Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - My father is the hero America needs- and I’m as proud of him as ever, Live coverage from the RNC

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00:00:44.000 And he was like, can we do it with Alina later?

00:01:12.000 I was like, no, we're doing this now.

00:01:15.000 This is actually the first time addressing the unimaginable.

00:01:19.000 It's the first time I've been live since the assassination attempt on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania. 0.99

00:01:26.000 A worthless coward tried to kill my father. 1.00

00:01:29.000 He grazed his ear. 1.00

00:01:30.000 He was less than an inch away from killing him.

00:01:33.000 The shooter did kill a man named Corey, a great fireman and a hero who was in the crowd.

00:01:40.000 As we mentioned, Ronnie, your family was there and one of them was actually hit in this terrible

00:01:49.000 tragedy.

00:01:50.000 So it's the first time I'm really talking about that.

00:01:52.000 But it was also an amazing moment in the sense that I got to see, you know, everyone sort

00:01:57.000 of thinks they're a badass these days, right?

00:01:59.000 On the internet, right?

00:01:59.000 I think Mike Tyson said it best.

00:02:01.000 Everyone's got a little too comfortable talking shit without someone actually being in their face. 0.99

00:02:06.000 Uh, and... 0.99

00:02:08.000 It was an amazing thing watching my father come up defiant.

00:02:11.000 Everyone thinks they're going to be tough in a moment of crises or a moment of fire like that, and actually seeing that was truly, truly crazy.

00:02:20.000 The assassination attempt followed years, obviously, of disgusting lies from Democrats in the media around my father.

00:02:25.000 They said he's going to be a dictator and democracy is literally over if he wins.

00:02:30.000 They have said he's a threat to the nation.

00:02:31.000 They've compared him to Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini.

00:02:35.000 And I think we all found out that these lies have consequences.

00:02:40.000 Again, Ronnie, as someone with your nephew actually being injured, it's not just about my father or the politics, but innocent people who are on the way.

00:02:50.000 There's also a litany of open questions about how this was able to happen, but my father took a bullet and he's going to keep fighting.

00:02:57.000 He's a leader that America needs now and that's as clear as ever.

00:03:01.000 Whether it's the wars, whether it's the economies, that kind of strength, that kind of resolve

00:03:05.000 is exactly what we need.

00:03:06.000 So the least I think we could all do is turn out and vote and deliver a landslide in November.

00:03:12.000 But in better news, my father made an amazing decision today with Senator J.D.

00:03:17.000 Vance as his running mate.

00:03:18.000 I've gotten to know J.D.

00:03:19.000 very well over the last few years.

00:03:21.000 He's a true champion for America's first values because he's seen just how great this nation can be.

00:03:27.000 He was born into abject poverty in Appalachia.

00:03:30.000 He joined the Marine Corps out of high school.

00:03:32.000 uh... that went to college and yell off and now became a successful businessman now senator

00:03:38.000 uh... he just became the republican vice presidential nominee at thirty nine

00:03:42.000 uh... he's the embodiment of the american dream if you don't know

00:03:45.000 anything about his story check it out read his book hillbilly algae

00:03:48.000 uh... this is a guy that understands uh... the american dream and he wants to make that dream

00:03:54.000 possible for future generations so

00:03:57.000 is just a space strong supporter of my father's

00:04:00.000 his policies stance against china

00:04:03.000 and really the hard-working men and women of this country so

00:04:06.000 with that I'm going to go right to all of you guys.

00:04:10.000 This is sort of an interesting panel.

00:04:12.000 I guess I got to start off with Newt.

00:04:13.000 I don't want to say elder statesman because you're, you know... Experienced.

00:04:18.000 Experienced.

00:04:19.000 Experienced.

00:04:19.000 And certainly compared to JD, I'm an elder statesman.

00:04:23.000 Yeah, we're all a little older.

00:04:25.000 Yeah, I see my friends these days and I see their kids and, you know, I feel a lot older than I used to feel.

00:04:31.000 You wonder how they're getting to be so much older.

00:04:34.000 That's the thing.

00:04:35.000 When I start thinking of my friend's children as old, that's when the realization comes.

00:04:41.000 But, Mr. Speaker, you know, this thing on Saturday.

00:04:46.000 Obviously, I don't want to be the guy to get conspiratorial about it, but as a guy that's a shooter and a hunter and has been around protection details, I don't know how someone gets on an open rooftop 150 yards away from the presumptive nominee of a major party in the United

00:05:04.000 States.

00:05:05.000 But how long do you think this violence has been building?

00:05:09.000 How much more of this stuff have we not even seen that we're that close?

00:05:13.000 Because it's truly a perilous moment in our history.

00:05:19.000 Well, it's frightening. 0.97

00:05:20.000 I started telling people about four months ago that if they couldn't succeed in putting your father in orange and locking him up, that the next stage would be to try to kill him. 0.85

00:05:33.000 And the reason is, he is a mortal threat to the left.

00:05:37.000 He's the first person they've faced who's both smart enough and tough enough to take on the entire national establishment and win.

00:05:46.000 And so, I mean, their whole way of life is at stake.

00:05:49.000 And they know no bounds.

00:05:51.000 Some of the stuff that's been said since the shooting has been horrendous.

00:05:56.000 Oh yeah, no, they can't.

00:05:57.000 I actually had it happen to me on the floor.

00:05:59.000 Maybe, I think we have that clip up, right?

00:06:01.000 You gotta see this.

00:06:03.000 I get to the floor.

00:06:04.000 I'm a Florida delegate.

00:06:05.000 My brother was, I guess, the chief delegate for Florida.

00:06:07.000 And that was, you know, they gave us the privilege of sort of throwing my father over the threshold to get the actual nominee.

00:06:12.000 And I'm taking questions from press, and they're asking about J.D.

00:06:15.000 Vance, because that was announced five minutes before.

00:06:18.000 And literally, the guy starts off with, So is this gonna be, this is MS, you know, MS, I call it MSDNC, but it's MSNBC.

00:06:27.000 This is gonna be a bringing back the Trump vitriol and hatred.

00:06:30.000 I go, well, was it Trump vitriol or was it you guys?

00:06:33.000 I mean, you guys were the ones that called us traitors.

00:06:35.000 You guys were the ones that lied about Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:06:37.000 You guys were the ones that lied about Joe Biden's competency.

00:06:40.000 Like, And then he, well, are you putting children back in cages?

00:06:43.000 I just said, you mean the Obama cages?

00:06:45.000 Because everyone knows that's the case. 0.90

00:06:48.000 All my, the hatred from this guy, and I just said it, I go, you guys, I called it MSDNC and I think I called him a clown, but you couldn't even wait 48 hours. 0.90

00:06:59.000 They just tried to kill my father. 0.94

00:07:00.000 I mean, you know.

00:07:02.000 But remember, the pre-Trump Republicans understood that their job was to kowtow to the media.

00:07:09.000 Yeah.

00:07:10.000 Their job was to say, oh, yeah, I feel really bad about whatever you want me to feel really bad about.

00:07:15.000 And now you have a whole new generation.

00:07:17.000 Yeah.

00:07:17.000 I don't think you could kowtow to anybody, but... He doesn't do any kowtowing.

00:07:23.000 By the way, we need that, though, because they've had this blank slate.

00:07:29.000 That's why, honestly, everyone knows I've been pushing for J.D.

00:07:32.000 for a long time, because he'll go on CNN.

00:07:35.000 He'll go on.

00:07:36.000 He doesn't just do the sort of hometown stuff, but he's also so good in articulating.

00:07:40.000 He doesn't just accept their narrative.

00:07:42.000 January 6th was an insurrection. 0.98

00:07:43.000 No, that's ridiculous. 0.96

00:07:44.000 Stop. 0.97

00:07:45.000 I can't wait.

00:07:46.000 The debate.

00:07:47.000 Oh, no, no.

00:07:48.000 No, I mean, we're going to screen it live.

00:07:50.000 I'll do my commentary.

00:07:51.000 But the vice presidential debate, J.D.

00:07:53.000 Vance versus Kamala Harris, is going to be incredible.

00:07:55.000 But take two seconds and watch this clip.

00:07:58.000 This is literally 48 hours after my father was literally shot, five minutes after they announced the vice presidential candidate.

00:08:07.000 And this guy is trying to pretend that it was Trump that put Migrant children in cages.

00:08:12.000 I mean, A, everyone knows it was Obama.

00:08:14.000 Everyone knows it's significantly worse now under Joe Biden.

00:08:17.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:08:18.000 They literally can't help themselves.

00:08:20.000 So honestly, I'm trying to stay above it, but it's hard to think anything other than whatever disdain you already have for our media, it's not enough.

00:08:29.000 Check this out.

00:08:30.000 What is that change going to look like, Don?

00:08:32.000 Practically, your father as president, I think you would even say, was a divisive figure.

00:08:36.000 What's it going to look like in the second term?

00:08:38.000 I don't think he was a divisive figure at all.

00:08:39.000 I think the media created divisiveness around him.

00:08:41.000 They lied about Russia-Russia collusion.

00:08:43.000 They said he was a traitor.

00:08:45.000 They went after him in every which way is possible.

00:08:48.000 If the media actually starts being an honest broker, talking about the things that he did, the prosperity he brought, the peace deals that he signed around the world, rather than the disaster that we're living right now, I think you'd do everyone in the country a big favor.

00:08:58.000 Immigration is important to him.

00:09:00.000 I covered the family separation crisis closely.

00:09:02.000 Will we continue to see policies like separating 5,000 children deliberately from their parents?

00:09:07.000 You mean the Obama administration?

00:09:09.000 You know they didn't do that, sir.

00:09:10.000 Sure.

00:09:11.000 Will there be a second family separation policy? 0.99

00:09:14.000 It's MSDNC, so I expect nothing less from you clowns. 0.97

00:09:17.000 Even today, even 48 hours later, you couldn't wait. 0.99

00:09:20.000 You couldn't wait with your lies and with your nonsense. 0.98

00:09:22.000 So, just get out of here. 0.96

00:09:24.000 You know, we couldn't really hear it on studio, but you sort of heard the explanation of what I gave.

00:09:30.000 I mean, 48 hours after that incident, your nephew was literally hit by this bullet.

00:09:34.000 Right.

00:09:35.000 I guess standing next to the gentleman, Corey, that was killed.

00:09:39.000 Yeah.

00:09:41.000 You know, what is it for you as someone?

00:09:43.000 You know, it just these days, all of this stuff seems so far away, right?

00:09:46.000 It's so distant.

00:09:47.000 It's hard to relate even.

00:09:48.000 But I mean, as someone who had a family member that was literally hit by this and 48 hours later, they're talking about a nonsense story about Trump putting kids in cages.

00:09:57.000 They can't even for for even a few minutes get off of the narrative or or try to do the bidding of the Democrat Party.

00:10:05.000 What's that like?

00:10:06.000 I mean, that's got to be.

00:10:07.000 You're right, I think it's, you know, the Trump derangement syndrome, it runs deep, right?

00:10:11.000 It was so bad that, I don't know if you know or not, if you saw this morning, but they couldn't even put Morning Joe on this morning.

00:10:15.000 They had to pull Morning Joe this morning because they were worried that they couldn't control themselves, right?

00:10:20.000 Yeah, but isn't that an admission?

00:10:24.000 Isn't it like that morning joke, we're not going to let him go in the air because we're worried they can't control themselves, that they'd say that this was a great thing or like somebody of the accounts of saying, I can't believe they missed, you know, Jack Black and his band and all these Hollywood leftists.

00:10:38.000 Isn't that an admission? 0.88

00:10:40.000 Almost the perfect response to this clown who sort of went after me. 0.96

00:10:45.000 That it was never Trump's rhetoric or his vitriol or this. 0.99

00:10:49.000 It was the chaos and the vitriol created by a media.

00:10:52.000 Trump has to respond to that. 0.86

00:10:53.000 Someone calls you a traitor, you're there.

00:10:55.000 If someone tries throwing you in jail for 750 years, you got to respond.

00:10:58.000 Well, first of all, you got to remember, though, the last two weeks since the debate, they have been exposed.

00:11:05.000 They've been embarrassed.

00:11:06.000 They're looking for some way to get back, to get back some credibility.

00:11:10.000 They lost it all.

00:11:12.000 And it's just absolutely insane of how the deep state is handling all this.

00:11:15.000 And it's not going to get any better.

00:11:16.000 It's going to be three months of total chaos.

00:11:19.000 And they're not going to make it.

00:11:20.000 They're not going to let it get better.

00:11:22.000 How are you seeing this in Washington, Senator?

00:11:24.000 I mean, are they worried?

00:11:26.000 Obviously, the Senate map comes into play.

00:11:29.000 Are the games still going on where they're trying to replace Joe and figure that out?

00:11:32.000 Or are they kind of stuck with him at this point?

00:11:33.000 Well, they're stuck with him.

00:11:36.000 But here's the deal.

00:11:38.000 He's obviously got something wrong with him.

00:11:40.000 He's older.

00:11:41.000 He's got...

00:11:43.000 Problems financially with all the things going on all over the world.

00:11:47.000 But that's not going to get him.

00:11:48.000 What's going to probably get him out of the race?

00:11:50.000 He can't win.

00:11:51.000 He can't beat your dad.

00:11:53.000 Well, but, you know, I would have said that, right?

00:11:56.000 Everyone's, oh, you won the election on Saturday.

00:11:59.000 I don't concede that even a little bit.

00:12:01.000 Like, you know, at best, this is 50-50.

00:12:03.000 There was a time where the Democrat Party would have maybe the shame to be like, we can only cheat so much.

00:12:12.000 I don't think they care.

00:12:13.000 If they showed up with $450 million balance in a country of 330 million people, they'd be like, oh no, it's totally legit, it's fair.

00:12:21.000 Mr. Speaker?

00:12:22.000 Let me say this to your dad all the time.

00:12:26.000 He has decided to be a mortal threat The entire establishment.

00:12:33.000 That's why you get 51 intelligence officers signing a letter that's totally false.

00:12:38.000 That's why you get the FBI engaged in totally illegal activities.

00:12:43.000 That's why you get the New York Times and the Washington Post winning Pulitzer Prizes for publishing lies.

00:12:47.000 Because they have circled the wagons.

00:12:51.000 And what's happened, of course, as you know, and you've lived through it, it must be horrendous inside the family.

00:12:55.000 I mean, every time they attack him, he gets bigger.

00:12:58.000 And I tell reporters, I did this this afternoon, he's not a candidate.

00:13:03.000 He is the champion of a cause.

00:13:06.000 And if you're the champion of a cause, when you get attacked, the entire cause is attacked.

00:13:11.000 So Saturday, millions of Americans totally identified with him.

00:13:17.000 And I think the left is driving the left crazy, and it worries me that they're going to get crazier as we get to what I think will be a victory.

00:13:28.000 And you're exactly right.

00:13:29.000 Don't slow down.

00:13:30.000 Don't take it for granted.

00:13:32.000 Don't assume anything.

00:13:33.000 You've got to run all the way through to the end.

00:13:35.000 Yeah, no, I think without question.

00:13:38.000 I mean, you know, hopefully, you know, I do see some really positive stuff online.

00:13:41.000 People are like, you know what, I wasn't sure, even some of the never Trump factions, but like, it was like that standing up in the face of that, that resolve, that strength, you know, again, everyone thinks they're a badass until they're actually tested.

00:13:54.000 And, you know, someone did say something funny.

00:13:56.000 They said, you know, if Joe Biden was shot at, he wouldn't even flinch, but it's because he wouldn't realize what was even going on.

00:14:01.000 So it's a little different.

00:14:03.000 You don't get full credit for that.

00:14:04.000 That's not the same.

00:14:06.000 But, you know, hopefully that's an awakening.

00:14:08.000 But I don't think it's going to stop the Democrats from pulling out everything in the playbook.

00:14:12.000 And stuff we can't think of because we don't think as ruthlessly as they do.

00:14:19.000 I mean, it's like having a policeman versus the mafia.

00:14:22.000 I think the other thing, Mr. Speaker, like you said, they'll lie, cheat, steal, and some of them will even potentially kill because they think that the end justifies the means and that somehow that this is such a, this is the duty that they have, that the laws just don't apply anymore, that anything goes.

00:14:37.000 And I think that's the mindset that they're in.

00:14:39.000 And we as Republicans, you know, a party of law and order, we just can't, we can't get our mind around that.

00:14:44.000 We just wouldn't do that, you know?

00:14:45.000 So I think they're different.

00:14:47.000 They're wired different.

00:14:47.000 But the problem they got, they have nothing to go to.

00:14:51.000 They have no policy that works.

00:14:53.000 They broke our country.

00:14:55.000 The border is wide open.

00:14:56.000 They have nothing positive to go to.

00:14:58.000 So what are they going to do?

00:14:59.000 They've got to do everything they possibly can to go.

00:15:02.000 Circle of wagons, but I don't think they can do that.

00:15:04.000 I don't think they've got enough.

00:15:05.000 But it's why they're importing 20 million new voters.

00:15:08.000 Yeah, right.

00:15:08.000 They're giving them social security cards.

00:15:10.000 They're trying to draft legislation that says, well, you know, you're not allowed to vote, but you're not going to get penalized for it.

00:15:15.000 They won't enforce it in the places that they control, which is going to be, you know, the urban areas and cities around the world that, you know, a country that that matter and make sense.

00:15:23.000 So, you know, they're literally trying to supplant the otherwise what would have been reliable voting blocs.

00:15:29.000 for them. And I guess my thing is, will there ever be any accountability for the lies they told us?

00:15:35.000 You know, Joe Biden, he's a moderate. Joe Biden is totally there. Joe Scarborough, I mean, they took him off the air,

00:15:41.000 but a couple weeks ago, this is the greatest Joe Biden we've ever seen. He's, I mean,

00:15:45.000 there has to be a reckoning for this.

00:15:49.000 They're lying to our faces on a daily basis.

00:15:53.000 They'll just keep doing it.

00:15:53.000 Part of the reckoning is ratings.

00:15:55.000 Well, I mean, I'm not worried about MSNBC ratings.

00:16:00.000 They haven't had ratings for a long time, but the aggregate of all of that media still influences.

00:16:06.000 Incorrectly.

00:16:06.000 There are people, unlike us, who are not doing this day in and day out, who weren't watching everything, who weren't catching the lies, and they just assume, if I'm saying it on TV, there's got to be some truth to that.

00:16:17.000 That credibility is waning, but it still exists.

00:16:20.000 One of your father's most brilliant innovations was the term fake news.

00:16:26.000 I was actually in a museum in Turin, Italy.

00:16:29.000 The guy's showing me an Egyptian artifact, and he says, I'm going to tell you this story.

00:16:33.000 Fake news.

00:16:34.000 I'm thinking, this is an Italian tour guide using your father's land.

00:16:37.000 Because it suddenly resonated that that's what you're getting.

00:16:41.000 The CNN the other day.

00:16:43.000 They had to take your dad off because he fell?

00:16:46.000 I mean, how totally did... For those of you who didn't see that, I mean...

00:16:49.000 In what was a flagrant and clear assassination attempt.

00:16:52.000 It wasn't like this headline was put out before.

00:16:54.000 Everyone knew exactly what it was.

00:16:56.000 Secret Service removes Trump because he fell.

00:16:58.000 Because that's the problem.

00:16:59.000 That's their whole thing.

00:17:01.000 It's the equivocation.

00:17:02.000 Everything's the same as that.

00:17:03.000 It's projection.

00:17:04.000 Because Joe Biden would have probably just fallen.

00:17:06.000 And falls on a regular basis.

00:17:08.000 They tried to make it the same.

00:17:10.000 These two are equal.

00:17:11.000 I was like, no, no, no.

00:17:12.000 Trump was shot and he got up in seconds.

00:17:14.000 Defiant.

00:17:16.000 Yelling to fight, to not stop.

00:17:19.000 But to reinforce Tommy's point, I keep telling people, the real threat to America is not Joe Biden's brain.

00:17:27.000 It's Joe Biden's policies.

00:17:30.000 And the policies are destructive at every level.

00:17:33.000 And if Joe Biden disappeared in the morning, Kamala would be worse.

00:17:37.000 Newsom would be worse.

00:17:38.000 And the media would rather focus on Joe Biden's weakness then be honest because it's their policies that are failing.

00:17:46.000 But do you think it's really Joe Biden's policies?

00:17:49.000 I don't think Joe Biden's coming up with these things.

00:17:52.000 I don't think an 80-year-old Catholic guy is, you know, trans surgeries for three-year-olds is the social justice 0.93

00:18:01.000 issue of our time.

00:18:02.000 I just, I don't see that.

00:18:04.000 But I do see that coming from more radical factions of the Democrat Party who seem to use him as a puppet.

00:18:09.000 He didn't even know about half of them, I'm sure.

00:18:11.000 He's not read into most of what happens at the White House.

00:18:13.000 I interviewed Ronnie in 2020 when he was the White House doctor when I was writing My second book, Liberal Privilege, literally about Joe Biden and his brain aneurysms and the very clear decline.

00:18:24.000 So if a guy like me basically had a little extra free time on my hand because everything was locked down in the summer of 2020 that I wrote a book about it and yet the entire media establishment complex is the greatest we've ever seen up till three weeks ago.

00:18:39.000 The mainstream media has been paid to lie for the past three years, four years, five

00:18:45.000 years.

00:18:46.000 They've been paid.

00:18:47.000 They've been caught.

00:18:48.000 They have been caught and they have got to get their stuff out of this jam.

00:18:51.000 The only guy that can save this mainstream media is Donald Trump.

00:18:55.000 He puts them ratings, puts their ratings way up and he's the only one that can save them

00:19:01.000 unfortunately.

00:19:02.000 But.

00:19:03.000 I'll say also coach, one of the things you reminded me of that I wanted to say was, look

00:19:06.000 I think that you're absolutely right Don.

00:19:07.000 We can't take anything for granted.

00:19:08.000 We've got to drive this car like we stole it.

00:19:10.000 We've got to, you know, we've got to get every vote out we possibly can.

00:19:13.000 But two things happened recently, I think.

00:19:15.000 You mentioned that, like, most people don't follow politics on a day-to-day basis like we do.

00:19:18.000 but tons of people, like an overwhelming number of people watched the debate, and an overwhelming number of people

00:19:24.000 watched the assassination attempt, whether they watched it when it's happening

00:19:27.000 or they watched it afterwards.

00:19:28.000 And those people that really weren't tracking the politics, they saw two things.

00:19:32.000 They saw the miserable cognitive disaster that Joe Biden actually is,

00:19:37.000 and the unbelievable inability for him Yeah. 0.97

00:19:41.000 They can't lie about it.

00:19:41.000 lead this country. Simultaneously, they saw your dad stand up with blood all

00:19:46.000 over his face, thrust his fist into the air, right? The warrior spirit just came

00:19:51.000 out, right? I mean, and they saw it, they said, this is a leader, this is a warrior.

00:19:55.000 And the contrast between those two episodes that so many people saw could

00:19:59.000 not be different. And they can't lie about it. Yeah. Yeah.

00:20:04.000 They can't lie about it. It's there.

00:20:04.000 Which is gonna be more of a entertaining debate.

00:20:10.000 Because I don't think they put Joe Biden back on the stage with my father again.

00:20:13.000 I think that's probably over.

00:20:15.000 Do you think that will be more entertaining than the vice presidential debate?

00:20:21.000 No, I think he goes back in the basement.

00:20:23.000 Do they let Kamala Harris debate, J.D.? 0.99

00:20:28.000 Oh, my God.

00:20:29.000 Well, I think her ego is big enough that she'd want to because she has a good laugh. 1.00

00:20:37.000 If you're a hyena, it's a wonderful laugh. 1.00

00:20:39.000 It's like a great hyena mating call.

00:20:41.000 It's wonderful.

00:20:42.000 One reason I like J.D., James David Vance, is when he first got to the Senate.

00:20:49.000 I mean, he's new.

00:20:50.000 I know if you're a rookie, you don't say a whole lot.

00:20:52.000 The reclaimed debate was going on.

00:20:55.000 And he stood up for ten minutes in front of all of us.

00:20:59.000 In front of the higher-ups, the people who have been there forever, and give the best explanation of why.

00:21:07.000 We should be really careful what we're doing, you know, with Ukraine and Russia.

00:21:12.000 It was unbelievable.

00:21:13.000 I'm saying, heck, this guy just got here.

00:21:15.000 He wrote a book about being poor and growing up poor, and all of a sudden, I mean, this guy is articulate.

00:21:22.000 He can communicate, and that's the reason, and I think he's going to be a great addition to President Trump, is his communication skills with any level.

00:21:31.000 What are your thoughts on the VP pick?

00:21:34.000 I think it's a real risk.

00:21:39.000 Because he's brand new.

00:21:40.000 He's been in two years.

00:21:42.000 There's enough stuff in his background that they're going to have to fight over it.

00:21:46.000 On the other hand, knowing your dad, he is probably exactly what Donald Trump wants.

00:21:52.000 He's smart.

00:21:54.000 He's aggressive.

00:21:55.000 He's fearless.

00:21:56.000 His background is unique because he comes out of poverty, graduates in two years, summa cum laude at Ohio, goes to Yale, becomes editor of the Yale Review.

00:22:07.000 Goes to California, makes a lot of money, comes back, writes his book, it becomes a movie, and he's now 39.

00:22:13.000 Yeah.

00:22:14.000 I mean, this is a guy who's rolling.

00:22:16.000 So, as soon as he was named, I sent out a tweet saying all the key things about him, and then saying, frankly, I'm really looking forward to the debate.

00:22:28.000 The contrast, just in sheer talent, between J.D.

00:22:32.000 and Kamala is going to be fabulous.

00:22:35.000 Yeah, I know.

00:22:36.000 I've been talking about this for a while.

00:22:37.000 He's become a pretty good friend of mine over the last few years.

00:22:39.000 I've been pushing it hard with my people.

00:22:41.000 He's too young.

00:22:42.000 My father said that to me once.

00:22:43.000 I go, yeah, you built Trump Tower at 37.

00:22:45.000 I don't know.

00:22:49.000 It doesn't sort of matter.

00:22:50.000 And what I really loved about sort of beyond the story, I read Hillbilly Algae when it first came out.

00:22:56.000 I thought it was incredible.

00:22:57.000 But what was sort of great when you juxtapose it sort of to so many of the Democrats today, he joins the Marine Corps out of high school.

00:23:04.000 Right?

00:23:04.000 It wasn't like some of these guys, they go to their graduate school and they're, I'm gonna go do my obligatory military service so that I can check a couple boxes and run for politics.

00:23:11.000 He did it first.

00:23:13.000 Uh, which just to me feels so different.

00:23:15.000 Yep.

00:23:16.000 Right?

00:23:16.000 You see that, you see a lot of people just sort of, you know, harping on just the, the service component of it, but they did it after all these, you know, schools and it's like you just, Yeah, you're literally doing it just because you want to be a politician that checks another box for you.

00:23:29.000 And I thought coming out of high school was a really interesting thing.

00:23:32.000 Ronnie, obviously, admiral, you have children in the military, everything like that.

00:23:37.000 You think there's a difference.

00:23:38.000 Again, as someone who didn't serve, I don't want to be inappropriate with it, but I do see it as different.

00:23:43.000 No, absolutely.

00:23:43.000 I mean, that's the blue-collar part of the military, right?

00:23:45.000 And there's a lot of respect people.

00:23:47.000 There are officers that serve in the military that were enlisted prior, and they always have a certain level of respect that you just can't get if you just came in as an officer, right?

00:23:53.000 I mean, they've been there, done that.

00:23:55.000 They've done the hard work, and I think you're absolutely right, Don.

00:23:58.000 Yeah.

00:23:59.000 So, you know, after the events of this weekend, everything, you know, obviously there's... I know my father, I was kind of... On Friday, I was with him for three hours going through his speech and everything like that, and it feels like...

00:24:12.000 Everyone's pulling back the reins.

00:24:13.000 Not that speech.

00:24:15.000 I think we're probably not going with that speech.

00:24:17.000 Is that the right move?

00:24:19.000 Will the other side pull back even a little bit?

00:24:21.000 Again, based on what I just witnessed from MSDNC on the floor, the media rhetoric is certainly still doing the bidding of the Democrat Party, so is that the right call or does it not even matter because we've carved out those institutions and we're just going right to the people?

00:24:36.000 I think the more tone-deaf they are, The more they stick to the old script, the more they're going to alienate the American people.

00:24:44.000 I think, look, he's not going to be soft.

00:24:48.000 He doesn't need to be soft.

00:24:49.000 It ain't going to happen.

00:24:52.000 But I think he, I don't know how to say this quite right, he entered history Saturday.

00:25:01.000 He's like de Gaulle or Eisenhower or Churchill.

00:25:04.000 He's suddenly in a different world.

00:25:06.000 And the question is, can he grow into the person he became?

00:25:09.000 Because this is really a remarkable moment.

00:25:12.000 And so you have a whole country saying, gosh, maybe I underestimated him.

00:25:18.000 Maybe he is the guy who can solve these things.

00:25:21.000 And he's got to somehow find a way to still be tough, still be clear about what he believes in, but be a little more open for everybody else.

00:25:29.000 I bet you there are half as many Never Trumpers today as there were Saturday morning.

00:25:34.000 Yeah, again, you know, who knows what it is, if it's people just trying to go viral on TikTok or something like that.

00:25:39.000 But I've seen some incredible sort of well-reasoned arguments out there.

00:25:43.000 It was like, you know what?

00:25:44.000 I was basically a never-Trumper.

00:25:45.000 I fought against them.

00:25:46.000 Both Republicans who were never-Trumpers and Democrats that were never like, wait a second, that's the guy we need, you know, actually running the show.

00:25:56.000 What do you guys see happening for the rest of this week?

00:26:00.000 What do you want coming out of this convention that maybe wouldn't have been more conventional?

00:26:05.000 First of all, your dad called me this morning about 7 o'clock to talk about some of my senator colleagues.

00:26:11.000 But you know what was amazing?

00:26:12.000 People don't realize how compassionate your dad is.

00:26:15.000 And he wanted to talk about the fireman that got killed, took a bullet that probably Should have hit him had he not turned.

00:26:24.000 He knows that.

00:26:25.000 And that's how close things come, but talk about that so people understand that.

00:26:31.000 But the one thing I want to say about your dad is, you know, we know that we're in a fight for our life, okay?

00:26:38.000 We don't have another country to go to.

00:26:40.000 We're the best country.

00:26:42.000 This group's trying to ruin it.

00:26:44.000 I want him to do whatever he thinks he needs to do to win.

00:26:47.000 We have to win.

00:26:48.000 There's no choice but to win this.

00:26:50.000 Because we can't pack up and say, OK, we're going to go somewhere else and live.

00:26:54.000 No, there's nowhere else to go.

00:26:56.000 This is the best place and we've got to save it.

00:26:57.000 And he can do that.

00:26:59.000 But to be compassionate and do things a little bit different.

00:27:02.000 He sounded different on the phone this morning.

00:27:03.000 I played a lot of golf with him.

00:27:05.000 Not that he was He was energetic, and I think he's still thinking about that quite a bit, and I would be.

00:27:11.000 I would be thinking about this weekend.

00:27:14.000 He sort of, you know, I called him.

00:27:16.000 It took a while, right?

00:27:17.000 I get this call.

00:27:18.000 I was out with my kids.

00:27:19.000 I was actually, Saturday evening, I was out fishing with my kids, just being a dad, and I, you know, I get a call, your dad's been shot.

00:27:26.000 It's like, and?

00:27:29.000 We don't know anything else. I'm like, wait a minute. That's not a, you know, I'm like,

00:27:34.000 I guess they pulled him back and, you know, they put him in lockdown and they shut off

00:27:39.000 all the cell phones. I guess they're not sure if there's multiple aggressors or IED attacks

00:27:43.000 or whatever. So there was literally like no way to actually get, you know, so I'm just getting

00:27:46.000 voicemail, voicemail, voicemail. So, you know, got my kids secured.

00:27:51.000 It wasn't for like an hour and a half till I actually spoke to him.

00:27:54.000 Uh, you know, but I, but I saw, I saw then the pictures and, you know, as the, as the news said, you know, you sit down and sort of the adrenaline dump of just like, it was really.

00:28:05.000 It was crazy.

00:28:05.000 And, uh, you know, just speaking to him, I just said, hey, man, you're the biggest badass I know.

00:28:11.000 And, you know, from then on, he had a great personality about it.

00:28:13.000 The next morning, he's calling about other things and, you know, right back to work.

00:28:17.000 Yeah.

00:28:17.000 And that's amazing.

00:28:19.000 But Klaus and I made two movies, one about Pope John Paul II and one about Ronald Reagan.

00:28:24.000 They get together.

00:28:25.000 They both been shot.

00:28:27.000 And they compare notes on why did God spare them.

00:28:31.000 In your father's head, he's thinking that.

00:28:34.000 Yeah.

00:28:35.000 What's my mission?

00:28:37.000 Why did God move the bullet, you know?

00:28:40.000 Yeah.

00:28:40.000 Half an inch, we're having a very different conversation.

00:28:42.000 That's right.

00:28:43.000 Or no conversation at all, frankly.

00:28:44.000 That's right.

00:28:44.000 We wouldn't be here today.

00:28:46.000 We wouldn't be here today, so.

00:28:47.000 The country would be in a rage.

00:28:48.000 Mm-hmm.

00:28:49.000 Well, and I, you know, again, I think that's right.

00:28:52.000 I mean, it wasn't that it just saved his life.

00:28:54.000 I think it saved... There's a lot of, there'd be a lot of really... We got right to the brink of really having chaos.

00:29:03.000 And God saved us, right?

00:29:05.000 Well, I thank God that we averted all of that.

00:29:08.000 And I just, again, please give our best to your nephew.

00:29:12.000 I'm sure my dad's calling away.

00:29:14.000 But and your family, Ronnie.

00:29:16.000 And thank you all for everything that you guys do.

00:29:19.000 Senator, great seeing you again.

00:29:21.000 Who would you like from the state of Ohio?

00:29:24.000 Obviously, you've got Bernie Moreno running.

00:29:26.000 So I'd love to see him win that.

00:29:27.000 But who do you want filling the shoes of J.D. Bannon?

00:29:29.000 Vance?

00:29:29.000 I know you guys are sort of politically very similar, and you're both fighters in the Senate, and unfortunately, I don't think we have too many fighters in the Senate.

00:29:36.000 There's not a lot of great options.

00:29:37.000 You are one of them, J.D.

00:29:38.000 is one of them, but we lost one of... He's gonna be hard to replace.

00:29:41.000 We lost one of three or four.

00:29:42.000 I think we need him in the bigger ticket.

00:29:44.000 I love the youth and the vigor for sort of the...

00:29:47.000 The ongoing component of, let's call it the America First movement, how we separate that from perhaps sort of the more neocons, you know, in D.C.

00:29:56.000 So I think that's important, but what do you think?

00:29:58.000 I think you ought to advertise the universal fighting.

00:30:01.000 You said you'd like somebody who really gets up in the morning, wants to go fight.

00:30:04.000 Would you like to run for the Senate?

00:30:07.000 You almost don't have a choice, right?

00:30:08.000 It's not easy.

00:30:09.000 You see what they do to you.

00:30:11.000 Listen, you're the perfect example, Ronnie, what they tried to do when you were gonna take over an agency and you were an admiral and you served under Obama and you served under Trump and the second you said, You know, Trump's pretty healthy.

00:30:23.000 He probably eats a couple too many cheeseburgers, but he's actually healthy. 0.66

00:30:26.000 Oh my God, you're in the devil! 0.99

00:30:27.000 He's made up every lie about you. 0.97

00:30:29.000 So yeah, no, it's, uh, we're going to need a fighter.

00:30:31.000 So I hope, I hope they don't, you know, go with the usual form.

00:30:35.000 I hope we can find someone else.

00:30:36.000 I think he's a real good choice.

00:30:38.000 We got to take that and go on.

00:30:40.000 We'll handle the Senate.

00:30:42.000 Yeah.

00:30:42.000 We're going to win the Senate.

00:30:43.000 I think we're going to get lucky and even win more than what people think.

00:30:46.000 And then running him, I think they, the house.

00:30:49.000 Yeah.

00:30:50.000 You know, we're already making plans for reconciliation, all the things that we can possibly do the first couple of months to change this country back to winning ways.

00:30:59.000 Let's get it done, guys.

00:31:00.000 Thank you so much.

00:31:01.000 Thank you.

00:31:03.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:31:04.000 Thank you, Congressman.

00:31:05.000 Great seeing you guys.

00:31:06.000 Hey guys, with that, we're going to have Alina Haba coming up. 0.93

00:31:09.000 By the way, Alina, the Senator was really upset that I was doing the interview and not you, so, you know.

00:31:15.000 By the way, listen, I'm not gonna be the only one that takes crap for this.

00:31:18.000 Last week, I commented, she cut her foot, and I commented on the Instagram about, you know, it's probably going big on adult foot fetish websites, and like, people are like, no, Junior's flirting! 0.93

00:31:27.000 I'm like, I'm literally doing it, it's like, on Instagram. 0.93

00:31:30.000 This wasn't like, DMs, like, I'm just, I'm breaking balls, because that's what I do.

00:31:34.000 It's like, this is a genetic thing. 0.90

00:31:36.000 You cannot turn off the ball-breaking genes, and I'm getting crapped on by some leftist brag, so nothing's gonna change.

00:31:41.000 No, it's not gonna change.

00:31:42.000 Nothing's gonna change.

00:31:43.000 Guys, thank you so much.

00:31:44.000 Thank you.

00:31:45.000 Really appreciate it.

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00:32:56.000 And with that, legal extraordinaire... Where do you want it?

00:33:05.000 Well, you know, it depends on, you know, it depends on the day.

00:33:07.000 Yeah, we could rip it that way.

00:33:11.000 Work a mic.

00:33:14.000 So what's hot?

00:33:14.000 We actually haven't spoken.

00:33:16.000 No.

00:33:17.000 I have to say, I did like five shows today and I'm very excited to do this one.

00:33:21.000 And by the way, I just looked on, you are number one right now in the nation on streaming for podcasts.

00:33:27.000 I just want you to know that you're just right.

00:33:30.000 A lot's happened in the last 48 hours.

00:33:32.000 A lot has happened.

00:33:33.000 You know, thank God it worked out a little bit better, but Listen, Alina, you've been in there.

00:33:38.000 You've been in there as a lawyer for us.

00:33:40.000 You've been out there as a spokesperson for us.

00:33:42.000 Sort of the combination of the grit behind the technical aspects of law, but then also trying to message that to the public.

00:33:50.000 You've been the recipient of the hostilities.

00:33:54.000 What do you see?

00:33:56.000 I think it's a very sad world.

00:33:58.000 I think we're in a very big crisis.

00:34:00.000 I think, unfortunately, I believe in God, so for me, this was a blessing in disguise what happened.

00:34:06.000 I think the fact is, the fact that your mom passed on that day, and the day after, I think that is... Through your anniversary.

00:34:13.000 And people don't realize it, and I'm a really big believer that there is a plan.

00:34:18.000 So I think that Everything comes with a price, and thank God your father's life was not one of those things.

00:34:24.000 He is a dear friend of mine, as you know, as you all are.

00:34:27.000 And it was really unfortunate, but I think we kind of needed him.

00:34:30.000 And most of the time, I kind of like him, too.

00:34:31.000 I mean, not always.

00:34:32.000 I mean, sometimes, yeah.

00:34:33.000 Not always.

00:34:34.000 I mean, there are times where I'm like, listen.

00:34:36.000 Sometimes.

00:34:37.000 No, look, he is spectacular, and he's tough, but he's amazing.

00:34:41.000 And there is nobody, not me, not you, and you know you have your whole shooting and your fishing, but there is nobody that would get shot in the ear, get up, and your instinct is to tell the Secret Service, hold on and raise your fist and go fight.

00:34:59.000 But that's his core.

00:35:00.000 I mean, in those moments, I think that's his core.

00:35:03.000 What do I think?

00:35:04.000 I think we've had a really hell of a ride for the last three years I've been with you guys, and it's been something else.

00:35:10.000 I couldn't have imagined it, but I couldn't be more grateful.

00:35:12.000 It's really been tremendous.

00:35:14.000 No, he's built different.

00:35:15.000 That conversation, I guess we'll get to it here, because the conversation I had with him the first time I was able to speak to him afterwards took 90 minutes, so I don't know.

00:35:26.000 Kim called me and was like, your dad's been shot.

00:35:28.000 I'm like, what?

00:35:31.000 Actually shot?

00:35:32.000 and then you know you start reading and you're reading speculation and this I don't know for 90 minutes I've no I can't get a hold of anyone on the detail I guess just full lockdown uh you know I was with you know my daughter and some of her friends and uh just that unknown uh and strangely enough I was actually calm during that it was after I spoke to him like oh he's okay but then you start reading and you see the video and the adrenaline dump it was just like yeah I was up to like four o'clock in the morning I was just You know, mind blown.

00:35:59.000 It was crazy.

00:36:00.000 But in the conversation I had with him afterwards, literally the first thing I said to him was like, you're the biggest badass I know.

00:36:05.000 And he's laughing about that.

00:36:07.000 He goes, so, are you upset that I'm the first person to get shot at?

00:36:11.000 I'm like, are you?

00:36:14.000 I'm like, hey, just because I love shooting doesn't mean I want to get shot.

00:36:18.000 It's not the same, dad.

00:36:19.000 It's not the same.

00:36:20.000 I mean, we're literally like, and it was funny.

00:36:22.000 And I think he, you know, It was a very somber moment as well.

00:36:27.000 We're joking about, but I think it was like a little bit of like, that's how we, we're ball breakers, right?

00:36:31.000 Like it was a little bit of that, as you know.

00:36:33.000 Yes, exactly.

00:36:33.000 I mean, it was a little bit of that stress relief, right?

00:36:35.000 He's, he's, he's doing that.

00:36:37.000 I'm like, so listen, you know, you're just going to let the ear stay that way.

00:36:40.000 It's like, you can be a good company with like Evander Holyfield, like a good friend of ours.

00:36:43.000 And like, I mean, you could just leave.

00:36:45.000 And, you know, it was interesting, I think, you know, with all the people that are around him and staff and team, like, it was that moment of levity.

00:36:52.000 I think it was me, Eric, Laura, Kim on the phone, my daughter Kai right there, my ex-wife Vanessa, it was like modern family, crazy, just all, you know, together on speakerphone.

00:37:03.000 And, man, it was a...

00:37:05.000 You were the first person I spoke to.

00:37:07.000 I think so, right?

00:37:08.000 Yeah, I was trying to reach him and I was panicked and obviously I was trying to reach secrets.

00:37:12.000 I didn't know what to do.

00:37:13.000 Listen, Habba's pretty tough on TV.

00:37:15.000 She's pretty tough in the courtroom.

00:37:18.000 There was a little emotion.

00:37:20.000 It's okay.

00:37:20.000 I will tell you the truth.

00:37:21.000 I haven't told anybody this.

00:37:22.000 This is true story just for Don Jr.' 's Triggered show.

00:37:27.000 I actually, the first time I saw him, and it's funny because my bravado,

00:37:33.000 my courtroom outside the courtroom screaming that these are witch hunts, which I truly believe and say, 1.00

00:37:40.000 as you know, as your family knows, I am a softy.

00:37:42.000 And at the end of the day, I was so stressed out to see him

00:37:47.000 because I knew that as tough as I can be, that was gonna be a tough moment.

00:37:53.000 And I kept it together on the plane.

00:37:54.000 I flew with him here and I got up and turned around and saw him and he looked up and I caught his eye

00:38:03.000 and he was speaking and there was a ton of people around him

00:38:06.000 and I just started bawling. 0.99

00:38:08.000 And I said, damn it! 0.99

00:38:10.000 I was so angry. 0.99

00:38:10.000 I was like, that's not who I'm supposed to be. 0.99

00:38:12.000 But the truth is your father said, come here.

00:38:16.000 And he shook my hand.

00:38:16.000 He said, we're going to be okay.

00:38:19.000 And that's your dad, you know, he understands his biggest fighters, his biggest voices were human beings.

00:38:24.000 And I think the American people really needed to hear that and see that.

00:38:28.000 I think that they think we're all these A cult-loving, somehow twisted people that don't see straight.

00:38:36.000 I am a mom, and this is my friend.

00:38:39.000 And it's your father.

00:38:41.000 And at the end of the day, client, president, all those other things, he's a human being.

00:38:46.000 And I think that when people hear the stories that you were one of the first, you were the first person I spoke to in the family within minutes and just panic.

00:38:54.000 And I didn't have anything to offer, for example.

00:38:56.000 You didn't have, but I said, thank you for answering me.

00:38:58.000 I mean, you're just panicked.

00:38:59.000 And none of us knew what was going on, what to do.

00:39:02.000 We're watching it.

00:39:03.000 I'm trying to analyze pictures, whether the bullet, you know, just grazed his ear.

00:39:07.000 Did it go in?

00:39:08.000 And the people on TV are panicking, the nation, saying, you know, it could have gone in and he lost him.

00:39:13.000 Well, that was the harder part, right?

00:39:14.000 It was the speculation.

00:39:14.000 It was hard, yeah.

00:39:15.000 It's like, you know, you see someone saying he was assassinated.

00:39:17.000 You see someone saying it was a miss.

00:39:18.000 You see someone who was trapped.

00:39:20.000 Then you see the media trying to minimize it.

00:39:22.000 No, no.

00:39:23.000 You know, it was a piece of ricochet off the- I'm like, they shot at the president!

00:39:27.000 A sniper was able to get in, but like, likely this guy can't shoot, but like,

00:39:31.000 he was able to get within 150 yards, like, then the conspiracies start going.

00:39:35.000 I don't want to be the guy pushing that, but I'd also like- Don, the most aggravating thing-

00:39:39.000 But it is almost impossible to believe, given what I've seen.

00:39:43.000 I mean, we were at Doral, uh, you know, last week, and you'd see snipers on the rooftop from miles away.

00:39:47.000 I'm like, a guy got on a rooftop?

00:39:49.000 Like, while people are, like, that guy, the BBC interview of the guy being like, no, we were talking for five minutes, and now he's starting to see, like, the cell phone cameras.

00:39:57.000 They're literally, there's a guy on a roof with a gun!

00:39:59.000 There's a guy, it's like five minutes.

00:40:01.000 What happened?

00:40:03.000 What happened? 0.90

00:40:03.000 I'm not gonna be the guy to lead the charge in these things, but, man, as a son, as someone who's Fuckin' pissed off that it could ever get there. 0.90

00:40:12.000 Wait, are we allowed to curse on here? 0.99

00:40:13.000 Oh, you can say whatever the fuck you want. 0.99

00:40:14.000 Oh, I love that. 1.00

00:40:15.000 I love that for us!

00:40:17.000 Generally, I try to keep it a little kid-friendly.

00:40:19.000 I figure I get a little leeway this week.

00:40:21.000 It's okay, especially with Hava.

00:40:22.000 You get a little... With Hava?

00:40:24.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:25.000 Hava, you can have at it.

00:40:26.000 Yeah, no. 1.00

00:40:27.000 Basically, that was my what-the-fuck moment. 1.00

00:40:29.000 What the fuck. 0.99

00:40:30.000 I was watching it, and it was hard for me, because I'm friends, obviously, and I'm friends with the Secret Service, the detail, and so are you, that take care of him. 0.99

00:40:38.000 And there's, like, you see Sean, the guy in the sunglasses right there, like, Sean's a badass, he's a patriot, he's a great guy.

00:40:43.000 I mean, you see, like, the pictures of the sunglasses, like, literally, like, something hit his glasses, like, in the ricochet off of it, like...

00:40:52.000 They're broken.

00:40:53.000 Yeah.

00:40:54.000 You can see that.

00:40:54.000 And I want to be clear about that.

00:40:56.000 That guy's the greatest.

00:40:57.000 But listen, the way it works with these details is you have the guys that are your guys, and then there's other people that they supplement in.

00:41:02.000 There's people that you've maybe never even seen.

00:41:04.000 And, you know, again, but like the people that are with him on a day to day basis are great.

00:41:09.000 And I feel badly because I saw after that and, you know, the picture of the females in the front, Kate, who we know, obviously, and She was down there, and she had the blonde bun for those listening that don't know who they are.

00:41:23.000 But these are people we're with every day, and they're great people.

00:41:26.000 Yeah, she was in the stairs going up to his office on Friday when I went to go work on his speech with him.

00:41:31.000 Right.

00:41:31.000 I was in his office.

00:41:32.000 We're talking about the vice presidential peg.

00:41:34.000 We're talking about the speech and going through it.

00:41:37.000 I mean, she was literally standing in the stairwell the day before.

00:41:39.000 I didn't even know her before that.

00:41:40.000 But I was like, oh, wow, that's the woman. 0.99

00:41:42.000 Right.

00:41:42.000 So I got very real.

00:41:43.000 That was the blog.

00:41:44.000 That definitely got real, but I didn't like how the media, I will say, they did a haba on them, and the females in particular. 1.00

00:41:51.000 And I've seen it before, and I remember my first hit piece, I was just traumatized, and I was like, these people don't deserve it.

00:41:56.000 Now, do I think that something went wrong?

00:41:58.000 Yes, I do.

00:41:59.000 I don't see how this could have happened.

00:42:01.000 However, our team, the team that's with us all the time, the DTD team, I'm so proud of them, and they did everything right there.

00:42:09.000 And they're the best, and they really love everybody.

00:42:12.000 They protect all of us.

00:42:13.000 They don't need to protect us, but they protect all of us.

00:42:15.000 But, um, yeah.

00:42:16.000 Now, I will say, there was a difference between the blonde that you're talking about, who was there.

00:42:19.000 I mean, she's covering up.

00:42:20.000 And the woman who can't holster her and is seen cowering at the gunshots.

00:42:23.000 What was that?

00:42:24.000 I'm looking at Sean Curran who's like jumping on my dad and looks like a badass like getting him you know getting him down and this person's like What's happening?

00:42:34.000 I think I would have been better with a gun.

00:42:36.000 I mean, my gun lessons are not- I don't know if this is, you know, DEI programming.

00:42:40.000 It seems like the head of the Secret Service seems like one of these woke, you know, came from Pepsi.

00:42:45.000 I'm sure she's very- Yeah, what was that?

00:42:47.000 Yeah.

00:42:47.000 Who the hell knows?

00:42:48.000 You know, and again, I'm not going to be that guy.

00:42:50.000 There'll be plenty of other people that are doing it, but like, man, you see some of that video.

00:42:54.000 That was concerning.

00:42:54.000 You see the timing, you see the people screaming and, you know, and again, they're coordinating with a lot of guys.

00:42:58.000 So just, just cause, A guy like a Sean who's a just badass patriot.

00:43:04.000 That doesn't mean he may even know some of the other people that are involved in other things.

00:43:07.000 There may not even be incomes with the sniper units or whatever it may be.

00:43:11.000 But I think there does have to be sort of a reckoning there.

00:43:15.000 There has to be hearings.

00:43:17.000 The hearing can't be by the FBI, the same FBI that would put any one of those people in the gulags that were in attendance.

00:43:24.000 No, no, the story won't be.

00:43:25.000 It was bad.

00:43:25.000 The FBI, if you bought a Bible, they want your information or they're, you know, they think you're, you know, the greatest threat to democracy.

00:43:31.000 You know, it can't be by the FBI.

00:43:34.000 I think Lance Gooden, Congressman Lance Gooden, great guy.

00:43:38.000 he put out a thing to do a proper committee investigation into this that isn't going to

00:43:45.000 be by a hyper-politicized, hyper-partisan group like the FBI.

00:43:51.000 And I want the records.

00:43:52.000 I don't want to see what they did with January 6th.

00:43:53.000 All of a sudden the records are all over.

00:43:55.000 I don't ever want to hear a single comment about January 6th again.

00:44:02.000 After J13, July 13th, I don't want to hear it.

00:44:07.000 Wait, Don, didn't you understand it's our fault that it happened?

00:44:09.000 It's always our fault.

00:44:10.000 Trump asked for this.

00:44:11.000 That was George Stephanopoulos.

00:44:12.000 Trump, they've been asking for this.

00:44:15.000 It's like, I don't know, guys. 0.98

00:44:16.000 We respond to the crap that they've put out there, whether they called us traitors, whether they called us Hitler, whether they called us Stalin, whether they dehumanized us for eight years. 0.90

00:44:25.000 did 50 hours of testimony for treason, a crime punishable by death, but Hunter Biden is left 0.99

00:44:30.000 alone because he's a child. He's 50. He's six years older than me, but he's a child.

00:44:36.000 Whatever he is, 52. It's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. And that sort of hyper-partisan 0.99

00:44:41.000 crap has to stop. I think if you let it go to the FBI, even if they come to the right 0.98

00:44:47.000 answer, the vast majority of Americans wouldn't even believe it.

00:44:51.000 They wouldn't believe whatever they... Even if they get to the right... And maybe this guy magically has no social media record.

00:44:57.000 He's never spoken to anyone before.

00:44:58.000 Never expressed a feeling before.

00:45:00.000 He donated it to the ANC, but he registered as a Republican, so they can say he's a Republican.

00:45:06.000 I don't know, guys.

00:45:07.000 I've been in this game now for eight, nine years.

00:45:11.000 I've seen everything they can possibly throw at me.

00:45:15.000 I don't believe in that level of coincidence or convenience anymore.

00:45:18.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:45:20.000 No, but if you look at the reactions, I think it's so disturbing.

00:45:23.000 It tells you how screwed up our country is right now.

00:45:25.000 The fact that people are literally saying, I mean, what a disgrace. 0.99

00:45:31.000 Shame on you.

00:45:32.000 Big account.

00:45:32.000 And if it was us doing it, those people would be flagged and blacklisted by the FBI.

00:45:36.000 I'd be in jail.

00:45:38.000 They'd be getting, you know, a door knock from, you know, a Secret Service, FBI, someone, you know, in that. 0.93

00:45:44.000 And for them, it's like, oh, I mean, but no, he's the greatest threat to democracy ever, according to some lunatic who doesn't understand, you know.

00:45:52.000 They're counter to the threat for the democracy, and you've been a part of these cases.

00:45:56.000 Well, we'll try to sue him into oblivion.

00:45:58.000 We'll try to bankrupt him.

00:46:00.000 We'll try to take away his businesses.

00:46:02.000 If that doesn't work... Oh, and take away the women vote. 1.00

00:46:04.000 Don't forget that one, too.

00:46:04.000 Yeah, we'll take away the women vote with accusations they have to change a statute of limitations for someone who was a huge fan of The Apprentice that magically said 30 years ago he did something totally believable.

00:46:13.000 Who's being me?

00:46:13.000 Literally, he has made me who I am today.

00:46:18.000 This man that they want to make anti-female, anti-everything.

00:46:21.000 I am a Middle Eastern woman, and I'm going to speak about this on Thursday, but I'm a Middle Eastern woman.

00:46:27.000 And he gave me a platform and this narrative that they want from him. 0.96

00:46:32.000 He's a fraudster. 1.00

00:46:34.000 He is a criminal. 1.00

00:46:35.000 He is, I mean, more than Al Capone. 0.92

00:46:37.000 I mean, what are we doing as a country?

00:46:39.000 Just so we're clear, guys, my father has more charges by about 30.

00:46:42.000 30 and change than Al Capone did. Just so we're clear. And that's just New York. Wait, let's not forget the 90s.

00:46:49.000 That's before you get to the other. By the way, talk about that. You saw Judge Cannon today throw out the documents

00:46:55.000 case, right?

00:46:55.000 This is the one where my father took his documents that he's totally able to declassify, brought them to Mar-a-Lago,

00:47:03.000 had them locked up in a safe room under guard of the United States Secret Service.

00:47:09.000 The FBI breaks in, takes pictures, puts them on the front page of the Washington Post, so they were either... And moved them around.

00:47:14.000 And moved them around, changed it, probably inserted other stuff in there.

00:47:18.000 That was finally... Can you get into the details of that?

00:47:20.000 Because, like, honestly, like, between J.D.

00:47:21.000 and, like, the news... Yeah, there is some really good news.

00:47:24.000 Some crazy news.

00:47:25.000 We've had good news.

00:47:26.000 We've had good news.

00:47:27.000 Can't stop winning.

00:47:28.000 No, we honestly can't.

00:47:29.000 And I told the American people every time I'm on TV, be patient.

00:47:34.000 What happened today was epic.

00:47:35.000 So we had a case, which let's not forget, Biden had documents.

00:47:39.000 Biden had documents in a home with his son, who is a known drug addict.

00:47:44.000 With no connections to China and all sorts of funds and money.

00:47:46.000 To China, right, and the big man and all that. 0.67

00:47:48.000 And these were in a garage.

00:47:49.000 He had access to them.

00:47:51.000 They peacefully and patriotically, sorry to use your dad's words,

00:47:55.000 walk on into Biden's home, take the documents.

00:47:57.000 And then President Trump, who frankly did the same thing, This is the false left radical narrative.

00:48:03.000 He did the same thing.

00:48:04.000 I was part of the team.

00:48:05.000 He cooperated.

00:48:06.000 He was the president.

00:48:07.000 He actually had the ability to declassify.

00:48:09.000 Yeah, but more importantly, he was cooperating as well.

00:48:11.000 NARA, which is effectively the Washington librarian, contacts him.

00:48:16.000 They cooperate.

00:48:17.000 They say, come on in.

00:48:19.000 They want another lock.

00:48:19.000 He puts another lock.

00:48:21.000 Boom! 0.99

00:48:21.000 Raid. 0.99

00:48:22.000 Here is the beginning of the demise of our legal system.

00:48:25.000 And what happened today was important.

00:48:27.000 It's something we've been saying.

00:48:28.000 There is something in this country called a Constitution.

00:48:31.000 There is something called the Appointments Clause.

00:48:33.000 And this guy, Jack Smith, has had no business.

00:48:37.000 No business.

00:48:38.000 It's no different than your dad appointing you and just saying, hey, Don, go after Hillary Clinton because I said so.

00:48:45.000 He had no business.

00:48:46.000 He was not voted.

00:48:46.000 He was not Another great guy that they're trying to just destroy.

00:48:50.000 he was sent out as a henchman for Merrick Garland.

00:48:53.000 And today, we had a great decision in Florida with Judge Cannon, and she did throw out the case

00:48:59.000 for the president, for Walt Nauda also, and said, this is another great American.

00:49:04.000 Another great guy that they're trying to just destroy.

00:49:06.000 A veteran, a...

00:49:07.000 The best American in the world that I know, outside of your father, outside of some of us,

00:49:11.000 that really, he is a fighter, but he's a quiet fighter.

00:49:13.000 And that's the point.

00:49:15.000 They are attacking everyone, and they're failing.

00:49:17.000 Yeah, they go after a guy like Walt because he may not have the platform.

00:49:21.000 He may not have the desire to go on TV.

00:49:23.000 Well, he's got me.

00:49:24.000 Yeah, you.

00:49:25.000 100%.

00:49:25.000 But that's the point.

00:49:27.000 They try to... Anyone who may not have that willpower to fight, well, if we go after them, you know, we can break them.

00:49:33.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:49:34.000 We'll break the law, it doesn't matter, but we'll eventually break them. 0.99

00:49:37.000 I dealt with it myself, like, just because something's bullshit doesn't mean you don't still have to deal with the bullshit. 1.00

00:49:42.000 No, it's terrible. 0.99

00:49:43.000 You know, Russia, Russia, Russia was a lie, but it cost me millions of dollars in legal fees, it cost me two years of my life, hours of testimony. 0.62

00:49:48.000 By the way, had I made one error in 50 hours of testimony, I put one cut, you know.

00:49:53.000 Perjury.

00:49:53.000 To me, I think it was like 1202, nope, it was 1203.

00:49:55.000 Yeah, perjury.

00:49:58.000 They got you for perjury.

00:49:59.000 It was always a perjury trap.

00:50:00.000 It was always an obstruction trap.

00:50:03.000 You know, when I started on they, you know, this is a whole narrative as well with his attorneys and you know it, but they try and deter you actually from representing President Trump.

00:50:12.000 They try and scare you.

00:50:13.000 I would get phone calls.

00:50:14.000 I got phone calls from well-known left-wing media saying, are you aware of what you're doing to your law license?

00:50:22.000 And I said to them, Are you kidding me?

00:50:25.000 If I was ever concerned for one second about representing the Trumps, the Trump organization, you have now just confirmed my decision because this is what is wrong with our country.

00:50:36.000 You are scaring people to death.

00:50:39.000 But look what they did to Peter Navarro.

00:50:40.000 Yeah.

00:50:41.000 Steve Bannon.

00:50:42.000 Navarro, I mean, he's getting out tomorrow.

00:50:45.000 Yeah, he'll be here.

00:50:45.000 He'll be here.

00:50:46.000 He's going to speak.

00:50:48.000 He's got a great book coming out talking about these things, but he's not even talking about his persecution.

00:50:51.000 It's the path forward.

00:50:53.000 That's how much of a patriot he is.

00:50:54.000 He gets thrown in jail for four months.

00:50:56.000 He's still under appeal.

00:50:57.000 It hasn't even actually been decided.

00:50:59.000 He could have all of it thrown out, but guess what?

00:51:01.000 They got him for four months.

00:51:02.000 Yeah.

00:51:02.000 Took him off the playing board.

00:51:03.000 Embarrassing.

00:51:04.000 Same with Steve Bannon.

00:51:06.000 And that's what they've tried to do.

00:51:07.000 So the party that preaches all this democracy and all this nonsense, they don't actually mean it.

00:51:12.000 No.

00:51:12.000 They'll throw you in jail if you disagree with them.

00:51:14.000 Well, they actually, they speak to exactly what they are.

00:51:17.000 So they try and say he's going to be a dictator.

00:51:19.000 Well, what is this then?

00:51:20.000 What in the world is the Biden administration if not?

00:51:23.000 Nothing screams democracy like trying to lock up the chosen candidate of half the population of the country.

00:51:28.000 Right!

00:51:28.000 And anybody around him.

00:51:30.000 And appoint somebody who has no right to be appointed and put him in charge of witch hunt after witch hunt.

00:51:36.000 January 6th I think is the next one to go down.

00:51:38.000 I frankly think every case against him should be dismissed.

00:51:41.000 And the cases that we have Had that we have lost that are now on appeal frankly are

00:51:46.000 now in jeopardy for the left Because of the decision from the Supreme Court with

00:51:50.000 immunity you know about that because the immunity Yeah, how does it play into some of those other every case

00:51:55.000 every case so effectively what the Supreme Court said was?

00:51:58.000 The president of the United States not the Republican president not President Trump

00:52:04.000 Presidents of the United States, the entire executive branch, hold an important office.

00:52:09.000 That office is to be preserved.

00:52:12.000 You cannot act in fear of coming out and being civilly or criminally sued.

00:52:16.000 for making decisions for America. And that has been the rule, Nixon v. Fitzgerald. It has been

00:52:22.000 the rule. It has been the law that we follow since Nixon.

00:52:26.000 And there's a lot of this, and I've argued it. And the Supreme Court's decision now affects everything

00:52:32.000 because in these cases, Hush Money, for instance, they called witnesses that were in the Oval

00:52:37.000 Office, that testified about things in the Oval Office that has nothing to do with this case.

00:52:42.000 This was a case past the statute of limitations.

00:52:44.000 I can go on and on and on.

00:52:46.000 Cy Vance didn't want it.

00:52:47.000 Brad didn't want it.

00:52:47.000 The Stormy Daniels thing, she had nothing to do with the case.

00:52:49.000 It was a joke.

00:52:49.000 It was just there to try to embarrass women, their political opposition.

00:52:53.000 Women, money. 1.00

00:52:53.000 Try to turn women away from someone who'd actually, I don't know, create safer streets, end the wars that their kids are going to go die in. 1.00

00:53:00.000 Empowers women. 1.00

00:53:01.000 create an economy that their kids themselves will flourish in but you know

00:53:04.000 minor details. Right, minor details and the real man I know empowers women, case 1.00

00:53:10.000 in chief. But listen, at the end of the day all those cases now we have to look

00:53:15.000 back and say well immunity applies they preserved that right. Immunity applies as

00:53:19.000 long as you're with your within your official acts.

00:53:21.000 President Trump working out of the Oval Office just like January 6th when he spoke

00:53:25.000 and he was the president and they want to use words like pacefully and

00:53:29.000 patriotically and mean that. No they discard those. No no they don't like to

00:53:33.000 talk about it. They also discard the testimony about the assets from the FBI that were placed you know.

00:53:38.000 I mean, we don't talk about real facts, or the fact that Nancy Pelosi on video recently admitted that she failed by not calling security.

00:53:46.000 We don't talk about that.

00:53:48.000 But what's happened is, honestly, I will say, and I'm a big critic of the judicial system most days, but I think the Supreme Court has made some very valuable decisions.

00:53:55.000 I think that there is a turn coming, and I do believe that this decision today, throwing out this case, because of an Completely improper appointment of some random guy who is a henchman for Biden, um, is a good start for our country.

00:54:09.000 Unfortunately, we had to go through hell to get here, but we're here.

00:54:12.000 Well, we appreciate what you're doing.

00:54:14.000 I won't even comment on your feet because I don't want the leftists- Oh, God forbid!

00:54:17.000 You have a foot fetish? 1.00

00:54:18.000 I was talking shit on Instagram. 1.00

00:54:19.000 It's not even- No, it's not- Did you see that article? 0.99

00:54:21.000 That article came out- I didn't know there was an article about- Two seconds!

00:54:24.000 I literally, like, she's bleeding.

00:54:25.000 I'm like, I commented.

00:54:26.000 I'd be like, hey, it's going big on the, you know, whatever.

00:54:28.000 I was like- Vibrating!

00:54:29.000 I said, allegedly, because it's not- This is not a place I spend any time, but I thought it was pretty funny.

00:54:34.000 I got a lot of positive comments on it.

00:54:36.000 For people who actually have a sense of humor, unlike the rest of the left.

00:54:40.000 I don't think, Don, I don't think people realize we are all actually friends.

00:54:42.000 Like, you know, they think that, and not all of us, but we are friends and we spend a tremendous amount of time.

00:54:47.000 Unfortunately, thanks for these witch hunts, we've all become friends and it's a shame. 0.81

00:54:51.000 But yes, I got hurt and you made a funny comment.

00:54:53.000 And by the way, my DMs have been blowing up.

00:54:55.000 I think I might, you know.

00:54:57.000 Okay.

00:54:57.000 How many people are requesting feedbacks?

00:54:58.000 So crazy.

00:55:00.000 People love toes.

00:55:01.000 Evidently, white polish is a thing.

00:55:03.000 I didn't know this, but I'm learning a tremendous amount about people with foot fetishes.

00:55:07.000 It's actually legitimately not my thing.

00:55:09.000 There's plenty of other things on women that I enjoy, but I'm not going to get into the details of that right now.

00:55:15.000 If the legal thing doesn't work out, I have a future.

00:55:18.000 You can do it like OnlyFans for feet.

00:55:21.000 OnlyFans.

00:55:21.000 How about OnlyFans?

00:55:23.000 I mean, you won't be the first one that said that to me.

00:55:26.000 I'm going to say, probably not.

00:55:27.000 Someone else will write this one up, too.

00:55:29.000 Oh, there you go.

00:55:30.000 Haba and Don inappropriately joking about feet, toes, and OnlyFans.

00:55:33.000 Oh, it gets me into so much trouble.

00:55:34.000 Oh, whatever.

00:55:36.000 We're always in trouble.

00:55:37.000 I'm a Trump.

00:55:38.000 My mouth gets me into trouble a lot, so it's OK.

00:55:40.000 It is what it is.

00:55:41.000 Well, guys, thank you so much for checking out.

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00:55:52.000 Or at least all four nights.

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00:55:59.000 9 o'clock here or 9 o'clock Eastern?

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00:57:00.000 download the public square app today or go to public square

00:57:04.000 .com and together we will build I'll see you here tomorrow night, 6 p.m.

00:57:08.000 Eastern, 5 p.m.

00:57:09.000 Central.

00:57:10.000 We'll have some more fun.

00:57:11.000 I don't even know who we have on.

00:57:12.000 We'll figure it out.

00:57:13.000 Maybe we'll get JD.

00:57:14.000 We'll talk with someone.

00:57:15.000 We'll have some fun, and we'll have a lot to cover.

00:57:18.000 So be well, guys.

Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - July 15, 2024

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