The Great America Show - Another BAILOUT from President Trump as 'Woke' seeks to destroy America!

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00:00:29.720 But the election season is here, and it is heating up.

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00:00:46.320 it seems there's some Republicans who don't really care about winning that 2026 election.

00:00:51.500 President Trump on Truth Social earlier today suggesting to maybe hold an RNC convention before

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00:01:30.520 I had said a few weeks ago, last time we had on my pal and laid pollster for Rasmussen Reports,

00:01:36.680 Mark Mitchell.

00:01:37.120 We're going to try to bring him on once a week heading now into the election season as

00:01:41.680 we look forward to September to get an update on where the Republican Party is, where they're

00:01:47.620 slouching, where they need help, and what we can do to help some of these people who are

00:01:52.860 worthy of help.

00:01:53.660 So our guest here today is my good friend and lead pollster for Rasmussen Reports, the

00:01:58.760 great Mark Mitchell.

00:02:00.000 Mark, as always, a delight to have you here.

00:02:08.500 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:10.120 A lot happened while I was over in Asia.

00:02:13.140 Namely, I guess we can start with Cracker Barrel, deciding they wanted to go woke, change

00:02:19.940 everything about the store, change everything that the store stands for, that was built on

00:02:25.460 years of tradition, tens of years of tradition.

00:02:28.240 And what looked like a Bud Light move for them, quickly folding.

00:02:34.040 Yeah, it was a big deal.

00:02:35.120 And this is my favorite topic, because I worked in one of these woke corporations, and most

00:02:39.840 people don't understand what woke is, but this is a really great example.

00:02:43.540 What did they do?

00:02:44.640 Yeah, they've had some pride events.

00:02:46.320 Yeah, they've supported young transgenders and stuff like that.

00:02:50.180 But that's not what this was about.

00:02:51.660 This was simply about taking a logo and giving it the global homo treatment, which is everything 1.00

00:02:57.040 becomes a sterile, two-color logo.

00:02:59.840 I mean, literally, we're all going to shop at something in the future that has a two-color

00:03:04.060 logo and looks like it was designed by Joanna Gaines.

00:03:07.080 That's literally what every eating establishment is going to be.

00:03:10.200 And that's what they did, too.

00:03:11.800 And you look at it, and you say, well, okay, why did it happen?

00:03:15.240 Why is it woke?

00:03:15.980 And it's like they don't understand their customers.

00:03:18.440 Their customers are going there for a specific eating experience.

00:03:22.660 And they've decided to completely change it.

00:03:25.220 And the entire company was behind it.

00:03:26.780 I'm sure the board hired this woman specifically for that. 1.00

00:03:30.040 I'm sure the entire management layer was like, hey, we did a good job.

00:03:33.580 I can't wait to show the world what this $700 million investment is going to look like.

00:03:37.840 But you know what?

00:03:38.600 They could have just fixed the eating experience, which as far as I hear it, and I've eaten there,

00:03:42.800 is that the food kind of stinks now.

00:03:44.840 It's just gotten worse because now they just rip open a bag and microwave it.

00:03:48.820 You know why they won't do that?

00:03:49.980 You're a business-oriented guy, John.

00:03:52.060 They won't do that because fixing the food hits margins.

00:03:55.160 But when you take a $700 million investment, you can hide it in capital expenditure, and

00:03:59.420 it doesn't hit EBITDA. 0.80

00:04:00.760 So this is literally just a private equity, global homo, disgusting game of, I don't really 1.00

00:04:05.600 care what the customer thinks, but I feel good about myself because I can put this redesign 0.68

00:04:10.480 on my resume.

00:04:12.040 And America absolutely puked on it, and I love it. 0.52

00:04:14.480 Because if you look at Bud Light, the people managing Bud Light at the end of the day could

00:04:19.580 say, you know what?

00:04:20.460 Americans are just transphobic. 0.83

00:04:22.560 There's no trans people here. 0.87

00:04:23.780 This is literally, no, you guys don't understand the customer.

00:04:27.180 And I think that that's most every major corporation now, because what you do is you take these H-1Bs, 1.00

00:04:33.040 you take these soulless MBAs, and you put them in charge of these major companies.

00:04:38.160 All the human resource people don't hire folks like me.

00:04:40.860 And you know what I would have said?

00:04:42.260 Don't you think our customers are going to hate doing this?

00:04:44.400 And I would have been fired, kicked out of the room.

00:04:46.660 But no, this is the major problem we're dealing with.

00:04:49.520 Every corporation is like this.

00:04:51.220 And just getting rid of your DEI department is not going to fix it.

00:04:55.940 You're absolutely right about, I guess, what their idea of gentrification is, the two-color

00:05:02.460 system.

00:05:03.100 Go look at Europe and how well things work over there, because I think they're ahead of the

00:05:06.540 curve on this issue.

00:05:08.060 And I mean, just about all of Europe is in the absolute shitter. 0.96

00:05:10.840 The economies in almost every country, they're absolutely in the shitter. 0.88

00:05:15.060 They have an immigration problem that's like no other. 0.99

00:05:18.080 We think we have a bad here in America with South America. 0.98

00:05:21.980 They have a problem over there with Africa and other countries from the Middle East pouring 1.00

00:05:28.220 in and flooding their country. 0.73

00:05:29.380 So I think they're going to have a bigger problem than we have here in America.

00:05:33.020 I think at America here, you've got some of these guys who come over here and work.

00:05:37.820 A lot of them bring drugs, but over there, I think you're going to see a lot bigger problem.

00:05:42.000 I guess time will tell.

00:05:43.540 The great Lou Dobbs is rolling over in his grave right now, thinking about what they've

00:05:47.540 done to Cracker Barrel.

00:05:48.920 I've got to share this picture.

00:05:50.460 This is one of my last meals that I've had with the great Lou Dobbs before he passed away

00:05:55.000 in Florida.

00:05:56.820 We were down on vacation there.

00:05:58.100 That's Lou Dobbs in Cracker Barrel shopping for his wife, buying her candy.

00:06:03.840 Nice.

00:06:04.200 A great moment.

00:06:06.300 What did he order, John?

00:06:08.740 Hold on.

00:06:09.420 I think we've got a picture I sent to his wife when we were there.

00:06:14.700 Hold on.

00:06:16.400 That was before we ordered.

00:06:18.440 So we had just left the studio.

00:06:20.420 We were using in Florida.

00:06:22.520 You saw him on the phone.

00:06:23.600 They're always working.

00:06:24.920 He used to get the biscuit and gravy.

00:06:27.340 And I'd watch him eat it.

00:06:28.880 And I'm like, how are you?

00:06:30.020 And like 90% of the time, he ate pretty healthy because his wife made him.

00:06:34.300 But unless he was with me, of course, me and him left the studio.

00:06:38.160 And I'll never forget, he wasn't feeling too well.

00:06:40.620 He had just gotten a cold.

00:06:42.180 And he looked at me.

00:06:43.320 He goes, you mind if we stop at Cracker Barrel?

00:06:44.720 I go, man, we can stop wherever the hell you want.

00:06:47.020 And I'm so glad we did it because he's like, don't tell Deb because she'll get upset that

00:06:50.540 I went to Cracker Barrel two days in a row.

00:06:52.620 I had to tell her anyway.

00:06:53.560 But, you know, I was so happy I didn't, you know, because he didn't have much time on

00:06:58.540 Earth after.

00:07:00.520 Yeah, you know, 30 years ago, the biscuits and gravy at Cracker Barrel were probably fresh

00:07:04.920 baked biscuits with flour and like, you know, real milk in the gravy and stuff like that.

00:07:10.640 Now it's hydrogenated seed oils and, you know, things with all of these preservatives because

00:07:15.580 it's made in 10 different factories across the country.

00:07:18.240 So, yeah, I mean, like this is super sad, an American icon.

00:07:22.480 And they've completely given it the global homo. 1.00

00:07:26.620 And and you know what?

00:07:27.440 They caved.

00:07:28.080 I was going to poll on it because I thought it was such a big topic because I think it

00:07:31.180 shows that all the people leading these companies have no idea who America is.

00:07:35.740 Look at the reaction to the American Eagle ad with Cindy Sweetie.

00:07:39.360 And all they did was copy something from the 90s.

00:07:41.840 Look at the absolute splash that it made.

00:07:45.100 And this is like every every single company like this.

00:07:48.480 And they folded so fast.

00:07:50.580 Donald Trump came out there and commented on it.

00:07:52.700 And it's wild to see Gavin Newsom try and take credit in some weird he's he's getting

00:07:57.380 strange.

00:07:58.840 But, you know, what hasn't been answered, though, is what's the plans for the restaurants?

00:08:03.080 Because they changed the logo back.

00:08:04.880 And I'm not so sure that they're going to I think they're going to go through with that,

00:08:08.260 you know, redesign.

00:08:10.180 And I think it'll be interesting as America watches along as this slice of Americana just

00:08:15.660 gets the sterile, you know, white wall with like fake stuff on the walls. 0.93

00:08:21.640 Like, yeah, it's going to be disgusting.

00:08:23.860 There's a certain nostalgia.

00:08:25.400 I lived in Florida for quite some time.

00:08:28.260 And maybe I went to Cracker Barrel once or twice down there.

00:08:30.940 I think I probably went to Cracker Barrel more times as a kid driving from New York to

00:08:35.180 Myrtle Beach with my family as a kid for family vacations.

00:08:38.880 We were younger.

00:08:40.780 There's a certain nostalgia.

00:08:42.020 It's walking in and seeing grime on the floor and dirt and jam on the floor.

00:08:47.540 You know what I mean?

00:08:47.980 You know what you get when you're going to there.

00:08:49.700 It's like a good old American place.

00:08:51.620 You're not getting five star dining. 1.00

00:08:53.920 But these people, what they don't realize is everything woke turns to shit. 0.99

00:08:57.720 And that's exactly, I think, what they tried to do with this place. 0.99

00:09:01.400 Now, I'm not sure if you saw it, but I think it was a few months or maybe up to a year ago

00:09:05.100 they brought in an advisory company to Cracker Barrel to ask them, hey, how do we gentrify

00:09:10.920 this place?

00:09:11.440 How can we change it?

00:09:12.500 And the company said, do not do what you're about to do.

00:09:16.080 They said, the hell with you guys.

00:09:18.220 Granted, Mark, they probably spent millions and tens of millions of dollars to bring these

00:09:22.140 people in.

00:09:22.600 And they bring all types of people in, graphic designers.

00:09:25.340 They do focus groups and, you know, they work out the kinks.

00:09:28.780 And these people said, no, no, no, don't do it.

00:09:31.560 Leave it. 0.95

00:09:32.180 You know how it is.

00:09:33.100 Everything is fine.

00:09:34.620 But, of course, you always get a CEO.

00:09:37.240 And this woman who's the CEO, I guess, thought she was smarter than everybody in the room. 1.00

00:09:41.760 As we now see, it took Donald Trump to step in and save this company.

00:09:47.240 Yeah.

00:09:47.720 No, I think she was probably handcuffed. 1.00

00:09:49.540 I bet you the board was like, we need somebody to do redesign.

00:09:52.220 And I bet you it was her primary goal is like, you have two years to make this happen.

00:09:57.040 Here's what we're thinking.

00:09:58.200 And like, who knows?

00:09:59.560 What was weird is that the person under her was hiring for a creative director.

00:10:03.340 And I think the role is still open.

00:10:05.080 So anybody who meets that requirements, who's on your show right now still might be able

00:10:09.780 to get hired to set the future of the look and feel of Cracker Barrel.

00:10:15.040 I think everyone who's tuned into this show right now has far too high of an IQ to take 1.00

00:10:19.220 any job at Cracker Barrel based on what those idiots just did. 1.00

00:10:22.620 You know, it's funny. 1.00

00:10:23.140 Before the show, we were talking as usual.

00:10:25.600 We're never on time with getting the show out because we talk and we spoke for about

00:10:29.400 a half hour.

00:10:30.560 More, actually, almost close to an hour.

00:10:32.720 And, you know, you had mentioned it was funny.

00:10:35.020 It's mentioned you could either be rich or you can be famous.

00:10:38.620 You can't be both.

00:10:39.420 And I said, no, Mark, you can either be rich and have a job making a lot of money or you

00:10:43.200 can have integrity.

00:10:44.780 And you and I, I guess, chose the path of integrity.

00:10:49.020 But some of these people in these corporate worlds, they just take a paycheck and they don't

00:10:52.960 really care about the retribution.

00:10:54.680 They don't care about.

00:10:55.720 And this is, I think, a problem that more people need to handle shareholder equity.

00:11:00.140 It's a publicly traded company.

00:11:02.100 Someone has to hold these people responsible.

00:11:04.180 And not responsible in the sense that you vote on a proxy every time they come up for

00:11:09.500 a new board member or chief executive or whatever, if you're a shareholder.

00:11:14.000 Public backlash, like we just saw this last week, more people need to start standing up

00:11:19.960 and they have.

00:11:21.120 But more people need to stand up to these woke corporations who think that they're going

00:11:25.740 to destroy legacies and legacies of great, great American companies.

00:11:31.060 I mean, we're dwindling by a thread here about things that are made in America and great

00:11:35.740 American companies.

00:11:36.700 We really can't afford to be screwing it up much more.

00:11:40.280 Yeah.

00:11:40.380 Or what even does an American product look and feel like? 0.85

00:11:44.100 This is I mean, I say offhanded the word globo homo.

00:11:47.780 And we've talked about that before.

00:11:49.160 But this isn't some joke thing.

00:11:51.380 It's a real phenomenon that's dangerous.

00:11:53.640 And I'll tell you a little story about it, but we have to define woke is not puts pronouns

00:11:59.220 in the bio and wears those black rim glasses.

00:12:02.620 Woke is you code your responses to decisions based on what is the most consensus oriented.

00:12:12.740 You want to be part of a club. 1.00

00:12:14.240 Whereas non woke, in my opinion, is no, this is a stupid decision. 1.00

00:12:17.880 We shouldn't do that. 0.99

00:12:18.900 And I put my integrity over my own future prospects.

00:12:23.640 So there was a restaurant that I used to go to when I was a kid called the Ground Rounds.

00:12:28.360 And it wasn't the best restaurant, but we love going there.

00:12:31.020 It was a great family experience.

00:12:32.500 They put cartoons up on the wall on a projector and there was a foot of peanut shells all over

00:12:37.780 the floor.

00:12:38.380 And we'd go there all the time.

00:12:39.740 Right.

00:12:40.280 And then somewhere in the 80s, they got rid of the peanuts because somebody had an allergic

00:12:43.820 reaction or whatever.

00:12:45.080 You know, the corporate mastermind said, hey, this isn't worth the risk.

00:12:48.220 And so they completely destroyed the experience.

00:12:51.600 And, you know, it might not have been the peanuts, but we stopped going there.

00:12:54.560 And maybe it wasn't, again, the peanuts, but Ground Round slowly over the years died,

00:12:58.880 got taken over by private equity people.

00:13:00.960 They tried to revive it.

00:13:01.860 It didn't work.

00:13:02.460 It's still dead.

00:13:03.520 Then what happened is Texas Roadhouse came along and all of a sudden you got peanut shells

00:13:07.520 all over the floor again.

00:13:08.560 Right.

00:13:08.980 And all of a sudden this chain, again, there are other factors, but this chain goes wild.

00:13:14.560 Everybody goes there.

00:13:15.560 You know what, John?

00:13:16.220 They're going after the peanuts at Texas Roadhouse again. 1.00

00:13:19.540 It's the same corporate crap. 0.99

00:13:21.180 It's like, no, we can't have anything unique. 0.99

00:13:23.640 Everything has to be confined within the same risk basket.

00:13:27.620 And it's sickening because it's happening to every company.

00:13:31.980 Everything gets this glossy veneer of private equity.

00:13:34.560 You want to talk about private equity.

00:13:37.440 I was always, I had on the show a few months ago, a guy named the name of Jerry Storch.

00:13:41.980 He was the former CEO of Toys R Us, private equity guy, a former private equity guy.

00:13:49.340 And I never knew what happened to Toys R Us.

00:13:51.740 I was always under the impression that Toys R Us got crushed because of Amazon and other things.

00:13:57.440 And I bring this guy on the show, and I was brutally awakened to the reality that private equity was the one who ruined Toys R Us by levering the thing to a tent that they could never pull themselves out of.

00:14:10.440 Now, for the people like me who aren't, you know, economics guys, pretty much what they did was they took out so much debt on the place and took out so much loans against the place that they could never afford to pay it back.

00:14:21.280 That's what killed Toys R Us.

00:14:23.100 There you go.

00:14:23.740 Another great American company that, by the way, Mark, I think he told me was doing a billion dollars a year in e-commerce sales at the time they went under.

00:14:31.880 So, clearly, not an issue with, I got to, by the way, I got to get him back on the show.

00:14:37.940 John, poor Jeffrey.

00:14:40.440 I'll always be a Toys R Us kid, man.

00:14:42.280 American icon put in the dirt by private equity.

00:14:45.480 I'm pretty sure that you'll look, you'll find that it's Bain Capital, Romney's former employer, former, I think he wasn't the founder of Bain Capital.

00:14:54.720 He was on, certainly Romney, I think, was involved in putting the corpse of Toys R Us in the grounds.

00:15:01.600 And again, maybe they overbuilt.

00:15:03.700 But the way this works is that you got some wonk sitting there.

00:15:06.460 I've done this.

00:15:06.960 I've done the spreadsheets.

00:15:07.980 You got somebody and they're like, well, how much debt can we take out?

00:15:11.520 Well, we'll project what our future earnings is going to be.

00:15:14.500 We'll use EBITDA.

00:15:15.960 And it'll say, well, you know, this is cyclical because it follows the consumer and we'll have some good years and bad years and they'll plug it in.

00:15:22.060 And somebody will say, well, you know, that's not enough leverage.

00:15:25.040 We can't have enough debt funded distributions to make this deal work.

00:15:28.320 And so they say, well, let's put a different scenario in, one that doesn't have downturns.

00:15:34.660 And then they'll say, well, that's a little riskier.

00:15:37.600 We'll have to exit after three or four years to make that work so that we can all get paid.

00:15:42.300 And then that's what they do.

00:15:43.320 They do the deal.

00:15:44.260 They go in and fire 20% of the workforce.

00:15:46.460 They lever the thing up and then, you know, maybe if it implodes, we'll still, you know, we'll still get our preferred return.

00:15:53.840 We'll still get an 8% return back.

00:15:56.380 And if it does well, then we'll all be, you know, make a couple hundred million dollars.

00:16:00.840 We'll get to buy a new Martha's Vineyard Mansion. 0.89

00:16:03.800 Meanwhile, Americans get screwed. 0.94

00:16:05.400 My kids don't have the experience of going to a toy store. 0.99

00:16:08.680 They don't even know what one is.

00:16:10.480 You know, FAO shorts, I think was another one.

00:16:12.460 I think there's still one open, the one open in Rockefeller Center.

00:16:15.800 But, I mean, so much of our, we're obviously a little bit different in age, two or three years in age difference.

00:16:21.120 But a lot of the things that were around for you when you were a child were around for me that are just now gone.

00:16:29.000 And, you know, it's truly sad to see that just America is becoming extremely corporate.

00:16:34.880 Mom and pop shops can't stay open.

00:16:37.180 I was in Manhattan the other day.

00:16:39.860 Right.

00:16:40.400 Keep a mall open.

00:16:41.320 Empty.

00:16:42.040 Absolutely.

00:16:42.660 Unless it's, you know, a high-scale, up-scale mall out by you in Jersey, Short Hills Mall, a mall I frequent, packed to the brim.

00:16:49.900 And it's, you know, it's only nice stores, though.

00:16:51.740 It's for the rich and elite people.

00:16:53.500 You go to another mall, and the place is absolutely dead because people don't have the money.

00:16:58.140 People aren't spending the money they have because they don't know.

00:17:01.120 And, you know, it's funny to think about it that we just talked about private equity levering the hell out of companies, putting them into bankruptcy.

00:17:07.640 You've got American people who are more responsible than these private equity people because they know if I don't save this money or if I don't do this, I won't be able to pay my bills next month.

00:17:17.180 Whereas private equity, guys, it doesn't matter because you implode, you move on to the next thing, and there's no, you know, accountability for any mistakes that you make.

00:17:25.220 Imagine that, Mark.

00:17:26.020 Imagine in America where there was accountability for people who are destroying the country.

00:17:30.200 I mean, that's one of the problems with our corporate is there has been no accountability.

00:17:35.280 This is the reason why, like, 70% of the S&P value is shoved into, like, 10 different corporations.

00:17:42.480 There has been no redress for these monopolies, and these corporations literally cannot fail.

00:17:47.500 First off, we've seen a situation where corporations were too big to fail, and responsible middle-class people had to bail out those corporations with a moral hazard.

00:17:55.480 That was gross, and I was screaming about that 20 years ago, but then since then, what have you had?

00:18:01.060 You've had zero interest rate and Bernanke bucks that have just gone flowing into all this stuff.

00:18:06.860 It's really gross the way that they create things like massive unicorns that never had viable financial models, and then you had all of these H-1Bs and San Francisco people who don't represent the values of America get these $400,000, $500,000 jobs with all these perks in a company that obviously is going to implode someday. 0.59

00:18:24.900 But you know whose money gets hit?

00:18:27.140 Oh, California pension.

00:18:29.460 Oh, the teachers.

00:18:30.900 Oh, the firemen.

00:18:32.900 Literally, that's what it's worth.

00:18:34.600 They take the 5% alternative investment allocation of major public pensions, and they dump them into businesses that will not succeed.

00:18:44.020 They take a 20% cut of whatever upside that they can get by selling that thing to retail investors on the IPO market.

00:18:51.760 So, retail investors are going to take the cut on that, right, when the business ultimately fails, if it ever does.

00:18:58.240 And so, what you have is these businesses like Uber who, you know, they have a massive business, but it's never going to make any money.

00:19:06.140 You have all these people reaping the benefits of these perks as this business kicks along, and then ultimately somebody is going to be left holding the bag.

00:19:14.100 And it's not going to be the investor.

00:19:15.880 It's not going to be the investment bank.

00:19:18.060 I'm sorry.

00:19:18.400 I got on a rant.

00:19:19.060 But this is global homo klepto corporate cronyism. 1.00

00:19:23.940 Like, that's literally what this is.

00:19:25.900 And everybody looks at the government and says, well, we don't trust the federal government.

00:19:29.140 The federal government is so corrupt.

00:19:31.420 Well, there's another side to that coin.

00:19:34.240 Like, they're not doing this by themselves.

00:19:36.700 Like, Zuckerberg literally purchased elections in order to keep this system going.

00:19:40.780 Like, right, we witnessed, Mark, we witnessed, you mentioned Zuckerberg, Google, and all these other people emailing directly with the federal government posts that Donald Trump was making back in 2016 to 20.

00:19:54.520 I don't like it.

00:19:55.380 Take it down.

00:19:56.080 No problem, master.

00:19:58.280 Like, you have the corporate America, these corporations, publicly traded companies, too, answering to government officials.

00:20:07.380 They want to talk about dictatorships.

00:20:10.660 They want to talk about Donald Trump being a dictator.

00:20:13.000 Since when and what country?

00:20:15.260 I've never heard of this in America.

00:20:16.760 I've heard of it maybe in North Korea and China and Venezuela.

00:20:20.020 Have you heard of a private company being told by the government, take this down because we don't like it?

00:20:27.420 Yeah.

00:20:28.060 Or what they did with Twitter, which is, I need you to enforce the narrative for me in order to maintain public safety.

00:20:34.180 It's, like, so propagandistic.

00:20:36.180 We were on that list.

00:20:37.920 That's how I know this.

00:20:39.560 But, yeah, like, it puts the whole Epstein thing in a whole other, you know, light.

00:20:44.120 It's, like, well, now I guess we know why Jamie Dimon never got investigated or even interviewed at all by the FBI.

00:20:51.320 There is no Jamie Dimon Form 302 sitting around about the, you know, little talk he had about being on this plane.

00:20:58.220 Nor Bill Gates, nor any of the people in Hollywood, nor any of these other people, Reid Hoffman, the big LinkedIn guy.

00:21:05.540 Man, you know, our intelligence agencies love social media.

00:21:09.620 So it makes a whole heck of a lot of sense that when you have somebody that founded one of the biggest social media sites in all of America, they're not going to go after him.

00:21:18.040 Even if he is allegedly a predator of children, that's – oh, man.

00:21:23.820 I wouldn't depress myself, John.

00:21:25.420 I don't know how we got on this.

00:21:26.160 That's the thing, like, I've been trying to tell people for the last – I don't know, whenever this Epstein thing started, it feels like a blur now.

00:21:32.460 You know, it started before the summer and the summer happens.

00:21:34.600 And, you know, you forget, I think, a lot of things that have happened.

00:21:37.220 But it's not about going after Donald Trump for the Epstein files or anything like that.

00:21:41.880 It's about getting justice for the people who were wronged by the entire situation.

00:21:46.020 And I think it's a testament to what's wrong with America with the powerful elites being allowed to skate by on everything and no retribution or no accountability for doing anything wrong.

00:22:00.540 That's what the bigger picture is.

00:22:02.560 It's not all about Donald Trump.

00:22:04.360 It's about the elites being held accountable for doing wrong and, in this case, very, very wrong.

00:22:11.500 I didn't want us to get on this again.

00:22:13.980 I'm sorry.

00:22:14.400 I've lost so many followers over Epstein.

00:22:16.600 But, again, this is – like you said, this is about accountability.

00:22:20.720 And we see some positive signs.

00:22:24.180 We hear things like Trump is going after now NGOs and he's going after – he's putting an election integrity task force.

00:22:33.220 This is all stuff that might have an impact over the next 12 months.

00:22:36.440 But remember, you know, I've been a corporate leader.

00:22:39.220 I led 100 people at Walmart.

00:22:40.520 And I've been a leader long enough that I know what a turnaround looks like.

00:22:44.400 I know what the external signs of a massive reorganization of the federal government would look like, and we aren't seeing it.

00:22:52.220 And if you'd like to know, it's kind of like what we saw when Twitter was taken over by Elon Musk.

00:22:56.540 That's the most salient example of an organization being completely reformed.

00:23:02.620 What did you see?

00:23:04.360 You saw leaks.

00:23:05.600 You saw lawsuits.

00:23:07.340 You saw histrionic stories.

00:23:09.700 You saw people getting mass fired and tears on the street and people's perks taken away and all of these things.

00:23:16.200 We haven't seen any of that.

00:23:17.960 We saw a little bit about USIP and USAID, but really nothing else.

00:23:22.700 You don't see a string of people running to the press from the FBI.

00:23:26.640 And we know the FBI was corrupt because they raided Mar-a-Lago with the use of deadly force.

00:23:31.300 Don't hear anything out of the CIA.

00:23:33.080 They do that every day, Mark.

00:23:34.760 That's nothing out of the ordinary.

00:23:36.020 Yeah.

00:23:36.500 Cool.

00:23:38.500 They do that in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

00:23:41.420 They do it in who was it before Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il's North Korea.

00:23:48.420 You know, this is what Americans know it.

00:23:53.200 Americans know it.

00:23:54.100 This isn't some secret.

00:23:55.140 This isn't like you and I know that the DOJ is like Banana Republic.

00:23:59.240 64% of Americans agreed with that statement, and yet they do it anyways.

00:24:03.280 And so, I don't know.

00:24:05.100 Why not?

00:24:05.620 Because you get away with it.

00:24:06.440 Why not?

00:24:07.080 We would all do things if we knew we can get away with it, right?

00:24:10.200 So, you know, it is what it is.

00:24:12.160 Let's turn to another big story. 0.99

00:24:15.540 This week, another tragedy happening, a mentally deranged transgender. 1.00

00:24:21.200 No other way to put it. 0.99

00:24:23.980 That's what this person was, and most of them are.

00:24:28.340 Taking up to shoot up a church, absolutely sickening that this problem we're having in America.

00:24:35.300 And, of course, you know, from the left, you hear, let's grab and take the guns.

00:24:39.440 Used to be just from the left, but now we're hearing it from the right.

00:24:42.100 Take a listen to Fox News, everyone's favorite Fox News.

00:24:45.900 Take a listen to Trey Gowdy.

00:24:47.660 Our system is reactive.

00:24:48.960 If something bad happens, we react to it.

00:24:51.760 And what people are crying for now is how can we prevent this?

00:24:54.920 How can we stop it?

00:24:56.700 And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands.

00:25:02.320 And so we're going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children.

00:25:08.100 I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we're going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out?

00:25:14.220 It's always a young white male, almost always. 0.89

00:25:18.760 I mean, did anyone this morning think, I wonder if that was a female? 0.82

00:25:22.600 Did any of y'all think that?

00:25:24.060 I mean, there's been one school shooting involving a female.

00:25:26.520 It was in Tennessee.

00:25:28.180 Yeah, Tennessee.

00:25:29.180 But other than that, it is usually young white male. 1.00

00:25:32.580 Young white male doesn't mention that this person's a tranny, a mentally illness, mentally ill tranny. 1.00

00:25:40.840 And we've got a decision to make, Mark. 1.00

00:25:43.260 Take everyone's guns away or this continues.

00:25:46.060 Nobody ever wants to talk about the mental health issue of these people.

00:25:49.320 It's always take the guns away so that the bad guys have the guns and the good guys don't have the guns to defend themselves.

00:25:58.200 So the silver lining to this cloud is that Americans don't think the problem is access to firearms.

00:26:05.460 We have pulled on this question and we gave people a choice.

00:26:08.380 We said, what's causing these shootings?

00:26:10.480 Mental health, school problems, parental issues, social media or access to firearms.

00:26:16.040 Only 26% say access to firearms.

00:26:18.960 41% say mental health.

00:26:21.320 75% say something other than access to firearms.

00:26:25.700 And only 40% of Democrats said access to firearms.

00:26:29.800 So they can go ahead and virtue signal about it. 0.98

00:26:33.080 I think in the current media environment, it's only shooting themselves in the foot.

00:26:37.220 Everything we saw on Twitter yesterday was so sick, including the stuff out of Gavin Newsom, was essentially satanic.

00:26:43.000 They're all trying to throw blame, use it for, again, these crisis-driven gun crackdowns.

00:26:49.980 And I don't think it's going to work because, again, only 30% trust the federal government.

00:26:54.100 That's like the low.

00:26:55.700 It doesn't really get much lower than that in polling.

00:26:58.720 And so in a country where, objectively, we have the Second Amendment because of government tyranny, you're not going to be successful.

00:27:05.720 Now, some of the blue states might crack down, whatever, and we'll see how that plays out because now you're going to have – I think we're getting closer and closer to some very secessionist-type stuff.

00:27:15.640 The verbiage coming out of Pritzker today about how he'll respond if Trump decides to move the National Guards.

00:27:20.820 I don't think that's going to be a problem.

00:27:23.240 But this is a major – there's so much here.

00:27:26.200 And it's got no simple fixes, and everybody's trying to gravitate towards a simple fix.

00:27:31.400 I think the fix is returning to the society that we had in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

00:27:36.820 That's the only sane way.

00:27:38.280 Because – and also, let us first thank the transgender movement.

00:27:42.780 Because without the transgender movement, this guy would have just been called another white school shooter 15, 20 years ago. 0.98

00:27:49.100 And all of the same problems are still there. 0.96

00:27:52.220 You have all these widespread mental health medications.

00:27:55.260 You sponsored a poll that showed that over 30% of 18- to 39-year-olds are on some mind-altering drug.

00:28:01.040 You can't just wean 30% of America off their mental health meds, okay?

00:28:05.060 Then you have access to firearms.

00:28:06.960 Even if there were laws that prevented this guy, he would still get something violent.

00:28:11.440 He would still get a gun.

00:28:12.380 He'd still drive the truck into the church, whatever.

00:28:14.580 Then you have, okay, well, people say bring back the mental health facilities.

00:28:19.660 Who was going to commit a 20-year-old male?

00:28:22.760 Who?

00:28:23.120 Like the mom wouldn't have stood for it.

00:28:25.100 Nobody was going to do it.

00:28:26.760 I grew up in a town, very nice small community.

00:28:29.400 Everybody knew each other.

00:28:30.520 And there were halfway houses because there used to be hotels, and some of them went out of business.

00:28:35.600 So there were like crazy people in my town.

00:28:38.640 And one time, this guy started harassing teenage girls.

00:28:41.840 And my dad and a few other fathers went to this guy and had a little talk, and it never happened anymore.

00:28:47.860 And that's because in a traditional community where people aren't hiding behind Facebook all day, people talk to other people.

00:28:55.740 They know what the personal situation is.

00:28:57.700 And quite frankly, I don't think we've heard enough about this person's family life. 0.96

00:29:01.780 So the problem here, I think, is like, okay, yeah, there's so many white male school shooters.

00:29:06.500 Well, how many of them are raised by a white suburban liberal who has Munchausen syndrome or who is using the kid as a fill-in for the father figure or so many things, who has robbed that child of the chance to go to church or whatever, right?

00:29:23.040 And so there's all this hatred.

00:29:24.960 Oh, he was radicalized.

00:29:26.140 What were you going to do?

00:29:26.880 Take away the First Amendment?

00:29:28.100 I'm sure that he was radicalized by people who were using the First Amendment.

00:29:32.240 Like there's no easy solution to this.

00:29:33.940 By the way, folks, you just heard it there.

00:29:36.660 Mark Mitchell's dad made somebody disappear.

00:29:39.080 I think Mark Mitchell might be a gangster.

00:29:41.540 No, no, no.

00:29:42.020 He was still there.

00:29:43.220 He just changed his behavior.

00:29:45.280 You know what I mean?

00:29:45.880 It's like.

00:29:47.640 No, you know, Trey Gowdy wants to go on Fox News.

00:29:51.700 I won't watch Fox News. 0.99

00:29:52.840 It makes me sick watching that garbage network. 0.99

00:29:54.980 It's not conservative. 1.00

00:29:56.200 No, it's not at all.

00:29:57.160 And anyone who's fooled by it, shame.

00:30:00.340 It's total, total shame.

00:30:01.820 Nobody there.

00:30:02.660 Chills for the establishment.

00:30:03.560 That's what I worked there for five years.

00:30:05.380 There's not a maybe a handful of conservatives who work in that building, including down to the producers who produce those shows.

00:30:12.220 Trust me, I've worked with them.

00:30:14.860 You know, Trey Gowdy wants to talk about it's always a white boy.

00:30:19.360 But what he didn't talk about is the age range of these people.

00:30:22.160 They're usually in the age range of, you know, 16 to 20 something, which puts it back on the parents.

00:30:28.600 The parents know, you know, if you have a kid, I have no kids, Mark, but you would know you have a few kids at home with you there.

00:30:36.320 You would know if something was going on with your kid.

00:30:38.700 You would know if he's getting bullied in school just by the way that they act around other people, the way they act around you.

00:30:43.220 You would know, you know, if your kid wanted a transition or this.

00:30:47.860 Something is going on there.

00:30:49.800 Yet these parents just keep looking past the issue.

00:30:53.140 Not my kid.

00:30:54.000 Not my kid.

00:30:54.780 Now, I never had this problem, Mark, because I was always in trouble as a kid.

00:30:58.060 So my parents always said, yes, it was my kid.

00:31:00.620 You know, there was never any accountability issue there.

00:31:03.360 I was always the one being thrown under the bus, rightfully so, because, you know, I was a prankster.

00:31:07.800 But you have so many parents and it's hard for me to say it from the other side because I was always the one who was taking the blame for things, even when it wasn't me, which is very rare when it wasn't.

00:31:17.180 You didn't need external validation, John.

00:31:19.420 No.

00:31:20.700 Your upbringing was very healthy.

00:31:22.800 And that's the problem is you have all these people who are caught in a never ending loop of needing that dopamine hit of having external validation.

00:31:29.040 All that stuff in his manifesto and all those things written all over those the guns were basically like, please like me.

00:31:36.340 Like, that's what it was.

00:31:37.500 And you can tell he was brought up by I think he was in a single household.

00:31:42.000 And you can't fix these are major societal issues where the dating numbers we've seen, like 40 percent of single men under 40 aren't even trying to date.

00:31:52.680 They're like, you know what?

00:31:53.400 I'm tapped out.

00:31:54.340 And so we're going to see a lot more of this until there's a return to normalcy in our society is the problem.

00:32:01.900 I mean, how do we get a return to normalcy when you have parents who don't want to acknowledge the fact that their kids are mentally troubled?

00:32:15.380 Like I said, it's a very Trey Gowdy wants to talk about white young men.

00:32:19.400 Well, I want to talk about the age of these people and the adolescence and why their parents continue to look past the issues.

00:32:27.460 We saw an eyewitness account or a report out just moments ago from one of his neighbors that said they saw nothing wrong with him.

00:32:38.020 OK, well, you have a guy who's transitioned to be a girl.

00:32:41.200 You don't see that as a as an issue.

00:32:43.420 You don't see that as there's something wrong, mentally imbalanced there. 0.99

00:32:47.280 This is not me being insensitive, insensitive to people who are gay or trans. 0.91

00:32:51.740 It's a mental issue. 0.95

00:32:53.900 Don't take my word for it.

00:32:55.140 Look at the numbers.

00:32:56.120 Yeah, gender is for you. 1.00

00:32:58.560 It's it is literally a medical condition.

00:33:01.700 The problem is that the medical industry can make a lot of money off of it.

00:33:05.040 Well, no, not that they make money off of it, Mark.

00:33:07.060 They inhibit it.

00:33:08.480 They add fuel to the fire by performing gender transitioning surgeries on kids. 1.00

00:33:13.640 Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.

00:33:15.720 And according to Google search volume, more than ever, it might feel like we're winning the culture war.

00:33:21.200 But I just looked at Google Trends and for the Google Trend bottom surgery for people who don't know that's getting parts removed or added to you have never been higher.

00:33:31.260 And so until we see a reversal in the number of 18 to 39 year olds identifying as trans or LGBT, this culture war is not one.

00:33:40.260 And it's like, OK, you go on Twitter and you say, wow, things feel like they're going in the right direction.

00:33:44.880 Not on Reddit.

00:33:45.760 They don't.

00:33:46.460 And so people are self-sorting into these online communities that are replacing physical communities. 0.98

00:33:50.840 And then even the problem is, even on the right, again, Trey Gowdy, what a coward. 0.99

00:33:56.760 John, do you know what are there more white mass shooters or are there more black mass shooters? 1.00

00:34:03.300 I don't know. 0.98

00:34:06.040 Well, every time somebody pulls out a tech nine in inner city Chicago, that's a mass shooting.

00:34:12.360 And that happens a lot. 0.63

00:34:13.680 But we don't hear Trey Gowdy on there talking about black mass shootings. 0.97

00:34:17.400 We only hear talking about white mass shootings, right? 0.77

00:34:21.840 No, I think one of those is a bigger issue.

00:34:24.920 And which one gets all the coverage?

00:34:26.740 They don't cover all the they don't.

00:34:30.020 And so like this is a problem, right?

00:34:32.100 And it's like even within the quote unquote conservative voices, the type of coverage and the way certain things are talked about and others aren't like this.

00:34:43.460 That's the sick thing.

00:34:44.700 It's not if it bleeds, it leads.

00:34:46.300 If it's if it's white and it bleeds and it leads and it's provocative, then Fox News is going to cover it.

00:34:54.380 Yeah, it's a shame.

00:34:55.040 And I feel bad for anyone who still tunes into that network.

00:34:57.920 A shame.

00:34:58.700 Trey Gowdy wants to talk about things like that.

00:35:00.680 Why don't we talk about Trey Gowdy and what he did for Hillary Clinton and Benghazi?

00:35:04.640 Trey Gowdy is a joke of a human being.

00:35:06.380 But I guess what do you expect when he's on Fox News, Fox News, the same Fox News that called Arizona for Joe Biden like 10 minutes after polls closed?

00:35:16.680 I guess that's that's Fox News for you.

00:35:18.860 It's hard to believe we've we went on a half hour here, Mark, and we've only covered two topics.

00:35:25.020 I mean, there's there's so much to talk about.

00:35:26.620 And we're I want to I want to talk about where we're going with this can't be a three hour one, John.

00:35:32.360 You know, there's a few people I get out here with, Mark.

00:35:34.980 We just talk for hours.

00:35:36.280 So we'll keep this to two hours and 59 minutes since you set the.

00:35:39.500 No, you got me for 25 more minutes.

00:35:45.100 So we'll get one more topic in maybe a half of one.

00:35:49.340 Let's turn to I want to get to election integrity.

00:35:52.520 I want to get to debanking.

00:35:54.380 I want to get to John Bolton before we get to all that good stuff.

00:35:58.340 Just moments ago, President Trump tweeting out floating the idea of an RNC convention before the midterm elections.

00:36:06.920 Now, I don't want to tell you this before the show because I wanted to catch you off guard as I just did.

00:36:13.760 Sort of an interesting idea, in my opinion.

00:36:17.780 Yeah, I wonder what the goal would be.

00:36:20.220 It would certainly catch attention.

00:36:21.580 It would give people a chance to look at those speeches and have all of their little mockingbird mouthpieces parse the agenda. 0.70

00:36:30.020 I think I'm guessing there would be a way for him to stamp his name onto Republicans.

00:36:36.920 And then give a massive speech that's a litany of all the things that he's done.

00:36:42.880 And I applaud that because I think in the absence of something overt like that, the Republicans are really going to F this up.

00:36:52.560 I mean, things are not good right now.

00:36:54.700 They're losing in the generic ballot by every major pollster.

00:36:57.740 The good ones and the bad ones all have Republicans losing seats, maybe not the majority, but seats.

00:37:04.200 And there is no clear path legislatively for them to do the things that they need to do to succeed.

00:37:09.900 I've been calling for them to get aggressive and ditch the 60 vote filibuster limit to put out good bills.

00:37:15.280 They're not going to do it.

00:37:16.100 They have 50 legislative days left in this year.

00:37:18.560 And they're not going to pass really anything except maybe they'll do another bite at the reconciliation apple.

00:37:25.160 And so all of 2025 will mostly be a whiff for the 119th Congress.

00:37:30.660 And that's not what they promised America.

00:37:32.920 They promised America the MAGA agenda, and they have not delivered.

00:37:37.180 And so Republicans in Congress have been a failure.

00:37:39.920 Republican national messaging does not exist.

00:37:42.440 They are going to wait until three months before the election, and then they're going to use all of their existing Republican establishment consultants to dump all the donor money into all of the traditional advertising avenues that don't really work.

00:37:56.340 They don't have a ground game.

00:37:58.800 Trump's ground game is not going to be as good because you're not going to have all this press learn turning point and all these people coming out of the woodwork because it's not a national presidential election.

00:38:08.200 And so they need to do something, and I think Trump's going to try and drag them over the finish line, and they'll maybe, if everything works, maintain a very small lead in the House.

00:38:18.720 We've got that statement from President Trump.

00:38:20.500 We're going to pull it up here so we can read it together.

00:38:24.620 The Republican Party is doing really well.

00:38:26.900 Millions of people have joined us in our quest to make America great again.

00:38:30.660 We won every aspect of the presidential election.

00:38:32.600 And based on the great success we are having and poised to win big in the midterms, we have raised far more money than Democrats and are having a great time fixing all of the country, destroying mistakes made by the Biden administration.

00:38:45.660 And watching the USA heal and prosper, the results are incredible, a record pace.

00:38:51.160 In that light, I'm thinking of recommending a national convention to the Republican Party just prior to the midterms.

00:38:56.820 It has never been done before.

00:38:58.140 Stay tuned, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America.

00:39:03.980 So I think it goes to what you had just said there, him, as always, having to bring people across the finish line because they are just terrible.

00:39:14.820 The good thing is, Mark, that we've seen a lot of lately, and just a moment ago I got a wire over here that shows you're not a baseball fan,

00:39:23.140 but anyone who's a baseball fan, a New York Yankees fan, Mark Teixeira, who was a World Series first baseman for the great New York Yankees,

00:39:30.600 just announced he is running to replace, to take over Chip Royce in Texas's, I think it's the 21st district down there.

00:39:38.580 This is, in my opinion, what we need more of.

00:39:40.860 And he's a Republican, says he wants to run to perform Trump's MAGA agenda.

00:39:48.380 This is what I think we need more of.

00:39:49.920 We need more outsiders.

00:39:51.040 It doesn't take a brain scientist, Mark, to be a member of Congress.

00:39:54.960 As a matter of fact, I think most of them have lower IQs than you and I, and I'm not fluffing either of us,

00:40:00.340 but it just goes to show that these people are just incapable of having any other jobs,

00:40:06.300 aside from having someone in their ear telling them, yes, no, yes, no.

00:40:11.740 I mean, it's a very, very simple job, but if you have someone on the outside who has never seen this nonsense before,

00:40:19.400 I think you can look at the issues a little bit differently.

00:40:22.260 What do you think?

00:40:23.120 Yes, I do.

00:40:26.360 I think it's great to have outsiders.

00:40:29.920 First off, like getting back to that tweet, there's some things in there that are objectively wrong.

00:40:35.140 So Trump has been doing a lot of things that are good, but nobody thinks that the Republicans are currently poised to win big in the midterms,

00:40:42.420 like literally nobody.

00:40:43.320 And I'll be the first to say it.

00:40:45.820 And also they say they've raised far more money than the Democrats.

00:40:48.840 Well, it is true that the RNC hole is much bigger than the Democrats.

00:40:52.580 The Democrats just had to pay 15 million, literally half of their war chest back to Kamala Harris's failed campaign. 0.93

00:40:58.980 But ActBlue is still funneling hundreds of millions of dollars of likely foreign donation money into Democrat dark money pools

00:41:06.800 that are going to dump all this money into ads. 0.99

00:41:09.060 And so, no, right now the Republicans don't have the fundraising upper hand.

00:41:14.020 And like you say, no, ActBlue brought in 800 million so far just in the first two quarters of 2025, 800 million.

00:41:22.540 And if that's not going to change, then it'll be 3 billion by the time the 2026 rolls around,

00:41:28.320 which makes what will likely be 100 to 200 million dollar Republican war chest look pretty paltry in comparison.

00:41:35.840 Now, I don't know what the Republican 501c3s are going to have.

00:41:39.440 But then the other thing is like, yeah, you're right.

00:41:41.980 It is good to get MAGA primaries.

00:41:46.420 The problem is, is the establishment's really good at shutting out MAGA people.

00:41:50.720 And even when they get in, they're limited in what they can do because everything gets corrupted and co-opted.

00:41:55.140 Even the stuff out of the Freedom Caucus recently, I guess there's been some problems with stances they've taken.

00:42:01.420 And the real issue is that you have tens of thousands of people in the National Republican Party.

00:42:07.200 And what they're really good at doing is finding a candidate like Romney, getting targeting voters of people who vote for people like Romney and getting a Romney style turnout.

00:42:17.320 They get their 62 million.

00:42:18.940 So it's like if you want to trump 77, 78 million turnout, you have to figure out how to message better, get grassroots on the ground, get your crossover Democrats, get disaffected independents.

00:42:30.400 And I think Republicans are going to lose those people to the couch in 2026.

00:42:33.600 So you have to change the party.

00:42:36.080 And the biggest news that I've seen about this isn't necessarily this RNC thing.

00:42:40.400 It's the fact that Elon Musk decided finally that the America Party was a really bad idea, which I was saying very vocally.

00:42:46.540 It will just make Democrats win.

00:42:49.140 But now you have Elon Musk who needs to put that money into actually reforming the national Republican Party leadership structure.

00:42:56.140 The people that would do things like research and national strategy and vetting candidates, all that is still Romney kind of people doing Romney kind of things.

00:43:06.180 And until those people get replaced, there's only so much that you can get done with with these with primarying these rhinos. 1.00

00:43:13.480 Yeah, you're absolutely right.

00:43:15.260 This is the numbers, I guess, that I was referring to.

00:43:17.840 The DNC is reported having only $14 million cash on hand as of the end of July, far less than the RNC, which reported having about $84 million cash on hand.

00:43:27.240 The DNC also fundraised less than the RNC in July.

00:43:30.960 They go on to say the news is better for Democrat official U.S. House campaign arms.

00:43:35.360 This is, I guess, what you were maybe referring to.

00:43:37.560 The Democrat Congressional Committee, the DCCC, one of the largest crime organizations in America, second to the Capone family or the Gambino crime family,

00:43:46.080 reported having $40.5 million cash on hand by the end of July, while its GOP counterpart, the NRCC, reported having $37.5 million on cash on hand.

00:43:57.860 The DCCC outpaced the NRCC in fundraising in July.

00:44:01.360 So that goes to show, I guess, what you and I have been saying is that Donald Trump is the only reason that this Republican Party is afloat right now.

00:44:10.800 The NRCC, it's, I mean, just as guilty, in my opinion, as the DCCC with the money laundering.

00:44:17.920 Yeah, I'm not going to throw anybody into the bus, but I went golfing with a few Republican strategists,

00:44:23.920 and out this person pulled out of their bag was a bunch of sleeves of golf balls.

00:44:29.920 Now, you're not a golfer, Mark, but title is Pro V1s.

00:44:32.900 For all my golf people here, no, they're about $6 a ball.

00:44:36.400 The average golf ball is about a dollar and a quarter a ball, and it gives me a few sleeves of balls.

00:44:41.300 I turn the balls, and it says NRCC on it, and I said to myself,

00:44:46.120 Mother Effort, this is where you guys spend the money that's being given to you. 0.96

00:44:50.400 Yep, 100%.

00:44:52.400 When the RNC reaches out to you and says, please donate, help us save America, 0.99

00:44:56.220 it's going to go into some scumbags' expensive golf ball. 0.97

00:45:00.480 I've heard these stories from actual candidates, too, where it's like, 0.98

00:45:03.360 no, they say we have to send direct mailers to everybody.

00:45:06.480 I just want to target this zip code, but they forced me that I have to send them to everybody.

00:45:10.760 Then it's because somebody knows some direct mail printer, and they're going to get a kickback.

00:45:16.600 That's how the establishment Republican organization runs things.

00:45:21.000 It's not to win, and it's not to win on principles.

00:45:23.740 I can guarantee you that.

00:45:25.660 That entire thing has not been reformed at all.

00:45:29.100 Trump has literally done zero.

00:45:30.540 Zero dollars have been spent fixing that.

00:45:32.240 You got Michael Watley for about a year.

00:45:34.480 Now he's gone.

00:45:35.160 They're going to have some other guy. 1.00

00:45:36.420 But then there's other organizations.

00:45:38.100 There's other groups of people.

00:45:39.360 There's other power brokers, and nobody even talks about their name.

00:45:43.080 And it's like, again, okay, you have WinRed to ActBlue.

00:45:47.240 It's not just the RNC and the DNC.

00:45:49.560 WinRed apparently, according to one report, raised $240 million the first half of 2025.

00:45:55.660 The number I saw was $793 million through ActBlue.

00:45:59.160 And so I still think we have major Chinese money probably coming in, getting laundered through Smurfs into deep pockets that are going to be spent intelligently. 0.51

00:46:12.680 That's the problem.

00:46:13.800 The Democrat money is not going to just gravy train.

00:46:18.940 And the Republican money is because that's what the Republican Party exists for, launder donor money.

00:46:24.320 That's what it does.

00:46:27.040 Yeah.

00:46:28.760 Mark, I tell everybody on the show, during the 2024 election, my father called me up.

00:46:35.780 And now that he's retired, he could donate money.

00:46:38.000 He was an executive before, so he couldn't directly donate money to candidates.

00:46:42.300 And I guess without facing some sort of backlash, I don't know what the rules are.

00:46:47.020 But he said, you know, who do I donate?

00:46:48.900 I want to give money to President Trump.

00:46:50.320 Who do I donate to?

00:46:51.080 I said, you donate directly to him.

00:46:53.400 Do not send a dollar to the NRCC, the RNC, any of these people.

00:46:58.380 It's just a massive.

00:47:00.060 And it's the same thing for the Democrats.

00:47:01.760 I joke that the DCCC is the largest crime organization in America, second to the Gambino crime family. 1.00

00:47:09.460 But it's true.

00:47:09.980 And it's the same thing with the RNC.

00:47:11.520 I mean, you have these people who are making six figures, communications directors and so on and so forth,

00:47:18.140 that just sit there and write, you know, semi-strong-worded press releases that I get into my email that I had unsubscribed 0.74

00:47:24.800 because I don't want to see that garbage nonsense. 0.98

00:47:26.720 But these people are making $150,000 a year, $200,000 a year to write bullshit press statements. 0.99

00:47:32.260 For what? 0.93

00:47:33.280 That's the donor's money who's paying them.

00:47:35.260 And, you know, nobody has a say in it because it's the donor's money.

00:47:38.660 And these people donate the money.

00:47:40.100 And it just goes into this big funnel.

00:47:41.860 No oversight on it whatsoever.

00:47:43.420 They get paid whatever they feel like paying them.

00:47:46.400 The whole thing is just a massive.

00:47:48.280 Why do you need hundreds of people working in the NRCC, the whatever?

00:47:52.560 The RNC, I can understand a little bit differently because you're supposed to be doing strategy and stuff like that,

00:47:58.980 even though they don't.

00:47:59.760 But the NRCC, why do you need that many people employed as a fundraising?

00:48:05.200 Yeah, or the NRSC or the RGA or all these state and county officials?

00:48:10.340 Well, it comes down to accountability, John, is that these people don't get fired if they lose.

00:48:14.960 That's the trend we're seeing.

00:48:16.220 You know what I mean?

00:48:16.820 It's like their candidates do, but they don't.

00:48:19.940 And that's a problem.

00:48:21.020 It absolutely is.

00:48:22.880 And the whole thing is just a circle of money.

00:48:26.300 You know this person.

00:48:27.620 You work for the – I don't even want to get into it because I have friends who are in it.

00:48:30.820 And it just sickens me to know that I know too much and you know too much.

00:48:36.160 And somebody tried to call me an insider on Twitter yesterday.

00:48:42.940 They're like, well, you're an insider.

00:48:44.200 You know, I'm like, holy moly, man.

00:48:46.940 Have you not listened to me talk?

00:48:48.280 This whole town needs – this whole town that I'm not in, like D.C., it needs to be burned to the ground in Minecraft, right?

00:48:56.100 It's not – but it's occupied territory.

00:48:58.840 It's occupied by people who think they're saving America.

00:49:02.500 They're doing a good job.

00:49:03.560 They get off work at 4 p.m.

00:49:05.780 They go drink at happy hour with somebody from across the aisle that's on the other team.

00:49:11.700 And they live in an entirely different America than you.

00:49:15.640 And your money goes to pay for every aspect of their life.

00:49:19.820 Yeah.

00:49:20.000 I'm trying to find this picture because I'm going to get it up here about when we were in Washington, D.C., our little interesting dinner we had.

00:49:27.040 And the slew of people that walked –

00:49:29.880 Government-funded steaks, yeah.

00:49:31.880 Yeah.

00:49:32.360 Me and Mark were having dinner with a friend at the Capitol Grill, which is one of my favorite steakhouses.

00:49:38.640 I guess they're all over the country.

00:49:40.000 But the one in Washington, D.C., it must have been about – by the time we wrapped up the interviews, I don't know, like 5 o'clock, 5.30 in the afternoon.

00:49:46.540 And Mark and I pull up to the restaurant, and outside it was just government vehicles with government license plates and lights on them.

00:49:54.780 So we figured that it was maybe probably somebody important in the place.

00:49:58.800 And we get in there, and off to the left was, I guess, Senator Bill Cassidy.

00:50:04.660 And off to the right was this congressman.

00:50:06.800 Oh, I didn't even see him.

00:50:08.140 Yeah.

00:50:08.420 I mean, the whole place is just full with all these people who presumably are not paying for their own dinners,

00:50:14.020 as Mark and I had to.

00:50:17.100 But, you know, it's just a whole conglomerate of people who just eat expensive dinners every night,

00:50:24.780 go out on whatever, you know, fundraisers picking up the bill that night, 0.94

00:50:30.040 have their expensive martinis, their $100 steaks, and we're the suckers. 0.67

00:50:35.240 Yeah, this was in May, John.

00:50:38.620 Remember, like, April was kind of chaotic.

00:50:41.140 The market was imploding.

00:50:42.580 Trump was on the ropes for a while.

00:50:44.680 And then there was a lot of stuff going on in May.

00:50:46.820 It was all jokes and smiles.

00:50:49.360 Yep.

00:50:50.220 And, you know, in the organizations I've worked at, when there's been crunch time, it's crunch time.

00:50:56.340 And D.C. is not in crunch time right now.

00:50:58.440 It's just not.

00:50:59.800 So you might think that, I don't know.

00:51:03.300 Well, I just said this.

00:51:05.200 We talked a little bit before the show.

00:51:07.220 And everybody says, I'm going to have crazy numbers coming out.

00:51:10.340 I'll have to come back on in a week or two about the Zoomers, about the 18 to 39-year-olds. 0.84

00:51:16.160 And everybody's like, oh, the world's going to be great because these people are so conservative.

00:51:20.320 Well, they did vote Trump more than anybody expected.

00:51:23.240 But these people are not conservative.

00:51:24.880 They are economic populist in a way that's going to surprise a lot of people.

00:51:28.540 And I'm not just talking about, oh, we need to rebuild the American middle class.

00:51:31.840 I'm talking about, no, wealth forcibly needs to be taken from the rich and powerful to fund our lifestyles because America is fundamentally unfair to young people.

00:51:42.060 And so the problem with D.C. is they are not in crunch time, even though they all looked you in the eye and said the 2024 election is existential for the future of our country.

00:51:50.120 Then they go down and it's all jokes.

00:51:52.080 Oh, everything's great.

00:51:53.420 You're not seeing massive accountability in these organizations.

00:51:56.240 You're not.

00:51:57.460 And so a lot of it was lies.

00:51:59.160 And maybe they were good intention lies, but they're lies nonetheless.

00:52:02.520 The problem we run into is that if Trump's economic populism does not succeed for the vast majority of young middle class people, then the rich will get eaten.

00:52:12.580 It's only a matter of time.

00:52:14.020 And that includes D.C.

00:52:15.580 Maybe that's maybe that's for the best, Mark.

00:52:18.200 Maybe that's for the best on how these people figure out their lives.

00:52:22.060 I've got this picture I'm going to put up here.

00:52:24.180 This is the dinner that I was referring to.

00:52:27.240 Let's see if we can get it up here.

00:52:29.380 You might see an interesting character behind Mark.

00:52:32.580 But as soon as these people came up with earpieces, we figured it was our cue that we had to go.

00:52:38.260 That's CIA director John Ratcliffe sitting right behind Mark right there.

00:52:47.520 Mark, not really quite sure knowing what to do.

00:52:50.500 What's going to happen with these people?

00:52:53.600 The leader of an organization that 43% of Americans think killed a sitting president sitting right there behind us.

00:53:00.300 Well, we're on a lot of power to wield.

00:53:02.740 Oh, no, not this.

00:53:05.040 Was I not supposed to show this?

00:53:07.880 I don't care.

00:53:08.620 I put it on Twitter, but I did not go in and shoot a computer.

00:53:13.500 I can tell you that right now.

00:53:15.480 Mark made me stop before we head back to New York at Common Pizza.

00:53:20.000 I didn't even know the place even still existed.

00:53:22.200 But we had to stop because, you know, it's a national landmark in Washington, D.C.

00:53:27.780 Before we wrap up a restaurant.

00:53:30.300 Apparently and allegedly.

00:53:33.460 Who knows?

00:53:34.460 I guess we can only suspect.

00:53:36.880 Right.

00:53:38.540 Before we wrap up, I want to get to John Bolton.

00:53:42.400 You have some numbers that show people think it's retribution what's happening to John Bolton right now because he decided he was going to go out and maybe send classified information from his computer to other family members.

00:53:56.020 It was it was rules for Donald Trump.

00:53:58.400 Why is it not rules for you, Mr. Bolton, who had no authority to declassify anything?

00:54:02.760 This is an important story and personal to me, because, first off, I was cleared top top secret PSYOP SCI.

00:54:12.940 I had the code books.

00:54:14.600 I had this special access plan stuff for all the and I will say it's kind of weird.

00:54:19.540 How our number one.

00:54:21.040 What's that?

00:54:22.060 Spill the beans.

00:54:23.340 No, well, I'm not going to.

00:54:24.700 But I was on the nuclear submarine and, you know, I was a guy responsible for the target packages.

00:54:30.000 And it's kind of weird that our number one trading partner probably has the most nuclear missiles pointed at it of any nation on Earth.

00:54:36.700 But anyways, what I can tell you is that if I had lost any classified material, I would have been thrown in jail in Leavenworth, stripped of my career.

00:54:45.960 And and Hillary Clinton was not kind of weird. 0.96

00:54:49.680 She did way more than anybody I've ever known about in the in the Navy.

00:54:53.400 But whatever.

00:54:54.620 So then you have Bolton and it's like, OK, if he shared this classified information, that's great.

00:54:59.080 Throw him in jail.

00:54:59.800 Well, but this is a very important public opinion fact, and that is logic does not apply.

00:55:08.600 And so I'm going to try and explain what's going on here.

00:55:11.260 But which is closer to your opinion?

00:55:13.260 The investigate in the investigation of Bolton is about defending America's national security or it's about President Trump getting revenge on his political enemies.

00:55:22.980 Thirty eight percent say it's about national security.

00:55:26.500 Forty eight percent net plus 10 say it's Trump getting revenge.

00:55:29.800 So here's the problem is that this was an election that was a referendum on government trust.

00:55:36.120 It wasn't a referendum on America loves Trump.

00:55:38.960 And so America picked Trump as their avatar of government reformation.

00:55:44.480 But just because he's in charge of the government now doesn't mean that everybody forgot that the Mar-a-Lago raid happened with deadly force.

00:55:52.260 Doesn't mean they forgot that the DOJ was weaponized against a political opponent.

00:55:56.120 And so unless they see overt accountability, they're going to assume that Trump is doing the same thing with these corrupt organizations.

00:56:03.680 And so will this affect Trump?

00:56:05.400 Like probably not, because in the grand scheme of things, John Bolton is very, very, very unimportant, except to people who watch MSNBC.

00:56:12.760 But these things will matter in, you know, combined when they all add up.

00:56:19.520 And I don't know if it'll affect his numbers.

00:56:21.360 Trump's negative two today.

00:56:22.720 He probably could be higher, but he can't pick and choose what Americans glom onto as important.

00:56:28.640 And we'll see.

00:56:29.780 It's like he can do all the success.

00:56:31.860 You could say, oh, he's going to fix all these things between now and twenty to twenty six.

00:56:35.460 But you can't pick what America finds important.

00:56:38.440 That's the problem.

00:56:39.860 I know you're not big on tick tock, and this is kind of a little side to it here, but I've recently got into tick tock to see what it's all about.

00:56:46.740 And it's every by the way, the algorithm they have on there is absolutely like something I've never seen before.

00:56:52.900 It's absolutely ridiculous how how good their algorithms are.

00:56:56.280 But the latest stories on tick tock now is that Donald Trump is dying because he has congestive heart failure because he has bruises on his hands.

00:57:05.480 Now, anyone, Mark, you have a mother who's elderly.

00:57:08.000 I've had grandparents who are elderly.

00:57:09.900 Most old people are on blood thinners. 1.00

00:57:11.540 And what happens when you're on blood thinners?

00:57:13.020 You people are on it.

00:57:14.160 If you put your hand down on a table, I had a grandmother and she's like, well, and she put her arms down on the table, Mark, and would have black and blues from top to bottom. 0.56

00:57:22.600 Like she got the speed out of her, and it was just simply from these blood thinners.

00:57:27.420 But that's the latest Democrat hoax now because he's got swollen ankles because he's got bad blood circulation, as most old people do. 1.00

00:57:35.840 He's got congestive heart failure, and he's going to die any day now, just so you know.

00:57:40.920 Yeah, Reddit thinks this, too.

00:57:42.820 It's one of their top stories right now.

00:57:45.100 You know, they're sharing all these pictures of his hand and blah, blah, blah.

00:57:47.900 The stunning hypocrisy is what gets me most because not even two years, just about one year into Biden's administration, 68% of America was not confident that he was mentally and physically up for the job.

00:58:05.080 And 66% wanted him to get a mental test.

00:58:07.560 And so for them to completely ignore the fact that we had a guy that took – we had 12 o'clock lids on the very few days that he actually came to work.

00:58:18.560 You know, I don't think this story is going to go anywhere.

00:58:20.520 But yeah, Trump is probably on the downslide.

00:58:24.220 Like that's just what happens.

00:58:25.840 Will it cause a problem?

00:58:27.180 I don't think so.

00:58:28.240 I think what's going to happen is that – people are going to hate me for saying this – is that Trump is going to lose political capital.

00:58:33.980 Between now and probably the beginning of 2027, it's just inevitable because people have had MAGA for 10 years.

00:58:41.660 It's had some successes.

00:58:43.000 It's had its failures.

00:58:44.080 But America is going to start looking forward to the next leader, probably going to be J.D. Vance.

00:58:48.400 I know you don't like me hearing – you know, saying that.

00:58:51.680 But he's the five-to-one odds-on favorite according to the polling.

00:58:55.520 And somebody is going to have to get more organizationally minded towards how to create the new direction for the Republican Party.

00:59:03.980 The Republicans are going to try and do it themselves, which is trying to revert towards Romney territory.

00:59:09.620 And if anybody understands that the correct path forward for the Republican Party is very aggressive, middle-class focused economic populism, then it's going to start happening soon.

00:59:20.500 And it can't just be MAGA because there's going to come a day where Trump doesn't mean as much anymore.

00:59:26.160 Yeah.

00:59:26.380 I mean, that's not being anti-Trump.

00:59:28.440 It's just the reality.

00:59:29.460 It's like anything runs its course.

00:59:31.220 Eventually, the train runs out of steam and the car runs out of gas or your electric vehicle runs out of charge.

00:59:37.700 It's just the – I guess how generational things work.

00:59:42.020 One thing you didn't mention there is that Joe Biden presumably had prostate cancer for 10 years.

00:59:49.140 We find out about it.

00:59:50.300 No big deal.

00:59:51.580 But Donald Trump –

00:59:52.020 I forgot all about that.

00:59:53.280 Yeah.

00:59:53.680 Donald Trump's got swollen ankles.

00:59:55.040 He's dying of congestive heart failure.

00:59:56.480 The man is the worst presidential health – the president with presidential health that we've ever seen.

01:00:01.800 I mean, it's just absolutely –

01:00:04.100 Meanwhile, Biden had stage four cancer while he had the nuclear keys, right?

01:00:07.960 Yeah, and was, like you said, calling lids at 12 o'clock in the afternoon.

01:00:12.360 You mentioned J.D. Vance.

01:00:13.260 I don't – not like J.D. Vance.

01:00:14.700 I don't – you know, I'm just impartial.

01:00:17.280 I don't want to get ahead of my skis here.

01:00:19.700 A lot of people, when Donald Trump was running for president again in 2020, they said, oh, it's going to be Trump for another four years, and then it'll be Pence for four, and then Pence for another –

01:00:28.720 I just don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, and maybe it will be J.D.

01:00:32.260 No, I don't plan the future.

01:00:33.360 I don't predict the future, John.

01:00:34.640 Everything I say is if the election were held today, and if the GOP primary were held today, J.D. Vance wins 90% of the delegates.

01:00:43.240 He just does, and – but it's not, and so we have to wait and see what happens.

01:00:48.420 A lot of things can happen from now until then, a lot, and you have to assume you're going to have a crowded field.

01:00:55.400 With Donald Trump not being in the mix anymore, nothing is guaranteed anymore.

01:00:59.660 There's a lot of people who have proven themselves – and like I said, people get mad that I go, I'm not going against J.D. Vance.

01:01:05.440 I like J.D. Vance.

01:01:06.260 He's doing an absolutely terrific job.

01:01:08.340 He's a breath of fresh air.

01:01:09.700 He's a young guy.

01:01:10.880 I like J.D.

01:01:11.500 But as a journalist, as someone looking at it from the outside, you have a lot of time, and in this world, a minute is an eternity, Mark.

01:01:23.220 You can say one thing wrong, and that's it for you.

01:01:26.020 So that's the way I look at it.

01:01:27.720 He's a vague, man.

01:01:29.180 Right.

01:01:30.040 Exactly, exactly.

01:01:31.440 Destroyed his political career with one tweet. 1.00

01:01:34.200 Right, because he wants to bring in a million Indians to America because Americans are stupid. 1.00

01:01:39.960 Right, so that's my point. 1.00

01:01:41.420 It takes one person to – one thing, one person, one minute, one second to do something absolutely stupid. 0.99

01:01:47.700 So we're looking at three and a half years, Mark. 0.99

01:01:50.020 In my calculations, that's light years for things to happen.

01:01:54.340 Yeah, I agree.

01:01:56.080 So to get to that point, Mark, before we wrap up, I guess this is an excellent segue to election integrity.

01:02:04.280 It's a thing you and I have been talking about since we first became friends and first started coming on the show.

01:02:09.320 I think it's actually been about a year now, and we see no movement on it.

01:02:15.320 We saw a tweet from President Trump last week about election integrity, getting rid of the paper ballots, getting rid of the election machines.

01:02:22.200 Do you expect we see any sort of movement on this, or was this just a tweet trying to kick the Republicans in the rear end to get their act together?

01:02:31.060 If we don't see vast election integrity accountability, then that's the number one thing Trump will have failed at because the 2020 election was stolen.

01:02:45.680 It just absolutely was.

01:02:47.060 Now, Biden did get a lot more votes than most people think.

01:02:49.700 There was a lot of mail-in ballot fraud.

01:02:52.100 Believe it or not, there was a lot of Republican mail-in ballot fraud as well.

01:02:55.520 But the whole thing was corrupt.

01:02:57.140 The swing states were stolen 100%.

01:02:59.360 And I think there was a lot of election fraud in 2024 as well.

01:03:04.340 The problem is nobody knows how much, even as a pollster.

01:03:07.560 I don't know.

01:03:08.120 And it's really hard for me to do my job.

01:03:10.080 I do think they tried to steal it.

01:03:11.440 I do think it was too big to rig, but, you know, pardon the colloquialism.

01:03:16.800 Yeah.

01:03:17.640 But we've gotten a lot of hints that this was coming.

01:03:21.200 And there's a lot of really easy things that we could see, a lot of really easy answers.

01:03:26.120 Just for example, who funded those freaking trucks that were transporting the fake ballots?

01:03:32.540 Very easy things. 0.84

01:03:34.880 Don't have time to get into it.

01:03:36.540 We did a show.

01:03:37.360 So I'm just saying, like, there's very easy things that the inspector, what do you call

01:03:43.960 the guy at the top of the Postal Service, could literally just come out and say, here's

01:03:47.740 the invoice.

01:03:49.320 Postmaster General.

01:03:50.820 And so when there's so many easy things that could be done.

01:03:55.400 And also, I know for a fact, Seth Keschel has been talking to people.

01:03:59.920 They're talking.

01:04:00.700 They've talked about recorrecting the 2020 census.

01:04:03.560 That's a big election integrity thing as well.

01:04:05.620 Uh, and I've heard that there's an election integrity task force being built.

01:04:10.600 And also, we know that Harmeet Dillon is a really big election integrity person.

01:04:14.540 She's in the right position.

01:04:16.400 And yet it has not started yet.

01:04:19.140 And so what we've done is just continue our process of polling on this issue because we're

01:04:23.740 the only ones and it's important to us.

01:04:25.680 And we've confirmed that people think that there's a problem with mail-in ballots.

01:04:29.480 53% think in-person voting in a voting place is most secure.

01:04:33.680 Only 13% say mail-in ballots are more secure.

01:04:36.760 And over and over again, we've heard that people think that mail-in ballots just make

01:04:40.480 it easier to cheat.

01:04:42.220 And so Americans want this fixed.

01:04:44.280 We haven't seen any legislation.

01:04:46.440 We've seen very little as far as executive orders.

01:04:50.120 Even Republicans are trying to shut down pro-election integrity measures in Republican

01:04:54.820 states like Arkansas.

01:04:56.860 And so this needs to change.

01:04:58.160 And the window is closing rapidly.

01:05:01.040 Why do you think Republicans are so against it?

01:05:03.560 I mean, this is their elections they're losing.

01:05:05.800 Do you think they're somehow complicit in this that, you know, hey, we won't cheat in

01:05:10.000 your election if you, you know, stand up against getting rid of these machines or paper ballots

01:05:15.380 or whatever, you know, facet they want to look at?

01:05:17.640 Yeah, I think there's a lot of forces that we don't know.

01:05:23.740 And when you want to explain people's behaviors, follow the incentives.

01:05:27.380 But even in major red states like Louisiana, you know, even with the very clear potential

01:05:33.020 vulnerabilities that these election machines have, there's still major, you know, tens

01:05:39.020 of millions of dollars of orders going to this new equipment.

01:05:42.240 And it's been alleged that it's because these organizations have lobbying arms that basically

01:05:48.480 provide kickbacks.

01:05:50.200 And so that's a big explanation for it as well.

01:05:52.540 It's like, why wouldn't a red state like Arkansas go to paper ballots when everybody in Arkansas,

01:05:58.220 according to a poll we did, wants paper ballots and they tried it in a county and it worked

01:06:02.980 real well.

01:06:03.700 And all of a sudden, all the Republicans at the state level are like kicking these people

01:06:07.300 out of the party.

01:06:07.940 Money could explain it or complicity in cheating as well.

01:06:15.260 Yeah.

01:06:15.820 And like you said, nobody's ever held accountable.

01:06:19.100 Nobody's ever held responsible.

01:06:20.480 So if you can cheat, I guess, why not do it if you're going to get called or you don't

01:06:23.700 even have to worry about getting called because you're being allowed to do it.

01:06:27.340 You know, I saw someone, a Democrat saying, you know, these mail-in ballots.

01:06:31.320 And I mean, I guess I didn't see a Democrat because they all say it, you know, mail-in ballots

01:06:35.920 are the most secure things possible, the most secure, you know, nothing can happen to them.

01:06:40.340 They're extremely, you know, secure.

01:06:42.520 I took this picture when I was in Boston a few months ago, Mark, I'm going to put it

01:06:46.580 up here on the screen because as I'm driving, leaving out of my hotel, I drive past a mail-in

01:06:52.260 ballot drop box just sitting on the street corner.

01:06:55.360 I'm going to put it up here so everyone can see this is what we're up against.

01:06:59.360 This is what we're faced here in America that the Democrats tell us is extremely secure.

01:07:06.280 If you could see that, those who are joining us on video, you should be able to see sitting

01:07:10.840 on a street corner outside of a hospital ballot drop box, just post it up right on the street

01:07:15.280 corner.

01:07:16.180 Good old Boston, Massachusetts.

01:07:18.560 Anybody can walk by, put whatever they want on that ballot drop box.

01:07:22.840 Who's to ask them?

01:07:23.840 Americans know it's insecure because 20% of all of Americans got an extra mail-in ballot

01:07:31.060 in their household in the 2020 election.

01:07:33.660 One in five.

01:07:35.260 Yep.

01:07:35.600 And that's just people who admitted to it, right?

01:07:38.020 You got a lot of people, 28% of all mail-in ballot voters in 2020 told us that they committed

01:07:44.180 at least one form of fraud.

01:07:45.880 Yeah.

01:07:46.940 You know, filling out somebody else's ballot, filling out a ballot for a state they don't

01:07:50.900 live in.

01:07:52.060 That's crazy.

01:07:52.860 That's like almost 30%, at least, because many of them probably did more than one ballot.

01:07:59.220 Yeah.

01:07:59.440 That's at least 30% of all mail-in ballots out of their own, like self-reported, say that

01:08:05.540 they were fraudulent.

01:08:06.820 And it like checks with the numbers, right?

01:08:09.300 I had a grandmother that passed away three and a half years ago, Mark.

01:08:12.540 She still gets mail-in ballots sent in New York.

01:08:14.900 So that tells you, I think, all you need to know.

01:08:18.000 Mark, as always, it's a delight to talk to you.

01:08:20.020 I promise we'd only do another 25 minutes.

01:08:22.180 We're at 24 and a half minutes.

01:08:24.000 You get the last word here.

01:08:25.260 The last 30 seconds is yours.

01:08:28.320 Well, you know, I'm back in fall mode.

01:08:31.220 It's going to heat up.

01:08:32.520 Politics usually hits us in the face in September.

01:08:35.460 Looking forward to it.

01:08:36.340 As you can all see, I have a tan now.

01:08:37.980 So you can come and join me and follow me as it dissipates over the next two months.

01:08:43.440 But I'm excited about what's coming.

01:08:45.760 We have a lot of really interesting numbers, like that one poll that is going to, I think,

01:08:49.100 flip the narrative about Zoomers on its head.

01:08:51.980 Because I really think that if they can't get Donald Trump, they're going for Bernie Sanders.

01:08:55.820 And that's not something the Republican Party is prepared for.

01:08:58.180 So follow me at Rasmussen underscore poll on YouTube, Honest Pollster at Twitter.

01:09:02.460 And I hope to see you there.

01:09:04.420 Great, Mark Mitchell.

01:09:05.540 And as I promised a few weeks ago, we're going to try to get Mark on every week here as the

01:09:09.760 election season starts to heat up.

01:09:11.160 Because I think there's so much to talk about.

01:09:12.920 So much to cover.

01:09:14.140 Mark, always a delight, my friend.

01:09:16.240 Glad to be here.

01:09:17.140 Anytime.

01:09:17.960 Thanks to Mark Mitchell, folks.

01:09:19.160 And thank you all for being with us today here on The Great America Show.

01:09:21.680 We hope to see you back here tomorrow for The Great America Show, where our quest for truth,

01:09:24.480 justice, and the American way continues, same time, same place tomorrow.

01:09:28.400 Until then, may God bless you.

01:09:30.040 May God bless America.

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01:09:32.780 Have a great night, everybody.

The Great America Show - August 28, 2025

Another BAILOUT from President Trump as 'Woke' seeks to destroy America!

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