Tucker Carlson Live Tour Grand Finale with President Donald Trump LIVE in Glendale, AZ
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I never thought that I would endorse Donald Trump, but here I am with a full-throated, utterly sincere endorsement of Donald Trump. And I was thinking about that this morning in the shower, where I do my best thinking. I like to think about that a lot, because when you walk out of the shower and you see this kind of furry, lumpy primate in the mirror, there's no imagining you're God. No, it's very grounding to see yourself naked at least once a day. I always think I got to hang a black sheet over that mirror, but I keep it just to keep me on the ground and with perspective. I spent 30 years in the TV business, which has spent the last 8 years telling you Trump is a terrifying dictator, and he was loved. I mean, everyone loved him, and I liked him. And by the way, I was in the car with him almost 10 years ago, interviewing Trump that morning. And he did this star on another network. And about three hours later, he called me and said, "I just want to run for president. You know, I just want you to know that I'm not going to give up my salary because I don't want to give the hard-earned salary because you should be hard at work for it." And I just did not take it seriously, but he's not running for president because he thinks it's not a bad idea. And it's a good idea, right? And I don t know, but it's hard to be hard to give it up because I should be a good one. and I should give it a try. And that's not hard to do it because I just because I like people like people. And so, you know, you should give up a chance to be good at it. And if you don't give up your salary because it s hard, because you don t want to be a president because you're not going up for it, because I think it s not a hard one, because it's going to be really good, it s going to make you better than a good day. - Joe Scarborough Joe Scarborough, The Morning Joe host and host, Joe Scarborough Joe Scarborough Scarborough, the host of Morning Joe Joe, the morning show, The View, the Morning Joe anchor, The Weekly Standard, The New York Times, the New York Post, The Daily Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, and the New Yorker, and more.
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I was just standing backstage with my wife, who never comes to events like this.
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She's not very political, but she has very strong political feelings.
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So strong that she doesn't like to hear about politics, because it winds her up.
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And she says, two seconds ago she goes, and she's a very sweet person, former religion teacher,
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And she has that kind of crazed look in her eye, and I said, I don't know if that's a good idea.
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And she said, because I want to lead the crowd in a chant, we are not garbage.
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The abuse that the best people in the country have taken for the past eight years is too much.
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I never thought that I would be speaking at a rally for Donald Trump.
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And it has felt not only like an honor and a privilege every time, but it has felt really natural.
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Hanging around, I know, someone just said, whoo!
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I honestly feel like saying I was young and I needed the money.
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You know, it's almost like when the naughty pictures of you emerge and you're like, ah, you know, that was the old me.
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But I, you know, I spent my whole life standing at the back, watching, and I always thought, ugh, politicians, they're disgusting.
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You'd have to be totally bereft of a soul to do something like that.
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And here I am with a full-throated, utterly sincere endorsement of Donald Trump.
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And I was thinking about that this morning in the shower where I do my best thinking.
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I like thinking in the shower because there's no lying to yourself in the shower.
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Because when you walk out of the shower and you see this kind of furry, lumpy primate in the mirror, there's no imagining you're God.
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No, it's very grounding to see yourself naked at least once a day.
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I always think I got to hang a black sheet over that mirror, but I keep it, I keep it just to keep me on the ground and with perspective.
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Anyway, I was thinking about this morning and I was thinking, I've known Donald Trump, gosh, a long time just from working in television.
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And what people forget about Donald Trump, who is often described as a real estate developer, a casino owner, both of which are true, but that for, you know, a huge chunk of his life, 10 years anyway, he had the number one show on television.
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And, you know, on the one hand, television is kind of a repulsive business.
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But on the other hand, the people who are really, really successful, and Trump was number one in television, all have one thing in common, which is they understand people.
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And by the way, you probably know this, but in the TV business, which has spent the last eight years telling you Trump is a terrifying dictator, he was loved.
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I mean, I liked him from the first time I talked to him 20 years ago.
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I was working on a TV network that shall not be named.
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And he was, of course, this famous star on another network, NBC.
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And about three hours later, I was in the car going somewhere, and he called me.
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And he said, I just want you to know that I'm thinking of running for president.
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And I said, oh, yeah, I'm running for president, okay.
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You know, because everyone in TV thinks I should be president.
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You know, Joe Scarborough wakes up every morning, I should be president.
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You know, but he's not really going to run because you don't want to give up the salary.
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And it was such a weird conversation that I actually wrote it down in my calendar.
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Donald Trump calls, says he's going to run for president.
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Because there was something in his voice that didn't sound like the Trump I thought I knew.
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There was a resolve there that I thought was amazing.
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Almost 10 years later, he has completely transformed the country and the world and the political party under whose banner he ran, the Republican Party.
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And for me, it was this incredible journey of watching this guy, covering him, knowing him, to where I am now, which is speaking on a stage without any shame at all, not getting paid for it.
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Doing it because I really, really mean it and endorsing him for president.
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And so I just want to explain how I got here because I think it says a lot about who Trump is.
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So the first thing I noticed about Trump was that everybody in the Republican Party I had suspicions about hated him immediately.
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There was something about Donald Trump that whenever he spoke, that the people I had always thought were kind of false, the Jonah Goldbergs of the world, the Mitch McConnells of the world.
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But, I mean, these were leading figures in the Republican Party.
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My neighbors in Washington, D.C. who are Republicans.
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People who'd never voted Republican, who never voted at all, seem to like Trump.
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This seemed like great news if you're trying to expand your political party.
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And yet the Republicans in Washington were so offended by Trump that they couldn't even talk about him.
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I remember being at a Christmas party in 2015 with my aforementioned sweet wife at our neighbor's house.
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And my wife, who's not political at all, says, I like Trump.
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I remember one of my neighbors goes, oh, yeah, I like Trump.
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And people, it was like the devil getting splashed with holy water.
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They just moved back slowly staring at her like, is this person dangerous?
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That was such a shocking thing to say in Northwest DC in 2015.
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And I began to ask myself, why is Donald Trump so threatening?
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Is it because he's got some crazed extremist program?
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Everything he said was kind of moderate and sensible.
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And if we're going to have NATO, maybe the countries in NATO should help pay for it.
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If we're going to defend Europe, maybe they could, you know, pony up a little bit.
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Boy, they treated Trump like he was a dangerous freak.
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Like he just escaped from the state mental institution.
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Shackles on his arm and a butcher knife in his hand.
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I didn't really, I wasn't emotional about it at first.
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I remember thinking my neighbors all seem so reasonable and sensible.
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Why are they so mad about a guy who says stuff like we should have a border?
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And then I realized that they hated Trump because Trump asked questions they couldn't answer.
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And I remember thinking and saying, well, I don't know, why don't you just answer his question?
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If not having a border is such a good idea, if it's so important to have a tight labor market.
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Or if you think tariffs are so terrible, why don't you just explain why?
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No matter what he said, he would get up and say, I think we should have tariffs.
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And I would think to myself, what do tariffs have to do with race?
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And then over time, within about a year, I realized people hated Trump because they were guilty of crimes.
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And those people were my neighbors and coworkers.
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I mean, ultimately, I had to leave the city where I spent my entire life.
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Because thanks to Donald Trump, I saw what it really was, which was a scam.
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Its suburbs, eight out of 10 of the richest suburbs were suburbs of Washington, D.C.
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By the way, there was also no creativity or open mindedness.
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That had never occurred to me until Trump came.
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And yet everybody involved in the grift knew instantly the jig was up.
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If this guy keeps talking, we're in deep trouble.
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I'm not even sure that when he got to Washington, Donald Trump understood how corrupt the city was.
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Neither he nor me nor any normal person had any idea that even before he got to the city,
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the CIA and the FBI would be working to destroy him.
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Just being honest in a simple way about what he saw.
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They saw the truth as a mortal threat and they see the truth as a mortal threat now.
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I really think, I mean, look, let's be completely honest.
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Donald Trump is the choice of American voters for president.
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I'm not saying that because I want it to be true, though I do.
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I'm saying that because it's completely obvious.
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There is no Democrat running for anything who could fill a hall like this,
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Every boo is deserved if you only knew how deserved those boos were.
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One of the things that we learned from Donald Trump, one of the many, many things,
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one of the many things we learned is that the Republican Party,
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the leaders of the Republican Party, really despised their own voters.
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They had zero interest in improving their lives.
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And we know this because as 100,000 a year died of drug overdose,
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as their towns died from offshoring of industry,
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as their towns were invaded from people from foreign countries who were here illegally,
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Their attention was focused abroad to the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
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That's where all the attention went, because that's all they cared about.
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They didn't care at all about their own voters.
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You can feel the contempt coming off them in oily waves.
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Joe Biden's not the only one who thinks you're garbage, actually.
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And that's one of the reasons that they don't want Donald Trump back in Washington.
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But the main reason they don't want Donald Trump back in Washington is something called disclosure.
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Disclosure is the principle that you, as an American citizen, an equity owner of this country,
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not a renter, not a serf, not a slave, but as a citizen, an owner of this country,
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a person on whose behalf the government exists.
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There's no other reason to have the government except to serve you,
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that you have a right to know what that government is doing with your money in your name.
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If they're in a good mood one day, you can know a little bit more about how John F. Kennedy was murdered in 1963.
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You have an absolute moral right to know because you own it.
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They're your employees who somehow have decided they're your overlords.
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And they're very concerned that if Donald Trump comes back to Washington,
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we're going to find out what's happened to the hundred billion dollars that we've sent Ukraine over the past two and a half.
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Hunter Biden, I mean, to his great credit, was so high on crack he couldn't steal half as much
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as, you know, your average contractor in Washington and his friends.
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So the truth is, actual crimes have taken place, crimes that made people rich, crimes that hurt American citizens.
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And you're not allowed to know their scale or the details about any of them because it's classified.
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And they're terrified if Donald Trump gets back accompanied by a full cast of reformers, not alone this time, not a single man riding into Washington, man against the machine.
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He fought off two impeachment attempts for daring to do it.
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But if he comes back with, I don't know, Bobby Kennedy and Elon Musk.
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When he comes back with an army of people who know exactly what's up, they know what's going on.
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They know where the bodies are likely to be buried.
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And they're coming with shovels to dig them up.
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What you're seeing now is actual panic and desperation.
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And I've just, I guess I've kind of backhandedly defended Hunter Biden on the grounds that he was so out of it, he had no idea what was actually going on.
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I'll extend the same courtesy to Kamala Harris.
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And that creepy guy who's following around on the campaign trail.
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By the way, AOC just said the other day, speaking of which, AOC, that would be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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She's this revolutionary who's named after a conquistador and doesn't even know it.
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Your last name is Cortez, honey, sit this one out.
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And people would be like, Larry Mussolini shows up and is like, no, I'm against fascism, really.
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But she was at a rally in Vegas yesterday and she goes, Doug Emhoff is the model of masculinity.
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Memo to any unmarried women here, do not date a feminist man.
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Because they know that what they've done and have been doing for decades could be exposed.
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So I would just say, without putting too fine a point on it, but every person in this room senses what I'm talking about.
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These are people who think they have a moral right to rule.
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And that you were born in the surf class and there you will stay.
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These same people lecturing us about democracy.
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As if anyone in a democracy has a right to be in charge.
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People serve at the pleasure of the population for the benefit of the population.
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It's not dry like a tea bag, which, again, is disgusting and possibly immoral.
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That's not to say that there isn't some role for Zinn or whatever.
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I mean, I think, you know, if you've got a girlfriend who's drunk at a Taylor Swift concert,
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Donald Trump has stood in the face of that group, which includes every power center, not simply
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the United States, but in the world, almost since the day he called me in the car in the
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winter of 2015 and said he was dead serious about running.
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And he has faced them off and he has endured more punishment, graver trials than any politician
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At any point, he could have said, you know what?
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I've got a lot of grandchildren, some of whom I enjoy playing golf with.
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And he has pulled forward with energy and cheerfulness from beginning to end.
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And I would submit, since AOC raised the question of what a real man looks like, let me just tell
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Brave people have hope because they have a mission and they're strong inside.
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And they know because they are living for something greater than themselves that even if they die,
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And that's what gives them heart and cheerfulness.
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They are bright, bright-eyed, cheerful, energetic, and in command.
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And that is exactly what Trump has proven to be, including on the day he was shot in the face.
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It's really hard to be fired by a cable network.
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I'm sure you come home and think, man, I fought a battle today.
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You run some stupid cable TV show and you're like, I'm tough as hell.
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And then pushing off the Secret Service and standing up with your fist in the air.
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That was the most revealing moment I have ever seen in the life, not just of any politician,
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And that's the moment that little boys dream about.
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That's, I mean, every little boy, because men do not become men organically.
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And every little boy dreams about some war scenario.
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And I'm charging the machine gun nest because I'm the bravest man.
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Or would you be in fetal position calling out your mom's name?
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It was so unbelievable that Democrats on MSNBC and the internet immediately accused him
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of faking it on the grounds that nobody could be that brave.
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Kind of hard to imagine the second gentleman standing up and being like, fight, fight, fight.
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But the truth is, masculinity is still an indispensable thing.
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Even in an age of Uber Eats and air conditioning, no one's going out to slay a mastodon with a spear,
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but you still need a brave man in charge because it's a rough world and unexpected things happen.
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And as my friend Mike Tyson said famously, everybody got a plan until he gets hit in the face.
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So what's your plan when you get shot in the face?
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And that's when we find out if you're a leader or not.
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We're learning it still because even if you or me have been able to pull that off,
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You think that's the last time they're going to try to do that to you?
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You think even if you manage to get the most votes, you can get elected.
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If you get elected, what's it going to be like to govern?
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It is an unending struggle every single day to represent the people you've promised to represent,
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the people who otherwise have no representation.
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Because trust me, outside of Donald Trump, very few people in Washington care about you.
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And because he cares, because at this point, I don't care if you're a New York Times correspondent
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and if there are any in this room, let me raise my middle finger in your face.
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That's not just some talking point I'm throwing out there to make you feel good.
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Someone who is willing to do that on your behalf is not only the man you need, he's the only man who can represent you.
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You're going to have to stare down the barrel of the hate aimed at you, not just from assorted people on the internet,
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but from the most powerful people on the planet.
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And you're going to have to stand up as straight and say onward with a smile on your face every day.
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And he's the only person I have ever met in my entire 55 years on this planet who can do that.
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So with that, let me get my handheld mic to introduce the former and next president.
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So, I've been thinking this for the past eight years, and I think I've thought it more frequently this year.
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I could be in a beautiful beach with the waves hitting me in the face and all that boring stuff.
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I mean, I don't want to go through the litany, but I was thinking about it today.
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Every person in this room has followed this so carefully.
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But if you make a list of all the attacks, some of which are just mind boggling in their viciousness and unfairness,
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Was there ever a moment where you just thought, you know, come on, this is too much?
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And there are moments when you don't feel so good about things, but you try not to do that.
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I think you have to have a sort of the positive, the power of positive thinking in a way.
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I felt we did great in the first election, 2016.
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And had I not done well in the second, I would have said, all right, that's it.
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Because, you know, you wouldn't have done well.
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You know, we got millions and millions more votes in the second election,
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She was the first one to get out of the Democrat primary.
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She was the last or first out, if you want to look at it that way.
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And if they could do well, I would have been very happy.
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And when I watched what they were doing and how they were destroying this country at the border...
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You know, murderers and drug dealers, prisoners.
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You know, they have prisons from all over the world are being emptied out into our country.
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All over the world, the Congo and Africa, not just South America.
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They're opening up their prisons and they're bringing them into our country.
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You take a look at Afghanistan, what happened with Afghanistan, how bad that was.
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We were going to keep Bagram, but we were getting out with dignity and strength.
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And the way they got out, they took the soldiers out first.
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And you watched all of the things that happened.
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And if we can keep them, if we can keep that cheating down,
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because there are a bunch of cheats, if we can keep that cheating down,
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I think, I think it'll be, I think it'll go down as one of the greatest victories of all time.
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So we're going to have some, we're going to have an exciting time.
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New Mexico is considered a pretty, pretty blue state.
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They have people pouring in by the tens of thousands and they're being decimated.
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They also have a pretty rotten economy for a lot of reasons.
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But what they really have is tremendous inflation.
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But beyond that, because I happen to think that the border is the single biggest issue.
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I think the border is a bigger issue than inflation.
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Inflation is destroying and it's a country buster.
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You know, inflation, it's broken up many countries, including Germany from many years ago.
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Lots of, you look at where there was big, big, this was the biggest inflation and the worst inflation we've ever had.
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They say in 48 years, they don't include a lot of things.
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But I think the biggest problem and the worst thing that's happened to this country is allowing millions of people in here that are criminal people.
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Look, when you empty out your prisons and you put them into the United States, a lot of bad things happen.
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And they're coming in totally unvetted, totally unchecked.
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Venezuela has allowed thousands and thousands of the roughest prisoners in the world to come in.
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You know, their crime rate, their crime rate is way down.
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They've taken from Caracas and the cities in Venezuela where they have the problem.
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They've taken the street gangs and they've delivered them into the United States.
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They've taken their drug dealers and drug lords.
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They've taken them out of Caracas and they brought them into the United States.
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And we are going to have to do a very large deportation because you can't, you can't live like that.
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So I want, I do know, I think it's the gravest crime ever committed against the United States ever by any country.
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We committed, our leaders committed against us.
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The, I mean, you've heard a Democratic senator stood up and said the United States military should take these people.
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New York City has given them guns and the police department.
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So it's the hardest thing, you know, in business and you like to go and where you started from.
00:34:33.000
You sort of like to understand where the other side's coming from.
00:34:44.000
I used to say I was very proud to say I wasn't a politician, but I guess after a while you're sort of a politician.
00:34:50.000
And you know, so, I mean, I hate to say it, but you like to know where the other side's coming from.
00:34:55.000
And I'll say why do they want to have men, and they're so emphatic about it, men playing in women's sports.
00:35:05.000
You see what's happening in volleyball, what's happening in swimming, what's happening in weightlifting.
00:35:09.000
How about weightlifting, where records that stood for 18 years, you know, are being broken like by hundreds of pounds.
00:35:19.000
And you say, why do they want to have transition, I call them transition operations by the thousands.
00:35:28.000
If you just say, well, I'm thinking about it, they throw you into an operating table.
00:35:37.000
Who wants to have open borders, which are, they're all the same thing.
00:35:41.000
You know, we're the party of common sense, right?
00:35:43.000
Because I think we're really the party of common sense.
00:35:45.000
And, and they're only, there can only be a couple of reasons.
00:35:52.000
Well, they're not stupid because you can't be stupid.
00:35:55.000
No, but you can't be stupid and be that good at cheating on elections.
00:36:12.000
You know, they mean a lot of people don't know it, but they, and the other thing is they want to cheat on elections by signing these people up and they are trying to sign people up.
00:36:22.000
They're trying to sign people up that don't even know what country they're in.
00:36:29.000
Nobody really knows, but you'd say, okay, so I've been doing this for a while.
00:36:36.000
I've had people come up and say, gee, it would be great if you could get the taxes down.
00:36:43.000
Nobody's ever come up to me and said, it's really important to me that we allow men to play in women's sports.
00:36:55.000
So you think the point may be just to destroy, just to break the country?
00:37:10.000
And he's probably going to be a senator, if you can believe it.
00:37:30.000
He's got the smallest neck I've ever seen on a human bag.
00:37:35.000
He will never be a football player, I can tell you.
00:37:49.000
This gentleman happens to like my son, Don, I think.
00:38:06.000
And I read about, like, all of a sudden, he's involved with Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:38:17.000
He knows less about Russia than the cameraman that's sitting right there who's never been...
00:38:25.000
But one day about, you know, two years, three years before, they met a whole group of people,
00:38:30.000
met with a Russian lawyer having to do with the Novitski Act or something, having to do with child adoption.
00:38:49.000
It's now been a judge to be a total major hoax.
00:38:56.000
It was made up to justify why Hillary Clinton lost the election, which she wasn't supposed
00:39:04.000
And it was made up by Schiff and Hillary and some other sleep...
00:39:10.000
And what happened is the fake news media, which is back there.
00:39:16.000
But what happened is the fake news media, what they said is it started with a simple move.
00:39:31.000
And I'm saying to myself, wait a minute, I won this election.
00:39:37.000
And it was only supposed to be a one-day deal by the Democrats.
00:39:56.000
It was so insane and all these people I knew believed it.
00:40:00.000
I actually tried starting it up about two months ago.
00:40:04.000
This time, the press just couldn't get away with it.
00:40:07.000
I'll tell you about our lawsuit having to do with the Pulitzer.
00:40:15.000
They got the Pulitzer Prize for accurate and beautiful reporting on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
00:40:26.000
I want the reporters to give back their awards because they were wrong.
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I have a son, Don, a good guy, knows nothing about Russia.
00:42:40.000
etc, etc. So, Shifty Schiff, Adam Schiff, a real sleazebag. He's at an intelligence meeting,
00:42:48.740
and he's not supposed to be talking, but wherever he goes, the press is out there standing because
00:42:53.080
he's provocative or whatever the hell, or because they figure they'll get something bad on me,
00:42:58.720
which is probably much more accurate. So, Schiff comes out. Now, think of this, how bad a person
00:43:03.460
you have to be. I have a son, and I love my son. I love all my children. You love your children. I
00:43:09.380
mean, there are a couple of people that, who doesn't love their children? There'll be about
00:43:12.720
20 people out there, but I have a son, and I love my son, and he's a good boy. He's a good guy.
00:43:20.700
You know Eric. You know Barron. I love my kids. I have good kids, but I love my son, and Schiff goes
00:43:30.300
out. Now, think of this. It was him and Crooked Hillary and some other people. They conceived of
00:43:36.420
this hoax, so they know it's a hoax. They know it's not real because it's a made-up story that
00:43:43.780
they conceived, and you know, they spied on my campaign, all this stuff, but they conceived of
00:43:48.700
the story, so he knows the story is false, and yet he leaves an intelligence meeting, goes to the
00:43:55.600
press, which is waiting outside, a lot of press, and he says something to the effect,
00:44:00.940
Donald Trump Jr., the son of the President of the United States, will be going to jail. He will spend
00:44:13.500
many years in prison for what he's done to our nation, and think of how bad you have to be.
00:44:22.740
He just said that an innocent kid is going to go to prison on a story that's a beckocked story. It's a
00:44:30.100
made-up story, and he said, my son, President's son, is going to spend many years in prison. I called my
00:44:38.180
son. I said, hey Don, how's everything? Are you okay with this? He said, Dad, I don't know what they're
00:44:44.580
talking about. He was, and he was demented. He said, I don't know what they're talking about. I didn't want
00:44:50.180
to get into it too much because I didn't want to make him nervous, and I said, well, you don't know
00:44:56.260
anything about Russia. He said, Dad, I don't know anything. I have nothing. I don't know what they're
00:45:00.660
talking about. So think of this. It turned out the Mueller report, and I tell you, it was an amazing
00:45:07.220
thing that happened because I had 18 radical left lunatics, and I had Mueller who didn't know where
00:45:14.820
the hell he was, okay? You saw that in the hearings. But think of this. I had no chance. It was a stacked
00:45:22.260
court, but I had an angel in that court. I had somebody that wouldn't allow them to do what some
00:45:31.060
of the sleazebags that you know, and you know who they are. Somebody on that court, and I think I know
00:45:36.260
the person, high quality person, and would not allow them to do what they would have loved to
00:45:42.020
have done, is convict even though you're totally innocent. You didn't even know what the hell.
00:45:46.180
So we were exonerated fully. There was no hoax. There was no anything. We were exonerated fully.
00:45:53.620
But just think of it. Just think. And the Mueller report came out, and it was a complete exoneration.
00:45:59.860
But here's a guy that made up a story that tried to put my son in prison for years. And he knew the
00:46:08.980
story was false. They made it up. How bad a person do you have to be? And I heard the son of the
00:46:17.140
President of the United States is going to jail, and he'll be there for many years on a story. Now,
00:46:24.900
how would you feel if you're the kid? I mean, you're a young kid, and you're hearing this crap.
00:46:28.820
Just think of it. But how bad do you have to be? So you know it's fake, because he made it up.
00:46:35.780
And you know, he's a storyteller, too. You know, he writes little bullshit stories. You know that,
00:46:39.700
right? But I just think they're really, we have some, and you know, I talk about the enemy from within,
00:46:46.580
and they do have, they're the greatest con people in the world. Oh, they talk about how dare,
00:46:51.700
that's a threat to democracy. They're always, they're the threat to democracy. You know,
00:46:56.100
the amazing thing, the amazing thing is where they say, he wants to become elected,
00:47:04.580
and he wants to put people in jail. How terrible. They want, that's what they've been trying to do
00:47:10.580
to me for four years. And I should say that your son, Don, had five small children.
00:47:18.420
Can you imagine threatening a man with five kids with prison for a crime he didn't commit? So you
00:47:25.300
said that you were saved in the end by an angel. How have your views about God changed in the last
00:47:32.820
eight years, and particularly after getting shot? Well, look, I've always been a believer,
00:47:39.860
but I wouldn't say, you know, there's a certain pastor, Robert Jeffress, and I didn't know,
00:47:45.300
his name is Robert Jeffress, nice guy from Texas. And he said, you know, Trump may not be the best
00:47:52.420
Christian of all, but he's the only one going to take us to the promised land because he's the best
00:47:57.620
leader and he's the toughest guy and he's going to be able to get us through this crazy lot. And he was
00:48:03.940
a big supporter. And now I have unbelievable evangelical and Christian support because I have, I mean,
00:48:11.060
I've done a great job for them. And we're, you know, we're, we're together. But he said,
00:48:15.540
he may not know the Bible quite as well as other people are supposed to. But you know,
00:48:20.500
he also did something. They picked Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter a long time ago. You know that
00:48:25.300
to sort of, that was, they said he wasn't quite as religious, but he's the guy that's going to get
00:48:30.180
the job done. And I really got, I did a great job with a lot of things having to do with saving
00:48:35.380
religion because these people want to put religion out of business. These people are,
00:48:40.900
you know, they go crazy when I say the enemy from within. And I said,
00:48:44.980
look, we have China, we have Russia, we have Kim Jong Un of North Korea. We have a lot of people out
00:48:51.540
there. But if you have a smart president, I had a great relationship with President Xi until the China
00:48:57.860
virus came in and that was a bridge too far, but we'll have a very good relationship.
00:49:02.420
And there's reasons for them to want to like us. There's big reasons. But if you have a smart
00:49:08.100
president who want that kind of smart, meaning with people, if you have a smart president,
00:49:13.060
somebody that knows what's happening, you're going to be fine. But you know, we do have an enemy from
00:49:17.780
within. We have some very bad people. And those people are also very dangerous. They would like to
00:49:22.580
take down our country. They'd like to have our country be a nice communist country or fascist in any way
00:49:28.820
they can. And we have to be careful of that. But they're the greatest con artists in the world,
00:49:33.620
because as soon as I said, an enemy from within, they said, oh, he wants that. Oh,
00:49:38.500
he's saying an enemy from within. These are sick puppies, I'm telling you.
00:49:43.700
Well, I mean, I got to say, just objectively, I noticed that the second you left and Biden came in,
00:49:52.020
we didn't have any more Antifa riots, which makes me wonder if like, how is Antifa not the
00:49:59.940
Yeah, but you do have, you did have a lot of riots and you have a lot of, you have a lot of
00:50:05.460
people being hurt in a different way. You have a lot of, you have a lot of people being hurt very,
00:50:10.980
very badly. We stopped, you know, we had a period of time where they wanted to tear down statues.
00:50:15.780
Yeah. And, you know, they thought the statue of Abraham Lincoln should be ripped down immediately
00:50:20.340
and a couple of others. And we stopped them. I signed an old bill that was old and dusty. It's
00:50:24.980
like 1910, the United Statues Act of like 1910. It said that if you tear down a statue or even get
00:50:34.420
near it, if you don't want it, if up to the president, you go to jail for 10 years.
00:50:40.020
And when they started getting a little bit frisky, I took that old dusty statue,
00:50:45.140
hadn't been used in a long time. We took it out and they were getting a little wild.
00:50:50.100
Do you remember that period of time? And I said, I had a little news conference and I said,
00:50:54.100
anybody that touches a statue, they were going to rip down Andrew Johnson. They were going to rip
00:50:59.060
down Andrew Jackson. And this, the rope was already on them. And I mean, I saw what was going on
00:51:05.060
and I signed that thing. And I had a news conference. I said, anybody that touches a statue,
00:51:12.100
if you touch the statue, you're going to jail for 10 years with no parole, no early,
00:51:18.580
no early getting out. And I looked because there was a little discord in Washington. I looked
00:51:26.820
at those people from the back and I saw those people. I saw about 1,000 asses. They were facing me as
00:51:34.900
they headed, as they headed out of town. They were heading out of town. And we never heard from
00:51:40.580
them again until recently, until recently, when you had, about two months ago, you had some horrible
00:51:49.700
riots in Washington, DC, where they took spray paint and they sprayed the limestone lions
00:51:55.220
and they burned the American flags badly. And, you know, I'd like to see anybody that burns the
00:52:02.420
American flag one year in jail. I really believe that.
00:52:08.500
You mentioned the enemy within. It's pretty clear. Well, it's not clear. It's a fact that the CIA
00:52:14.740
and the FBI, which are absolutely not allowed by law to have any influence in American politics,
00:52:20.660
because that's the end of democracy. Both of them and a bunch of other intel agencies worked against
00:52:26.420
you on behalf of the Democratic Party from the minute you got elected in 2016. And they're still
00:52:32.260
doing it. They're working against you now. What will you do about that?
00:52:36.740
So one thing I've learned in Washington, it's all people. You got to get the right people. So when I
00:52:42.740
got elected, I was only, according to the fake news, which I think in this case, it wasn't fake. They
00:52:47.700
said I was here 17 times during the course of my life and I never stayed over. So I wasn't a Washington
00:52:53.380
person. I was a New York person. I knew New York, but I didn't know Washington. And all of a sudden,
00:53:00.020
I'm the president of the United States. I'm saying, and I did, I didn't know anybody. I said,
00:53:04.980
hello, anybody. Does anybody would like to have dinner or something? But so I had to rely on
00:53:11.620
rhinos and good people too, even some good rhinos. There aren't too many of them. They're,
00:53:16.740
they're sort of a dying breed right now, I would say actually. But I had to rely on
00:53:22.420
people that I didn't know to give me information. And I won't use any specifics,
00:53:26.900
but I had some people in government with me and I realized, and you know, they, they have
00:53:31.060
pretty much different philosophies than I would have or than you would have.
00:53:34.740
And for the most part, we had great people. I mean, we had great trade people. I had great
00:53:38.820
military people. I had the real military, not the millies. It was a, you know, they're stupid
00:53:43.220
people. Some of these people, by the way, every one of those people having to do with Afghanistan
00:53:48.420
should be fired immediately. Every general should be fired immediately.
00:53:54.340
You know, Biden doesn't fire anybody. That's why he never has books written about. Well,
00:53:58.580
two reasons. Number one, nobody cares about him.
00:54:01.620
It's not like, oh, let's write a book about Biden. Nobody cares.
00:54:05.140
But the other thing is that he never, I don't think, has he fired anybody? I don't think he's
00:54:09.700
fired. I fired a lot of people. I didn't like people. I fired them.
00:54:12.340
And then he immediately get called by the New York Times or somebody because they're very,
00:54:17.380
I mean, they truly are the enemy of the people. They're the enemy of the people. Those people
00:54:21.940
right there, not all of them, but about 91%. They're the enemy of the people. So they'll say,
00:54:29.220
oh, he got fired. Therefore, and the interesting thing about firing people, you can fire them really
00:54:35.620
nice. Like even take, I've taken months nice and easy. Have lunch. Bah, let's think about it. Bah,
00:54:42.340
bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. In the end, they get fired. And then they wake up the next morning.
00:54:46.580
That son of a bitch fired me. Right? Or you can do like I did on The Apprentice. You're fired.
00:54:53.540
Get the hell out of here. It doesn't matter. When you fire somebody, you fire somebody. I've learned
00:55:00.420
after years, you might as well just fire. Then I do another thing. I say,
00:55:06.420
and I wouldn't do that again. Because I'm a nice person. I don't want to hurt somebody. I say,
00:55:14.180
give me a letter. You know what that means. Give me a letter. I said, look, it's not working out.
00:55:18.340
You're not the guy for me. Give me a letter of resignations. I say, give me a letter. Everyone
00:55:22.980
knows what that means. So a guy will write a letter, dear. And then he'll say he quit. And that's okay.
00:55:28.980
That's what I'm, you know, the problem is when that happens with me, it's always a big story.
00:55:32.900
So and so quits. Virtually every person that gave me a letter, I said, give me a letter.
00:55:39.140
Virtually every person that quit, they only quit because I said, essentially, you're fired. Get
00:55:44.580
the hell out of here. But I want to be nice because I'm not looking to fire somebody publicly. I wouldn't
00:55:50.100
do that anymore. I'm just going to say if somebody doesn't work out and no matter how good you are,
00:55:54.980
you always have people that don't work out. It's interesting. Sometimes people you think they're
00:56:00.820
okay, maybe not so great. They turn out to be great. And sometimes you say, this guy is going to be
00:56:06.740
phenomenal. And he turns out to be a stiff. But I had some, I had some people that were, you know,
00:56:13.860
like, like a guy like John Bolton. A friend of mine calls me after I put him on. He said, don't hire
00:56:20.580
that guy. He's no good. He's bad news. He's dumb as a rock and all that stuff. I said, it's a problem.
00:56:25.940
But I like him for a different reason. He's the one that got Bush, him and Cheney and a couple of
00:56:30.980
other of these lunatics, they got them to go into the Middle East and to create war in the Middle East
00:56:37.300
to spend nine trillion dollars. Remember, I used to say, don't go into Iraq. But if you do go in,
00:56:44.500
keep the oil. Well, they went in, but they didn't keep the oil. They didn't keep anything. You know,
00:56:49.300
Iraq is a massive oil country. They have 400 billion dollars right now. But I said,
00:56:57.620
don't go in. But if, but I said it as a civilian. So people cared because I get, for whatever reason,
00:57:03.220
I get a disproportionate amount of publicity. And someday some, he's going to explain to me why.
00:57:08.180
You know, will you explain that to me? So even as a civilian sort of, before I ran, I, but I'd be
00:57:15.780
very much, you know, involved with, uh, things and statements, they'd call and ask. But I said,
00:57:20.980
don't go in. They went in. It was such a bad decision. So Bolton, see again, you get back Bolton,
00:57:28.180
a real dope, but I thought he'd be great because he was so stupid. He was like a boiler every time.
00:57:36.740
If, if somebody shot down a little tiny crappy drone that cost about $15, he'd want to go to war
00:57:43.700
with Russia. I said, no, I think he was great for me though, for a period of time, because
00:57:49.780
he was a nut job and everybody, I could see his face get red, red, red with that stupid white mustache.
00:57:57.380
And he'd be ready to explode. And this was good for me. I went to Kim Jong Un in North Korea. I took this
00:58:05.620
moron with me and he never said anything. But when Kim Jong Un saw him, he said, oh,
00:58:13.060
shit, I think the guy wants to go to war. So he was great for me to negotiate with the same thing
00:58:19.300
with Russia. You know, when Putin saw him, I'd be very nice. I'd say, hi, Vladimir, how you doing?
00:58:25.220
And then Bolton said, you know, two rows back and he'd see that moron and he'd say, holy shit,
00:58:29.860
this guy wants to go to war with me. And I got a lot of what I wanted. You know, we killed,
00:58:35.300
as you know, the Nord Stream 2. I killed Nord Stream 2. That's the other thing that's great.
00:58:41.700
Their PR sense, their political sense, very interesting. They love to say that I was a friend
00:58:51.700
of Russia. I worked for Russia. I was a Russian spy. These people are sick. The biggest job Russia
00:58:59.620
ever had is Nord Stream 2. This is the biggest pipeline like in the world. It goes from Russia
00:59:04.740
to Germany and all over Europe. I killed it. Nobody would kill it but me. I stopped it. The thing was
00:59:11.860
half built, dead. Then there's obviously, look, in all fairness to Biden, he was dumb 35 years ago.
00:59:24.100
He was a dumb guy. Sure. It's true. But he comes in and he approves it, but he stops the Keystone
00:59:32.820
pipeline, which really we need. That's our pipeline. But think of it. Wrong country.
00:59:37.540
Yeah. But think of it. It's rough. It's rough stuff. He stopped. I said, wait a minute,
00:59:41.220
it's supposed to be the other way. Let Keystone go, but stop the Russian pipeline. And I went to the
00:59:47.700
Germany and the different countries, but mostly Germany and say, so let's get this straight.
00:59:52.500
We're helping you and guarding you from Russia, but you're paying Russia billions of dollars a month
01:00:00.580
for oil. How's that working? That's not working, dude. I mean, the whole concept. Anyway, I stopped it.
01:00:07.140
And then I keep reading stories that, oh, I was a puppet for Russia. Putin actually said to me,
01:00:12.660
if you're a puppet now, I'd hate to see if you were angry because this was the biggest economic job.
01:00:18.500
This was the most important thing that they probably had ever done. And I stopped it.
01:00:24.100
It's all about the people, Tucker. If you have the right people, it goes beautifully. It's like in my
01:00:29.300
real estate business. If I have a good building here and I have a good superintendent of the building
01:00:35.060
and that guy's doing a great job and I've done it over the years with my father would have a building
01:00:39.460
and another building and you'd have a great super here and a lousy super there. The one here, the
01:00:46.180
building, everything was perfect. Over here, everything was crappy that we have there. So now I say,
01:00:53.460
let's take this super move from over here. It worked beautifully for there, but not for there,
01:00:59.460
because now all of a sudden that one does it. It's all about the people. You got to put the people in.
01:01:04.900
And if I have any complaint about myself and I don't really blame myself because in all fairness,
01:01:11.540
I became president of the United States and I never did this stuff before. You know, it's pretty good.
01:01:17.620
I never did it before. I was driving down Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Avenue with Melania,
01:01:25.460
the new first lady who's great. People love her. She's got the number one selling book.
01:01:29.860
Tucker, she's got the number. Melania right now is the number one selling. Go out and buy it. It's a
01:01:36.020
great book. It really is. But think. So I had never done it before and I do it. We had 18 people,
01:01:45.460
including me. We had debates and all of a sudden we had 17, 16, 15, and they started disappearing.
01:01:53.380
And a lot of people thought I was doing it just for fun. You did. I think Tucker did too. He thought,
01:01:58.020
he thought I was having a good time. I was having a good time. I was actually having a good time.
01:02:03.060
But all of a sudden, did you notice? They started to disappear. Then you have 10 people.
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And then, you know, you had low energy people. You had a lot of interesting people.
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And then I came up with nicknames for everybody. And for the most part, they were extremely destructive,
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right? We had some beauties. We had some like Pocahontas. Because I don't use my Republican names
01:02:24.180
anymore. Because I'm friendly with all those guys. We retired those days. But all of a sudden,
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they start. And then we get down to 10. So now eight are gone. And we're down to 10. Remember,
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we needed two stages because there were so many. I said, we have the children stage. And then we have
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the grown-up stage. And it was all based on the numbers, the ratings, the numbers, your popularity,
01:02:46.180
how you're doing. So then we're 10. Then we're eight. Then we're five. Then we're four, three,
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two, one, right? And all of a sudden, I'm the nominee. And everyone thought I didn't want to be.
01:03:00.180
But I did want to be. Don't let them tell you that. They said, he didn't. All these geniuses,
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they said, he didn't really want to win. He's extremely upset that he wouldn't. No, no. If you're
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going to play it, you know, win. And some people were surprised. But you heard that I didn't want
01:03:16.820
to win. And I was miserable that I wouldn't. No, that's a false story. That's their own
01:03:22.100
misinformation, a term I use a lot. And now they use it all over. I always say misinformation,
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disinformation. And now everybody says that. So I don't use it anymore. But what happens is
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I end up being the nominee. And then I watch the other side, Bernie Sanders and Crooked Hillary go at it.
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And it's Crooked Hillary. And all of a sudden, I'm fighting against Crooked Hillary Clinton,
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who's a smart woman, much smarter than Kamala, but doesn't lie as much. Hillary was a liar,
01:03:53.540
a horrible scoundrel. But this one lies so much. And she's a low IQ individual. She doesn't even know
01:04:01.380
she's lying. I'm telling you, this is not what you want for your president. That has nothing to do with
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me. This is not what you want. She's a very low IQ individual. She's dumb as a rock. And you can't
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When you ran in 2016, the leaders and heroes of the Republican party were the Bush and Cheney families.
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And is it weird for you to see Liz Cheney, that'd be Dick Cheney's repulsive little daughter, running
01:07:31.780
against you with Kamala Harris? Well, I think it hurts Kamala a lot, actually.
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Look, she's a deranged person. The reason she doesn't like me is that she wanted to stay in Iraq. She
01:07:46.420
wanted to stay in Iraq. She wants to, you know, tough, tough person. You know, people get killed
01:07:50.660
all over. She's real tough, right? They're not the tough people. Don't forget, I went against her
01:07:57.220
and in her state, which is a great, beautiful state, she lost for Congress with the highest
01:08:05.220
number in history. There has never been a congressperson that lost by almost 40 points. And the reason is
01:08:13.940
because if they were ever in that situation, they'd quit. And she lost, she was beaten by a tremendous
01:08:20.100
person, actually tremendous, that I backed fully. But the reason she couldn't stand me is that
01:08:26.020
she always wanted to go to war with people. I don't want to go to war. She wanted to go,
01:08:30.340
she wanted to stay in Syria. I took them out. She wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean,
01:08:36.340
if it were up to her, we'd be in 50 different countries. And you know, number one, it's very dangerous.
01:08:42.660
Number two, a lot of people get killed. And number three, I mean, it's very, very expensive.
01:08:48.740
That's why we owe 36 trillion dollars. We go, you know, it used to be you go to war to the victor,
01:08:55.220
belong the spoils, right? In other words, if you beat a country, you own that country,
01:08:59.700
you take the oil. We go to war, we bomb the crap out of it, then we leave. You know,
01:09:05.380
it's almost like, what are we doing? What's going on? We bombed the whole Middle East.
01:09:11.940
And then we left. What did we get? We got nothing. We destroyed. I mean,
01:09:16.020
we bombed the hell out of everything. You know, when they went into, when they took out Iraq
01:09:22.980
for a thousand years with different names, you had Iran and Iraq, similar powers. They were the two big
01:09:31.460
ones. And for a thousand years, they would fight each other this way, this way, this way, then they'd
01:09:37.140
rest, this way, this, then they'd rest. They were there, a self-check. Then one day we go in and bomb
01:09:43.620
the hell out of one. We destroy one. And then all of a sudden, Iran has the whole Middle East to itself.
01:09:49.380
And by the way, right now, Iran has Iraq. Iraq is like a subsidiary of Iran, all right?
01:09:56.260
We did so many bad moves. And her father was, you know, her father was, I was very critical of her
01:10:02.820
father for years. I'd never met him. But I'd say anybody that went into the Middle East, I thought
01:10:08.740
was stupid. And he, they say, convinced Bush. Bush, oh, he was just, he was another beauty. But he
01:10:17.300
supposedly convinced Bush to go in him, Bolton, and some other lightweights, convinced them to go in,
01:10:23.540
let's go into the Middle East and destroy the whole place and kill millions of people.
01:10:27.940
So they went in. But I was never a fan of China. I was always very critical. And when I announced
01:10:33.300
that I was very critical, actually, not personally, but I said, he made a horrible mistake. What are
01:10:38.740
these people doing? They're spending, we spent nine trillion trillion with a T, not even with a B.
01:10:47.540
Normally I say, not million, billion. But now I say not billion, trillion. We spent nine trillion
01:10:55.540
dollars bombing the hell out of the Middle East. And what the hell did we get other than lots of
01:11:02.100
dead people, including our people? We got nothing. So I was very critical of him. And then I announced
01:11:09.220
I was running. And I was shocked that he was one of the first people he endorsed me immediately. I said,
01:11:15.460
that's amazing. But he had something that was very interesting. He had
01:11:20.420
Scooter Liberty. I mean, these are little stories that are interesting. Scooter Liberty was a man that
01:11:27.460
could have done great destruction to Bush. And they left him behind. He was given to the
01:11:34.420
prosecutors. They prosecuted him rather violently. And he was almost like a sacrificial lamb.
01:11:41.860
And as somebody that knows a lot about what's happening, I said, you know,
01:11:46.340
if I were ever president, I'd do something with that guy. That guy got treated very badly. Scooter
01:11:50.420
Libby. And when I became president, I actually called Dick Cheney. I said, let me ask you about
01:11:57.300
Scooter Libby. He was best friends. He was begging Bush to give Scooter Libby a pardon. But Bush didn't have the
01:12:08.260
courage to do it. You know, it takes courage to give a pardon. It does take a certain courage because
01:12:13.700
the press comes after, you know, et cetera, et cetera. And he didn't have the courage to give him. He
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should have given him a pardon, but he didn't have the guts to do it. But Scooter and what happened is
01:12:24.900
Dick Cheney, for years, for a long time, hated Bush. And don't let anyone tell you, he hated it. He said,
01:12:34.020
you don't leave your wounded behind. And I understand that. And Scooter Libby really saved
01:12:39.860
Bush because he could have said things that would have been very dangerous for Bush in terms of
01:12:45.860
in terms of getting impeached, in terms of going to jail, in terms of bad things happening.
01:12:53.860
But Scooter Libby didn't do that. And in all fairness to Cheney, I give him credit for this,
01:12:58.180
he was very loyal to him, but he couldn't get Bush to do what he should have done.
01:13:01.860
I came into government and I did what they should have done. They didn't have the guts to do it.
01:13:06.100
I did it. And Scooter Libby was pardoned. I gave him a pardon. And
01:13:13.300
I'd never met Scooter Libby, by the way. I never talked to him before that.
01:13:17.060
And I got a call from Scooter Libby after I did that. And he broke down in tears, thanking me so,
01:13:25.060
so much. And then Cheney called me. And he said, that was so incredible what you did for Scooter
01:13:33.460
Libby, because he was really on Scooter Libby. Scooter Libby took a lot of heat and took all of it and
01:13:40.580
didn't say anything bad about Bush or Cheney or anything else. Could have done it. I know,
01:13:44.980
because you have, you know, you have guys that do that. And you have guys that lie, which is worse,
01:13:49.220
right? But you have guys that do that. But he was very loyal to them. And he suffered greatly.
01:13:56.260
I released him. Cheney called me. He said, it's one of the nicest things I've ever seen done in
01:14:02.020
politics. I said, look, I've heard for years he was treated unfairly. I've heard for years that Bush
01:14:09.220
should have given him a pardon. All I did is do something that somebody else should have done. And
01:14:15.860
Cheney was so thankful. He said, I really want to thank you. He said, now I'm so glad that I
01:14:22.260
actually endorsed you. It's amazing. But that you would do this. And I didn't speak to him about it.
01:14:28.820
But then, you know, go a couple of years forward or go now. And I don't blame him for sticking with
01:14:35.300
his daughter. But his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb. She's a radical war hawk.
01:14:43.860
Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay. Let's see how
01:14:48.580
she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they're all war hawks
01:14:54.900
when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, well, let's send, let's send 10,000
01:15:01.380
troops right into the mouth of the enemy. But she's a stupid person. And I used to have,
01:15:07.380
I'd have meetings with a lot of people. And she always wanted to go to war with people. So
01:15:14.100
whether it's her, whether it's, I was surprised a little bit with Dick Cheney. I didn't know him at
01:15:18.900
all. I only had essentially the one or two phone calls. And it was only a call saying, thank you very
01:15:25.060
much for doing that for Scooter Libby. That was nice. And Scooter Libby, by the way, was beyond,
01:15:31.460
he couldn't believe that it happened. Nobody would do it. They should have done that for him years
01:15:36.260
before. But I was a little surprised because I actually thought that Dick Cheney would go with
01:15:41.940
me over his daughter. And he didn't. And you know what? I understand it. It's your daughter and you go.
01:15:47.620
But she's a, she's a bad person. One other thing. They had the J6 committee. And I say this for the
01:15:54.900
fake news back there. They learned a lot of phony things like that. I took on this. I took on,
01:16:02.500
when I was in the car, take me to the Capitol, I said, according to this young lady.
01:16:10.500
And then they said, sure, we won't do that. Well, number one, if I said it, they do it.
01:16:14.820
But I had two people, secret service guys, both extremely rough guys. One was like a karate champion.
01:16:24.420
One was a weightlifter. She said, I grabbed the one by the neck. And when I was rebuffed,
01:16:32.260
I went over to the other one and I grabbed him in a chokehold or something. And actually, no, no,
01:16:40.580
but how ridiculous. Okay. It's just not my thing. You would know. Hey, we can be tough,
01:16:46.660
but it's not my thing. I wouldn't do it. I said, actually, can we go down to the Capitol? They
01:16:52.820
said, sir, it's better if we don't. This was before anyone knew there was a problem,
01:16:56.340
because there's a lot of people and it's going to be tough. Probably not. And you know, we had
01:17:00.820
more people than I've ever seen up at the ellipse, up on top. And a small group went down to the
01:17:08.820
Capitol. But I said, can you take, they said, sir, it's really a little bit tough. But I said,
01:17:12.820
that's okay. Whatever you think is, that's it. She had me grabbing the one around the neck and being
01:17:18.820
rebuffed. And then I grabbed the other one. And these are, I know them both very well. Bobby.
01:17:24.260
I know Bobby wins Bobby. And they're good. And they're good guys, too. But they're tough guys.
01:17:30.660
I think they probably could have rebuffed me. I'm a little bit older. But friends of mine love
01:17:37.060
the story. They said, leave the story. You sound like the toughest dude around. It's a great story.
01:17:43.780
But it was totally made up. It was all made up. But here's the end result. The J6 committee,
01:17:50.340
I call it, they call it the J6 select committee, like select. They're not select. They're scum.
01:17:58.660
So what happens? Take a look at them. They're all political hacks. But here's the thing that bothers
01:18:04.340
me. They found out all this stuff was untrue. They found out her story was untrue. The two guys in the
01:18:13.060
cars testified. It's ridiculous, they said. It is ridiculous. Can you imagine? I'm going to,
01:18:20.340
they also, I think, said it was the beast. And it wasn't. It was one of the other ones. But you
01:18:23.620
can't even get your hands through. But to think that I would be taking on two nice young guys
01:18:29.860
simultaneously. All right. Same. I'm ripping one and ripping the other. Are they? They're crazy.
01:18:37.460
And then I went, oh, and then I went back to the, to the White House, which I love. And I started
01:18:44.180
throwing hamburgers all over the place. Okay. I finished the story. It says, what happened is
01:18:51.780
terrible. They went a year and a half. And Kevin McCarthy was a very nice man. He made a mistake.
01:18:58.020
Because we wanted Jim Banks and Jim Jordan on the committee. And so there'd be like eight to seven or
01:19:04.660
something. And called me on this. He said, they didn't want Jim Jordan. He's a fighter. They
01:19:11.380
didn't want Jim Banks. He's a fighter. And so Kevin said, we don't want anybody on the committee.
01:19:19.700
We think this committee is a sham. And I understood that was good for a day. But for the two and a half,
01:19:26.180
we had nobody to fight for us. In other words, we had a committee. You know who was representing us
01:19:30.260
on the committee? Crying Adam Kinzinger and Liz the moron Cheney. That was who was on the committee.
01:19:39.860
So these were the two Republicans. Kinzinger, who was a total whack job, and Cheney, who was worse
01:19:46.980
than him. This was ours. So they talk about, it was a bipartisan, they call it a bipartisan commission.
01:19:53.300
And I think I'd never like the idea of not, because even if you didn't have Jim Jordan,
01:19:57.300
who's very good, and Jim Banks. We have a lot of great people that would have been good. And they
01:20:01.060
would have, you know, they would have mixed it up. End result. Like, they finished their report.
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They burned and destroyed and deleted everything. Everything. And nobody. And you know why? Because
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they found out that Nancy Pelosi, it was her fault. She didn't put the security. I offered 10,000
01:20:28.660
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01:20:36.820
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I call it the unselect committee, which I always thought was a great name because it was a select,
01:20:58.100
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01:21:16.340
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01:21:29.460
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No, I mean, I've never... Look, I don't like the idea of what's happening. I don't like it at all.
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They've weaponized government, but they've weaponized it against me like nobody's ever been
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I had to devote a lot of money and a lot of time, which is what they want. I had Fanny, F-A-N-I.
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to put a little French accent on Fanny. And her lover boy, Wade, who was hired for like a million
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Who the hell goes away or to sail for six times? Nobody. And he got paid a lot of money. He took that
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They went after... In the Attorney General's office, they had people. But think of it. They went after
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their political opponent. That's never happened to any great extent. Maybe a little bit someplace. I
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don't know. Nobody knows of it. But it's never happened to any great extent in this country.
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It happens in banana republics a lot. And it happens in third world countries. But it's never happened.
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They went after their political opponent. So it's hard to believe that I'm winning,
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it seems, by a lot. If they don't cheat too much... If they don't cheat too much... You know,
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we found a lot of things over the last three days. You've seen that. We found a lot of votes in
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in a certain county, in York, in York County, Lancaster County. You know, we found a lot of bad votes.
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There were 2,600 votes that happened to be written by the same pen, same hand, same signature, same
01:27:03.380
everything. Maybe there's an explanation for that. 2,600 votes. But we found a lot of stuff. But we're
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seeing to work it out. But think of it. It's hard to believe that I'm winning the election by a lot.
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Now, we've got to keep the cheating down. We've got to keep their cheating. Thank you. I love you too,
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darling. Thank you. We've got to keep their cheating down. But think of this. With all I've been through,
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with these animals, these animals coming and what they've done to this country, how they've hurt this
01:27:38.100
country between the borders and between the weaponization. And think of it. I'm leading by a
01:27:44.660
lot. I'm leading in every single swing state with all of the stuff they've done.
01:27:50.980
Where I've spent millions of dollars. I've spent millions of dollars on legal fees. Half of my time
01:27:59.140
is taken up by this. They can campaign. Half of my time is taken up. And they're the dishonest ones.
01:28:06.420
They flip it. They're the dishonest ones. But it's hard to believe. I said to somebody last night,
01:28:11.140
can you believe the numbers came out last night? I'm really leading by quite a bit. Now, a lot of
01:28:16.340
things can happen. Who knows? It flips. Maybe. I don't know. But I'm leading by a lot. I said,
01:28:21.220
can you believe I'm leading by a lot? And what they've done to me, that I'm leading it all,
01:28:28.820
that I'm even living, is almost hard to believe. These are bad people.
01:28:32.740
So you've expanded and changed the Republican Party. And one of the amazing things that I have
01:28:41.380
learned is that Republican voters really care about issues I didn't realize they cared about,
01:28:47.300
like clean air, clean soil, clean food. You've won, somehow, the full-throated endorsement of Bobby
01:28:55.700
Kennedy, lifelong Democrat, who's now like a full-time surrogate for you.
01:29:01.700
He's a very, very good man, too, by the way. So what's that going to look like after you get
01:29:07.300
elected? Well, you know, I feel interesting about this kind of stuff. I like to, number one,
01:29:12.900
get elected. I hate to talk to stuff. A lot of people, they set up, I know that even when I ran,
01:29:19.460
Hillary had an office set up where they were interviewing all the people. I don't want to do
01:29:24.420
that. I want to get elected first, and then we'll cram a little bit. But, you know, I don't like doing it.
01:29:29.460
No, I remember she set up this big office. They're interviewing people for jobs. And actually,
01:29:34.980
you're supposed to do it. But I want to win. I want to win. In five days from now,
01:29:41.540
it's almost four days from now, right? In five days from now,
01:29:48.340
when we have a victory, we're going to have the best people. Here's the one difference,
01:29:52.740
one big difference between now and 2016. I know Washington and the people through testing,
01:30:01.700
real testing, better than probably any human being that's ever hired people. So I went from not
01:30:07.620
knowing anybody and having to rely on, in all fairness, Mike Pence and many other people. You know,
01:30:14.180
I had Mike Pence, and I had others, and they would recommend people. Sloppy Chris Christie recommended
01:30:23.460
some people. And I wouldn't have used him had I known. But you rely on people. And by the way,
01:30:34.260
you know, in a way I hate talking about this because we had mostly great people. Think of it. We had the
01:30:39.940
greatest economy in the history of our country. We rebuilt the entire U.S. military. We defeated ISIS,
01:30:46.180
and we had no wars. We cut more regulations than anybody in the history of the country times five.
01:30:55.140
And, you know, but we had the best economy in the history of our country. I took in billions and
01:31:00.580
billions of dollars in taxes and tariffs from China. I mean, we did it. We had an unbelievably successful
01:31:08.420
administration. We were energy independent. We didn't need anybody's energy. We had so much oil.
01:31:14.900
We didn't know what to do with it. And now take a look. Four years ago,
01:31:20.500
we were energy independent. Think of it. And today we're taking tar
01:31:26.900
from Venezuela. You know, they don't really have oil. They have tar. You have to heat the hell out of it.
01:31:30.900
Of course, you're more to heat it than it does to sell it. But we are going to Venezuela. Think of it.
01:31:38.980
Venezuela was like the enemy. We are now giving — you know, I got a kick a month ago. You saw it.
01:31:44.980
They foreclosed on his plane, but they give him billions of dollars. And he said, that's okay. He's
01:31:51.620
going to buy a much better plane with the money we give him, right? But we go to Venezuela for oil.
01:31:57.540
We were energy independent. We have more liquid gold — that's oil and gas — under our feet
01:32:03.300
than Saudi Arabia, than Russia. And we were going to be not only energy independent within six months.
01:32:11.140
We were going to be energy dominant. We started off at number four.
01:32:15.380
And when I left, four years later, we were number one. We were much better and bigger than Russia
01:32:22.660
or Saudi Arabia. Think of that. But we were going to be triple the size of both.
01:32:28.020
And we were going to supply it to Europe. We were going to supply it to Asia. All over
01:32:32.420
the world, we were going to supply — we would have made a fortune. But then we had a little mishap
01:32:37.460
with the election, where I got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country.
01:32:43.220
You do know that. More than any sitting president. The only one that supposedly got more votes — and I
01:32:50.100
wouldn't believe it — was sleepy Joe Biden, who campaigned brilliantly from his basement.
01:32:57.860
People had no interest in this guy. But he got more votes than anybody in the history
01:33:03.140
of the United States of America. So anyway, so bad things happened. But we had something going that
01:33:12.420
nobody had. I mean, we had an unbelievably successful administration. But I also put in people,
01:33:18.420
some people that, in retrospect, I wouldn't have used. But I had to rely on other people for
01:33:25.860
recommendations. Now, I know everybody. I know the dumb ones, the smart ones, the weak ones, the strong
01:33:32.580
ones. I know — I think I know everybody. And, you know, I've got people that I think will be great.
01:33:40.420
With that being said, you pick people, and sometimes they disappoint you. Everybody knows that.
01:33:45.620
And then you pick people, and sometimes they turn out to be better than you thought.
01:33:49.380
But for the most part, I tell you what, I think we have some incredible — we have some incredible people
01:33:54.900
in Washington. We really do. We have some great people. And I now know, I believe, for the most part,
01:34:00.740
I know who those people are. Do you think Bobby Kennedy and Elon Musk will be influential figures
01:34:08.020
without being specific about what those roles will be in your administration?
01:34:12.100
Yeah, I do. I think so. Look, Bobby — let's talk two of them. Elon's so — you know where he is right now?
01:34:21.140
He's in Pennsylvania campaigning for me. Elon. That rocket ship, right?
01:34:26.980
No, it's so great. He docked that big monster, 22 stories. I thought the sucker was going to be — you
01:34:34.740
know, I was — you know, it's a very crazy story. I mean, I saw it coming in on television. I was
01:34:40.980
talking to a very — I told the story tonight, but I thought it was a very — you know, I'm talking to
01:34:46.260
this very important guy — not as important as Tucker, but important. Big — a big shot. Somebody,
01:34:52.180
everybody would know. I'm talking to him. I'm bored like — I'm bored stiff. He's a boring guy.
01:35:00.580
Oh, who is he? So anyway, no, I'm talking to this very big shot, important guy. And I have the
01:35:07.780
television muted. This thing's going on. You know, the whole thing was really boring. Then I see this
01:35:13.700
monster thing coming down. I see fire all over — fire, left, right. And I'm looking, I'm saying,
01:35:22.820
hey, could you hold it a minute? Yeah, sure. I said, yeah, I just want to see something. I put the
01:35:30.500
phone down. I sort of forgot. And I didn't pick him up for like 50 minutes. And 5-0. And you know
01:35:39.220
what? Because of the fact that I was president, and I very well might be president again, he held on
01:35:46.340
the whole time. Can you believe it? But it's true. I pick the phone up. I say, oh,
01:35:51.940
shit, the phone — hello? Hello? He goes, hello? The poor guy. But I had to see this.
01:36:01.300
And I turn it on. I see if — now you have to understand, it left. I saw it leave, and it was
01:36:05.940
beautiful white paint. Now it's coming down, and it's just dark brown — you know, it's coming down
01:36:12.740
at 10,000 miles an hour or something. I think it's 10,000. It's coming down at levels of speed that
01:36:18.740
nobody ever even conceived of. And it's all burned and where it's rough. But it's coming, and now it's
01:36:25.300
turned around. It turns around. And you have the gantry, the big, beautiful gantry. And it's coming — and
01:36:32.660
it's going to — I said, oh, it's going to crash, because you see at that bottom, this section right
01:36:38.340
here, that sucker's — oh! I'm going, come on, baby. Come on. And I didn't know, actually, if it's — if
01:36:48.500
I'm watching a science fiction movie or am I watching the news, I didn't know what the hell I'm watching.
01:36:53.460
But I see this thing coming down, and all of a sudden, it's going into the steel — the big
01:36:59.460
steel gantry up here. It goes — the thing's like 20 stories tall, too. It's going to crash. I said,
01:37:04.500
oh, shit, it's going to crash. Coming down. And the lower section, right, it's coming right — it's ready.
01:37:10.580
And then all of a sudden, pwah! Fire flames come pouring out of the lower section. It's jets.
01:37:17.540
And they're pushing it over right here. And then it comes down. And I'm saying,
01:37:23.460
I mean, is that the coolest thing you've ever seen, right? Is that the coolest?
01:37:28.340
If you don't think I want a guy like that working for us — so, you know, we've got to cherish
01:37:34.180
our brilliant people. They don't treat him right. We've got to cherish our brilliant people,
01:37:38.900
because we don't have too many of them. Nobody does. Nobody does.
01:37:42.580
So, Elon — oh, talk Elon first. Elon wants to — by the way, I'm having a great time up here. Are you
01:37:51.380
having a good time? Okay. Is he the greatest interviewer? He asked me one little question.
01:38:00.500
I talked for 20 minutes, and they're going to say he's better than Larry King at his prime, right?
01:38:05.380
It's an easy job. Is that the greatest? You're an easy interviewer.
01:38:09.460
He is a great — he is great at what he does. There's few like him, I will tell you that. So,
01:38:15.380
so, with Elon, here's a theory — and he's right — that there's unbelievable wasted fraud.
01:38:24.900
Like, I saved much more than a billion dollars when I came into the White House. And one day,
01:38:30.100
when I said, I'm not going to pay that much to Boeing for Air Force One. And they ended up taking,
01:38:36.260
like, more than — much more than a billion dollars off the price. It took about a couple of weeks,
01:38:41.780
you know, saying, I'm not buying it. No, I don't want it. But there's a plane that you're saving much
01:38:48.180
more than a billion dollars. And you've got thousands of things like that. Not as much, and in some cases,
01:38:55.540
much more. They're building an aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford. The thing came in like at 20
01:39:01.620
billion dollars for a boat — 20 billion. And it doesn't work because they decided to use
01:39:07.780
electric catapults that throws the planes off instead of steam. They decided to go electric.
01:39:14.100
Why are the people that are going all electric? By the way, I'd end the electric mandate on cars day one.
01:39:20.020
You should have electric, but you've got to have gasoline. You've got to have everything.
01:39:23.300
That'll come off on day one. Many things will be done on day one. Your head will spin when you see
01:39:29.620
what's going to happen — the stupidity. But what I like about Elon — you know, Elon's a great cost
01:39:35.380
cutter. And Elon thinks he can cut the costs of our government by two trillion dollars. That's the entire
01:39:46.260
deficit, you know, because it's now at a level — by the way, we have the biggest deficit we've ever had
01:39:51.620
under this stupid group of people. But he thinks he can cut two trillion dollars without affecting
01:40:00.740
anybody, just through — and I think he can do that. I do. I believe that. And that's really what he
01:40:07.380
wants to do. He doesn't want to work. He doesn't want to become a secretary of something. I mean,
01:40:12.260
I'd love to have him, to be honest with you. But he doesn't want to — he's doing a couple of other
01:40:17.140
things, you know, like rocket ships. You know, he sends — Tucker, he sends 92 percent of the rockets
01:40:25.380
that go up are his rockets. Think of that. Russia, China, and us — 92 percent are him. And he's the
01:40:33.700
only one — I asked him, I said, are you the only one that can do that? He's the only one that can land
01:40:40.260
it like that. And he said it'll be years before they can do it. He's a great guy. He wants to cut
01:40:45.300
costs. That's what he wants to do. He wants to save the country. He said that if Trump doesn't get
01:40:50.180
elected, the country is finished. Because, you know, he understands me. And — and I got to know him a
01:40:56.020
little bit in the White House, but much more so over the last few months. He endorsed me. He gave me an
01:41:02.100
endorsement that was so beautiful. He said, if Trump doesn't win, I think this country is finished.
01:41:06.820
He's worried about the country. He's worried about it. He thinks he can save two trillion dollars,
01:41:12.820
in which case we don't have a deficit. We — I mean, the whole thing would be
01:41:16.820
two trillion dollars a year, by the way. A year. And I will definitely — now, Bobby is — is great.
01:41:26.580
The only thing I'm a little bit worried about with Bobby — so I want him to work on health,
01:41:31.860
and I think there's nobody like — I mean, I think he's right with so much of the things he's
01:41:36.020
talking about. Because, you know, we're not a healthy country. If you look at some of the
01:41:40.420
countries in Europe, they're much more healthy than us. We're a rich country. I mean, you know,
01:41:46.020
we've got to get rid of a little debt, but that's okay. We're — we've typically been very good at
01:41:51.060
that. I've been very proficient at that. I've had it both ways. I've had a lot of debt, and I've had very
01:41:55.780
little debt. And as you get older, having very little debt is much better, believe me. But you know what?
01:42:01.300
He is — he really wants to — with the pesticides and the, you know, all the different things — I said,
01:42:09.060
he can do it. He can do anything he wants. He wants to look at the vaccines. He wants everything. I think
01:42:14.260
it's great. I think it's great. The only thing I say to Bobby is leave the liquid gold under our feet
01:42:24.340
alone. I want — we want to have a little gasoline. We want — because you know what I'm going to do?
01:42:29.140
We're going to unleash much of that. And we're going to — you know, Germany tried to go all green,
01:42:35.460
and they almost destroyed their country. And that was the end of Angola, by the way. That was it for
01:42:40.500
Angola. They went all green. They had windmills all over the place. And the wind stopped blowing for a
01:42:45.940
couple of weeks. And that was almost the end of Germany, actually. But the only thing — and I say it
01:42:51.620
jokingly — but I say, Bobby, I love you looking at health. I want you to take care of the women of
01:42:59.140
this country, the men of this country, and the children of this country. You don't have to worry
01:43:04.660
about anybody else. But the one thing you got to do for me, Bobby, is leave that — leave what's under
01:43:13.300
my feet — the oil and gas. You leave that to me, Bobby, because that's going to — we're going to make so
01:43:19.380
much damn money. And it's clean. It's going to make it clean. We're going to make — you know,
01:43:24.500
we have — look, China doesn't have that. That's why China's going electric. If we go electric,
01:43:30.580
we're playing right into their hands. We have oil and gas. They don't. They have things for making
01:43:37.860
the batteries and other things. They're going to make the electric cars. We're not going to be making
01:43:42.340
the electric cars. The problem with the electric cars — and I think they're great in a smaller
01:43:46.420
application. They don't go far. They cost too much, and they're going to be made in China.
01:43:52.020
Three minor problems, okay? But if you listen to this government, they want to make army tanks electric
01:43:59.140
because they want to invade countries with their army tanks in a very friendly way from the pollution
01:44:05.540
standpoint. The whole — you know what you have to do? The batteries are so big, they have a design where
01:44:11.460
the army tank is going in, and they have like a wagon, like a child's wagon with these massive batteries.
01:44:18.260
These — Wait, we're going to have green wars?
01:44:21.060
These people are crazy. No, they want trucks to be all electric. The problem is they don't go far.
01:44:26.740
That's a problem. You know what else is a problem? So the trucking industry comes to see me because they
01:44:31.940
think I'm going to win, and they come in to see me. And these guys come in, and they're great guys.
01:44:37.700
They've been in, like, Roger Penske. How good is Roger — the guy's won, but he's in the trucking
01:44:42.740
business too. He's won, like, 19 Indianapolis 500. Think of how good this guy is. Japan spends billions
01:44:50.340
on coming up with a race car. Germany spends billions — I don't know if they've ever won,
01:44:55.220
maybe one or two. Roger Penske is an incredible guy. He won 19 Indianapolis 500. It might even be 20.
01:45:02.980
That was two years ago. I gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom because I said he deserves it.
01:45:08.180
After the 19th, I said he deserves it. But the truckers came in to see me. They say,
01:45:13.380
Sir, they want us to go all electric, and it'll destroy the industry. Why?
01:45:18.260
Because a truck is two and a half times heavier if it's run by a battery.
01:45:23.780
I said, That's not good. I don't like that. What does that do to the bridge? He said,
01:45:27.940
How did you pick it up so fast, sir? Every bridge in the United States would have to be rebuilt.
01:45:33.620
Every roadway would have — because they're not set for that kind of weight. A little problem.
01:45:39.300
They don't go far, right? They only go — I said, How many times would you — New York to L.A. — how
01:45:45.460
many times would you have to stop? Six times, sir. Six. How many times would you have to stop if you
01:45:51.700
loaded up with diesel fuel? We wouldn't have to stop at all, and we can come back a little bit of a ways,
01:45:57.140
too. And he said, That's a problem. They have a lot of problems, right? Another problem is the
01:46:02.180
battery is much bigger than the tanks of diesel, so it would take a lot of their payload out.
01:46:09.300
I said, Have you explained this to the government? Yes. What do they say? We don't care. We want all
01:46:14.100
electric. You know? I mean, these are problems that fairly short-term are absolutely insurmountable,
01:46:20.820
but the government is pushing them anyway. So we have to bring common sense back to our
01:46:26.820
country. We have to have borders. We have to have fair elections. You know, we shouldn't be worried
01:46:32.980
about how they're stealing in Pennsylvania and how — we should have fair elections. We should have
01:46:40.020
one-day elections, all paper ballots, voter ID, and we're finished.
01:46:44.900
So I know you've been up — your schedule is — and this is not a talking point — your schedule is beyond
01:46:53.780
belief, and I know you've been working since 6 a.m. this morning. I don't even know what time it is or
01:46:57.460
what time zone we're in. So this is my last question to you. But after almost 10 years of doing this,
01:47:03.460
going around the country, speaking to huge audiences, almost a decade, you're four days from — that's it.
01:47:11.940
How do you — are you sad about that? Do you — how do you feel?
01:47:16.100
So, you know, we have these rallies, and it's nice to have a president that doesn't need a teleprompter.
01:47:23.300
Isn't it really nice? And — because you can't have successful rallies if you're reading, oh, they
01:47:30.980
were, ah-ha, ah-wah, ah-wah. Everybody would pick up and we have great — we have the greatest rallies.
01:47:37.700
Even look at this crowd, although I would assume they're here for Tucker, mostly Tucker.
01:47:42.260
Look at this crowd of people you have here. This is not a normal — this isn't normal.
01:47:47.620
No, this isn't a normal situation. I mean, what the hell time is it? And you go back —
01:47:52.980
this is a monster building. I don't know how many people you have here, but you also have a lot of
01:47:56.660
people outside. When we were driving up, there are thousands of people outside. So,
01:48:02.580
I was making a — a couple of days ago, and I said something that I've never said. I said,
01:48:09.140
you know, I've been doing this for nine years, and you've been with me. This is the greatest
01:48:13.860
political movement in history, by far. By far. It's MAGA. It's called Make America Great Again.
01:48:23.620
When our — when our — I'm going to be nice to him. When our president — no, when our slightly off — I mean,
01:48:34.420
look at the way he performed in the debate. They should have never taken it away from him.
01:48:39.140
Look at the way he performed. He was brilliant. Okay.
01:48:41.300
So — but they knew that a long time ago, okay? And she knew that, too. And our country's a danger.
01:48:49.460
We're dealing with Kim Jong-un. We're dealing with very — you know, we're dealing, by the way,
01:48:54.740
with unbelievably smart, talented, vicious people that are at the top of their game.
01:49:01.860
And we're dealing with people that, number one, aren't smart. They never were. They never were.
01:49:06.180
She wasn't. She was a bad student. She couldn't pass her damn law exam. Okay?
01:49:11.140
She wasn't smart. And he was definitely not smart. And we're dealing with other people that are at the
01:49:17.300
absolute top of the poll. And we can't do that. That's a great danger. And people should have let
01:49:24.340
us know. But I was talking. And I said, we've been doing this together for nine years. You know,
01:49:30.020
a year before I started, in terms of before we won. Almost a year, anyway. And I said, you know what?
01:49:50.500
It's sad, in a way, because there's never been rallies like this. When that sleazebag said,
01:49:57.060
during the debate, she said, oh, your rallies aren't well attended. And people leave. They
01:50:02.580
don't leave. And they're really well-intended. We can't get places big enough. And then — and then I
01:50:10.500
said — I said — I said, no, no. You know, the rallies are the biggest in history. We never have — just
01:50:20.900
like this. This is a part of a rally. We never had an empty seat. And nobody leaves early.
01:50:26.980
And you know what? If I saw people leaving, you know what I'd do? Ladies and gentlemen,
01:50:32.180
we're going to make America great again. Goodbye, everybody. And everybody would be happy. Nobody
01:50:36.660
would leave. But we don't have to do that. Nobody leaves. It's a love fest. It's never happened before.
01:50:43.140
This has never happened before. He's a big fan of Ronald Reagan. So am I. But if Ronald Reagan,
01:50:49.940
let's say, went to New Mexico like I did today, we probably had 25,000 people standing in an airport
01:50:55.860
early in the morning today. But we have massive crowds. Look, we had 107,000 people in New Jersey.
01:51:06.660
We had 101,000 people in Butler just a few weeks ago, right? We had 114,000 people
01:51:14.500
in California a month ago, right? 114,000. The owner said, the person that has the land, the nice guy,
01:51:24.340
he said, you get bigger crowds than these guys that play guitars. And I don't have a guitar.
01:51:28.740
So this has been a love fest. But I said, and I meant it too. I said, you know,
01:51:35.780
we've done this for nine years. And it's sad. I never thought of it, actually.
01:51:41.140
It'll never happen. It'll never happen again. It's never going to happen again.
01:51:46.100
In four years, somebody's going to be running. It could be
01:51:49.540
JD. It could be this one. By the way, he's doing a good job.
01:51:54.420
He's doing a good job. But it could be JD. And he'll have competition no matter what.
01:51:58.500
But when you have a rally, they're going to have 250 or 300 people. If Ronald Reagan came back from the
01:52:07.140
dead, at the height of Ronald Reagan, if he went to California to have a rally, he'd have 250, 300
01:52:15.780
people in a ballroom someplace. We have 50, 60, 70, 80, 100,000 people. And in all fairness, we're late.
01:52:24.740
I don't know. I have no idea. I've been doing this all day. I have no idea what time it is. But
01:52:29.620
I know it's not exactly prime time for doing this stuff. And you look up into the rafters of this
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massive building, and you don't have, there's no empty seat. There's no anything. It's, it's,
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by the way, it's, and for whatever reason, I don't, I can't explain the reason, but it'll never happen
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again. And there'll be somebody running, and he'll be the hot one next year. And he'll come here,
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and he'll go there, and he'll have two, three hundred people. That's what it's going to be.
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My consultants was telling me that. Said, we've consulted for 25 years. If we'd have 300 people,
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we were thrilled. If we'd have 200 people, we were thrilled. And you have like 30, 40, 50, 60. In
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South Carolina, we had 88,000 people. In Alabama, we had 68,000 people. It's an amazing phenomenon.
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And I'm not giving myself, it's just, I'm giving you the credit. You're tired of being the stupid
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country. We've become a stupid country. We were run by stupid people. And you're tired of it. So,
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it's sad. And I was telling the people, because it'll never happen again. This is never going to
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happen again. I don't care. I just don't believe. It's never happened in any country. When Biden got
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up with a red background, the pink background, and he looked like the devil, he looked so stupid,
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right? And he said, we will stop MAGA. MAGA, we're going to... I said, listen, you stupid bastard.
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MAGA means, because I don't think, I think if you asked him, what does it mean? He doesn't know.
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MAGA means, make America great again. That's what MAGA means. So, for the first time, I never said it to
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anybody. I never really thought about it that much. But all of a sudden, it was down to like,
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maybe 10 or 8 or 9 days, a few days ago, right? I said, you know, in 10 days,
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this will never happen again. Because I'm not running again. And
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you're going to lose interest. We're going to meet, but we're going to meet on a different basis.
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We're going to meet on the basis of fixing our country. And we'll meet, but it'll be different
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than having rallies and having, you know, things where you have elections and all. It's never going
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to be what we've done together. We got to win, first of all. But we are leading. Just keep the cheating
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down. The only thing that can stop us is the cheating. It's the only thing that can stop us.
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If we win, it's the biggest event in political history. It's the biggest event in political
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history. But, and there's something, and it's going to be the most important. I believe
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that the next election is the most important election in the history of the country. I really
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believe that. The one that's coming up in four days. But I said to myself, it's sad. I told the people,
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some people are in the road, they're crying. They go, we have people that have gone to 200 and 250
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rallies. We have the beautiful ladies of North Carolina. We have the front row Joes. I mean,
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we have people that have gone to hundreds of rallies. I said, this will never happen again.
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I don't believe it will. I don't think it'll ever happen again. And we'll get together,
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but it'll be different. We're going to get together and we're going to make America great again.
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We're going to fix our country. We're going to have strong borders and we're going to have fair
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elections and hopefully we'll get a fair press eventually. Because that's a very important
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element. You need a fair press. He and I understand the press because you give them a story,
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you know exactly everything that happened and they'll write it the opposite, like the exact opposite.
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They'll write it to actually hurt you. It's hard to believe. You almost, that's the other thing.
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You wonder why do they do that? It's so bad. And they've lost such credibility. You know, when I first came
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to politics, the news, the press had a 92 percent approval rating. Yesterday it hit 14 percent.
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And I'm actually very proud of that because I've exposed them for being a total fraud. They're a fraud.
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But hopefully they won't be a fraud for long. Hopefully that'll straighten out. Because that's a very
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important. The press, a free press, a real press is a very important part of greatness, of making a
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country great. They're like, they're almost like, they're glue that keeps it together. But they're
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also like, in a way, a police force that keeps it honest. But they're so dishonest that they have
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no credibility. Think of it, 60 minutes, ask sir question. And you know, I brought a lawsuit on this
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today. You saw that 60 minutes because it's so long. She gives an answer that only a moron would give.
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You can give bad answers. But this was an answer that a person who, who is not a smart person,
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a person who got the lowest score, perhaps in the history of the bar exams. Okay.
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You know, she failed the bar exam. Okay. But this is a person, this is a very low IQ individual.
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This is the answer of a very low IQ individual. And by the way, I think everybody that runs for
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president or vice president should have cognitive tests. They should have testing because, you know,
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and I don't mean by age, because, you know, some of the greatest leaders in the world were in the 80s,
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in the 80 period, because there is an experience thinking other things. Some of the greatest leaders
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in history, you look back and, and I know many people that are in their 80s that are, I know one
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person from 80 to 90 made billions of dollars and he was a failure for his whole life. And you know him,
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I'll tell you who it is later. But he was a failure for his whole life. But I said to myself, it's sad
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that in a way, this whole great thing that we've built is, is never going to happen again.
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But what is going to happen again is we're going to turn our country around. We're going to make it
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great. And we're going to be so proud of ourselves because we have to save our country. Our country is
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going bad. We're a failing nation. We are, as I say, we are a nation in decline. We are a nation in very
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serious decline. And look at what these stupid people have done. They've allowed Russia, China,
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Iran, North Korea, and others to get together in a group. This is impossible to think.
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When I was a young guy, I loved, I always loved the whole thing, the concept of the history and all of
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the things that can happen. The one thing — and I had a professor at the Wharton School of Finance,
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but we had history classes also — he said, the one thing you never want to happen is you never want
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Russia and China uniting. We united them because of the oil. We united them. Biden united them.
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It's a shame. The stupidity of what they've done. I'm going to have to ununite them. And I think I can
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do that too. I have to ununite them. But early on, I've read — and you've learned — you never want
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Russia and China — and they're natural enemies because Russia has massive land and China needs it.
01:59:57.460
Okay? They need that land. China doesn't have the land for the population. Russia has — if you ever
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look at the size of the Russian land mass, it's like four times or five times. Doesn't it have like
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12 time zones or something? It's massive. They're a natural enemy. And we've allowed them to come to
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get together. It's such a dangerous thing. Another thing — another thing that we're doing is we're
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losing the dollar as the standard because of these people that are so — if we lose the dollar as the
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standard, that's like losing a war. And it'll never happen with me. There's no way that will happen
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with me. We've got to put it back together. We cannot — that is like losing a war.
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So we're going to get together, and hopefully we'll get together a lot. But we're going to get
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together — and I think it's going to be very happy times. We're going to put our country back together,
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and we're going to make it the greatest country in the world again.
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And you're going to be very proud of all these rallies that we had. And I just want to thank
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you for being here so late in the evening. I've been doing this all day. And this guy is fantastic.
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President Donald J. Trump, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.