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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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Welcome to the show,
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and thanks for being with us. Today, we're looking at what has been a six-year-long period
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of political persecution of an American president. That president, a highly successful businessman
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and television star, a president who had never run for office at any level, who in fact didn't
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have a very high regard for politics at all. But Donald Trump was an outsider who detested the
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swamp in D.C., who believed he should try to make a difference because he feared for the country
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and he feared for our people, and he knew in his heart that he could do things that politicians
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couldn't. He could bring a business outlook to government. He couldn't be bought. He had plenty
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of money of his own. He could cut the swamp and career politicians down to size so that he could
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lead the nation back to greatness, could restore our economy, free business from oppressive regulation,
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cut taxes, stop exporting jobs and factories to faraway lands. He could use tariffs to cut our
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trade deficit with China and other nations, and insist on fair trade rather than the mindless free trade
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that cost America trillions of dollars, rebuild our military and put America first in all things,
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but especially our foreign policy, and bring back our troops from all foreign deployments,
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and demand our allies pay their fair share in the war on terror or in defending Western civilization,
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and defend our own borders, build a wall and end illegal immigration, the smuggling of deadly drugs
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across the Mexican border, and give America a president who keeps his promises.
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We have as our guest that very special American, a great American, who is our greatest president in
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history, President Donald J. Trump. It's an honor to have him back with us here on the Great America
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Show, and Mr. President, delighted to have you with us. Thank you very much for joining us here today.
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The Justice Department has just released the Mueller Special Counsel memo from March of 2019,
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recommending against a prosecution of you as president, your reaction to what is yet another
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exoneration in what has been six years of political persecution against you and your family,
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Well, to put it more accurately, maybe, Lou, they said, I did nothing wrong, which everybody
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knew. You knew that from day one. They said, I did nothing wrong. We went through two and a half
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years of nonsense. I wish they would have released the report a lot earlier, but it's an appropriate
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time to release it, because I have the same kind of a witch hunt going on right now, the exact same
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kind, and it's a political thing. It's a weaponization of the Department of Justice and the FBI,
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and it's a disgrace, but it's a very appropriate thing. They said, I did nothing wrong, and that's
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after two and a half years of going through turmoil and simultaneously running the country
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You know, and as your then-Attorney General, Bill Barr, put it, he had decided not to proceed
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with prosecution. There was no underlying crime. To be obstructed, it is such mindlessness,
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it's incomprehensible as well as a disgrace. It also, there was a redacted letter put out a little
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over a year ago, but so redacted, it was meaningless, and that brings us to the point of
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this current offense against the law, the Constitution, and you, which is the raid on
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Mar-a-Lago, your home, your offices. Tell us what your thoughts are about the predicate,
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the purpose of this raid, and why no one knows what it was all about.
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Well, the interesting thing is that this should have all been done, this should have all been
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done, as to your previous question, a long time ago. They could have announced what they
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did yesterday, a long time ago, that I did nothing wrong, and it's the exact same thing
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here. We were essentially attacked. We were broken into. They opened up safes. They brought
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safecrackers in. They brought many, many FBI agents in, all right before the midterms,
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and all when I have the best poll numbers I've ever had. This is a political attack on our country,
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and it's a disgrace, and the people understand it. The people understand it. This is, and they're
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using statutes or whatever you may want to say that don't even apply. The things that apply,
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everything was absolutely perfect. It was a perfect, it was perfectly handled, and they could have come
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in, and they could have talked to us, and they could have taken whatever they needed, but instead
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they raided it. They took my passports. They took things that they should have never taken with,
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that are privileged, and it's a disgrace to our country. It really is. It's just, and it just never
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ends. It's the same people, the same leaks, the same, they leak to the same places, the same people
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doing the leaking. It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace. Our country's a wreck. It is a wreck under this
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administration in so many ways, whether we're talking about an almost $31 trillion national
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debt, whether you're talking about a trillion dollar deficits, whether we're talking about
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assaulting a former president in violation of the Constitution, the law, tradition, convention,
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and just common sense and good judgment. One of the things I'd like to turn to in that is the
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Presidential Records Act, in which a deputy archivist, acting archivist, basically has the power
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given her by President Biden to decide whether or not you have executive privilege.
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What an outrage that this egoistic archivist has decided that she can make those kinds of
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decisions, and what madness on the part of this impaired President Biden to have done such a thing.
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No, it's not even believable, and the Presidential Records Act is guiding this, and if you look at it,
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I have every right to do what I want to do, and we can negotiate them. There's no time
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limits that I know of. We can negotiate. We can do what we want to do, but they're not using the
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Presidential Records Act. You know, that's relatively new in the scheme of things compared to other
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things. They want to go back to things that haven't been used in many, many decades, many,
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many years. The Presidential Records Act is the guide, and if you look at the Presidential Records Act,
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it's all about exactly what it says. It's about presidential records, and you take a look at what
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it says, there's no retribution. You negotiate with them. But no, they've done something that's
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incredible. They actually want to take certain powers away and give them to the person that you're
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talking about, and it's absurd. I have seen more political comment on that and more legal comment on
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that. They think it's ridiculous what's going on. This is purely an act of an administration that
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obviously is doing very poorly, unfortunately, because I'd love to see it do well despite politics.
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I would love not to have seen what happened in Afghanistan. I'd love not to see inflation at a
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record level. I'd love not to see a loss of energy independence, and actually, we were becoming a
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major, major producer. We were going to be bigger than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined, probably times
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two, combined times two. We were headed in a direction like never before, and now they just
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blew it. Now we go begging Venezuela and others for energy. So it's very sad, but it's also sad
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politically because you know about the election, and you know what happened with the election. It was a
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disgrace, and a lot of this started because of that. Look, we wouldn't have a war with Russia with
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going into Ukraine. The President Xi wouldn't have 75 ships circling Taiwan right now, and you know,
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it looks like he's going to be doing something at some point. That was not a good move, by the way,
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by Nancy Pelosi, because it gave him exactly what he needed, gave him an excuse. You know, so many
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other things. It's just our country is really, it's a nation in decline. Well, of course, Senator
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Marsha Blackburn is now in Taiwan in a show of solidarity with Taiwan. Do you also think that's
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a mistake? I think we ought to just relax. I think we have enough problems right now as a country,
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to be honest with you. I think we have enough problems. Right now, we have so many different
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things. We're losing our country with stupidity. You know, we've given now Ukraine $70 billion,
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and Europe has given it maybe one-tenth of that, maybe one-tenth. At some point, you say,
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doesn't that have to be fairness? Doesn't it have to be like others will do, somewhat like we will do?
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Because, you know, if you take a look, we're in now for, it could be 70. Nobody even knows. If you ask
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people, they don't even know. We just gave another $3 billion. How much did Europe give? And Europe is
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affected far greater than we are. Yes, and it goes to the very heart of your argument as president,
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when you were pulling our troops back and insisting that the NATO and European nations pay their fair
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share for their defense, and that the United States would no longer act like a police organization
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for the European governments that were not meeting their responsibilities. The same situation
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exists, except this president, who, by the way, you mentioned the $3 billion. That looks like another
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tranche of hush money coming from this White House, because the level of corruption in Ukraine is no
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less than it was when you were president, and is just as difficult a political situation for the
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United States as then. And worse, because the Europeans refuse to understand or acknowledge
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that they need a, they would be wise to be the ones supporting Ukraine to maintain that buffer between
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themselves and an expansionary Russia, thanks to Vladimir Putin. Well, they're not supporting Ukraine
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in any very meaningful way by comparison to the United States. And I feel worse than anybody about
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Ukraine, because it would have never happened. This whole thing shouldn't have happened. Forget
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about who's paying what. Nobody should have had to pay anything. This whole thing wouldn't have happened
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had the election been properly run. Let me be very nice and very diplomatic, because every time somebody
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talks about it, they end up losing their show, because nobody wants to allow them to talk about
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the rigged election. But had the election been properly run, had the election not been rigged,
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I will tell you, Lou, this would have never happened. Taiwan, which could be next, would never,
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ever have happened. She wouldn't have done it. Putin wouldn't have done it. And I don't even mean
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through negotiation. They wouldn't have done it. They never did it in four years. I mean, in four years,
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we didn't have anything looking like this in Russia. They didn't circle the borders and
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look like they were going in. And frankly, even when they did that, a deal could have been made.
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They should have been able to make a deal at that time. I thought I thought that Russia was frankly
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negotiating. I mean, when they put all that when they put 200,000 troops on the border, I thought
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they were maybe negotiating. But a deal could have been made. Now you have cities that are blown to
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pieces. Probably could be millions of people by the time this ends. This could end up in World War
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Three because we have no idea what we're doing and we have no idea what we're getting into. This
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could actually end up in World War Three. It's insane what's going on. And the problem is that
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we're putting up many, many, many times more. We're putting up much more money than Europe.
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They're not following the lead. And frankly, as far as they're concerned, I think they'd like to put up
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very little. If you look at some of the countries the way they're talking, they don't want to put
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up. Now, with all of that being said, I feel horrible for the people of Ukraine that are just
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being decimated and killed and the cities being wiped out, never really to be rebuilt again. You
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know, you're talking about many, many decades and it'll never be like it was. You know, you look at
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some of those incredible buildings that are just bombed to the ground that are so old and
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and actually magnificent. But most importantly, the people. You lost so many people already and
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you're going to lose a lot more. And this should have never happened. This would have never,
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ever happened under the Trump administration. Well, I appreciate your concern for whether or
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not this show will be canceled. But I have to tell you, this show, we have been talking about
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the rigged election of 2020, the circumstances under which history was changed in part by
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then Attorney General William Barr, who in his book acknowledges that he knew vice, the former
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vice president, was lying through his teeth when he claimed that the laptop from hell, as you styled it,
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Hunter Biden's laptop, was Russian disinformation. Barr knew that that was not the case.
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51 intelligence veterans and five former heads of the intelligence agencies were lying through their
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teeth as they implied, but absolutely implied that it was Russian disinformation. It served as a shield
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to your charge then that the Biden family was corrupt, a crime family, and the American people
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were disenfranchised. And we know now, after polling, that if people had known it, enough people would
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have reversed their vote to you and history would have been quite different. And Joe Biden would not
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be in the White House. He's not there now, let's be honest. I mean, he's still five weeks in abstentia
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with only an appearance for a bill signing, and you would be the president of the United States.
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Well, we wouldn't have inflation. We wouldn't have the problems that we have. We'd have an economy that
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would be roaring. We'd have $2 gasoline or less, frankly. And we would be dominant in energy. We
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wouldn't only be energy independent like we were. We would be by this time dominant. We would be the
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dominant energy force. And now we're closing that up. And I see now they want to go to all electric cars
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in a very short period of time. The batteries and all of the material, most of it comes from China
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or China-run areas. It's just a disaster. The windmills are destroying, you take a look,
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destroying our beautiful open spaces and our plains and our valleys. And you just look at what's
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happening to the country with these windmills that are so horrible. They're all made in China and
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Germany, by the way, but they're all made outside of the United States. It's a shame what's happened to
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our country. And it truly is. It's a country that's failing. It's a country in decline.
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And it's very sad to watch. And then they weaponize. They weaponize at a level that nobody's ever seen
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before. They go after political opponents at a level that nobody's ever seen before, where they
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raid an ex-president and a popular ex-president. You just have to look at the polls, the best poll
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numbers I've ever had, because people now see how good we were doing. Despite all of the distraction
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of these terrible investigations, that now letters are coming out saying, exonerating Trump, he did
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nothing wrong, like what came out yesterday from the Justice Department. So it's very sad when you see
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it. And so many bad things have happened to our country in a period of less than two years.
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Part of what infuriates me is the overt effort by the Marxist Dems that are driving the Democrat
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Party and this puppet president that is now installed. Part of what drives me to just immense
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anger is that it's an effort to intimidate the American people, to intimidate not only Trump
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supporters, the tens of millions of them, the 80 million of them, but all Americans. They don't want
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anyone to pick their heads up. They want them to put their heads down, keep their mouths shut, be told
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and accept what they're told, whether it be about how their children will be taught in school or
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indoctrinated. They want the American people to just shut up and not use critical judgment or certainly
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demand justice for all equally in this country and not a system of justice in which the Marxist Dems and
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this administration, this illegitimate regime, is permitted to hound, harangue, and persecute
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politically a president, Donald J. Trump, for six long years. It's outrageous. And the American people
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have every are furious. The backlash is something they could not have imagined. Your thoughts?
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They are furious. I have never seen anger like it. They love the country more than they ever have
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because they see what we've lost. We've lost our country, in my opinion. If this continues, I think
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just horrible things will happen. And that's not said as a threat. That's said as somebody that just feels
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it. I feel it. I think horrible things. They are destroying our country. They're destroying our
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system. And they lost an election. They lost an election and they lost it big. It was lost big.
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You see the numbers coming out of Arizona and coming out of all of these states. Pennsylvania,
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you see what's happening with all these numbers that are now coming out. And the Republican leadership
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is weak. A guy like Mitch McConnell, all he cares about is keeping his business with China and his
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wife, Coco. All they do is they look at what's happening with China. And he has a total conflict
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of it. He's not only compromised, he's much more than compromised. He's in a much worse position than
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just simply being compromised. China, he will do whatever the Democrats want him to do. And you
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understand why. Most people don't understand why. But Mitch McConnell will do whatever the Democrats
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tell him. He never used debt ceiling. He gave it away for nothing. You wouldn't have any of this phony
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infrastructure bill that passed a year ago. And I told you that Manchin, a long time ago,
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I told you that Manchin will let you down because he always lets people down. He really let the people
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of West Virginia down because you're not going to have coal with Manchin. You know, they put taxes on coal
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and all sorts of things. What's he doing? What happened to this guy? He made it so bad. And
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I figured, oh, West Virginia must be a big beneficiary. West Virginia got hurt more than
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any other state. You take a look at what happened with energy and with coal and the taxes they're
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going to put on. Nobody's going to be able to produce it anymore, except Germany, of course,
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which is now opening up their coal plants. Because years ago, during a speech at the United Nations,
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they all smiled and laughed when I started. I said, why would anybody be, you know, the pipeline
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coming in from Russia, Nord Stream 2? Nobody heard of it until I started bringing it up. He said,
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why would Germany ever make a deal to get 72% of its energy from Russia? And sure as can be,
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three years later, they were all smiling. Now they're all saying Trump was right. And now what
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they're doing is they're going back to their original coal plants. Can you believe it?
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So, you know, Germany was, and by the way, Germany is doing very little to help.
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If you take a look at Ukraine, Germany is doing virtually nothing to help Ukraine by comparison to
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what the United States is doing. Virtually nothing. It's, it's an incredible, it's an incredible world
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we're living in. And it's very sad. And everybody has things back, really backwards, Lou. They don't
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know what they're doing. I do think most Republicans now know what they're doing. They're going to go to
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the polls on November 8. And they are going to vote in numbers that I don't believe we have ever seen.
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Because they know this cannot stand. The Republic itself is hanging in the balance.
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They know that the Democrats, the Marxist Dems, have cheated in the 2020 election. They've done
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everything they can. They know Joe Biden is a cheat and an absentee president. They know that they need
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to bring back First America, MAGA, and our MAGA president, Donald J. Trump. It is without question,
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the existential midterm election, I believe, of our country's history. Your thoughts about
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what you expect to happen? Well, I hope you're right. I think that the cheating's at a level that
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I used to say that you beat the cheating by just swamping them and getting big numbers. But we
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swamped them in many areas. And they still just happened to pull it through by a very small number
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of votes. You know that. I can say this. People have no choice. They want to change our system.
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Remember when I was campaigning, I said, we're going to end up being, if these people win,
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we're going to end up being Venezuela on steroids. And that's where we're heading right now. And people
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have to get out. And they have to vote. I don't think there's ever been a more important time.
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And I'll also tell you this for the people that are listening. You are a very important voice.
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And your voice is getting out there. You're a very important voice. And they tried to cut you short,
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and it didn't work. But I hope people appreciate what you do, because you really are. You're a very
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powerful and important voice. That's very kind, Mr. President. And to tell you the truth,
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I'm getting all sorts of support and people acknowledging the show. And they're taking time
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to listen to us every once in a while. And it's great to be in the arena. And it is a wonderful
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thought to think that we will have our 45th president as our 47th. And I want you to know
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that everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, that is their hope, their prayer, and their dream.
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So thank you. Thank you. I think you'll be happy. And I think you'll be happy. And I look forward
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to seeing you and keep going. You're doing a great job. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. And
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God bless. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you. Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. I have to
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tell you, I never talked with President Trump without thinking how much we owe the man for all
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that he's done for this country, and for all Americans. And what a beating he's taken from
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the venal Marxist Dems and the deep state, and how many times the rhino liberals of his own party
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have betrayed him. As I'm sure you heard in his voice, his strength and resolve, his love of this
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country and our people is undiminished. Despite all that the establishment, the Marxist Dems,
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and the deep state have thrown at him, and continue to try to crush him, to destroy him,
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because he is not of the swamp, and they can't buy him, and they can't break him. And too often he's
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in the fight alone, when we all should be doing far more to support him, to fight with him against the
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evil forces that mean to take down this country and President Trump. Maybe let your congressmen,
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your senators, know you expect them to support President Trump. And I would ask you to volunteer
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to be a poll watcher, to be involved in your midterm elections this fall. We need the vigilance and
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participation in votes of all our fellow citizens to protect against a repeat of 2020. Thank you for
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being with us today. And please let your family and friends know they can hear President Trump
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here on the Great America Show over the weekend as well. He just might brighten their spirits and their
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day, and they'll certainly hear what you and I just heard. President Trump is a warrior for this country,
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and he means to win this fight against foes, foreign and domestic. Thanks again. Monday,
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our guest will be former FBI Supervisory Special Agent James Galeano. He's also mayor of Cornwall-on-Hudson,
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New York. We'll be talking about what the past six years have revealed about the FBI and the
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Department of Justice. Don't miss that interview. Thanks again. And God bless you, and God bless America.