The Great America Show - August 26, 2022


PRES. TRUMP SAYS THE FBI’S RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO WAS A POLITICAL ATTACK ON OUR COUNTRY RIGHT BEFORE THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS AND IT IS A DISGRACE


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Trump is back on The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs to discuss the raid on his Mar-A-Lago estate, and his reaction to the Mueller report exonerating him and the rest of the Trump administration of any wrongdoing.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Welcome to the show,
00:00:05.780 and thanks for being with us. Today, we're looking at what has been a six-year-long period
00:00:10.740 of political persecution of an American president. That president, a highly successful businessman
00:00:17.280 and television star, a president who had never run for office at any level, who in fact didn't
00:00:23.940 have a very high regard for politics at all. But Donald Trump was an outsider who detested the
00:00:30.720 swamp in D.C., who believed he should try to make a difference because he feared for the country
00:00:36.920 and he feared for our people, and he knew in his heart that he could do things that politicians
00:00:42.580 couldn't. He could bring a business outlook to government. He couldn't be bought. He had plenty
00:00:48.920 of money of his own. He could cut the swamp and career politicians down to size so that he could
00:00:55.280 lead the nation back to greatness, could restore our economy, free business from oppressive regulation,
00:01:01.960 cut taxes, stop exporting jobs and factories to faraway lands. He could use tariffs to cut our
00:01:09.460 trade deficit with China and other nations, and insist on fair trade rather than the mindless free trade
00:01:17.280 that cost America trillions of dollars, rebuild our military and put America first in all things,
00:01:23.880 but especially our foreign policy, and bring back our troops from all foreign deployments,
00:01:29.920 and demand our allies pay their fair share in the war on terror or in defending Western civilization,
00:01:37.380 and defend our own borders, build a wall and end illegal immigration, the smuggling of deadly drugs
00:01:43.940 across the Mexican border, and give America a president who keeps his promises.
00:01:50.400 We have as our guest that very special American, a great American, who is our greatest president in
00:01:56.860 history, President Donald J. Trump. It's an honor to have him back with us here on the Great America
00:02:02.860 Show, and Mr. President, delighted to have you with us. Thank you very much for joining us here today.
00:02:08.620 The Justice Department has just released the Mueller Special Counsel memo from March of 2019,
00:02:16.700 recommending against a prosecution of you as president, your reaction to what is yet another
00:02:22.580 exoneration in what has been six years of political persecution against you and your family,
00:02:29.960 and continues to this very day.
00:02:31.940 Well, to put it more accurately, maybe, Lou, they said, I did nothing wrong, which everybody
00:02:38.360 knew. You knew that from day one. They said, I did nothing wrong. We went through two and a half
00:02:42.860 years of nonsense. I wish they would have released the report a lot earlier, but it's an appropriate
00:02:49.200 time to release it, because I have the same kind of a witch hunt going on right now, the exact same
00:02:54.720 kind, and it's a political thing. It's a weaponization of the Department of Justice and the FBI,
00:03:00.760 and it's a disgrace, but it's a very appropriate thing. They said, I did nothing wrong, and that's
00:03:06.360 after two and a half years of going through turmoil and simultaneously running the country
00:03:11.200 very well.
00:03:13.060 You know, and as your then-Attorney General, Bill Barr, put it, he had decided not to proceed
00:03:19.800 with prosecution. There was no underlying crime. To be obstructed, it is such mindlessness,
00:03:28.040 it's incomprehensible as well as a disgrace. It also, there was a redacted letter put out a little
00:03:37.200 over a year ago, but so redacted, it was meaningless, and that brings us to the point of
00:03:43.040 this current offense against the law, the Constitution, and you, which is the raid on
00:03:52.060 Mar-a-Lago, your home, your offices. Tell us what your thoughts are about the predicate,
00:04:00.920 the purpose of this raid, and why no one knows what it was all about.
00:04:08.200 Well, the interesting thing is that this should have all been done, this should have all been
00:04:15.420 done, as to your previous question, a long time ago. They could have announced what they
00:04:20.980 did yesterday, a long time ago, that I did nothing wrong, and it's the exact same thing
00:04:26.160 here. We were essentially attacked. We were broken into. They opened up safes. They brought
00:04:31.700 safecrackers in. They brought many, many FBI agents in, all right before the midterms,
00:04:38.340 and all when I have the best poll numbers I've ever had. This is a political attack on our country,
00:04:44.280 and it's a disgrace, and the people understand it. The people understand it. This is, and they're
00:04:50.600 using statutes or whatever you may want to say that don't even apply. The things that apply,
00:04:55.540 everything was absolutely perfect. It was a perfect, it was perfectly handled, and they could have come
00:05:01.580 in, and they could have talked to us, and they could have taken whatever they needed, but instead
00:05:06.140 they raided it. They took my passports. They took things that they should have never taken with,
00:05:12.820 that are privileged, and it's a disgrace to our country. It really is. It's just, and it just never
00:05:18.780 ends. It's the same people, the same leaks, the same, they leak to the same places, the same people
00:05:26.200 doing the leaking. It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace. Our country's a wreck. It is a wreck under this
00:05:32.900 administration in so many ways, whether we're talking about an almost $31 trillion national
00:05:37.520 debt, whether you're talking about a trillion dollar deficits, whether we're talking about
00:05:42.780 assaulting a former president in violation of the Constitution, the law, tradition, convention,
00:05:50.980 and just common sense and good judgment. One of the things I'd like to turn to in that is the
00:05:56.340 Presidential Records Act, in which a deputy archivist, acting archivist, basically has the power
00:06:04.360 given her by President Biden to decide whether or not you have executive privilege.
00:06:11.100 What an outrage that this egoistic archivist has decided that she can make those kinds of 1.00
00:06:19.740 decisions, and what madness on the part of this impaired President Biden to have done such a thing. 0.70
00:06:28.120 No, it's not even believable, and the Presidential Records Act is guiding this, and if you look at it,
00:06:35.720 I have every right to do what I want to do, and we can negotiate them. There's no time
00:06:40.880 limits that I know of. We can negotiate. We can do what we want to do, but they're not using the
00:06:45.960 Presidential Records Act. You know, that's relatively new in the scheme of things compared to other
00:06:50.800 things. They want to go back to things that haven't been used in many, many decades, many,
00:06:55.520 many years. The Presidential Records Act is the guide, and if you look at the Presidential Records Act,
00:07:02.700 it's all about exactly what it says. It's about presidential records, and you take a look at what
00:07:09.180 it says, there's no retribution. You negotiate with them. But no, they've done something that's
00:07:15.320 incredible. They actually want to take certain powers away and give them to the person that you're
00:07:23.240 talking about, and it's absurd. I have seen more political comment on that and more legal comment on
00:07:29.180 that. They think it's ridiculous what's going on. This is purely an act of an administration that
00:07:36.420 obviously is doing very poorly, unfortunately, because I'd love to see it do well despite politics.
00:07:41.900 I would love not to have seen what happened in Afghanistan. I'd love not to see inflation at a
00:07:47.140 record level. I'd love not to see a loss of energy independence, and actually, we were becoming a
00:07:54.280 major, major producer. We were going to be bigger than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined, probably times
00:08:01.040 two, combined times two. We were headed in a direction like never before, and now they just
00:08:07.800 blew it. Now we go begging Venezuela and others for energy. So it's very sad, but it's also sad
00:08:15.480 politically because you know about the election, and you know what happened with the election. It was a
00:08:20.020 disgrace, and a lot of this started because of that. Look, we wouldn't have a war with Russia with 0.52
00:08:25.220 going into Ukraine. The President Xi wouldn't have 75 ships circling Taiwan right now, and you know,
00:08:32.660 it looks like he's going to be doing something at some point. That was not a good move, by the way,
00:08:36.960 by Nancy Pelosi, because it gave him exactly what he needed, gave him an excuse. You know, so many
00:08:42.620 other things. It's just our country is really, it's a nation in decline. Well, of course, Senator
00:08:50.020 Marsha Blackburn is now in Taiwan in a show of solidarity with Taiwan. Do you also think that's
00:08:58.100 a mistake? I think we ought to just relax. I think we have enough problems right now as a country,
00:09:05.300 to be honest with you. I think we have enough problems. Right now, we have so many different
00:09:09.860 things. We're losing our country with stupidity. You know, we've given now Ukraine $70 billion, 0.56
00:09:17.660 and Europe has given it maybe one-tenth of that, maybe one-tenth. At some point, you say,
00:09:25.360 doesn't that have to be fairness? Doesn't it have to be like others will do, somewhat like we will do?
00:09:32.900 Because, you know, if you take a look, we're in now for, it could be 70. Nobody even knows. If you ask
00:09:38.260 people, they don't even know. We just gave another $3 billion. How much did Europe give? And Europe is
00:09:43.340 affected far greater than we are. Yes, and it goes to the very heart of your argument as president,
00:09:50.520 when you were pulling our troops back and insisting that the NATO and European nations pay their fair
00:09:56.820 share for their defense, and that the United States would no longer act like a police organization
00:10:04.960 for the European governments that were not meeting their responsibilities. The same situation
00:10:10.300 exists, except this president, who, by the way, you mentioned the $3 billion. That looks like another
00:10:16.280 tranche of hush money coming from this White House, because the level of corruption in Ukraine is no
00:10:23.720 less than it was when you were president, and is just as difficult a political situation for the
00:10:30.700 United States as then. And worse, because the Europeans refuse to understand or acknowledge 0.95
00:10:37.960 that they need a, they would be wise to be the ones supporting Ukraine to maintain that buffer between 0.88
00:10:46.180 themselves and an expansionary Russia, thanks to Vladimir Putin. Well, they're not supporting Ukraine 0.50
00:10:54.120 in any very meaningful way by comparison to the United States. And I feel worse than anybody about
00:11:01.380 Ukraine, because it would have never happened. This whole thing shouldn't have happened. Forget 0.99
00:11:04.860 about who's paying what. Nobody should have had to pay anything. This whole thing wouldn't have happened
00:11:09.760 had the election been properly run. Let me be very nice and very diplomatic, because every time somebody
00:11:18.300 talks about it, they end up losing their show, because nobody wants to allow them to talk about
00:11:23.240 the rigged election. But had the election been properly run, had the election not been rigged,
00:11:31.180 I will tell you, Lou, this would have never happened. Taiwan, which could be next, would never,
00:11:37.880 ever have happened. She wouldn't have done it. Putin wouldn't have done it. And I don't even mean
00:11:42.620 through negotiation. They wouldn't have done it. They never did it in four years. I mean, in four years,
00:11:47.740 we didn't have anything looking like this in Russia. They didn't circle the borders and
00:11:52.720 look like they were going in. And frankly, even when they did that, a deal could have been made.
00:11:57.740 They should have been able to make a deal at that time. I thought I thought that Russia was frankly 0.97
00:12:02.660 negotiating. I mean, when they put all that when they put 200,000 troops on the border, I thought
00:12:08.240 they were maybe negotiating. But a deal could have been made. Now you have cities that are blown to
00:12:13.320 pieces. Probably could be millions of people by the time this ends. This could end up in World War
00:12:19.360 Three because we have no idea what we're doing and we have no idea what we're getting into. This
00:12:23.880 could actually end up in World War Three. It's insane what's going on. And the problem is that
00:12:29.920 we're putting up many, many, many times more. We're putting up much more money than Europe.
00:12:35.440 They're not following the lead. And frankly, as far as they're concerned, I think they'd like to put up
00:12:39.800 very little. If you look at some of the countries the way they're talking, they don't want to put
00:12:45.200 up. Now, with all of that being said, I feel horrible for the people of Ukraine that are just 1.00
00:12:52.300 being decimated and killed and the cities being wiped out, never really to be rebuilt again. You
00:12:58.660 know, you're talking about many, many decades and it'll never be like it was. You know, you look at
00:13:03.700 some of those incredible buildings that are just bombed to the ground that are so old and
00:13:07.840 and actually magnificent. But most importantly, the people. You lost so many people already and
00:13:13.480 you're going to lose a lot more. And this should have never happened. This would have never,
00:13:17.720 ever happened under the Trump administration. Well, I appreciate your concern for whether or
00:13:22.840 not this show will be canceled. But I have to tell you, this show, we have been talking about
00:13:28.580 the rigged election of 2020, the circumstances under which history was changed in part by
00:13:36.260 then Attorney General William Barr, who in his book acknowledges that he knew vice, the former
00:13:44.360 vice president, was lying through his teeth when he claimed that the laptop from hell, as you styled it,
00:13:50.480 Hunter Biden's laptop, was Russian disinformation. Barr knew that that was not the case.
00:13:58.160 51 intelligence veterans and five former heads of the intelligence agencies were lying through their
00:14:06.820 teeth as they implied, but absolutely implied that it was Russian disinformation. It served as a shield
00:14:18.080 to your charge then that the Biden family was corrupt, a crime family, and the American people
00:14:25.080 were disenfranchised. And we know now, after polling, that if people had known it, enough people would
00:14:34.840 have reversed their vote to you and history would have been quite different. And Joe Biden would not
00:14:43.220 be in the White House. He's not there now, let's be honest. I mean, he's still five weeks in abstentia
00:14:49.560 with only an appearance for a bill signing, and you would be the president of the United States.
00:14:56.200 Well, we wouldn't have inflation. We wouldn't have the problems that we have. We'd have an economy that
00:15:01.480 would be roaring. We'd have $2 gasoline or less, frankly. And we would be dominant in energy. We
00:15:08.080 wouldn't only be energy independent like we were. We would be by this time dominant. We would be the
00:15:12.580 dominant energy force. And now we're closing that up. And I see now they want to go to all electric cars
00:15:18.080 in a very short period of time. The batteries and all of the material, most of it comes from China
00:15:23.240 or China-run areas. It's just a disaster. The windmills are destroying, you take a look,
00:15:29.860 destroying our beautiful open spaces and our plains and our valleys. And you just look at what's
00:15:35.780 happening to the country with these windmills that are so horrible. They're all made in China and 1.00
00:15:40.120 Germany, by the way, but they're all made outside of the United States. It's a shame what's happened to
00:15:44.900 our country. And it truly is. It's a country that's failing. It's a country in decline.
00:15:49.880 And it's very sad to watch. And then they weaponize. They weaponize at a level that nobody's ever seen
00:15:55.360 before. They go after political opponents at a level that nobody's ever seen before, where they
00:16:00.600 raid an ex-president and a popular ex-president. You just have to look at the polls, the best poll
00:16:06.500 numbers I've ever had, because people now see how good we were doing. Despite all of the distraction
00:16:12.380 of these terrible investigations, that now letters are coming out saying, exonerating Trump, he did
00:16:19.420 nothing wrong, like what came out yesterday from the Justice Department. So it's very sad when you see
00:16:24.700 it. And so many bad things have happened to our country in a period of less than two years.
00:16:31.360 Part of what infuriates me is the overt effort by the Marxist Dems that are driving the Democrat 0.72
00:16:38.780 Party and this puppet president that is now installed. Part of what drives me to just immense
00:16:49.020 anger is that it's an effort to intimidate the American people, to intimidate not only Trump
00:16:55.260 supporters, the tens of millions of them, the 80 million of them, but all Americans. They don't want 1.00
00:17:01.800 anyone to pick their heads up. They want them to put their heads down, keep their mouths shut, be told
00:17:08.840 and accept what they're told, whether it be about how their children will be taught in school or
00:17:14.520 indoctrinated. They want the American people to just shut up and not use critical judgment or certainly
00:17:22.520 demand justice for all equally in this country and not a system of justice in which the Marxist Dems and
00:17:32.760 this administration, this illegitimate regime, is permitted to hound, harangue, and persecute
00:17:42.840 politically a president, Donald J. Trump, for six long years. It's outrageous. And the American people
00:17:51.720 have every are furious. The backlash is something they could not have imagined. Your thoughts?
00:17:59.080 They are furious. I have never seen anger like it. They love the country more than they ever have
00:18:04.760 because they see what we've lost. We've lost our country, in my opinion. If this continues, I think
00:18:10.600 just horrible things will happen. And that's not said as a threat. That's said as somebody that just feels
00:18:15.960 it. I feel it. I think horrible things. They are destroying our country. They're destroying our
00:18:23.240 system. And they lost an election. They lost an election and they lost it big. It was lost big.
00:18:31.160 You see the numbers coming out of Arizona and coming out of all of these states. Pennsylvania,
00:18:35.880 you see what's happening with all these numbers that are now coming out. And the Republican leadership
00:18:41.800 is weak. A guy like Mitch McConnell, all he cares about is keeping his business with China and his
00:18:48.520 wife, Coco. All they do is they look at what's happening with China. And he has a total conflict
00:18:55.560 of it. He's not only compromised, he's much more than compromised. He's in a much worse position than
00:19:01.240 just simply being compromised. China, he will do whatever the Democrats want him to do. And you 0.59
00:19:08.120 understand why. Most people don't understand why. But Mitch McConnell will do whatever the Democrats
00:19:13.880 tell him. He never used debt ceiling. He gave it away for nothing. You wouldn't have any of this phony
00:19:20.120 infrastructure bill that passed a year ago. And I told you that Manchin, a long time ago,
00:19:25.080 I told you that Manchin will let you down because he always lets people down. He really let the people
00:19:29.640 of West Virginia down because you're not going to have coal with Manchin. You know, they put taxes on coal
00:19:34.920 and all sorts of things. What's he doing? What happened to this guy? He made it so bad. And
00:19:41.080 I figured, oh, West Virginia must be a big beneficiary. West Virginia got hurt more than
00:19:45.880 any other state. You take a look at what happened with energy and with coal and the taxes they're
00:19:50.680 going to put on. Nobody's going to be able to produce it anymore, except Germany, of course, 1.00
00:19:54.600 which is now opening up their coal plants. Because years ago, during a speech at the United Nations,
00:20:00.920 they all smiled and laughed when I started. I said, why would anybody be, you know, the pipeline
00:20:08.680 coming in from Russia, Nord Stream 2? Nobody heard of it until I started bringing it up. He said,
00:20:13.800 why would Germany ever make a deal to get 72% of its energy from Russia? And sure as can be,
00:20:21.240 three years later, they were all smiling. Now they're all saying Trump was right. And now what
00:20:26.280 they're doing is they're going back to their original coal plants. Can you believe it?
00:20:30.600 So, you know, Germany was, and by the way, Germany is doing very little to help.
00:20:35.080 If you take a look at Ukraine, Germany is doing virtually nothing to help Ukraine by comparison to
00:20:39.880 what the United States is doing. Virtually nothing. It's, it's an incredible, it's an incredible world
00:20:46.120 we're living in. And it's very sad. And everybody has things back, really backwards, Lou. They don't
00:20:52.520 know what they're doing. I do think most Republicans now know what they're doing. They're going to go to
00:20:58.600 the polls on November 8. And they are going to vote in numbers that I don't believe we have ever seen.
00:21:05.720 Because they know this cannot stand. The Republic itself is hanging in the balance.
00:21:10.280 They know that the Democrats, the Marxist Dems, have cheated in the 2020 election. They've done
00:21:18.120 everything they can. They know Joe Biden is a cheat and an absentee president. They know that they need
00:21:25.720 to bring back First America, MAGA, and our MAGA president, Donald J. Trump. It is without question,
00:21:35.240 the existential midterm election, I believe, of our country's history. Your thoughts about
00:21:43.480 what you expect to happen? Well, I hope you're right. I think that the cheating's at a level that
00:21:50.680 I used to say that you beat the cheating by just swamping them and getting big numbers. But we
00:21:55.720 swamped them in many areas. And they still just happened to pull it through by a very small number
00:22:00.920 of votes. You know that. I can say this. People have no choice. They want to change our system. 0.77
00:22:08.440 Remember when I was campaigning, I said, we're going to end up being, if these people win,
00:22:12.600 we're going to end up being Venezuela on steroids. And that's where we're heading right now. And people
00:22:18.120 have to get out. And they have to vote. I don't think there's ever been a more important time.
00:22:24.120 And I'll also tell you this for the people that are listening. You are a very important voice.
00:22:29.080 And your voice is getting out there. You're a very important voice. And they tried to cut you short,
00:22:34.520 and it didn't work. But I hope people appreciate what you do, because you really are. You're a very
00:22:40.520 powerful and important voice. That's very kind, Mr. President. And to tell you the truth,
00:22:45.000 I'm getting all sorts of support and people acknowledging the show. And they're taking time
00:22:53.000 to listen to us every once in a while. And it's great to be in the arena. And it is a wonderful
00:23:01.000 thought to think that we will have our 45th president as our 47th. And I want you to know
00:23:10.200 that everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, that is their hope, their prayer, and their dream.
00:23:17.880 So thank you. Thank you. I think you'll be happy. And I think you'll be happy. And I look forward
00:23:22.920 to seeing you and keep going. You're doing a great job. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. And
00:23:28.680 God bless. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you. Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. I have to
00:23:36.120 tell you, I never talked with President Trump without thinking how much we owe the man for all
00:23:42.120 that he's done for this country, and for all Americans. And what a beating he's taken from
00:23:48.440 the venal Marxist Dems and the deep state, and how many times the rhino liberals of his own party 0.92
00:23:55.400 have betrayed him. As I'm sure you heard in his voice, his strength and resolve, his love of this
00:24:01.960 country and our people is undiminished. Despite all that the establishment, the Marxist Dems,
00:24:08.200 and the deep state have thrown at him, and continue to try to crush him, to destroy him,
00:24:13.560 because he is not of the swamp, and they can't buy him, and they can't break him. And too often he's
00:24:20.520 in the fight alone, when we all should be doing far more to support him, to fight with him against the
00:24:26.760 evil forces that mean to take down this country and President Trump. Maybe let your congressmen,
00:24:33.800 your senators, know you expect them to support President Trump. And I would ask you to volunteer
00:24:39.640 to be a poll watcher, to be involved in your midterm elections this fall. We need the vigilance and
00:24:46.040 participation in votes of all our fellow citizens to protect against a repeat of 2020. Thank you for
00:24:53.880 being with us today. And please let your family and friends know they can hear President Trump
00:24:59.240 here on the Great America Show over the weekend as well. He just might brighten their spirits and their
00:25:05.080 day, and they'll certainly hear what you and I just heard. President Trump is a warrior for this country,
00:25:11.800 and he means to win this fight against foes, foreign and domestic. Thanks again. Monday,
00:25:18.520 our guest will be former FBI Supervisory Special Agent James Galeano. He's also mayor of Cornwall-on-Hudson,
00:25:26.520 New York. We'll be talking about what the past six years have revealed about the FBI and the
00:25:33.560 Department of Justice. Don't miss that interview. Thanks again. And God bless you, and God bless America.