The Benny Show - Benny Johnson·July 16, 2024·🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Vivek, Trump LIVE Right NOW From Inside RNC! Talking Trump's Triumphant Return, WINNING·
That's like a three-inch putt for a golfer, right?
You do not miss it.
You never miss it.
And the fact that that bullet, Grace's ear, the fact that he moved his head to the side, slightly turned, the fact that he put that immigration slide up on the screen and just, make no mistake, that immigration slide was supposed to be used at the end of the speech, and he just felt like doing it early.
So he had to turn at the screen and look up, and that's when the bullet race is here.
It is absolutely an act of God that kept him here today.
I don't wear that stuff on my sleeve.
There's a lot of people that do, but that's pretty deep.
There's one other powerful moment at the time.
There was a flag hanging between two cranes, and it flipped up over itself, and it looked like an angel.
Sometimes you've got to read the signs of the world, and he's here, and God bless.
I think my father's in iconic territory where he was going to go down as one of the greatest presidents in history, but I think he's truly, when we win in November, I think he's going to go down as truly in the leagues of Jefferson, in the leagues of Washington.
They've tried everything, guys.
They've tried everything.
They've tried to take him out.
They've tried to kill our family.
They've tried to bankrupt him.
The entire judicial system against him.
They've weaponized the entire world against him.
They've played every unfair trick.
They've cheated.
You know, they've lied.
They've dispersed.
They tried to slander.
And then last week, they tried to kill him.
You know, a couple days ago, they tried to kill him.
And I think he's going to be revered in history as being one of the most resilient people you could have ever possibly seen.
And one of the most resilient people to ever live in the great White House.
I mean, we almost saw the assassination of a former president on TV.
I mean, think about that.
Think about what that would have done to our nation.
I mean, you know, civil wars have been started for less than...
Then what happened there, and it's just, it's hard to possibly fathom, you know, that moment on live TV being broadcast to the entire world, but, you know, first you're in total shock, then you just care that he's going to get up, and you're praying that the guy's going to get off off the ground.
He got up, he put his fist in the air and said exactly what you guys just said, fight, fight, fight, fight.
And literally, you had entire communities in this country, including the African-American community, and thank you to all the African-American people here in the audience that there's a lot of them.
But literally, he becomes an icon of a community that might not have backed him in 2016.
All of a sudden, they're saying, Hey, you know what?
I've watched them for years do this exact same thing.
And you see his poll numbers rise in those communities.
You see his poll numbers rise in Hispanic communities, in impoverished communities across this country.
And then you see those cases get thrown out.
So not only did they raise him hundreds of millions of dollars, not only did he win the vote of the very communities that they've been attacking for years and years and years.
But then the lawsuits that they brought that were criminal in the first place, most of them get dismissed.
I mean, it's like a Christmas gift before Christmas.
It's kind of remarkable.
And I think in retrospect, they're going to come back to regret some of these plays.
I mean, I call it the law of unintended consequences.
And man, if there was ever a law of unintended consequences manifest itself, it's certainly been in this election.
I may disagree with about 99 things, but if there's one thing that I can work with you on to actually get something done for the country, I'm going to do that.
He's pragmatist while also having ideals.
And so that's going to be the theme of my speech tonight.
Not fake unity, but real unity.
Not very good at giving scripted speeches, so we'll see how good I am at sticking to the preordained speech, but that's going to be the theme of it, and I'm looking forward to it.
So every point of the debate, and I said this last year, we were talking about this, but the debate, obviously the debate was a disaster.
I actually think the bigger change was in the last few days.
Where if you think about this, Biden's now at a fork in the road, right?
He on one hand has a histrionic message that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, but he himself says we've got to tone down the rhetoric, in which case he has no message left.
So I think that actually makes for the most compelling case that they're going to have to replace him, is the man literally, it's not just his cognitive deficit, it's his message deficit.
He has no vision or message left, which means they can't go with Kamala because she also has a cognitive deficit issue.
But she has an identity politic poison pill.
In the corporate world, you call that a poison pill.
You can't get rid of the guy because she's the poison pill.
Who's the one person that gets around that?
They're going to take one shot.
It's going to be the best shot they can take.
And I think it's going to be likely Michelle Obama.
And they're waiting for this convention to play out, which is why I think complacency on our side is not an option.
They want all the festivities to be behind them, wait until next month.
And I predict they're going to take their best shot, but it doesn't matter.
Because at this point, look at Donald Trump, the images of your father last Saturday coming out of that.
Unfortunately, they keep setting a really low bar for everybody to clear here.
I'll say this one thing on the point Eric made, though.
We talk a lot about the mass deportations of millions of illegals from the country, and we're all in favor of that.
But we also need to mass deport millions of those federal bureaucrats out of Washington, D.C. That is the second mass deportation that's going to save this country.
And let's have some real talk, right?
Because even in the primary, one of the questions you'll get is, well, why didn't Donald Trump do that in the first term?
Here's an answer to that question.
The Supreme Court only paved the way in the last two years.
So in 2017, Trump actually did not have the toolkit to actually gut that actual bureaucracy, to go in and drain the swamp.
There were legal obstacles that now don't exist.
So I think this is a once-in-a-century opportunity to save the country, get rid of the managerial bureaucracy, and actually create a constitutional republic that our founding fathers envisioned, and Donald Trump's going to be the man to do it.
I want everybody to know, and Vivek just touched on this, but the numbers are a lie.
You see the employment numbers in this country, right?
And they go up 200,000 a month, and people are like, oh, okay, those are okay numbers.
60% of all jobs created in this country in the last four years have been government jobs.
Roughly 1.6 million, right?
Those aren't people that are paying taxes.
Those are people that your taxes are paying for.
Yet no one wants to come out because the media is dishonest.
No one wants to come out and actually break down those job numbers and tell you that those are actually half the jobs that are in there, over half the jobs that are in there.
And I do want to tell, before you do the poll, I do want to tell our viewers, because we have tens of thousands, we have hundreds of thousands watching right now.
The reason why we're kind of in the round here is this very Shakespearean.
There's an incredible audience, hundreds of people all around, so we don't mean to be rude to you, hundreds of thousands of people watching.
You know, there's never been anybody who's created a movement like this.
And this is a movement of love, right?
Politicians don't create movements like this.
Politicians don't have people.
Transcend from every aspect of a state to a rally to sit there for 24 hours to wait in long lines.
It's a movement of love.
And it's a movement of love for this country and for a nation.
And people are sick and tired of getting ripped off and used in a country that's degraded and a flag that's disrespected and a God and religion that is disrespected and a constitution that is 100% under fire.
100%.
The things that we love, the things that we believe in.
Our core values, our family, our kids, all of those things have been disrespected and used and abused and people have been lied to and they call them the flyover states for a reason.
People are taken for granted in this country and they want America back and they see the one guy, the one guy who did not need to do this.
And when President Trump showed up last night, it was an undeniable sense of unity and the idea that our country and our party are going to galvanize and coalesce around President Trump for the likes that we have not seen in modern history.
I think we're going to have a record day in November.
And after what we saw last Saturday with us almost losing him, I've got to tell you, to see all the patriots here today show up and support President Trump is...
It's absolutely one of the most American things I've ever seen.
From a tactical standpoint, I want to touch on this real quick.
You know, I flew 55 combat air missions in Baghdad, and I've been shot at before.
And it's the resolve that you understand once you get shot at to then get up and to fly the next mission and to keep moving forward and to keep going.
Because if you don't do your job, then people on the ground might die.
You must do your job because you took that oath and you keep on moving forward.
When I saw President Trump get shot at as a civilian, and the resolve that he had to put his shoes back on, to walk off that stage with dignity, and to tell us all to fight, fight, fight, I could have sworn that guy's been in combat before.
And that's the kind of resolve that the country needs.
We're going to have a full investigation to get to the bottom of this and to have some substantive reforms and actually be transparent with the American public so we know what happens.
This does not ever happen again.
And I will do everything in my power along with Jim Jordan and my other colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee.
We have to get to the bottom of this, and we have to get to the bottom of this yesterday.
Now, I will say this.
When President Trump walked out yesterday, that looked like the A-team that was with him yesterday.
So I could tell there's already been some internal conversations here about how much protection our former...
We have to actually do an autopsy to figure everything out on your right.
150 yards away, that's a chip shot.
That's utterly ridiculous.
I'm pretty accurate with my AR-15 back at home.
I tell you what, 150 yards is way too close for any president or former president or anybody that is special in this country that's willing to continue to serve like President Trump has done.
When it comes to presidential security and when it comes to the general security of this country, you've been talking about this on our program for a very long time, Congressman.
You're from Texas.
How would you advise President Trump, as soon as he gets back to the White House, given the needs of your district, to start securing things up?
The story goes, as I was told, actually by Mike Pompeo at lunch a few years ago, They were having a negotiation with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and basically there was a translator, and Donald Trump, he told the translator, hey, look, I want you to tell Taliban leadership that I'm going to leave Afghanistan, but it's going to be a conditions-based withdrawal.
And he said, okay, I translated it, and he said, if you don't do exactly what I tell you to do, and if you harm a single American, I'm going to kill you.
And then reached in his pocket and showed the leader of the Taliban a picture of his home in Afghanistan and got up and walked out.
Do you know that for 18 months, not a single American died in Afghanistan?
And I think that it's amazing to speak to people who fought in wars, because it's always the people who fought in wars, like J.D. Vance, who are the ones who don't want to start more wars.
I find that remarkable.
Those who go and fight in wars actually understand it, and they say, no, this is terrible.
We waste American treasure, and the greatest American treasure, which is American lives.
And so I just think that right now, the big thing going forward is going to be, and we're going to see it Thursday night, Tuesday night's going to be epic, but Thursday night, when Donald Trump takes that podium to officially accept the nomination, It's going to be electrifying.
I didn't have anything to do with that, but I'm going to say that, you know, the people's champion, The Rock, he knows when the people are against somebody.
And the people are against Joe Biden.
They've seen enough.
He's a terrible president.
I've been calling him the master of disaster because the man's just been terrible at his job.
And the American people want something new.
Wesley knows this.
In Houston, Texas, they want Donald Trump.
In Southwest Florida, they want Donald Trump.
But I'm going to tell you, you've been hearing it.
You've been hearing it, too.
I've been hearing it.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, It's a little bit quieter.
Listen, I think it's important for people to understand.
Ten years ago, I was a Republican activist.
The first convention I ever went to was the 2012 convention in Tampa.
And the only reason I got in is because I was a guest of somebody else simply because I had helped out and worked and did things on the ground.
So for it to kind of come full circle and you're sitting in the president's box and you're sitting next to the president, especially after what happened Saturday, you're thinking, man, how did I get here?
Benny, I love you, baby, but I can't give you everything.
I'll tell you, right before he came out, everybody saw him on the video monitors last night.
You could see the moment, how much it meant to him.
The emotion of him coming out.
The emotion of everybody in that arena wanting to see him.
Man, I gotta tell you, man, it was surreal.
It was an out-of-body experience because when he stepped foot on that convention floor, the roof blew off the place and he didn't even say a word from the podium.
And so, look, I think he's an incredibly blessed man.
He is blessed to lead this nation.
And now it's our job as Republican elected officials, as Republican activists here in the great city of Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
As people with a platform in the American First movement, Benny Johnson, the time is now for us to do the work after this convention to make sure he's taking the oath of office and J.D. is taking the oath of office so we can get this country on track.
Registering every voter that needs to be out there.
The forgotten men and women of this country have to stand up and make sure their voice is heard.
It's every waitress.
It's every bartender.
It's every Uber driver.
It's every trucker.
It's everybody that goes to church on Sunday and they pray to God Almighty and we have to remind them that faith without works is dead and they have a responsibility to get out and make sure their voice is heard.
It's registering them.
It's get out the vote.
And so my job, Wesley's job, we're out there.
You know who we are?
We are the oratory.
We are the muscle to give people the oomph for our volunteers to keep going in them times where you don't want to keep going.
Because I've been in those rooms when you're tired.
Byron, I want to ask a question about last night because I don't want to skip over something that's really remarkable and that seems to be the major takeaway headline, which is that the Republican Party has changed.
And if you have the Teamsters head speaking on stage and you speaking on stage and President Trump walking in to sit next to Tucker Carlson and Amber Rose on stage, you have a totally different Republican Party.
I mean, this is blowing.
The minds of everybody online and those who even hate Republicans in the corporate press are saying this is unlike anything we've ever seen.
This is a unifying party with energy that seems as though it's undefeatable.
What it means is that President Trump wants to hear from everybody and he wants everybody to be heard.
Compare that to the left, who's quick to cut off debate, who's quick to stifle debate.
I mean, they couldn't even let Joe Biden go through a primary process.
They were scared of Dean Phillips and RFKJ.
So Donald Trump wants everybody to feel welcomed.
He wants the grand old party to be the grand opportunity party.
He wants it to be an open party where all ideas are shared.
And let me be very clear.
Just because all ideas are talked about and shared doesn't mean Donald Trump's going to execute those ideas because he is laser-focused on the American people and what's best for our country.
But it was a great night.
And it actually demonstrated that in our party, we are the tolerant party.
I mean, I don't want to start with the flattery, but the corporate media reporters who hate you and who hate the RNC are like, we've never seen it so unified.
We've never seen people with the spirit of inevitability, is what the AP reporter said.
No, I think everyone in this country will say, I remember exactly where I was and exactly what was going on the moment I found out.
That this assassination attempt occurred against Donald Trump.
It was honestly one of the most frightening moments I've ever experienced.
And I think we were at home and, you know, I had the TV on.
I was actually getting dinner ready for my kids.
And about 20 seconds before this happened, they had turned around to look at the TV and go, look, there's grandpa.
And I looked down and when I looked back up, he was on the ground.
And I heard Eric in the other room calling me in there.
And so I quickly changed the channel because I didn't know what was going on.
Obviously, this is my children's grandfather.
And when I went in the other room with Eric, it felt like an eternity for us to see him actually get up off the ground.
And then obviously we saw the blood.
And you don't know.
He looked fine.
He gave us the fist pump in the air and said, fight, fight, fight.
But you don't know.
And I think between that moment and actually getting confirmation by hearing him on the phone, by hearing his voice.
That he was okay.
It was incredibly frightening.
And you think about millimeters.
We're talking millimeters that made the difference between us being here today, talking about this failed assassination attempt, and our hearts go out to the family of the father and the husband who was killed.
Absolutely tragic.
Or this being an utter tragedy, a national tragedy, changing...
This country and maybe even the world in a way that I don't even think we can fathom right now.
It was so close.
But I think the thing to come out of this, for me, the thing that I think you're going to hear from Donald Trump himself on Thursday night, is that we can unify right now in this moment as a country.
I think this is a moment in time where we say enough.
Enough with the crazy.
Enough with all of the rhetoric that we've heard.
Now is the time to unify.
And I think you're going to hear...
What I believe will probably be the most historic speech of Donald Trump's life on Thursday night.
Well, this is Donald Trump, and this is what he wanted to have happen.
And so I think, look, how do you go through an experience like that and not be...
Changed in some way by it and not be touched in some way by it and truly inspired by it.
I mean, it's literally a near-death experience.
And so I think he felt like he had a huge opportunity and almost a duty right now to the country.
As much of a duty as I think he felt in that moment on the stage to kind of fight Secret Service off to raise his fists in the air, right?
Because they were like, sir, we got to go.
And he really said, look, I need to do this.
And I think it was a bigger signal.
Not just for the people there in the audience.
Of course, it was for them, the people watching at home.
But really to say, like, we're okay.
I'm okay, so we're okay.
It was so much bigger than him.
And I think he understands that this moment right now is just about the same.
It's so much bigger than him.
And he has a real opportunity to reach out to every American, to people who really didn't think they liked Donald Trump, who have criticized him in the past.
Bring people in to truly what this movement is about and who he is as a person.
And actually, when I speak tonight, I want to give a little more insights into who Donald Trump is as a father-in-law and a grandfather and a dad.
And I don't think we get to see that side of him enough.
It's why I occasionally do post those videos that are very personal.
Because I think that's the Donald Trump I know and the Donald Trump that my children know.
And obviously that my husband calls dad.
And we should see...
That side of him.
This is a human being at the end of the day.
And I think you'll see that in his speech on Thursday.
And I certainly want to try to do that a little tonight.
Yeah, well, I mean, I do think that it is, there are very few of us who can tell you who Donald Trump is as a man, and again, as a father, a grandfather.
And I can tell people that.
I can tell them my experiences with him.
So I'm going to tell.
The man that I know and the man that I think America should start to get to know a little more and a little bit more deeply because he truly has never been given a chance by some people.
Some people wrote him off totally from day one.
And I think what's happened is you've seen a lot more people open up to Donald Trump recently and say, well, I don't know.
I think that my life was certainly better with him in there.
I'm going to take another look at him.
But I want to humanize him and I want people to see the Donald Trump.
Okay, so one final question, because motherhood is such a cornerstone that you speak about and speak to.
And every time they poll, suburban women...
It's like this immovable block for Democrats.
And it seems to me there's little pieces getting chipped off here and there.
And I'd like to maybe give you an opportunity to give sort of a heartfelt message to the mothers out there and to women out there and to wives out there about your father-in-law.
And maybe they're watching tonight, but why not give it a warm-up go?
I happened to meet a guy whose name was Eric Trump out one night with friends.
And I can tell you that the very first time I ever met my father-in-law, it was so intimidating to, first of all, meet your possible in-laws.
But when their last name is Trump...
The bar gets raised quite high.
And I was like, oh my gosh, what's this going to be like?
And he was so nice and so kind and so genuine and so welcoming to me and never made me feel like anything other than part of the family and that I belonged.
And then put so much faith in me as his daughter-in-law to help him in 2016.
One very quick final question, because I know this is something that you have worked so hard on.
Election integrity.
For the first time ever, the RNC is suing states to make sure that elections are fair, to make sure that real votes are counted and that only American citizens vote.
Just a quick commentary on your work there through November.
We're going to work hard, and look, we feel good right now, but every good athlete knows...
You play every second of the game up until the game is over.
And on November 5th, I just want everybody here to get ready to go to bed early because we're calling it early for Donald Trump on November 5th to become our 47th president.
I'm not going to say much about that other than I wish he would have taken some personal responsibility when he starts talking about, let's bring the rhetoric down.
After George Clooney, who's a friend of mine, I love George.
He's a nice guy.
I don't agree with his politics at all.
But after he wrote that letter, which I know had to have been blessed by Obama, he wrote that letter, and then it's made it okay for half of Hollywood to say, look, I don't support Joe Biden.
Which, look, I support that, because the emperor has no clothes, and to call that out, it's about time.
But now he's going to stay in the race, and I'm going to argue that what happened to President Trump, that assassination attempt on Saturday, Is going to change not just this race, but the whole world.
The strength that this man has to deal with the lawfare, the Russian collusion thing, people always undermining him, an assassination attempt, and to stand up like that.
Listen, I've been under fire.
I was in Iraq in 2005 visiting our troops, and I didn't look like that under fire.
He's like, how dare they let Trump get out of the bubble, right, at that moment.
If they had swept Trump away in a little security bubble, the entire nation would have been sick to their stomach for hours wondering if he's alive or not, right?
It deals with a candidate who is running for office who's a pastor.
So I would argue at this point in time that that Saturday when President Trump got...
Got shot in the ear that God did intervene already in this because the distance between the ear and the head and the head turn, I mean, it was like divine intervention.
Well, the crux of it is the pastor ends up having to run for Congress, doesn't want to, and then it becomes the argument about separation of church and state.
Should your religion have anything to do with how you campaign?
Well, I imagine we're going to hear about God from President Trump on Thursday.
It's exactly what we're talking about, and it's wonderful because they've been erasing God from schools, from all education, from state houses across the nation.
And what do you replace that with?
Do you replace that with, you know...
Gender questions and, you know, the CRT and all these things that are going on right now.
It's absolutely truth, justice, and the American way.
And DC let that expire.
And they didn't support that anymore.
I have it in my bio on X. I didn't say Twitter.
I said X out of respect for Elon Musk.
Nice, yes.
Because I believe in truth, justice, and the American way.
The power of the individual, which is the opposite of fascism for you out there who are calling President Trump a fascist.
Smaller government, less regulation, fair competition, keep the government out of it, the ability to make a lot of money and do well, which is what everybody comes here for.
We're seeing this incredible thing where independent movies, Sound of Freedom is one that comes to mind, but these independent movies that are made out of the Hollywood studio system that you're involved in, that other actors are involved in, are killing it.
And the American public are saying yes to this.
Can you tell me about what that's doing to the industry?
Give us some insight as to what that means for Hollywood.
Going into the future, I mean, is Hollywood cooked, man?
There's only a few people who make the decisions in Hollywood for what movies are going to get made.
When you make the big studio movies, they put $400 million into a project and another $400 million in the P&A.
They've got to make $800 million.
It's going to be a billion dollar picture to make money.
They're putting these big ones out there.
Meanwhile, it's gotten so much cheaper to make movies, and so many wonderful people are making movies, whether it's the guys over at Pinnacle Peak that I just did God's Not Dead with, or JC Films, which makes a lot of wonderful faith-based movies.
I do those because I want to help change the culture.
But at the end of the day, there is a bottom line, and they have to make money.
Paramod just underwent a huge change, and I happen to know the guys are involved in that, so I'm excited for that possibility.
I think the pendulum's going to swing back to make things like Top Gun Maverick.
Sound of Freedom, Disney had that movie for five years and didn't release it until Angel Studios took it over and said, we want to do this, and it's a huge hit, because they didn't want to put that out there.
Well, the audiences want it, so the more we make of those, the better off we're going to be.
We saw it on TV, but then we walk in and you can really see what goes on.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, it's been a huge blessing.
We could have never expected this a couple years ago.
We just kind of went with the opportunities that God put in front of us and here we are.
Yeah.
I'd say all the people we met here is just amazing people, and I'm just grateful just to be here and just get to meet all these opportunities I get to do out here, and thank y 'all.
Yeah, and then he's like, he got shot in the head, and then we see him that night going down the stairs of his plane, and he does the stairs better than Joe Biden after getting shot in the head.
Chairman of the RNC and Lord Trump were just here, and they're like, yeah, 50 cents here.
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Oh, wow.
I think that's a really good thing, too, just for the whole Republican Party in general, because I feel like the Democratic Party, for all these years, has used rappers and influencers, especially with the black community, to influence their vote.
So I feel like, you know, let's use them to tell the truth.
I also agree.
I think it's great for the party.
Young people are going to love that.
It's going to be viral everywhere.
Everyone's going to love that.
And the fact that you know 50 Cent endorsing Trump on his own.
He's been a Trump advocate on social media.
So the fact that he's going to come and perform, oh man, that's huge.
I think it's authentic, man, because I really feel like 50 Cent really does endorse Trump.
When Kamala Harris called into the BET, that pissed me off so bad.
And he's like, yeah, I'm from Milwaukee and I never voted before and nothing could stop me from voting for Trump after I saw him get shot.
Are you seeing that energy in your comment section, in your chat?
Like where people are like, yeah, I'm now all in because I watched the man take a bullet for this country.
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People I've never seen before that didn't support him at first is supporting him now, and it's just amazing to see.
Like, Sauce Gardner, one of my favorite defensive corners, just to see him say, I'm with Trump now, it just makes me just so happy to see that.
Yeah, people who, like, aren't really into politics, that are just like my friends from back home, who I know for a 100% fact were not Trump supporters, all came out and, like, tweeted very positive things about Trump.
And I was like, wow, like, I would never expect you to say that.
So, I said on the video, I was like, the Trump assassination attempt was, it was extremely sad, but at the same time, now what came from it, I really do believe that it helped.
Like, it did, it did help.
I also agree.
I think that the assassination attempt just really was, like, insane to see for young people, like, especially, like, our age.
I mean, you read it in history, you hear about it in history, it's never something that I thought I would witness in my life.
So the fact that we saw him almost get assassinated and then get up in no fear and pumping his fists, I mean, how can you not support that?
I think the Trump campaign is now stronger more than ever.
And, like, can you talk about what it's like to have a real audience that's, like, really growing and that actually, like, knows you, interacts with you, and feels like the energy of your channel, right?
Like, what that...
What does that mean to actually have a connection with your audience?
And then where does that go in the future?
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Because that's really powerful.
I think it's just a huge blessing.
It's really cool.
So we've been doing it for about four years now.
So they really watched us grow and change.
I was 21 when I started.
I'm 25 now.
Our first video, we were literally at a Black Lives Matter rally.
We have a BLM poster in the beginning videos we used to post years ago.
So that's one thing they really like about Independent media rather than, like, you know, the big-time media because we say what we truly, truly think.
We get on there, we argue with the video.
We get on there, we argue with each other.
So it's like this is what our true opinion really is, and it's changed.
And over, like, four years, we have grown a lot.
So people comment all the time, like, oh, my gosh, like, a couple years ago, you know, y 'all were kids, and, like, we were college kids, and now we're, like, grown adults, and we're seeing how the things that you vote affect you, and it's just been a huge blessing, and it's really cool.
That's incredible.
That's incredible.
I'll just say I'm thankful for our audience.
Just to have them watching us from when we first started to now, it's just a blessing, man.
They watched us come from nothing just to see us shine now, and they keep supporting us through everything we have been through, and it's just a blessing.
No, like you said, having an audience that engages with us and knows us and knows our names and stuff, it's very motivating.
It makes you want to just keep...
Giving them what they want and keep putting out good content.
We take it super serious now.
We shoot up to the event with suits on just because we know our audience would be here so we could be taken serious.
To see it grow and continue to develop and morph into what it is, we want to continue to build it and make it a more business so we can be a reputable source, like you said, and have something on the floor and continue to grow it and make it sustainable for years to come.
Carter, your family with a Z on X. I just feel like the narratives that have been pushed at these type of events and people tell us, the people in our comments are racist, MAGA, Republicans and stuff like that.
And we come to these events and we get nothing but love.
And any hunter Any military person that you speak to, anyone that knows anything about shooting, about guns, about anything, they will tell you that was the hand of God.
And when I say he's bulletproof, it's because you can feel his anointing.
His words, when he speaks, he's a prophet.
I don't even know if he realizes he has the gift of prophecy and the prophetic gift, but he has the prophetic gift.
When he says that something happens, usually it happens.
And so we have to listen to the word of God.
God doesn't always speak to us in our ears.
God speaks to us through people.
And so at some point we have to realize when the hand of God is speaking and we have to humble ourselves, walk in righteousness, stay close and stay yoked to the Holy Spirit, and we can hear the voice of God.
And so, I hear this guy speak and the things he's talking about.
I'm going into the inner city communities.
I'm going into the prisons.
I'm helping folks.
And I'm listening to what this guy's saying.
And this guy's talking about things that are going to actually help my people that I'm trying to help every day.
And I'm listening to the left that's telling them that they're victims, that are not encouraging them to go out and work, but to take welfare.
And so as you start to listen to these things, I'm like, wait a minute, man, this is real.
And I had just gotten from Baltimore, Maryland, doing a football camp in one of the worst areas of Baltimore.
In the hood, man.
I mean, boarded up stuff everywhere.
And I got back and I told Donald Trump about my experience in Baltimore and that as a kid who was the first to graduate from college and his family, a kid that was the first to really make it out, to go back into that black community and see so many of those little boys who had more athletic ability than I have, but because of the situation they were in, they never get that opportunity.
You know, when you talk about, they forget the Word of God talks about division, right?
And just to take a little bit of scripture here.
Jesus said he didn't come here to bring peace but a sword to turn fathers against their sons and mothers against their daughters.
What he was saying is truth sometimes divides us, Benny.
And if you want me to lie to you, right, if you want me to tell you that a man can go play sports against a woman, if you want me to tell you that, that's a lie.
That is going to naturally cause division, and that's what Trump does.
So, actually, I think myself and maybe Larry Elder are still the only active Trump appointees.
So I still work as a commissioner for the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
So we both represent the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, which I proudly serve on and will continue to serve on unless President Trump comes in and wants to appoint someone else.
And so they kept me there, you know, and I think they kept me there because we're in the prisons, man.
You know, we distribute 100,000 pounds of food to Americans every week.
We go into prisons and jails and bring fathers and help put them into the homes.
But we do those things because of America First policies.
We do those things because we understand that it doesn't matter if it's a populist perspective.
What actually matters is if you're uplifting people, right?
And so when a kid goes to school and you're sticking them into these public schools that don't work, when my kid, my black kid, because I can afford it, goes to a private school and he makes straight A's.
But the black kid that doesn't have the resources, that lives in a blue state that won't give him school choice, he's locked up and imprisoned in his own country.
Donald Trump understands that, and he wants to set the captives free, Benny.
No, but the Democratic Party right now, they know that they're backpedaling.
They realize the impact of their policy.
And so they're trying to take what Donald Trump did, whether it's HBCUs, and they're trying to take credit for those things.
They're taking what Donald Trump did when it comes to the tax plan and trying to say that they are the ones that actually created jobs.
And so they're trying to distort reality across the board.
And I think if you listen to Amber Rose last night, Who I thought did an incredible job of articulating that message to a population that normally wouldn't listen.
And so I applauded her for that.
And if you listen to what she said, I think that is the biggest threat to the Democratic Party, is that now African Americans like myself, people that speak into a different population, are now being heard and able to actually articulate not what President Trump is going to do, but we're talking about what he's already done.
And that's what we need right now today in the United States of America is we need a strong father figure to lead this nation back to righteousness.
And we have 23 million fatherless kids across the nation.
That's a big number.
We're the largest fatherless population in the entire world per capita.
And so when you have a nation like that that has so many ills that are happening to us from all over the place, you got to start rebuilding the fabric of your nation.
You got to rebuild the foundation of your nation.
And that starts in our fatherless homes.
That's going to help these women who are single moms that are dealing with inflation.
That are dealing with the lack of education for their kids.
You start dealing with fatherlessness, you're going to end some of these crazy sentences and criminal injustices that are happening across our nation and help put these fathers in prison back in the home so they can become taxpayers and build this nation again.
You're going to stop the migrant crisis which is pulling military-age men who are fathers from their houses in Guatemala and El Salvador and all these other countries.
So that they stay at home in their own country and take care of their kids the way that they need to do it.
Donald Trump represents that.
Look at his children.
His children are smart, articulate, and if you're a parent, you look up to that man for the father that he is.
That's what I would encourage Donald Trump to do is continue to be close with God and understand that God has anointed him to be the father figure for America.
I can tell you, I've ran counter-sniper teams in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
I've done it for then-Vice President Biden in northern Iraq.
I've done it for Condoleezza Rice.
I've done it for Hillary Clinton.
I've done it for many foreign dignitaries, etc.
And I can tell you, when we used to conduct, and I've conducted thousands and thousands of advances, you looked at what areas could be potential threat areas, and you would mitigate those by either putting someone there, or you would basically go ahead and think about a venue change location.
You would think about all these different circumstances that we'd actually factor in.
Now, here's the interesting part about this.
Let's just for a moment, and I want, and I want to be clear on this, I want to understand that this is just negligence, fecklessness, and that DEI equals D-I-E.
But what I don't like is that I can't help myself from getting to a point where And this is why I feel so strongly about the investigation and ensuring that we get full transparency, accountability to the American people because we've almost lost our president that was within milliseconds and millimeters from being an attempt and an assassination.
And this was completely preventable.
When you think about this for a moment, that building behind you is roughly a hundred and say, about 120 yards.
Imagine the fact that this is a building that's 160 yards, perfectly adjacent to the stage, with a slightly sloped roof, which apparently, according to Cheadles, was such a slope as if it was Everest, they couldn't get on it.
I can tell you as a counter-sniper, we would get on roofs that were far greater, you know, as far as its slope, and it was great because you could hang your tripod over the edge of it and get a very stable platform that you could pull back against.
And so, that was an excuse, secondarily, if there wasn't any resources.
Why couldn't they have done this?
Why couldn't they have parked a patrol car, locked the doors, kept the lights going as a deterrency, or put an officer at the main entrance so that you could basically look at what are the permissible climbing environment that could allow them onto the rooftops?
The bottom line is that there's too many things that need answers.
Well, the first thing I'm gonna ask for is communication transcripts if they have any.
What was the actual sniper dialogue?
When did the actual snipers identify that it was a threat?
Because at 160...
You're not only seeing it with the naked eyes, you can with the building behind us, but then you're going into your, let's just say it's a 4.5x14x50 scope.
You're talking about a 14 magnification.
I can see the buttons on your shirt at 160 yards.
And so you can clearly identify that it's not a local law enforcement officer up there, and so you're not in fear of actually eliminating a friendly.
So at that point, when did you identify that it was an enemy combatant?
Why did you not have...
A emergency comms channel with the coordination of your local law enforcement, your secret service, and other agencies that you could have immediately...
Because remember, the local law enforcement said he got up there and they pointed a rifle at him.
He could have came off that roof and said, sniper on the roof, sniper on the roof, sniper on the roof.
They would have immediately got a secret detail on there, took him down, and that shot would not have taken place while they mitigate.
There's too much about this that I want to know about.
And the communications, the coordination, the advanced site plan...
The sniper's range data book where they have to sketch in what they are looking at out there and what their range fan is.
All of these things will determine whether or not it was negligence, intent, or they'd identified it as a threat and they did nothing about it.
In the military, we used to do the what if game all the time.
What if this happens?
And you plan for every single scenario.
Now, Murphy's Law being what it is, it does occur sometimes and it's unpreventable.
But you've always laid out multiple scenarios of what possibly could happen and how to mitigate that threat.
That should have been done in this.
So now in my investigation, the what if is, what if someone was involved here?
What if there was gross negligence here?
What if someone was not on their post?
What if the director did not approve the additional resources and therefore she is accountable and needs to be held responsible and liable?
So there's a lot of things in my what-ifs.
There's a lot of things in my skepticism.
Because of my background, because of my experience, because of my intense knowledge of these types of things, that leads us to the thing where the American people, and I don't want this behind closed doors.
I do not believe in classifying this in any way.
It needs to be available to the American people.
They need to be accountable.
They need to be transparent.
They need to be accessible.
Something that every elected official should be.
But we have to start understanding.
I am paid and elected by the American people.
Everything that I do and how I conduct myself and my job.
It's in the eyes of the American people for the American people.
And so I want this investigation, a J-13 commission, the same way that they were looking at this J-6 unselect committee.
I texted him today and I told him, I said, with my background experience and what I know of this, I'd be happy to go ahead and do a chair of the J-13 commission style select committee.
And I want answers.
I want accountability.
But here's the other thing.
If it was just negligence, the American people need to have confidence.
That there's policies and replacements that have been made that are not allowed to happen again, and if there was actual government involvement, they should know that as well.
They actually want you to believe that saying mea culpa, my fault, my bad, hey, JK, LOL, everything's going to be fine.
Accountability is different than responsibility.
Yes, I'm responsible for an incident because I'm a leader.
Well, you should be held accountable as well, and I can tell you, my first thing is I want her to resign, even though I'm still going to request her for testifying, and if she doesn't, we'll subpoena her.
If not, we'll hold her in contempt.
But I also want to do the home-end rule that takes her salary down to $1.
Well, look, I would do anything that the president needs as far as how it would help and save the country, how I can serve in a better capacity.
I served in uniform.
I've served even in the private sector when I would create a business that helped our law enforcement and our military.
And now I'm serving in honor of our Florida 7th District, an honor to do so.
But if the president called me and asked for my support, it'd be difficult for me not to go ahead and say, yes, sir, I'll be right there and I can do it better and I'll get it done.