How the Left Gaslighting America Relates to Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni： Megyn Kelly's Full CPAC Speech
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Summary
This week, Megynkelleknecht talks about the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni case and why conservatives are so obsessed with it. She also talks about what it means to be a conservative in Hollywood and why it s important to remember who she is and who she definitely is not.
Transcript
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We like to walk that fine line between techno thriller
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome journalists and hosts
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I have to tell you, you know, especially now that I do my own show
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And it's wonderful to actually get out there and see the people
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and actually glad-handed with people who watch the show.
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It can be, like, a little heady because, like, people at an event like this,
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And you can almost be in danger of getting a little too drunk on your own wine.
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So you can start to get a little drunk on your own wine.
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However, the good thing is God is always there to balance things out for you.
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And this reminds me of the inauguration just last month.
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I went with so many great people who were, they were loving Trump,
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they were loving just the rebirth of our nation.
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And this one guy came over to me and he was so excited to see me.
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I'm like really making an impression on this man.
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It's important to remember who you are and who you definitely are not.
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Anyway, speaking of big names, you definitely will know.
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Have you heard about what's happening with the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni case?
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I'm just going to walk because I actually have all that.
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There are millions of people who are obsessed with this case.
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I'm going to give you a little background on it and then you will be obsessed with it.
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And I'll tell you, there's a reason why conservatives in particular are following this so closely.
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Then there's this guy, Justin Baldoni, who's not as well known.
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And yeah, see, they've been following the story.
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So he optioned this book called It Ends With Us.
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And he managed to get Blake Lively to star in his movie, Across From Him.
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He played the abusive guy and she played the woman.
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And this is the thrill of a lifetime for this guy.
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You know, he had done another like TV project, but nobody knows who he is.
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Well, shortly into production, Blake Lively is very dissatisfied with virtually everything
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around her and decides to allege that Justin Baldoni, this, I mean, forgive me, very effeminate,
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evolved, modern, feminist, man bun kind of guy, is like this virulent sexual harasser
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who can't stop harassing one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in front of everybody on
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I'm not sure why he would do that, whether he'd have the guts to do that, or whether the
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man bun is the most likely harasser in general.
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Sometimes the ones who kind of bend over backward to be as woke as possible are the most, okay,
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So she says he's been harassing her and they bring in some team and he says, whatever you
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Well, we move forward in the story and she's got to go do PR for the film.
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And she goes out in the summer, this past summer, and she had about two minutes of bad PR.
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The problem for Blake Lively, in my opinion, is that she does not improve upon acquaintance.
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And so the more time we got to spend with Blake Lively, the less we liked her.
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The more her promotional efforts for a film about domestic violence felt off.
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She was full of giggles and laughter and wanted to promote her liquor brand.
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Like, nothing says domestic violence like a bottle of tequila.
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So it felt weird and she started to get hit by some of the media for being insensitive.
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Then this one reporter re-upped a video in which she interviewed a then-pregnant Blake,
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a then eight-month pregnant Blake, and kicked off the interview, as you would do as a journalist
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if there's something obviously different about somebody physically, by saying,
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And Blake was taken aback, even though it was obvious, and said, oh, so do you.
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Though the reporter was not pregnant, it was a nasty jibe at her for no reason.
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So normal people at home who don't care about this woman at all are looking at her like,
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She seems like somebody who punches down to somebody who's only trying to do something nice for her.
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So negative press swirled around her during this whole, like a month, right?
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Later, she would describe this as though it was the pile-on against Trump.
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Honestly, it's like most of us, especially in Republican politics or the news, this is called Tuesday for us.
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You've got probably hundreds of millions, thanks to your husband.
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No one cares that you've got a couple of bad articles about you in the Daily Mail.
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She files a complaint with the Human Rights Commission out in California saying he sexual harassed me,
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and then he retaliated me by pushing all this bad press about me.
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He was behind it because I found his agent, his PR agent's nasty text saying, we can ruin her.
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And Blake Lively went to the New York Times and the New York Times wrote the sympathetic poor Blake Lively story.
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Oh, we were all wrong about her and her weird PR.
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She's actually a good person and a Me Too victim.
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And then Justin Baldoni did something very smart.
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He hired the lawyer who represented me in my fight with NBC News, which ended well.
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His name is Brian Friedman, and he's a legal genius.
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And Brian Friedman knows how to fight back against a bully.
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And he started telling everybody Justin Baldoni's side.
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He told us that Justin Baldoni denied those claims of sexual harassment
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and only tried to appease Blake Lively because she was such a high maintenance diva bully brat.
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He had to bend over backwards just to get her to shut up and complete the film.
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He told us that Justin Baldoni claims she tried to take over his movie because she has a history of saying,
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okay, I'll be the star, but what I secretly want to do is direct it and edit it and produce it.
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I want full control because I am a controlling bully.
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That Justin Baldoni ultimately, by the time they got to the premiere, was mandated by Blake Lively
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to spend the night in the basement away from his co-stars and didn't even get to see the final cut of his own movie
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because Blake Lively insisted that she be the one to approve it until he watched it on the screen with his editors,
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who also hadn't seen it because her editors finished it up.
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Is he some creep harasser who took a shot at somebody like Blake jeopardizing his movie and his future career?
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Or is she just extremely high maintenance and someone who plays the victim when she doesn't get her way?
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Well, I've got my opinion and I think you can guess what it is based on our little discussion here.
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The other thing is Brian Friedman produced text messages between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
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So we don't have to take his side's word for it.
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And what they showed is that Blake Lively has got a bit of a God complex.
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She's texting Justin Baldoni about how she sees herself as Khaleesi from Game of Thrones.
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She's this effervescent, strong character with temerity and resilience and just she's fierce.
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She's literally the mother of dragons in Game of Thrones.
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And she says, and I've got the greatest dragons on Earth.
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Ryan Reynolds and my best friend, who is Taylor Swift, though she's not named or they blacked it out.
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So she's telling him, I'm mother of dragons and my dragons will cut a bitch.
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And my dragons are named Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively.
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Like, okay, she's a powerful person with powerful friends.
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And he hires Brian Freeman and countersues her and the New York Times for $400 million, claiming this is a massive defamation.
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And where do things stand now as a result of all this?
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As a result of Blake Lively apparently wanting control of a movie she did not control.
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Wanting to get the camel's nose under the tent as an actress and then take over the entire production.
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And was shocked, shocked when Justin Baldoni did not want her to do those extra things.
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And then when it all blows up, lawsuits and cross lawsuits, and Blake Lively, who I believe thought she would be received or perceived as an Alyssa Milano or Ashley Judd Me Too victim, is instead looking a lot more like Amber Heard.
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Honestly, to me the lesson is, A, be a good person.
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But B, if you're a Hollywood star or any sort of a public figure, would you just please take your licks in the press and shut up about it?
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They don't give two craps that you had a couple of negative articles written about you in the Daily Mail.
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And in her complaint, the thing she's bitching about is that this terrible PR campaign that was opened up against her hurt sales of her liquor brand and her hair care products.
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While this is going on, inflation is like at 9%.
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But I think the reason that conservatives are so interested in this is a couple of fold.
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Number one, you seem to be watching the unwrapping of a public figure, like the unspooling.
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You know you've caught someone in what you believe is a lie.
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And it's amazing to see it told and to kind of gone down the lane like, okay, maybe here we go.
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Because Baldoni's released these text messages.
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She says he inappropriately smelled my neck when we were doing a scene.
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It's like, but the neck thing was too much when he smelled it?
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They went into my trailer when I was breastfeeding my baby.
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Then you see his text message where she says, come on over to my trailer.
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She says his weird producing partner showed me porn.
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Then you see what he actually says he showed her, the producing partner, which was she was filming a birth scene in the movie,
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and it was a still shot of a water birth his wife had at home.
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So you wind up kind of feeling a little bitter.
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Because everyone in this room, because you're here, I know this about you, you've been gaslit to high heaven every time you've picked up a newspaper in the United States.
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You've been bullied or seen others with lesser power, bullied by the media and the leftist Democrats.
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You have been the victim of overbearing and controlling leftists who think they are the final arbiters of what's best for you and your life.
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And it's wonderful to see someone fighting back.
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She's become like an avatar for leftist overreach in a different special way.
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I really believe this is why so many people on the right are kind of into this story.
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Will it end as it ended for us on November 5th?
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Because we were pretty happy with how that went.
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But it's bringing up, like, room to explore the past ten years that we've all been through.
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And how, you know, Trump put a period at the end of it, we hope, or at least the beginnings of the end, by winning.
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What was one of the biggest stories this past year?
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Daniel Penny stood up for others on the New York City subway when there was a crazed man who was out of his mind on drugs threatening to kill people.
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And got him in a choke hold and the man ultimately later passed.
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And he got charged by that insane crank Alvin Bragg and had to defend himself against criminal charges.
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So Daniel Penny got bullied by Alvin Bragg and the media, which did not stand up for him either.
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Nick Sandman goes out there in front of the Supreme Court to stand up for life.
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And CNN portrays him as this villain, as this smirking, crappy, arrogant villain.
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And he's sneering at a Native American who's just there minding his own business.
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Nick Sandman was standing there respectfully while he was being antagonized by the Native American who was dancing aggressively in his face.
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That's why CNN had to pay him in a defamation case.
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Kyle Rittenhouse tried to do what the Biden administration would not.
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And go to Wisconsin and actually protect the neighboring town.
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But before we knew much at all about that case, Joe Biden got out there as he was running for president.
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As he was running for president and called Kyle Rittenhouse a white supremacist.
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He's got the possible next, at that point possible, ultimately yes, president of the United States telling everyone he's a white supremacist.
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Something for which he never apologized, Joe Biden.
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So the left likes to bully people who are weak.
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Now he's on trial for triple homicide in one case.
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And you think it's a great time to pile on him publicly as the possible next president?
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Something's off about a guy in a party that does it and supports it.
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And so the bully nature of the left has been on full display, as has its controlling nature.
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They want to tell us how fast the water can come out of our showers, what we can drive, what we can put in the tank, what we can turn on our stove with.
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What we can think, what we can feel, where we can pray, what we have to put in our arms, what we have to put in our children's arms, our baby's arms.
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Under the tent, you give them a little, and then they start exploiting it and taking it too far.
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May I remind you of a little thing called USAID?
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I actually, you guys are going to talk to Caroline Leavitt in a bit.
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They fell a little, a couple points since he took office, because he's doing things that the left may or may not like.
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And his numbers were kind of down on the closure of USAID.
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It was like, do you support Trump's decision to close the agency that is helping those suffering abroad in humanitarian crises?
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Would you like the children to die as a result of what Trump did?
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It doesn't say, do you support helping African people prevent HIV, AIDS?
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Virtually every American would say, yes, we can spend some money on that.
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And also then we will take that money and we will divert it for trans operas in Colombia.
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We literally spent $70,000 on DEI dance in Ireland.
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And then, inevitably, when you call them out on the nonsense, right, when you send Elon in there with Doge,
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and the Doge tech guys and they start kicking the tires, they play the victim.
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You're subjected to the stories because you did something wrong.
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And that's the way the media and the world works and because you deserve it.
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The media's days of pretending they are holier than thou are over.
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President Trump kicked them out, not of the White House, not of the White House breast grieving room,
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but kicked them out of the Oval and out of the Air Force One seat they had
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because they refused to call it Gulf of America.
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Now this is interesting because AP is an American company.
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They say we have to do it because we report in international countries.
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What we, like, the people of Ghana are going to be upset if you start reporting on it as, you know,
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folks in Somalia are really going to get upset.
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This is a stick in the eye of the President and nothing more.
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And the thing about the AP is they love word changes, name changes.
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Just as soon as they were told they have to call girls who transition to boys, boys, they did it.
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You can't even read an AP story about some trans thing without leaving utterly confused.
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Now there's no more somebody born male or somebody born female.
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It's assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, like it was a sin committed by the doctor
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Illegal immigrants, we don't have those anymore if you read the AP.
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They got rid of the term crisis at the southern border when Joe Biden was president.
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As soon as the numbers hit 100,000 a month, the word crisis kept appearing.
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Even though Jay Johnson, Obama's Homeland Security Secretary said,
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AP gets rid of the word crisis and didn't bring it back even when we had 300,000 crossing a month.
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They won't say terrorist when they're talking about Islamic terrorists.
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All of these word changes they're totally in favor of.
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The days of the left bullying and controlling us without much pushback.
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The days of the media pretending to be objective and independent and demanding to be left beyond.