The Great America Show - July 16, 2024


DOES IT MATTER IF BIDEN STAYS ON THE TICKET？

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A NATION IN RAPID DECLINE ANOTHER FBI COVER UP？

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Lee Smith says it doesn't matter if it's Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or Michelle Obama, it doesn t matter who it is. We need to figure this out though. On today's episode of The Great America Show, host John Fawcett is joined by Lee Smith to discuss the latest on the Joe Biden 2020 campaign.

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00:00:33.860 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett in for Lou Dobbs on today's episode of The Great America Show.
00:00:38.900 Well, there's fighting inside the Democratic Party about who the nominee will be.
00:00:42.220 Joe Biden says it will be him. He's tired of the elites trying to push him out of the race.
00:00:45.880 Our guest today, Lee Smith, says it doesn't matter if it's Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama.
00:00:51.320 It doesn't matter who it is. We need to figure this out, though.
00:00:54.380 Lee, great to have you with us.
00:00:56.240 Thank you, John. And always nice to be with you and nice to be speaking to you in particular today.
00:01:01.780 So your new piece out on your locals and it's, what is it, leesmith.locals.com.
00:01:06.560 The Madame Tussauds presidency, it doesn't matter to Dem voters. Biden isn't. They're all there.
00:01:11.940 So as long as Barack Obama is.
00:01:13.820 Yeah. What do you have to say?
00:01:17.280 I think that I think we've all I think Republicans, I think Republican influencers on social media.
00:01:26.360 I think we've all been wasting a lot of time talking about who's going to be the Democratic candidate.
00:01:32.320 The issue is fundamentally this. Joe Biden showed up for his debate with Donald Trump and he did.
00:01:44.280 He performed the way that Republicans have been saying he would perform because Joe Biden isn't all there.
00:01:50.940 And Joe Biden wasn't all there in 2020. And Republicans all know this.
00:01:55.440 And so what's the issue? The media, the Democratic Party aligned media, has been covering for Joe Biden for four years.
00:02:03.720 There was no way for them to cover for his debate performance.
00:02:07.520 They're embarrassed. What are they embarrassed about or before whom are they embarrassed?
00:02:11.680 They don't care about their own base. Right.
00:02:14.400 Because their own base has said it's quite explicit. We don't care what we prefer to vote.
00:02:19.080 We will vote for a comatose Joe Biden over orange man Hitler any day. 0.81
00:02:25.560 It doesn't matter. What are they doing?
00:02:27.400 They're embarrassed because the right was shown to be right.
00:02:32.520 There was no way for the people on CNN or other Democratic Party media operatives to conceal what was going on.
00:02:41.500 What we're seeing now is just that. Right.
00:02:44.440 Whether there is a debate. Remember, the same media are the same people who reported everything from Russiagate to January 6th.
00:02:52.020 Right. What did they say about Russiagate?
00:02:53.560 They said, oh, there's a secret clandestine operation contacts between Trump officials and Russian officials and Putin owns Trump and this and that.
00:03:03.040 What they're reporting now about what's happening in the Democratic Party.
00:03:06.760 We have no idea what's really going on inside the Democratic Party. Right.
00:03:11.520 So that's a very important thing to remember.
00:03:14.500 We do not know how accurate the media is representing any debates that may or may not be happening inside the Democratic Party.
00:03:23.300 But the most crucial fact is this. They ran the same person in 2020 and they won.
00:03:30.680 Right. So it's it should be astonishing to people on the right, especially people on the right who are who are convinced.
00:03:38.840 And I'm partial to this point of view that there was massive ballot fraud in 2020.
00:03:45.200 So the same people who believe that Biden is now the president of the United States because of massive ballot fraud in 2020.
00:03:52.720 And there appears to be more evidence surfacing every day that that was the case are now concerned, are now believing Democratic Party debate about who they should run on.
00:04:05.820 Do you see what I'm saying? This makes no sense.
00:04:07.960 If we believe that Joe Biden won because of ballot fraud in 2020, then that's the issue this year, too.
00:04:15.380 Right. It's not the Democrats are not saying, oh, wow, it looks like like Biden is losing badly to Trump because of his policies.
00:04:22.760 Who's a more plausible candidate that we can get in there?
00:04:26.020 That's not the issue. The key issue is the same as it was four years ago.
00:04:30.520 And I take your point to that. You know, we were talking before the show, you know, this is you know, and we may have disagreed on this a little bit, but this seems to be the first time we're seeing, you know, all that aside, obviously, you know, there were a lot of issues with the 2020 election and they'll probably try to do it again in the 2024 election.
00:04:48.520 But this is the first time I think we're seeing in a long time, even reports of there being in fighting inside the Democratic Democratic Party.
00:04:56.640 This is from Jake Sherman at Punchbowl News from the meeting on Tuesday on Capitol Hill regarding Joe Biden from Mark Ticano, Democrat, 39, California, says he recently saw a straw poll that Biden is losing in his district.
00:05:11.220 Biden won his district 62 percent of the vote last time.
00:05:13.900 So you have guys like this who are in districts that Biden carried heavily, who I think are just losing their mind because they think they're going to lose their seat because of whether it be Joe Biden's policies or his debate to debate, you know, performance.
00:05:27.320 How do you see this playing out inside the Democratic Party?
00:05:31.760 Well, look, I mean, the polls are a funny thing, right?
00:05:33.760 I mean, the polls make no sense because if we're talking about 2020, what happened in 2020?
00:05:39.360 Again, this is a mainstream MAGA and actually now Republican Party belief that there was massive ballot fraud, which means what?
00:05:49.760 Which means when they're asking questions in polls about things like registered voters and likely voters, what does likely voter mean when there's massive ballot fraud?
00:06:00.500 It means nothing, right?
00:06:02.300 This is what I'm trying to this is what I'm trying to argue with people.
00:06:05.460 All of the different things that we've talked about in the past that make elections real, that are real things, none of these make sense at this point, right?
00:06:16.640 So what is this debate about between the Democrats?
00:06:20.120 Maybe it exists.
00:06:21.060 Maybe it doesn't.
00:06:22.200 The leader of the Democratic Party is who?
00:06:24.460 He's the former president who's still living in Washington, D.C.
00:06:28.780 The first time that this has happened in over a century and the last American president who stayed in Washington, D.C.
00:06:36.240 after his term ended is Woodrow Wilson after he suffered a debilitating stroke and couldn't move.
00:06:42.120 Barack Obama is still there.
00:06:43.780 He's the leader of the party.
00:06:45.560 Now, if someone on the right who is reading Democratic Party debates can tell me what's in the mind of Barack Obama, then I'll listen to that.
00:06:53.060 Until we get to that point, again, I strongly encourage people to avoid, to ignore whatever debates are happening in the Democratic Party and to focus on crucial issues.
00:07:05.460 And the crucial issue is the same as it was in 2020.
00:07:09.200 Look, people complain about open borders.
00:07:11.800 We've been complaining about open borders.
00:07:13.820 That's one of the core issues.
00:07:17.980 Millions and millions of people have crossed our border.
00:07:21.280 Do these represent do these represent ballots?
00:07:24.860 I would say that's a pretty important question for Republican officials going forward, for Trump campaign officials going forward.
00:07:32.780 The debates going on in the Democratic Party and what's actually in Barack Obama's head.
00:07:38.400 No, forget it.
00:07:39.720 Again, polls are important to a limited extent.
00:07:42.500 But insofar as they're really going to predict what is going to happen in November after we saw what happened in 2020.
00:07:49.700 Again, that's off the table, right?
00:07:52.380 I mean, this is one of the this is one of the one of the bizarre things that happened after 2020.
00:07:58.360 All of these things that make elections look real, whether they're journalists, whether they're pollsters, whether they're consultants, whatever.
00:08:05.180 If we were living in a real time, right, if we were living in a normal time in American politics, there is no doubt that Democratic Party consultants and strategists would say, you know, it just occurred to me the Republicans may have a point.
00:08:19.960 Joe Biden doesn't look great.
00:08:21.500 As a matter of fact, he keeps walking into walls.
00:08:23.860 He can't finish a sentence without it devolving into gibberish.
00:08:27.220 We might, for goodness sakes, we might actually need to think about another candidate.
00:08:32.560 Right.
00:08:33.060 Here's what we do, Lee.
00:08:34.400 Let's take a quick break here.
00:08:37.380 I want to get your sense on the other side of this break of what Lee thinks is going on inside of Barack Obama's head, what Barack wants right now.
00:08:44.860 I also want to take up the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, the SAVE Act.
00:08:49.240 And you'd mentioned maybe a stolen election.
00:08:51.880 The Democrats and Joe Biden in particular is very against this bill.
00:08:54.880 We're going to talk about it when we return.
00:08:56.060 We're talking with Lee Smith.
00:08:57.180 We're coming right back.
00:08:58.060 Stay with us.
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00:11:02.780 But we can make some pretty good guesses, right?
00:11:05.240 Again, he ran Joe Biden in 2020.
00:11:08.720 And Joe Biden may have gotten a little bit worse, but he was pretty bad in 2020.
00:11:12.840 As Republicans were pointing out in 2020, they kept the guy in a basement, right?
00:11:17.580 That's how bad it was.
00:11:19.200 They wouldn't let him out in public on his own.
00:11:21.980 It's the same thing.
00:11:23.060 And that's what we've all been watching here since the Biden campaign of 2020.
00:11:28.360 Was Barack Obama happy then?
00:11:30.440 Yes, he certainly was.
00:11:31.620 Is Barack Obama happy now?
00:11:33.200 Well, I would imagine he is because Joe Biden has managed to check off a number of very important items on progressives' wish list, including open borders, including budgeting trillions of dollars for the climate change agenda.
00:11:48.620 So what has Joe Biden done that progressives don't like?
00:11:52.900 I mean, there's only one thing I can think of, and that's the limited support, the limited support he's lent Israel trying to balance different constituencies in the Democratic Party.
00:12:04.320 I think that's the only thing.
00:12:06.800 Everything else.
00:12:07.760 Joe Biden, from a progressive viewpoint, I mean, Joe Biden is heroic.
00:12:12.200 It's a historic presidency.
00:12:14.820 He's opened the borders.
00:12:16.660 He's done what progressives have wanted to do for ages.
00:12:21.080 The amount of money, again, budgeted for climate change.
00:12:25.200 Wow.
00:12:25.640 It's heroic.
00:12:26.580 I think it's important that we see these different things through the eyes of progressives, because that's what's going on, right?
00:12:34.940 That's who Barack Obama is.
00:12:37.080 The one problem, again, is this, trying to, from the progressive viewpoint, it's they're unhappy that Biden has not entirely exposed Israel to the depredations of the Palestinian terror enclave headed by Hamas.
00:12:53.500 That's the one issue.
00:12:55.460 Everything else is great.
00:12:56.720 So what's the problem right now with Joe Biden?
00:12:59.140 I don't know.
00:12:59.600 You tell me.
00:13:00.220 It's the same guy as he was in 2020.
00:13:03.200 And in fact, insofar as what we've seen here, insofar as what we've experienced since 2016, right, after Donald Trump was elected president, and we saw the riots in Washington, D.C., because Donald Trump won the White House by surprise.
00:13:21.520 We've seen a campaign of desecration, a campaign of demoralization, whether that was the George Floyd riots, whether it was the 1619 Project, whether this is trying to replace the national anthem and July 4th, right?
00:13:38.980 These are meant to destroy American history.
00:13:43.100 That's what I mean by desecration and demoralization.
00:13:46.820 And so far as we all recognize that this has been going on since 2016, we're moving on a decade of the campaign of demoralization and desecration.
00:13:55.240 What could be better than having a man like Joe Biden out in front, right?
00:14:00.880 People make the analogy to the Soviet Union and people talk about the aging and mentally deranged Soviet leaders because everyone knew that they were just a front for power and real decisions were being made by the Politburo.
00:14:18.240 Politburo, that's who was in charge, not the leader they put out front, not whether it was a decaying and drop off, right, or Brezhnev.
00:14:30.740 If, and I believe it's the same thing here as well, if insofar as this is a part of the campaign of demoralization and desecration, and to tell people you have no choice, you have no control over your lives anymore.
00:14:45.960 We're going to open the borders and let anyone in. 1.00
00:14:49.640 Doesn't matter if they're terrorists or felons, what they do to your families, what they do to your communities.
00:14:54.680 It's just what we're doing. We're just going to put 150,000 Afghani refugees in your town, in your state.
00:15:02.940 And if you don't like it, tough.
00:15:05.120 It's the same thing here. You would see the Biden candidacy is the same thing.
00:15:08.940 We're going to run a clearly cognitive challenged candidate.
00:15:14.260 And guess what? You have no choice.
00:15:16.180 Because that's who you got, because the decisions are made far beyond your ken, and you have no control over your lives, over the fate of your families and communities, never mind the fate of your country, because it's not your country. 0.50
00:15:31.020 It's a territory that's governed by Barack Obama and his friends in the Barack Obama faction of the Democratic Party.
00:15:38.820 Well, you mentioned, so you mentioned open borders, right? And obviously, that's a big issue now going on.
00:15:45.320 You've got, there was a report out this week from NICE, and they'd estimated there's 17 million illegals in this country right now, which doesn't account for God away.
00:15:52.440 So it's presumably over 20 million.
00:15:54.920 And the report said that 99% of them are living freely throughout this country, whether they're in New York, whether they're in Texas, whether they're in Florida.
00:16:04.860 And, you know, we have now coming to the House floor, you've got the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, the SAVE Act from Chip Roy, which the Biden administration put out this week, a press statement saying this bill would do nothing.
00:16:17.100 And the bill is meant to to make it harder for illegals to vote in these elections.
00:16:22.980 But then you've got the 99% of them living freely. So it makes you question that.
00:16:27.060 Anyway, the Biden administration put out a statement saying this bill would do nothing to safeguard our elections, but it would make it harder for all eligible Americans to register to vote and increase the risk that eligible voters are purged from voter rolls.
00:16:38.780 You need a you need a license to get on an airplane. You need a license to pick up a prescription.
00:16:42.300 You need a license to apply for a job. You need a license to adopt a pet from PetSmart.
00:16:48.400 Why is Joe Biden so against this?
00:16:50.800 I mean, I mean, it's obvious, right?
00:16:56.740 It's you know, they say, oh, it's racist.
00:17:00.100 This is what was Biden's line? Jim Crow on steroids or whatever his line was.
00:17:05.500 Jim, Jimmy Eagle. Right. Wasn't that his brilliant line?
00:17:08.440 Very clever guy that Joe Biden. That's what you get when you have a mummified president.
00:17:13.880 Great one liners like that. Look, I mean, it's quite obvious the point of it.
00:17:17.580 The point of it is, is to rationalize cheating. Right.
00:17:21.320 That's it. I mean, that's the only purpose.
00:17:23.740 Look, I think the real question is, is what's going to happen?
00:17:27.680 We are looking at the polls. And as I said before, we should take under consideration what things like polling and what things like journalism mean now.
00:17:40.880 Right. Especially after 2020 should take that into serious consideration.
00:17:45.480 But Americans, you know, Donald Trump supporters, Republicans, independents who are hugely and righteously dissatisfied with the way that Joe Biden, the Joe Biden administration has run this country the last four years are optimistic.
00:18:01.720 Right. We see ahead of us a light, a light ahead of us in the tunnel.
00:18:06.240 And what is that light? The light is a Donald Trump presidency. Right.
00:18:09.460 Even for people who don't like Donald Trump, they at least want a return to normalcy.
00:18:13.780 Right. They don't want to be feel they don't want they don't want to feel overburdened every time they go to the grocery store or the gas station.
00:18:21.000 Right. What's going to happen if despite all the polls, what the polls are showing, what's going to happen if we find out that, in fact, the election was swung by illegal alien votes?
00:18:35.640 What will that America look like in November, December of January and for the foreseeable?
00:18:41.900 Well, I'll tell you what it looks like. It looks like we'll see more indictments of President Trump for calling out a stolen election.
00:18:48.560 We'll be seeing more indictments of people like Jeffrey Clark and Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon from the world.
00:18:54.160 That's what it will look like. Yeah, I mean, I think it's going to look worse, frankly.
00:18:59.600 Right. Let's take a quick break here. Lee, I want to take this up on the other side of the break.
00:19:04.160 The Democrats, it's been a week since since the Trump immunity ruling from the Supreme Court and the Democrats are still going crazy.
00:19:10.580 Chuck Schumer says they're going to get rid of the immunity for January 6th.
00:19:13.920 I want to take that up on the other side of this break.
00:19:15.820 We're talking with brilliant journalist Lee Smith coming right back.
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00:19:45.820 We're back. We're talking with investigative journalist Lee Smith.
00:19:55.820 And Lee, right before we went to break, we were talking about the immunity from the Supreme Court for President Trump.
00:20:03.000 It's been been a week. But the Democrats, I mean, are just in disarray.
00:20:06.960 They can't seem to settle with the fact that the Supreme Court granted the rule of law and sided with the rule of law.
00:20:15.980 How do you think this proceeds going forward?
00:20:18.420 Chuck Schumer saying, you know, he wants to get rid of Trump's January 6th immunity.
00:20:22.780 How do you think you can move forward with this?
00:20:24.620 Well, of course, because I mean, because all of the cases against Donald Trump and Trump aides like Jeff Jeffrey Clark are make believe.
00:20:34.240 Right. They're all fiction. This is all this is it's all third world security regime stuff. 0.56
00:20:39.140 That's what happens. Just punish your political opponents. 0.81
00:20:41.800 And so while we're right to celebrate that the Constitution, the Constitution won, let's keep in mind what the Constitution is fighting.
00:20:53.560 Right. The Constitution is not educating between people with different, you know, with slightly different views about how we how we allocate our our our our tax money.
00:21:06.840 Right. Well, I don't know. Should we spend more on on on guns or more on butter?
00:21:10.880 How are we going to do this? What about foreign aid? What about you know, what about welfare?
00:21:15.380 No, this is not the issue. Right. The Constitution is not designed to adjudicate between the citizens of a constitutional republic and the leaders of a third world security regime.
00:21:28.020 Right. So, again, there's a temporary blow for these for regime figures like Charles Schumer.
00:21:35.480 Like like like Joe Biden's Department of Justice. But of course, I mean, there there is no doubt that they'll be back with something else and they'll look to target more people.
00:21:46.360 That's who that that's that's what's going on here.
00:21:50.120 So what you're saying is you think there's more people who have yet to be targeted by the Biden administration that are yet to come?
00:21:57.140 Is that what you're saying? They're not going to stop.
00:22:01.340 I mean, the idea that the Supreme I mean, the Supreme Court also was supposed to stop Joe Biden from from leaving student loan debt, did it?
00:22:09.360 He he bragged that it did not. So, no, of course not.
00:22:13.860 No, I'm saying that again, the Constitution was not designed for this.
00:22:17.260 Right. When we talk about the Constitution was meant for a for a moral people, what that means is it's like there are things that that Americans wouldn't dream of doing before that Americans, you know, you wouldn't do because it's un-American.
00:22:31.620 Right. I mean, how do you play? You know, you play baseball, you know, to brush someone off the plate, you would you know, you would throw under their chin or you'd even throw at their head to get them to dive in the dirt.
00:22:41.580 What you wouldn't do is if you were the catcher, you wouldn't cut out his his tendons behind him.
00:22:48.360 Right. That you wouldn't do that. It's not American. It's not part of the rules of the game.
00:22:52.020 But that's who we're playing with here. We're playing with people who do not play by the rules of the game.
00:22:56.940 It's not just un-American. It's criminal. It's totalitarian.
00:23:02.480 So the idea that the Constitution is going to defend us from this.
00:23:05.700 No, again, it was a big day for the Constitution.
00:23:09.780 It's a terrific victory. But let let let's understand what what the game looks like as a whole and who we're playing against.
00:23:19.040 So the idea that Chuck Schumer is going like, yeah, that's not going to work.
00:23:21.560 We have something else. We have something else cooking right now.
00:23:24.740 And you'll see what it is at a time at a time of our choosing.
00:23:29.880 Yeah, of course. That's who they are.
00:23:31.880 So real quick before we wrap up here, do you think in the next six months, in the next year, whether Trump wins or loses?
00:23:37.980 It looks like he's he's well on his way to victory.
00:23:41.200 Do you think these these wrongs are righted?
00:23:43.780 The Steve Bannon's of the world, the Peter Navarro's of the world, the Jeff Clark's.
00:23:47.920 Do you think at the end of the day, it's all made right?
00:23:50.940 President Trump will be vindicated on all cases, both state and federal.
00:23:54.800 Well, I'm of the opinion.
00:23:58.520 I'm of the opinion that we should probably stop thinking about the world in terms of the deep state.
00:24:04.800 And so far as we're fighting that our enemies of the deep state, because that that's that's a way to describe losing.
00:24:12.640 Right. Fighting a bureaucracy of how many thousands of people in Washington, D.C.
00:24:16.820 and around the country. So we're going to fight every U.S.
00:24:19.780 attorney and all 50 states or most of them anyway.
00:24:23.780 No, that's I mean, the look, I'm cheered and gladdened when I hear Donald Trump allies talk about,
00:24:33.580 no, we're going to we're going to fix the bureaucracy and do this.
00:24:36.280 And that's great. But the real point is to go after the leadership.
00:24:39.500 That's what they've been doing.
00:24:40.440 They've been going after Donald Trump and Donald Trump aides.
00:24:43.580 That's what real political fights look like.
00:24:46.400 You go after the leadership. 0.93
00:24:47.920 So to talk about in terms of the deep state, I mean, that's that's silly.
00:24:52.760 So, John, you're asking if I'm optimistic about that happening.
00:24:56.400 I'm saying what the focus needs to be has to move away from the deep state.
00:25:01.320 The problem with America right now is not Peter Strzok and Lisa Page's Lisa Page's text messages.
00:25:06.960 Right. It's a much bigger problem.
00:25:08.440 The issue is who is paying for what to whom on behalf of what causes.
00:25:14.060 Right. Once we start asking questions like that, we know all the names.
00:25:17.480 We say them all the time.
00:25:19.140 We just we we confuse the issue by talking about the deep state.
00:25:22.680 It's not the deep state. Right.
00:25:24.520 These are bureaucrats. So who are the leaders?
00:25:27.720 Who are the leaders on behalf of what causes are they doing what things and by whom are they paid?
00:25:33.540 These are the things that we need to focus on.
00:25:35.820 Well, one last thing before we wrap up here, you know, obviously, in President Trump's first term, he didn't make the best decisions personnel wise.
00:25:44.540 And it could be the reason why we're we're in this mess today with with political prisoners, hundreds of political prisoners, former administration officials, you know, being persecuted and prosecuted.
00:25:57.040 Do you think Trump writes that ship?
00:25:59.760 They often say retribution like he's not entitled to it after going through what he's went through since 2015.
00:26:05.840 Do you think he writes this ship in a new administration and and takes care of what he didn't in the first administration?
00:26:14.560 I'm I'm very hopeful that's the case. I believe that that's what he wants to do.
00:26:17.920 I believe that people who are close to the president believe he will do it.
00:26:20.960 Look, I mean, there are there are other factors we have to consider here.
00:26:23.880 It's like do people who who who respect the president and his policies and would like to work for them?
00:26:32.880 What what do their families say?
00:26:35.140 If you're if you're a 28 year old, if you're a 28 year old and you have two children and what does what does your wife say?
00:26:46.100 When you're offered a job in the Trump administration, does she say, honey, that's so terrific.
00:26:50.060 I'm so excited. It's time for you to serve your country.
00:26:52.060 And when the president asks, of course, we have to go serve or or or does your family say it as your father go?
00:26:57.840 Hey, look, I you know, I work for Nixon and it's good.
00:27:01.840 You should work for the government. But they want to destroy Trump and they're going to destroy everyone around Trump.
00:27:06.620 Right. So even though this is a great honor, I think you should think hard about it.
00:27:10.400 So, again, I believe that the president does want to set things, does want to set things back in order.
00:27:16.440 But what happens? What are the kinds of threats that people have to go through?
00:27:19.760 Because, John, you were just talking about what Chuck Schumer, how he's eyeing going after, you know, how he's how he's eyeing going after immunity on January 6th.
00:27:29.160 What else do they have cooked up in store for people, political allies of of Donald Trump?
00:27:34.720 That's not going to stop. Right.
00:27:36.920 And for everybody watching, Lee's got two great books out.
00:27:39.620 They're must reads if you want to see a detailed explanation of everything that went through this deep state and everything that happened to President Trump.
00:27:48.580 One of them, the plot against the president and the other, the permanent coup.
00:27:52.580 Two great reads by Lee Smith. I've read them both.
00:27:55.120 And I mean, it tells you everything you need to know about everything.
00:27:58.120 Lee, where can people read your stuff and watch your podcast?
00:28:02.960 LeeSmith.locals.com.
00:28:04.620 And also, you know, I'm a contributor over at Tablet Magazine, where I write a lot about the Middle East.
00:28:11.460 But, you know, there's a there's a lot going on right now.
00:28:15.180 So there's a lot to write about.
00:28:17.000 And I hope to be able to fill in people as much as I can about what's you know, what's coming.
00:28:22.960 And I urge people.
00:28:24.100 I urge people to pay attention to what's happening over the next couple of months.
00:28:29.580 And while we we should always be optimistic, no matter what.
00:28:33.080 And this election should not affect who we are as Americans and what we stand for and what we fight for.
00:28:40.900 But again, I counsel people strongly to stay on their toes and be aware.
00:28:47.620 Because I believe that these next few months and even after the election, we're going to go through a very hard time as Americans.
00:28:54.100 I think we're all praying for the right outcome.
00:28:56.340 And that outcome is President Trump.
00:28:58.580 So LeeSmith.locals.com.
00:29:00.200 Lee Smith, you're amazing.
00:29:01.920 Thank you so much for joining us today.
00:29:03.700 Thank you, John, for inviting me on today.
00:29:05.780 Thanks to Lee Smith.
00:29:06.540 And thank you for joining us here today on The Great America Show.
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00:29:37.860 God bless you and may God bless America.