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00:00:49.640He is the chief executive officer of Newsmax Media, Inc., which is, of course, the parent company of Newsmax, America's fast-growing cable news channel.
00:01:02.7201998, Ruddy founded Newsmax, a multimedia publishing company that publishes online and offline content in the field of news, politics, health, and finance.
00:01:14.940Newsmax.com, under Chris Ruddy's leadership, ranks consistently as one of the country's most trafficked news websites.
00:01:24.500Prior to that, he was a journalist, an investigative journalist, working for both the New York Post and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
00:01:48.680So, Chris, let's get right into it, because you are a shrewd political analyst.
00:01:55.960By the way, Chris Ruddy is the son of a police officer, a proud native of Long Island.
00:02:01.500And, well, we both revere Joe Margiotta, the longtime Republican County Chairman of Nassau County, who was a truly, truly great man.
00:02:12.580Uh, the, uh, the interview the other night, uh, with, uh, Kamala Harris, uh, and Tim Walsh, uh, 18 minutes, obviously heavily edited, not everything.
00:02:24.960Uh, but really her coming out because since, uh, her being anointed in the essentially non-democratic process in which she was nominated, in which not a single Democrat primary voter or caucus voter voted for her.
00:02:42.660Uh, she's done no one-on-one interviews, she's done no press conferences, and even now, uh, very limited, 18 minutes, with her running mate, Governor Tim Walsh, kind of like a support animal there.
00:03:04.300You know, um, uh, first of all, your biography is sort of missing, and your viewers miss the essence of your background, and they should be describing you as the architect of Donald Trump's political rise.
00:03:20.520Because you were with him back in the 80s, before he was giving him advice, and I know you sort of built the Trump machine in all of those years, so it's an amazing, uh, impact you had, not only with him, but with Nixon and Reagan and others, but, but it's amazing.
00:03:35.620Um, anointed, you used the word anointing, and I, it's funny, Roger, we're on the same page, I tell everyone she's the anointed one.
00:03:43.540I mean, this lady became the nominee of the Democratic Party, there was no election, they could have easily had an open convention, at least, to have a pretense of democracy, and organized it for her.
00:03:56.780They didn't even want to bother with that, they just anointed her the nominee, and they want to anoint her the next president.
00:04:03.400These are people that keep telling us they're here to save democracy, and, uh, they're flouting all the Democratic rules, and they, you know, our guy,
00:04:12.260and I'm, full disclosure, uh, even though I'm a journalist, I'm voting for Donald Trump, um, he takes questions from the hostile press, from the sympathetic press, he's not afraid of any questions, he loves and revels the Democratic process, and so it's just, it's really embarrassing what we're seeing from the media, I don't, I don't think we've seen, have you seen anything in your political career that matches the level of political propaganda we're seeing, Roger?
00:04:40.940No, it's actually quite incredible, because at the same time, she seeks not to offend Joe Biden, yet she wants to try to pretend that she was never a part of his administration, and therefore bears no responsibility for the impact of the policies that she supported and was a cheerleader for.
00:05:04.800It's almost like, uh, uh, it's like cognizant dissonance, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's this weird, uh, position that they actually seem to think that they can pull off.
00:05:17.400I should note, uh, since we're, since we're talking about history, Chris, you were one of the first journalists in the country who realized that Donald Trump could be not only a viable candidate for president, but be elected president.
00:05:30.460He appeared on the cover of your magazine several times, back when many others in the media thought it was all just a publicity stunt, so my hat's all equally off to you.
00:05:42.180Well, you have a memory back to 2011 and 12, when you were talking about Donald Trump, the billionaire running for president, and he came out with a book, which you were instrumental in him putting together.
00:05:56.780It was called Time to Get Tough, which really that book, people should get it, it's still available, and it really details what his agenda was way back then, and he's amazingly stuck to that agenda.
00:06:07.300But if you remember, there was a Barnes & Noble book signing, and he asked me to come down to it, it was in Boca Raton, right off of 95.
00:06:15.380And I still, to this day, remember, I got down there, there was a backup of traffic off of 95 to get to the event.
00:06:23.120When I got to the event, there was, the parking was just, there was no parking, you had to park away.
00:06:27.240Fortunately, I knew some parking lot nearby.
00:09:27.540But the type of guy he is, he loves meeting people.
00:09:31.320He loves seeing these folks, and he loves interacting.
00:09:33.680If somebody asks him, would you write it for Ann Mollie, he's going to sit there, as you know, his personality.
00:09:38.040And he just, and you just, like I've known, you've known former presidents, I've known former presidents, other very famous political figures.
00:09:46.780I've never seen anyone with the retail connective politics of this man.
00:09:54.060And I say this, you know, as you know, I'm not looking for any job in the administration.
00:10:33.120You know, this was not, I don't know, look, I've worked for a lot of politicians, but he has the common touch.
00:10:41.540And you can't take that away from him.
00:10:44.080And although he's a billionaire, he never lost his queen's roots.
00:10:49.020This is why I think that people can relate to him and why he relates to them.
00:10:54.540This idea that he, in some way, disrespects members of the military is a complete canard.
00:11:06.500I mean, they used to say that when he was president, he would refuse to call the families, the widows or widows of those killed in service.
00:11:21.100When the helicopter went down in a horrific accident in the late 80s, in which all of his top executives were tragically killed, the instant he heard about it from the New Jersey State Police,
00:11:37.520because he had his assistant, then Norma Federer, bring him the list of the wives because he didn't want them to hear about it on television or radio.
00:11:49.120And he called each one of them with me sitting there.
00:11:51.580So the idea that he would not call service members, it's nonsense.
00:11:58.020And there's only one man, one man, I saw David Axelrod repeat this lie again last night.
00:12:04.100There's only one man who claims that Donald Trump referred to those who had given their life in the service of the country as suckers and losers.
00:12:14.800Every one of them said he never said anything of the kind, but General John Kelly, after he was ignominiously fired for incompetence and insubordination,
00:12:25.900came up with this lie that they just keep recycling again and again and again.
00:12:31.360Well, the general had a chief of staff, a gentleman named Zach Fuentes, who said publicly at the time this was,
00:12:40.520if you remember, the Atlantic article came out with that falsehood about him making this disparaging claim.
00:12:46.960And Kelly at the time didn't say anything, but Zach Fuentes, his chief of staff, made a public statement and said,
00:12:53.100not only did Trump never say it, but the general would have made an issue about it at the time and might have quit if he had actually said it.
00:13:03.060And that's sort of like very telling that the general suddenly has the memory now after his right-hand guy said so publicly.
00:13:10.800But, you know, those of us that know the president know that he has the highest regard for service people.
00:13:17.780So, anybody, first responders, you know, Bernie Kerrick told me what his police commissioner,
00:13:23.740any time a cop was shot or killed in the line of duty, Donald Trump was on the phone.
00:13:29.420How can I help the family? How much money can I write a check?
00:13:33.340And if I write a check, I mean, for a considerable sum of money, make sure nobody in the press hears about it.
00:13:39.120So, in any event, I think generally the public gets that he likes the people that are saving our lives and his life.
00:13:52.820Most people don't know this, but when the city of New York could not afford a parade for the returning veterans for Desert Storm, Donald Trump paid for it.
00:14:03.140There was very little coverage of that fact at the time.
00:14:05.900You can see him interact with military families.
00:15:06.240We gave subprime mortgages to people who could never, ever in a million years service that mortgage.
00:15:13.740It caused the entire economy, not just the housing sector, the entire economy to crash.
00:15:21.560But neither one of those things could be done on day one, because they would require an act of Congress to get done anyway.
00:15:29.180What about repealing or reinstating the executive orders put in place by Donald Trump to seal our border, which, as you know, Chris, were all immediately canceled by Joe Biden?
00:15:45.280Now, there's something she could do on day one.
00:15:49.280Well, I don't know anything that has killed the middle class more than the more than 25 percent inflation we have sustained during the four years of Biden-Harris.
00:16:02.380Probably the economists that I speak to are saying it's probably over 30 percent.
00:16:08.680What that means in real terms is that if you had a home worth a million dollars, it really was only worth 700,000 now.
00:16:16.240All your wealth is down by 30 percent.
00:16:18.600It means that your salary, let's say you made $100,000 a year in middle class salary, that's now actually worth 70,000 in purchasing power.
00:16:28.160And it's crushed, and prices are up for basic food.
00:16:31.580Housing is up 50 percent, I'm told, during these years.
00:16:35.440That's where people live, like they buy homes or they rent apartments.
00:18:53.540That Congress came up with a bipartisan bill that would have fixed the border.
00:18:57.880But for political reasons, Donald Trump told the Republicans in Congress not to support it.
00:19:03.840That bill would have automatically allowed two million people, 150,000 a month illegals, to come in.
00:19:12.220The vast majority of the money in that bill was for the processing of people entering the country illegal.
00:19:19.420The idea that the Lankford bill would have solved the border crisis is a joke.
00:19:27.020And the other false claim, Joe Biden, in his speech to the convention says that border crossings under Donald Trump were far higher than they were under Joe Biden.
00:19:58.200You know, we're running a deficit right now of $1.5 trillion.
00:20:04.380This year, it's actually going to be $3.5 trillion because of deficit monies they appropriated when Biden got in with Pelosi for the stimulus.
00:20:13.200So it's had, like, no impact on the economy despite all the spending.
00:20:18.360The budget is up over 50 percent since Donald Trump.
00:20:42.520And they said to me, well, $500 billion a year is going, which is an enormous amount of money, is going to all the illegals that they're putting up in four-star hotels, giving them credit cards every month, and cell phones, and housing, and health care.
00:21:00.580So that, I mean, is just shocking that your money is going, because you ultimately, as an American citizen, have to pay for that.
00:21:07.760And the second thing is that I was told, like, why are they taking these illegals and moving them into places like New York or Chicago or Philadelphia?
00:21:18.400And it's interesting what the answer was.
00:21:21.760The answer is that in 2030, they're going to do a new census, and a way our Constitution works, you apportion the members of Congress based on total population, not citizenship.
00:21:33.820So if you can move another 10 million people into blue states, you're going to increase the number of congressmen they have by 15 or 20 congressmen.
00:21:45.900And so apparently this has been a strategy to increase the number of congressmen in the next year, because they see so many people leaving the blue states like California and New York.
00:21:55.940This is their only way to stop the hemorrhaging or increase the number.
00:22:01.420These guys are devious guys, but we're paying for all of it.
00:22:05.940And I hope the public wakes up to some of this.
00:22:11.500Now, let us turn to what I think was a historic moment in American politics just in the last 10 days.
00:22:19.300Robert Kennedy, who had been kneecapped in the Democrat Party, using the same hardball tactics that they used against Bernie Sanders in the last two presidential races, never really allowed to compete in the party of his father, Senator Robert Kennedy of New York, or his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, bolted to become an independent,
00:22:45.060found that the same hardball tactics would be used there against him, both the lawfare, challenging his ballot access petitions, challenging his ability to run,
00:22:59.600and then the mafia tactics of sending people out to talk to anyone who RFK has ever met in his whole life, to knock on their door or call him and say,
00:23:08.880hey, I'm doing research on Robert Kennedy.
00:23:11.180Do you have any negative information on him?
00:25:31.340So looking at his numbers in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,
00:25:39.660he shows, for example, that those who were voting in Arizona for RFK break 53 to 28 for Trump.
00:25:49.780Those who were voting for him in Georgia break 47 to 34 for Trump.
00:25:55.960Those who were voting for him in Michigan break 43 to 41 for Trump.
00:26:02.580Those who were voting for him in North Carolina, this is interesting, break 58 to 22 for Trump.
00:26:12.820Those who were voting for him in Nevada break 66 to 16 for Trump.
00:26:19.820Now, interestingly enough, there is still a double-digit undecided.
00:26:34.480While we are talking about, on the one hand, a relatively small number of votes,
00:26:40.360on the other hand, I expect this election, as I think you do, Chris, to be very, very close, very hard-fought, very competitive.
00:26:49.480Republicans who just a few months ago may have been talking about a landslide or a cakewalk,
00:26:56.040I think even in a race against Joe Biden, this was going to be a tough, very difficult, competitive race for really two reasons.
00:27:06.900The biggest one being the mainstream media tilt and role of covering for the Democrats,
00:27:16.800for example, their unwillingness to report the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:27:22.980And then the other reason, which is censorship, mass-based censorship on the Internet,
00:27:30.100actually in all forms of communication, but particularly on the Internet.
00:27:34.980Yeah, look, it's great that Elon Musk bought Twitter, it became X, it is certainly much, much, much better as a free speech platform.
00:27:46.700Yes, I'm very grateful to have my voice back while I'm still banned for life on Facebook and Instagram and TikTok and so on.
00:27:55.400But those two factors make it easier to drive false narratives, like the narrative that she has no responsibility for the illegal border crossings during a time that she was in charge of the border.
00:28:10.100Well, false narratives, I think they have to make this very personal to Donald Trump because they don't have any of the issues.
00:28:19.140So they have to attack him personally and they have to be consolated.
00:28:22.240You saw the Media Research Center study that was just out and found since her anointing,
00:28:29.100she's had 86 percent positive press coverage, 86 percent, and that Donald Trump's got 90 percent negative press coverage.
00:28:38.780So it's an uphill battle, but I think Trump wins on every policy issue.
00:28:44.240I once said to him, you know, if the American public looks at this and they look at your record and they compare it to her record with Biden,
00:32:10.660Well, Nielsen just came out and said 22 million people tuned in.
00:32:17.000The Reuters study says 25 million are watching the TV channel regularly.
00:32:22.040We estimate we're reaching about 40 million people.
00:32:25.020The media, and you've followed this a lot longer than I have, has gotten more polarized, more propagandized, more weaponized than ever before.
00:32:38.100And rather than having more conservative media, we're actually having either less or they're a lot more muted thanks to big tech and other groups trying to close them down.
00:32:48.620And Fox, which had been good for a long time, and I'm not here to bash Fox, but it's clearly changing, and it's not what it was.
00:33:32.060We just need to get our message out 50 percent because if the public hears the liberal side and the conservative side, 80 percent of the time they're going to side with the conservative side.
00:35:34.280All right, folks, we're going to take a moment for an important commercial message.
00:35:42.140You know, I've had a lot of top military experts here on the show, General Michael Flynn, Colonel Douglas McGregor, Colonel John Mills, Colonel Robert Maness.
00:35:55.780They all tell me the same thing, and that is that they believe that our electric power grid is extraordinarily vulnerable, that there are a number of points, stations, I guess they are, that are very lightly guarded, in some cases just with a link fence and video cameras.
00:36:18.080And that our system is extremely vulnerable to hackers, to terrorists, or maybe just to really serious, inclement weather like hurricanes.
00:36:31.280I remember not that long ago when my cell phone went down, and the idea of being plunged into darkness, not being able to check with my family, well, that's why I went out and got the Iridium 9555 phone, which is used with the Iridium satellite phone system.
00:36:56.040This is a completely independent, self-sufficient telephone and texting system that operates off of a proprietary satellite, and it's entirely encrypted.
00:37:14.400Remember when AT&T's cell phone outage left millions, including me, stranded without a means to communicate with loved ones, business associates, or even for emergency services?
00:37:26.720You see, cellular networks are particularly vulnerable, big targets for hackers and terrorists, as well as vulnerable to hurricanes and other natural disasters.
00:37:36.400So if your cell phone goes down, how will you communicate?
00:37:40.440That's why I got the Iridium 9555 satellite phone and service.
00:37:47.040I'm using the proprietary Iridium satellite service.
00:37:51.160Cell networks only cover about 7% of the Earth, while the Iridium system covers 100% of the Earth.
00:37:58.220You can call or text from any place you can see the sky.
00:38:02.020These are trusted by U.S. military and government officials everywhere.
00:38:05.600All calls are encrypted, safe and secure.
00:39:48.300President Donald Trump on the stump in Wisconsin, notably Tulsi Gabbard, moderated a town hall in Wisconsin.
00:39:58.280The president was asked by an undecided voter, she said she was concerned about illegal migrants taking over the job opportunities and taking them away from her son, who just started trade school.
00:40:38.780I'll tell you, we have the people that I'm talking about.
00:40:42.700They're pouring in at levels never seen before.
00:40:45.300They're coming in by millions and millions.
00:40:47.200And a lot of them are taking the jobs for the black population, the Hispanic population.
00:40:53.060And unions are going to be very badly affected because and I was talking to some of the union heads who I actually do get along with.
00:41:00.220But they're very concerned about it because the jobs that are the people that are coming in are just taken.
00:41:07.960And it's going to start with the black population.
00:41:10.800African-Americans are losing their jobs.
00:41:13.000And I don't know if you heard the latest statistic that of the jobs that these people created, which is very little, every single job was taken.
00:41:23.880About 107 percent was taken by illegal immigrants.
00:41:29.140There's been no job creation from them.
00:41:31.920The jobs were filled by illegal immigrants.
00:41:35.080With all of that being said, I want to give you a very positive answer.
00:43:58.300I must tell you, I think that the endorsement of President Donald Trump by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:44:06.060is the single most significant development in the presidential race so far.
00:44:13.120I must say that in a 45-year career in American politics, I've never seen anything quite like it.
00:44:22.340Other than Joe Biden dropping out of the race after being bludgeoned out of the race by Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi,
00:44:35.680Hakeem Jeffries, and the moneyed corporate wing of the Democrat Party, the endorsement by Kennedy and the subsequent endorsement by Tulsi Gabbard,
00:44:50.780who was a four-term Democrat congresswoman, vice chairman of the National Democrat Committee, Democrat candidate for president in 2020,
00:45:01.940this portends, I think, a political realignment in the country.
00:45:09.480It's incredible to me that people who've been harping on the protection of democracy have used an entirely undemocratic process to force Joe Biden out of the race
00:45:21.840and to elevate a candidate that no Democrat primary or caucus voter actually voted for.
00:45:29.940Not only did they not let Robert F. Kennedy fairly compete for their nomination,
00:45:36.680but they turned around then and nominated a candidate who had virtually no public support.
00:45:45.000Her campaign is essentially astroturf.
00:45:48.980First of all, they spiked the polls by increasing and oversampling the number of Democrats
00:45:56.520Democrats to create this false impression that her candidacy is surging.
00:46:02.680They money launder tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars into her campaign
00:46:11.260through a website processor called ActBlue.
00:46:15.380But when you begin to dig into who those donors are and whether they really exist,
00:46:22.320at least 75,000 donors so far, that number is about a week old,
00:46:28.820have been identified as having not given or having given one contribution to a different Democrat candidate,
00:46:36.500only to find that they've now, according to the records of ActBlue and the Federal Election Commission,
00:46:43.660given many, many, many multiple contributions, in many cases,
00:46:49.180giving an amount completely out of line with their financial circumstances.
00:46:55.360I saw an interview with a woman in, I think it was Nevada,
00:46:59.060who's surviving on $38,000 a year between her Social Security and disability payments,
00:47:05.420but she gave Democrat candidates $348,000 in the last two years.
00:47:12.880So despite the efforts of the mainstream media to characterize RFK as a nut,
00:47:18.580and the shameful denunciations of RFK by some, but not all, by the way, in his own family,
00:47:26.700who evidently think it's forbidden to abandon left-wing progressive ideology,
00:47:36.740I actually thought that RFK established himself as a tireless candidate,
00:47:42.220whose candidacy from the very beginning was based on a very specific agenda rather than just his own ambition.
00:47:52.480Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in full disclosure, is an acquaintance of mine.
00:47:57.420I met him once at a health freedom conference in California.
00:48:01.780Now a photo of RFK that includes myself, General Michael Flynn,
00:48:07.400who was also speaking at the conference,