Former President Donald J. Trump joins us on the Great America Show to discuss a variety of topics, including his time in the White House, his early days as a presidential candidate, and his transition from politics to the presidency.
00:10:06.280And the other thing that was revealed is our elections are corrupt.
00:10:10.360Nobody had any idea they were corrupt and certainly not corrupt like this.
00:10:14.140Yeah, talking two days ago with Wisconsin special counsel, Michael Gabelman, who's investigating the all that went wrong in the Wisconsin election.
00:10:31.360And he refers to election bribery based on just what Mark Zuckerberg did with $350 billion and the non-29 profits that moved in there and made, as he put it, agents out of mayors and election officials representing Zuckerberg's interest.
00:10:53.460And now Wisconsin is in the middle of a pitched political battle because you have the attorney general and the governor trying to shove all of these discoveries of corruption back into a dark corner.
00:11:12.200He's a man of immense courage to be pursuing this.
00:11:14.780But we know that these instances of corruption, whether they rise to the point that they would have affected the outcome of the election, I can't say specifically, but I do know this.
00:11:26.940How in the world could we not have investigated these contemporaneously with the election?
00:14:06.480So it's – this is all because of a fraudulent election.
00:14:11.520So people are – they're just not – they're just not standing for it.
00:14:16.060And I think some very interesting things are coming out, Lou.
00:14:19.480And you're watching it, but some very interesting things are coming out.
00:14:22.540And I want to turn to, if we may, an appearance by Ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff, in which going to the issue of what is coming out, the laptop now is exploding.
00:14:37.740I mean, when George Stephanopoulos is focused on this issue, you know that the wall has cracked for corporate news outlets.
00:14:49.160They're finally having to deal with the issue.
00:14:51.540This was his question to Ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff.
00:14:57.100The Washington Post also reported this week on deals that Hunter Biden had with a Chinese energy company paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter and the president's brother.
00:15:06.060Is the president confident his family didn't cross any ethical lines?
00:15:10.160George, the president is confident that his family did the right thing.
00:15:13.640But, again, I want to just be really clear.
00:15:15.200These are actions by Hunter and his brother.
00:15:20.500And they certainly are something that no one at the White House is involved in.
00:15:23.240Don't you find that interesting, Mr. President, that Klain made no effort to suggest that Hunter Biden and James Biden, the president's brother and son, were not involved?
00:15:37.660He put a bright line between the president and the two of them, which suggests, at least to me, that the White House is now very concerned about where this is all leading.
00:15:49.620Well, and did you know that there was no follow-up by Stephanopoulos?
00:20:06.280But, again, it goes to the leadership, to what now appears to be a highly compromised president.
00:20:14.280And in the mind of many who are writing on this issue right now, he appears compromised by his son, by his own conduct.
00:20:23.400Do you believe that the Chinese, the Russians, perhaps Iran, are taking advantage of Biden's positions and the actions of his son, if not himself?
00:20:40.240And, you know, the Iran nuclear deal, which I ended, which was one of the great favors to our country, but also to Israel and the Middle East by my ending it.
00:20:48.600They're going to go and make a horrible deal negotiated by China and Russia.
00:20:54.140It's just not the whole thing is not believable what's happening.
00:20:57.520If you ever wrote a story about this or if you ever wrote a book and did this exact kind of thing in a book, it wouldn't sell because nobody would say it's possible or realistic.
00:21:07.860The things that we're doing, think of it.
00:21:11.160Russia and China are renegotiating our Iran nuclear deal, and they want us to give billions and billions of dollars to Iran.
00:21:25.400And to think that these things, and that's one of many.
00:21:28.700When you look at giving $85 billion worth of the best military equipment in the world to the Taliban instead of just taking it out, you know, where they say that it was cheaper to leave it.
00:21:39.920Well, I could have taken 200 pilots and flown them in very inexpensively, and they would have flown the planes out and the helicopters out that cost $100 million each.
00:22:27.880Unfortunately, I can't believe it because in this first year, 2 million illegal immigrants crossing that border.
00:22:33.960And middle of the night, flights, chartered aircraft carrying illegal immigrants to various cities and towns around the country under cover of darkness.
00:23:36.680And this president, I would love to see the poll.
00:23:39.740I don't think that I don't think that there would be more than two or three out of 10 people who would think he could pass a cognitive test.
00:23:47.700Your judgment about what he should do.
00:26:38.720Not too good, but we spent two and a half trillion dollars rebuilding the military.
00:26:43.420We had jets that were older than, I mean, the grandfathers flew the jets of young kids that were right now in the Air Force, as an example, and bombers that are so old.
00:26:55.360We created the Space Force, which everyone laughed when I did it.
00:26:58.780Now they're all saying that was really smart doing that, because that's ultimately, you know, to a large extent, that's where it's at and where it's going to be at.
00:27:32.740They should get out and let somebody else do the job.
00:27:36.100I have to say, Mr. President, you've got a generous soul because, as you know, I have a much stronger view than you do about rhinos and what they're – I find them despicable.
00:27:50.980You have a gracious space in your heart for them that I don't share.
00:28:09.300But in some cases, these rhinos are worse because you don't know where they're coming from.
00:28:13.380You know, at least with the other side, you know where they're coming from.
00:28:16.020But some of these people are just horrible.
00:28:20.020The Ben Sasses and the Romneys and these guys, they're just like, you know, they're not good for our country.
00:28:26.180I'd like to conclude here today with a couple of questions for you on, first, the war in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin.
00:28:34.900And he seems – a number of people, and I don't know how much is disinformation, how much is genuine and honest observation and judgment coming into our communications from the area.
00:28:56.060And your thoughts about the way the war is being prosecuted and the way in which the United States, it seemed, took an awful long time to provide assistance to the Ukrainians.
00:29:09.880So I know him probably better than I know you, and I know you well for a long time.
00:29:16.020And I've watched you, and I've watched your great success for a long time.
00:30:09.040I actually thought he was negotiating in a very smart way because when he put the soldiers, 150,000, 200,000 soldiers on the border, I said, oh, that's good negotiating.
00:31:23.200And you may have the same thing happen with Taiwan because for the same reasons.
00:31:26.900And I actually believe it was the stupidity and incompetence and weakness that we showed in Afghanistan, not the getting out, because I'm the one that got us down to 2000 soldiers.
00:31:37.640But the way they got out and we should have kept Bagram, by the way, because it's one hour away from where China makes nuclear missiles and weapons.
00:31:45.720We should have kept the Bagram Air Force Base.
00:31:48.460We caused billions and billions to build.
00:31:51.080And, you know, is going to be soon occupying it.
00:31:56.080It's right near China and an hour away from where they make a lot of nuclear weaponry.
00:32:01.800I want to ask this question just before I ask you about China.
00:32:07.040And that is, has the White House called you for counsel, for advice, for a sounding board on these issues, these very important foreign policy threats that we face?
00:32:38.380Now we don't have very good cards anymore.
00:32:41.040And thousands and thousands of people are killed.
00:32:43.860I think the numbers are far greater than what you're hearing, by the way.
00:32:46.420When you look at bombings of those cities and those places in Ukraine, you're not talking about hundreds of people or even thousands in smaller numbers.
00:32:55.680You're talking about big, big numbers of people are dead.
00:33:02.200And Vladimir Putin's strategic partner in all of this as well, I suppose, is Xi Jinping and Communist China.
00:33:13.000What is your judgment about the potential for some sort of rationality in the U.S. relationships with both of these countries now that they are clearly expressing their expansionary ambitions and being aggressors?
00:33:33.600So, as I said, a lot of the cards have been given away.
00:33:36.640We would have had a much easier time before.
00:33:38.580We would have not had all these incredible people who have died now dead on both sides.
00:33:45.640Look at the large number of Russian soldiers, et cetera.
00:33:49.380And it could escalate far worse than this.
00:33:52.420The cards are largely gone, but there are things you can do.
00:33:56.060One of the things you have to do immediately is get energy down because you're fueling it.
00:33:59.820But, you know, I use this expression about you need three things to win a war.