The Tucker Carlson Show - Trump Betrayed His Voters on Behalf of a Foreign Country. This Is Why Republicans Will Get Crushed.

00:00:00.440 So things are not looking good for Republicans.

00:00:03.040 The midterm elections are less than two months away,

00:00:05.860 first Tuesday of November,

00:00:07.540 and the polling suggests,

00:00:09.280 to the extent you can believe the polling,

00:00:10.660 that Republicans are definitely gonna lose

00:00:13.360 the House of Representatives,

00:00:14.440 which they hold by a tiny margin,

00:00:16.140 but also, it now looks likely, the United States Senate.

00:00:20.560 And again, it's impossible to know what the future holds,

00:00:23.040 but if you had to bet on it,

00:00:25.140 if you were trying to make a fortune on Polly Market,

00:00:27.720 you would probably bet that Democrats walk away in less than two months with both houses of

00:00:33.600 Congress, with control of the legislative branch. So what does that mean, and what's likely to

00:00:39.380 happen after? Well, again, we don't know. You can imagine all kinds of things, but some things seem

00:00:43.940 more likely than others. One, Democrats probably will initiate some kind of proceeding against the

00:00:51.720 president and against people who work for him, maybe an impeachment against him. Certainly a

00:00:55.840 lot of people who work at the White House are going to get subpoenas. There may be criminal

00:00:59.740 actions or an attempt to initiate criminal actions. There's going to be a explosion of

00:01:07.100 partisan fighting in Washington because the party that just took the House and Senate is going to

00:01:13.560 be under pressure from its voters to do something once they got there. People voted Democrat because

00:01:17.320 they're mad at Trump. And so they're going to expect their representatives to punish Trump in

00:01:23.780 some way so you can just imagine that the second two years of the second trump administration

00:01:29.180 will be at least on domestic matters pretty absorbed by political fighting so how does

00:01:36.840 the president respond to that well again we can't know but if we had to guess he'll likely respond

00:01:41.580 like previous presidents have responded and that's by turning his attention outside the country well

00:01:46.920 of course he already is totally absorbed in what's happening outside our country because

00:01:51.440 we're now fighting two wars against near peer adversaries, Russia and Iran, and we're not

00:01:57.760 succeeding in either war. So you can imagine President Trump in frustration or out of a

00:02:04.480 kind of natural desire to exert power, doubling down in both of those conflicts, committing

00:02:10.980 ground troops, for example, just guessing here, in Iran, accelerating rather than pulling back.

00:02:18.160 because the one thing you know no matter how much democrats say they hate donald trump they will not

00:02:24.020 try to restrain his unconstitutional power the power he's assumed to declare war without

00:02:30.900 approval from congress like the president now possesses the power to commit troops wherever

00:02:35.620 he wants despite the fact the constitution prohibits that lots of presidents have used

00:02:39.920 that power for therefore it exists and probably always will and they're not going to do anything

00:02:45.280 about it because ultimately they agree with him they may hate trump but they're neocons just like

00:02:50.340 he is so they support what he's doing in iran maybe they don't think he's doing a good job of

00:02:55.040 it but the idea of a regime change war against iran the democratic leadership is for that chuck

00:02:59.880 schumer has said he's for that so it seems probable at least that if trump say gets impeached

00:03:10.040 we will have an acceleration in the war against Iran and maybe in the war against Russia.

00:03:17.720 And at that point, we'll all be so caught up in that disaster that we probably won't have a chance

00:03:25.000 to think about why did power change hands so dramatically in the midterms? And you'll hear

00:03:30.220 people say, well, that always happens. You know, the president's party tends to lose seats in the

00:03:34.300 midterm elections. And of course, that's true. Haven't checked the numbers, but it seems even

00:03:38.920 more true in the second term. So this is just kind of conventional. This is what happens.

00:03:45.460 But it's not exactly right. That's not the only reason. People don't vote against the

00:03:50.980 president's party just because they always have in the past. President Trump won a larger share

00:03:57.880 of the popular vote than any Republican president in a long time. He came into office more popular

00:04:02.460 than a Republican president had been, certainly much more popular than he was in the first term.

00:04:06.200 and now he's deeply unpopular so something changed and it's worth pausing just for a minute

00:04:12.080 to think through what that is why is it that trump who a year and a half ago was

00:04:18.080 popular and probably could have done a lot of different things

00:04:21.320 is now looking at a total wipeout and likely impeachment and if you had to sum it up in one

00:04:29.480 word that word would be betrayal so in other words it's not just that trump was elected

00:04:34.540 president and didn't do a very good job. We just saw that with the last president. We elect the

00:04:39.300 guy and oops, turns out he has dementia. No, this is a different thing. This is the process of

00:04:46.900 electing a president on the basis of promises he'll do one thing and then watching him do

00:04:52.620 exactly the opposite on purpose, not forced to. There was no reason that Trump had to sell out

00:04:58.340 his voters. There was no economic reason. There was no strategic reason. He just decided to. Now

00:05:05.320 why he decided to is a whole separate conversation that historians, one hopes, will get to the bottom

00:05:11.320 of at some point. But whatever the motive, we know that that's exactly what he did. He ran on one

00:05:17.440 thing and did the opposite of that thing, and that is, once again, betrayal. And betrayal is always

00:05:22.580 the worst thing. In marriage, betrayal is called cheating. In business, betrayal is called

00:05:27.100 embezzlement. And it's always a bitter experience to find out someone you thought was your ally is

00:05:32.620 in fact your enemy, is working against your interests. You thought you were working in

00:05:35.600 concert. We're in this together. And then you find out that the person is actually working

00:05:40.900 against you. That's called treachery. And it's unforgivable. That's why no one for 2,000 years

00:05:48.540 has named his child Judas. Because treachery is abominable to all people at all times.

00:05:57.100 there's something inherently disgusting about it. And that's exactly what we're looking at

00:06:01.760 as we approach the halfway mark in Trump's second term as president. So rather than just assert

00:06:07.140 that, we thought it'd be interesting to spend a few minutes going back and looking at the promises

00:06:13.760 that the current president made right before he was elected president. Now, part of this is

00:06:18.700 exculpatory for those of us who voted for Trump and who did so with sincerity, not in the hope

00:06:24.180 of getting rich or getting a cabinet position, not donors to the campaign, merely cheerleaders

00:06:29.340 for it, we have to answer the question, like, why did you do that?

00:06:34.020 Why did you think this guy with, you know, a trail of bankruptcies and personal betrayals,

00:06:38.600 why did you think he would be true to his word in this case?

00:06:42.120 And that, you know, it's a fair question.

00:06:45.420 But part of the answer is because the things he was saying were just so spot on.

00:06:51.360 They were such precise descriptions of the problems, the actual problems, not Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but the real problems that Americans face.

00:06:59.100 Donald Trump was able to capture and distill them very, very well.

00:07:04.680 And just two years later, it's hard to remember any of that.

00:07:08.120 It's hard to remember that this guy who's now funding, the whole purpose of the administration is to squelch criticism of Israel and sniff out anti-Semitism, America's biggest problem, or whatever they think they're doing.

00:07:19.000 there's nothing to do with any real problem that most americans face it's like completely insane

00:07:24.820 it's hard to remember that this guy not so long ago seemed to have his finger very much on the

00:07:31.740 pulse like he knew what was wrong with the country and he said so again and again and again and so

00:07:37.900 again it is kind of a way of explaining the behavior of those of us who voted for trump and

00:07:42.860 we didn't know listen to this but it's also just interesting because it really reveals

00:07:48.200 the totality of the 180 this guy took in less than two years so let's start at the beginning

00:07:55.760 this is a clip from midway through 2023 so this is the point at which Trump is in the middle of

00:08:02.080 all these legal dramas they're trying to send him to prison for the rest of his life and he's

00:08:05.960 decided I'm going to run for president and here's why and we're starting with this clip because it

00:08:11.040 really sums it up it sums up the reason that people voted for Donald Trump Donald Trump

00:08:16.600 was above all else the enemy of something called the deep state watch this the stakes of this

00:08:25.180 election could not be more clear either we surrender to the demonic forces abolishing

00:08:31.500 and demolishing and happily doing so our country or we defeat them in a landslide on november 5th

00:08:40.840 2024. Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state. That's the way it's

00:08:58.100 got to be. So the reason that's so compelling is because it's the grand thesis of the entire

00:09:06.180 Trump project. And it's true. America's problems are systemic problems, meaning the system itself

00:09:15.700 doesn't function as designed or at least as intended. And everything else we're dealing

00:09:21.420 with is a result of that fact. So on the most basic level, this is a democratic system. The

00:09:27.540 people own the country. They elect leaders to speak for them in Washington. And they have

00:09:32.700 a legitimate expectation of seeing the country molded to their desire since they are the

00:09:39.000 shareholders and that's the whole point of the system is to reflect the view of the public

00:09:42.920 in legislation in Washington and the actions of the executive branch and that hasn't been true

00:09:49.200 for a long time now a lot of us have been slow on the uptake here taking us a while to figure that

00:09:53.920 out because of this sideshow it turns out that's called partisan politics where you have these two

00:09:59.800 parties that are fundamentally in agreement on the things that really matter, economics and foreign

00:10:03.920 policy, but fight about a sliver of issues in the middle. And they fight in such a ferocious way

00:10:10.980 that bystanders, the rest of us, think this is really real. These people hate each other.

00:10:16.480 If only they would just get along. If only Tip O'Neill could have a drink with Ronald Reagan at

00:10:21.300 the end of the day, the system might work. But that, of course, is an inversion of the truth.

00:10:25.380 the problem isn't that the leaders of the two parties don't agree on anything the problem is

00:10:30.680 that they agree on everything that matters and the rest of us weren't cut in on the joke

00:10:36.800 and the effect and by the way this is very obvious to the rest of the world talk to anybody

00:10:42.780 who watches american politics closely from abroad a sophisticated foreign observer starting with 0.99

00:10:49.040 putin who has made this point many times whatever you think of putin not stupid they all know this 1.00

00:10:54.460 it's obvious. As people used to ruefully say in Washington, no matter who you vote for, 0.99

00:10:59.640 you get John McCain. And that's kind of true. When was the last time we had a president

00:11:05.000 who really disagreed with John McCain on foreign policy or economics?

00:11:10.720 When was the last time we had a president who wasn't embroiled in some kind of financial

00:11:14.320 corruption as John McCain was during the savings and loan scandal in the 80s? Can't really remember.

00:11:20.400 so you always get a neocon president who believes in monopoly capitalism and somehow gets rich

00:11:28.080 in the process that's not a two-party system that's a one-party system that is the deep state

00:11:34.440 so when trump said deep state it's very different from saying those dastardly democrats that senile

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00:11:44.900 begin to touch the scale of the badness. What's actually bad is the fact that Mitch McConnell's

00:11:51.960 wife is working for the Chinese government and he's a Republican. So they're all in this together.

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00:14:40.420 here. Now, the downstream effect of a system like this is, of course, by definition, the end of

00:14:46.920 democracy. The people don't rule. And academic studies, not that you need them, but we happen

00:14:52.560 to have them, so why not cite them, show that the public, the non-donating members of the public,

00:14:58.460 also known as voters

00:15:00.520 have no effect at all

00:15:02.560 over time

00:15:03.760 on the actions

00:15:05.940 and the direction

00:15:06.580 of the U.S. government

00:15:07.620 so the people do not rule

00:15:08.940 democracy is not real

00:15:10.280 on the most basic level

00:15:11.140 it's a republic

00:15:12.040 not a democracy

00:15:12.760 stop

00:15:13.360 yes it's a republic

00:15:15.520 in the sense

00:15:16.820 that we do not have

00:15:17.900 direct democracy

00:15:18.640 it hasn't existed

00:15:19.320 since Athens

00:15:19.960 that's not the point

00:15:20.740 the point is

00:15:22.300 we have a form

00:15:23.120 of democracy

00:15:24.080 the people

00:15:25.120 own the country

00:15:26.480 they're citizens

00:15:28.140 They're not employees.

00:15:30.740 But the system does not reflect that reality.

00:15:32.960 Therefore, it's not a reality.

00:15:34.540 So that's the first problem.

00:15:35.660 The second problem is you don't have rule of law when you have an oligarchy because

00:15:40.200 there are always people who are exempt from the rules.

00:15:43.360 And in our system, this reaches its most obvious manifestation in identity politics.

00:15:48.160 So you have, you know, everyone's an American, 340 million of us are Americans, but certain

00:15:53.920 Americans get to use words the rest of us don't use.

00:15:57.220 get to break laws the rest of us have to abide by there are separate books not all of us are judged 0.68

00:16:04.600 by the same set of standards and that is inherently immoral it's obviously unfair it makes a mockery

00:16:12.740 of the idea of citizenship and it's corrosive of the social fabric if you think your neighbor is

00:16:17.920 getting a special deal by definition you hate your neighbor if you want to make your children hate

00:16:22.480 each other favor one over the other and they will never get along long after you're dead they'll

00:16:26.860 hate each other and that's exactly what our leaders have done to us and why wouldn't they

00:16:30.920 because they themselves are the beneficiaries of a separate set of books of a special deal

00:16:37.400 and that of course is the whole point of the Epstein story it's not that he touched

00:16:41.980 kids yes that's indescribably awful that's the worst crime but it's not the crime that

00:16:50.720 destroys America the most quickly, this crime that destroys America, is the realization that

00:16:58.960 the rest of us recently came to that no matter what Jeffrey Epstein and his friends did,

00:17:04.380 they got away with. It was a completely separate standard for them. They were in a class,

00:17:10.300 now known as the Epstein class, that didn't have to abide by the normal rules.

00:17:15.360 and so people watching this could not escape the very human reaction well why am i playing along

00:17:23.160 then why am i paying taxes why am i obeying the law i'm all in we're doing this for your elderly

00:17:30.360 grandmother or for your grandchildren not yet born i'm obeying rules that i don't like they're

00:17:36.240 inconvenient and expensive because everyone else is doing it we're all in this together guys

00:17:39.960 but we're not and that's what we've learned but we were never all in it together not as long

00:17:49.740 as the country was run by an oligarchy of course by definition there is no rule of law

00:17:55.620 if certain people don't have to follow the law or even the standards the customs the mores don't

00:18:01.520 apply to certain people so this is the core problem trump recognized it now how do you fix

00:18:08.560 it well one of the ways you fix it is by letting everybody know what's been going on and you know

00:18:15.480 there's a level on which it's really hard to know what the truth about anything is but a good first

00:18:20.600 step is declassification and the only reason that the system has been allowed to grow to the extent

00:18:27.140 that it has a seven trillion dollar annual budget for a system that does not represent or serve the

00:18:33.520 citizens of this country the only reason that's been allowed to happen is because most people have

00:18:38.140 no idea what the government is actually doing. And they don't know because what the government

00:18:44.960 is actually doing is classified. And they've been allowed to skate for many decades, certainly since

00:18:51.320 the beginning of the Cold War, on the idea that you can't know for national security reasons.

00:18:57.000 And we can't tell you more than that. Sources and methods. And that is why, after all these

00:19:04.040 many decades, we really don't know very much, certainly not the whole story, about pivotal

00:19:11.040 moments in American or world history. 9-11, the anniversary is this week. We know, here's what we

00:19:20.080 do know. We know that in the days before 9-11, there was a massive spike in options trading.

00:19:26.660 People betting against airlines, turns out to be the two airlines involved in 9-11,

00:19:31.400 betting against those and betting that the share price of certain defense contractors would rise

00:19:38.060 so what does that tell you it tells you that some people had foreknowledge of 9-11

00:19:41.880 and hope to profit from them were those members of al-qaeda well no they weren't how do we know

00:19:47.700 they weren't well because the fbi told us they weren't well how would the fbi know that because

00:19:51.200 the fbi found the identities of the people who are betting against the airlines and for the

00:19:57.160 defense contractors which is to say the fbi discovered the identities of people who had

00:20:02.900 foreknowledge of the most damaging and deadliest terror attack in american history more than 3 000

00:20:09.100 people murdered and there were individuals who knew it was coming and they sought to get rich

00:20:14.400 from that knowledge and the fbi has their identities what you say how do you know that

00:20:19.120 because it's in the 9 11 report the one that was pre-written before the investigation

00:20:23.340 And that was 25 years ago this week, and we still don't know who those people were.

00:20:30.240 Now, why would the government, what conceivable reason would the government hide that from us?

00:20:37.780 It's kind of hard to accept the propaganda around 9-11 until we get an answer to that question.

00:20:44.380 But it's not just 9-11, it's everything.

00:20:47.280 It's the Kennedy assassination 63 years later.

00:20:50.180 it's the bobby kennedy assassination the mlk assassination and yes it's the crimes of mr

00:20:57.460 jeffrey epstein so this is all a preamble to this next clip from donald trump now this is an

00:21:02.800 interview that he did during the campaign with lex fridman who's a well-known interviewer and

00:21:07.620 good interviewer actually asks simple straightforward questions and waits patiently

00:21:11.800 for the answers and he asked trump directly are you going to declassify the epstein files and

00:21:16.240 here's what trump said it's just very strange for a lot of people that uh the list of clients

00:21:22.400 that went to the island has not been made public yeah it's it's very interesting isn't it probably

00:21:29.780 will be by the way so if you're able to you'll be yeah i'd certainly take a look at it now

00:21:35.560 kennedy's interesting because it's so many years ago you know they do that for danger too because

00:21:41.420 you know, endangers certain people, et cetera, et cetera. So Kennedy is very different from

00:21:48.240 the Epstein thing. But yeah, I'd be inclined to do the Epstein. I'd have no problem with it. 0.91

00:21:54.700 I'd have no problem with it. Well, of course, he's had a huge problem with it. And to this day,

00:21:58.600 they haven't released a huge cache of Epstein files. Don't let them lie to you, they haven't.

00:22:03.840 And those they did release were released because Congress passed a law demanding their release,

00:22:07.920 But they have not released all the Epstein files.

00:22:10.580 And by the way, if you look at the dates of the emails and documents in the first tranche of Epstein files, you will notice a trough, which is to say a dip.

00:22:20.880 And that dip bookends 9-11.

00:22:24.900 So apparently, from the analysis that we have seen, and we think it's real, the files that the U.S. government has not released pertaining to Epstein are around 9-11.

00:22:35.500 now there are references a number of pretty tantalizingly interesting references to 9-11

00:22:40.940 in the files that we do have but during the period before during and immediately after 9-11

00:22:46.780 we don't have the files so why is that well no one will even answer the question of course

00:22:51.640 so there's a promise who knows some people voted for trump on the basis of his promise to release

00:22:57.880 the epstein files but the promise to make public what your government is doing in your name with

00:23:05.120 your money, yes. A huge motivator for many people, not simply because they're curious about who

00:23:11.140 actually killed Kennedy or his brother or about what Epstein was doing or how he got rich or

00:23:15.880 wireless references to pizza. What was that? Pizza and grape soda? Jeffrey Epstein doesn't

00:23:20.420 look like a guy who's eaten a lot of pizza or consumed a lot of grape soda. How many billionaires

00:23:24.040 drink grape soda? Zero. Not one billionaire has ever had a sip of grape soda. That's what we call

00:23:29.740 an urban phenomenon. So no, they were not drinking grape soda. And Jeffrey Epstein didn't eat a lot

00:23:34.040 of pizza. And, you know, any pizza eater in this country can tell you that guy, and I'm among them,

00:23:39.940 that guy did not eat a lot of pizza. So like, what was that? And those were text messages and

00:23:46.420 emails to people who are still around. You can Google them. How many of them have been hauled

00:23:51.060 into DOJ just to answer simple questions? Like, what were you talking about? You prescribed

00:23:56.200 Epstein an erectile dysfunction drug and then said, let's meet for pizza and grape soda. What

00:24:00.620 what was that because it sounds like something kind of creepy maybe illegal sounds like you're

00:24:05.860 speaking in code how many of those people have been called into doj zero because they're not

00:24:12.680 the criminals all of a sudden people who express thought crimes about israel are the criminals

00:24:17.260 and the doj basically just exists to like hunt anyone who disapproves of the actions of the

00:24:22.980 government of israel that's basically what the doj does at this point and they'll tell you that

00:24:27.260 by the way, shaking down American universities, not for discrimination against American students.

00:24:32.860 And they do a lot of that to this day. Try to get in as like a white Methodist from Kansas. 0.51

00:24:38.500 Try to get into Yale. Perfect SAT score. Good luck, pal. But if you think that Israel is an 0.99

00:24:45.000 apartheid state or from the river to the sea is like an expression of your views, then you're in

00:24:49.820 trouble. So that's what DOJ does. But they've spent no time trying to answer obvious questions

00:24:56.200 about information that they released

00:24:59.520 in the Epstein files that they have released.

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00:27:15.520 Total betrayal.

00:27:16.640 Now, why? Why not release the JFK documents? You heard Trump say it right there. It's been a long

00:27:24.120 time. You can't say the release of those files endangers someone. Well, they haven't released

00:27:28.840 all the JFK files. They haven't. That's a fact. They can tell you they have, but that's a lie.

00:27:34.260 CIA still possesses unreleased documents about the Kennedy assassination.

00:27:39.140 Now, it seems like there are many indications those documents pertain to the behavior of a

00:27:42.960 foreign country. Maybe that's why. We don't know because they haven't been released. 1.00

00:27:49.560 Why? And you heard Trump sort of lay the predicate for what we're seeing now in that

00:27:54.800 interview with Lex Friedman. He said, well, I mean, you know, the Kennedy assassination documents

00:27:58.680 wouldn't endanger anybody. It's been too long. The Epstein may endanger people. How could someone

00:28:03.100 be endangered by the release, the full release of all documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein?

00:28:08.800 how does that put people in danger oh unless he was working for foreign and or domestic

00:28:15.960 intelligence agencies so if Jeffrey Epstein was a contract employee of the U.S. government or the

00:28:21.680 Israeli government or the French government we don't have a right to know that why well because

00:28:26.120 that might implicate those governments that's why and while we're at it like why haven't the people

00:28:32.320 who paid for all of this the people who sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Jeffrey

00:28:37.240 Epstein for financial consulting services, or for who knows what reason, allowed him to buy his

00:28:42.520 island and his ranch in New Mexico and his house off Fifth Avenue. Why haven't those people been

00:28:46.740 hauled in for interviews? Not indicted necessarily, but Mr. Wexner, why don't you come on down to

00:28:51.520 Washington and we'll just, we'll just talk and just answer some obvious questions. That's never

00:28:55.860 happened. Well, of course you know why, because there's a separate set of standards for the kind

00:29:02.120 of people who would fund Jeffrey Epstein's house off Fifth Avenue. And now we're getting back

00:29:08.080 to the core rationale for the Trump run in the first place, which was the people versus the

00:29:12.500 deep state. And now we're seeing that the candidate, once he became president, sided

00:29:16.440 not with the people, but with the deep state. And again, it raises the question, why? There

00:29:20.940 was no reason to do that. Oh, they're so scary and powerful. Really? You're the president of

00:29:26.660 the United States. And to some extent, power is what you exert. You don't have power until you

00:29:31.320 use it. Oh, we'll kill you. Well, first of all, who cares? If you're afraid of death, you shouldn't 1.00

00:29:37.140 be president. But second one is give a televised address saying, I was threatened by this person,

00:29:41.620 that person, I've ordered them arrested. That's what actual leaders do. Leaders have done that

00:29:47.920 many times through history. And future generations treat them kindly because they're doing the right

00:29:55.340 thing in the face of risk. They're prevailing over threats. In this case, threats to our nation.

00:30:02.500 But Trump chose not to do that. And it's a shame because if he'd actually taken on the deep state,

00:30:11.000 then he might have done some of the things that he could do as president. He has the power to do

00:30:15.600 these things that he promised to do on the campaign. Now, we're going to play you the first

00:30:21.060 because it is in the end the most important and that's do something about the scourge of drugs

00:30:26.960 not just illegal but also prescription drugs in this country now why is that the most important

00:30:32.140 thing well because the death toll now if you bring this up to anyone in or around the administration

00:30:37.180 let's say well the death toll from the drug crisis has gone down well yeah it's gone down for several

00:30:42.440 years in fact it started going down under biden but you know people died of just drug ods last

00:30:50.160 year 2025 the first full year of the trump administration 70,000 now you can watch fox

00:30:57.800 news all day and they will give you some number always made up about the number of americans

00:31:01.840 killed in iranian terror attacks it's not 70,000 this is 70,000 americans mostly young people

00:31:09.380 last year of drugs and that's just the ones who died of illegal drug ods that's not the ones

00:31:19.080 who died from xanax a lot did it's not the ones whose brains were scrambled permanently

00:31:24.220 whose lives were totally wrecked for life if you're watching this you know some of those people

00:31:30.560 70 000 and trump promised to fix that watch every drug dealer on average kills 500 people

00:31:44.060 that's not mentioning all of the families that are destroyed forever they're destroyed forever

00:31:49.400 and we have to do something about it because we are becoming and we are a drug-infested nation 0.52

00:31:57.300 we have to do something and if you did that meaningfully you will in one week

00:32:03.860 stop the drug problem nobody's going to be selling drugs nobody

00:32:09.800 i don't know if the country's ready for it but they should i don't know if the country's ready

00:32:16.680 for it there's probably not a person over 50 in this country you could find who doesn't know

00:32:22.960 someone personally who's been destroyed by drugs or died so yeah the country is way past ready for

00:32:29.680 it and that's not that hard maybe the first thing you would do is get your department of justice to 0.94

00:32:35.740 go after not just the drug dealers but the ngos the non-profits the people who actually don't pay

00:32:41.220 taxes who you're subsidizing who are passing out drug paraphernalia to addicts in our cities 0.68

00:32:46.680 and not just needles which is bad enough you can say well they don't get aids that way okay

00:32:51.300 how about meth pipes what's the justification for giving a meth pipe a fresh meth pipe to a meth

00:32:58.960 addict by the way you can make a meth pipe out of anything not too complicated it's not a hypodermic

00:33:04.000 needle. You don't need a factory in China to make one. You're passing out meth pipes to meth addicts

00:33:09.580 because you want them to do meth. And there's been not one indictment of one of them. Cities

00:33:17.500 across the country to this day right now are allowing nonprofits working with the city to

00:33:23.540 pass out drug paraphernalia to drug addicts. And the effects are obvious. Going to the center of

00:33:28.620 any american city is this okay that we live like this people are dying in the street that's

00:33:34.220 compassion it's a stain upon the country it should should sting the conscience of every american

00:33:41.140 and it's fixable other countries don't have this problem because they don't tolerate it

00:33:47.080 the trump administration could have fixed this immediately we're going to indict you

00:33:52.640 if you give drug paraphernalia to drug addicts,

00:33:55.400 if you abet addiction and death.

00:33:59.080 Because you are an accessory to murder when you do that.

00:34:03.360 And we don't have to put up with this.

00:34:05.620 That's not fascism.

00:34:07.180 That's compassion.

00:34:09.420 But instead, once again,

00:34:12.600 the entire machinery of the Department of Justice

00:34:15.020 has been leveraged in the war against anti-Semitism.

00:34:18.100 That was not one of his campaign pledges.

00:34:21.100 Whatever that is,

00:34:22.640 And by anti-Semitism, they mean not hatred of Jews or hurting Jews, which is awful and

00:34:27.900 shouldn't be allowed, but criticism of the secular government of a foreign country that

00:34:34.020 has done more than any other foreign country in a long time to hurt the United States.

00:34:38.380 So that's what they're actually doing. 0.98

00:34:40.500 It would have been nice if he'd stuck with that campaign promise.

00:34:44.400 Why not?

00:34:45.240 Why wouldn't you?

00:34:47.020 But he hasn't.

00:34:47.640 and there are a lot of domestic campaign promises that aren't that hard that's the easiest one

00:34:54.760 don't put up with this and it'll get better but they are putting up with it almost like they want

00:35:00.280 it weird the Sacklers are still free they're still billionaires how many people did Purdue

00:35:06.380 Pharma kill in this country like an entire region of the country the legacy region of the country

00:35:12.400 the region with the highest percentage of people whose ancestors fought in the civil war that was

00:35:16.560 the one hurt most appalachia appalachia south of new england and yet the people who did that

00:35:24.880 and profited from it still have their name on an art museum in washington they're still

00:35:29.740 billionaires and nobody went to jail really when they knowingly sent an addictive drug

00:35:38.360 to poor people yeah but there hasn't been much attempt to do anything about that to rectify that

00:35:46.100 one of the gravest injustices of our lifetime. Zero, actually. But two other domestic promises

00:35:52.680 that people might have liked to see an action on. Here's the most obvious. I will lower energy

00:35:58.140 costs. And this is bitter to watch, but watch it anyway. Here it is. That's why I've declared that

00:36:04.920 a top priority for my administration will be to cut the cost of energy in half within the first

00:36:11.280 12 months of taking office so we'll cut it in half i think we'll be able i think we'll be able

00:36:17.480 to do better than that we're going to be cutting it in half guys that'll help you a little bit

00:36:22.100 won't it and i think we'll do that very quickly that includes heating air conditioning electricity

00:36:28.080 and gasoline yeah well that didn't happen um kind of just the opposite diesel's going to six bucks

00:36:34.960 in days. That's a historic high. Diesel, it's a fuel. It's a kind of heavier version of gasoline

00:36:42.360 that is used to transport basically everything you eat or buy in the country. It's what fuels

00:36:49.260 our trucking fleets. Diesel fuel. It affects the price of everything, and it is almost at six bucks.

00:36:55.140 In California, our biggest state, 40 million people, it's almost $8. Diesel was $4.96 the

00:37:02.200 day Trump took office, it's now almost $8 in California, our biggest state. So this is not

00:37:08.800 something, to be fair to Trump, that he wanted. It's something he feared. Trump does understand

00:37:13.960 commodities prices. He cares about them. He follows them. You can get them right on your iPhone. You

00:37:17.920 know exactly what they are. Brent crude today. What's gold trading at? I mean, everybody can

00:37:22.760 find out instantly what commodities prices are. And of course, when it comes to fuel, you find

00:37:27.840 every week when you fill up so trump didn't want this and he knew that the war with iran he knew

00:37:33.920 the ongoing war with russia both of those wars are responsible for the spike in energy prices

00:37:41.500 not just in this country but globally and he knew that going into a regime change war with iran would

00:37:49.720 spike energy prices he said that privately including to me so it's not like he didn't

00:37:55.480 know this was going to happen but for whatever reason and again historians will maybe untangle

00:38:01.820 this mystery he chose following israel into this war over lowering energy costs for his own

00:38:09.520 population and so that was inevitable like this was always going to happen once he decided to

00:38:17.480 follow a foreign country into an unwinnable regime change war so maybe the lesson here is don't do

00:38:22.800 that and of course this gets to the core of everything it gets to the reason that trump

00:38:28.960 betrayed his voters because he followed not their wishes but the wishes of a foreign government

00:38:34.180 that's just a fact you wish that wasn't true because it's the kind of thing when you say it

00:38:39.480 out loud that inspires a massive response a hateful response and who wants that but it is

00:38:46.700 undeniably true that's not the fault of people who pointed out that's the fault of the people

00:38:52.320 who did it and so Trump's distinguishing quality as a candidate as a president in his first term

00:39:02.780 was not his pledge to lower energy prices everybody promises to do that get rid of drugs

00:39:07.820 of course that's been tried though not very hard no what made Trump different was he was going to

00:39:15.100 avoid foreign entangments he wasn't going to have another neocon war and there was already a neocon

00:39:21.020 war in progress the war between the united states and russia which we mistakenly misleadingly

00:39:27.360 sometimes refer to as the ukraine war it's never been a ukraine war it's a war between nato which

00:39:33.060 is our coalition north atlantic treaty organization that we run and fund and russia in other words

00:39:39.600 it's a war between the U.S. and Russia.

00:39:43.780 And that war, which began in the winter of 2022,

00:39:49.500 was inspired by the Biden administration,

00:39:53.040 which wanted it.

00:39:54.460 So the United States,

00:39:55.980 in the most passive-aggressive possible way,

00:39:58.580 our leadership pushed Russia into this war

00:40:01.540 so that the United States could defeat or weaken Russia.

00:40:04.760 No one's ever defined what exactly that means.

00:40:06.480 The whole project is insane.

00:40:07.640 but that's what happened and trump knew exactly what was going on at the time and said so

00:40:14.360 and said repeatedly in interviews and in private the main thing that we should worry about is russia

00:40:21.280 joining forces being pushed into an alliance with china because that would leave us where

00:40:27.760 it would leave us facing off against a coalition of the world's largest country that would be russia

00:40:34.620 with the world's largest population, that would be China,

00:40:38.760 the world's largest economy, also China,

00:40:41.320 the world's deepest military-industrial capacity 0.94

00:40:45.360 and resource bid, that would be Russia, against us.

00:40:50.020 And we can't win.

00:40:51.360 If Russia and China get together, we're done.

00:40:54.360 Trump said that many times. 1.00

00:40:56.560 And it's true, and it's proven to be true.

00:40:59.360 And no, we can't win.

00:41:01.420 So Trump knew that.

00:41:02.780 and that's why he promised repeatedly on the campaign trail when i am president

00:41:08.120 i will bring that war to a close watch before i even arrive at the oval office shortly after i

00:41:15.360 win the presidency i will have the war between russia and ukraine settled i'll do it in 24 hours

00:41:22.580 it's not tough to do that's easy compared to that's easy compared to a lot of things

00:41:29.200 well he's right it actually is easy compared to a lot of things now you'll often hear the

00:41:34.740 foreign policy establishment the experts people in dc the state department will say no it's very

00:41:41.900 very complicated well it's actually not that complicated because ukraine as a nation no longer

00:41:46.580 exists american policymakers have basically genocided the entire population of the country

00:41:52.680 more than a million people have died now being sent to the front in handcuffs to certain death

00:41:57.580 apparently that's part of the reason we're doing this it gets very dark very fast when you start 0.97

00:42:03.360 to think about it but ukraine itself could never prosecute a war against russia because well for

00:42:10.120 one thing russia has more than a hundred million more people so the whole thing is absurd there is

00:42:15.760 no war between russia and ukraine and in practical terms the united states through its intel agencies

00:42:22.540 provides the targeting information for ukrainian missiles and drones so the war would the war would

00:42:29.900 end tomorrow if the u.s were actually to withdraw that support and trump could do that with one

00:42:34.580 phone call hey director of central intelligence hey nsa director no mas anyone caught running the

00:42:42.700 war for the ukrainians will be fired and brought up on charges and that would end the war and yes

00:42:50.500 Russia would wind up with a chunk of Eastern Ukraine. That's going to happen no matter what. 0.93

00:42:55.380 And it might be better for Ukraine to stop sending its next generation, in fact, middle-aged men and 0.99

00:43:02.080 people with Down syndrome into the meat grinder. That's the only option. And Trump could do that, 0.99

00:43:07.820 but he hasn't, not for two years. Now, why? Well, it's really simple. Because the same people who

00:43:13.540 push Trump into war with Iran are pushing him to continue the war against Russia, against Putin.

00:43:21.520 Now, why is that? Now, that's a really interesting question that someone ought to write a book about.

00:43:25.700 Why would the same people who pushed the U.S. into war with Iran be pushing the United States

00:43:33.100 to war with Russia? We're not even going to speculate. We're just going to say as a statement

00:43:40.300 of fact that it's exactly the same group so trump is clearly unable to resist that push

00:43:48.540 and so we are much more deeply involved in a war with russia much more deeply than we were

00:43:55.020 two years ago there have been assassination attempts on vladimir putin on the president

00:44:00.200 of the country that the united states abetted again there's no ukrainian army there's no

00:44:09.140 ukrainian initiative without help from the united states so from the russian perspective the u.s

00:44:15.420 government is trying to assassinate vladimir putin is that wise even if you think putin is

00:44:20.080 the worst person ever to live is that wise to try and assassinate the leader of a nation that

00:44:26.320 possesses the world's largest nuclear arsenal probably not a good idea as trump himself

00:44:30.560 repeatedly said on the campaign trail you are in so doing pushing the world toward a nuclear war

00:44:38.280 from which no one escapes everybody dies that's the end of the world and anyone as trump often

00:44:45.520 said during the campaign and for years before the campaign anyone who doubts that doesn't know what

00:44:51.160 nuclear weapons do trump as the only american authorized to use said weapons has been briefed

00:44:57.220 on their destructive power and knows a lot about it and has talked about it in public a lot

00:45:01.600 with heartfelt horror don't ever use these weapons they're as he would say horrible

00:45:07.660 because they are horrible and it was entirely sincere apparently in saying that here's one

00:45:15.020 example watch this i am worried about nuclear because to be honest with you we have incompetent

00:45:20.680 people dealing on it you're going to end up in world war three you're going to have a nuclear

00:45:24.540 holocaust if we're not careful these people have no idea our people have no idea what they're doing 0.58

00:45:31.600 and i will keep you out of world war three i'm the only one that's going to be able to do it 0.93

00:45:37.660 yeah so how'd that turn out and by the way that seemed completely real

00:45:42.120 trump didn't just say that in that speech so that may have been at the convention

00:45:46.460 he said it again and again and again in speeches in interviews at dinners in private and in public

00:45:55.080 trump said why would he pretend otherwise i am afraid of a nuclear exchange that is the worst

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00:46:37.940 and so it's with total bewilderment that two years later you look around and see the world

00:46:44.160 on the brink and that's not an exaggeration of a nuclear exchange and the world is on the brink

00:46:50.520 of a nuclear exchange because of the actions of donald trump and the trump administration

00:46:54.800 it causes pain to say that out loud it is shocking to say that out loud it is true

00:47:01.140 in truth social after true social in public statement after public statement including

00:47:07.940 three days ago trump has threatened nuclear war the guy who told us two years ago not even

00:47:17.640 nuclear war is the worst thing world war three is the one thing i'm going to avoid the people 0.60

00:47:23.060 running everything are lunatics they want a war i don't that guy is now threatening to unleash

00:47:29.160 nuclear weapons against the country that he started a voluntary war with it doesn't possess 0.89

00:47:35.040 them an offensive use of nuclear weapons and not just in his true social posts the u.s government

00:47:41.120 is changing and has announced that it's changing its nuclear doctrine not to constrain its ability

00:47:47.460 to use nuclear weapons but to free it up to use nuclear weapons like we're losing this world let's

00:47:53.220 just nuke them now leaving aside the morality of that which is diseased it's completely

00:48:00.500 indefensible though many on the right are defending it people who seem totally sane just 0.59

00:48:06.920 the other day like victor davis hansen are all of a sudden talking about the glories of hiroshima

00:48:12.700 Hiroshima is a moral crime.

00:48:14.860 It's not a defense of Pearl Harbor or the Imperial Japanese government,

00:48:17.540 but to incinerate non-combatants with a nuclear weapon is, by definition, evil.

00:48:22.980 There's no defending that.

00:48:24.520 And anyone who defends that has immediately disqualified himself from leadership of any kind.

00:48:31.900 But it's worse than that.

00:48:34.000 Not only is Trump threatening nuclear war openly, and no one seems to even notice this,

00:48:39.120 and not only is his remaining coalition the bitter enders ben shapiro whoever else still

00:48:47.360 believes in trump or is trying to use trump for their own ends not only are they ratifying it

00:48:53.100 defending it echoing it yeah i think we need a nuclear strike but the u.s government is changing

00:49:00.260 its internal doctrines to make it easier to use nuclear weapons and then suggesting in meetings

00:49:07.660 in the Pentagon and PowerPoint presentations the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.

00:49:13.740 So even if you thought that was morally defensible, even if you agreed with Ben Shapiro

00:49:16.560 that sometimes you just got to nuke people, you just got to melt their children, what

00:49:22.360 do you think happens next? 0.76

00:49:24.860 One country just lobs a nuclear weapon into another country and that's just it? 0.70

00:49:29.120 We win at that point, whatever that means?

00:49:31.540 No, of course not.

00:49:33.240 that one action leads inexorably and there's no other interpretation

00:49:37.720 this is a dead certain fact inexorably to a nuclear exchange and that's the end

00:49:42.540 not only is this the opposite of what trump promised this is by definition insanity

00:49:50.900 anyone who suggests the offensive use of nuclear weapons ought to be in prison immediately

00:49:55.860 you are not allowed to destroy the world you did not build it you were not allowed to threaten

00:50:02.160 the murder of billions of people and remain free if there was ever a crime it's that that is a crime

00:50:09.600 and anyone who gets us closer to committing that crime should be in jail for the safety of the rest

00:50:19.240 of us but no one seems to notice those of us who supported trump who believed what he was saying

00:50:29.360 awake every morning in a kind of mixture of shock amazement and disgust is this really happening

00:50:39.160 did he change completely did he never mean what he said like what am i misremembering this

00:50:47.040 i believed it completely here's a portion of the speech i gave on the night trump was nominated

00:50:55.740 in milwaukee two years ago at the republican national convention against my better judgment

00:51:00.660 never endorsed or campaigned for anybody never will again but so important is this topic

00:51:10.440 don't further destroy the country with pointless foreign wars and so sincere was trump's opposition

00:51:17.400 to that that i thought you know this is the one issue that really matters and i believe this guy

00:51:22.720 they're trying to put him in prison they shot him in the ear and butler because he's against

00:51:28.440 these wars he must be for real and i believed it so much i said this watch i do think the entire

00:51:36.640 point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of donald trump's public life

00:51:43.560 has been to remind us of one fact which is a leader's duty is to his people to his country

00:51:50.640 and to no other. That's the point. That's the only point. And another word for this

00:51:55.980 is democracy. And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, is attacked as an

00:52:00.800 enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States. Hey, let's pay attention

00:52:07.000 to what people actually want. And the lack of interest in that question in Washington

00:52:13.980 is something that ultimately drove me out of the city after 35 years. Lawmakers stepping

00:52:18.760 over the prostrate bodies of their fellow citizens ODing on drugs to go cast votes to send money

00:52:25.760 to some foreign country. The one thing that was really clear about Donald Trump two years ago

00:52:32.720 is that he wouldn't ignore the suffering of his own people and instead turn his attention and

00:52:39.440 funnel our money to some foreign country for a pointless war that can only hurt us and that

00:52:46.140 kills innocents. That's the one thing we knew. And I believed it so completely, I endorsed it.

00:52:51.140 I checked that today. Did I really say that? Why did I say that? Because I really believed it.

00:52:55.600 Why did I really believe it? Because he said it again and again and again for 10 years.

00:53:01.860 And then in an instant, it changed. In an instant. And that instant came quickly.

00:53:07.360 that instant actually was january 28th 2025 that would be about a week after he became president

00:53:16.980 that was the day that donald trump publicly announced that the first visitor to the white

00:53:21.900 house the first foreign head of state to visit washington in his term would be benjamin netanyahu

00:53:25.760 and it didn't take long in fact it took exactly four days trump was inaugurated on january 20th

00:53:30.960 and on february 4th benjamin netanyahu prime minister of israel was at the white house and

00:53:36.320 what was he doing there just there to say hi like he's friends with trump he was not friends with

00:53:40.140 trump trump despised him of course trump was still mad from four years before when netanyahu

00:53:47.620 was the first foreign head of state to call joe biden and congratulate him on winning a victory

00:53:51.820 that trump claimed was not a victory but instead a theft and trump held a grudge and said so very

00:53:58.060 often in public and in private he was mad at benjamin netanyahu and yet eight days after

00:54:03.960 becoming president? Netanyahu is the first person to visit the White House eight days in

00:54:09.940 when there's a long slate of things to do, of problems to fix, of concerns to think about.

00:54:19.000 There's a huge country of 340 million people to uplift and improve, but no.

00:54:27.400 benjamin netanyahu came first here's the first press conference between the two this is again

00:54:36.960 february 4th 2025 bb i want to say it's an honor to have you with us over the past four years the

00:54:46.700 u.s and the israeli alliance has been tested more than any time in history but the bonds of

00:54:55.960 friendship and affection between the American and Israeli people have endured for generations,

00:55:01.380 and they are absolutely unbreakable. They are unbreakable. And I'm also pleased to announce

00:55:06.780 that this afternoon, the United States withdrew from the anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council

00:55:12.060 and ended all of the support for the UN Relief and Works Agency, which funneled money to Hamas

00:55:18.580 and which was very disloyal to humanity. Today, I also took action to restore a maximum pressure 0.54

00:55:24.760 policy on the iranian regime and we will once again enforce the most aggressive possible

00:55:30.480 sanctions i've said this before i'll say it again you are the greatest friend israel has ever had

00:55:39.320 in the white house oh man you knew there was trouble coming because honestly israel's had

00:55:51.920 some pretty great friends in the White House. In fact, they've all been friends. But to be the

00:55:56.720 greatest friend they've ever had, and then you watch the new president say, it's an unbreakable

00:56:01.280 bond, this connection between Israel and the United States. How can the U.S. have an unbreakable bond

00:56:05.840 with a foreign country? The only unbreakable bond that a president has is with his own citizens,

00:56:11.940 with his country, his people. That's who elected him. That's who gave him the plane. All of his

00:56:17.980 authority all of his power his place in history comes from his people that's our system but no

00:56:24.420 the only unbreakable bond was with Israel and right there on February 4th days after getting 0.67

00:56:33.240 there the president describes his real plan which is to get tough with Iran Iran didn't you just

00:56:41.600 tell us the other day that we weren't having a war with Iran so a lot of us at that point felt sick

00:56:47.880 we'd seen this movie before it was obvious very obvious that this wasn't a snap decision

00:56:54.580 that trump had made that at some point over the preceding months he decided to take a completely

00:56:59.800 different course from the one he described in public that there was another agenda that he was

00:57:04.100 not describing in public and that it was going to be hard to stop it and so there were really

00:57:11.600 only two responses one was to try and stop it to do everything you could to bring the public's

00:57:16.460 attention to this this this could happen we could wind up in a regime change war with iran we said 0.97

00:57:21.100 that repeatedly and we're attacked for it oh you're a panic and you're crazy we're not gonna

00:57:24.880 have a regime change war with iran we're just taking out their nuclear program not a big deal

00:57:29.040 of course as every president has promised to since the beginning of time in fact i think it was john

00:57:34.760 quincy adams maybe george washington himself who said the main point of the united states is to 0.95

00:57:38.760 make sure iran is going to nuclear weapons so this is like a long-standing policy what are you nuts

00:57:42.400 but it was clear what was coming that day february 4th

00:57:50.400 but a lot of us thought well maybe we can stop that that's so crazy it couldn't possibly happen

00:57:59.620 and in the meantime there's one campaign promise we know he's going to make good on because he's

00:58:05.220 been running on this since 2015 since he came down the elevator this country has a border

00:58:10.300 its integrity should be enforced its laws are real you can't just show up here illegally and

00:58:17.420 get benefits you have to leave and come here legally we've got tens of millions of illegal

00:58:24.720 aliens living in this country and trump was elected if on no other issue on the promise 0.76

00:58:31.840 to fix that and to make people go home and if you want to come here go to the embassy in your

00:58:37.280 country and apply like everybody else because if you don't have to obey our laws then why do the 0.55

00:58:43.020 rest of us have to obey our laws like what is this why should foreign nationals who give the 0.82

00:58:48.100 finger to our legal code get a pass while you make a mistake on your tax form or on your 0.94

00:58:55.120 federal gun purchasing form go to jail like that's not sustainable that's not a real country

00:59:02.040 you got to fix that so we thought okay this iran thing is nuts it's so nuts again it probably can't

00:59:09.800 happen okay the u.s isn't capable of fighting a war against iran and despite all the talk about

00:59:14.280 the greatest military in the world anyone who really pays close attention knows you know we

00:59:18.500 can't do this actually so in the meantime at least we've got immigration enforcement not to be mean

00:59:25.700 to immigrants or you know shoot people in the street but just to enforce the law

00:59:30.980 which is like a baseline requirement not just of a country but of civilization itself

00:59:35.360 and so it was a little confusing when the trump administration began to enforce immigration law

00:59:44.340 enforce immigration law because the first high-profile immigration case was not against

00:59:50.180 illegal aliens.

00:59:52.340 It was against legal immigrants. 0.97

00:59:54.540 It was against people with green cards.

00:59:56.800 It's hard to get a green card, actually.

00:59:58.420 If you've ever known someone who's tried to get one in the United States, it's not

01:00:00.660 easy to get a green card.

01:00:03.120 It can be very tough.

01:00:04.780 In fact, people who are married to American citizens, legitimately married, sometimes

01:00:08.740 can't get green cards.

01:00:10.640 So the very first high-profile immigration case was against people with green cards who

01:00:15.140 were here legally with jobs or students.

01:00:18.060 Yeah.

01:00:20.180 why you wondered when you first saw this are they going after people who i mean maybe you

01:00:24.880 can make a case for that but after you do something about the tens of millions of people

01:00:30.760 who are here totally illegally not to mention the criminal aliens who are here who are actually 0.99

01:00:37.260 committing a lot of crimes and what about the haitian dog eaters they were eating dogs and 0.91

01:00:42.180 some cats though obviously not as great a concern but still it's the principle of the thing 0.92

01:00:47.220 what about all those people nope the first big immigration story was this and we're going to let

01:00:54.640 you watch the new secretary of state explain why people were rounded up and forced to leave

01:01:02.960 watch this and if you tell us when you apply for your visa and by the way i intend to come to your

01:01:08.100 country as a student and rile up all kinds of anti-jewish student anti-semitic activities i

01:01:14.100 intend to shut down your universities if you told us all these things when you apply for a visa we

01:01:18.340 would deny your visa i hope we would if you actually end up doing that once you're in this 1.00

01:01:23.300 country on such a visa we will revoke it and if you end up having a green card not citizenship 0.91

01:01:28.320 but a green card as a result of that visa while you're here in those activities we're going to 0.98

01:01:32.500 kick you out it's as simple as that this is not about free speech this is about people that don't 0.73

01:01:36.580 have a right to be in the united states to begin with spotify it's jay shetty are you one of those

01:01:41.820 media strategy people scrolling through spreadsheets searching for an audience that

01:01:46.360 pays twice as much attention to your ads than they do on social let me introduce you to fans

01:01:52.340 and they're here with me on spotify trust me i know fans they don't skip they stay for hours

01:01:59.700 they don't move on they manifest they're not a demographic group they're fans

01:02:05.060 spotify advertising you're among fans well it's not about free speech probably actually

01:02:12.800 because these aren't american citizens it's about how american law is enforced it's about

01:02:19.720 priorities when you've got tens of millions of people here illegally a lot of them some of them 0.94

01:02:24.400 anyway members of murderous drug cartels when you've got haitian dog eaters you go after people 0.92

01:02:31.460 with green cards for anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic activity. Okay, what does that mean exactly? 0.91

01:02:39.940 Were these people who were arrested for hate crimes against Jewish people? No, they weren't.

01:02:47.300 They were people who complained about the official policies of a foreign government, Israel.

01:02:53.500 it was people who weighed in on an ancient and contentious dispute in a nation 6 000 miles away

01:03:03.820 now no matter what side of that you're on and at this point given all we know about how israel has

01:03:10.780 treated palestinians in the occupied territories in the west bank and gaza it's pretty hard to be

01:03:17.360 on Israel's side I don't think any decent person knowing what has actually happened could take

01:03:23.620 Israel's side in that doesn't seem possible maybe but it doesn't matter what sides you're on

01:03:29.400 as a matter of U.S. government policy if the first big immigration bust is not of drug cartels or

01:03:38.360 even dog eaters but if people who criticize a foreign nation and then the secretary of state

01:03:44.080 himself gets up and gives a self-righteous press conference calling criticism of a foreign

01:03:48.520 government a hate crime, you know that you have descended to the lowest level of identity

01:03:57.860 politics. What's identity politics? Identity politics is the policy of giving special rights

01:04:06.180 to people on the basis of how they were born. Now, one of the things, in fact, one of the main

01:04:11.860 things that donald trump ran against was that identity politics because identity politics

01:04:16.320 invalidates the concept of citizenship no we're not all equal actually no we don't all live under

01:04:22.300 the same law no we don't all have to follow the same rules some groups by virtue of how they were

01:04:27.120 born have a whole separate set of rules and most people regardless of party would acknowledge if

01:04:34.160 asked that that's immoral and it's also not sustainable you can't have a country where

01:04:39.840 there's no working majority of any group in which certain groups get a leg up over other groups with

01:04:45.540 the help of the government because that will fall apart in fact it will fall apart in a recognizable

01:04:51.280 way it will devolve into conflict group against group and there are all kinds of conservatives

01:04:59.320 who made a powerful and cogent and true case against identity politics for the entire span

01:05:06.080 of the Biden administration because the Biden administration overall was an egregious offender

01:05:11.720 in this category. Certain groups had more rights than others under Joe Biden. And certain groups

01:05:18.120 were singled out for nonstop abuse. White men, they were the problem. Remember that? 1.00

01:05:22.860 And people hated that. And not just right-wingers. Any normal person hates that.

01:05:28.140 This country can't work unless every person has identical rights.

01:05:32.260 not just under the law but under god has rights as a human being actually by the way that's why

01:05:39.120 we have a human rights commission which may be dopey or ineffective but the idea of human rights

01:05:44.300 is real because human rights themselves are real and they're the basis of our founding documents

01:05:48.400 so the second you spend all of your energy the second you use the entire weight of federal law

01:05:55.560 to protect one group to the exclusion of other groups the

01:06:02.260 that's the end that's the end so here was the guy who ran against that doing it i came in to

01:06:10.500 to congress 13 years ago with the stated intention of being the leading defender of

01:06:16.660 israel in the united states senate and i've worked every day to do that apac a lot of times

01:06:21.660 apac i wish were much more effective so that's senator ted cruz of texas now why are we playing

01:06:29.860 that. A couple of reasons. Ted Cruz is the opposite of Donald Trump, not simply because

01:06:35.400 they ran against each other famously in 2016, but because they have completely different worldviews,

01:06:44.160 completely different worldviews. Ted Cruz is kind of the end stage of a conventional Republican,

01:06:50.800 completely disconnected from his own voters, wedded to slogans, minted when he was in grade

01:06:57.480 school peace through strength whatever some reagan era slogan that you know may have some

01:07:03.220 truth in it but isn't really relevant to the problems we face right now and who at the end

01:07:08.080 of the day is personally corrupt which ted cruz is and is an undisguised tool of his donors but

01:07:17.820 more than anything ted cruz and you just heard him say it and probably the most famous ted thing

01:07:22.740 Ted Cruz has ever said, Ted Cruz 0.89

01:07:24.900 is a tool of a foreign

01:07:26.680 power, not in a stealthy way, Ted Cruz will just say

01:07:28.700 I was elected to the United States Senate from

01:07:30.600 Texas

01:07:31.200 our second biggest state 0.93

01:07:33.880 to serve Israel, like that was the 0.94

01:07:36.700 whole reason I did it, was to serve a foreign

01:07:38.720 country

01:07:39.220 now if Ted Cruz had said that or any senator had said that

01:07:42.740 about any other country, you know I got elected

01:07:44.880 to this body to make sure

01:07:46.520 I was the best friend Malaysia ever had 1.00

01:07:48.980 that Madagascar never

01:07:50.760 had a stronger advocate than me

01:07:52.480 that china got full representation in the legislative branch of the u.s government

01:07:58.380 people would look a sconce well there'd probably be an arrest warrant issued for you if you said

01:08:03.920 something like that and probably deservedly so but ted cruz just said it out loud i'm here to

01:08:11.300 serve israel and he has done his best limited by you know his natural limitations but he's tried

01:08:18.440 hard to serve Israel. And that's why there's probably never been a pointless war that Ted

01:08:23.960 Cruz hasn't endorsed. Ted Cruz is exactly the guy Trump ran against in name in 2016 and in spirit

01:08:32.700 in 2024. And yet fast forward two years, is anything you just heard Ted Cruz say, is anything

01:08:40.480 Ted Cruz says every day on Twitter, materially different from the policies of the Trump

01:08:47.280 administration oh that's not fair that's not fair you say oh really okay then tonight tonight right

01:08:53.660 now actually as we speak is the beginning of the midterm republican convention which is an event

01:09:00.260 in texas held for the next two days by the republican party to gin up support and enthusiasm

01:09:05.680 and of course money for the midterm election efforts of the republican party and the speaker

01:09:11.380 list is absolutely fascinating it's online and you should take a look at it but on that speaker list

01:09:16.240 Guess who? Ted Cruz. How many people, how many Republican primary voters in this last election, 2024, would have imagined that less than two years into his term, Donald Trump would be asking Ted Cruz to speak at his convention?

01:09:37.800 That Ted Cruz would be the voice of the Trump administration and the Republican Party.

01:09:42.900 Because in addition to his many other titles, Donald Trump is the head of the Republican Party.

01:09:49.020 And of course, he has veto power over the speaker's list.

01:09:52.560 He can have anyone he wants or no one at all.

01:09:54.680 And he chose Ted Cruz.

01:09:56.740 And why wouldn't he?

01:09:58.060 They no longer disagree on anything.

01:10:00.560 So to sum up, if you think Ted Cruz is the future of the Republican Party,

01:10:06.480 if you think ted cruz is the future of the united states then go ahead and vote for that party 0.91

01:10:12.240 but if you find the idea of putting a foreign country before your own country the citizens

01:10:18.220 of another nation before your own people if you find that repugnant immoral if you think it should

01:10:24.320 be illegal then you're probably not going to vote for it and so maybe that's why in the end

01:10:30.420 the republican party is going to get spanked pretty hard in the midterm elections not just

01:10:36.180 because Trump is loud and obnoxious and people object to the way he presents things, but because 0.95

01:10:40.620 the ideas that undergird these policies are disgusting and wrong. And they're going to be 0.97

01:10:48.220 repudiated at the ballot box. Hard to know whether we'll get something better. Probably not. It's not

01:10:55.000 endorsement of Democrats. Hardly. It's an expression of pain at the betrayal that all of us have

01:11:03.100 experienced. So keep that in mind the day after the election. Thank you. We'll be back next Wednesday.

The Tucker Carlson Show - September 10, 2026

Trump Betrayed His Voters on Behalf of a Foreign Country. This Is Why Republicans Will Get Crushed.

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