00:00:26.000Hey, everybody, today on my show, you remember the McCloskeys from Missouri that went to go out and defend their property, never fired a bullet.
00:00:35.000They're being criminalized for simply waving their weapon.
00:00:40.000This is unacceptable, inexcusable, but he's running for Senate to do something about it.
00:01:13.000His 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.
00:01:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:04.000And it was probably the number one news story in the country for probably a week and a half, where an angry BLM Incorporated mob stormed your house, at least your yard.
00:03:16.000They tore down a gate, and then you came out with your firearm, never discharged the firearm, and then faced criminal charges because of that.
00:03:27.000Walk us through what happened that day from your perspective.
00:03:31.000Okay, and it takes a little background too, because particularly since yesterday was the anniversary of George Floyd's death in St. Louis on the evening and morning of June the 1st and 2nd of last year, the folks that have the high ground, the moral superiority over us, decided that the best way to show their love and compassion was to burn down downtown St. Louis.
00:03:53.000And they set fire to lots of buildings that did millions of dollars worth of damage.
00:03:57.000They shot four police officers and killed retired police captain David Doran, who about a half a mile from where I'm sitting right here in his secondary employment.
00:04:07.000And the most impressive thing that Patty, my wife, and I were we were watching from a live helicopter feed while the 7-Eleven in downtown St. Louis, two blocks from the police headquarters, from the first time a rock comes through and breaks out the window, looters come in, looted empty, throw fire in the building becomes fully and go through the flames.
00:04:28.00010, 20, 30, 40 minutes we watched this.
00:05:03.000Make a long story short, the guys were in there for six hours stealing everything that could be stolen, breaking everything that could be broken.
00:05:09.000And the cop showed up 10 hours after the alarm round.
00:05:12.000So once again, self-reliance is your only resort at that time.
00:05:27.000I put a pork loin on barbecue, and my daughter shows up.
00:05:32.000All of a sudden, we start hearing noise coming down Kings Highway.
00:05:36.000Now, we know that there was going to be an event that day because in the city of St. Louis, where there's no police enforcement, where the police have been told to stand down, there's no prosecution, you get to advertise your riots.
00:05:48.000And so this organization called Expect Us St. Louis put out a fire, saying they're going to have a riot when and where.
00:05:54.000So we put fire extinguishers and weapons around the house.
00:05:57.000And then this mob comes down Kings Highway.
00:06:01.000Now we're right on Kings Highway at the end of a private neighborhood, gated private neighborhood.
00:06:05.000Everything inside the gates private property.
00:06:07.000There's no streets, the sidewalks, the streetlights, everything owned by the members.
00:06:13.000All of a sudden, Kings Highway, six lanes wide, fills with people as far as you can see, screaming, shouting, beating on drums, hammering the street with sticks.
00:06:25.000The police have closed down Kings Highway to let the mob use it, but then abandoned the street.
00:07:40.000That's where I'm going to have my breakfast after we kill you and take over the house.
00:07:44.000And the best part was a couple of these peaceful protesters were standing right in front of me on the porch.
00:07:50.000And one of the guys had ammo pockets in his body army.
00:07:55.000He pulled out two loaded magazines, pointed them at me so I could see they're loaded with shelves, clicks them together and says, You are next.
00:08:01.000Guy standing next to him is wearing light-colored body armor, wearing a sidearm.
00:08:05.000He turns around so I can see on the back it says human shield.
00:08:09.000And then he comes, he turns around back towards us and starts inching closer and closer and closer.
00:08:14.000And if you've seen that one still from that day where I'm leaning over and talking to Patty and I've got the AR in my hand, what I'm saying to her is, if that guy comes any closer, I'm going to have to kill him.
00:08:25.000And because he's very threatening and armed, at which point Patty says to me, you're not killing anybody today, the voice of a reason.
00:08:32.000But we held him on, and the crowd eventually dissipated.
00:08:35.000That 32-second clip that plays endlessly on the news was the last 32 seconds of about a 15 to 18-minute event.
00:08:42.000But that was the easier of the two times.
00:08:46.000Then we got a tip that they were coming back that Friday, July the 3rd, and they were coming back specifically to kill us and burn down the house.
00:08:53.000We'd gotten that from a black client of ours who was in the organization and brainwashed by lady that we'd represented for years, nice young lady.
00:09:00.000We knew her family real well, went to her graduation, went to her husband's funeral.
00:09:11.000And they came back that Friday now with twice the manpower.
00:09:16.000Now, the FBI estimate was up to a thousand people with the intent to kill us and burn us out.
00:09:22.000And we had a hard time getting security.
00:09:25.000But earlier in the week, making a short story out of this, a long version was about 40 minutes.
00:09:30.000But I'd gotten a call from the White House saying the president supported us.
00:09:34.000And if there's ever anything that he can do to help, let us know.
00:09:37.000Well, when that Thursday evening happened, and we still were facing death and could not hire any private security, I called that guy back and I said, it's a pretty gosh darn good time now, right?
00:09:46.000And so he gave me Mark Meadows' cell phone number.
00:09:49.000And I called up Mark Meadows and told him the longer version of the story I just told you.
00:09:54.000And when that Friday happened, a miracle happened.
00:09:57.000The riot was supposed to start at about 6:30 or 7.
00:10:00.000We started getting Navy SEALs showing up.
00:10:03.000One ex-Navy SEAL, fourth-generation cattle farmer from Kansas, threw his gear in the back of his pickup truck and drove on in.
00:10:11.000One of the things I did was right after I talked to Mark Meadows, I called up Tucker Pearls.
00:10:16.000And Tucker, I'm talking, and I'm sitting on the bench in the kitchen.
00:10:20.000He can hear Patty crying in the background.
00:10:22.000And he says, you know, longer version of what I just said here, that McCloskeys are going to die on Friday, that they can't get any private security to help them.
00:10:30.000I hear Mrs. McCloskey sobbing in the background.
00:10:33.000The police have been ordered to stand down.
00:10:35.000And thanks to that, we got about 10 secondary employment cops from rural jurisdiction that weren't afraid to get dirty if the job required.
00:10:44.000So we had on that Friday afternoon by the time the mob showed up.
00:10:48.000What we used to call in the Reagan administration peace through superior firepower.
00:10:55.000Once again, second time, nobody got shot.
00:10:58.000Nobody got hurt except our psyche and that 130-year-old gate that got smashed on Sunday night on the 28th.
00:11:05.000But it shouldn't take having the president's chief of staff on your speed dial be safe from a mob in Mississippi.
00:11:12.000You know, we ought to have something called a government that we pay taxes to that protects us from the mob, not supporting it and encouraging the mob.
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00:12:37.000This was we have two levels of prosecution of the city of St. Louis.
00:12:41.000One is a circuit attorney's office, which is who's charged us.
00:12:44.000That's like the regular DA in another city.
00:12:46.000And then there's the city counselor's office, which is a lower level of prosecution for misdemeanors and that sort of thing.
00:12:54.000And that was the city counselor's office charged these nine people and then dismissed them immediately, as opposed to the what 36 people still sitting in solitary confinement for trespassing on the Capitol ground.
00:15:48.000Well, it's kind of, it's actually kind of humorous.
00:15:50.000We were talking to President Trump during the convention.
00:15:53.000Called up to thank us for appearing at the convention.
00:15:55.000And one of the first things he says is, Well, why can't the governor pardon you right now?
00:15:59.000Why don't we get Governor Parson on the phone and see what we can do?
00:16:03.000And so I got a call back the next day from the general counsel for the governor's office saying, Unfortunately, the law in Missouri has been changed and we can't do it until after you're convicted.
00:16:16.000So I want to give him credit for that.
00:16:17.000But here's what I find so fascinating about your story: in a world of fame seekers and sociopaths running our politics, you guys didn't ask for any of this.
00:16:42.000You didn't go looking for the trouble.
00:16:44.000You were not prowling the streets trying to do something.
00:16:48.000They came into your private property, which is a fundamental belief in Western society that you're allowed to control something, whether it be land or a home or an apartment, whatever, and that you can do whatever you wish with it, right?
00:17:02.000So that's what I find so fascinating about this is that this happened to you.
00:17:06.000And then somehow you're the villain for daring to not, you didn't kill anyone.
00:17:39.000Yeah, sorry, the oldest law in English jurisprudence is breaking the clothes, the right to use deadly force to stop somebody from entering into your property.
00:17:50.000And yet they did it, and I'm the one getting prosecuted.
00:17:55.000Just we need to go back to Blackstone just to realize where our laws came from because all these maniacs running our country don't understand any of that.
00:18:02.000So now you're running for Senate, which I find to be really interesting.
00:18:06.000And again, we have all these professional politicians that always just try to climb the ladder.
00:18:10.000Tell us about what you were doing before the mob, professionally, your worldview.
00:18:14.000Do you have any ambitions to politics?
00:18:26.000My father was a very active anti-communist from when he got back from the Philippines after World War II until the day he died.
00:18:33.000My mother was a head of what was for a while the largest Republican club in the country, got a Republican elected in the second district of Missouri, the first time since Reconstruction, I think.
00:18:44.000And I've always been an outspoken opponent of the life, but I've never had any interest in running for political office.
00:18:50.000I was speaking against, well, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua back when I was in college.
00:18:56.000We put on fundraisers for Carl North when he was going through his problems and then when he was running for Senate.
00:19:04.000We did a video with him a couple of weeks ago.
00:19:06.000So, and I've got the biggest slur, the most insulting slur I've gotten in this since the last, you know, since June 28th of last year, was that I used to be a Democrat.
00:19:22.000So I've been sending out pictures to different people and accuse me of that on the media of pictures of me with Senator Blunt when I looked like I was about 18 years old and me and Carl North, and we both looked like we were too young to have positions in the world.
00:19:37.000And with Jim Talent and Newt Gingrich when he was speaker and everybody else.
00:19:42.000So my Republican roots go back to about halfway down the birth canal, I think.
00:19:47.000But I've never had any reason or any interest in running for politics.
00:19:51.000But then the mob came knocking on the door.
00:19:54.000And if you'd asked me June 27th of last year what I wanted most in the world, I would have said for the world, leave me the heck alone.
00:20:01.000Let me live out the rest of my life in comfort and peace.
00:20:07.000And that Friday night when we had the second assault, that was the night that President gave his Mount Rushmore address.
00:20:13.000And he talked about combating Marxist extremism in the United States.
00:20:19.000I didn't get a chance to see that speech that night because I was a little busy saving my behind.
00:20:23.000But I listened to it the next day and I heard all the pundits and the mass media saying that that was the most divisive speech they'd ever heard.
00:20:31.000I said to myself, if fighting Marxism in the United States is divisive, there's something seriously wrong with our country.
00:20:38.000If we're expected to live in harmony with the people that wish to destroy us and our lifestyle and our culture, then there's something seriously wrong.
00:20:46.000And Patty and I just made a commitment that day that we're going to just put our lives on hold and contribute what we could for the rest of our lives to saving this country.
00:20:54.000I absolutely love it because, again, I just want to reiterate this point, which is so dip.
00:21:00.000People say, like, some people like, okay, I can't take it anymore.
00:21:04.000The fight literally came to your door and you were just trying to live the American promise.
00:21:09.000And you very well could have just kind of sued for peace and run to the hills and wrote an apology and said, you know what?
00:21:16.000Maybe we shouldn't have, you know, had the weapons and maybe we should have invited them in for some sort of a, you know, milk and cookie type session.
00:21:26.000They didn't really realize what they were doing.
00:21:28.000No, you handled this perfectly, which is, you know what?
00:21:31.000There's some things that are worth going all in for.
00:21:35.000And I don't know, busting down a gate to go terrorize private people in a gated neighborhood because you're upset that something happened in Minneapolis that we even know the facts and circumstances about.
00:22:00.000You obviously have kind of an upper hand in the sense that you're very well known.
00:22:04.000So I don't think you're going to have a name ID problem.
00:22:07.000Tell us what you hope to achieve and kind of the why you're running outside of just obviously what happened to you.
00:22:14.000Well, why we're running is that immediately after these events, we joined the Trump campaign.
00:22:18.000And we were on the Team Trump bus and giving, you know, when we're actively campaigning for the president, we were doing seven rallies a day, plus stopping at the business owners and supporters' properties and giving the same kind of a speech that I'd give in the full full-blown rally.
00:22:32.000So some days I'd be doing 12, 14 presentations a day and meeting people all over the country.
00:22:38.000And what I learned was that people are just sick and tired of what's going on in the country.
00:22:42.000They're sick of cancel culture and the poison of critical race theory and the lie of systemic racism and the threat of mob violence.
00:22:50.000You know, do what we want or we'll burn your cities down and we'll kill you.
00:22:55.000But all they see in DC are the same old, same old, the Republicans have just talk and never affect any change.
00:23:02.000The Democrats have been pushing to the left for as long as I've been alive.
00:23:06.000And we used to talk about the erosion of our civil liberties.
00:23:11.000And that's been going on for decades and decades.
00:23:13.000But then we've got the Biden administration that comes in.
00:23:16.000Regardless of the legitimacy of it, they're in power now.
00:23:19.000And then there's been a wholesale slaughter of our civil liberties.
00:23:23.000Every day, some new offense against the Constitution, against our God-given rights.
00:23:27.000And things like HR1, now S1, that it ever passes.
00:23:31.000There'll never be a free election again.
00:23:33.000If H.R. 127, the gun control bill, passes, you know, registration of weapons and ammunition.
00:23:41.000My favorite part is having a psychological examination of people that want to purchase guns and not just the person, but their family members and even their ex-spouses.
00:23:52.000Can you imagine all the people out there that went through bad divorces where their ex-wife or their ex-husband will be able to tell some psychologist whether or not they think their ex ought to own a gun?
00:24:12.000I could have lived the rest of my life comfortably and peacefully.
00:24:16.000But I wanted to do something where people would believe that they would have a politician that would go to DC, tell the truth, regardless of what it would cost them politically or economically or socially.
00:24:28.000And what you said a minute ago is so true.
00:24:30.000What everybody else does when they make the mistake of standing up for their rights is they go through the apology tour and then they get fired anyway.
00:24:39.000If I had been the managing partner of the biggest law firm in St. Louis, instead of being self-employed, I'd have had to apologize until I was blue in the face and I would have been fired anyway.
00:24:51.000The media and the swamp has such control that if you step out of line and you say anything impolite, if you go more than two points off the middle of what's currently accepted as appropriate discourse, you get destroyed.
00:25:18.000That's the Soviet Union or the CCP or Cuba, but it's not the United States I knew.
00:25:23.000And it's the reason we're running to try to pull that power back.
00:25:27.000The Declaration of Independence, after reciting our God-given right, says that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government.
00:25:40.000And my goal in this campaign is to remind everybody in DC that they serve at our leisure, not vice versa.
00:25:47.000That we have rights and we've given them, the government, some privileges, not vice versa.
00:26:01.000And with no brakes, it's all one word, McCloskey4FORSenate.com.
00:26:06.000And if people think we've got a good idea, if they want to support us, donate five, $10, whatever you can, whatever you feel comfortable in.
00:26:13.000Obviously, the left is going to come down on us like a ton of bricks.
00:26:16.000And I suspect some of my fellow Republicans will too.
00:26:19.000I've already heard some impolite things being said about me by others.
00:26:26.000We're going to run a positive campaign and just do what I can to represent the genuine wishes of the people of Missouri, not the interest of lobbyists or contributors.
00:26:35.000And just go back to making the country what it was when we grew up, where people were free, people felt safe to walk the streets.
00:26:43.000I don't know if you saw this video over the weekend of people dancing on top of the St. Louis police car.
00:26:49.000But how can that happen in this country?
00:26:52.000How can anybody feel safe in their homes if the population of the most dangerous city in the country, St. Louis, feel free to dance on top of a police car and the crowd is dancing and singing and having a great time, absolutely unafraid of any consequence.
00:27:09.000And that's, you know, out of chaos comes tyranny, and that's the game plan.