy breakthrough towards the end of the debate.
00:09:35.000As Joe Biden's facade was fading away, as Joe Biden's kind of mirage was starting to be exposed, Joe Biden forgot whether or not he was in a Democrat primary debate or a presidential debate.
00:10:25.000And all of a sudden, all of his circuitry overheated.
00:10:28.000And then, in my opinion, that should make Joe Biden lose the election right there.
00:10:34.000Despite all of his previous promises to abolish fracking, despite all of his previous promises to destroy oil and gas, right there, with tens of millions Americans watching in Texas, in Arizona, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, Joe Biden made a pledge that fossil fuels and oil and natural gas will one day soon be gone.
00:10:58.000And Donald Trump called him out on that so brilliantly.
00:11:03.000And throughout the evening, you started to see Joe Biden deteriorate and Donald Trump gain in energy and gain in stamina.
00:11:11.000Joe Biden's physical posture throughout the evening became one as he was almost incapable of standing upright after 70 minutes, after 80 minutes.
00:12:17.000America is the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:12:21.000This hyper-fixation on race from the activist media, from the chattering class, from the pundits, the politicians, and the prognosticators only makes America focus more on things that do not matter.
00:12:31.000Race means nothing to me, and it shouldn't mean anything to you.
00:12:33.000This idea of race only divides people based on skin color.
00:12:37.000The hyperracialization of America will bring us to a place where we are divided, not united.
00:12:42.000However, I think President Donald Trump handled it well.
00:12:44.000Kristen Welker, some people are praising her.
00:13:02.000Never getting too fierce, never getting too excited, but instead holding the line and really pushing back against, was it Kirsten or Kristen?
00:13:12.000I think it's Kirsten, Kristen, Kristen, Kristen's constant attacks against Donald Trump.
00:13:20.000So when Kristen Welker comes out and says, many parents have to have a talk, that regardless of what you do based on skin color, you might be pulled over in this country.
00:13:33.000For those of you watching at home around your kitchen table, this is a pathological lie.
00:13:38.000There is no evidence at all whatsoever that any sort of systemic treatment from police, from people in authority, goes against people simply and solely based on their skin color.
00:13:49.000Just look at the Obama Department of Justice report where they looked into 400 police departments across the country and found zero evidence of widespread institutional or systemic racial bias with police officers across the country.
00:14:03.000In fact, what they did find is that police officers were less likely to engage with deadly and lethal force with people of color, that they were more likely to actually engage with that force with white people.
00:14:14.000And so for Kristen Welker to say, well, some people have to have the talk, you're lying to your kids if you're having the talk.
00:14:20.000Whatever talk that might be about how racist America is, the talk you should have, is that only in America, not only in other country in the world, are this many people with this many different languages and backgrounds and races able to get along so well in harmony and live decent lives.
00:14:57.000He also zeroed in on Joe Biden's mistreatment of the black community.
00:15:02.000Joe Biden, every time Joe Biden got a little upset, he kept on saying, come on, man.
00:15:07.000What a poor and awful excuse for Joe Biden, the guy who authored the Clinton crime bill, who eulogized the KKK segregationists, who said you can't walk into a 7-Eleven without a slight Indian accent.
00:15:20.000And the one thing I wish President Trump would have said, but he got an A-plus grand slam home run tonight, is, hey, Joe, 50 Cent just endorsed me.
00:15:41.000With that being said, President Donald Trump still handled the racial issue perfect.
00:15:44.000T1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on policy, policy, policy, policy, historical black college universities, opportunity zones, criminal justice reforms, first step act, lowest ever black unemployment, lowest ever black poverty rate, and singles out by name Senator Tim Scott, black senator from South Carolina.
00:16:09.000A new app called Thinker, you guys have heard me talk about it, thinker.org slash Charlie, T-H-I-N-K-R, has solved that problem by summarizing the key ideas from new and noteworthy fiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-sized form.
00:16:21.000Reader listened to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes, including old classics like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.
00:16:27.000If you want to challenge your preconceptions, expand your horizons, and what?
00:17:10.000With that, we are building the wall, popular issue to win the state of Arizona.
00:17:14.000He talked about legal immigration, win for swing and suburban voters.
00:17:18.000And he also went after catch and release, widely unpopular and an awful policy.
00:17:23.000And he played into the factual reality, but not every single person that gains illegal entry into our country is coming for the best intentions and purposes.
00:17:32.000And that is something that is a widely accepted fact of people in Arizona and Texas, and it's not rooted in hate.
00:17:57.000And Joe Biden just sputtered because remember, Joe Biden is nothing more than a manifestation of a political computer program that was uploaded into his hard drive the morning of and the days before.
00:20:22.000I just say he's a fool, versus Joe Biden saying banning fracking and saying that he doesn't want national health care, socialized health care.
00:20:30.000And so then came Donald Trump's terrific, perfect handling of the Hunter Biden issue.
00:21:16.000Those were the wise restraints that kept Donald Trump towards victory.
00:21:20.000Because kind of those no-go zones, you start going there in these two minutes, all of a sudden you're talking about crack cocaine and having nine grandkids instead of eight grandkids.
00:21:28.000And you got Maury coming up there and you are the father and you're in Arkansas and it's a complete disaster.
00:21:34.000Next thing you know it, you're getting interrupted.
00:21:35.000And Trump stopped himself and proceeded.
00:21:39.000And he focused on most of the good stuff from the emails and the laptop.
00:21:45.000And President Trump was in such a plus form when he said, Are you the big man, Joe?
00:21:59.000And Joe didn't know how to react to it.
00:22:01.000Joe was maybe nervous that what could be said to him in a presidential debate could be held against him in a deposition by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or an interrogation, not even a deposition, but an interrogation by FBI agents.
00:22:15.000Donald Trump talked about the $3.5 million wire from the Moscow's wife mayor.
00:22:20.000That's not even the most incriminating thing that we found out in the last couple of days, though.
00:22:24.000Instead, what we found out is that Joe Biden met with Burisma officials in the United States.
00:22:29.000What we found out is that Joe Biden, with Hunter Biden, wanted a $5 million no-interest loan from China.
00:22:39.000And despite Joe Biden saying, I have no influence, no dealings whatsoever, that he sat down with all of these business associates and was getting cut in on the deals.
00:22:53.000And President Donald Trump, 10 out of 10, we said this in our debate prep.
00:22:57.000Why do you have all these houses all over the place on a senator's salary?
00:23:03.000And I think what was so effective about how President Trump handled the Hunter Biden issue is that I think it made the audience not necessarily convinced, but curious.
00:23:15.000And that's exactly what President Trump had to do tonight.
00:23:18.000In a debate format, you're not going to convince people of the Hunter Biden deal.
00:23:22.000But I think it definitely made people curious to want to find more.
00:24:21.000Joe Biden was a bitter, angry old man tonight because he knows that his son might go to jail, that he's losing this election, that Republicans are winning early voting.
00:24:34.000But after 30 minutes, after all of his little canned one-liners that they programmed into him the last four days while he had an ice pack on his head because he had to get up and do one thing, he had to just cool off.
00:24:58.000And that made Joe Biden say things he otherwise wouldn't have said, like, I'm going to destroy oil and gas in this country, which he said at the end of this debate.
00:25:05.000Oh, well, we're going to phase it out.
00:25:53.000And you want to talk about foreign entanglements?
00:25:56.000This is the one thing that really bothered me.
00:25:57.000I wish the president would have pushed further.
00:25:59.000He should have said, Joe or Kristen, can you point to one foreign policy decision that I have made that has ever been in the last four years anywhere in any way conflicted or contradictory to the benefit of the United States of America?
00:26:16.000And one thing I regret for tonight, one thing, Donald Trump still did not talk about the Israel-UAE peace deal.
00:26:24.000Ah, I have to say that was probably, if I had to just give a little bit of feedback to a total home run, grand slam, bases loaded, two outs, down by three, World Series, game seven, Donald Trump delivers.
00:26:38.000Just wish he would have just done that little thing, Israel-UAE peace deal.
00:26:43.000Donald Trump brought up a great point about the tax returns.
00:26:45.000Someone definitely helped coach him on this because I've never heard him say this before, where he said, my tax returns, we had $48 million a taxpayer-funded Mueller investigation.
00:26:56.000We had FBI agents, as far as the eye can see, they went through my tax returns.
00:27:01.000And if they would have seen anything in my tax returns, you would know about it right now.
00:27:06.000President Trump also, I think, brought up a great point when he said, I prepaid my taxes, which is something that people at the highest income bracket do quite often.
00:27:14.000A lot of entrepreneurs, when they have really, really good years, they say, I'm just going to prepay my taxes now.
00:27:19.000I know that might be something that Joe Biden is not familiar with, but it's something that I think that President Trump needs to lean in on more.
00:27:26.000And then President Trump, and again, I have to say, this debate, every question by Kristen Welker was written like from somebody from Huffington Post.
00:27:34.000Every question was slightly veiled to an untrained eye.
00:27:37.000It looks like it's fair, but it's all center left.
00:27:42.000And when it came to the Chinese coronavirus question, President Donald Trump did something that I think a lot of us were so pleased to hear him say: of course I take full responsibility.
00:27:54.000And I don't blame Joe Biden, and you can't blame me, but I blame China.
00:27:59.000That should be cut out in an ad right now.
00:28:03.000And President Donald Trump was the only person tonight.
00:28:07.000Crispin did a little bit of a tap, rap-a-tap dance on it, but it was just pageantry and show theater, who talked about the human cost of the lockdowns, depression, suicide, alcoholism, business closures.
00:28:20.000And where did Donald Trump decide to focus his attention?
00:28:35.000It's where finance, movies, it's the idea of the American dream.
00:28:39.000And that physical picture that we all have in our mind about a ghost town of New York City was so effective for Donald Trump to do tonight.
00:28:47.000And it's also effective for other reasons.
00:28:49.000Almost everyone in Eastern Pennsylvania travels to New York City at least once every couple of years.
00:28:54.000So instead of just talking about Scranton, he's talking about something that is so politically tangible to the American population, which is a decline of what many people have called the center of the world, New York City.
00:29:05.000And of course, it was very personal to President Trump.
00:29:10.000Donald Trump did something that I think he needs to lean in on more.
00:29:13.000He said, Joe Biden, you're funded by the Wall Street guys.
00:29:16.000You're the one that is funded by the elites of this country.
00:29:19.000You are the ones that are being that you're funded by the most wealthy, 1% of 1% people in the country.
00:29:27.000And Joe Biden had no response to that.
00:29:29.000And so if there's anyone out here that has friends that are on the left, that are socialists, that are Bernie Sanders supporters, or maybe you're a Bernie Sanders supporter watching this right now and you're a Democrat, and you think that Wall Street has too much power, you think that the ruling class needs to be challenged.
00:29:45.000Tonight, Joe Biden told you that he is the corporate Wall Street candidate.
00:29:59.000Donald Trump could call Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bank, every single one of the main Wall Street firms, and do one lunch and one dinner in New York City.
00:30:10.000It would cost him six hours of his time and he'd raise $100 million.
00:30:15.000But for that money, he would have to have private meetings with Goldman, Wells Fargo, Citibank, J.P. Morgan.
00:30:23.000And they sit down, they say, Mr. President, you know, we have bundled all this money for you.
00:30:29.000And this is what the head of J.P. Morgan would say and all these people.
00:30:34.000But in return, can you intensify the Dodd-Frank regulation against the small banks in America, the small bank in Scranton, the small bank in Phoenix?
00:30:45.000Because we want to expand our JPMorgan, Wells Fargo empire.
00:31:20.000It's because the Chinese Communist Party funds the Bloomberg Terminal Empire that is the Bloomberg multi-billion dollar fortune.
00:31:28.000Mike Bloomberg is worth, let's get a fact check, $80 billion, $75 billion.
00:31:33.000Why are the wealthiest people on the planet unifying behind Joe Biden?
00:31:37.000Because Joe Biden is going to create a Philosopher King government.
00:31:40.000The same people that lied to you about shutdowns, the same people that lied to you about models and have been telling you one thing and another thing that has been happening, those people will have a bigger platform than ever before.
00:31:58.000And yet Bloomberg is more motivated than ever to elect Joe Biden because Bloomberg and the Wall Street Titans, they want a bigger voice that they do not have with President Donald Trump.
00:32:14.000I want to tell you guys about Good Ranchers.
00:34:09.000We have been more intense and more fierce.
00:34:10.000And now we have evidence that the Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin have been trying to defeat Donald Trump and elect Joe Biden.
00:34:19.000And towards the beginning of the debate, Donald Trump had another great one-liner.
00:34:23.000He said, well, Joe, you can afford to be locked down.
00:34:27.000And I know you're locked down a lot, but I can't do that as president.
00:34:31.000What you saw tonight was a brave man versus a cowardly and corrupt man, a man that believes running for the presidency of the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, with 340 million people, many of whom are struggling.
00:34:47.000He thinks the way that you get to power is by hiding, where Donald Trump said it very well.
00:34:54.000I don't know if it resonated as well as the argument he was making.
00:36:48.000Okay, we'll go figure because he won the debate.
00:36:52.000But I'm getting emails from other people outside of this live stream of the type of voter that Trump needed to win over tonight.
00:36:59.000People that are registered Republican, that have been less than satisfied with some of the at least their impression of the rhetoric and the style.
00:37:09.000And President Trump's style was phenomenal tonight.
00:37:13.000In fact, I might even say his style was even better than his substance, and his substance was awesome.
00:37:19.000Because Trump, you could see he was stopping himself from interrupting.
00:37:22.000I don't think he interrupted him once.
00:37:24.000I think he might have said one thing, but he stopped himself.
00:38:07.000If you didn't see this press conference, we'll be covering this live, by the way, tomorrow at 12 Eastern on our program, radio show, radio stations across the country.
00:38:14.000Tony Berlowski, who is, was Hunter Biden, no, not Berlowski.
00:39:18.000And now you have a scandal 11 days out that show the Bidens were more corrupt than the Clintons.
00:39:25.000They were just worse at covering it up.
00:39:27.000You see, Hunter Biden did not take the bleach bit case on how to destroy important emails from Hillary Clinton.
00:39:32.000Instead, he handed over the laptop to a computer repairman in Delaware.
00:39:37.000And the Biden campaign, all they have left is this debunked, disproven line that this is Russian disinformation.
00:39:47.000So, Joe Biden did not do himself any favors with the oil and gas industry tonight.
00:39:51.000Anyone that is connected to fracking right now, if you're watching this or you know someone that is in oil and gas in Pennsylvania, in Texas, or anywhere else, know that Joe Biden will destroy the backbone of your industry.
00:41:21.000I think Joe Biden not only did not win over any voters tonight or persuadables or people in the middle, I think Joe Biden lost people in his base.
00:41:29.000And I think Joe Biden people lost people in the center right of this country.
00:41:33.000I think some center-right people that might have been holding onto their ballot, that have been waiting to go vote, and they're saying, I know that Biden stands for bad things, but Trump, give me a reason to vote for you.
00:41:43.000Trump gave people a reason to vote for him tonight.
00:41:46.000That I'm going to reopen the country safely.
00:42:56.000Joe Biden saying that he does not care about raising the minimum wage shows that he does not care about the welfare or the betterment of black people in this country.
00:43:07.000It is black workers and Hispanic workers that get priced out of the labor market the most when you have these sudden jolts of wage hikes that disallow people to enter the workforce.
00:43:20.000That more than anything else is what keeps people out at the lowest level of entrepreneurial activity.
00:43:28.000Seattle, Portland, and New York, that all raised their minimum wage dramatically and arbitrarily, saw a decline in waitresses and waiters, a decline in people working with their hands, a decline in middle-class jobs, and a surge in people going on government benefits.
00:43:44.000If you want to destroy small business in this country, you will abruptly raise minimum wage.
00:43:49.000President Trump does know, though, he doesn't want to be seized like he's inconsiderate to working people.
00:43:53.000Perfect answer by President Trump as if he was just ready for it.
00:44:51.000He talked about the future of our country.
00:44:53.000He also wasn't afraid to crack a joke or two.
00:44:55.000But the one thing I wish that Joe Biden would have focused on more, I'm sorry, that one thing I wish that Joe Biden would have been forced to focus on more, that's what I meant to say, was that he was going to pack the Supreme Court.
00:45:07.000He's going to add seats to the Supreme Court.
00:45:09.000And make no mistake, if these people get in power, they are abolishing the Electoral College.
00:45:13.000They're adding seats to the Supreme Court.
00:45:16.000They're making D.C. and Puerto Rico states, and they're going to do it quickly and decisively.
00:45:59.000Let's try to pretend we're the Joe Biden campaign tonight, okay?
00:46:02.000Let's try to pretend we're a bunch of people that hate our country and, quite honestly, deep down hate ourselves.
00:46:07.000And we're trying to figure out how we can elect a senile, bitter old man and a communist to the presidency after that horror show of a debate.
00:46:24.000Joe Biden's performance is so bad that Joe Biden has to hit the campaign trail.
00:46:28.000And here's the one thing about hitting the campaign trail: these reporters are actually starting to ask questions about these business dealings.
00:46:34.000They're actually starting to ask questions about the laptop.
00:46:37.000They're starting to ask questions about who is actually transferring information to these business, international business dealings.
00:46:45.000If I'm the Biden campaign, I try to deploy every surrogate I possibly can to try and almost create a new reality to make it seem as if Joe Biden won the debate, which we all know is pathologically untrue.
00:47:01.000And I wouldn't want to be in the Biden campaign right now.
00:47:07.000I would go to my crony, Chinese Connected Special Interests, and go raise a couple hundred million dollars because the Biden campaign is going to need it.
00:47:16.000You could not buy a billion dollars of advertising that would convey how incapable Joe Biden is for the presidency.
00:47:24.000Joe Biden and his $5 million a day in Arizona, Pennsylvania, all that, all of that gets magically undone when he has a performance like that tonight.
00:47:32.000I mean, I'm getting messages from swing voters like you wouldn't believe.
00:47:35.000And by the way, email us things that you're hearing and seeing.
00:48:01.000And he was very unclear about what Biden care is.
00:48:05.000The topic of healthcare, I think that the president handled very well.
00:48:09.000The one thing I wish he would have talked about tonight that our great friends at the healthcare price transparency, can we get the name of what that is?
00:48:19.000And where they want actual prices to be published for if you go to a hospital, you should have the right to know what the prices are that are publicly available.
00:48:29.000The president was perfect on one thing, though.
00:48:33.000Calming down the fears that people have around preexisting conditions.
00:48:38.000He said it three times and he said it repeatedly.
00:50:07.000And they're all going to be communists.
00:50:09.000I didn't think that they were going to do that very quickly.
00:50:12.000But also, President Donald Trump needs to have a swearing-in ceremony with Amy Coney Barrett in primetime television the Sunday before the election.
00:52:33.000Number one, you're going to see a surprising lack of polls in the next couple of days of who won the debate.
00:52:38.000Number two, you're about to see whatever disinformation campaign they can throw to muddy the waters and throw their smokescreen grenades and cover fire for Joe so that he can retreat.
00:52:50.000They're going to deploy it now because tonight was a disaster for Joe Biden.
00:55:48.000Charlie, do you think that if they're not able to eliminate the Electoral College, they will try to make DC and Puerto Rico states to get the states they want?
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