Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - USAID Slush Fund Slashed, X Cyberattack, Plus Interview with Nate Morris | Triggered Ep.223

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:05:24.000 Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:05:27.000 Another day with another batch of big breaking news.

00:05:31.000 And that includes an apparent cyber attack against Elon and X. Could this be retaliation due to the non-stop work exposing the grift and graft across the globe?

00:05:43.000 We'll find out.

00:05:44.000 Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to deliver on their promises to cut government waste, root out the fraud.

00:05:51.000 Secure the border and onshore American jobs. 0.90

00:05:55.000 And Democrats?

00:05:56.000 They'd just rather complain about it than admit what's obvious.

00:06:00.000 This is all good for America. 0.92

00:06:04.000 And later, I'll sit down with Kentucky Senate candidate Nate Morris with all the behind the scenes.

00:06:10.000 of what's happening inside the bluegrass state and beyond.

00:06:14.000 Just so we're clear, Nate Morris is the anti Mitch McConnell candidate, a guy that came from a similar background really to JD Vance in Appalachia, grew up with nothing, was a recipient of food stamps with him and his family, went on to become an incredible entrepreneur.

00:06:31.000 And now wants to get in the game and give back to the people of his home state.

00:06:37.000 Last time I went out there on a limb, I think it worked out pretty well because I think you all like our incredible vice president.

00:06:44.000 And based on the memes I've seen this weekend, maybe the most memed person other than maybe DJT, you know, in the entire world.

00:06:52.000 So I don't know.

00:06:54.000 I think I usually have a pretty good sense for this stuff.

00:06:55.000 So Nate Morris will be here.

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00:06:59.000 We gotta do whatever we can to unseat the nonsense that is the McConnell machine, okay?

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00:09:34.000 And now, guys, let's get into all of the top headlines.

00:09:39.000 Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced that 83 percent, 83 percent of USAID funds have been cut, explaining that 5,200 contracts, yes, 5,200 contracts would be canceled because 5,200 contracts would be canceled because the program did not serve U.S. interests.

00:10:00.000 And we will now save our country tens of billions of dollars.

00:10:06.000 This stuff shouldn't have ever been happening, but now we know, and now we have people in positions of power who have the guts to put an end to the fraud.

00:10:17.000 Remember, guys, USAID was the swamp slush fund that was paying for gender-affirming care in Guatemala, Sesame Street in Iraq, and circumcisions in Mozambique to the tune of billions of dollars.

00:10:33.000 Many, many other insane things.

00:10:35.000 I think I could probably do a one-hour show just listing the insanity. 0.95

00:10:39.000 You heard some of it at the State of the Union last week, but it was ridiculous. 0.87

00:10:45.000 And now it stops.

00:10:47.000 And the remaining programs will be overseen by the State Department, okay?

00:10:52.000 So there will actually be checks and balances.

00:10:54.000 Instead of USAID being its own agency, infiltrated by the radicals, funding whatever they wanted in their pet projects, probably all kickbacks to Democrats, and it will no longer just be another arm of the corrupt bureaucratic blob.

00:11:10.000 But the waste doesn't stop there, guys.

00:11:14.000 Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, Now, I don't know about you,

00:11:36.000 but a kid under the age of 18 can't even sign onto a loan, and yet $300 million just given out to kids under the age of 12. I don't understand.

00:11:47.000 Doesn't even seem legal, but it doesn't matter because there was no oversight.

00:11:51.000 The loans were issued in 2020 and 2021 during COVID, and it's unclear what they were even used for.

00:11:59.000 And like I said, we're still just at the tip of the iceberg, and there is much, much more to come.

00:12:08.000 And meanwhile, guys, the Ukrainian first lunatics, they are truly ramping up their insanity, including Harassing a child of your favorite vice president, the most memed man in America, at least this week, maybe ever, J.D. Vance. 1.00

00:12:25.000 It just makes these people look even more like the unreasonable fanatics that they truly are.

00:12:34.000 Check this out.

00:12:36.000 No one is articulated in this traffic case.

00:12:39.000 Sell them out!

00:12:43.000 Absolutely!

00:12:43.000 I don't respect them.

00:12:44.000 I disagree.

00:12:45.000 I think what we're doing is we're actually enforcing a diplomatic settlement.

00:12:49.000 There's nobody in between benefits.

00:12:52.000 No one.

00:12:54.000 Do you think Russia can be diplomatic?

00:12:57.000 What's about the United States?

00:12:59.000 This is about a separate country, and I don't think our investment in that country can go on indefinitely.

00:13:07.000 I understand the industry.

00:13:08.000 You're forcing them to settle.

00:13:11.000 We're forcing both the Russians and Ukrainians. 1.00

00:13:14.000 Russia won't settle. 0.94

00:13:16.000 Exactly.

00:13:17.000 They certainly invaded Ukraine in 2022. But their needs would be a settlement. 0.89

00:13:25.000 Ma'am, I understand that that's your view.

00:13:32.000 And certainly, I have condemned, ma'am.

00:13:40.000 I'm speaking with you and I'm trying to be respectful.

00:13:42.000 I have condemned the invasion, but I've also condemned the perpetuity.

00:13:46.000 That is the policy of the administration.

00:13:48.000 And I've talked to you guys now for about five minutes.

00:13:52.000 What's changed?

00:13:53.000 Ma'am, now that's a different question.

00:13:55.000 I'm happy.

00:13:55.000 Would you like me to talk about how I've changed my view on Donald Trump for more than 10 years ago?

00:13:59.000 Because I talked about it a lot during the campaign, and then the American people voted and made it the president of the United States.

00:14:05.000 You've got no integrity.

00:14:09.000 It's what I expect like it.

00:14:10.000 It must be nice to go through life.

00:14:12.000 It's a little bit of everybody who disproportionately has no integrity.

00:14:14.000 I have more respect for you.

00:14:16.000 I'm looking at my three year old daughter now, and I told you, I talked to you for five minutes.

00:14:20.000 And now, I did not agree to have my three year old to have people run around and yell at her. 0.93

00:14:28.000 And I did talk to you, and I said, if I talk to you for a few minutes, we leave my three year old daughter alone and you said yes.

00:14:34.000 So I'd like you guys to respect that.

00:14:36.000 Thank you.

00:14:36.000 What they should actually all be outraged about is all the fraud and the endless taxpayer dollars being shipped to Ukraine with little or no accountability.

00:14:49.000 And how did all of this fraud go unchecked for so long?

00:14:53.000 Well, for one thing, the last four years, we didn't even know if Joe Biden knew what he was signing.

00:15:00.000 Literally, we don't know.

00:15:01.000 The Heritage Foundation found that nearly all of Biden's signatures were via AutoPen.

00:15:08.000 It's a machine that will copy your signature.

00:15:10.000 This raises questions about who controlled the AutoPen.

00:15:15.000 Did Joe even know what he was signing?

00:15:17.000 Did he give authority to Dr. Jill or someone else?

00:15:22.000 Was it someone even lower level, a total unelected bureaucrat, doing this?

00:15:26.000 Who knows?

00:15:27.000 You know the difference?

00:15:29.000 You know when you see those things signed?

00:15:30.000 You see DJT doing his sort of patented signature, yada, yada, yada.

00:15:33.000 Like, that's real.

00:15:34.000 Notice you never saw Joe Biden actually doing that?

00:15:37.000 Because it was done by a machine, and no one knows who was actually controlling it.

00:15:42.000 And according to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, if the widespread auto pen use turns out to be true, these executive orders, Pardons and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.

00:15:58.000 That's a really big deal, guys, because you could undo some of the insanity that was being done.

00:16:04.000 Like, remember when they let out, like, all of death row?

00:16:06.000 They commuted the sentence of people who murdered young children and, I mean, some of the most heinous and terrible people in the world.

00:16:14.000 Joe Biden just, eh, we'll let him out.

00:16:16.000 Well, if Joe Biden didn't actually do it and didn't know whatever it may be...

00:16:20.000 They could be legally void, and those criminals could be back behind bars.

00:16:24.000 It's incredible to me, and probably to you, that this actually happened.

00:16:31.000 Though, at this point, it shouldn't be surprising.

00:16:34.000 There's literally overwhelming evidence that Biden's cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval, right?

00:16:45.000 We've talked about this on the show for years.

00:16:47.000 Since I started, like, I don't know.

00:16:50.000 Three years ago?

00:16:51.000 We've talked about it all the time.

00:16:53.000 There's no way that the geriatric, somewhat senile, old Irish dude really thought that three-year-olds getting gender-affirming care was the social justice issue of our time, right? 0.59

00:17:05.000 We understand that did not actually happen, right?

00:17:08.000 So if anyone ever asks you what you mean by the deep state or the bureaucratic blob, this is a prime example.

00:17:17.000 It seems like they just ran roughshod.

00:17:19.000 With the presidency, unelected bureaucrats doing whatever their radical agenda wanted.

00:17:26.000 Totally unchecked, totally unfazed, totally blacked out by the mainstream media, who probably knew exactly what was going on, but they're in on it.

00:17:36.000 They've been part of it.

00:17:38.000 They were just fine with the results because they too have been radicalized so badly that it just went unchecked.

00:17:44.000 Imagine if you would for one second, guys.

00:17:48.000 Imagine...

00:17:51.000 Imagine how the media would be losing their minds over this if Donald Trump didn't know what was going on, if he wasn't personally signing all of these things, if he wasn't reading it out loud to the public, because I think he's taken more questions in the first six weeks of this administration than Joe Biden took in his entire four years.

00:18:09.000 Can't make it up, guys.

00:18:11.000 And meanwhile, ICE is ramping up deportation enforcement.

00:18:17.000 of students who are here on visas, who are spewing anti-Semitic hate speech, creating violence and chaos on Ivy League campuses.

00:18:27.000 Look at the cover of the New York Post today that reads, Ice Knowing You.

00:18:32.000 By the way, I think in my next life I actually want to write headlines for the New York Post because they get it pretty good.

00:18:37.000 Ice Knowing You.

00:18:38.000 And here was the scene just yesterday.

00:18:42.000 So the Trump administration making good on his promise to crack down on pro-Palestinian students, causing chaos on college campuses across the U.S. ICE agents arresting the Palestinian activists who led anti-Israeli protests at Columbia University here in New York City.

00:18:57.000 The Secretary of State, Rubio, warning we will be revoking the visas and or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.

00:19:07.000 And guys, it does not stop there.

00:19:10.000 My father is also signing executive orders to revoke security clearances for major law firms who participated in the BS Jack Smith and Mueller witch hunts, making it clear that there are actually consequences.

00:19:26.000 I know, I know, there are consequences for weaponizing illegally the legal system.

00:19:33.000 It's kind of nice.

00:19:34.000 I'm not sure why people at a law firm would need security clearances anyway.

00:19:37.000 It doesn't seem...

00:19:39.000 Like, it benefits anyone other than, I guess, they can make a lot of money off of it.

00:19:43.000 It's common sense.

00:19:45.000 But to regime media, to the scribes that write down whatever the radical Democrats want and pretend it's news, it's a Trumpian power grab.

00:19:55.000 Watch this segment from none other than PBS. Yeah, public broadcasting systems.

00:20:00.000 Yeah, I'm sure these guys are unbiased.

00:20:02.000 I want to just talk about a few events which may have slipped under the radar this week, but seem pretty...

00:20:08.000 So, Donald Trump signed an executive order stripping lawyers at the firm.

00:20:13.000 Perkins Coie, which had represented Hillary Clinton in 2016, of their security clearances and other privileges, which follows a similar executive order, which he signed, stripping those same privileges of Covington Burling, who'd worked pro bono with Jack Smith.

00:20:28.000 Then earlier today, the administration stopped a huge number of grants and funds that were going to Columbia University to punish them.

00:20:37.000 Dan, I just want just...

00:20:39.000 What's the pattern?

00:20:40.000 What are we seeing when we see all these things lined up?

00:20:43.000 Well, I mean, we're seeing what he promised, which is retribution.

00:20:48.000 And some measure of revenge against the people that he thinks did him wrong over the last four years.

00:20:55.000 They've been quite systematic about that.

00:20:57.000 They've done it through the whole Justice Department in a variety of ways.

00:21:01.000 And now they've broadened it out into the private sector, if you will, and into the universities.

00:21:07.000 I don't think there's any doubt that Columbia is not the last university that's going to see funds stripped from them.

00:21:17.000 Particularly elite universities feel that they are on notice.

00:21:21.000 He's done things to try to rein in the press or to target the press, as we know, particularly the things that have gone on with the press pool.

00:21:31.000 And all of this is part of his effort to dominate everything about the federal government and to accrue as much power in his hands as he can.

00:21:43.000 You want to talk about a political power grab?

00:21:46.000 How about trying to throw your political opponents in jail based on phony smear tactics?

00:21:53.000 How about trying to take their businesses away?

00:21:56.000 How about fining them?

00:21:57.000 How about waiving statutes of limitations so that you can go after things for 30 years that no one can disprove or prove otherwise because no one even remembers any of it?

00:22:07.000 Uh, guys, that sounds a bit more like a power grab to me.

00:22:11.000 You don't have to believe me.

00:22:13.000 If you've paid even a little bit of attention over the last nine years, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

00:22:20.000 They did it with reckless abandon.

00:22:22.000 They did it not just to my family, myself, my father.

00:22:27.000 They did it to hard-working Americans.

00:22:28.000 They did it to concerned mothers showing up at PTA meetings who were domestic terrorists.

00:22:34.000 They did it to people who were practicing Catholics.

00:22:36.000 I know, those radical Catholics in America.

00:22:38.000 Ooh, gotta stop them.

00:22:40.000 Not the communists.

00:22:41.000 Not terrorists.

00:22:45.000 Never ends, folks.

00:22:46.000 Of course, the media is melting down because deep down, they know the Trump agenda is working.

00:22:54.000 For example, just look at this new report from Reuters titled, and I quote, companies eye U.S. expansion to less out the fallout from political and potential tariffs.

00:23:06.000 Laying out a list of companies like Samsung, Apple, Volvo, Honda and many more who are now investing in America.

00:23:17.000 It's not that hard, folks.

00:23:19.000 This can be done.

00:23:20.000 We can bring these things back.

00:23:22.000 We can do it here in America.

00:23:24.000 We can employ hard-working, God-fearing Americans, and we don't have to have the single export of their American dream.

00:23:34.000 We can do it.

00:23:35.000 It's not that hard.

00:23:37.000 Here's my father on Air Force One laying out his economic agenda.

00:23:43.000 I think the tariffs are going to be the greatest thing we've ever done as a country.

00:23:47.000 It's going to make our country rich again.

00:23:49.000 We have many companies, as you know, auto companies are opening up plants now.

00:23:54.000 We've had four or five announced already, but many more are coming.

00:23:58.000 And we're basically going to take back the money, a lot of the money that we've given away over many decades.

00:24:04.000 We've lost our jobs.

00:24:05.000 We've lost our factories.

00:24:07.000 We've lost 90,000 factories since the beginning of NAFTA. It's not that long ago.

00:24:13.000 90,000 factories.

00:24:14.000 Think of that.

00:24:15.000 And we're going to get them back.

00:24:16.000 And they're coming back.

00:24:17.000 And they're coming back in records.

00:24:19.000 Look at what happened with the big chip company, the biggest in the world.

00:24:22.000 By far the most powerful chip company in the world from Taiwan.

00:24:27.000 And they're going in with $200 billion of money.

00:24:31.000 And they're going to build something that's going to give us 35-40% of the chip market just in one company.

00:24:37.000 No, it's gonna bring it back.

00:24:39.000 And I think it's gonna make us, bring us to a level that we've never had before.

00:24:43.000 But the Democrats have learned nothing, guys.

00:24:46.000 They've learned nothing from their crushing losses.

00:24:49.000 In fact, they're doubling down.

00:24:52.000 Guys, they're going all in on Democrat insanity. 0.99

00:24:56.000 For example, at a recent Bernie Sanders rally, a trans lunatic singer performed a song with the lyrics that read, Does God have a big fat D-I-C-K? That's the lyrics. 0.99

00:25:14.000 I mean, is it necessary?

00:25:17.000 Do they need to do it?

00:25:18.000 I mean, you really have to have that out there? 0.99

00:25:21.000 These people are freaking sick. 0.85

00:25:24.000 Check it out. 0.99

00:25:27.000 Check it out.

00:25:56.000 a mind virus that infects the soul.

00:25:58.000 And I'll close out the news rundown on another just absolutely bizarre woke moment.

00:26:06.000 This clip from the Netflix show Love is Blind is going viral after a dating show contestant left her fiancé at the altar because he didn't support BLM, LGBTQIA++ issues, and the COVID vaccine.

00:26:26.000 Guys, I don't think it takes much to say this guy.

00:26:31.000 I know it probably hurt.

00:26:33.000 I know it's probably embarrassing on TV. This guy dodged a bullet, okay?

00:26:38.000 I promise you, if someone's gonna leave you because they disagree with your political views or because they're pushing the incentive, stay away, okay?

00:26:47.000 It's like nature.

00:26:48.000 You ever notice, like, the most poisonous plants are the most vibrantly colored, like the purple-haired freaks? 1.00

00:26:54.000 Like, this guy dodged a bullet. 0.99

00:26:57.000 Stay away from lunatic insanity. 1.00

00:27:01.000 Stay away from the radical leftists. 0.99

00:27:04.000 I promise you, It will not work out well.

00:27:07.000 Check this out from Love is Blind.

00:27:08.000 I love you so much.

00:27:11.000 But I've always wanted a partner to be on the same wavelength.

00:27:18.000 And so today I can't.

00:27:22.000 Like, I feel like I know him.

00:27:30.000 Like, really.

00:27:31.000 Yeah.

00:27:32.000 Like, I remember, like, I asked him about, like, Black Lives Matter, and I'm no expert.

00:27:36.000 But, like, when I asked him about it, he was like, I guess I never really thought too much about it.

00:27:41.000 That affected me, especially in our own city.

00:27:43.000 Like, how could it not?

00:27:44.000 How did he not make you think about something?

00:27:47.000 I asked him, too, like, what his church's views are, and he said he didn't know.

00:27:54.000 And so then I watched a sermon online.

00:27:59.000 From his church?

00:28:00.000 About, yeah, sexual identity.

00:28:02.000 And it was traditional.

00:28:04.000 Nate Morris.

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00:29:43.000 Joining me now, CEO of Morris Industries, Nate Morris.

00:29:47.000 Nate, good to see you, man.

00:29:49.000 Hey, it's great to be with you, Don.

00:29:50.000 Well, first of all, I love that we had dinner last week, so I love that you're making your world around the MAGA sphere.

00:29:57.000 You're getting in the game, doing it the right way.

00:30:00.000 It seems like a contrast to a lot of your potential opponents.

00:30:06.000 Yeah, absolutely, Don.

00:30:08.000 I mean, this thing is shaking out to be McConnell versus MAGA in Kentucky, and I think that that's all Kentuckians need to know.

00:30:17.000 We know what Mitch McConnell's been doing to your father, particularly over the last two months.

00:30:20.000 It's been crazy to watch.

00:30:22.000 And the fact that we have my two potential opponents that are, one's in the race, one may be getting in.

00:30:30.000 They've said Mitch McConnell's their mentor, and they owe everything to Mitch McConnell, which I think is absolutely ludicrous that they would even think about running for office here in Kentucky, especially with the mandate that your father was given right here in the Bluegrass State.

00:30:43.000 Yeah, I mean, it seems really odd.

00:30:45.000 It's actually almost hard to believe that Mitch is able to win in Kentucky.

00:30:50.000 It's often close, but I guess when you control the purse strings in the Senate, I guess you can spend all the money on your race.

00:30:56.000 It makes it a little bit easier.

00:30:57.000 But I've heard from multiple sources.

00:31:01.000 They're out there telling me that Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell's entire operation are literally doing everything they can to stop you from going forward, to stop you, period.

00:31:12.000 And they're basically determined to stop anyone that is not entirely controlled by Mitch.

00:31:21.000 Why is that?

00:31:23.000 Well, look, Don, this is a career for these folks.

00:31:26.000 These are career politicians.

00:31:29.000 They've been paid by the swamp for generations.

00:31:32.000 And the cronies that have surrounded McConnell for years, this is how they make their money, Don.

00:31:37.000 And that's one of the things that you've got to look at this race to say, look, MAGA is about outside, being outside the system, right? 0.58

00:31:45.000 And coming in and shaking things up.

00:31:47.000 And when you get the establishment like these folks threatening to do all these things and threatening to come after you, I think that's the right signal to us that, look, we're in line with President Trump.

00:31:57.000 They fear us.

00:31:58.000 And they feared the change that we could bring.

00:32:00.000 And most importantly, draining the swamp here in Kentucky.

00:32:03.000 You know, McConnell has had a stranglehold on Kentucky politics for the last 40 years.

00:32:08.000 And it's been sickening to me that he's opposed your father over and over and over again and made it his last mission of the Senate is to back up the truck for Zelensky in Ukraine.

00:32:20.000 And this is not what Kentucky wants.

00:32:22.000 And this is not what they voted for when they elected.

00:32:26.000 Your father here, about 30 points in Kentucky.

00:32:29.000 And the fact that these guys are lining up so early, that means they fear us and that means they're coming after us.

00:32:34.000 But I look at it as a badge of honor, Don, and we're going to keep fighting.

00:32:37.000 Oh yeah, 100%.

00:32:38.000 I mean, if you're on Team Mitch and they're going after someone, it means you're over the target, Nate.

00:32:44.000 I mean, that's a big deal.

00:32:46.000 But think about in Kentucky, a state that we won by a lot.

00:32:51.000 We want it bigly, so to speak, to use the Trump vernacular.

00:32:55.000 It's hard to believe that a guy like that can be in the Senate and that kind of leadership, control the pork strings, and vote against virtually every Trump cabinet member.

00:33:03.000 I mean, honestly, at this point, and I don't know if it's just that Mitch the Glitch, the circuit board is short-circuited a little bit, but that doesn't seem, that's not even MAGA, that's not even Republican at this point.

00:33:16.000 I mean, honestly, watching the way he's voting, especially for the cabinet, the way he's just blindly funding Ukraine.

00:33:24.000 And I've, you know, I've told the story on the show of thousands of times where, you know, I've surveyed every live audience I've spoken to for the last three years since the start of the war.

00:33:32.000 After I heard Mitch McConnell say that Ukraine is the number one issue for Republicans across the country and.

00:33:37.000 I've surveyed over 200,000 people live where it's like, I'll give you the mic.

00:33:41.000 Is it top three?

00:33:42.000 Is it top ten issue for you?

00:33:44.000 Zero people were top three.

00:33:46.000 Three people out of 200,000 said it was a top ten issue.

00:33:50.000 One guy was from Ukraine.

00:33:51.000 One guy misunderstood the question.

00:33:53.000 He actually wasn't.

00:33:54.000 And the other guy worked out like Raytheon.

00:33:55.000 So of course he wanted it to keep going because the war pays well for those guys.

00:34:00.000 But otherwise, zero Republicans.

00:34:02.000 So it's odd.

00:34:04.000 So I love that you're doing this, but I think it's important.

00:34:06.000 You know, tell the audience maybe a little bit about your background, Nate, growing up.

00:34:11.000 I mean, it actually, you know, when we first met and then even just following up, you know, last week and talking about it, I mean, you actually have a story that's really similar to another guy that we pushed into a Senate seat and turned into a rock star for the base and for the Republican Party, or at least for conservatism and for MAGA. Sounds a lot like J.D. Vance.

00:34:32.000 Tell me a little bit about it.

00:34:34.000 Yeah, look, I'm proud that JD and I have so much in common, and that's why we became fast friends.

00:34:40.000 You know, I grew up raised by a single mother.

00:34:43.000 My dad left when I was two.

00:34:46.000 He got locked up for not paying child support.

00:34:49.000 And my mom and I were on food stamps when I was a kid.

00:34:51.000 And like many Kentuckians, we fought, scrapped, battled for everything that we have.

00:34:57.000 19 of my family members worked in an auto plant.

00:35:00.000 And I'm proud that I was raised in a blue-collar, working-class home.

00:35:04.000 And JD and I also share lineage in Appalachia.

00:35:08.000 You know, my family descends from Morgan County, which is the county next to Breathitt.

00:35:12.000 And you talk about tough and fighters.

00:35:16.000 You can find in Appalachia all day long.

00:35:18.000 And, you know, Kentuckians, we've been fighting since the very beginning, since our people came over the Cumberland Gap and established the Commonwealth.

00:35:26.000 We've got it in our DNA to fight.

00:35:27.000 And I think that that's what JD has.

00:35:29.000 That's what he's showcasing.

00:35:31.000 And I think that's one of the reasons why we were kind of kindred spirits because of those tough backgrounds and the challenges we had early on.

00:35:38.000 But I think, look, Don, that's what shaped me to be an entrepreneur, to go out on my own, to stand up to the establishment, whether it be in business.

00:35:47.000 And now as we talk about politics, you've got to be able to stand up to the establishment and fight.

00:35:52.000 And I think that's what that's what people are looking for today.

00:35:54.000 And I think that's what people get so excited about your father.

00:35:57.000 Yeah, talk a little bit about the business side of that.

00:35:59.000 I mean, you know, JD, same thing.

00:36:00.000 He was a venture capitalist, made a lot of money in tech, obviously still a super staunch conservative, but...

00:36:06.000 You know, he got through all of that.

00:36:08.000 He was able to break through that cycle, you know, create a successful business, then go on to become a U.S. senator and now the vice president of the United States.

00:36:14.000 I mean, you know, what I loved about that whole story was that you had all of it, right?

00:36:19.000 You had sort of that tough upbringing.

00:36:22.000 You understand, like when you're voting on things, when you're pushing for policy, like when you've been the recipient of food stamps or you've had to go through that.

00:36:29.000 I mean, I think that really frames that narrative.

00:36:31.000 But then when you get through that and also know how to run a business.

00:36:34.000 And have done so successfully for years, it's that breadth of knowledge that's so lacking in Washington, D.C., where basically everyone's just a bureaucrat.

00:36:44.000 They were better at being a bureaucrat than anyone else.

00:36:47.000 They've oftentimes never created anything.

00:36:49.000 They've never signed the front of a paycheck.

00:36:50.000 They don't know what that's like.

00:36:52.000 They're good at playing that game.

00:36:53.000 I'll give them that.

00:36:55.000 But there's so more to actual policy.

00:36:57.000 There's so much more to life than just being a bureaucrat.

00:37:00.000 Talk a little bit about the business side of that so people understand that, because again, the similarities to you and JD are really astonishing.

00:37:07.000 Well, look, Don, I was proud that JD and I were the hillbillies out in Silicon Valley when we'd go out there, and that made us stand out in a big way.

00:37:14.000 But look, Don, I was in the waste management business, and I'm sure you've watched The Sopranos.

00:37:20.000 I love The Sopranos.

00:37:21.000 I mean, you talk about a tough industry.

00:37:23.000 These people are the toughest to come by in business.

00:37:26.000 And look, this is a space.

00:37:28.000 That was owned by Bill Gates. 1.00

00:37:30.000 He is the biggest garbage man in the world. 1.00

00:37:32.000 Bill Gates. 1.00

00:37:32.000 Really? 1.00

00:37:33.000 He owns the two big garbage companies, and they're corporate thugs. 0.98

00:37:37.000 And I just said, look, as a young guy, we need to bring transparency. 0.98

00:37:41.000 We need to bring taxpayer savings.

00:37:43.000 We need to bring opportunity for small businesses in the waste business.

00:37:47.000 And that's what my company did.

00:37:49.000 And I started with $10,000 on a lot of credit.

00:37:52.000 I grew that company to take it public on the New York Stock Exchange at $2 billion.

00:37:57.000 You know, over my career, I employed thousands of people.

00:38:00.000 And these are great American jobs.

00:38:03.000 And I'm really proud of what we built.

00:38:05.000 We gave free health care to all of our employees.

00:38:07.000 And that's something that, you know, I learned from my grandfather that there's opportunity everywhere.

00:38:12.000 A lot of people laughed at me like, why are you going in the garbage business?

00:38:15.000 You know, you went to Princeton and Oxford.

00:38:17.000 Why are you doing this?

00:38:18.000 And I was like, you know, that's where the opportunity is.

00:38:20.000 That's where the American worker is. 0.90

00:38:22.000 And that's where I felt most comfortable fighting.

00:38:24.000 Against these big corporate thugs that had owned this industry for generations. 0.65

00:38:28.000 And we took a lot of big contracts away from these guys and built one of the largest American garbage companies across the country.

00:38:35.000 So, look, I'm very proud of that.

00:38:38.000 But more importantly, it taught me to fight as well at the corporate level.

00:38:42.000 And look, I saw all kinds of crazy stuff, Don.

00:38:44.000 You wouldn't believe it.

00:38:45.000 You know, there's a lot of talk about ESG and DEI. Talk about that, because I know you touched on it with me, but it's sort of amazing.

00:38:53.000 There's ESG and DEI in the waste business.

00:38:57.000 It never ends.

00:38:59.000 It's absolutely crazy, Don.

00:39:01.000 And let me tell you, I mean, look, I thought I'd seen tough people in union politics, which is a knife fight in a ditch.

00:39:08.000 And I thought I saw tough people in the waste business, which is the Tony Soprano industry.

00:39:13.000 But there's nothing like the ESG mafia when they're threatening to shut you down.

00:39:16.000 If you don't do this or don't do that in the name of ESG or DEI or BLM, whatever it is.

00:39:23.000 And I'm really proud.

00:39:24.000 Many times I stood up to this, but look, by the end, I'd had enough and didn't even recognize my company.

00:39:29.000 I'm like, what is going on here?

00:39:31.000 And one of the first things I did when I left my company is I invested in Strive with Vivek.

00:39:37.000 And I just said, look, this nonsense has got to stop.

00:39:40.000 And Don, more importantly, it's radicalized me to say we need leaders in Washington.

00:39:45.000 To get government out of business and get woke politics out of business.

00:39:51.000 And you need somebody who understands how to take those fights to Washington.

00:39:55.000 You know, a lot of these guys that are looking at this race, Don, they talk this big game about ESG. They're sitting in a cubicle.

00:40:01.000 You know, someone like Daniel Cameron sitting in a cubicle, opining about all the pitfalls of ESG. He's never had a job, never been in corporate America.

00:40:09.000 And yet he makes all these crazy statements.

00:40:11.000 He has no idea what he's talking about.

00:40:13.000 And I think that's the big difference is when you send business people, they know the pressures and they know what it's like to be under the microscope.

00:40:21.000 And most importantly, how to fight this stuff and keep it out of our business.

00:40:25.000 I think that's so critical.

00:40:27.000 Again, it's one thing.

00:40:28.000 It's sort of like the professor that lectures you about all the things that he's never actually done.

00:40:32.000 So you've actually done it.

00:40:33.000 What are the worst or most glaring examples that you saw of ESG, DEI, and just how bad it was?

00:40:41.000 Because, no, that mafia is real.

00:40:42.000 I mean, they've gone after me.

00:40:44.000 I stopped caring.

00:40:45.000 And I think, to your point, you're right.

00:40:46.000 There are those that sort of have the stomach to actually become radicalized against What I think most people probably view as insanity.

00:40:56.000 I think this last election was a mandate on much of that insanity.

00:40:59.000 But it's easier to do it when you don't have something at risk, when your whole company's not at risk, when the loan that you need to expand your business gets...

00:41:08.000 Pulled away in an instant because you didn't hire a purple leprechaun.

00:41:14.000 Give us a couple of the stories because I'm sure people will love to see this stuff.

00:41:19.000 Unless you're doing it every day, you may not even realize.

00:41:22.000 You assume some of it's happening, but like all things, like Doge, like USAID, you assume there's some grift, there's some graft, there's some nonsense, but you don't realize just how pervasive it is and more importantly, just how bad it is.

00:41:35.000 You know, that's right, Don.

00:41:36.000 And let me tell you, I've had examples of Fortune 500 companies come to us.

00:41:41.000 You know, we manage their waste across the country.

00:41:43.000 And they said, look, unless you do this ESG report, DEI reporting, you're going to lose the business.

00:41:51.000 You're going to lose the business.

00:41:53.000 And some of these contracts, Don, $100 million contracts.

00:41:56.000 You know, what am I supposed to tell our employees when they get laid off if I say, no, we can't do that, and they lose their job?

00:42:04.000 Well, I'm not going to be in that business as the leader of the company saying, you're going to lose your job because we're not going to comply with what the customer wants if they control $100 million of our revenue.

00:42:14.000 Or you've got an investor that's invested $200 million in your business.

00:42:18.000 What are you supposed to say?

00:42:20.000 And look, I made the tough decision to say, look, I'm going to stand with our workers and make sure that they keep their job.

00:42:25.000 But ultimately, we're going to try to fight and beat this back.

00:42:27.000 And we ultimately were able to get them off the DEI and ESG train in many cases of what we had to report.

00:42:34.000 But there were some tough calls and tough moments.

00:42:37.000 And unless you've been in business and you have something very large, hundreds of millions of dollars to lose, you have no idea what you're talking about.

00:42:44.000 And you're talking, you know, like you said, as an armchair quarterback, you know, some professor.

00:42:49.000 Just, you know, given this hypothesis about what you believe can happen when you've never actually been in the fire and never actually stood up to any of these guys before.

00:43:00.000 So I understand, you know, obviously you've grown a couple of great businesses, but, you know, multiple great businesses.

00:43:05.000 So I love someone running for office.

00:43:08.000 Who does not need the job?

00:43:10.000 It's a significant pay cut, unlike everyone else in Washington, D.C., who needs the job.

00:43:16.000 Unless, of course, you start trading like Nancy Pelosi and maybe you'll become one of the greatest investors of all time.

00:43:20.000 Nate, who knows?

00:43:21.000 I think you've done well enough.

00:43:22.000 You don't have to worry about it.

00:43:23.000 But I also understand the corollary to that is, you know, your grandfather was the head of a local union.

00:43:28.000 He was a big inspiration to you.

00:43:30.000 So, you know, beyond just fighting for the workers as a CEO, you actually understand where those guys are coming from.

00:43:35.000 Just like I sort of understood perhaps, you know, regular people getting, you know, fully acknowledging how blessed I was.

00:43:42.000 But because my mom was from communist Czechoslovakia and she made me spend my summers over there as a kid.

00:43:47.000 So I got like glass tower on the 70th floor of Trump Tower overlooking Central Park and like two months of communist Czechoslovakia. 0.87

00:43:55.000 And then, you know, you combine those experiences and you end up with a pretty radicalized individual like myself who perhaps gets it all.

00:44:02.000 No, that's that's right.

00:44:04.000 Don.

00:44:07.000 It was the closest thing I had to a mentor.

00:44:10.000 You know, a lot of people talk about mentors, the people that are looking at this race, and they both said Mitch McConnell.

00:44:14.000 But my grandfather, who ran a union, who worked for Ford Motor Company for over 50 years, never missed a day of work, served as a janitor, worked on the assembly line, did all kinds of jobs for Ford, and ultimately was elected to lead his local 862 right here in Kentucky.

00:44:33.000 You know, when people got laid off, we felt it.

00:44:36.000 We knew about it.

00:44:36.000 We were fighting to keep those layoffs from happening.

00:44:39.000 We saw people struggle.

00:44:40.000 We saw people needing more health care.

00:44:42.000 And that's real America.

00:44:44.000 That's real Kentucky.

00:44:45.000 And I'm really proud that my grandfather taught me, number one, to value the American worker and what the American worker puts into our economy.

00:44:54.000 And I saw it firsthand.

00:44:56.000 And second, he taught me to buy American.

00:44:58.000 You know, my grandfather is one of these guys, Don.

00:45:00.000 He would look at the tag and say, Where is this thing made before I buy it?

00:45:05.000 And he'd probably slash your tires if you showed up in a foreign car at his house. 1.00

00:45:09.000 And that's the kind of stuff that he taught me.

00:45:12.000 And I still look for American-made stuff, still drive American cars for that reason.

00:45:16.000 And we have to support our own, Don.

00:45:18.000 We have to support the American worker and put our people first before anybody else's interests.

00:45:23.000 And I think that's what your father continues to get right.

00:45:27.000 And the Trump administration's all about is serving the American worker.

00:45:30.000 And I think that's what's got everybody excited in Kentucky.

00:45:34.000 So how did you get into business in the first place, Nate?

00:45:37.000 What inspired you to do that?

00:45:38.000 How did you break out of that, you know, the upbringing, really, to become this success?

00:45:43.000 You know, look, I was broke, Don.

00:45:45.000 I think that's great motivation.

00:45:46.000 You know, I wanted to make money.

00:45:48.000 I wanted to help my family.

00:45:50.000 I saw a challenge in the waste business that there hadn't been a new generation of leadership.

00:45:55.000 These were...

00:45:56.000 Sort of stagnant old relic kind of companies that have been run the same way.

00:45:59.000 And I said, look, we could disrupt that.

00:46:01.000 We could change it.

00:46:02.000 We can make it more transparent, more friendly to small business.

00:46:06.000 And that's the opportunity I saw. 0.80

00:46:08.000 And look, there's nothing like the garbage business. 0.94

00:46:10.000 We make tons of it in America. 0.99

00:46:12.000 And I don't think there's anything more American than making money with trash.

00:46:15.000 And that's what always got me excited. 0.55

00:46:17.000 I think I hear a campaign slogan in there somewhere.

00:46:20.000 Taking out the trash in Kentucky.

00:46:23.000 It seems to work, but I won't even, you know, it's all yours if you want it, okay?

00:46:27.000 I won't even steal it.

00:46:29.000 Yeah, no, it's, and look, I love seeing your dad in the garbage truck.

00:46:33.000 You know, that really struck a chord with me.

00:46:35.000 And look, we got plenty of trash in Washington, D.C. that needs to be cleaned up, right?

00:46:39.000 There's a big mess up there right now, and I think...

00:46:42.000 Sometimes you need the grit and the determination of people that are in the trash business.

00:46:46.000 They're the toughest people in business.

00:46:48.000 They do a tough, tough job.

00:46:50.000 And I think that's what really appealed to me, that blue collar grit that I grew up with.

00:46:55.000 And I saw that DNA in the space and how we could make it better for all Americans.

00:47:00.000 So, I mean, you took a company public at a $2 billion valuation, guys, just so you know what we're talking about, that you founded on a $10,000 credit line.

00:47:09.000 What was it like to find so much business success that young?

00:47:14.000 I mean, that's the American dream, man.

00:47:17.000 It is alive and well if you're able to still pull that off.

00:47:21.000 Well, look, I learned by watching my parents.

00:47:23.000 My mother, she worked so hard as a single mother. 1.00

00:47:27.000 In many cases, she worked two jobs to help support me. 0.97

00:47:30.000 My grandfather, like I said, never missed a day of work.

00:47:33.000 And I just took what they taught me as a kid to, you know, show up on time, overwork, spend as many hours as you can working nonstop.

00:47:42.000 My grandfather's one of these guys that just never quit, Don.

00:47:45.000 And he was always working, always doing something.

00:47:47.000 And it was that determination and that work ethic that I just applied it, kept doing the next right thing. 0.99

00:47:54.000 And you'd be surprised how much garbage is in America. 0.82

00:47:57.000 So, you know, it was a great opportunity to build something from scratch. 0.76

00:48:01.000 But I think also we were able to showcase a vision for an industry that a lot of people didn't see what it could become and how it could change.

00:48:10.000 And, you know, I'm proud, Don, that we saved the American taxpayer, just in my last two years as CEO, over $70 million just by finding abuse and fraud and waste in local government.

00:48:20.000 And these are the things that really inspired me that you could do great things through business.

00:48:25.000 You don't necessarily have to be elected to do great things in the country.

00:48:28.000 And I saw that in your dad as well growing up.

00:48:31.000 So you're a successful business guy.

00:48:33.000 You're able to contribute back that way.

00:48:36.000 Why are you considering jumping into the rat race to replace Mitch McConnell?

00:48:40.000 What gives you that motivation, Nate?

00:48:43.000 Look, I've just had enough of these career politicians, Don.

00:48:47.000 I've had it.

00:48:48.000 And I'm sickened by what I've seen.

00:48:50.000 I'm absolutely sick about it.

00:48:51.000 You know, whether it be Ukraine, the border, all the nonsense that's been in our politics.

00:48:56.000 The fact that Mitch McConnell is just so brash and openly opposing your father after the mandate he got in Kentucky makes me sick, Don.

00:49:03.000 And I've just had enough of it.

00:49:04.000 And I think people in Kentucky have had enough of it.

00:49:07.000 They've had enough of the career politician.

00:49:08.000 We've had 40 years of Mitch McConnell.

00:49:11.000 And, you know, we don't need 40 years of the same.

00:49:14.000 We don't need 40 years of, you know, cronies, career politicians that continue to feed at the public trough.

00:49:20.000 We need people to shake things up, stand with the MAGA movement, stand with your father.

00:49:26.000 And I think as an outsider, that gets me really excited of the change that can be brought on behalf of Kentucky and on behalf of the country.

00:49:35.000 And we've got to get rid of these rhinos and career politicians. 1.00

00:49:38.000 They've had their chance.

00:49:39.000 They've had their day in the sun.

00:49:40.000 It didn't work.

00:49:42.000 And now we've got to bring something new to the table.

00:49:44.000 So for those of you who are tuning in a little bit late, we're on with Nate Morris, who's considering jumping into the Kentucky Senate race to replace Glitch Mitch McConnell.

00:49:55.000 Nate, what has the reaction been so far?

00:49:59.000 What do Kentucky voters...

00:50:02.000 Think of Mitch McConnell right now.

00:50:03.000 And how rough is that sort of party establishment there?

00:50:06.000 I mean, I know based on his votes versus my father's votes, he still puts it through.

00:50:11.000 But again, you know, when you control the purse strings of the entire United States Senate, I imagine you're boosting yourself more than others.

00:50:17.000 So maybe he can get through that.

00:50:18.000 But what's that whole dynamic look like right now?

00:50:21.000 Look, it's been really encouraging, Don.

00:50:24.000 Look, I'm so excited about the enthusiasm that's out there.

00:50:27.000 As you know, Don, we were one of the first people to call for Mitch McConnell to retire.

00:50:30.000 I wrote an op-ed in the Louisville Courier Journal, which is Mitch McConnell's home newspaper, by the way.

00:50:35.000 We wanted to send a very strong signal.

00:50:37.000 You need to retire.

00:50:38.000 You need to move on.

00:50:40.000 And I think we've seen an avalanche of courage and bravery, people standing up to his cronies and his apparatus after we called for him to retire.

00:50:49.000 And the groundswell around this and what we've been saying, I think, is really exciting.

00:50:56.000 But I've also had a share of really funny moments, Don.

00:50:58.000 I'll tell you, on Friday night, I was at this dinner for the big donors of Republican politics.

00:51:05.000 And, you know, all the Mitch apparatus was there.

00:51:08.000 McConnell Inc.

00:51:08.000 was there.

00:51:09.000 And, you know, I pay a lot of money to go to this thing.

00:51:13.000 I mean, this was, you know, thousands of dollars to attend this.

00:51:16.000 I'm sitting right there in the front.

00:51:18.000 Our Speaker of the House gets up there and cries like a baby.

00:51:22.000 He's 60 years old, Don.

00:51:23.000 Crying about how much he's going to miss Mitch McConnell.

00:51:27.000 And he looks right at me and he says, shame on you for the way you've treated Mitch McConnell on his way out.

00:51:34.000 And I was thinking to myself, I was like, is this guy really sad about Mitch McConnell or is he sad about that his moment is over, his day in the sun is over because he owes everything to Mitch McConnell.

00:51:45.000 And everybody in that room owed Mitch McConnell something except for me.

00:51:48.000 I was there because I was standing up as a business guy.

00:51:53.000 There is an outsider.

00:51:54.000 But this is the kind of blowback we also get from a lot of his folks.

00:51:59.000 You know, my wife is pregnant right now. 0.96

00:52:01.000 We got accosted by former Mitch McConnell staffers.

00:52:04.000 Like, how dare you take on the leader?

00:52:05.000 How dare you say what you say?

00:52:07.000 And they're used to being bullies and pushing people around.

00:52:10.000 How dare they?

00:52:11.000 How dare they?

00:52:12.000 They represent a group of people that they knew a third of what Mitch McConnell was doing and were paying attention.

00:52:20.000 They'd run them out of office in two seconds, but they're able to get by because they control that entire apparatus.

00:52:25.000 And yeah, you're right.

00:52:26.000 I mean, you've been going viral left and right on social media, lighting them up for months now.

00:52:30.000 I've been doing that for quite some time myself.

00:52:33.000 But what has the reaction been like from regular people?

00:52:36.000 The establishment's going to establish.

00:52:38.000 That's what they do, right?

00:52:39.000 They're going to be the worst of the worst, and they get paid well to do so, or they've been paid well to do so. 0.90

00:52:49.000 It's sick.

00:52:50.000 But I mean, it really is perhaps the most glaring example, perhaps more so than honestly even D.C. versus the rest of America.

00:52:58.000 Mitch McConnell versus conservatives in Kentucky.

00:53:02.000 There couldn't be a greater divide between what people think they're getting and what they're actually getting.

00:53:09.000 Yeah, that's right, Don.

00:53:11.000 And look, Saturday night I was in Nelson County.

00:53:13.000 I got a standing ovation for what I said from...

00:53:16.000 This is rank-and-file party members.

00:53:19.000 They've had enough, and they're glad that someone's finally standing up to this and finally taking on the McConnell machine and saying enough is enough.

00:53:28.000 And I was very proud.

00:53:29.000 I had a lot of friends from the Kentucky Bikers Association.

00:53:32.000 They couldn't have been more excited.

00:53:34.000 They're like, finally, somebody is speaking out and saying something about this.

00:53:37.000 And, you know, a lot of people have been very terrified, Don, and I think people are now feeling confidence and courage to stand up and say enough is enough.

00:53:46.000 We need to send somebody different back to Washington.

00:53:49.000 So, Nate, how do you get through, you know, again, in the beginning of this, I talked about, yeah, I'm hearing, you know, the political world is small.

00:53:55.000 I get it.

00:53:55.000 Not, you know, even some of the regulars, the establishment folks, they still have inroads with me or their former establishment guys that have seen the light.

00:54:04.000 And so, you know, if I'm hearing from people that, you know, the guys like Karl Rove are going through and the rest of the McConnell machine.

00:54:09.000 You know, I imagine that goes down to a lot of the typical establishment media is going to be going after you.

00:54:16.000 How do you break through?

00:54:17.000 Is it just boots on the ground, door to door in Kentucky?

00:54:20.000 Because, you know, those are going to be forces that are going to be working against you.

00:54:24.000 Not because it's real.

00:54:26.000 But as we saw with Russia, Russia, Russia, it doesn't matter. 0.85

00:54:28.000 You still have to deal with the BS. How do you break through the things that we all know are inevitably going to be happening behind the scenes where, you know, the establishment, even establishment media, even establishment conservative media is going to be doing whatever they can to shank you for whoever Mitch's guys are?

00:54:45.000 Look, Don, we've got to keep fighting.

00:54:47.000 We've got to keep doing what we're doing.

00:54:49.000 But we need the grassroots.

00:54:51.000 We need a groundswell.

00:54:53.000 And continue this movement to stop Mitch McConnell and his cronies from occupying the seat.

00:54:59.000 I mentioned the dinner on Friday night.

00:55:00.000 Every one of these people keep standing up for Mitch McConnell every time he's mentioned, like he's some sort of god.

00:55:07.000 And they're standing up for my potential opponents as well.

00:55:10.000 And that tells you everything you need to know about this potential race here, is that you've got these guys that are owned by McConnell that are trying to get in.

00:55:18.000 One's already gotten in, by the way.

00:55:21.000 It's going to take the grassroots.

00:55:23.000 It's going to take everything we've got to fight Mitch McConnell and his cronies from occupying this seat through a different vessel.

00:55:30.000 Because, look, any of these two guys looking at the race, they're going to occupy it with McConnell loyalists, McConnellites.

00:55:37.000 It's going to be McConnell 2.0.

00:55:39.000 And everybody needs to realize that as we continue this fight and we continue to have this dialogue with Kentucky and bring the fight directly to them.

00:55:47.000 I'm not afraid of them.

00:55:48.000 And very few people have ever been able to stand up to this guy.

00:55:51.000 Yeah, I saw that, I think it was earlier today, or maybe it was over the weekend.

00:55:56.000 I read the Wall Street Journal article, you know, Daniel Cameron, who's like literally a Mitch's protege, he literally, when he ran, he ran as Mitch's protege, and he said there's zero light between Mitch and me on anything, ever, whatever.

00:56:07.000 And then in the Wall Street Journal, it's like, you know.

00:56:11.000 Daniel Cameron, he's going against Mitch now.

00:56:13.000 I'm like, come on, guys.

00:56:15.000 Does no one realize...

00:56:16.000 If you're trying to win a primary in Kentucky, I promise you, if you're doing it for real, you're not leaking it to the Wall Street Journal that he's really taking them on so he's not just Mitch's guy.

00:56:27.000 They understand it's probably harder to win being Mitch's guy right now, but like...

00:56:30.000 You see the creation of the fake narrative in real time.

00:56:34.000 I went, what'd you make of that one?

00:56:35.000 Because I was like, I don't know, guys.

00:56:36.000 It seems like if you're actually going to do it, call them out loud, call them out aggressively, do it at home, not in the Wall Street Journal where, you know, I'd say very few, you know, base Republicans will ever see even a little bit of this.

00:56:50.000 But it's just such a setup, obviously.

00:56:53.000 Yeah, I mean, look, Don, my family doesn't read the Wall Street Journal.

00:56:56.000 The guys that worked in the factory, they don't read the Wall Street Journal.

00:56:59.000 And look, I think they're not trying to speak to Kentuckians.

00:57:02.000 They're trying to speak to the Washington establishment.

00:57:05.000 And it's a complete bogus lie.

00:57:08.000 Yeah, they're trying to form it like, oh, it's not really Mitch's guy.

00:57:11.000 Let's all get on with those talking points so that we can try to shape this thing the way they want.

00:57:16.000 And then they get in and all of a sudden he's Mitch's guy.

00:57:19.000 Absolutely.

00:57:20.000 And look.

00:57:20.000 Don, the biggest thing I took from that piece, you read that Cameron said that he would unite the party.

00:57:26.000 That's AKA, we're going to keep toeing the line for Mitch if we get in.

00:57:30.000 That's what he was saying.

00:57:32.000 And now he's trying to say he's a uniter and bringing both factions of the party together.

00:57:36.000 And look, Don, this is really simple.

00:57:38.000 This is a referendum on McConnell, period.

00:57:41.000 This is what this is all about.

00:57:43.000 And this is what this race is going to be about. 0.98

00:57:45.000 It is a referendum on Mitch McConnell.

00:57:47.000 You either stand with McConnell.

00:57:48.000 Or you stand with President Trump.

00:57:50.000 There is no in-between.

00:57:52.000 And Daniel Cameron knows everything to Mitch McConnell.

00:57:55.000 He was a McConnell scholar at the University of Louisville.

00:57:58.000 McConnell plucked him from riding the bench at the University of Louisville football team.

00:58:02.000 Couldn't get on the field.

00:58:03.000 So Mitch McConnell gives him a scholarship and says, look, I could turn this guy into a United States senator.

00:58:09.000 He interns for Mitch McConnell.

00:58:11.000 And you know the first thing he did, Don?

00:58:13.000 When he was working for McConnell, is he helped to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

00:58:19.000 Now, that's AKA amnesty, open borders, porous borders.

00:58:27.000 That's the first thing he did when he got out of the gate in politics, is to stand with Mitch McConnell on open borders.

00:58:33.000 It's crazy.

00:58:34.000 And every step of this guy's career, whether he be general counsel for Mitch, you know the general counsel signs off on everything.

00:58:41.000 That a senator does.

00:58:43.000 And so he signed off on everything Mitch McConnell did.

00:58:45.000 His cronies ran his race for attorney general and governor.

00:58:48.000 And by the way, Don, he squandered your father's endorsement.

00:58:51.000 I mean, he lost by almost six points.

00:58:54.000 My dad endorsed him because it was, you know, the guy at the time or whatever it was.

00:58:57.000 And he wouldn't even embrace it in Kentucky.

00:59:00.000 You know, it's great.

00:59:01.000 I'll get it.

00:59:01.000 But they wouldn't run an ad when he just.

00:59:04.000 It's mind boggling.

00:59:05.000 I mean, I could understand if you're running as a Republican in New York City, maybe.

00:59:08.000 But like in Kentucky, like that's.

00:59:11.000 That's all you needed.

00:59:12.000 And instead you lose and you end up with a Democrat governor and it's wild.

00:59:16.000 And it's preposterous.

00:59:18.000 And look, we just had Kentucky Fried Chicken leave Kentucky.

00:59:22.000 Can you believe that, Don?

00:59:23.000 And that's because we elected a Democratic governor.

00:59:26.000 And I blame Daniel Cameron for Kentucky Fried Chicken leaving our state.

00:59:29.000 I mean, if we had a Republican governor in there, there's no way that would have happened.

00:59:33.000 And look, I think that it's really clear.

00:59:36.000 Terry Carmack told, who's Mitch McConnell's chief of staff, told Trump to stay out.

00:59:40.000 Of the general election and not come to Kentucky.

00:59:43.000 I mean, how ludicrous of an idea is that?

00:59:46.000 And so, look, and then you look at the other guy, Andy Barr, and look, this is a guy, Don, who said that Mitch McConnell was his mentor at 50 years old.

00:59:55.000 This was several months ago, maybe five or six months ago, said that Mitch McConnell was his mentor.

01:00:00.000 First of all, I don't know any 50-year-old men that still have mentors, let alone Mitch McConnell.

01:00:05.000 You should be mentoring others at that age, right?

01:00:07.000 Yeah.

01:00:08.000 That's wild.

01:00:09.000 Well, as someone who is a Kentucky colonel, myself, and a Duke of Hazzard, by the way, or spent a lot of time in Hazzard, Kentucky, I'm glad to see someone taking this on and putting an end to it.

01:00:24.000 So, Nate, let everyone know where they can find you, because Nate's social game is...

01:00:28.000 For a newcomer into politics, at least, really strong.

01:00:33.000 So I suggest you follow him, check him out, watch the campaign.

01:00:36.000 And more importantly, if you're from Kentucky, let's make sure we do whatever we can to make sure you don't end up with another Mitch Disciple in there, because America doesn't need that.

01:00:45.000 MAGA certainly doesn't need it. 0.98

01:00:46.000 And, you know, if you're not from Kentucky, you know, this is going to be one of those Senate races that we're going to have to really fight, because as we've seen, right, with, you know...

01:00:56.000 Republicans like Mitt Romney or otherwise in the Senate, you might as well have a Democrat.

01:01:00.000 So let's make sure we don't end up with a Mitch Democrat in the Kentucky Senate seat. 0.78

01:01:07.000 That should be an otherwise, I don't want to say easy win, nothing's easy, but should be pretty much a no-brainer.

01:01:13.000 Yeah, Don, I'm on X, at Nate Morris.

01:01:16.000 Give me a follow.

01:01:17.000 Let's engage in discussion.

01:01:19.000 And Don, I'm so grateful for you having me on the show today.

01:01:22.000 It's great to be with you again.

01:01:23.000 It's my pleasure, man.

01:01:24.000 I'm sure we'll do a lot together and we will see you soon.

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