The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Donald J. Trump ｜ 8⧸29⧸23

00:00:00.140 So I asked on today's podcast with Donald Trump, I asked him, will you run a campaign if you're in jail?

00:00:07.740 He answered.

00:00:09.440 Do you regret not locking Hillary up now that they're doing that to you?

00:00:13.520 And will you lock people up if you're president?

00:00:16.100 He answered that.

00:00:19.260 Asked him if he found a vice president in the GOP debate, which said he was doing.

00:00:25.140 I didn't ask him.

00:00:26.220 My favorite question, really, was how long did you practice in the mirror?

00:00:30.280 For that gangsta look in your.

00:00:33.260 But they didn't ask him that.

00:00:34.580 But I did ask him about hope that we haven't lost the republic, that we can count on the next election and that the economy can turn around.

00:00:44.600 He answered all of those on today's podcast and so much more.

00:00:49.160 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:00.420 I got an email from Sabo, the street graffiti guy.

00:01:10.520 And he said, hey, I just made something with Donald Trump's mugshot.

00:01:14.820 And here it is.

00:01:17.020 If you're watching.

00:01:19.080 You're watching Blaze TV, you can.

00:01:21.840 It's the mugshot with Donald Trump, except he's got cornrows.

00:01:26.340 And it's a campaign ad.

00:01:29.160 And it just says, reelect corn pop.

00:01:32.800 One bad dude.

00:01:34.760 I remember that guy from that really terrible story that Joe Biden told.

00:01:40.940 Which terrible story because corn pop was such a bad dude.

00:01:44.320 Yeah. 0.99

00:01:44.800 Or was it because that's the story that came right out of and the little black children were petting my legs? 0.98

00:01:50.920 Yeah. 0.97

00:01:51.120 So that part was the disturbing part.

00:01:52.820 Yeah.

00:01:53.040 Right.

00:01:53.480 Corn pop.

00:01:54.520 You know, we never met corn pop.

00:01:57.360 Are you saying that Donald Trump may not be corn pop?

00:02:00.760 I don't know.

00:02:01.380 I don't know.

00:02:01.940 I would not be surprised.

00:02:03.680 But reelect corn pop. 0.61

00:02:05.520 One bad dude.

00:02:06.060 I'm trying to convince the Blaze to.

00:02:08.820 You know, they're, you know, they're cautious, you know, obviously.

00:02:13.660 But I'd wear that T-shirt.

00:02:16.900 I would wear that T-shirt.

00:02:18.940 It's, yeah, because it's Donald Trump's, not exactly his mugshot, but close to his mugshot.

00:02:24.100 Yeah.

00:02:24.400 There's some alterations.

00:02:25.680 Yeah, an artist.

00:02:26.400 Artist rendering.

00:02:27.520 Rendering of it.

00:02:28.540 Yeah.

00:02:28.760 And then with some alterations.

00:02:31.340 Cornrows.

00:02:33.420 That's really pretty much.

00:02:34.980 That's really pretty much it.

00:02:36.240 It's just that.

00:02:37.600 So, you know, we got that.

00:02:39.820 We got that going for us.

00:02:41.160 Got that going for us.

00:02:41.860 Now, there is a an article that was written by Emmy Emma Jo Morris that I think is worth reading verbatim.

00:02:53.380 Listen to this.

00:02:54.020 Leading up to the 2024 election, there are a number of pressing issues Americans will consider.

00:02:59.020 Rampant illegal immigration, skyrocketing inflation, the price of living, violent crime, marring cities. 0.65

00:03:05.060 But those issues are now against the backdrop of a palpable shift towards authoritarianism.

00:03:11.780 And a vote for Trump in 2024 will be a vote of defiance.

00:03:17.520 She writes, this is not the personal endorsement of the author, but a statement of what the author believes to be fact for countless Americans.

00:03:26.620 The American people have been watching over the years as the government authoritarian tendencies have been revealed, first through coronavirus lockdowns and vaccine mandates, then the vast and coordinated censorship of the New York Post's laptop from hell reporting.

00:03:42.740 And now multiple indictments against the former president, Donald Trump, with a jarring image of his mugshot being released to the public on Thursday.

00:03:52.700 At the beginning of 2020, purportedly free people were told they were not allowed to go to work.

00:03:58.820 They couldn't go to church.

00:04:00.180 Their children weren't allowed to go to school.

00:04:02.140 They were going to be barred from playing outside in parks because the experts claimed these activities were too dangerous for American citizens based on now dubious and incomplete data.

00:04:15.660 American citizens were made to cover their faces in public, a universal symbol of submission, even though there was no health related justification for that edict other than particular rare masks in particular cases.

00:04:30.500 American citizens had their movements tracked and their health information put in databases, measures that could have been lifted from any dystopian fiction.

00:04:39.840 Corporate interests and power centers thrived while normal people suffered.

00:04:44.680 But people, for the most part, kept their heads down and waited for the moment to pass.

00:04:49.160 There are now indications that some or all of these measures may be reinstated come August or autumn.

00:04:57.060 The same year, the American people, who were ostensibly have free speech rights, were prevented from reading a series of news reports that were immediately relevant to their upcoming presidential election, describing an apparent scheme to peddle influence by one of the candidates.

00:05:15.280 They would later learn that their government in coordination with some of the largest and most influential media and communication companies worked together to ensure that information would be censored in order to ensure the outcome of that election.

00:05:30.980 See, this is what's really incredible.

00:05:33.480 That affected the election, according to polls.

00:05:36.080 People who voted for Joe Biden said, had they known they wouldn't have voted for Joe Biden.

00:05:43.260 And it was a 15 point swing.

00:05:47.360 Now, imagine what all of this stuff on Donald Trump is doing to him.

00:05:53.140 Data would emerge that the goal was achieved, that censorship of these stories did secure the election.

00:05:58.740 And votes were cast under false pretenses because of efforts of intelligence agencies.

00:06:04.680 And again, corporate interests and power centers thrived while normal people suffered.

00:06:09.900 But still, people, for the most part, kept their heads down and waited for the moment to pass.

00:06:14.720 Every time one of these incidents occurred, we lamented about how unprecedented the event was, but still went about our lives and waited for the moment to pass.

00:06:23.680 This time, however, feels different as the American people watch an escalation with the leader of the political opposition being hounded and threatened with jail and the death penalty.

00:06:36.980 The escalation is indicating to the American public that going about our lives and waiting for the moment to pass is not going to work.

00:06:44.680 It signals that every time we put our heads down, those in power see an opportunity to seize even more power.

00:06:50.840 The bureaucratic establishment, the corporate establishment, the political establishment, while Trump was president and since, has been in a sustained effort to undermine him, attack us and grow its power.

00:07:05.740 And now Trump is emerging as the, if just symbolic, mechanism to counter that effort.

00:07:12.460 Voting for Trump over other Republicans or over Biden won't necessarily be because of his policies.

00:07:18.300 That will be the last thing on some voters' minds.

00:07:22.640 It will be an act of defiance against our government and institutions that are openly oppressing people and information they deem threatening to their self-interest and self-preservation.

00:07:35.820 In the release of Trump's mugshot, a photo that will go down in infamy, the election has been turned into a referendum on authoritarianism.

00:07:44.960 The opposition started about being about closing the border and lowering inflation and alleviate the pressure on the working and middle class caused by the recklessness of the elites.

00:07:58.240 But now the mandate has shifted and has become more general to restore freedom by decimating the establishment and the bureaucracy and the experts.

00:08:10.200 The release of that photo on Thursday was evocative of flag burning.

00:08:16.080 It had a visual assault on everything we know about this country and what it is to be and the desecration of everything this country has stood for.

00:08:24.600 It had also transmitted a signal to the nation.

00:08:28.040 This game is going to be a zero-sum game.

00:08:31.360 That is from Emma Jo Morris, who I heed that warning. 0.86

00:08:39.940 I think she's right.

00:08:41.440 We are headed into very, very dangerous territory because we are entering the time now where only a strong man will be able to hold things together.

00:08:58.280 Only a strong man will be able to promise you, I'm going to clean up the streets, I'm going to protect the dollar, you know, I'm going to win the war, all of these things.

00:09:11.840 And that could go either way because one side is screaming that you've got to stop the parents from complaining because they're hurting their kids by not letting them, you know, have their gender and their bodies mutilated.

00:09:28.200 One side is saying that we have to shut any opposition up because they're slowing down the progress.

00:09:36.080 One side is marching off to war.

00:09:40.580 Well, the other side seems to be marching behind, but at least marching with to war.

00:09:47.960 The other side is demanding truth and an end to this madness, absolute madness.

00:09:57.960 Who's going to stop it?

00:09:59.580 Now, I think that there are real ways that can be done constitutionally, but I warn you, there is going to come a time where even on our side, many will say, screw the constitution.

00:10:18.360 There are things we have to do.

00:10:20.300 That is always trouble, always a sign.

00:10:26.460 You don't want to be in that group.

00:10:31.020 Please.

00:10:32.780 Be aware of this.

00:10:35.260 There are forces on many fronts on the left who wants to destroy the constitution and those now posing as the right, but they're not the right.

00:10:50.300 They're the fascistic left.

00:10:54.680 In America, the choice is not right or left.

00:10:58.660 It is either anarchy or complete control.

00:11:04.320 Right now, the people that are in the driver's seat and the people coming up now in the right who are disguising themselves as conservatives do not wish to conserve.

00:11:17.200 They wish to destroy.

00:11:22.500 It's why there are those progressive Republicans that are so into war.

00:11:28.420 There are many Republicans that don't speak out about the things going on with Donald Trump right now because they'd like those tools themselves.

00:11:39.940 And if they could just get control of this system, why, then we'd be fixed.

00:11:45.640 No, we'll still be as broken.

00:11:47.940 But they want you to be angry so you lose all reason and you say it's too far gone.

00:11:58.280 It's only too far gone when there is no one standing for the constitution.

00:12:06.420 It's only too far gone when all of the voices are saying the same thing.

00:12:13.980 Get them.

00:12:14.860 I have Donald Trump on today in hour three, and I'm really excited to talk to him because I've never seen anything like this.

00:12:31.200 And we keep saying this every day.

00:12:32.540 Never seen anything like this.

00:12:33.880 This is obviously a coordinated attack.

00:12:36.140 How is he going to run a campaign and stay on the road when he's in court all the time?

00:12:48.060 How is he planning on fighting?

00:12:52.020 If he gets in, they're not going to stop.

00:12:54.900 They're not going to stop.

00:12:59.080 What happens if he goes to jail?

00:13:01.020 And does he have a solution for us?

00:13:05.880 I mean, most people are really, truly struggling now, and it's just the beginning.

00:13:11.580 The economy needs to be turned around.

00:13:15.460 But all of the solutions that are currently being proposed are the exact opposite of what we need.

00:13:28.260 Does he have hope for us?

00:13:30.700 What is his path to hope?

00:13:34.680 Donald Trump will join me coming up on today's broadcast podcast.

00:13:40.840 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:13:43.540 So let me give you this story from Axios quickly.

00:13:47.660 America's decades-long love affair with homeownership is holding back the economy and hobbling the Federal Reserve and exacerbating a national housing crisis.

00:13:57.820 We're stuck here now.

00:13:59.520 There's just too much wealth stored in too many houses for anything to meaningful change.

00:14:04.680 The big picture is life is unpredictable journey.

00:14:08.360 People change where they want and need to live all the time.

00:14:12.120 And a country with 66% home ownership rate is not conducive to that.

00:14:18.520 They're talking about how home ownership is trapping people.

00:14:26.100 And the youth is trying to find a place to live.

00:14:30.860 But all the houses are trapped by rich people or people who have owned their homes for a long time or people who have an interest rate at 2%.

00:14:41.920 And so they can't, they don't want to leave it because they'll never get a loan that is that close to that.

00:14:48.180 And so where are you going to go?

00:14:49.820 So it's trapping all of us.

00:14:52.420 And this has been bad.

00:14:54.400 This has been very bad.

00:14:56.200 20 years ago, it says, a third, in the third quarter of 2003, there were 83 million owners that occupied homes in America.

00:15:05.020 They were changing hands at the rate of 6.5 million homes.

00:15:08.300 Today, the number of homeowners is 96 million.

00:15:12.720 But the rate of existing home sales is slumped to 4 million homes per year.

00:15:17.120 Excuse me.

00:15:18.440 We've been told our whole life, in fact, the lie that the American dream is home ownership.

00:15:24.660 And that's all it is.

00:15:25.900 That's been pushed since FDR.

00:15:28.860 Home ownership, home ownership.

00:15:29.960 In fact, we got into the 08 crisis because the government was pushing home ownership.

00:15:37.020 Everybody became overextended.

00:15:40.320 Now they're pushing for you to get rid of your home.

00:15:46.040 Carol Roth is joining us now.

00:15:48.400 She is the author of You Will Own Nothing, former investment banker and good friend of the program.

00:15:54.200 Carol, welcome.

00:15:56.640 Good to see you, Glenn.

00:15:57.700 It's pretty amazing, isn't it, when you see the media who wants to take the biggest asset on household's balance sheet.

00:16:04.540 I think it creates wealth for middle America around the nation.

00:16:08.600 And now they're telling you it's a bad thing.

00:16:10.560 Isn't that really surprising?

00:16:12.100 It is.

00:16:12.480 You know, John Huntsman Sr. told me at one point, he said, Glenn, don't be the guy that owns the oil well.

00:16:19.080 Don't be the guy that owns the water well.

00:16:21.280 Be the guy who searches for the water, who purifies the water, because whoever owns the scarce product, whoever owns it, will be the bad guy and they'll come for you.

00:16:35.180 And I think he was absolutely right.

00:16:38.340 I just didn't think it would happen with homes.

00:16:40.440 But I think this is the first shot of the government trying to get people out of their homes.

00:16:48.080 And, you know, hey, we'll give you even a bigger tax break if you sell your house.

00:16:52.140 What?

00:16:52.360 And you're going to give me money over land?

00:16:54.480 No, thank you.

00:16:55.140 I would offer that it's the second shot.

00:16:58.680 You know, this is something that I wrote extensively about in You Will Own Nothing.

00:17:02.860 Obviously, the policies that followed the Great Recession financial crisis gave a ton of cheap, available capital to Wall Street.

00:17:10.720 It bailed out the banks.

00:17:12.620 And we know that Americans lost about six million homes to foreclosers and short sales.

00:17:18.880 And following that.

00:17:20.040 Yeah, I was going to say.

00:17:21.340 And maybe this is the point you were going to make.

00:17:23.600 And they took that money from us.

00:17:26.080 And then they went out because they had so much money, had to do something with it.

00:17:30.980 They bought up homes.

00:17:33.460 Yes.

00:17:33.700 So we obviously share a brain.

00:17:35.060 That's exactly what I was going to say.

00:17:37.220 So before 2010, as we've talked about, there was no meaningful Wall Street corporate institutional money in the single family home market.

00:17:45.040 Now CoreLogic says at the end of 2022, more than one in every five homes in America is being bought by a corporate entity.

00:17:53.460 So that is sort of the first shift.

00:17:55.880 But now you have this gentleman from Axios, who is one of the economic media darlings, if you will, coming out and not only saying, oh, it's a really it's a problem that you own your home.

00:18:08.960 It's really a problem that you have this this asset that's creating legacy wealth for you and your family.

00:18:15.260 But the the mental gymnastics that it took for him to get there.

00:18:20.100 Oh, this is holding back the economy.

00:18:22.380 And this is crippling the Fed as if it wasn't the Fed policy and the government policy that got us here in the first place.

00:18:30.980 Right.

00:18:31.080 That are crippling us.

00:18:32.600 The fact that you're trying to say, oh, the poor Fed, let's all cry for the Fed.

00:18:38.300 This is the Fed's issue.

00:18:39.660 The reason people are stuck in their homes, which you alluded to, and we don't have the turnover, isn't because people are trying to hoard wealth.

00:18:47.900 It's because they literally cannot find another home.

00:18:51.660 There's not enough supply.

00:18:52.880 And part of that reason, like we said, is all of the cheap capital that went in and drove up the prices of homes.

00:18:59.700 So the price of the house is insane.

00:19:02.640 And then at the same time, we've had a Fed that has changed the the their their federal funds rates, which affects the mortgage rate.

00:19:10.040 So people are locked in at three and a half percent.

00:19:12.560 And now it's going to be seven and a half percent to get the mortgage.

00:19:16.000 You can have one or the other.

00:19:17.560 You can have an increasing home price, but cheap mortgages.

00:19:20.920 Or you can have, you know, a high mortgage rate, but a cheap house.

00:19:24.220 But you cannot have both of those at the same time.

00:19:26.880 When you have both of those, you are not going to get people to move in the house.

00:19:31.740 And the idea that they're blaming you for creating wealth instead of blaming the arsonist who burnt down the economy, the government and the Fed is absolutely despicable.

00:19:42.480 But again, it falls under you will own nothing and you will be happy.

00:19:46.680 We will own things.

00:19:47.680 We will be great as the elite.

00:19:49.820 But you you shouldn't own things because that's holding back the economy.

00:19:53.740 This is as bad as stealing our history from us and repositioning our entire history that our founders were bad and everything else.

00:20:04.720 They are taking something that that was not known as the American dream.

00:20:10.920 The American dream was to come here, be able to own something, you know, your own land or whatever.

00:20:17.320 But it wasn't the, you know, white picket fence in the home.

00:20:21.180 That wasn't it.

00:20:22.180 It was that you could own your idea, your business, your own land.

00:20:27.820 And you did.

00:20:28.800 You were the steward of that and nobody could touch it for them to take this idea and completely twist it around to where we're going back to the kings.

00:20:41.300 And the king's minions own the land and we can rent it from them is astounding, astounding.

00:20:50.040 Well, let me tie this into your dark future thesis, which I also talk about.

00:20:54.760 So think about the implications from a social credit perspective as well.

00:20:59.380 Oh, yeah.

00:20:59.640 You know, when you own your home, there is a level of sovereignty there, right?

00:21:03.840 You can do what you want to do in your home.

00:21:06.700 If you now rent from one of the Wall Street cronies and, you know, have the ability to have more homes turned over because it's better for the economy, Glenn, then now Wall Street becomes a de facto arm of the government.

00:21:20.640 They don't want you to have firearms.

00:21:22.520 They don't want you to have gas stoves.

00:21:24.520 You did whatever.

00:21:25.840 Now, all of a sudden, well, I'm sorry, you violated your renter's agreement.

00:21:29.380 You can no longer live here.

00:21:30.880 We can't have that going on.

00:21:32.300 So the importance of having the home, not only the largest wealth creator for families on a legacy basis, but also that individual sovereignty, that ability to say this is my domain.

00:21:44.660 I can do with it what I please.

00:21:46.400 I can do, you know, underneath it what I please.

00:21:49.040 And I don't have to follow your instructions instead of being, as you said, that at surf to the ruling class.

00:21:55.280 This is incredibly, incredibly nefarious.

00:21:58.500 And we have to make sure people own things.

00:22:00.760 We have to make sure they preserve that key piece of freedom.

00:22:04.240 It's why property rights are that essential, you know, leg of the stool in terms of our individual rights and our freedoms.

00:22:11.920 It was religion and speech and property. 0.88

00:22:19.920 Those that was the basic idea of America.

00:22:23.920 You owned your speech and your thought.

00:22:27.460 You owned your life and liberty and what you wanted to do.

00:22:33.840 And you could own property because in every other country, you couldn't own property.

00:22:40.120 You had to be granted the land from the state, from the king.

00:22:45.920 Well, that's what they're doing right now.

00:22:47.840 The king is just coming in and wanting to take all of this land back, not necessarily for the king, but for all of his cronies, all of the lords and the ladies who are running the companies.

00:23:01.600 Right.

00:23:03.040 And they're trying to get you to buy into that you'll be happy piece or at least guilt you into it.

00:23:08.360 This is, you know, you're holding back the economy.

00:23:11.140 This is bad for everybody.

00:23:12.920 You know, we can't grow and prosper if you don't give up your house.

00:23:16.580 But they need you to buy into being happy.

00:23:19.400 They need you to go along with this psyop because it's much easier for them to affect change and to hoard the wealth for themselves if you go along with it than if you are pushing back.

00:23:30.940 Then they have to do it by force.

00:23:32.600 And obviously that's not a good thing.

00:23:34.380 And so when you look at the young people of this country, Glenn, that's what's happening to them.

00:23:38.640 They're being groomed and trained to rent things, to to, you know, basically have their life as a subscription or a service.

00:23:46.180 We're seeing it in technology.

00:23:47.740 We're seeing it in other areas.

00:23:49.500 And because the home ownership is so unattainable for so many of these young people, because not only do they have those high home prices we're talking about and high mortgage costs,

00:23:59.460 but their personal balance sheets are also decimated by the ridiculous college debt loans that they have, that they, you know, have a very difficult time paying back because they're not getting an ROI on that.

00:24:09.240 So it's basically crushing that American dream for them.

00:24:12.960 And if you don't think something is attainable for you, you put up that defense shield and you go, well, you know, maybe I can't get it.

00:24:19.140 Maybe I didn't want it in the first place.

00:24:20.700 This will be a very bad outcome if we don't have more young people who want to own things, because we will return to that feudal society and not have it a society of freedom. 0.79

00:24:32.600 So, Carol, I want to talk to you about Kevin O'Leary.

00:24:35.400 He said that rising interest rates and mortgage costs pose a major threat to households and small businesses.

00:24:43.240 America is headed towards a rebalance after huge investment in the country's largest companies, while small and midsize firms have been neglected.

00:24:52.780 Inflation is currently at 3.2 percent.

00:24:55.460 And Fed Chair Jay Powell warned last week that the central bank has not ruled out further interest rate hikes to bring it down further.

00:25:01.540 I'm sorry, the rate currently is 5.5 percent.

00:25:06.960 What I anticipate is going to happen here while we still have full employment, which is remarkable.

00:25:12.180 You don't put any capital in the small business sector, which is 60 percent of the jobs.

00:25:16.500 You're going to start to see some real chaos in September, October, November.

00:25:21.280 Do you understand that or agree with that?

00:25:24.320 Well, I mean, I think this has been going on for a long time.

00:25:27.260 Obviously, it's kind of the same thing that we were talking about in the previous segment.

00:25:32.340 As these interest rates rise, you have the opposite effect of what happened for the last 15 years.

00:25:38.760 The last 15 years gave cheap, easy, available capital to Wall Street.

00:25:43.060 They were able to take advantage of it in a way that small businesses couldn't.

00:25:47.640 And so they have locked in for the large part, you know, a lot of debt at low rates, just like the homeowners locked in low mortgage rates.

00:25:57.440 When you're a small business owner, you don't have that same capacity.

00:26:00.860 You're often working off of a personal balance sheet or you're just kind of cobbling things together.

00:26:06.800 So you had you didn't have that advantage on the side when they were suppressing the interest rates.

00:26:14.060 Now, when it is rising, you're also in a worse position.

00:26:18.520 And you have to remember, we've now had three years just about where small businesses first were closed in large part,

00:26:26.580 about a third of the economy while their big companies stayed open.

00:26:31.320 And they were hard hit by the supply chain crisis, by the labor crisis.

00:26:35.720 So, you know, just kind of anyone who survived is sort of just hanging on by a thread already.

00:26:41.420 And then you have now this sort of extra barrier of not being able to have the capital.

00:26:47.560 So I do think that when you see the cracks, you're going to see it in two places.

00:26:51.780 We've seen it in one, which were the tech firms that way overhired.

00:26:56.500 But they're they're normalizing to their pre-pandemic level.

00:26:59.800 And then you're going to see it with the small businesses who don't have the capacity or they're at what they're at their wit's end financially and and and otherwise.

00:27:10.380 And so, you know, it ends up being this consolidation where the small businesses can't survive.

00:27:16.440 And that business goes to the big businesses and you get this consolidation and the centralization of the economy.

00:27:23.640 And I think that that that is the the overarching theme that we continue to fight against is centralization versus the decentralization that stands for freedom.

00:27:32.580 I wish I wish there was somebody in everybody's home that like a cuckoo clock at the top of every hour would just say it's the Fed and government.

00:27:41.620 It's the Fed and government because what they're doing with raising of interest rates and people don't understand this.

00:27:48.580 They they they they just hear this and think, oh, it's a mechanism to bring down my inflation.

00:27:53.300 They don't understand what they're trying to do is stop as close as you can.

00:27:59.400 It's like chemotherapy.

00:28:01.400 Get as close as you can to stopping the heart of the economy without actually stopping.

00:28:07.700 They need you to be unemployed.

00:28:10.120 They need you to stop spending money.

00:28:13.500 And the reason why they need that is because they're spending so much money.

00:28:18.260 We've spent a lot as people.

00:28:20.440 They've spent much, much, much, much, much more.

00:28:22.760 And because they continue to spend all of that, they need you to stop.

00:28:28.240 And so they're trying to stop the heart of the economy without killing the patient.

00:28:32.780 It's extraordinary how evil I think this really is.

00:28:37.040 Yeah. And they never take any responsibility, any responsibility.

00:28:40.380 They don't say, oh, it was, you know, the government spending and this ridiculous, you know, COVID, quote unquote, emergency that we had to monetize and that, you know, they spent too much and we had to print too much money.

00:28:52.380 And so we caused this.

00:28:53.620 And so now we're fixing our mistake.

00:28:55.680 No, it's your problem.

00:28:57.180 You need to do these things.

00:28:58.920 You need to sell your you need to sell your home because the Fed needs it.

00:29:03.120 Listen, I've only had two minutes left.

00:29:04.620 Let me ask you about BRICS.

00:29:06.260 I'm becoming increasingly concerned that all of these countries all around the world are starting to join in and and cobble together a currency.

00:29:17.260 When that happens, we we could become Venezuela overnight. 0.94

00:29:24.200 How real is this getting?

00:29:26.760 All right.

00:29:27.540 So I probably cannot answer this in a minute and a half.

00:29:30.200 And we're going to have to talk about this.

00:29:31.440 I think the big takeaway is that with these nations coming together and forging stronger alliances, what they're doing is that they're killing the petrodollar and by, you know, extension, the U.S. dollar.

00:29:44.580 They don't even need a new currency.

00:29:46.320 They didn't unveil a new one.

00:29:47.800 But if they just do trade and local currency, that takes away a big source of the financing that the government has been using to expand very cheaply.

00:29:56.960 And we should definitely do a deep dive into it because there's so much meat there.

00:30:01.500 OK, we'll have you back on, Carol.

00:30:04.040 Thank you so much.

00:30:05.160 All right.

00:30:05.500 Carol Roth.

00:30:06.480 The name of her book is You Will Own Nothing.

00:30:08.460 And if today's Axios story, how homeownership is holding back the U.S. economy, isn't proof of what she writes about, what I write about in Dark Future, I mean, I can't get any clearer than that particular story.

00:30:26.640 It is amazing what is happening to us.

00:30:30.400 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:33.060 The, by far, frontrunner for the Republican nomination and the most persecuted man in, I believe, American history, the former president of the United States, President Donald Trump.

00:30:50.360 Welcome to the program, sir.

00:30:51.500 How are you?

00:30:52.940 Well, thank you, Glenn.

00:30:53.880 I'm fine.

00:30:54.660 I'm fine.

00:30:55.200 You're probably right about that.

00:30:57.700 Yeah, you are.

00:30:59.300 I've never heard it put quite as succinctly, but it's probably true.

00:31:02.560 So let me ask you, you know, you've seen the deep state.

00:31:05.940 We now all know what you saw was true and deeper than I think any of us knew.

00:31:12.040 They've weaponized everything.

00:31:14.160 They are serious about trying to put you in prison.

00:31:18.780 Can I ask, will you and can you run a campaign from a jail cell?

00:31:25.940 Well, I don't think that's ever happening.

00:31:27.860 We have a great case.

00:31:29.160 Every case is a scam.

00:31:30.460 This is just like Russia, Russia, Russia. 0.85

00:31:32.740 Remember, I was going to be guilty with Russia, Russia, Russia. 0.96

00:31:35.380 Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, with 18 radical Democrats and Bob Mueller.

00:31:40.720 The Mueller report said there was no collusion.

00:31:42.740 Everyone had a heart attack.

00:31:44.480 And then they started Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.

00:31:46.980 Then they started lying on Pfizer reports.

00:31:49.380 These are bad people. 1.00

00:31:50.780 These are sick people. 0.96

00:31:51.880 And now we're, we have the biggest lead I've ever had. 0.66

00:31:55.800 The debate, I actually went up after the debate, as you know, we did your, your friend Tucker's interview.

00:32:02.160 And he had 261 million people, which is an all-time record.

00:32:06.240 Yeah.

00:32:06.500 So when you say, like, I didn't do a debate, I actually didn't do a debate, but I had 261 million people listening versus 11 million, which they had, which was one of the lowest rated debates.

00:32:16.440 So I went up fairly substantially after that.

00:32:20.900 And I think the fake indictment that they did in Georgia was very helpful.

00:32:26.320 And then they insisted on a mugshot, and somehow it turned out to be very iconic.

00:32:31.240 I have to tell you, I don't know how you, how you do it every day.

00:32:35.720 I really don't.

00:32:36.540 I would have lost my mind a long time ago.

00:32:38.820 You said in 2016, you know, lock her up.

00:32:42.920 And then when you became president, you said, we don't do that in America.

00:32:45.440 That's just not the right thing to do.

00:32:47.300 That's what they're doing.

00:32:48.780 Do you regret not locking her up?

00:32:51.080 And if you're president again, will you lock people up?

00:32:55.000 Well, I'll give you an example.

00:32:57.300 The answer is you have no choice because they're doing it to us.

00:33:00.300 I always had such great respect for the office of the president, the presidency.

00:33:05.500 And, but the office of the president, and I never hit Biden as hard as I could have.

00:33:10.540 And then I heard he was trying to indict me and it was him that was doing it.

00:33:14.320 You know, I don't think he's sharp enough to think about much, but he was there and he

00:33:18.620 was probably the one given the other, but he would, you know, hard to believe that he

00:33:22.580 even thinks about that because he's, he's gone.

00:33:25.680 But then I said, well, they're actually trying to indict me because every one of these indictments

00:33:31.640 is him, including Bragg, you know, Bragg, he put his top people, I don't know if you

00:33:36.240 know this, he put his top person into the office of the Manhattan district attorney.

00:33:41.120 They've been in total coordination with Fannie Willis.

00:33:45.160 The woman that I never met that they accused me of rape, that's being run by a Democrat, 1.00

00:33:51.320 a Democrat operative and paid for by the Democrat party.

00:33:55.100 And, uh, you know, so many of these things, I have a couple of other lawsuits all funded 0.99

00:33:59.620 against me by the Democrat, these are sick people, these are evil people. 0.93

00:34:03.240 And it actually, it's an amazing thing. 0.99

00:34:06.260 We talk about the public, the public is smarter than anyone can imagine because they understand

00:34:11.440 what's happening.

00:34:12.300 And my, it's really actually driven, I was doing very well before this stuff, but it's

00:34:16.640 really driven my poll numbers up.

00:34:18.380 And you look at these, you know, that basically they're saying, I don't have a right to challenge

00:34:23.220 an election.

00:34:23.740 And I did something and I have to get it to you like immediately yesterday where we put

00:34:29.280 in all of the Democrats over the last 15, 20 years.

00:34:32.500 Oh yeah.

00:34:33.820 And we, this tape, the problem is it would go on for two hours.

00:34:37.620 Yeah.

00:34:38.060 We have 25, we have 25 minutes of it.

00:34:41.300 I mean, it's crazy.

00:34:43.180 You got it.

00:34:43.440 Yeah.

00:34:44.200 Yeah.

00:34:44.460 Okay, good.

00:34:45.540 Did you get that for me?

00:34:46.580 Did my office send that in?

00:34:48.120 I don't know.

00:34:49.160 I don't, I don't remember where we, uh, do you remember Stu?

00:34:52.060 But we have it and we've played it.

00:34:53.720 Yeah.

00:34:53.880 Oh yeah.

00:34:54.400 Yeah.

00:34:54.660 It's, it's, uh, it doesn't, it doesn't stop.

00:34:57.340 No.

00:34:57.660 I mean, it doesn't stop.

00:34:58.800 They just, it just keeps going and going.

00:35:00.600 So.

00:35:01.040 And much nastier.

00:35:02.160 I mean, I'm, I'm like a kind person by comparison.

00:35:05.360 They're calling for death.

00:35:07.100 Oh, I know.

00:35:07.860 That's crazy. 1.00

00:35:09.180 She's like a crazy lunatic. 1.00

00:35:10.880 The way she talks about people go into restaurants and beat them up and things that, you know, her statements 1.00

00:35:17.000 are just unbelievable.

00:35:17.900 But a lot of them are unbelievable.

00:35:20.240 And, uh, nobody talks about them.

00:35:22.960 Hillary Clinton, who called up and conceded the night of the election.

00:35:26.820 And a week later, she started saying that she won the election.

00:35:29.640 Not that she was, she said, I didn't win.

00:35:31.480 Uh, I didn't win, you know, it's all about, and then she made up the Russia, Russia, Russia 0.97

00:35:36.260 hoax.

00:35:37.300 And then after two years, I won that.

00:35:39.500 And then they go into Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. 0.98

00:35:42.160 No, these are sick people. 0.97

00:35:43.640 I know. 0.98

00:35:43.980 The public, they get it almost as well as you do.

00:35:47.720 So, so Mr. President, we have, um, we have so many problems.

00:35:53.600 I got a, uh, I got a call from a Democrat, uh, just, uh, last week.

00:35:59.100 And she said, uh, Glenn, I'm, I'm thinking about voting for a Republican and I'm still

00:36:05.240 a Democrat.

00:36:06.140 She said, but I'm on a fixed income.

00:36:09.060 I know for a fact what I used to have in my pocket at the end of every month is now not

00:36:14.680 even there at the end of every week.

00:36:17.040 They are hurting.

00:36:18.380 People feel like the Republic is over.

00:36:21.800 A lot of people look at what's going on and say, this can't last.

00:36:26.360 Can you give people hope that change can happen and you can bring things back, uh, a, a Republic

00:36:36.820 and an economy?

00:36:40.580 So Glenn, I can look, we had this running until COVID two and a half years.

00:36:45.760 It was the greatest economy in the history of the world.

00:36:48.060 We were, everybody was happy.

00:36:49.980 African-Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, men, people with diplomas

00:36:56.720 from MIT and people with no diplomas from high school.

00:37:00.760 Everybody was happy.

00:37:02.160 And frankly, I was getting calls from people on the left and even the radical left, get

00:37:05.820 together, get together.

00:37:07.020 This country was coming together.

00:37:08.480 Then we got hit with COVID.

00:37:09.940 We did a great job with COVID has never been acknowledged, but it will be in history.

00:37:14.440 We did a great job with the ventilators and all the things we did because nobody knew

00:37:19.240 what it was.

00:37:19.900 Nobody had any clue as to what it was.

00:37:22.580 And we did a great job.

00:37:24.000 And when we handed it back over after a terrible, terrible election, I mean, they use COVID,

00:37:31.000 they cheated.

00:37:31.540 Even if you just go by what they did with legislators and legislatures, what they did with the consent

00:37:38.960 decree in Georgia, the signing of that consent decree was by Raffensperger and the governor.

00:37:45.800 The signing of that consent decree was the end of Georgia.

00:37:49.880 That was the beginning of the end.

00:37:51.740 And then when Doug Collins didn't get in, instead of picking, you know, you would have

00:37:56.020 had Purdue, you would have had Collins.

00:37:57.600 It would have been like a rookie thing.

00:37:59.280 But if you look at those things.

00:38:00.660 Georgia was so badly hurt.

00:38:01.840 But the signing of that consent decree, and frankly, going around legislatures and not

00:38:06.780 getting approvals and running these elections the way they ran them was a disgrace.

00:38:11.440 But again, I got more votes than any sitting president in history by far, by millions.

00:38:16.480 I know.

00:38:17.060 And it's a very, very sad thing that happened to us.

00:38:19.400 So let me ask you, because you talk about what has happened in the past.

00:38:25.500 I look at the GOP, you know, the head of the chair of the RNC tweeted on the day that

00:38:32.420 you had the mugshot, her excitement for the convention to come to Houston in 2028.

00:38:39.420 They're not.

00:38:40.360 I mean, the GOP is not at their post.

00:38:43.600 And Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, that the GOP has not been changing the things that

00:38:54.260 happened last time in the election.

00:38:56.740 They haven't shored those up.

00:38:58.480 How do we how do we ensure that we have a real election if the GOP won't do anything?

00:39:05.380 Yeah, you're not.

00:39:06.460 You're not wrong.

00:39:07.160 Look, I've been complaining.

00:39:08.180 They're not tough enough. 1.00

00:39:09.000 The Democrats are dirty players. 1.00

00:39:11.640 They lie. 1.00

00:39:12.520 They cheat.

00:39:13.380 What they did was unbelievable with ballots, with every every conceivable form of of cheating.

00:39:19.660 And that includes, if you think, even the FBI.

00:39:22.880 How about the FBI Twitter?

00:39:24.620 Then you have the DOJ and Facebook and you have all of these things that happen.

00:39:29.740 And it was incredible what they did.

00:39:33.000 And they used COVID to do it.

00:39:35.020 But, you know, I'll tell you, my most two questions that I've asked most often is the

00:39:40.400 first is, how do you take it?

00:39:42.300 How do you live?

00:39:43.200 How do you take it?

00:39:44.180 And I get that asked from very successful people like you.

00:39:47.180 Yeah.

00:39:47.460 But I get that asked by the most successful people, people that have been tough and smart.

00:39:51.980 They say, could I ask you something, President?

00:39:53.800 How do you take it?

00:39:55.240 And I take it because I take it.

00:39:56.640 You know, I mean, I sometimes say, do I have a choice? 0.99

00:40:00.000 These people are crazy.

00:40:01.960 But, you know, I've been taking it from the day I came down the escalator. 0.95

00:40:04.920 You know, they made up that Russia hoax when I went up to number one in the polls.

00:40:10.000 You know, if I wasn't polling, if I were doing in fourth place, like almost everybody,

00:40:15.380 you know, they're all they're all gone.

00:40:16.900 The Republicans are all gone.

00:40:18.340 They're way they're way down.

00:40:19.820 De Sanctimone is very disloyal guy.

00:40:21.700 He's so far down.

00:40:22.500 I think he's probably not even going to be in second place much longer.

00:40:25.380 But I'm I'm 40, 50 points ahead of all the Republicans.

00:40:29.060 But they say, how do you take it?

00:40:30.980 The fact that there's such love of what we stand for and what we stand for is a great

00:40:37.080 economy, strong borders.

00:40:38.480 All of it's going to come back.

00:40:40.140 The hardest thing to cure is going to be the millions and millions of people that they

00:40:44.740 allowed into our country. 0.91

00:40:46.320 They allow millions of people.

00:40:48.540 And Glenn, these are people from prisons, from jails.

00:40:51.520 These are people from mental institutions.

00:40:54.120 And you can call them insane asylums, which is a step above. 0.98

00:40:57.780 These are the people that they're allowing into our country. 1.00

00:41:00.800 And there are terrorists.

00:41:02.160 There are terrorists coming into our country and they're just walking in and they're totally

00:41:06.200 nobody knows who they are, what they are, where they are.

00:41:09.860 It's what they're doing to our country is either a death wish. 1.00

00:41:14.520 They're not stupid because anybody that could cheat that way in elections is not stupid. 1.00

00:41:19.060 But what they are is, I believe they might hate our country. 1.00

00:41:23.720 They have to.

00:41:24.060 I think they might.

00:41:25.800 They might hate our country.

00:41:27.400 And who can want open borders?

00:41:29.260 Who can want no voter ID?

00:41:31.080 You know, they have a thing for voter ID.

00:41:33.320 They fight voter ID viciously.

00:41:35.840 Why don't you want voter ID?

00:41:37.520 Because you want to cheat.

00:41:38.380 And if you think about it, they have to cheat because who wants open, who's going to vote

00:41:43.200 for open borders, high taxes, high interest rates, bad economy, weak military, woke and

00:41:49.460 a woke military, believe it or not.

00:41:51.580 You know, I defeated ISIS with our military.

00:41:53.620 I did it in four weeks.

00:41:55.420 I took out ISIS. 0.82

00:41:56.600 I was told by certain generals and the television generals it would take years.

00:42:01.400 And I flew to Iraq and I came back with some incredible information and I knocked out ISIS 0.73

00:42:07.760 in four weeks.

00:42:08.900 You know, our military is incredible.

00:42:10.460 They don't get the credit.

00:42:11.780 But then you see in Afghanistan, I was all forgetting.

00:42:14.640 I'm the one that got the troops down.

00:42:16.280 I know.

00:42:16.680 But you have to keep Bagram and you have to take our soldiers out last, not first. 0.92

00:42:20.840 What they did is so horrible.

00:42:22.740 And I believe it was the lowest point in the history of our country.

00:42:26.380 What happened, that withdrawal, the way they withdrew from Afghanistan was the lowest in

00:42:32.280 the history of our country.

00:42:33.460 But no, we'll bring it back.

00:42:34.720 We're going to bring back the economy and we're going to bring back the strong border. 0.88

00:42:38.540 Last question.

00:42:40.180 You said that you weren't going, but you would be watching the debate for a vice president.

00:42:48.340 Have you thought of Vice President Ramaswamy?

00:42:52.960 Well, I think he's great.

00:42:54.220 Look, anybody that said I'm the best president in a generation, I don't know, you'll have

00:42:58.900 to define generation for so long.

00:43:01.320 And he said it a couple of times and he said it in a hundred years.

00:43:05.400 So I have to like a guy like that.

00:43:07.240 You know, I can't get upset with him, but he's a smart guy.

00:43:10.660 He's a young guy.

00:43:12.660 He's got a lot of talent.

00:43:13.960 He's a very, very, very intelligent person.

00:43:17.500 He's got good energy and he could be in some form of something.

00:43:21.620 I tell you, I think he'd be very good.

00:43:23.140 I think he's very good.

00:43:23.860 I think he's really distinguished himself.

00:43:26.120 He's starting to get out there a little bit.

00:43:27.780 He's a little bit getting a little bit controversial.

00:43:29.880 I got to tell him, be a little bit careful.

00:43:32.040 Because some things have to hold in just a little bit, right?

00:43:37.620 He's got a lot of good energy, I will tell you.

00:43:39.760 And he's been very nice to me.

00:43:42.820 And, you know, most of them have, other than Christie.

00:43:45.180 I don't think that Christie left with an 8% approval rating.

00:43:47.740 Oh, yeah.

00:43:48.100 It was horrible.

00:43:48.680 And he was tied up in Bridgegate the whole thing.

00:43:50.580 He was a mess.

00:43:51.560 He was a disaster.

00:43:52.840 It was amazing how there is the new generation and the old generation of Republicans that just seem to be completely out of touch with what time it is.

00:44:04.140 Well, they don't get it.

00:44:06.120 They don't.

00:44:06.640 And Mitch McConnell, I mean, Mitch has to go, has to go.

00:44:09.740 He's given them trillions of dollars that he could have stopped.

00:44:13.140 You know, and now they're campaigning on the fact that they have trillions of dollars.

00:44:16.060 That was given by Mitch and 10 of his people that voted as he demanded that they vote.

00:44:21.160 And, you know, it's not that he's a leader.

00:44:23.000 He raises a lot of money and he gives it to senators.

00:44:25.760 Yeah, no.

00:44:26.160 And it's sort of like he buys his leadership.

00:44:28.700 It's terrible.

00:44:29.300 Exactly right.

00:44:29.740 But he gave them all of this Green New Deal money, and it's probably $9 trillion if you add it up.

00:44:36.580 And it's like throwing it out the window.

00:44:38.380 It's a horrible thing.

00:44:39.360 And it does cause inflation.

00:44:40.560 But it's like throwing it out the window.

00:44:42.700 It's a horrible thing.

00:44:43.800 President Donald Trump, thank you very much, sir.

00:44:46.680 We pray for you.

00:44:47.800 Millions of Americans stand behind you.

00:44:50.700 And I hope more and more Americans wake up to the circus that we've turned our country into with this persecution of you.

00:45:01.100 But thank you, sir.

00:45:02.080 Appreciate it.

00:45:03.340 Thank you.

00:45:03.900 And we're going to make America great again.

00:45:05.460 You watch.

00:45:06.000 It's going to happen fast.

00:45:07.340 It's going to happen fast.

00:45:08.340 And I appreciate it very much.

00:45:09.660 And you're a brave voice.

00:45:10.780 You are a very brave voice and have been for a long time.

00:45:13.160 Thank you, sir.

00:45:13.700 Thank you, Glenn.

00:45:14.080 You bet.

00:45:14.460 Bye-bye.

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