July 18, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| What's up, my people? | ||
| It's your boy, Benny, here live at the RNC. | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| We are here with the great... | ||
| Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to take us into our entire evening of incredible speakers. | ||
| Marjorie spoke yesterday. | ||
| But baby, we got Donald Trump tonight. | ||
| We got Tucker Carlson. | ||
| We got Hulk Hogan. | ||
| Kid Rock. | ||
| And who knows? | ||
| I hear there's a lot of special surprises. | ||
| Is 50 Cent in the house? | ||
| Is Elon Musk going to fly a rocket ship in? | ||
| I mean, maybe not. | ||
| Hopefully not. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| There's only one man who can fly a rocket ship in. | ||
| It's Elon Musk. | ||
| There's one member of Congress who is very much a cruise missile, who is so very much the individual who the left is so. | ||
| I would assume if I was the head of the Secret Service right now, there's a single member of Congress I wouldn't want to be questioning me on a dais. | ||
| And that would be the great Marjorie Taylor Greene, who joins us live now. | ||
| Hi, Benny. | ||
| Excited to be here. | ||
| I said cruise missile. | ||
| I was going to say scud missile, but cruise missiles are far more sophisticated. | ||
| They're precise. | ||
| You're the only member of Congress who scared away Hunter Biden from a hearing? | ||
| That is a fact. | ||
| Hunter Biden tucked his cocaine and ran? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I had dinner with his former business partners last night, Tony Bobulinski and Devin Archer. | ||
| Actually, I've seen them around in the studio. | ||
| Again, we are broadcasting live from inside of the RNC convention and media row. | ||
| So, how did that go? | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| You know, we still have our impeachment inquiry going on the Oversight Committee, and we pretty much have a lot of it wrapped up. | ||
| Looking forward to rolling out the report. | ||
| So we're finishing those details, but you know there's a lot more to the story. | ||
| Come to find out, and I learned about some things last night. | ||
| So, I think the Bidens have a lot to think about if Joe Biden steps aside and how things may play out for them in the future. | ||
| Okay, so let's jump into that because that's the breaking news right now. | ||
| The breaking news right now is that Joe Biden is planning on stepping aside. | ||
| We've gone back and forth on this. | ||
| But it seems like this might actually be the real deal. | ||
| They may have finally gotten him. | ||
| Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Taki Jeffries, Chuck Schumer. | ||
| Everybody's saying, let's get it. | ||
| All the pressure. | ||
| Well, it's been interesting to watch. | ||
| So going back a couple of weeks ago, Benny, we were in session in Washington and it was the week just after the debate had happened. | ||
| And here was something crazy. | ||
| It was my first week in Washington where the press wasn't swarming me and asking me all kinds of, you know, hard questions and assaults and attacks and insults and all this stuff. | ||
| The only people they wanted to talk to were the Democrats because they were pressuring them. | ||
| Are you going to support Joe Biden? | ||
| That happened the entire week. | ||
| So we saw the pressure build and build and build now to the point where, well, you know, the real leader of the party, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons and others are really putting the pressure on and we're hearing that it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. | ||
| I'll add on to that, I'm sure that Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, James Biden and the, you know, business partners in the family are probably not happy about that. | ||
| Yeah, because now that exposes them and they lose an enormous amount of power. | ||
| You may get a pocket pardon in there somewhere. | ||
| Joe Biden, according to reports, and this comes from Mark Halperin, but according to reports is going to stay on as president. | ||
| He's not going to endorse Kamala Harris. | ||
| This is what we just heard. | ||
| This is breaking at time of recording. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Again, you're the only member of Congress to chase Hunter Biden out of a hearing. | ||
| Hunter Biden is the chief of staff, too, right now in the White House. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I can't understand why he ran away and didn't want to talk to me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Also, the incidents on the XY axis of Hunter Biden being in Congress and little baggies of Coke being found all over Congress, pretty high correlation. | ||
| In fact, I've noticed. | ||
| Secret Service has a bad record. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, I actually want to touch on that. | ||
| Really quickly, though, can you game theory this out? | ||
| Because I want to move directly to Secret Service. | ||
| Game theory this out for me. | ||
| How's this work with Joe Biden stepping away? | ||
| This is going to get really ugly. | ||
| This is going to get really messy. | ||
| And as you have nothing but unity and love here at the RNC convention, it's such an incredible vibe from your speech also. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Good energy, you know, just such positivity. | ||
| It is. | ||
| This is a lot of fun. | ||
| I have to say something. | ||
| I think part of why I'm so happy this week is I'm seeing the Republican Party that I've always wanted to see. | ||
| I'm seeing the Republican Party come together behind Donald Trump, very America first, embracing the MAGA movement, embracing all the policies that we have always really cared about. | ||
| And that is so energizing. | ||
| I'm used to being pretty upset with my party. | ||
| I'm used to being pretty angry, like, why aren't we fighting? | ||
| And then I'm seeing Marsha Blackburn and other senators like chasing down Kimberly Cheadle, like totally giving her hell. | ||
| And I'm like, this is great. | ||
| I suddenly don't feel so alone anymore. | ||
| Like, yo, what happened to John Barrasso? | ||
| Since when did John Barrasso take the MTG pill? | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| What are you putting in this guy's coffee, gunpowder? | ||
| I hope he keeps taking it. | ||
| We need a prescription for that. | ||
| Pretty amazing. | ||
| What did you do to John Barrasso? | ||
| Yeah, red-tailed him. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| So anyway, you must have cooked him breakfast, but something special in the coffee. | ||
| Because of all people to be chasing down Cheadle, John Barrasso, like, if you're unfamiliar, this is like a, it's just like a dude who's like a dusty kind of like country club guy in the Senate. | ||
| Okay, very calm, like, you know, very senatorial. | ||
| And he's like rolling. | ||
| With Kimberly Cheadle screaming at her. | ||
| Yeah, it was great. | ||
| Well, you know, we had a call. | ||
| She was on the call yesterday. | ||
| Congress and Senate, we had a briefing. | ||
| If I might. | ||
| This was not in person. | ||
| No, ours was not in person. | ||
| So I heard it was in person. | ||
| So this was just a phone call? | ||
| We got a phone call for the House. | ||
| I believe senators had it in person. | ||
| So I do want to say she started her part on the call directly with taking full responsibility. | ||
| For everything that happened on Saturday. | ||
| She did say the Secret Service is completely in charge of the protection of former presidents and the President of the United States. | ||
| So they can't blame local law enforcement, which is so incredibly insulting. | ||
| And we have heard them doing that. | ||
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They did that. | |
| But yeah, this is a complete failure. | ||
| We also heard a bunch of... | ||
| Basically gibberish coming from Christopher Wray on the call. | ||
| And the FBI has taken over the investigation. | ||
| So, you know, we can all... | ||
| What could possibly go wrong? | ||
| Yeah, we can expect lies, failure, and it'll be like the Las Vegas shooting. | ||
| We'll never find out anything. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| When the rate of fire is actually impossible for the number of... | ||
| for the caliber of the weapons. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Oh, fantastic. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So, all right. | ||
| Do you sound... | ||
| You sound almost satisfied with that phone call. | ||
| I've heard others say they were not satisfied. | ||
| So help me out. | ||
| Unpack that. | ||
| I think what we have is this is... | ||
| I think the American people are not going to let this one die. | ||
| We've been lied to so many times. | ||
| Well, we almost let this one die. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| We almost let our... | ||
| We almost like Western civilization, like the whole Western civilization die. | ||
| You know, I'll go ahead and jump out there and I could care less what anybody thinks. | ||
| I do not believe that this 20-year-old was able to do this by himself. | ||
| I do not buy the narrative that they're putting out there. | ||
| I was extremely angry when they threw out Iran. | ||
| They instantly said, well, Iran has had a plot to assassinate President Trump. | ||
| Yeah, big freaking deal. | ||
| They chant death to America every day in their country. | ||
| Are we surprised by that? | ||
| I think they're just laying out the next country they really want to drop bombs on because they love war. | ||
| And that would be a complete distraction from the real case that the deep state, the media and the Democrats have really called for President Trump to be assassinated for years. | ||
| We are just... | ||
| I'm mortified that they did actually try to do it. | ||
| And we don't have all the details. | ||
| We don't know anything yet. | ||
| But I think I'm just using my common sense. | ||
| Like, most people are seeing everything they've seen. | ||
| We don't buy the lie that they're laying out. | ||
| So you're talking about the biggest cover-up, far bigger than anything that ever happened in American history. | ||
| Far bigger than Watergate. | ||
| Far bigger than Watergate. | ||
| Maybe bigger than the Lincoln assassination. | ||
| You're saying that if this person didn't act alone or was being coached or trained by some entity, you're talking about a monster cover-up, and the government better damn well be truthful about what's actually happening. | ||
| Yeah, they better be. | ||
| And I think they're complicit. | ||
| And I can say all this, and they're going to label me a conspiracy theory. | ||
| It doesn't matter to me. | ||
| I really don't believe the liars from the federal government that have a record of lying to the American people and covering up the truth. | ||
| And so I'll sit on this. | ||
| I'll go with that record. | ||
| They're like pretty much, you know, 100 to 0 in lies. | ||
| They're winning the lying record. | ||
| Okay, so what is it about it? | ||
| And there's too much to a new... | ||
| We could do the podcast for the next seven days and there'd be too many failures and strange plot holes to put together here. | ||
| But tell me, what is glaring to you since you've obviously been briefed in on some of the intel and can speak to it far more wisely than I could? | ||
| I have been to more Trump rallies than I can count, Benny. | ||
| You have too. | ||
| And I can tell you right now, Secret Service is so tight there. | ||
| Normally, the security is so tight. | ||
| My own staffers have a hard... | ||
| My own staff have a hard time walking around with me in places they're not supposed to be. | ||
| Secret Service is stopping them and saying no, and I'm usually having to argue going, no, I actually need these guys. | ||
| They provide security for me. | ||
| I need their help. | ||
| They're my staff. | ||
| It is shocking to me that a 20-year-old could come in the rally in the first place with a rangefinder in his backpack. | ||
| It's shocking to me that all of a sudden they lose track of this guy. | ||
| It's shocking to me that he's able to put a ladder up on a Those are just the basic details to say none of that makes sense. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| Tucker paraphrases this, and I know you're on Tucker's show all the time, and he's wiser than, certainly wiser than me. | ||
| It's like there's no such thing as a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| It's just skepticism. | ||
| And skepticism can't be wrong. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Asking questions is important, and that's the only way you get to the truth, dammit. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| I mean, it's kind of like science, and they tell us that science rules all, right? | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| So we should ask questions. | ||
| We should be skeptical. | ||
| We should not trust the people that have a record of lying to us, and that's the United States government. | ||
| If I may, Congresswoman, at first glance, when I saw that members of Congress were yelling at Kimberly Cheadle as she ran away in fear, I assumed it was you. | ||
| And I said, it's got to be MTG, come on. | ||
| Let me give another look at that blonde. | ||
| And it was actually Marsha Blackburn. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| However, I know if given the opportunity, you would probably give her the Hunter Biden treatment. | ||
| What would you ask Kimberly Cheadle if you were in an elevator with her, you know? | ||
| Well, first off, I'm shocked that she has not resigned. | ||
| I think she owes the country her resignation, and that would be the right thing to do. | ||
| Furthermore, I want to know the chain of command underneath her, and we need to understand all the people involved there. | ||
| This may be something further than resignations and firings. | ||
| Perhaps it could lead to investigations and criminal prosecutions. | ||
| I do not know. | ||
| But what we do know is what we all saw with our own eyes. | ||
| And that this is the biggest security failure that we've ever witnessed in our lifetimes. | ||
| And President Trump almost lost his life. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| As parents, there's laws protecting your children, right, from harm, right? | ||
| You can't leave a kid in a car, things like that. | ||
| That would be called criminal negligence, right? | ||
| You can be charged for that. | ||
| Maybe your kids get taken away. | ||
| Maybe you go to jail, right? | ||
| Criminal negligence that could lead to the harm of someone innocent. | ||
| And Corey Compentori is a man who is a firefighter, a father, a wonderful patriot who gave his life for President Trump. | ||
| They sacrificed his life for Trump. | ||
| And he took a bullet that was intended for the president. | ||
| And I know that his family has done, you know, obviously people have been wildly generous. | ||
| I doubt his family will ever want for anything else. | ||
| No one will ever be able to replace Corey. | ||
| But, like, justice for Corey Copentori seems like it should definitely be a rally cry for who was criminally negligent to allow such a heinous thing to happen. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I mean, there was just a set of parents, forgive me, I can't recall where it was, that were sentenced to prison because their son had committed a school shooting or something like that. | ||
| Wasn't that not too long ago? | ||
| And you're right. | ||
| These are the right things to be talking about and questioning. | ||
| But are we going to go that way? | ||
| And we'll see if that happens. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, you know what? | ||
| I sure hope so. | ||
| Because a good man is gone. | ||
| And you should be able... | ||
| You're a politician. | ||
| People go to your rallies. | ||
| I see you pack out areas all over Georgia and the country, actually. | ||
| People should feel safe. | ||
| To go to your rallies, right? | ||
| They should feel safe to go to a MAGA rally. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| You should feel like you can stand in the stands and cheer on and vote for your president in safety and security because it's America, damn it. | ||
| Well, you know what I fear, Benny, is we're going to see the Democrats try to use this opportunity to bring in gun control. | ||
| They always want gun control. | ||
| The Second Amendment is absolutely what they want to destroy. | ||
| And I fear that we may see that happen. | ||
| And that's something we cannot allow to happen. | ||
| Another thing. | ||
| I think to point out is so important is had this been the other side, they would have been rioting in the streets like immediately. | ||
| That's not what we did. | ||
| All of us dropped to our knees in prayer. | ||
| And I think that's reflective of who all of us are. | ||
| That's reflective of who our leader is. | ||
| And that's reflective of what we want our country to be. | ||
| Congresswoman, I know you have to go, but I have one final question for you about the president, because I know you've been with him. | ||
| I know you've spoken on the stage. | ||
| I know you've seen that beautiful bandage up close. | ||
| And you can speak to the esprit de corps of President Trump. | ||
| How is he doing? | ||
| Maybe some insights to what we're going to hear tonight. | ||
| I'm so excited for his speech. | ||
| I think tonight's speech will be more for a larger audience, not for a rally audience or MAGA supporters, Trump supporters. | ||
| I think we'll see President Trump give an incredible speech for every single American, and I want that. | ||
| I want him to be America's president, so I'm looking forward to it. | ||
| All right, and Donald Trump in person. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Has been good, good. | ||
| Goodbye. | ||
| His kids are up here telling us that he was joking in the hospital. | ||
| John Jr. sat right there and goes, the first thing he said to me is, they didn't get my hair. | ||
| They didn't get my hair. | ||
| My hair's still good. | ||
| I'm like, come on, man. | ||
| That's what Crunk says in the hospital with a bloody ear? | ||
| I know. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| He's exactly who he always is. | ||
| And there's this wonderful guy that's funny. | ||
| He's normal. | ||
| And the media has vilified for so long. | ||
| So we love him. | ||
| He's doing good. | ||
| I think he's thankful to be alive. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| He looks different. | ||
| He looks very peaceful. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| MAGA 2024 Bulletproof. | ||
| That's the new campaign slogan. | ||
| Bulletproof. | ||
| The great congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, everyone. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| We are rocking and we are rolling tonight. | ||
| We have an incredible slate of guests and people who will be joining us, including the great Monica Crowley, who is here in studio and joining the stream now. | ||
| Man, we are ready to go. | ||
| Thank you, Congresswoman. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| We're just letting her rip here in the arena. | ||
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So, okay. | |
| The wonderful Monica Crowley. | ||
| How are you? | ||
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How are you? | |
| Oh, man. | ||
| Oh, my gosh. | ||
| Yes, that's right. | ||
| We're going to see so many people in person tonight. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, Hulk Hogan sort of threw me. | ||
| I mean, we have an unbelievable lineup on the main stage tonight at the RNC. | ||
| You know, usually Republicans defer to Democrats when it comes to celebrity. | ||
| You know, they've got the George Clooney's and the Barbara Streisand's of the world. | ||
| But tonight, we got Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock. | ||
| George Clooney. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Does it get any better than Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan? | ||
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No, it doesn't. | |
| No, it absolutely doesn't. | ||
| So, what are we going to hear tonight? | ||
| Have you been... | ||
| I know you're quite the... | ||
| You've written quite a few speeches yourself. | ||
| For myself and for others. | ||
| For Reagan and Nixon and some of our favorites. | ||
| Well, not Reagan, but I worked with President Nixon in the last years of his life and worked with him on a whole bunch of things, speeches and op-eds and books and things that he did. | ||
| So I know the presidential voice pretty well, Benny, but I have to tell you that... | ||
| Microphone's slipping, boys. | ||
| Let's lock it in. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's okay. | ||
| We're live, you know? | ||
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We're live. | |
| We're going to fix it, you know? | ||
| We're going to make it work. | ||
| Live broadcast. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It's exciting. | ||
| That's right. | ||
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Terrific. | |
| Thank you so much. | ||
| We'd lock it in. | ||
| So I'm saying that, you know, I know the presidential voice pretty well, because I've written for it and so on, and known so many presidents, but Donald Trump is in a league of his own. | ||
| Like, Donald Trump was a known entity in another universe, actually two other universes, real estate. | ||
| And entertainment before he ever entered politics. | ||
| So his voice is completely unique. | ||
| The other night I was at dinner here at the RNC, Benny, and I was seated next to one of President Trump's top speechwriters, I won't say who, and I did my very best. | ||
| But I did my very best to charm information out of him and flirt a little bit and like, oh, come on! | ||
| What are we going to see from the president? | ||
| I could not get one secret out of him. | ||
| So I spoke to the person who's been preparing Trump tonight and they said the speech is just absolutely amazing, breathtaking, brings tears to her eyes and also very unifying. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| I think Saturday's events changed everything. | ||
| Changed the world. | ||
| Change this convention. | ||
| Change the Republican Party. | ||
| And dare I say, change President Trump. | ||
| I mean, I think you can see it in his face all week. | ||
| The emotion. | ||
| You know, I think he's probably still processing this extremely traumatic event, a near-death experience, near assassination. | ||
| He has said, I should be dead. | ||
| Yesterday I was at an event and he spoke. | ||
| And I actually tweeted part of the video where he was talking about God. | ||
| Donald Trump does not talk about God publicly. | ||
| He doesn't talk about his faith. | ||
| He never really has. | ||
| I think he's a believer, but he doesn't talk openly about it. | ||
| And yesterday he did. | ||
| And when he was talking about that assassination attempt, he literally said, Benny, God was with me. | ||
| And I mean, I'm bawling yesterday hearing him say God was with me. | ||
| The events of that day perhaps have changed him. | ||
| That doesn't mean he's any less of a fighter, and the fighter we all know and love. | ||
| But I think, and I suspect God probably touched his heart that day. | ||
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Yes. | |
| And when he was on the ground, God said, get up. | ||
| And that man got up like he has gotten up every single time for the rest of us for this country. | ||
| And he's going to get up on that stage tonight and just knock it out of the park. | ||
| Not for himself. | ||
| Not for his own self-interest, which is what the Biden crime family is all about. | ||
| It's all about them. | ||
| And I'm sure now they're negotiating Biden's exit. | ||
| And it all has to do with money, Benny, because the Biden family is all about money. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Donald Trump is the exact opposite. | ||
| So he got up. | ||
| Off of that floor, when those bullets were flying, he's going to get up on that stage tonight, and I think he's going to blow all of us away. | ||
| And I think, if I'm correct that God touched his heart, I think what he's going to do tonight is touch a lot of people's hearts around this country. | ||
| Not just you and me. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, we've been with him from the very beginning. | ||
| But people who may have been skeptical about Donald Trump or Trump-curious, maybe they're Trump-curious, I think this speech tonight is going to be... | ||
| Powerful and emotional and overwhelming for a lot of people. | ||
| I think Trump Curious is a new sexuality, actually. | ||
| There's probably a dating app for that. | ||
| I just coined that right here on the Bennett show. | ||
| Trump Curious. | ||
| We'll put it on a t-shirt. | ||
| Trump Curious. | ||
| Alright, so you've written so many speeches for Trump. | ||
| And you've worked so closely with him. | ||
| And you're such a strong ally and advocate for him on TV, social media, and otherwise. | ||
| And so it's, you know, Must have been the worst thing and one of the worst moments of your life to get notified that he's been shot. | ||
| I don't know if you were at the rally or perhaps you were watching live. | ||
| I wasn't, but I was watching it live. | ||
| And, you know, I've known President Trump because we're both New Yorkers. | ||
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Of course. | |
| So I've known him, you know, prior to, not well, but I knew him prior to his political career, just social circles in New York. | ||
| And then, of course, was his OG supporter. | ||
| So literally, like... | ||
| I don't know, 72 hours after he came down that escalator, June of 2015, I remember being on Fox News and saying live to Bill O 'Reilly, who's a tough son of a gun, and everybody was making fun of the whole enterprise. | ||
| Like, oh, Trump's going to last three weeks. | ||
| This is a vanity run. | ||
| He's doing it for his brand. | ||
| He's doing it for The Apprentice. | ||
| And I said to Bill O 'Reilly and others, I said, stop laughing. | ||
| Do not underestimate him. | ||
| He is going to pull the whole thing off. | ||
| And by that, I meant not just be the Republican nominee, but President of the United States. | ||
| And do you know, to this day, President Trump, every time he sees me, he's like, Monica, when everybody else was making fun and dismissed me, he said, you saw it, you got it, and you've been with me ever since. | ||
| And he doesn't forget that stuff. | ||
| So, you know, when I saw those shots ring out, I was watching it live on TV. | ||
| Benny, I have to tell you, I burst into tears. | ||
| It was a spontaneous... | ||
| Bursting into tears. | ||
| And I was crumpled on my couch. | ||
| I could not believe it. | ||
| And there was part of me that didn't even want to watch it because I didn't want to manifest the worst by actually looking at it. | ||
| And so I was looking at social media on my iPad. | ||
| I couldn't even look at the television. | ||
| I was so upset for myself, for my friend, for my president, but moreover for the country. | ||
| And what we would be doing right now, Benny, is unimaginable. | ||
| Instead of this glorious spiritual revival of a convention, we'd be planning a state funeral. | ||
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Yes, that's right. | |
| And it is unthinkable to us. | ||
| And I'll tell you one other thing. | ||
| And you speak about this about Trump all the time. | ||
| Donald Trump's whole brand is strength. | ||
| Strength, right? | ||
| And he hates any sign of weakness. | ||
| I think, you know, the band-aid, the big bandage on his ear, I happen to think that bandage alone, forget all about the successful first term, all the successful policies, I think that bandage is going to win him the presidency again. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because it gives an added dimension to Donald Trump. | ||
| It shows him to be human. | ||
| He is a human being. | ||
| He is flesh and blood. | ||
| And he has put everything on the line for all of us and for America. | ||
| That bandage, I think, has woken a lot of people up that Donald Trump is a man. | ||
| He is a man. | ||
| And he's not going to be with us forever. | ||
| So we better maximize the time that we've got him because, man, is he a gift. | ||
| What a beautiful and heartfelt and profound thing to say. | ||
| It's almost like you're a speechwriter for Donald Trump. | ||
| You were actually probably intending on going back into the administration, I really would hope. | ||
| I just want to clarify. | ||
| And I will immediately advocate for him. | ||
| Oh, thank you, thank you. | ||
| I'll demand it. | ||
| To clarify. | ||
| I'll make demands. | ||
| To clarify, I never wrote speeches for him, although I did do a couple of turns of phrase. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. | ||
| As president. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| But no, I have told him straight up. | ||
| We all know how Trump speeches go. | ||
| Right? | ||
| He speaks with people that he's close with. | ||
| He absorbs that information and that energy. | ||
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Right? | |
| And then he gives it back. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| And yes, when he is re-elected, I'd be honored to serve in his administration. | ||
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That's right. | |
| And I've told him that. | ||
| Right back to the Treasury with Jamie Dimon now, apparently. | ||
| Did you see that? | ||
| I saw that floating of that idea. | ||
| Yes, I did. | ||
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Why not? | |
| You know, why not? | ||
| Old Diamond hands. | ||
| I mean, he's a registered Democrat, so maybe we're looking at a bipartisan administration. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| So you've seen Democrats and more importantly the deep state sort of up close. | ||
| You've spoken with your old boss Richard Nixon so very closely about it. | ||
| Skepticism cannot be wrong. | ||
| There's so many holes in this ridiculous sniper situation. | ||
| And it does seem like, you know, if you're adding up the dominoes here, it's like, well, political assassination doesn't work. | ||
| Impeachment assassination doesn't work. | ||
| Legal assassination doesn't work. | ||
| And so now physical assassination. | ||
| To one thing that they had left. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| It certainly seems like... | ||
| How about this? | ||
| Prove to me that it's not that. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| Because you've done all the rest. | ||
| So now it's kind of the burden of proofs on you. | ||
| Exactly right. | ||
| And if it weren't a deep state conspiracy to literally blow his brains out on live television... | ||
| I mean, think about this. | ||
| Donald Trump was speaking in broad daylight in an open field. | ||
| In the middle of the day on live television. | ||
| So what I said on my podcast recently about this is that this, of course they wanted him dead, so the objective was to kill him. | ||
| But when you tease it out, they wanted to kill him on live TV. | ||
| And they wanted to blow his brains out on live TV. | ||
| This was supposed to be, Benny, a messaging event. | ||
| This was a messaging event that, you know, and we talked about this in other contexts in January. | ||
| Six defendants. | ||
| It's don't raise your head too far above. | ||
| Don't be too America first. | ||
| Don't push us too far because we will do this to you. | ||
| All of these things are messaging events and that assassination attempt was no exception. | ||
| They wanted that image forever. | ||
| To live on video forever of him getting his head blown off so that you and me and everybody here, everybody who's America First, would never try to take our country back again. | ||
| The message was, we control this country, not you. | ||
| And we will do as we please. | ||
| That was the message of that attempt. | ||
| And, you know, having worked for President Nixon in the last years of his life, you know, we've talked about Watergate. | ||
| You know, at the time, Nixon had sort of a cursory, because documents and evidence were just starting to come out in the mid-90s before he died. | ||
| He started to have a bigger understanding of the forces that removed him from the presidency. | ||
| Not like we have now, where we can clearly see that it was deep state. | ||
| Four out of the seven Watergate burglars were CIA. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, when you start going back in history... | ||
| Reporters who broke the story. | ||
| Reporters. | ||
| Well, Bob Woodward was a Navy intel officer, totally plugged into the intel community. | ||
| He was like a Metro Desk reporter, and all of a sudden, he's got the biggest story of the 20th century? | ||
| Come on, come on. | ||
| So, when you start to think about what the deep state is capable of, and what they've done, in terms of putting a bullet in JFK... | ||
| Removing Richard Nixon, trying to assassinate Ronald Reagan and failing like this was a failure. | ||
| But you go through history and you see we don't control the country. | ||
| The deep state, these unelected, unaccountable, shadowy figures deep in our government, in the security state, in law enforcement, they're the ones running the country, not us. | ||
| So it's almost like they give us the vote to make us think that we have a say in our government when we really don't. | ||
| And Donald Trump was the one guy who stood up and said, this is BS and we're taking our country back and I'm going to lead the effort. | ||
| And I truly believe he is a gift from God and that he is under the protection of God. | ||
| That episode on Saturday was the hand of God. | ||
| Moving that bullet out of the way and preserving the life of Donald Trump for one reason, which is to bring this country back. | ||
| The most widely seen miracle in human existence on Earth. | ||
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Right. | |
| And it gives me chills to think about, like... | ||
| Christ had made miracles, of course. | ||
| I know you're a believer as well. | ||
| So there's, like, many, many miracles, right? | ||
| You know, obviously. | ||
| But this is, based on technology, this is the most widely seen miracle in human history. | ||
| Messaging event. | ||
| On God's side. | ||
| So think about it this way, right? | ||
| And this gives me chills to even say. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so if the enemy wanted to blow his brains out on live TV as a messaging event, God put his foot down and said, not on my watch, because if this is going to be on live TV, I'm going to save him on live TV. | ||
| And isn't that a messaging event? | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Boom. | ||
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Gotcha. | |
| Gotcha. | ||
| God put his foot down and Trump said, Let me get my shoes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let me get my shoes. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Monica Crowley, you just, for lack of a better term, blew our minds. | ||
| Blew the doors off the Benny show today. | ||
| That's so great. | ||
| You're so wise on these things. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And I wish we could go for the next two and a half days talking about this. | ||
| But we'll do our long-form podcast. | ||
| The Nixon Foundation gentleman came up to me and was like, thanks so much for having Monica Crowley on and sharing her stuff. | ||
| And I'm like, let's do an event. | ||
| Let's do a long-form thing at the Nixon and talk about it. | ||
| We should go back to the Nixon Library. | ||
| Have you been? | ||
| I have one time, but it's too long ago. | ||
| It is a beautiful place. | ||
| Everybody listening should go out to Yorba Linda, California, to the Nixon Library. | ||
| It's a beautiful place, and it's humble, just like Richard Nixon. | ||
| It's a humble place. | ||
| It's not like a Barack Obama $2 billion thing in Chicago. | ||
| It's a very modest presidential library and so lovely. | ||
| We go out there, we do the long-term podcast about this. | ||
| Oh my gosh, I love it. | ||
| Done. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I love you, Benny. | ||
| And red-filling a whole new generation about it. | ||
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Yeah, man. | |
| Bye! | ||
| Thank you so much for having me. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The great Monica Crowley. | ||
| Everybody follow her. | ||
| Well, I follow her on X. I'm sure she's on other social platforms. | ||
| You gotta follow her on X at Monica Crowley. | ||
| Thank you, Benny. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| So, we are ready to rock and roll with my boy. | ||
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It's Michael Seifert of Public Square. | |
| Look what we got. | ||
| Oh, yes. | ||
| That is the drip. | ||
| Look at it go. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| That is it. | ||
| You gotta splash that red on there. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| You just gotta make sure that's a guess. | ||
| Yes, I would have bought that album when I was 18 and painted it against my parents' wishes. | ||
| Played it in my Toyota. | ||
| My teen angst years. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| In my Toyota as I drive to school. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| What's up, Michael? | ||
| How are you? | ||
| You're way more handsome in real life. | ||
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You see that? | |
| Wow. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Even without a haircut, I feel like I look homeless. | |
| Everybody knows him. | ||
| How's this week been? | ||
| It's been rocking. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We've just been on a tear. | ||
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I love it. | |
| We've been on a tear. | ||
| I'm glad. | ||
| It's been a shocking week of revelation. | ||
|
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It has. | |
| It's been a revelatory week. | ||
| It's been a revival week. | ||
| All the Trump kids have been on the program and have elucidated for us all of the wild stories of the assassination. | ||
| And then meshing that with the positivity of the convention has been... | ||
| We witnessed a miracle on Saturday. | ||
| Our country would have been a very, very dark place today had that gone even an inch worse. | ||
| Yeah, that's a matter of fact. | ||
| An inch is too much. | ||
| A millimeter, actually. | ||
| See the video today. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| You can now see the hole. | ||
| By the way, all the Blue Anon people, they were like, it was staged. | ||
| Watch that video in slow-mo, please. | ||
| I'm flying here and I'm sitting next to some Lib, you can tell. | ||
| You know, masks and everything. | ||
| She's got her phone open and she's got her text messages on that giant setting, right? | ||
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Where you can like read all the, you know, it was like super huge lettering. | |
| Anyway, you can see the, you can see the text messages and, and You can see that she's texting all of her friends, her group chat, whatever her lib group chat is. | ||
| She's texting and they're all like, Trump totally set this up. | ||
| It's a total setup. | ||
| This is what libs are all saying to each other. | ||
| Behind closed doors because they know they'll probably be fired if they say it out loud. | ||
| But they're like, no, it's a total setup. | ||
| He's just doing this to rig the election. | ||
| I saw the text message from the lib. | ||
| I guess Joy Behar is out saying it. | ||
| She's inciting it. | ||
| Yeah, Joy Behar is out actually saying it. | ||
| Yeah, they're totally blew it on. | ||
| By the way, it's the funniest people that then are like, Oh, the ear thing. | ||
| It's unnecessary. | ||
| He doesn't need it. | ||
| And it's like the picture of the general wearing the face mask. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| The pot calling the kettle black. | ||
| It's wild. | ||
| It's going to be here. | ||
| It's going to be a rock and roll week for Public Square. | ||
| It is. | ||
| You guys are kind of on the right side of history here. | ||
| We are. | ||
| It's wild to see every single company. | ||
| It's wild to see every single company that are wildly leftist, like even Microsoft, take their DEI. | ||
| Department's out back. | ||
| This is insane. | ||
| I mean, listen, Tractor Supply and John Deere and my boy Robbie Starbuck did some great reporting there. | ||
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Yes, he is. | |
| Keep taking him down, Robbie. | ||
| It's wonderful. | ||
| I'm looking at Tractor Supply and John Deere and I'm like, this I get. | ||
| Even Bud Light, who has never apologized, but they're like, Shane Gillis is now our spokesperson. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Dana White and Tucker Carlson will do a Bud Light ad together. | ||
| Which I get. | ||
| I mean, I get it, you know? | ||
| I get it. | ||
| They should have apologized, though. | ||
| They should have. | ||
| They would have been a lot easier. | ||
| Now companies are just straight up apologizing. | ||
| What I'm trying to say here is that Microsoft, like, that one I didn't see coming. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Michael. | ||
| No. | ||
| They, like, wrote the book on DEI. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| And now they're reverting. | ||
| We're winning. | ||
| Like, we're actually winning. | ||
| That's insane, bro. | ||
| It's phenomenal. | ||
| And there are companies that were kind of apolitical or... | ||
| I should say, felt like they never had a place they could actually share their honest opinions about what's happening in culture. | ||
| Like Sticker Mule, largest screen printing and sticker company in the world. | ||
| They work with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, everybody. | ||
| Sticker Mule, absolute legends. | ||
| Their CEO came out this week. | ||
| Multi-billion dollar company. | ||
| Their CEO came out Sunday morning and he wrote a long and passionate letter on X. And his name is Anthony Constantino. | ||
| Total BA, wonderful guy. | ||
| He wrote this letter and said, I'm tired of feeling like I can't be honest about what I actually believe. | ||
| I am a Trump supporter. | ||
| Many of my employees are Trump supporters. | ||
| Some aren't, but a core tenant of this country is being able to share that without fear you're going to die. | ||
| And he literally wrote this impassioned letter. | ||
| Then what happened is he got blown up by these blue-haired freaks in his support message channel. | ||
| So all of his support teams dealing with these angry messages and people wishing that the CEO of Sticker Mule, like most famous merch and sticker company in the world, wishing that he would die and his employees would get bombed. | ||
| I mean, insane stuff. | ||
| He stepped up as CEO and he gave a $2,500 bonus to his entire support staff. | ||
| And his support staff is like, we don't even care. | ||
| We think this is ridiculous. | ||
| Like we're proud of our CEO for standing up. | ||
| So you're seeing the tech bros now come out and support Trump. | ||
| Like J.D. Vance being VP, I loved because he's like... | ||
| We are winning. | ||
| So now the goal is don't get complacent. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But we're winning. | ||
| Feels really good. | ||
| There's a great tweet. | ||
| I think it was from Cernovich. | ||
| And he's like, you don't understand making the MAGA hat acceptable to wear in a venture capital firm? | ||
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Yep. | |
| Like, making MAGA hats acceptable to wear in San Francisco or Chicago, right? | ||
| Now that's when the election actually more than almost anything else, right? | ||
| Is the acceptability now of MAGA and Trump and maybe the inevitability. | ||
| But that's pretty wild. | ||
| David Sachs was here and he's like talking about how he's been able to bring on all these like the biggest VC guys on Earth are now like MAGA. | ||
| And Elon's gone full MAGA. | ||
| Literally changing the hashtag MAGA to Trump. | ||
| It's phenomenal. | ||
| Can you unpack that? | ||
| Actually, for our viewers that don't know this. | ||
| Yeah, so just about probably four hours ago, midday Thursday, Elon Musk silently, you know, he does all these little Easter egg things. | ||
| So he didn't announce it, but on X, what a few creators started realizing is that if you posted hashtag MAGA, it would autofill an emoji of Trump in the moment with his fist in the air saying fight. | ||
| And so now everybody's just, Tweeting hashtag MAGA and it's amazing to see the traction it's getting on the internet. | ||
| So I'm loving it. | ||
| People are texting me from downtown San Francisco or the heart of Silicon Valley with MAGA heads on. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| I'm the tech space. | ||
| By the way, some of these VC firms, it's like such a fresh conversion that if you try to apply for funding from their VC, they still ask you crazy questions about gender and binary stuff and all the nonsense, all the ESG DEI, but their founders are now turning. | ||
| And so the hope is that you see all that downstream effect throughout even the most woke VCs on the planet. | ||
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ALX. | |
| ALX is Elon Musk's last son. | ||
| He has like 10, so it's easy to lose one. | ||
| He's taking the message to make more babies. | ||
| ALX is the Elon whisperer. | ||
| Just really quickly, is Elon Musk going... | ||
| Come over here. | ||
| Is Elon Musk, the great ALX, will be joining the program soon. | ||
| Is Elon Musk going to speak tonight at the convention? | ||
| Can you confirm or not confirm? | ||
| Really quickly, come right here. | ||
| Can you speak at the mic? | ||
| I can confirm that he will not be speaking. | ||
| That's so sad. | ||
| I wish he was. | ||
| That's so sad. | ||
| Does he want to be here? | ||
| I will say he hasn't said that he isn't coming here, but I'm not saying he's going to be here, but he said he will not speak. | ||
| Is there going to be some rocket ship situation where he lands on the stage? | ||
| I wish. | ||
| I endorse that, but I don't know if Secret Service would like that. | ||
| I would endorse that move, though. | ||
| The reason people are speculative is because all of Elon's best friends are all here. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And J.D. Vance is like his boy for VP. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The New York Times just did a whole piece about how he orchestrated that. | ||
| But, I mean, so did David Sachs and, you know, the Dark Lord of the Sith. | ||
| So, we will see. | ||
| We will see. | ||
| All right. | ||
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Okay. | |
| We'll call that the ALX Elon update as ever. | ||
| All right. | ||
| No stinger this time. | ||
| All right. | ||
| What's up, Riley? | ||
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Come on. | |
| Come on. | ||
| Riley Gaines. | ||
| The great Riley Gaines is here. | ||
| I know you've done some more with Riley before. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| She's a legend. | ||
| Riley, good to see you. | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| Come on the stream. | ||
| I am thrilled to be on with you guys. | ||
| Good to see you. | ||
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This is just a kickoff here. | |
| Now CEOs can be MAGA. | ||
| Now Fortune 500 companies, Fortune 100 companies. | ||
| It's perfectly okay for the biggest VC firms in the world to be like, yeah, I'm Marc Andreessen. | ||
| I'm donating to Trump. | ||
| $45 million a month is a lot of money for Elon to donate to Trump. | ||
| How does it feel to be the most correct and rightest guy in the space, Michael? | ||
| Validating. | ||
| You've been that CEO for the better part of the last 24 months. | ||
| It's been amazing. | ||
| It's validating. | ||
| Feels like we're not crazy. | ||
| We were right. | ||
| We knew we were right. | ||
| The four years you were that CEO. | ||
| And you were like maybe the only one? | ||
| I told you the sticker meal story. | ||
| This guy's got 100, I think he has about 1,000 employees. | ||
| 900 or 1,000. | ||
| He called me the next day and he's joining Public Square. | ||
| Shields, massive, massive Midwestern outdoor retailer joining Public Square. | ||
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Wow. | |
| In fact, we've been coordinating with Tractor Supply about joining Public Square. | ||
| There's so much that's happening that feels really, really good. | ||
| Feels like a lot of wind in the sails. | ||
| Plus, We get asked often, like, if these companies stop being woke, does that help or hurt you, actually? | ||
| And it's like, it actually helps a ton because it's very validating and legitimizing of what we're doing. | ||
| We had our best month we ever had this past month. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| It's phenomenal. | ||
| Is that because you launched Riley Gaze's swimsuit line? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We did not. | ||
| There are no tucking. | ||
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No tucking swimsuit. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| In our swimsuit. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| We would jump on that business opportunity. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| The no tuck swimsuit. | ||
| The no tuck swimsuit. | ||
| You heard it here first. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Alex Stein, hardest hit. | ||
| Yeah, seriously. | ||
| He tried on the Tuck Swim City. | ||
| He did. | ||
| He went to a city council meeting to talk about it, didn't he? | ||
| I couldn't blame Alex Stein, actually, for getting that taken off. | ||
| But I saw those things. | ||
| We went to Target and I saw that. | ||
| Target's still doing it in all the progressive cities around the country. | ||
| So they said, we're removing it, but it's like, you're just removing it in red states. | ||
| They pick and choose. | ||
| Riley, you've been on a tear, man. | ||
| That's actually a great business idea. | ||
| You get credit. | ||
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We'll have your little in the back. | |
| Check with my wife, please. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| It's been a whirlwind. | ||
| It has been these past two years. | ||
| Just never a position I imagined myself in. | ||
| How could you? | ||
| Never a position I would imagine that anyone took. | ||
| But here we are having to send the Seemingly controversial message that men and women are different. | ||
| Before that, it's pretty amazing. | ||
| You get to meet the coolest people. | ||
| You get to go amazing places and you get to have real impact. | ||
| Here we are. | ||
| You both have been on the cutting edge. | ||
| Let's talk some breaking news. | ||
| Joe Biden, it seems like... | ||
| Today's been a very bad day for Joe. | ||
| Most days are bad days when you don't remember who you are in the morning. | ||
| He almost kissed the wrong woman today. | ||
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Did you see that? | |
| Oh, no. | ||
| I didn't see this. | ||
| Yeah, and Jill had to pull him away. | ||
| Remember when Jill kissed the first man? | ||
| I saw it in a union. | ||
| I was there, and I was right across. | ||
| And that was like a proper kiss. | ||
| They were like walking. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
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I watched it. | |
| Yeah, that was super weird. | ||
| Yeah, and then Joe kisses his granddaughters, too. | ||
| Yeah, that's weird, too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Quite the difference in the grandkids, as we saw last night, with the Trump grandkids speaking. | ||
| Kai Trump. | ||
| I thought that was an awesome move. | ||
| I mean, this whole convention, honestly, to see... | ||
| Weirdly enough, I think the assassination of Tim humbled Trump. | ||
| And I would imagine the majority of Americans can agree that that is something that Trump could benefit from, is a little humility. | ||
| And it's been awesome to see. | ||
| I mean, he's gotten emotional several times. | ||
| The first day, he was emotional, talking about, I mean, the whole thing, his welfare, different things. | ||
| But in that speech, Kai, I thought it was a fantastic move. | ||
| And it shows that he's a real person, which was great. | ||
| A very big contrast to that of Joe Biden and his grandkids who he does not even know or talk to. | ||
| Yeah, kind of like, very human, that, right? | ||
| Like, that's very, like, are you a bad person? | ||
| Like, do you take up two spaces when you park, right? | ||
| Do you put the shopping cart back? | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Like, are you a decent human being? | ||
| Do you leave a tip, you know? | ||
| Do you acknowledge your biological grandchildren, or do you hang a stocking for the dog instead for Christmas, which is what they did after they had to put the dog down for biting too many people? | ||
| That says a lot about you, too, when you have three dogs in three years. | ||
| What kind of a monster are you, actually? | ||
| I love dogs. | ||
| Maybe the problem's not the dog. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| The problem's always the owner, in fact. | ||
| Yeah, that's what I'm told. | ||
| Well, I'll tell you, you can measure... | ||
| The life and character of a man by the kids that he raises and the grandkids that he has and the legacy he established. | ||
| So anybody that tries to demonize President Trump or claim that he's this bombastic, heartless man, which is what we've heard from the left for the last eight years. | ||
| Last night you saw the man, President Donald Trump. | ||
| And you can't fake that. | ||
| Kai got up there on the stage as a 17-year-old girl. | ||
| First time she's ever publicly spoken like that. | ||
| And you could tell in her eyes and in her rhetoric that was genuine. | ||
| You don't fake that. | ||
| It's not scripted. | ||
| And so I think that yesterday was a wonderful reminder that President Trump's an actual man that has garnered a great deal of respect, not only from the patriots in this country, but his own kids, which is most important. | ||
| This is now the year pillows on a fashion statement. | ||
| I've seen people with them. | ||
| I felt like I was missed out today. | ||
| Maybe we'll sell them on public square. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Talk to Mike Lindell. | ||
| He's right over there. | ||
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I love it. | |
| Libs are not going to have a good one. | ||
| Right now. | ||
| I'm expecting a lot of tears. | ||
| Maybe some urine, I guess. | ||
| Some urine. | ||
| We need some yellow tears from Keith Olbermann. | ||
| That's an inside joke from Keith Olbermann. | ||
| He should be the Democratic... | ||
| Can you explain that, please, Riley? | ||
| I wish I could explain it. | ||
| I wish I had the words to explain not even just this scenario, but Keith Olbermann as a person. | ||
| I don't think there are words. | ||
| He is a senile old man who spends his time attacking... | ||
| 20-year-old girls like me. | ||
| I'm like, what are you doing coming after me? | ||
| Says I'm a mediocre swimmer, all this stuff. | ||
| This is a public call. | ||
| Keith Ulmer, I will race you. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Anytime. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Lock it in. | ||
| Here's the challenge. | ||
| His bushy eyebrows will drag him down. | ||
| I forget what the contest even was. | ||
| But something on Twitter, something about Trump, because he suffers tremendously from TDS. | ||
| Something about Trump going back and forth. | ||
| I believe it was with Gunther Eagleman. | ||
| And in his reply, he said, Gunther maybe said, like, oh, stop crying. | ||
| He said, these aren't tears you see, they're urine. | ||
| And I'm like, why? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| So I can't explain it. | ||
| I don't think that communicated what he hoped it would. | ||
| It's my Roman Empire. | ||
| Maybe that's why that guy's been fired by every network he's ever worked for. | ||
| Yeah, maybe. | ||
| Speaking of people's characters, yeah, it does say a lot when you're attacking 20-year-old girls on the internet. | ||
| And you're a 60-year-old transitioning male, I guess. | ||
| Dude, it's like, find a hobby. | ||
| Find a girlfriend. | ||
| Or a boyfriend, Keith, if that's your taste. | ||
| Find a boyfriend, for all I care. | ||
| A dog, a cat, anything. | ||
| Anything. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Chill. | ||
| I think Biden's done. | ||
| I think he smoked, dude. | ||
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He's cooked. | |
| He's finally cooked. | ||
| I think he had one last attempt at trying to stabilize everything. | ||
| And now with Obama, Pelosi, Schumer. | ||
| What do you guys think, then? | ||
| So they're saying that he's not going to endorse Kamala. | ||
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So, who do you have? | |
| They're saying he's not going to resign, but he will not run for re-election. | ||
| He won't endorse Kamala. | ||
| And now you've got, like, Josh Shapiro, Gretchen Whitmer, and Dean. | ||
| What do you think about Newsom? | ||
| Hillary? | ||
| The polling's going to be so bad for these people because nobody knows their names. | ||
| Nobody knows who they are. | ||
| What if they have someone out there like The Rock? | ||
| That's not possible. | ||
| No way. | ||
|
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It's not going to happen. | |
| Mark Hamill. | ||
| I fully endorse Mark Hamill. | ||
| That would be comedy. | ||
| Can you imagine Kamala and Mark Hamill? | ||
| I think that's what it... | ||
| Truthfully, I think... | ||
| That is the only thing that would garner a surge out of the Democratic Party. | ||
| I don't believe even a surge that is large enough to overtake what the conservatives have built right now. | ||
| But there's no political figure. | ||
| I don't think. | ||
| Who could even come close to President Trump? | ||
| Can we talk about the vibe change in the party? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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It's been awesome. | |
| This is a totally... | ||
| I don't know how many RNC conventions you've gone to. | ||
| I've gone to four. | ||
| To my great shame, I was wearing a John McCain shirt at my first one. | ||
|
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Oh, boy. | |
| I know. | ||
| That's okay. | ||
| This is about, and also embarrassing. | ||
| But, like, there's a total vibe shift here. | ||
| No doubt about it. | ||
| I will say, I've only kind of been tuned in. | ||
| I mean, for two years or so, I mean, I've always been Christian first and foremost, which has aligned conservatives, so I've always had conservative values, but I didn't really know much until these past two years. | ||
| But in these two years, we have been the party that has been suffering from divisiveness and infighting and eating our own, but it is, I hate to even say it's refreshing because it's tragic to see any sort of divide, but it is almost refreshing. | ||
| For the Republican Party, for conservatives to be united, all behind one nominee, incredibly supportive, but to now see the Democratic Party in shambles. | ||
| This is the first time I've seen it. | ||
| What I loved last night, J.D. Vance's speech, I thought was phenomenal. | ||
| And as somebody who cares deeply about American-owned businesses. | ||
| This message of revitalizing Main Street and actually protecting the American worker and celebrating American ingenuity and enterprise, I am here for it. | ||
| And it's interesting, too, because the false narrative that the left led for years, that they were the party of compassion and that they cared about the little guy, it's completely gone out the window. | ||
| They're the party of the career politicians and the elites. | ||
|
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Meanwhile... | |
| The Republicans here are having this Everyday American series where they're highlighting the Gold Star families and the people that are building their communities and the parents of children that were tragically lost to drug overdose. | ||
| You're hearing real stories and I have never felt more absolutely stoked for the future of our movement. | ||
| So, vibe has shifted pretty materially. | ||
|
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It's refreshing. | |
| It's a beard thing, isn't it? | ||
|
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It is. | |
| Dude, since the 1800s. | ||
| You can grow a beard, presumably, Riley. | ||
| Leah Thomas can grow a beard. | ||
| It's a beard thing. | ||
| It's you and JD. | ||
| We looked this up. | ||
| I think that JD is the first presidential nominee on any ticket with a beard for 100 years, at least. | ||
| He's the first presidential since the late 1800s. | ||
| There was a guy in 1916. | ||
| It was Woodrow Wilson's. | ||
| 1913? | ||
| 1913? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But he only grew it when he was in office, I think, if I remember right. | ||
| So we're bringing the beards back. | ||
| By this revelation. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
| It's like I never had Lincoln. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| It's like the last man who had a beard. | ||
|
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Bring it back. | |
| We're bringing it back. | ||
|
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Wait. | |
| That's right. | ||
| I feel, like, lied to. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| It feels weird. | ||
| It's nice because it gives me an excuse to keep this long and still claim professionalism. | ||
| Well, that's exactly right. | ||
| Yeah, he's going to, like... | ||
| And Democrats could never. | ||
| No, they could not. | ||
| You think Pete Buttigieg, because it's going to be Kamala Buttigieg, right? | ||
| You think he's going to grow a beard? | ||
| No way. | ||
| Not a chance. | ||
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He would just have a little neck patch or something. | |
| Yeah, true. | ||
| Okay, so final question. | ||
| What are we expecting to hear from Trump tonight? | ||
| The vibe here has been wildly positive. | ||
| Hard to really describe it, actually. | ||
|
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It is. | |
| Some people say, and I don't want to get too weird. | ||
| But some people say Trump looks different. | ||
| I don't know if you agree with that, but they're like, the photos of Trump, they're like, he looks like a different man. | ||
| But he's even said, he said, look, I'm a changed man. | ||
| God had his hand on me. | ||
| And again, outside looking in, it appears that way. | ||
| I don't know, again, I don't know if it's kind of this humility. | ||
| I don't know what it is, but I agree with that sentiment, for sure. | ||
| But what I'm excited to hear tonight, super excited. | ||
| To, one, hear about his welfare, everything that his emotions and stuff, again, to kind of paint him as a real person. | ||
| But when the platform was released, issue number 17, big bold letters, is no men and women's sports. | ||
| So I'm excited to hear what he has to say on this topic, how he will take decisive action day one back in the Oval Office. | ||
| Yeah, and I couldn't agree more. | ||
| I think that we're going to hear a Trump tonight that's grateful. | ||
| Grateful to be alive, grateful to be in the position that he is, grateful to have the support that he has, grateful for his family. | ||
| Even you saw last night, him watching Kai. | ||
| He just looked like a grateful grandfather that has lived a very long and fruitful life and now has an opportunity in the second half of his life, in his latter years, to carry on and cement a legacy that he started in 2016. | ||
| That's what it feels like. | ||
| It feels like this is It's a lifetime of wild events wrapped up into one speech. | ||
| That's what I want to hear. | ||
| That's what everyone says. | ||
| Everyone's like, JD is like the legacy pick. | ||
| It's so smart. | ||
| And then suddenly everyone's like, wow, after the speech last night, they're like, yo, this was the right pick. | ||
| I know there were some people who were like, nah, JD's not it. | ||
| But that was amazing. | ||
| That was an amazing pick. | ||
| Alright, well, Vice President next. | ||
| I mean, right? | ||
| So we've proven this. | ||
| We've got to carry the beard. | ||
| Yeah, we've proven that. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I don't want to be it. | ||
| But I like the beard thing. | ||
| Mike, can you shout out? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Great to be here, Benny. | ||
| Great to see you, Riley. | ||
| You can head to publicsquare.com if you want to shop from the largest network of American-owned businesses in the country that love life, family, faith, freedom, so you can spend money with businesses that do not hate you. | ||
| And it's a pleasure to be here with Benny and Riley. | ||
| You can also follow me on X at RealMichaelSeif. | ||
| S-E-I-F. | ||
| First four letters, my last name. | ||
| And we talk all things politics mixed with the economy and culture there. | ||
| And our new no-tucking swimsuit. | ||
|
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Yes, exactly. | |
| Launching this fall. | ||
| We're taking on target. | ||
| My man. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thanks, Michael. | ||
| Good to see you. | ||
| Dude, I feel bad. | ||
| That you have to have Tim Burchett on your show. | ||
| Congressman Burchett! | ||
|
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What? | |
| Is this a beef? | ||
| Is there beef here? | ||
| We've got some ongoing beef. | ||
| Who's Kendrick and who's Drake? | ||
| Tim Burchett. | ||
| I make skateboards. | ||
| I gotta say, Congressman Burchett is the funniest. | ||
| How wide are we? | ||
| He's the funniest member of Congress. | ||
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I know all about you, but you make skateboards. | |
| He's got a video. | ||
| He'll show you what I'm riding. | ||
| Can we get him on Public Square? | ||
| Can we sell him on Public Square? | ||
| I would like to, but you're asking me for this because I'm a congressman and you like my stands. | ||
| But yeah, contact me. | ||
| I'm trying to get him. | ||
| Based takes and make skateboards. | ||
| According to Riley, I look incredible in a Speedo, but I don't want to try to... | ||
| A bright red Speedo. | ||
| Yo! | ||
| No, he's a good one. | ||
| There's not a lot of good ones down there in D.C., but Congressman Burchett, he is a good one. | ||
| Can I ask you about, as the two of them start a billion-dollar business, can I ask you about, you have legal action right now against those psychopaths who chase you into some room and threaten to kill you. | ||
| Berkeley? | ||
| San Francisco State University. | ||
| Okay, so close, but yay. | ||
| I just sat down. | ||
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Am I supposed to? | |
| I think I'm supposed to be on the Pratt Boys. | ||
| I don't want to. | ||
| Is that you saying you don't want to be with me? | ||
| Congressman Birchett? | ||
| Riley, here's the deal. | ||
| I'm telling my dad. | ||
| Here's the deal. | ||
| I told her, I said, I'm going to come over on Thanksgiving and me and your dad are going to fight in the front yard and your mom is going to turn the sprinklers on us and she'll be ugly crying. | ||
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You know. | |
| She's probably sitting on the hood of her career with a cigarette. | ||
| And a baby. | ||
| And you have a big beautician's ass hanging off the end of the cigarette. | ||
| Those who aren't from Tennessee don't understand Congressman Bridget. | ||
| They couldn't get it. | ||
| They're not from where we're from. | ||
| They're not. | ||
| They ain't from here. | ||
| If I got to explain, you don't understand. | ||
| J.D. Vance gets it. | ||
| I'm going to unplug my mic and just let the two of you hillbillies go for it. | ||
| Hillbillies? | ||
| We're hillbillies. | ||
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I have six years of undergraduate studies from the University of Tennessee. | |
| I noticed J.D. Vance said hillbilly in Appalachia seven times and said Yale only one time. | ||
| And then when he said mamaw, he said, if I got to explain that, I said, wait a minute, am I in an alternative universe? | ||
| Who doesn't know what a mamaw is? | ||
| But you know what it is with you Yankees here? | ||
| Is y 'all put sugar in your cornbread. | ||
| I don't want a cake. | ||
| I want a dadgum piece of cornbread. | ||
| And I'm sick of it. | ||
| Our beef is now resolved. | ||
| What was the beef? | ||
| Okay, so hold on. | ||
| First off, Drake and Kendrick, chill. | ||
| Who? | ||
| Drake and Kendrick, chill. | ||
| And then two, they're rappers congressmen. | ||
| Okay, wow. | ||
| There you go. | ||
|
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And then, what is this beef about? | |
| We have to unpack this a little bit. | ||
| Maybe you settle it on the show. | ||
| I guess similarly to Keith Olbermann, I guess maybe. | ||
| He's taking a shot. | ||
| Have you seen him taking a shot at me lately? | ||
| Not too, too. | ||
| Really? | ||
| He's taking you? | ||
| Oh, come on. | ||
| He calls me. | ||
|
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Welcome. | |
| He said something, and I... | ||
| Thomas, find those things on Keith Oberman that he hit me on twice, and I popped him both times, but I didn't care. | ||
| It's not hard to pop him, Congressman Birch. | ||
| Mark Hamill. | ||
| Mark Hamill. | ||
| Thomas? | ||
| Yeah, Thomas. | ||
| Thomas, go over here on the stream. | ||
| You've got to see Thomas. | ||
| You've got to see the staff. | ||
| You've got to see the staffer with an incredible Top Gun mustache and a mullet. | ||
| Mullet, baby. | ||
| Back to Beards. | ||
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This is so awesome. | |
| He's got this. | ||
| He's ingrained. | ||
| He's ingrained. | ||
| We got staffers with mullets. | ||
| We got vice presidents with beards. | ||
| It is back. | ||
| Back and better than ever. | ||
| White boy summer. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| So, the beef, you were smoking each other on Twitter. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| It was amateur hour. | ||
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Please. | |
| Amateur hour. | ||
| Now you do sound like you hold me. | ||
| Just shame me on saying that. | ||
| Not you, dude. | ||
| Well, first he posted a photo of me where I did not look very flattering. | ||
| Because you looked like you were just like... | ||
| Because I was. | ||
| And I said, somebody said, what were you telling her? | ||
| And I said, I was bragging about my expertise swimming at the free lessons at YMCA in the 70s. | ||
| You know, I mean, I was, I don't know. | ||
| Yeah, we're just talking. | ||
| And then I told him no one wants to see him in a red Speedo. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's what he wears. | ||
| We'll leave this offline. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We're going back to the stream. | ||
| We're going back to the stream. | ||
| Okay, so hold up. | ||
| You've been somebody who's come on our show time and time again. | ||
| On occasion, I think you get in a little bit of trouble for telling the truth on our program. | ||
| And you talk about... | ||
| Evil, and let's just call them evil entities, that are willing to manipulate members of Congress for their own gain. | ||
| Compromise. | ||
| That'll be the title of my second book. | ||
| Compromise members of Congress. | ||
| And they're willing to do so physically. | ||
| They're willing to use illegal means to get what they want. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| That's been something that you've said on this program. | ||
| I got you quite a few headlines. | ||
| So when you saw some 20-year-old kid take a shot at Trump in full view of the Secret Service, what went through your mind? | ||
| How in the world could that happen? | ||
| And why are we not firing the people in charge? | ||
| The number one question is, why was President Trump allowed to go on stage when you had a guy 20 minutes out with a sight finder, a range finder? | ||
| The reason you have a range finder, two reasons. | ||
| Playing golf or you're shooting a dadgum rifle. | ||
| And there was no golf course there. | ||
| So why was he allowed to come out? | ||
| I've been to these things. | ||
| Look, a balloon pops. | ||
| We're not bringing him out. | ||
| Backfire on a truck. | ||
| We're not bringing them out. | ||
| Suspicious person. | ||
| Suspicious package. | ||
| We had a breach somewhere. | ||
| And that's why presidents always run late, because they're double-checking everything. | ||
| They didn't have the A team, the B team. | ||
| That was the C or D team. | ||
| And when he laid on the ground, too, you get him the hell out of there, man. | ||
| You've got to get him out of there. | ||
| That's the number one thing. | ||
| They didn't have a plan. | ||
| They didn't have a clear exit. | ||
| They didn't. | ||
| And you hear a guy, if you listen to the mic, he goes, we're going to move on three, two, one. | ||
| And they all just laid there because they did not know what the heck was going on. | ||
| And so all that, you know, conspiracy theories run rampant. | ||
| And the reason they run rampant, because you've got an arrogant bunch of people in Washington, in both parties, frankly. | ||
| They should have been answering the questions early. | ||
| I called Chairman Comer that night. | ||
| I talked to him at length. | ||
| I said, let's go back. | ||
| I said, my quote was, to hell with the convention. | ||
| Let's get it there on Monday. | ||
| Let's start talking about this thing. | ||
| No, we didn't do that. | ||
| And I get it because he couldn't get everything together. | ||
| But for the FBI or anybody to say they don't know anything about this kid, listen, after those shots were fired, they figured out who that was. | ||
| I would say within a couple hours, they knew what that kid had for breakfast a month ago. | ||
| Everything about him. | ||
| He has no... | ||
| You know, internet presence, that's just pathetic. | ||
| That cannot even, in this day and age, that is not even possible. | ||
| And, I mean, Quakers have an internet presence. | ||
| I mean, come on. | ||
| The Amish. | ||
| Yeah, the Amish, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| They got there and cranked the thing. | ||
| Yeah, I love them people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I love them. | ||
| But, yeah, this whole thing just stinks to high heaven. | ||
| This lady was on, she worked at Secret Service 27 years, I think. | ||
| She rose to the rank of guarding the Vice President Cheney. | ||
| Liz Cheney said in her book that they had a close relationship with a lot of the agents and they still cupped up with them. | ||
| I don't know about all that conspiracy, but what I do know is that that should have never happened. | ||
| A 20-year-old nobody outsmarts the most prestigious security force in the world. | ||
| But you've got to realize... | ||
| When they found the cocaine in the White House, that little bag of cocaine that traveled from one end of the White House to the other, that was photographed in a lockbox, that was open, that was not jimmied. | ||
| And then they destroyed it. | ||
| They said they couldn't get enough DNA. | ||
| Enough DNA is like, are you pregnant or are you not pregnant? | ||
| It's not semi-pregnant. | ||
| You got DNA or you don't have DNA. | ||
| They destroyed that package because they had to make sure it wasn't a biological entity or something. | ||
| They went in there and took it out. | ||
| You know, it was just a joke. | ||
| The whole thing. | ||
| And that is who's in charge of this. | ||
| So let's start at the top. | ||
| Let's clean house. | ||
| Let's get to the answers. | ||
| Let's get that hearing on Monday. | ||
| And if she does not come in, we've subpoenaed her. | ||
| If she does not come in, bring her in and change. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I'm over it. | ||
| I'm over it. | ||
| We almost lost Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Because of something. | ||
| Were you on a call with Cheadle? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What did she tell you? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Did she apologize? | ||
| Was she like, sorry, I almost got your president killed. | ||
| This thing, no. | ||
| It's an arrogance. | ||
| I mean, you saw them chasing her yesterday. | ||
| I mean, the bloody cheek, the hubris to show up here, Ben. | ||
| Well, I mean, that's the arrogance of this group in Washington. | ||
| Don't believe your lying eyes. | ||
| Believe what we tell you. | ||
| For so long, they've had that because of all the citizen journalists. | ||
| It's good old boys and girls with cell phones. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| God bless Elon Musk for buying Twitter. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Buying Twitter or we would be out. | ||
| Such a great point. | ||
| Without Twitter, there it is. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Beef settled. | ||
| Now they can drop a heater together. | ||
| She's going to co-sponsor my brand. | ||
| Of men's swimwear. | ||
| This is so funny you say this because it's already coming out on Public Square and it's no tucking. | ||
| Oh, yeah, no tucking. | ||
| Absolutely, baby. | ||
| I'm on that. | ||
| Like a cheap suit. | ||
| Alright, we got two fish bumps. | ||
| Beef officially squashed. | ||
| So, you, Riley, you must have seen these curiosities, but the only reason you saw them or I saw them or my entire team saw them is because Elon Musk bought X. That's it. | ||
| I mean, I got the notification on my phone. | ||
| Post notification, it popped up, all caps. | ||
| Donald Trump shot on live television. | ||
| And I see it, and I click on it, and I think it's going to be some sort of meme, whatever. | ||
| I'm sitting in the car with my husband. | ||
| I click the video, I watch it. | ||
| And I'm, like, I was so confused. | ||
| And I just, this was never even a possibility I thought could happen, because again, we trust, at least I have historically, I would have trusted the Secret Service to do their job. | ||
| And so, That's the first place I saw it. | ||
| I didn't see it on mainstream media until much later. | ||
| So, again, it took a South African. | ||
| It took an African-American quite literally caring about our freedoms. | ||
| I know there was, of course, a large price to pay, but I wholeheartedly believe that Elon Musk cares more about our freedoms as Americans than I would say 99% of Americans do. | ||
| Congressman, quickly, you said you'd bring Cheadle in chains. | ||
| Congress does have the right to do it. | ||
| Yeah, but we don't have the guts to do it. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| But you'd be okay with that. | ||
| I mean, is that what you mean, bring her in, James? | ||
| Does a Baptist church got a bus? | ||
| And I'll answer that. | ||
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Yes, it does. | |
| Yes, he's not from Tennessee. | ||
| He doesn't know. | ||
| He doesn't know. | ||
| Your Baptist probably don't. | ||
| Riley, your drawl, like in the presence of your Tennessee congressman, your drawl suddenly like comes. | ||
| It comes out. | ||
| I know. | ||
| It's the only place in America where people don't speak with an act. | ||
| I know. | ||
| He brings it out of me. | ||
| He brings it out of me. | ||
| This is wild. | ||
| Okay, I really do want to pin this down, though. | ||
| Like, this is, I mean, clearly, she's borderline criminally culpable. | ||
| Like in manslaughter and in criminal negligence. | ||
| It's not really borderline. | ||
| She took accountability. | ||
| She said the buck stops here. | ||
| Joe Biden said, you know what Joe Biden said when they asked him about it? | ||
| He said, I haven't talked to him. | ||
| He did. | ||
| Don't assume we're gender. | ||
| Yesterday, the black guy, he said, for the Department of Defense. | ||
| Yeah, got it. | ||
| He's gone. | ||
| He's gone. | ||
| Haven't you heard? | ||
| He's gone. | ||
| Literally, he's out. | ||
| Open convention. | ||
| He's out. | ||
| So that's really happening. | ||
| I think so. | ||
| They're going to try to do anything they can do to take away from Kid Rock's concert tonight. | ||
| And Donald Trump. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| The entire Democrat Party is fine. | ||
| We're going to be there dancing. | ||
| I want to warn everybody. | ||
| Everybody's getting cocky. | ||
| All I got to do is say two words. | ||
| Bill Clinton. | ||
| Bill Clinton was a draft dodger. | ||
| He went to England to escape the Vietnam draft. | ||
| It was before we knew how horrible Hillary was. | ||
| He goes over there. | ||
| We think, oh, George Bush, senior. | ||
| Navy pilot shot down in the Pacific. | ||
| He brought an American submarine, saved him. | ||
| The rest of his crew got killed. | ||
| Legitimately a hero. | ||
| We're going to walk the country with him. | ||
| He kicked our butts because we got cocky. | ||
| I hope people remember this. | ||
| This is a freaking pep rally. | ||
| The game's Friday, folks. | ||
| Let's get in it. | ||
| Okay, so final words here. | ||
| Cheadle, what's going to happen, man? | ||
| It's going to be a bunch of pot banging by Republicans. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| We need to get some guts. | ||
| We're going to get accountability. | ||
| We're going to write a letter. | ||
| We're going to cover him up with a strong letter. | ||
| I got a little hopeful seeing John Barrasso, of all people, chase her down. | ||
| He seemed pretty pissed. | ||
| I was like, wow. | ||
| Marcia, I wouldn't surprise Marcia put her in a headlock. | ||
| That wouldn't surprise me one bit. | ||
| I was in the State Senate with Marcia. | ||
| I've known her forever. | ||
| I think... | ||
| I think we better get some guts. | ||
| And everybody says, well, it won't go anywhere. | ||
| You passed a lot. | ||
| Won't go anywhere in the Senate. | ||
| Make them vote on it. | ||
| Send it over there. | ||
| Hang it around their necks. | ||
| It's got to end, folks. | ||
| We've got to take our country back. | ||
| We are on the cusp of losing everything. | ||
| Honestly, everything. | ||
| You've got a group of openly Marxist people that are infiltrated our country. | ||
| And this isn't some McCarthyism thing. | ||
| This is the reality. | ||
| And Trump knows it. | ||
| It's not the... | ||
| Taking the head of the FBI out. | ||
| You've got to go layer deep. | ||
| I met him last night. | ||
| Indian fella. | ||
|
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Vivek. | |
| Vivek. | ||
| Yeah, I'm sorry. | ||
| He's a UFO guy. | ||
| Why couldn't I remember that? | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| I'm tired. | ||
| He's sundowning. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| Your staffer's over there. | ||
| Cutting his mullet. | ||
| No, he ain't cutting that mullet. | ||
| It's more than a hairstyle, dude. | ||
| It's a lifestyle. | ||
| We're going to cut 75% out. | ||
| I thought, well, that's a good start. | ||
| He's a good one. | ||
| Congressman Birch is one of the good ones. | ||
| I didn't realize we have so much. | ||
| Thank you, Riley. | ||
| Hot Tennessee energy here. | ||
| Well, Riley's uncle married a girl that went to my high school. | ||
| So, I mean, you know, uncle played at UT. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And I know him, and then I met her daddy. | ||
| She spoke at a conservative group, and we were big buddies since then. | ||
| I'm going to Nashville in a few weeks. | ||
| We'll hang out with him a little bit. | ||
| Not her, but him. | ||
| And, yeah. | ||
| So, shout yourselves out, and then give us some Tennessee wisdom to get us through in November. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| The victory. | ||
| You can follow me on X at Riley underscore Gaines underscore. | ||
| I've got a show on OutKick called Gaines for Girls and a new book that was just a national bestseller called Swimming Against the Current. | ||
| I might give Brett Burchett a shout-out in there. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| I got a new book coming out called I Came, I Saw, I Rocked, I'm Gone. | ||
| Not really. | ||
| My Jewish redneck landlord in Nashville when I was in the legislature, he said he's going to put that on his tombstone. | ||
| And on the other side, he's going to say, I told you all it didn't feel good. | ||
| Tim Burchett. | ||
| I didn't understand any of that. | ||
| Tim Burchett. | ||
| X or Twitter or whatever. | ||
| You know, the at thing and then T-I-M-B-U-R-C-H-E-T-T. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Google me. | ||
| I got like a YouTube thing. | ||
| He's got a Wikipedia page. | ||
| He's a big deal. | ||
|
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Do I? | |
| You must. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm going to go on there. | ||
| You might have heard of me. | ||
| He's got a YouTube thing. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| Also, I was captain of the 1982 Bearden High School football team. | ||
| We went five and five. | ||
| You might have heard of me. | ||
| It was a rebuilding year. | ||
| Love you, Danny. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Riley, you're cool too, I guess. | ||
|
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I love you, Danny. | |
| I'll say really quickly, I'm a Patriot Mobile user. | ||
| I know they're sponsoring the show tonight. | ||
| Patriot Mobile rocks. | ||
| Everyone should have Patriot Mobile. | ||
| I'll do a plug for you, but I wholeheartedly, sincerely mean it. | ||
| Boom! | ||
| You have to tell me what that is, Riley. | ||
| I don't even know what I'm talking about. | ||
| You don't even have a cell phone, do you? | ||
| It's over there somewhere. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Scott Pressler is in the house, baby. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| I'm a right winner. | ||
|
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Oh, sure. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Right here, Scott. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
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What's going on, man? | |
| How you doing? | ||
| Yes, we are. | ||
| You know, I didn't want to wear all black, but I normally wear black. | ||
| I like the color black. | ||
|
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It's very easy. | |
| It's smooth. | ||
| It goes with everything. | ||
| And we're Johnny Cash in it. | ||
|
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Well, that's true. | |
| And when you're traveling, yeah. | ||
| Okay, you got to show the people. | ||
| You got to show the people. | ||
| They're not going to be able to see it there, Scott. | ||
|
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Not in the microphone, Scott. | |
| Scott! | ||
| For heaven's sake. | ||
| Look, I'm 6 '5". | ||
| That's right, you are. | ||
| So what's it like in the WNBA as Caitlin Clark? | ||
| You know... | ||
| I always have to have my hair laid and on point. | ||
| But I'm getting a little skinny. | ||
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I think that, you know, Caitlyn needs to get a little thicker. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And if she got a little thicker, she'd be also your doppelganger, Caitlyn Collins. | ||
| Oh my gosh, yeah. | ||
| Caitlyn, she's got great eyebrows, though. | ||
| If you're not aware of this, there's this horrible meme on the internet where people think that WNBA phenomenon, Caitlyn Clark or Caitlyn Collins... | ||
| Both CC names are Scott Pressler because of these beautiful walks. | ||
| So what will happen is they'll show her and anyone with long hair will comment and go, this is not me. | ||
|
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And it goes viral every single time. | |
| Okay. | ||
| So tell me, Scott, you are registering people. | ||
| You're melting down, actually, the presses for voter registration. | ||
| Every other day. | ||
| I see you with a stack of voter reg, like, about as tall as you are, and you said you're 6 '5". | ||
|
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Yes. | |
| However, you must be going gangbusters right now. | ||
| My entire social feed, I can't get past, I can't get past a single swipe on X without some Democrat being like, I'm voting Republican, I'm voting Trump, I'm voting Trump, I'm voting Trump, I'm voting Trump, I'm registering Republican. | ||
|
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Good. | |
| Well, I mean, we're Florida-ing Pennsylvania. | ||
| You know, we flipped Pinellas County, electing Ana Polina Luna. | ||
| And by the way, I'm coming down there on August 3rd. | ||
| I'll be in Pinellas County. | ||
| And so I'd love to do something with you guys. | ||
| We flipped Seminole County, electing Corey Mills in the office. | ||
| We flipped Long Island, electing George Santos in the office. | ||
| I'm very proud of that. | ||
| And basically, we're just replicating the model that we used elsewhere in PA. | ||
| And the Democrats are so scared of our voter registration. | ||
| You know, now they're so for democracy, but now they're trying to push Biden out. | ||
| When the people, the Democrats, voted for him. | ||
| How is that democratic? | ||
| And it's because of our voter registration efforts in places like Pennsylvania. | ||
| So, which counties are you targeting? | ||
| So, well, I'm very proud. | ||
| Butler County? | ||
| Were you at the rally, I guess? | ||
| I was at the rally. | ||
| You were? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I guess I should have led with that. | ||
| I didn't actually know. | ||
| I guess you posted very publicly about that. | ||
| You know, I'm... | ||
| I want to focus on the positive. | ||
| I'm a forward thinker. | ||
| You're a positive person, Scott. | ||
| And I want to celebrate the fact that God spared President Trump, and he spared our nation, and we have the opportunity to re-elect him this November. | ||
| I want to focus on why I'm here. | ||
| I'm here to re-elect Trump. | ||
| I'm here to give him a Congress that he can work with. | ||
| We need the House. | ||
| We need the Senate. | ||
| So I need everybody at home to vote from top to bottom, all the way to local. | ||
| But for those of you who are unfamiliar, Scott's doing an enormous amount of work in Pennsylvania right now. | ||
| You do work across the country, but a ton of work in Pennsylvania. | ||
| So I didn't know you were at the rally. | ||
| Very quickly, your experience. | ||
| I was proud to see the bravery of some people, like the fireman who protected his daughter, who protected his family, like John David Longo, mayor of Slippery Rock, who protected his pregnant wife. | ||
| And it was nice to see the bravery of men being that protector in such a dangerous situation. | ||
| So Bucks County, to get to a lighter note for our audience... | ||
| Four years ago, there were 15,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. | ||
| As of Monday of this week, that 15,000 Democrat advantage has been narrowed to 112. | ||
| Now, Bucks County is outside of Philadelphia. | ||
| This is a major suburban county where everybody was saying, oh, the moms, the women, the suburban people, they're moving away from the Republican Party. | ||
| Now they're coming back home. | ||
| And I hope, Benny, on Monday to be able to tell you that we have flipped Bucks County from blue to red. | ||
| That is a major news story. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Okay, so tell me about the voter registration. | ||
| Do you see this current moment where suddenly Mark Andreessen, the biggest venture capitalist in the world, Elon Musk, $45 million a month. | ||
| Hopefully he breaks some of that off for you. | ||
| That'd be wonderful. | ||
| If you want to actually win an election, the way to do it is fund Scott Pressler, to be quite honest with you. | ||
| I will tell you, and I'm not here to decry anyone because this new RNC administration is totally different than the other, but I'm still not receiving the funding I need. | ||
| And so if you at home support my work, I need financial resources. | ||
| Please go to earlyvoteaction.com. | ||
| That's earlyvoteaction.com. | ||
| And I mean, honestly, we're hiring in Pennsylvania. | ||
| We're hiring 19 full-time staffers with a state director. | ||
| We're going to have the largest Now, if we're going to be successful, I want to break down the numbers very briefly. | ||
| Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes. | ||
| There are 90,000 Amish. | ||
| We're focusing on the Amish. | ||
| There are 80,000 truckers. | ||
| Truckers are driving the rig on Election Day. | ||
| There are 400,000 members of the Jewish community, and after October 7th, we're seeing the members of the Jewish community come over to us. | ||
| There are 930,000 hunters, and one-third of that community is not registered to vote. | ||
| So, we're going to farmers markets and gun shows, and we're getting the frat brothers registered to vote, and we're going to have a giant rager at Penn State University. | ||
| We are targeting these groups demographically and data-driven, and if we get them registered and we get them out to vote, we will elect Donald Trump. | ||
| So you believe that there is going to be a boom in voter registrations for Republicans? | ||
| Well, there has been. | ||
| Given this cycle? | ||
| Okay, so there has been. | ||
| So do you think the trend line is going to... | ||
| You know, kind of go parabolic. | ||
| I think we're going to only see it rapidly continue to narrow the advantage in all of the swing states. | ||
| Nevada is 40,000 away from flipping. | ||
| Arizona added 150,000 new registered Republicans. | ||
| North Carolina went from 300,000 advantage to Democrats down to 150,000. | ||
| In the last two years in Pennsylvania, we went from 595,000 more registered D's than R's down to... | ||
| 375 minus 220,000 plus in just two years time. | ||
| And when I tell people that Joe Biden won by 80, that shows me the numbers prove that we have the capacity to win, but we need to work our behinds off and have sweat equity in order to get it done. | ||
| Okay, so Scott, I gotta ask you the one question that got you and I thermonuclear, which is Lord Trump and the RNC. | ||
| Embracing Scott Pressler. | ||
| And that was something that was a remarkable moment because for a better part of maybe years, people tweeted at Ron McDaniel, call Scott Pressler. | ||
| Let's get him to register voters. | ||
| And she wouldn't call you. | ||
| She never called you. | ||
| She never tried, I think. | ||
| I don't think you had any interaction. | ||
| And yet you're the most successful voter register for the Republicans in history, maybe. | ||
| And now that's all changed, hasn't it? | ||
| You seem quite welcome here at the RNC. | ||
| Oh, it's been... | ||
| The love I receive from the Republican Party is just insane. | ||
| I'm so grateful. | ||
| I'm thankful. | ||
| I tweeted at Ron and McDaniel respectfully for 304 days consecutively without a response. | ||
| Within a week... | ||
| Of Laura Trump being elected as co-chair to the RNC, she already called me and planned to have me visit the RNC headquarters. | ||
| So for the first time in the decade I've been doing this work, my first visit was with Laura Trump. | ||
| And in fact, you had done an interview that was released and she said she wanted to hire me. | ||
| So I'm trending on Twitter. | ||
| I'm trending on X. And I get a call from Laura Trump and she's like, Scott, how you doing? | ||
| And I was like, well, Laura, I'm trending. | ||
| On X right now, so thank you. | ||
| But no, it's been such a blessing to have an RNC that welcomes the grassroots and brings us and has a seat at the table. | ||
| Scott, you are just one of the best. | ||
| I just want to give you an opportunity to shout out one more time how people can help you. | ||
| I myself am a supporter and will do anything I can to help Scott Pressler, who's been so right on this issue. | ||
| And the only guy who actually, like, in really tough times, in times where the party was quite down, said, I'm going to hit the road, pack my trunk full of Gatorade, yeah, conditioner, and I'm going to start registering Republicans. | ||
| So instead of being down and being a doomer, I'm going to start registering Republicans. | ||
| That's what Scott does for therapy, and it's amazing. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Shout it out, baby. | ||
| If you want us to continue hiring people in Pennsylvania, I have moved my life to the Commonwealth because I believe so much in this cause. | ||
| Please, I ask you, visit my website. | ||
| This is my organization, Early Vote Action. | ||
| And I would like you very much please to contribute and allow me to hire more full-time staff for the Republican Party so we can elect Donald Trump and win Pennsylvania. | ||
| EarlyVoteAction.com. | ||
| The great Scott Pressler. | ||
| And if we went with Pennsylvania. | ||
| It's done. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| It doesn't matter who they got. | ||
| Thanks, Benny. | ||
| They're cooked. | ||
| They're cooked. | ||
| Support Scott, my man. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Oh, baby. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We got the meme energy coming up on the program. | ||
| I want to just really quickly let you know that tonight, and we are monitoring very closely the Republican Convention. | ||
| And not to take away from some of the earlier speakers, but let's just say coming up, we got Hulk Hogan, we got Kid Rock, we got the great DJT, along with, I think, Tucker Carlson's going to be right before Donald Trump, speaking right before Donald Trump. | ||
| So, babies, pack yours in, get ready, cut your mullets, and turn on some Top Gun music, because we are ready to go. | ||
| Speaking of saving America, we got the boys who saved America, the UNC... | ||
| Brat bros, join the program now. | ||
| We've got a couple of them here. | ||
| Pull up a chair, gentlemen. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| What's happening, boys? | ||
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How's it going? | |
| Now, this is the famous American flag shot. | ||
| Let's get that American flag. | ||
| Put that up. | ||
| I want everyone to put it up because time moves quickly right now. | ||
| Can you get the American flag shot? | ||
| I just want to pop that up on screen. | ||
| This is like the best shot of the year. | ||
| You guys were winning photo of the year. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Until Donald Trump. | ||
| Far more iconic American flag shot. | ||
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A lot better picture. | |
| It took a literal shot. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| But still, a very honorable runner-up. | ||
| You all remember when Hamas holes and psychotic, angry, sad, zero-sex-life liberal cat ladies addicted to Xanax and Ozempic and everything else and a bunch of Narcan in the closet. | ||
| You remember when those people tried to tear down the flag at the great University of North Carolina, Tar Heels, and these boys saved it. | ||
| Don't you remember the photo? | ||
| Okay, so tell me about that day, boys. | ||
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All right, I mean, I'll start. | |
| So, you know, that happened on our last day of classes. | ||
| We had been dealing with the encampments for about two weeks up until that point. | ||
| You know, campuses across the country were dealing with it. | ||
| Things didn't really start to ramp up. | ||
| From intensity until there was arrests made from people staying overnight. | ||
| And then we started to kind of notice that everybody present was just... | ||
| Not a student there. | ||
| A lot of them were significantly older. | ||
| Definitely transplanted into there. | ||
| Oh, that's interesting. | ||
| So there's people that came into campus. | ||
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Professional protesters. | |
| That did not belong on campus. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| They're the angry cat lady. | ||
| Studio apartments. | ||
| My barista. | ||
| Yeah, that's exactly right. | ||
| Never seen deodorant. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
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Okay, cool. | |
| Great, I can see the stickers on the laptop, right? | ||
| Exactly, with a sticker on the laptop. | ||
| Okay, so please continue. | ||
| Sorry to interrupt you. | ||
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Yeah, so, you know, initially, it was pretty calm, pretty tame, until that point when things came to a head. | |
| All of us were kind of in different places when stuff started to happen, and, you know, I was talking to some of my friends who were in the Jewish fraternity, you know, because they were experiencing people. | ||
| Just hate crimes, swastikas on our doors, stuff like that. | ||
| And then I saw the flag fall from across the quad, and then a bunch of people just started running in and holding it up. | ||
| And the flag fell because somebody pulled it down, right? | ||
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They cut it down. | |
| They broke down the flagpole. | ||
| And then they raised their Palestinian flag over the American flag, which is insane. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It was a mass, too. | ||
| I mean, four U.S. Marshals were killed in Charlotte that weekend before that. | ||
| I mean, it's just... | ||
| On top of being the American flag, it just adds disrespect to it. | ||
| That I did not know. | ||
| So it was at half-mast due to a police shooting or some type of terrible accident. | ||
|
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Horrible, yeah. | |
| Wow. | ||
| So this is adding a lot of context to that photo. | ||
| And so then you come over there and you get between the Z or the Zare trying to tear down the flag and you hold it up and they get violent. | ||
| I saw some videos. | ||
| They were chucking stuff at you, right? | ||
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They had plenty of projectiles. | |
| Rocks, water bottles, just everything. | ||
| Right before that, though, the chancellor walked down with, like, 20 police officers like Darth Vader and put the American flag back up. | ||
| And then, again, the protesters came in and tried to take it down. | ||
| And that's when we stepped in. | ||
| That's what shocks me is that nobody... | ||
| I mean, listen, man, you're in North Carolina. | ||
| Like, you know, there are places... | ||
| There are, like... | ||
| You know, like art colleges, right? | ||
| I'm assuming that UNC has cops. | ||
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Chapel Hill cops, to be honest, a lot of them are people who were formerly in the forest in a bigger city, so they couldn't really handle the volume of people, especially on a liberal campus. | |
| It's really hard to do things. | ||
| I'll tell you this. | ||
| One of my folks went to Chapel Hill. | ||
| We have a newspaper called the Daily Tar Heel. | ||
| They called it the Daily Pravda back in the day. | ||
| And that was kind of just representative of the majority of the population on campus. | ||
| So since then, so you save the flag, you get lots of love. | ||
| The first time I saw this go completely viral was obviously the photo, and then your GoFundMe went viral. | ||
| So talk me through that. | ||
| Everybody wanted to throw you guys a nice party. | ||
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Estelle, I think you can talk through that. | |
| Yeah, so that GoFundMe was set up by a third-party individual, not a student on campus. | ||
| We were able to get in contact with one of his associates here at the convention, so we look forward to communicating further with him. | ||
| But all that money was raised, ended up being over half a million dollars, had some big names donating. | ||
| We're really appreciative of everyone. | ||
| And as far as what that money's going toward... | ||
| We try to look into donating to some causes, looking to donate to the family of the marshals that were killed. | ||
| However, GoFundMe has a rule that the money does have to be used for its intended purpose, so we have a big half-million-dollar Labor Day rager. | ||
| The rager is still on. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Labor Day weekend. | ||
| It's been taken care of by the IFC, the Interfraternity Council, so the event will be open to All of the IFC fraternities and we're looking forward to it. | ||
| This is a great result. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| There's a lot of nice things to donate to, but this was the intention of the money. | ||
| I'm glad it wasn't some scam. | ||
|
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At the start, when the count started to go up, everyone's like, he's just going to run away with the money. | |
| You didn't really know. | ||
| Okay, so on that day, it wasn't a question for you boys. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| You're just like, okay, hold on. | ||
| This is old glory. | ||
| You're not allowed to do this. | ||
|
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Yes, sir. | |
| Really? | ||
| Okay, so what is it in you that made you go do that? | ||
| Because obviously, you're going to get hit with a water bottle and a rock, and maybe even something worse. | ||
| These people are monsters. | ||
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They have very little. | |
| They have no happiness. | ||
| They have no joy in their life. | ||
| They're hurt people, hurt people, hurt people. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| So it's like you are in danger, right? | ||
| You decided to go run into danger. | ||
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I mean, we didn't think about that. | |
| I mean, we just saw what was happening. | ||
| We all love this country. | ||
| We all love the flag. | ||
| I think it stands for me, so we want to make sure nothing happened to it. | ||
| Yeah, my dad's been in the military since before I was born. | ||
| I'm proud of him and everyone else who has served in the marshals in the Charlotte Police Department. | ||
| I'm an Eagle Scout. | ||
| God of my country come first, along with family, and I didn't have to think about it. | ||
| It was just doing my due diligence to the country, standing up for those people. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, from my perspective, even though I don't necessarily agree with what the protesters stood for, I do support the fact that Americans have the right to protest and voice their opinions. | ||
| However, as soon as you want to disrespect the flag of the country that grants you those freedoms, that's where we draw the line. | ||
| Yeah, there was an inherent irony to it, I think. | ||
| Even though I didn't really agree with them at all, they are more than welcome to do whatever they want to do because at the end of the day, they think they're also doing what's best for their country. | ||
| And that's respectable enough, right? | ||
| For the most part. | ||
| But I mean, you know, everybody has their own cause, but there's just definitely some irony to it that I feel like really gets looked over and a situation which should not be partisan, loving your own country somehow becomes a partisan thing. | ||
| Yeah, when you're spewing hate and putting up a flag that... | ||
| Represents and embodies terrorism. | ||
| That just can't happen. | ||
| One of these cat ladies could have bit you. | ||
| They have rabies. | ||
| It's very scary. | ||
| Make sure you get your shots. | ||
| That's scary these days. | ||
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Anyway, you put yourself in grave danger. | |
| Could have thrown their soy lattes at you. | ||
| Nobody wants more soy in their diet. | ||
| Now, success. | ||
| Incredible time last night. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Last night. | ||
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Talk me through that. | |
| You got it. | ||
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That's pretty wonderful. | |
| Talk me through that speech. | ||
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So I was standing on the wings about to go on. | |
| You know, two big things for me. | ||
| I didn't want to stutter and I didn't want to trip on the walk over because those would not be good looks. | ||
| I think if you watch the live stream, I think in the midst of me going out there and speaking, I kind of forgot to blink. | ||
| I look a little insane when I'm speaking, but that's okay. | ||
| I think I got my message across. | ||
| How old are you? | ||
| 20 years old. | ||
| Bro. | ||
| You did a great job. | ||
| You did a fantastic job. | ||
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I appreciate that. | |
| You didn't piss yourself. | ||
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That's even better than Joe Biden, right? | |
| He pisses himself, poops his pants all the time. | ||
| He all saw the debates, so good for you. | ||
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Hey, man, I appreciate it. | |
| You could be president someday. | ||
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You are so low. | |
| Didn't wander all stage. | ||
| You didn't wander all stage. | ||
| I never once saw your wife go, you answered every question! | ||
| So good for you. | ||
| I'm really proud of you. | ||
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I appreciate that. | |
| And we have a vice president with a beard now soon. | ||
| And so mullet necks, right? | ||
| So I'm here for it. | ||
| I'm here for it. | ||
| If you're 35 though, you'll be ready to go. | ||
| I'm sorry I interrupted you. | ||
| So please, last night you gave a speech and all of you boys were on stage and there was flags behind you. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And it's pretty awesome. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, so when we got this opportunity, I got a call about a week ago from the Republican National Convention. | ||
| Picked it up. | ||
| I'm like, how the hell did they get my number? | ||
| But I didn't ask questions. | ||
| They were like, listen, we needed a response in the next two hours. | ||
| And I was like, I reached out to everybody that was involved. | ||
| I was like, hey, guys, would you be interested in coming? | ||
| We got a crowd together. | ||
| I was talking on the phone with some of the speechwriters from the convention. | ||
| Kind of talking through what I wanted to say and what I wanted to get across. | ||
| Then we flew out here Tuesday afternoon and we're kind of in the thick of it now. | ||
| I'm just trying to meet as many people as we possibly can and talk to as many people as possible. | ||
| Treated like conquering heroes. | ||
| The Iwo Jima of our time. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Iwo Jima, but for Zen. | ||
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Well, I do want to say we weren't the only fraternity involved. | |
| There were several there. | ||
| Shout out everyone else. | ||
| Unfortunately, a lot of them couldn't come. | ||
| They had complications with nationals and press, and they just couldn't make it, but shout out them for sure. | ||
| Yeah, so just hope we're represented well for everyone. | ||
| Yeah, they all get to go to the party, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Blackstock, Labor Day weekend. | |
| That's right. | ||
| And maybe you guys can break off a little bit of money to give the cat ladies those cones, right? | ||
| So they can't bite, right? | ||
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Yeah, I think Alex got vaccinated by someone. | |
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Okay, final thoughts on taking that stage, being on national TV. | ||
| I'm sure your phones were lighting up. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
| Grandmas, nanas, everyone's like, meemaws are like, I'm so proud of you. | ||
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Is that what you're getting? | |
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Nothing but love. | ||
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Trump's Instagram just posted the clip of it, which is not something I would ever make an offer. | |
| Whoa, that I did not know. | ||
| It happened like five minutes ago, right before we came. | ||
| Really? | ||
| We saw him right before we went out. | ||
| How many likes is on it? | ||
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It was 100k when I last saw him. | |
| In 5 minutes? | ||
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5-10 minutes, yeah. | |
| That's smoking. | ||
| Even for drunk. | ||
| That's hot. | ||
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1.2 million views already and almost 80k likes. | |
| Wow. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Well, boys, we're proud of you. | ||
| We say thank you. | ||
| I think, you know, everybody is excited to keep up with you. | ||
| And if you ever need any help from the Benny show, let us know. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Great to meet you. | ||
| Whatever those little cones are called, put it on the ladies' heads. | ||
| You can't trust them. | ||
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Thanks, sir. | |
| Thanks, boys. | ||
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Pleasure to meet you. | |
| All right. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I had no idea that we would have the hot tamale in the studio. | ||
| The great Mike Davis is here, along with ALX, who is here, baby. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| We are rocking and we are rolling as we prepare to go to convention programming. | ||
| Robbie, where are we at on the speaker slate? | ||
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Pompeo. | |
| Yeah, I'm aware, but who's next? | ||
| Who's next as the speaker? | ||
| Who's the next speaker at the RNC? | ||
| Poor Roddy. | ||
| It's his job, but that's all right. | ||
| I learned my leadership qualities from Mike Davis. | ||
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As a good dictator, yes. | |
| I would say this, Ben. | ||
| This convention is going so well for President Trump, and I'm thinking, what is the one way that we can screw up this momentum of this convention? | ||
| I thought, let's go on Ben Johnson's show and throw bombs. | ||
| I think media matters. | ||
| Let's just get media matters. | ||
| I think they've been a little bit understaffed. | ||
| That's right. | ||
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I need to give them some more work. | |
| That's right. | ||
| They have not enough Xanax or Ozempic in the world to take care of the one final Media Matters staffer that has to cover all of these shows this week. | ||
| Mike, it's so great to have you in studio. | ||
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Yeah, in the flesh. | |
| We're in the flesh. | ||
| And I want to take a moment to just get nostalgic for a second. | ||
| Just for a second. | ||
| We're not a nostalgic show. | ||
| But Mike Davis was probably one of our very first bookings, if not the first booking on our show. | ||
| One of the first three guests. | ||
| And Mike, that was years ago now. | ||
| And so we just want to say thanks, pal. | ||
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It's been a wild ride for a long time. | |
| I've known Ben for like 20 years, right? | ||
| It's been a wild ride for a long time, bro. | ||
| And now, I mean, who knew that we'd get sick of winning? | ||
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We are winning so much, we are tired of winning. | |
| Not quite yet. | ||
| Has Joe Biden bowed out yet? | ||
| I'm trying to figure this out. | ||
| Apparently. | ||
| Apparently, it's all rolling. | ||
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It seems like the mutiny has gotten overwhelming for him. | |
| I've been saying this, Ben. | ||
| Nothing screams democracy like Democrat insiders in smoke-filled back rooms at the Democrat National Convention overturning the will of millions, tens of millions of Democrat... | ||
| Primary voters, but they're the party of democracy. | ||
| I keep posting on X the hashtag, don't go Joe. | ||
| Because, yeah, I too agree. | ||
| The Democrat Party, who keeps talking about the threats to democracy, are now trying to overturn the will of the voters of their own party, who just elected him in a landslide for their primaries. | ||
| They had the choice to put up other candidates, and they kept telling everybody. | ||
| He's perfectly fine. | ||
| He's perfectly healthy. | ||
| Now they're all changing their minds, including Obama, apparently. | ||
| Including Obama. | ||
| Boys, up next, now finally we're getting into the programming. | ||
| Linda McMahon just spoke not too long ago, so there might be an indication that... | ||
| I just want to make sure that we're... | ||
| We're set and ready to go here. | ||
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Has President Trump gotten into the arena yet? | |
| Hulk Hogan. | ||
| I don't want to miss Hulk Hogan. | ||
| Mike, normally we'd be talking about Judge Eileen Cannon throwing the classified documents case into the trash compactor and then the Inferno. | ||
| The internal inferno combustion mechanism. | ||
| And that was glorious. | ||
| You predicted that that would happen. | ||
| One of the few legal scholars who did. | ||
| But there's been so much wonderful news that we actually, that was somehow swept under the rug on Monday. | ||
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Yeah, I mean, Judge Cannon correctly ruled that if you want to prosecute the former president of the United States, you have to do it by following the Constitution. | |
| You can't just create by fiat an office. | ||
| of the United States and give this office unlimited power, essentially an unlimited budget, and think that's constitutional. | ||
| It violates the Appropriations Clause and it violates the Appointment Clause. | ||
| And so Judge Cannon, who has the backbone to do this, I love these Republican appointed judges who are women and minorities because they have backbones of steel because they take so much crap from the left for being conservative. | ||
| So Judge Cannon. | ||
| Followed the Constitution. | ||
| She followed Justice Thomas' opinion in the presidential immunity case. | ||
| And she correctly threw out the indictment against President Trump down in Florida. | ||
| If President Biden and Merrick Garland want to prosecute him again, do it through your U.S. attorney down in the Southern District of Florida and do it through your normal appropriation from Congress. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And now, what does that mean for... | ||
| What does that mean for Jack Smith? | ||
| I mean, what does that mean for his other cases? | ||
| I mean, this is pretty, this is unbelievable. | ||
| This is humiliating, right? | ||
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Jack Smith is a serial loser. | |
| He keeps getting crushed at every step. | ||
| He got reversed 8-0. | ||
| It would have been 9-0, but Justice Scalia died when Jack Smith was the political scud missile sent to take out former Virginia Governor Bob McDonald. | ||
| And then he got banished to The Hague, and he was a war crimes prosecutor. | ||
| His wife was producing documentaries for Barack and Michelle Obama. | ||
| And then Joe Biden, America Garland brought back this political scud missile to try to take out president Trump. | ||
| And it blew up in Joe Biden's face. | ||
| And there's, it looks like everything's blown up in Joe Biden's face. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| My goodness. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, this dude, you may get, you may get to prosecute his family sooner than later. | ||
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It's the Viceroy. | |
| That's right. | ||
| It's very interesting that these Democrats, I remember two years ago coming on your show, Ben, And there were a lot of Democrats snickering and laughing when I was saying, when I predicted what was going to happen in these cases, and I don't think they're laughing now. | ||
| It's the most, like, we try and be polite, and we try and be polite on this program. | ||
| Bro, you have been the most right on the record, like, able to say it to us publicly. | ||
| A lot of people are cowards. | ||
| They, like, think these things, but they won't say it publicly. | ||
| You've been coming on this program for years and saying this and predicting it. | ||
| Man. | ||
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You know what, Ben? | |
| When you grow up with red hair, you just don't give a crap what people think about you. | ||
| You're used to getting punched in the face and you just learn how to fight. | ||
| And so, look, I know I'm crazy, but I'm also always right. | ||
| I'll take crazy and always right over whatever's happening to Joe Biden right now, which seems like the end stage of elder abuse. | ||
| He's going to be gone, right? | ||
| And so then what does that mean for his family? | ||
| His family has got to be furious right now. | ||
| Hunter, Jim, Jill, like there's some real problems for them then with a Joe Biden who not only is going to leave, but also piss off everyone on his way out. | ||
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Well, just think about, I would just say this to Joe Biden and Jill Biden and James Biden and Hunter Biden and every scumbag Biden who took over $20 million from Russia, China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan. | |
| They better be very happy. | ||
| They're too dumb to understand this, but they better be very happy that the Supreme Court ruled the way it did in the presidential immunity case. | ||
| And Judge Cannon ruled the way she did in the documents case. | ||
| And the Supreme Court ruled the way it did in the Fisher case. | ||
| Because can you imagine if Trump made me just create it the autopsy? | ||
| I dream about that. | ||
| by Congress just creates the office of Viceroy and doesn't have, you know, be nominated and confirmed by the Senate and just says Viceroy, you get an unlimited budget and unlimited power. | ||
| Go do your thing. | ||
| I don't think Democrats really want that. | ||
| Because I guarantee you, I would show zero mercy as Trump's vice versa. | ||
| So these Democrats better appreciate the Supreme Court. | ||
| Really save Joe Biden's ass. | ||
| So you're a deep appreciator of the Senate. | ||
| You must be happy with the J.D. Vance pick. | ||
| I didn't see you publicly bang any pots and pans for or against really any one single pick. | ||
| But you must be particularly happy. | ||
| You're a man of the Senate. | ||
| You've worked in the Senate for quite a while and with the Senate for a long time. | ||
| And the Senate seems very happy with J.D. Vance. | ||
| What kind of work are you going to get done in a second? | ||
| Trump White House. | ||
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I don't know if I'm a man. | |
| I worked in the Senate, and I got a lot of crap done in the Senate, but I broke every piece of China in the Senate over an 18-month period and converted a record number of President Trump's judges under then-Chairman Chuck Grassley's leadership. | ||
| He was a fantastic boss, and he just let me do my thing and break China. | ||
| Grassley's very happy with Vance. | ||
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Yes, he's very supportive. | |
| Let me say this about J.D. Vance. | ||
| I know him. | ||
| He's a really good guy. | ||
| He's young. | ||
| He's smart, and it shows that President Trump is ready to govern with a wingman in J.D. Vance who's going to carry on the America First agenda long after President Trump's out of office and out of public life. | ||
| It's very much a forward-looking pick. | ||
| It's a smart pick. | ||
| Trump could have picked a much safer and easier pick, but President Trump is going into this election. | ||
| Confident that he's going to win. | ||
| I would say this. | ||
| In order for us to seal the deal and make this happen, Republicans, Democrats, right-thinking, independents need to make sure that they get people registered to vote and vote as early as possible. | ||
| Bank your vote. | ||
| Do not wait until Election Day. | ||
| Like Republicans think it's their patriotic duty to wait until Election Day and go in and cast their vote. | ||
| Don't do that. | ||
| If you think the BLM and Antifa riots were bad in 2020... | ||
| Wait for the Hamas riots in 2024. | ||
| You do not want to be scared for your life to go vote on election. | ||
| So, Viceroy time. | ||
| Viceroy time. | ||
| I don't think we have the memes just yet. | ||
| But Viceroy time, Mike. | ||
| The air of inevitability is what all the libs say about this. | ||
| I've been reading all the headlines. | ||
| And this is what the AP is saying. | ||
| This is what all of our, the people who hate us, the people who put us in gulags, they're all saying there's an air of inevitability and Democrats are in total crisis and they're giving up. | ||
| They're giving up. | ||
| And so the Viceroy will happen. | ||
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Yeah, I hope so. | |
| We're going to manifest the Viceroy, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
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I hope it does. | |
| And I would say, I think that, and they're lucky, again, Judge Cannon saved... | ||
| Save America from Viceroy, Lord Davis, the Governor General of the District of Columbia, because a lot more Judge Cannon. | ||
| Trump could have just said, you know what, I'm creating the Viceroy, and I'm putting Mike Davis in there like they did with Jack Smith, right? | ||
| And I would be, I would show no mercy. | ||
| Unlike other Republicans, I would show no mercy. | ||
| And I would say this, that this is going to be a monumental election because the next President of the United States is going to pick. | ||
| Two, three justices on the Supreme Court. | ||
| And do you want President Trump or President Biden or President Kamala replacing... | ||
| President Buttigieg? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Replacing Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court? | ||
| I mean, that would be the nightmare scenario is if Biden or Kamala or whoever the hell they put in there wins the White House and they control the Senate and then they get to replace Justice Thomas and Justice Alito? | ||
| There goes our God-given rights to speak, to worship, to associate, to protect ourselves. | ||
| Everything is on the line on November 5th. | ||
| So vote as early as possible. | ||
| Bank your vote. | ||
| Would you work in a second Trump administration? | ||
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I want to be the Viceroy. | |
| Of course I am. | ||
| But Judge Cannon just screwed me. | ||
| I'm not going into the administration. | ||
| I'm going to be a very strong advocate for President Trump from the outside running the Article 3 project like I have been for the last five years and was the lonely voice defending Trump two years ago when all the other rats scrambled off the Trump ship and the USS Trump. | ||
| And now the USS Trump is full steam back to the White House and the rats are swimming back to the ship. | ||
| But, you know, we'll show mercy for some of the rats. | ||
| And it's going to be President Trump has I've been out at the RNC for the convention. | ||
| I was on the platform committee for two weeks and we have a very strong platform. | ||
| Trump has solidified that this is the America first Trump party with his platform and his pick of J.D. Vance. | ||
| And this is no longer our parents or grandparents, country club, Republican, corporate party. | ||
| We are very much a populist party. | ||
| It's famous now. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's famous now, and every good lawyer I know that's Republican works there now. | ||
| So way to go, Mike. | ||
| I'm building your Death Star. | ||
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My empire. | |
| It's my Department of Justice for the Viceroy. | ||
| You dark Sith Lord. | ||
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That's right. | |
| You now have a Death Star. | ||
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Lord Davis. | |
| Let's shout it out, baby. | ||
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You can just call me my Lord if you want. | |
| My Lord. | ||
| My Lord. | ||
| Shout it out, my Lord. | ||
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Article 3 Project. | |
| article3project.org. | ||
| You can donate. | ||
| You can follow. | ||
| On social media, you can take action, which is the most important thing that you can do. | ||
| It is. | ||
| The man who takes action. | ||
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Good to see you, Ben. | |
| Oh, boy. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I'll do anything. | ||
| Anything to get the Viceroy position finalized. | ||
| We will get it, Mike. | ||
| I won't. | ||
| I must see you in Shakespearean, some type of Shakespearean mid-English garb. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Bye, Mike. | ||
| Fun to have Mike. | ||
| Always. | ||
| What's up, Alex? | ||
| Okay, so we have, again, ladies and gentlemen, so I've been calling for the schedule. | ||
| There are incredible people that are going to be speaking tonight. | ||
| However, there are also some people who, let's just say, aren't household names at the Republican Convention. | ||
| But we are ready to go to the Republican Convention and are ready to make the switch over as soon as we got sort of a... | ||
| As soon as we got the Alina Habba, Hulk Hogan, Eric Trump, Kid Rock, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump vibe going. | ||
| But right now, we're not exactly there. | ||
| So we're going to chill with Alex. | ||
| Alex, what's up, man? | ||
| You know, I'm wondering the same things you are. | ||
| And yes, every time we go on the road, it seems like there's a never-ending news cycle. | ||
| We decided we weren't going to do a morning show this week. | ||
| And of course, on Monday morning, the case got nuked. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| And also, during the weekend when everyone was traveling, everyone was on their way to the airport or already here setting up, and we get news that the president is almost assassinated. | ||
| So, you know, knowing us, we're all online and live within less than an hour, I believe, of the news breaking. | ||
| So, yeah, every single time that we travel, it seems to be a never-ending news week. | ||
| And there is no shortage of news this week. | ||
| And now, even today, in the last 24 hours, Biden is apparently dropping out, but his campaign has denied that three times today. | ||
| And now Obama's turning on him. | ||
| Pelosi has turned on him. | ||
| Schumer has turned on him. | ||
| Adam Schiff has turned on him. | ||
| And look at... | ||
| This is the first time, I think, in my lifetime that the Democrat Party is not unified in lockstep, and it seems like the Republican Party is. | ||
| So I think that's, you know... | ||
| And they're playing the Trump dancing video again. | ||
| We love that. | ||
| The Trump dancing video. | ||
| Can we cut to that? | ||
| Do it. | ||
| Do it. | ||
| We can put it up. | ||
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I want to do the Trump dance video. | |
| But yeah, and not to be like, I don't know, to get spiritual, I guess, for a sec. | ||
| It kind of seems like fate that the assassination attempt happened right before the convention and him becoming the nominee. | ||
| And then, you know, having in tandem the total disarray... | ||
| Hold on, Alex. | ||
| We're throwing the Trump dance video. | ||
| That's not okay. | ||
| Total disarray of the Democrat Party. | ||
| It's just... | ||
| That's what Trump's dancing. | ||
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Oh, we are. | |
| Yeah. | ||
|
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All right. | |
| All right. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| We'll get like a... | ||
| Couple minute warning when big speakers come on. | ||
| That's such a classic video. | ||
| How could you not like it? | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| Muted. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Can you guys Trump entrance. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
|
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There you go. | |
| Take it. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Well, it'll come up, bud. | ||
| Think that putt to win. | ||
| Do you think you sank it? | ||
| You better believe you sunk that putt. | ||
| Donald Trump, 21 club championships. | ||
| Joe Biden, zero. | ||
| For non-golfers out there, that's a pretty good record. | ||
| That's real good. | ||
| That's not good. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| 25 years ago, I was working multiple jobs, and one of those jobs was caddying at Trump International, and that's where I met Mr. Trump. | ||
| My caddy job eventually would turn into a full-time job. | ||
| One day, I was out caddying for Mr. Trump when he mentioned to me that he needed to find a teaching pro. | ||
| He knew I could play, so he said, Tomorrow, dress like a golf pro and come out and play golf with me. | ||
| So in true Mr. Trump fashion, on the first tee the next day, he tees up his ball, whacks it right down the middle of the fairway. | ||
| And I turned to him and I said, hey, I'm pretty nervous. | ||
| And he said, John, you just relax and play your game. | ||
| And it was great advice. | ||
| Because after nine holes, he turned to me and he said, I've seen enough. | ||
| You've got the job. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Later, I went on to become the head golf professional, and I'll never forget that moment with Mr. Trump. | ||
| He truly changed my life. | ||
| That's who Donald Trump is. | ||
| For 25 years, I've seen his generosity and his remarkable character. | ||
| First hand, his entire family reflects these values as well. | ||
| With all the hate the president gets, I think to myself, How can someone go through all this? | ||
| He could have chosen a quiet life. | ||
| He could have played more golf. | ||
| But he cares so deeply about America and our people. | ||
| He just keeps working. | ||
| And he does it for us. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Now it's our turn to support him. | ||
| So let's help him. | ||
| Let's hear it. | ||
| Make America great again. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump, for believing in me and in our country. | ||
| As much as I'll miss him in the clubhouse, we need to vote him back in the White House. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are witnessing some amazing things here as we transfer over and transfer to the main speakers of the night. | ||
| Again, we are just going to do it live tonight. | ||
| We're just going to roll through the convention speakers and roll through what's actually happening. | ||
| We needed to actually get... | ||
| Getting mic'd up and lobbed up and get a couple of equipment shipped over, so we appreciate you sticking with us, and we are going to be rolling into the evening with the RNC convention up soon, because they don't give us an exact schedule. | ||
| Up soon will be Alina Habba, will be Eric Trump, will be Hulk Hogan, and will be Kid Rock, along with Tucker Carlson, and then the great Donald Trump. | ||
| We're going to have quite a night. | ||
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Alex? | |
| Yeah, I'm very excited to see what the entrance is. | ||
| It seems like we got a little teaser earlier with the Kid Rock song. | ||
| I don't know if he's going to reenact maybe a UFC entrance, or I think maybe we might get a remix of the 2016 entrance, like Laura Trump said on your show. | ||
| She would take that into consideration. | ||
| So I'm really curious to see what they have planned for the entrance. | ||
| I know it's going to be good. | ||
| And I'm hoping, like, Tucker, Hulk Hogan, you know, everybody comes out on stage with him. | ||
| That would be, like, a massive entrance. | ||
| And, you know, the place is going to go insane. | ||
| And just to hear what his speech and his message is, I heard reportedly he's not going to say the word Biden in his speech at all. | ||
| So it shifts to the focus of a positive message and unity and away from even, you know... | ||
| Being concerned with the Democrats because they're tearing themselves apart right now. | ||
| So, yeah, I'm really hyped to see what this entrance is going to be, though. | ||
| So, Lord Trump did promise us that we would get the light bar entrance for President Trump. | ||
| That we would get the light bar entrance or something like it for President Trump. | ||
| I guess we'll see. | ||
| I guess we'll see. | ||
| So, what are we planning on hearing tonight? | ||
| I spoke with somebody who's written Trump's speech. | ||
| Now, what does that mean? | ||
| These are big teams who write speeches. | ||
| These are monster teams. | ||
| But somebody who was directly involved in writing Trump's speech. | ||
| And she told me that it was the most beautiful speech that you will ever hear, and that it is a unifying speech, and that you will have never heard Donald Trump sound like this will be the best speech of President Trump's life. | ||
| Thoughts, Alex? | ||
| Yeah, I'm hearing the same things. | ||
| I didn't speak to anyone on the inside, but that's what I'm hearing. | ||
| I'm hearing it's going to be a unifying message. | ||
| Doesn't mention Biden. | ||
| And, you know, he had another speech planned until, you know, the events of Saturday happened, the assassination attempt. | ||
| And I'm told he tore up that speech and rewrote it to reflect a message of unity. | ||
| And I think, like I was saying earlier, this is a time where Republicans are actually united and Democrats are quite divided. | ||
| We're all used to them being in lockstep, them getting on message, and now they're tearing each other apart. | ||
| And perfect week two during our convention. | ||
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I'm Zach Witkoff. | |
| I am deeply honored to stand before you tonight and introduce my father. | ||
| This moment holds special significance as I'm about to become a father myself. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Alright, so ladies and gentlemen, just showing you a little bit of the live here. | ||
| Again, we are monitoring live the RNC, and we are going to go there when we finally get to what we call the main card. | ||
| The main card, speakers, from the convention. | ||
| I think that's appropriate. | ||
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The UFC entrance and all. | |
| Yeah, there's going to be a UFC. | ||
| Dana White! | ||
| Dana White's giving the intro. | ||
| Main card is on par. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm almost thinking they might do a reenactment of the UFC entrance. | ||
| I saw a little practice run where they're playing a Kid Rock song. | ||
| That's what he usually walks out to at the UFC. | ||
| If Dana White's giving the intro, I think that might be a little hint to what the entrance will be. | ||
| We have Dana White and Tucker, Kid Rock. | ||
| What are we going to hear from Tucker? | ||
| We saw the Zinn photo. | ||
| Everybody saw the Zinn. | ||
| He's locked Zinn, as I said. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's going to be... | ||
| Really interesting to have Tucker speaking and have Donald Trump in the audience, because I know we've played a bunch of his speeches where he's speaking about his relationship with Donald Trump. | ||
| And, you know, that was kind of like, you know, a uniting message behind Trumpism. | ||
| Because while on Fox News, he was kind of the voice of Trump without being Trump himself on Fox News. | ||
| We know how corporate media has fallen and how Fox News has, you know, gone the wayside. | ||
| But he was really one of the last left at Fox News. | ||
| And after he was fired and became an independent voice, people are looking to him for truth. | ||
| So what we're probably going to hear is, I want to hear what his reflection on the assassination attempt was. | ||
| I know he had brought that up in an interview earlier this week. | ||
| But to have him speaking on that with Trump in the audience and speaking directly to Trump, because... | ||
| You can actually see there's a box where Trump sits, as you can see, in the programming. | ||
| And the speakers have a direct line of vision where they can almost speak to the president himself while they're on stage. | ||
| So I think he's going to have a unifying message, and I think it's going to be a chance to reflect on what could have been on Saturday and what we avoided and a lesson moving forward on what we need in leaders in this country. | ||
| Is Kid Rock going to speak? | ||
| Or is he going to play music? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know if that was clarified. | ||
| Like I said at the soundcheck earlier, I saw him on stage singing some remix of one of his songs, American Badass. | ||
| So we might see him be the hype man for the intro. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But I think he might speak. | ||
| He might say a couple words. | ||
| But I don't think he's slated as an actual speaker speaker. | ||
| Hulk Hogan? | ||
| Hulk Hogan is an actual speaker, I believe. | ||
| So that'll be really interesting. | ||
| You know, I was really, really hoping that 50 Cent would pull through, though. | ||
| Could you imagine all those guys on stage at the same time? | ||
| It seemed like he wanted to, but it looked like his team rescheduled some event that would be happening on the same day. | ||
| So I don't know if that was like a PR move where they just killed it that way. | ||
| We're trying to make excuses, but it seemed like 50 Cent was about it. | ||
| So, you know, I wish he was there. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, so we are awaiting Alina Habba's speech, which will sort of begin the night's main event. | ||
| And so we are going to log off here and let the RNC feed... | ||
| Take the RNC feed directly onto this channel, and we'll let the RNC feed roll through. | ||
| Once again, it has been a wild, wild week here. | ||
| Milwaukee, we thank you for joining us. | ||
| We're incredibly proud of the production that we have been able to kick together, even though we've never done anything like this before. | ||
| You learn a lot, especially when you're launching rocket ships, and we just thank you for joining us on this journey. | ||
| We are now going to throw it to the RNC main stage and say to you, God bless you, Godspeed, and we're going to win. | ||
| It's your boy Benny, joined by the great ALX, out in Milwaukee. | ||
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President Trump is as kind and compassionate a man as I've ever met in my lifetime. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I've seen the truth of President Trump, and it marches on with me tonight. | ||
| I know that many here and watching at home have felt that kind of a connection with the President. | ||
| It's real. | ||
| I have never seen him refuse a question from somebody, decline a photo, or ignore someone's story or concerns. | ||
| Everyone he meets gets a family member's embrace from him. | ||
| I have felt that warmth so many times over the years. | ||
| Just last week, I told the president about a moment I had with his three sons and how impressed I was with them. | ||
| He looked at me with a wistful smile, blowing a kiss, and it was a special moment between us as fathers. | ||
| When my dad fell gravely ill, President Trump didn't just send a note. | ||
| He didn't just offer words of comfort. | ||
| He showed up as he always does. | ||
| He was there treating my parents with kindness and respect. | ||
| including my mom who's 91 and here tonight dressed in red and is going to be voting for the president | ||
| Many Americans I have only witnessed his leadership on TV, but I have seen his humanity in the quiet moments, away from the spotlight, in hospital rooms he didn't have to be in, where his presence brought real solace in a dark hour for my family and many other families. | ||
| That's who he is when times are really tough. | ||
| When he's got everything to lose and nothing to gain, Donald Trump shows up and he's there for you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| When I lost my boy Andrew to an opioid overdose, the pain was unbearable. | ||
| But as usual, Donald Trump showed up. | ||
| After he became President Trump, even amid all the responsibilities of his office, he reached out and invited me to speak about Andrew at a conference on opioids, hosted by the First Lady, providing a platform to honor my son's memory. | ||
| We gotta keep moving, I'm sorry. | ||
| And when the day of the conference came, he went out of his way that day to come and put his hand on my shoulder and say, Steve, as he led me up to the lectern, tell the world about your boy. | ||
| My boy was the best of us. | ||
| Where we lived in New York City, a Trump building, 502 Park Avenue, there were 12 homeless people who... | ||
| Who stayed outside by the church next to the property. | ||
| My son got to know them all. | ||
| He fed them every evening. | ||
| He became their friend. | ||
| When he passed away, all 12 came to his funeral. | ||
| He and President Trump shared something in common. | ||
| My boys stood up for people, no matter which side of the train tracks they came from, exactly as the President does for everybody. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Standing here today, I still feel my boy's hand on my shoulder. | ||
| After Andrew passed away, I found myself clinging to my son's memory, even his things. | ||
| His college ID is in my pocket right now. | ||
| I wear his ring since he died. | ||
| And I came today with his watch on. | ||
| I kept his guitar, I kept his guitar too, and thought I would keep that guitar forever. | ||
| but I gave it to my dear friend, Andrew's friend, and fellow music lover, Donald Trump. | ||
| I wanted President Trump. | ||
| To have something with which to remember my son. | ||
| President Trump didn't say something nice to me and put it in a closet somewhere. | ||
| He put it right out front at his Trump International West Palm Beach property where he and I both see it whenever we walk in and play and where everyone who walks into that beautiful building sees it as well as an acknowledgement to my boy. | ||
| A sacred tribute to a true friend who's gone and a cause that remains opioid abuse. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Standing here today, with my boy's hand on my shoulder, I know I'll never hear his music again. | ||
| His mom and I can only hear the chords of memory now. | ||
| And we will always hear them. | ||
| But I know my dear friend, President Trump, hears them too. | ||
| You don't see this man's reverence, his steady loyalty, his true empathy in the TV coverage. | ||
| But this is the truth about President Trump. | ||
| The man I have come to know and admire and love. | ||
| A man whose truth is marching on. | ||
| It is a dark hour for America, but there's nobody I trust more in this moment than this man. | ||
| A man who in the darkest hours shows up, listens, cares, and always acts. | ||
| the kind of man we need now to be the 47th President of the United States. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| May God bless you all. | ||
| May God bless President Trump and his extraordinary wife and his wonderful family. | ||
| And may God bless America. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| From the very first day that we take back the White House from Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country, I believe that we're going to have four of the greatest years in the history of our country. | ||
| I will, once and for all, secure our elections. | ||
| We're going to go to paper ballots. | ||
| We're going to have same-day voting, voter ID. | ||
| We're going to do it properly. | ||
| We're going to have good, secure, beautiful elections. | ||
| We never want what happened in 2020 to happen again. | ||
| But until then, Republicans must win. | ||
| And we must use every appropriate tool available to beat the Democrats. | ||
| They are destroying our country. | ||
| Whether you vote early, absentee, by mail, or in person. | ||
| We are going to protect the vote. | ||
| That's the most important thing we have to do, is protect the vote. | ||
| Keep your eyes open, because these people want to cheat, and they do cheat, and frankly, it's the only thing they do well. | ||
| We will make sure your ballot is secure and your voice is heard. | ||
| Many Republicans like to vote on Election Day, and we must swamp the radical Democrats with massive turnout on Tuesday, November 5th. | ||
| The way you win is to swamp them. | ||
| If we swamp them... | ||
| They can't cheat. | ||
| It just doesn't work out. | ||
| But if you can't make it, you need to make a plan, register, and vote any way possible. | ||
| We've got to get your vote. | ||
| So with your vote, we will win a victory the likes of which no one has ever seen before. | ||
| We will evict crooked Joe Biden from the White House, and we will take back our country on November 5th, 2024, the most important day in the history of our country. | ||
| That's what it's going to go down as. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome attorney and senior advisor for President Donald J. Trump, Alina Haba. | |
| Good evening, America. | ||
| My name is Alina Haba, and I have had the great privilege of representing President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Now, I know you're all used to hearing me shouting outside a courthouse. | ||
| But tonight, I want to take you behind the law and behind the headlines and share with you a side of President Trump that reveals his character. | ||
| His kindness and his commitment to saving this great country. | ||
| As a devout Catholic, a proud first-generation Arab-American woman, And a feisty Jersey girl who is fed up with far-left corruption in Washington. | ||
| President Trump championed my journey, empowering me to be who I became today. | ||
| His unwavering support not only shaped my career. | ||
| But has inspired other young women with big dreams. | ||
| President Trump loves this country. | ||
| He does. | ||
| And he lifts up those around him. | ||
| To my children, Luke, Chloe, and Parker, he's the man with one heck of a golf swing. | ||
| That lets them ride in a golf cart with some of the world's most famous golfers so they feel included in mom's job. | ||
| And by the way, he can kick some of those guys' butts. | ||
| To my husband, whose family members have survived the Holocaust, he is a champion of the Jewish faith. | ||
| To my Iraqi parents, he is a mentor to their daughter. | ||
| But to me, he is my friend. | ||
| Not too long ago, a supporter shouted, God bless you and President Trump in the middle of Manhattan after one of our trials. | ||
| Little did that man know that I was on the phone with the president himself. | ||
| And he immediately asked me to pause, give the man my phone, and spent time speaking to him and thanking him for his support. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Despite the lawfare and the politics, President Trump loves the American people and he loves this country. | ||
| For decades, the Trump Organization transformed skylines His buildings and businesses are a testament to his commitment to excellence and his drive to turn dreams into reality. | ||
| But his greatest construction project was yet to come. | ||
| The left has tried to demolish President Trump. | ||
| But there is no bulldozer big enough or strong enough to remove the legacy that he has built or the future he is creating. | ||
| As the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump built a legacy of putting America first. | ||
| And as the 47th president, he will build America stronger than ever for we, the people. | ||
| As we stand on the brink of a new chapter in America's story, I am reminded of the country my family fled four decades ago. | ||
| A place marked by religious persecution, oppression, and a lack of freedom. | ||
| They came here because America is a beacon of liberty and opportunity. | ||
| It is now our duty to protect the values that define us The greatest nation on earth. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Every attack on President Trump only straight Strengthens our movement. | ||
| The left's mad. | ||
| The left's mad. | ||
| The left's mad. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we had a catastrophic technical difficulty inside of our broadcasting booth. | ||
| So, it is your boy Benny. | ||
| We are back. | ||
| I am completely live right now, and what you're seeing on your screen is the RNC feed live. | ||
| What happened inside of our booth is we lost power, then we had to reset our router here, and so we will be sending an angry letter to the management, and I'll be getting myself a Karen haircut. | ||
| Since we are simply viewing an advertisement right now, I wanted to tell you that we love you. | ||
| We care about you, and we are so thankful for you. | ||
| Now, we are ready to go back to the RNC convention as Tucker Carlson takes the stage. | ||
| Please join us, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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Tucker Carlson. | |
| So fun. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Oh, this is wild. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I've been good to see you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I feel like I know about half the people in the room. | ||
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This is wild. | |
| What are you doing? | ||
| Justin Wells. | ||
| Thank you, guys. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Can I just say, Peter Navarro is back. | ||
| Welcome to Peter Navarro. | ||
| Suffering the fate that has happened to so many who are friends with Donald Trump. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
| I have been to many conventions. | ||
| I have never been to a more fun convention or a convention with better vibes. | ||
| They literally let Navarro out of prison. | ||
| First of all, thank you. | ||
| This feels a lot different from what I thought it was going to feel like. | ||
| I can't hear you, but I know it's something good. | ||
| I watched the video of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania about 15, 50 times. | ||
| I think I was one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it. | ||
| And the more I watched it, the more it struck me that everything was different after that moment. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| This convention is different. | ||
| The nation is different. | ||
| The world is different. | ||
| Donald Trump is different. | ||
| When he stood up after being shot in the face, bloodied, And put his hand up. | ||
| I thought at that moment, that was a transformation. | ||
| This was no longer a man. | ||
| Well, I think that. | ||
| I think it was divine intervention. | ||
| But the effect that it had on Donald Trump, he was no longer just a political party's nominee or a former president or a future president. | ||
| This was the leader of a nation. | ||
| And I think there's a difference. | ||
| I've spent most of my life in Washington where the president is at the top of the pyramid and everyone wants to be the president. | ||
| But if you think about it, the presidency comes with great power, obviously. | ||
| But if you think about it, that is a title that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted. | ||
| And in the end, it does not confer by itself, as no title does, legitimacy. | ||
| Just because you call yourself the president... | ||
| It doesn't mean that much inherently. | ||
| I can call my dog the CEO of Hewlett-Packard. | ||
| It doesn't mean she is. | ||
| You know, it's true. | ||
| And you hate to say it, but it is also true as a fact that you could take, I don't know, a mannequin, a dead person, and make him president. | ||
| No, you could. | ||
| You could. | ||
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I'm just saying theoretically possible. | |
| With enough cheating, that could happen. | ||
| But being a leader is very different. | ||
| It's not a title. | ||
| It's organic. | ||
| You can't name someone a leader. | ||
| A leader is the bravest man. | ||
| That's who the leader is. | ||
| That is true in all human organizations. | ||
| This is a law of nature. | ||
| And in that moment, Donald Trump, months before the presidential election, became the leader of this nation. | ||
| That was the most obvious to me. | ||
| And I have to say, you know, I think it changed him. | ||
| I reached out to Trump within hours of it that night, and what he said to me that night, having just been shot in the face, he said not a single word about himself. | ||
| He said only how amazed he was and how proud he was of the crowd, which didn't run. | ||
| And I thought two things. | ||
| The first thing I thought was, well, of course they didn't run. | ||
| His courage gave them heart. | ||
| A leader's courage gives courage to his people. | ||
| And the second thing I thought was, this is the selfish guy I've been hearing about for nine years, really? | ||
| Not a word about himself? | ||
| About his people. | ||
| Period. | ||
| And the second thing I noticed, which I don't think anyone has remarked upon in public, but I'm just going to since I don't have a script, like, why not? | ||
| Is that... | ||
| He turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after being shot. | ||
| To inflame the nation, which is an opportunity that almost every other politician I've ever met, and certainly his opponents, would have taken instantly. | ||
| And they would have said, well, what is this? | ||
| How did he get shot? | ||
| Like, how did this happen? | ||
| And those are real questions that we have to get to the bottom of. | ||
| But in the moments, the days, the week after the shooting, he did not say that. | ||
| He did his best to bring the country together. | ||
| And I thought, this is the divisive figure? | ||
| This is the irresponsible person? | ||
| No. | ||
| This is the most responsible, unifying behavior of a leader I think I've ever seen. | ||
| So the question is, where is he leading us? | ||
| And I could go on for hours, but let me just sum it up. | ||
| I do think the entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact, which is a leader's duty is to his people, to his country, and to no other. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| That's the only point. | ||
| And another word for this is democracy. | ||
| Democracy, in case you're a little sick of being beaten in the face with democracy on television, actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country. | ||
| They're not renters, they're not serfs, they're not slaves, they are the owners of the country. | ||
| And for that to be true, their leaders have to represent them, which is another way of saying they have to do what the people want them to do, or a close approximation thereof. | ||
| But if they completely ignore what people want, not just one year, but generationally, say for 50 years, then it may be, I don't know what, it's not a democracy. | ||
| And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, is attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States. | ||
| Hey, let's pay attention to what people actually want. | ||
| And the lack of interest in that question in Washington is something that ultimately drove me out of the city after 35 years. | ||
| Lawmakers stepping over the prostrate bodies of their fellow citizens ODing on drugs. | ||
| To go cast votes to send money to some foreign country. | ||
| Yeah, actually. | ||
| We've lost more Americans from drugs in the past four years than we lost in World War II. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Our bloodiest war. | ||
| More than we lost in World War II. | ||
| Does anybody care? | ||
| It is pathetic. | ||
| It is pathetic. | ||
| And do you hear a single word from Washington about doing anything about it? | ||
| We know where the drugs are coming from. | ||
| We know the supply routes. | ||
| The U.S. military spent billions bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. | ||
| You don't see our commander-in-chief suggesting that we use our military to protect our country or the lives of its citizens. | ||
| No! | ||
| That's for Ukraine. | ||
| And it's too much, actually. | ||
| It's too insulting. | ||
| It's too insulting. | ||
| It's a middle finger in the face of every American. | ||
| It's a very clear statement. | ||
| Which is unmistakable. | ||
| And that is, we don't care about you. | ||
| And Donald Trump, whatever you say about him, and I think he's a wonderful person, I know him well. | ||
| By the way, the funniest person I've ever met in my life, actually. | ||
| You can't be funny without perspective or without empathy, which is true. | ||
| But everything else about Trump aside, he actually cares. | ||
| Because he's interested in the people who live here because that's his job. | ||
| A father's job, his duty is to his family. | ||
| An officer's duty is to his men. | ||
| A president's duty is to his citizens. | ||
| And he seems to be the only one who thinks that. | ||
| And in his choice for vice president, J.D. Vance, he's made that really clear. | ||
| J.D. Vance, I'll say this about him, is a thoroughly decent man, and I'll just admit it, a friend of mine, one of the very few politicians in Washington who actually... | ||
| He's very close to his own wife, which is wonderful to see. | ||
| And she's wonderful, actually. | ||
| But J.D. Vance has views that are closer to Trump's voters than anyone else in Washington in office. | ||
| Therefore, he is the vice president. | ||
| That's called democracy. | ||
| So I will stop on just one point. | ||
| And that is what's happened over the past month since the debate. | ||
| And particularly on Saturday in Butler, I think a lot of people are wondering, what is this? | ||
| This doesn't look like politics. | ||
| Something bigger is going on here. | ||
| I think even people who don't believe in God are beginning to think, well, maybe there's something to this. | ||
| Actually. | ||
| And I'm starting to think, I'm starting to think it's going to be okay, actually. | ||
| I do think that. | ||
| In the day after the midterm elections in 2018, Antifa came to my house. | ||
| The Democratic Party's militia, okay? | ||
| I was at work. | ||
| It was obvious when I was at work because it was public. | ||
| My wife was home alone. | ||
| They tried to come in through the front door. | ||
| They terrorized her. | ||
| She hid in our pantry. | ||
| It was on television. | ||
| It was horrible, actually. | ||
| It was, I mean, I'm not whining about it. | ||
| It wasn't getting shot in the face, but it wrecked our day. | ||
| And the next morning, we're lying in bed, and the phone rings for my wife, and it's Donald Trump, who's not like a regular text buddy of Donald Trump's. | ||
| She picks it up. | ||
| Hello? | ||
| Susie, it's Donald Trump! | ||
| And it's coming through. | ||
| I can hear it. | ||
| You know, I'm lying in bed. | ||
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Whoa! | |
| And the first thing he says is, I'm going to stand guard outside your house. | ||
| And she goes, oh, that's so nice. | ||
| And he says, I'll never forget this as long as I live. | ||
| He says, you know, there's a lot of hate out there. | ||
| And she said, you know, there is, Mr. President. | ||
| And then he says, but there's a lot of love. | ||
| There's a lot of love. | ||
| And we are seeing that love. | ||
| I don't think it's human love. | ||
| And I'll just stop with this. | ||
| I'm not always convinced that I'm on the right side. | ||
| I've been on the wrong side many times. | ||
| You'll never hear me say, I'm on God's side, or God's with me, or even I'm with God. | ||
| I want to be. | ||
| Not sure I am. | ||
| But I will say this unequivocally and conclusively. | ||
| God is among us right now. | ||
| And I think that's enough. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Golf General Manager Trump National Doral, Keri Tomasco Ruiz. | |
| I'm not sure how I follow Tucker. | ||
| But I'm going to give it a go. | ||
| Good evening, everyone. | ||
| My name is Carrie Ruiz. | ||
| And like some people on this stage this evening, I am not a politician. | ||
| I am not a public figure. | ||
| I'm a mom of three and a woman of faith who's been fortunate to work side by side with Donald Trump and his amazing family. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Twelve years ago, the Trump Organization purchased the iconic Doral Golf Resort after so many companies tried and failed to create a world-class golf experience, all while turning a profit. | ||
| With his keen eye for business and uncanny ability to make things better, Donald Trump got to work. | ||
| He poured hundreds of millions of dollars and his own sweat and tears into the property. | ||
| He had a hand in virtually everything, and no detail was too small. | ||
| He didn't just change the carpet or apply a fresh coat of paint. | ||
| He stripped this legendary resort to its core and rebuilt it Thank you, boss. | ||
| He empowered us. | ||
| He listened to us, all of us. | ||
| And he still does. | ||
| No matter your role, he asks questions. | ||
| He wants different opinions. | ||
| He never demands more of us than he is willing to give. | ||
| He is as generous as he is brave. | ||
| And to those who work for him, he provides unwavering support. | ||
| When he promoted me to the resort's golf general manager position, it was an out-of-the-box choice in a historically male-dominated industry. | ||
| I am not a golf professional. | ||
| I cannot break 90 yet. | ||
| But none of that mattered to President Trump. | ||
| He looks at things differently. | ||
| He welcomes the unconventional. | ||
| and I am proud to be among the countless women he's promoted to leadership positions. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I might add he did it all while no one was looking. | ||
| The simple truth is, No one can match President Trump's vision and unrelenting drive to make things better. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| He did it at Doral. | ||
| He did it as president. | ||
| He will do it again. | ||
| May God continue to bless President Trump, and may God bless the United States of America. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This is the final battle. | ||
| With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. | ||
| We will expel the warmongers from our government. | ||
| We will drive out the globalists. | ||
| We will cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists. | ||
| We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. | ||
| We will rout the fake news media and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all. | ||
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| You know what I'm talking about. | ||
| They got a lot of nice spirits. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Advocate for Safe Schools, Annette Albright from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Good evening. | ||
| My name is Annette Albright. | ||
| I grew up in the small town of Mount Airy, North Carolina. | ||
| North Carolina. | ||
| Like my parents and my grandparents, I was a lifelong member of the Democrat Party. | ||
| Don't worry, the story gets better from here. | ||
| After completing a degree in criminal justice, I started a career working with the North Carolina Department of Corrections. | ||
| I left my job in the criminal justice system to work for Charlotte-McLeber School District. | ||
| To engage our youth before they got stuck in the system. | ||
| It didn't take long for me to realize that public schools are a part of the problem. | ||
| Sadly, too many of our schools are more like prisons than places of learning. | ||
| That must change. | ||
| In one public high school, I witnessed a full-blown riot. | ||
| I saw many violent altercations between students and physical attacks on staff. | ||
| During my 14 years working with the Department of Public Safety, offenders never laid a hand on me. | ||
| Yet, I was violently assaulted by a group of students in a public high school. | ||
| The uptick in school violence was related It | ||
| should not be a Democrat issue. | ||
| It should not be a Republican issue. | ||
| It is an American people issue. | ||
| Sadly, I've repeatedly seen that the Democrat Party cares more about appeasing the teachers'union than they do about prioritizing the needs of our kids. | ||
| They champion safe spaces instead of safe schools. | ||
| This is completely wrong. | ||
| Little by little, I began to see the truth. | ||
| While Democrats spend more money, on a broken system, Republicans are in power with parents and fighting for school choice. | ||
| While Democrats think school resource officers are a threat to our students, Republicans know that they protect our kids. | ||
| While Democrats won't have a chance to do that, admit that our schools are failing, Republicans will fix the system and make our schools safe. | ||
| That's why this year, for the first time in my life, I am registered as a Republican. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And in November, I will proudly cast my vote for Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Only together, we can make America's schools great again. | ||
| Thank you and God bless America. | ||
| is New York's Donald Trump running for president. | ||
| He bought full-page ads in three East Coast newspapers today stating his views on foreign policy, and these ads will win him a following. | ||
| In the ads, he says, there's nothing wrong with American foreign policy that a little backbone won't cure. | ||
| And he said, we have no business spending ourselves broke in the Middle East, protecting ships that are not ours, and oil that we don't need. | ||
| Rumblings in the Trump camp point as far as the presidency. | ||
| Somebody has to help this country, and if they don't, the country and the world are in big trouble. | ||
| Because within a short period of time, as sure as we're sitting here, there's not going to be a country and there's not going to be a world. | ||
| I have no intention of running for president, and if it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally. | ||
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| Together we will determine the course of America and the world. | ||
| For many, many years to come. | ||
| For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. | ||
| That all changes, starting right here and right now. | ||
| Because this moment is your moment. | ||
| It belongs to you. | ||
| The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. | ||
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The Republican primary is over. | |
| Donald Trump basically has this nomination locked up. | ||
| Everyone is listening to you now. | ||
| I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down. | ||
| My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over. | ||
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In fact, our fight has only just begun. | |
| Hey everybody, this is Ronnie Jackson. | ||
| I was a White House physician for three presidents. | ||
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I know better than anyone what it takes physically and mentally to be president. | |
| While Biden's cognitive abilities continue to decline, President Trump is doing everything he can to save America. | ||
| But he needs your help. | ||
| Patriots like you are the reason President Trump is still in this fight. | ||
| So I have one ask. | ||
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Can you chip in any amount right now to President Trump's campaign to make America great again? | |
| It's not about how much you donate. | ||
| It can be $5, $10 or any amount you can give. | ||
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What's important is that me, you and the entire MAGA movement join together before he accepts his nomination. | |
| Please chip in now by texting DONATE to 88022. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm Newt Gingrich, and I'm here at the Republican National Convention, and I'm asking you to help President Donald Trump win the White House and kick Joe Biden out of there. | ||
| If you'll send whatever you can afford to 88022, I believe you will be key in helping defeat Joe Biden. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| You know something? | ||
| When I came here tonight, there was so much energy in this room, I felt maybe I was in Madison Square Garden getting ready to win another world title. | ||
| Or maybe I thought... | ||
| The vibe was so intense, the energy was so crazy, it felt like maybe I was gonna press that no-good, stinky giant over my head and slam him through the mat, brother. | ||
| But what I... | ||
| I was in a room full of real Americans, brother. | ||
| And at the end of the day, with our leader up there, my hero, that gladiator, we're gonna bring America back together, one real American at a time, brother. | ||
| You know something, I've seen some great tag teams in my time. | ||
| Hulk Hogan and ooh yeah, the Macho Man Randy Savage. | ||
| But you know something, I see the greatest tag team of my life standing upon us getting ready to straighten this country out for all the real Americans. | ||
| You know, even though you guys are real Americans, You better get ready. | ||
| Because when Donald J. Trump becomes the president of the United States, all the real Americans are going to be nicknamed Trumpites. | ||
| Because all the Trumpites are going to be running wild for four years. | ||
| So with the power of Donald J. Trump and all the Trumpites running wild, America is going to get back on track. | ||
| And like Donald J. Trump said, America is going to be great again. | ||
| You know, when I look out and I see all the real Americans, I think about how Donald Trump, his family was compromised. | ||
| When I look out there and I see Donald Trump, I think about How his business was compromised. | ||
| But what happened last week when they took a shot at my hero? | ||
| And they tried to kill the next president of the United States. | ||
| Enough was enough! | ||
| And I said, let Trump-a-mania run wild, brother! | ||
| Let Trump-a-mania rule again! | ||
| Let Trump-amania make America great again! | ||
| USA! | ||
| You know something, Trumpites? | ||
| I didn't come here as Hulk Hogan, but I just had to give you a little taste. | ||
| You know, my name is Terry Bollea. | ||
| And as an entertainer, I love you too. | ||
| And as an entertainer, I try to stay out of politics. | ||
| But after everything... | ||
| That's happened to our country over the past four years. | ||
| And everything that happened last weekend, I can no longer stay silent. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm here tonight because I want the world to know that Donald Trump is a real American hero And I'm proud to support my hero as the next president of this United States. | ||
| You know, guys, I've known Donald Trump for over 35 years. | ||
| You know, hold on a second. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I just had a flashback. | ||
| I just had a flashback, man. | ||
| This is really tripping. | ||
| You know? | ||
| The last time I was up on stage, Donald Trump was sitting at ringside at the Trump Plaza. | ||
| I was bleeding like a pig, and I won the world title right in front of Donald J. Trump. | ||
| And you know something? | ||
| He's gonna win in November, and we're all gonna be champions again when he wins. | ||
| And like I said, I've known that man for over 35 years, and he's always been the biggest patriot, and he still is. | ||
| He's always told you exactly what he thought, and he still does, brother. | ||
| And no matter the odds, he always finds a way to win. | ||
| And when he's back in our White House, America is going to start winning again. | ||
| You know, guys, over my career, I've been in the ring with some of the biggest, some of the baddest dudes on the planet. | ||
| And I've squared off against warriors. | ||
| Ooh, yeah, savages. | ||
| And I've even, like I said, body slammed giants in the middle of the ring. | ||
| And I know tough guys. | ||
| But let me tell you something, brother. | ||
| Donald Trump is the toughest of them all. | ||
| They've thrown everything at Donald Trump. | ||
| All the investigations, the impeachments, the court cases, and he's still standing and kicking their butts. | ||
| You know, we never had it better than the Trump years. | ||
| Back then, we had a thriving economy. | ||
| We had strong borders. | ||
| We had safe streets. | ||
| We had peace. | ||
| And respect around the world. | ||
| But then we lost it all in a blink of an eye. | ||
| Crime is out of control. | ||
| The border is out of control. | ||
| The price of food and gas and housing is out of control. | ||
| And the only person who can clean this up is Donald Trump. | ||
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| You know, guys, I really, really love this country. | ||
| And I've lived the American dream. | ||
| And I want my kids, your kids, and all those little teeny hulcomaniacs out there to live the American dream too. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This November, guys, we can save the American dream for everyone. | ||
| And Donald Trump is the president who will get the job done. | ||
| So all you criminals, all you lowlifes, all you scumbags, all you drug dealers, and all you crooked politicians need to answer one question, brother. | ||
| What you gonna do when Donald Trump and all the Trump-a-maniacs run wild on you, brother? | ||
| God bless you and thank you. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and President of Samaritan's Purse, the Reverend Franklin Graham. | ||
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| Good evening. | ||
| I've got the hardest job, and I'd have to follow Hulk Hogan. | ||
| But I stand here tonight as a private citizen who loves this country. | ||
| I've been asked to say a few words and then to pray, and we're going to do that. | ||
| Last Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Trump had a near-death experience. | ||
| No question. | ||
| But God spared his life. | ||
| And when we go through those experiences, it changes us. | ||
| It can cause us to examine our lives and to reevaluate our priorities, as you should. | ||
| When President Trump rose from that platform, he rose with his fist raised in strength. | ||
| showing America his unshakable resolve to fight for them in this nation. | ||
| I cannot explain why God would save one life and allow another one to be taken. | ||
| I don't have the answer for that. | ||
| But one thing I do know is that God loves us and he wants us to be with him in heaven one day. | ||
| And that's through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. | ||
| You see, the Bible says that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shouldn't perish but should have everlasting life. | ||
| For as long as I've known President Trump, I've found him to be a man of His Word. | ||
| Things that he said he'll do, he did. | ||
| When he told me and our country in 2016 that he was going to appoint conservative justices, guess what? | ||
| He did. | ||
| In 2016, he said he would defend religious liberty. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| He did. | ||
| In 2019, I was with him at the United Nations when the first president of history of this country Stood there to advocate for religious liberty worldwide. | ||
| When an American citizen and Pastor Andrew Brunson was being held in a Turkish jail on false accusations, President Trump demanded that he be released, and he applied economic pressure and sanctions until they did that. | ||
| I'm grateful and thankful for what he did as the 45th President of the United States. | ||
| And I know that as the 47th president, he will keep his word to the American people to make America great once again. | ||
| It's an honor for me to be asked to pray. | ||
| For Donald Trump this evening. | ||
| And so what I'd like to do, I'd like us to pray, but I'd like us all to stand as we call upon the name of the God of heaven. | ||
| Our Heavenly Father, we come before you this evening with grateful hearts. | ||
| Thank you for saving the life of President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| In his own words, it was you and you alone who saved him. | ||
| We pray for the others that were injured on Saturday, for the family who lost their loved one. | ||
| Put your loving arms around them. | ||
| Comfort them, and may they sense your presence. | ||
| We stand before you tonight. | ||
| We say thank you for the provisions you have given to the United States of America. | ||
| You have blessed this country more than any country in the world. | ||
| Sadly, as a nation, we have forgotten who is responsible for all the freedoms, the liberties, and the bounty that we enjoy. | ||
| It has all come for you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This evening, our nation is in trouble. | ||
| We're divided politically, racially, economically, with millions of people seeking refuge and hope in our dry and thirsty land. | ||
| You're the only one who can fix it. | ||
| The complexity of the problems that we face today. | ||
| We pray for President Trump. | ||
| That you would give him wisdom, strength, and a clear vision for the future of this nation. | ||
| And the task that is at hand. | ||
| Continue to protect him from his enemies. | ||
| I pray that you would surround him with men and women who will give him sound counsel and guidance. | ||
| We pray for Melania, for Barron. | ||
| And for all the President Trump's children and grandchildren. | ||
| We pray for Senator J.D. Vance, his wife, Usa, along with their young family. | ||
| We're thankful for his strong stand for defending life. | ||
| As your word instructs, we also pray for the leaders of our nation, whether they're Republican, Democrat, or Independent. | ||
| We know that all authority comes from you. | ||
| You are a great God. | ||
| And we ask that if it be thy will that you will make America great once again. | ||
| And we ask that you'll unite our hearts, bring us together, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | ||
| And we pray this in the mighty name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome businessman and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, Eric Trump. | ||
| Good evening, America. | ||
| Eight years ago, my father sat our family down. | ||
| He spoke of a nation in decline, of dreams slipping away, of a future endangered by failed leadership and broken promises. | ||
| It was in that moment I knew my father had made a decision that would forever change our lives. | ||
| We realized he had chosen to step into the arena to fight for the soul of America. | ||
| He decided to leave behind the comforts of an unbelievable business empire. | ||
| To leave behind everything he had ever built. | ||
| To answer the call to serve our nation. | ||
| Unlike his predecessor, it was not a decision born out of necessity. | ||
| Unlike the current president, It was not a decision that would enrich his family. | ||
| Rather, it was a decision made out of love for this country and a deep concern for America's future. | ||
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| My father was clear it would not be easy, that there would be a huge price to pay. | ||
| And that the attacks would be vicious. | ||
| Looking back, that was an understatement. | ||
| The made-up Russia hoax. | ||
| The sham impeachments. | ||
| The efforts to destroy an unbelievable company. | ||
| A company that I run today. | ||
| The efforts to cancel us. | ||
| To silence him. | ||
| To gag his free speech. | ||
| And to drag him through every radical left courthouse in America. | ||
| To take his life. | ||
| Yet through it all, he's shown unwavering courage and determination, not just in public, but in every private conversation with me and our family. | ||
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| He stood tall, fueled not by personal ambition, but by a profound love for this country and a love for all of you, the American people. | ||
| That man is my father. | ||
| That man is the 45th president and soon to be 47th president of the United States. | ||
| That man is Donald J. Trump. | ||
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| Each time I've stood on this stage, America has been a dire crossroads. | ||
| In 2016, many people began to doubt the promise of America. | ||
| Our economy was struggling. | ||
| Jobs were scarce. | ||
| Our standing on the world stage was weak at best. | ||
| Veterans were forgotten. | ||
| Our military was in shambles. | ||
| Our educational system was broken, ranked 30th in the world. | ||
| He could no longer tolerate an inept administration that handed $150 billion to Iran, a country that chanced death to America, or witnessed the continued attacks on our Constitution and our religious liberty, or see the disrespect shown to our unbelievable law enforcement officers who are being disarmed, defunded, and persecuted each and every day. | ||
| He could no longer stand to see words like Christmas stripped from public use. | ||
| Or the Pledge of Allegiance removed from our schools. | ||
| But my father saw potential where others saw despair. | ||
| Donald Trump built the New York City skyline. | ||
| He did so during a time when businesses were turning away from the city he loved. | ||
| Crime was rampant. | ||
| The streets were dirty. | ||
| But he had the Midas touch. | ||
| And he turned those streets and neighborhoods into gold. | ||
| He faced every challenge with tremendous vision and grit. | ||
| As he did during the 2016 election, he rolled up his sleeves. | ||
| He remained unapologetic. | ||
| He did not care to be politically correct. | ||
| He restored hope. | ||
| He restored a voice to millions of Americans who had been ignored. | ||
| He restored the American dream. | ||
| Under my father's leadership, the economy climbed to record heights. | ||
| Jobs were created at an unthinkable pace. | ||
| Unemployment reached historic lows across all demographics. | ||
| Wage growth soared. | ||
| He cut taxes for hardworking families and businesses. | ||
| He slashed regulations. | ||
| We saw the greatest 401k increase in American history. | ||
| Applause People bought their first homes in an environment that saw 2-3% interest rates. | ||
| They started their families. | ||
| My father made the United States energy independent with the lowest gas prices in decades. | ||
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| My father made the United States safe. | ||
| Our borders were closed. | ||
| There was peace in the Middle East. | ||
| Soleimani al-Baghdadi, the terrorists were dead. | ||
| My father made the United States respected again with the courage to walk into countries like North Korea, with the courage to impose tariffs on China, and with the courage to tear up trade deals that cost Americans their jobs. | ||
| applause He brought manufacturing back to America. | ||
| Small businesses flourished. | ||
| He did what he promised. | ||
| He put America first. | ||
| We were winning. | ||
| Donald Trump made America great again. | ||
| But he also created a movement. | ||
| A movement that threatened the special interests in the political elites. | ||
| A movement that cast a bright light on the institutions weaponized against the American people. | ||
| You see it in our schools. | ||
| God bless the moms who fought back. | ||
| You see it in your workplace. | ||
| You see it on every news station, in every newspaper. | ||
| You see it in the military. | ||
| The most iconic military installations on planet Earth are stripped of their identity and renamed. | ||
| Fort Bragg, Benning, Fort Hood. | ||
| You see it in Hollywood. | ||
| You see it in our two-tier judicial system. | ||
| They don't even hide it anymore. | ||
| My father has been censored. | ||
| The former president ripped off Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook while terrorist organizations remain intact. | ||
| My father has been persecuted, targeted by far-left Democrats funded by special interest groups and hand-picked judges. | ||
| My father has been pulled off the ballot of states, radical justices attempting to defy the will of millions of Americans who adore who he is and what he stands for. | ||
| My father even became the target of an assassin who almost killed America's single greatest hope for our future. | ||
| The swamp is terrified of this incredible movement. | ||
| They're terrified of it. | ||
| They're terrified of you and the tens of millions of people watching us on TV right now. | ||
| They've tried everything to keep him from you. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| To destroy his legacy. | ||
| To destroy his family. | ||
| They have failed and they will not win. | ||
| I love my Florida delegation right here. | ||
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| My father stands before you with the most votes of any Republican candidate in the history of our nation. | ||
| The predictions of every political pundit. | ||
| He fills stadiums across our country. | ||
| He energizes Americans to the issues facing this nation and does so with unvarnished honesty. | ||
| He is not a threat to democracy. | ||
| He is a threat to those who despise our republic, many whom are bought and sold, bribed and coerced, people who have never signed the front of a check and who have been dependent on the government their entire adult lives. | ||
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| Today, as it was in 2016, America's at that crossroads again. | ||
| Energy prices are soaring. | ||
| Interest rates are crippling. | ||
| Everything is unaffordable. | ||
| The U.S. dollar has been diminished. | ||
| Inflation has made it impossible for Americans to live, to save for their future. | ||
| Our infrastructure is crumbling. | ||
| Our border is out of control. | ||
| Millions are dead and displaced in Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| A war that has no end and a war that we are funding. | ||
| The Middle East has become a hornet's nest. | ||
| Our greatest ally, Israel, totally under siege. | ||
| Fentanyl is killing our youth and destroying families, while the current administration stands idly by, hoping their inaction will import illegal votes. | ||
| Crime terrorizes our cities and our suburbs as far-left policies handcuff police. | ||
| Male athletes, guys my height, 6'5" are swimming in women's sports. | ||
| Destroying the dreams of young girls who have trained every minute of their lives. | ||
| We no longer trust our elections, we no longer trust our judicial system, and we no longer believe that our government is working in our best interest. | ||
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| In spite of where we are today as a nation, I'd like to speak to every American. | ||
| To the homeless veteran sleeping under a bridge as illegal immigrants are housed in the most expensive hotels in New York. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| We know it's wrong and we will fix it. | ||
| To the single mother who can no longer afford her rent, afford groceries, and has been forced to work three jobs, I'm sorry. | ||
| It does not have to be this way. | ||
| To the parents who lost a son or daughter to fentanyl, including the incredible woman that spoke the other night, while an administration does absolutely nothing, I'm sorry. | ||
| Your government can do so much better, and it will. | ||
| To the children who are being brainwashed instead of learning the fundamentals of school, I'm sorry. | ||
| There are teachers who care and my father will empower them. | ||
| To the law enforcement officers, our brave board patrols, secret service agents who work every single day to protect our communities, knowing damn well that the system will throw you under the bus, I'm sorry. | ||
| We will stand behind you. | ||
| To commuters often petrified to take a bus, take a train, or walk the streets in cities across our nation, I'm sorry. | ||
| That man right there will fix this. | ||
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| To the construction workers, to the middle-class families, to the families with children with disabilities, families who can no longer afford medical benefits or to take a vacation, I'm sorry. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And to my father, who has been ruthlessly silenced Slandered and attacked by a corrupt administration, I'm sorry. | ||
| We know and America knows that they're not just after you, they're after all of us and you just happen to be standing in their way. | ||
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To all Americans. | |
| For all Americans watching tonight, the greatest retribution will be our success. | ||
| Success not just for ourselves, but for our grandchildren and our children. | ||
| Under President Donald J. Trump, the swamp will be drained. | ||
| America will be respected. | ||
| Our cities will be safe. | ||
| Our streets will be clean. | ||
| and our border will once again be secure. | ||
| We will have peace. | ||
| We will have prosperity. | ||
| Your hard-earned tax dollars will enrich a better America, not be squandered in corrupt foreign nations. | ||
| Education will be handed back to the states. | ||
| We will no longer be 30th in the world. | ||
| We will be first! | ||
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| Our children will understand family, our children will have values, and our children will love God. | ||
| Our country will prioritize free speech, respect freedom of religion, and honor our Constitution. | ||
| As his son, I've never been more proud of a person in my life. | ||
| A man who has defied all odds more than once. | ||
| A man who believed in the promise of America when others turned away. | ||
| A man who saw a nation in need of a champion and answered that call with unwavering determination and courage. | ||
| A man who survived a bullet that was intended to eliminate him permanently from our future. | ||
| And from our family. | ||
| Never have I been more proud to be a Trump. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Never have I been more proud to stand by my father's side. | ||
| I remain incredibly honored to be part of this journey. | ||
| A journey with all of you. | ||
| A journey to save the greatest country on earth. | ||
| A journey with the most incredible people I have ever met. | ||
| Dad. | ||
| Five days ago, Laura, Luke, Carolina, and I held our breath as we saw blood pour across your face. | ||
| By the grace of God, divine intervention, and your guardian angels above, you survived. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| You are the greatest fighter I have ever seen. | ||
| You are strong, you are full of life, and you are unapologetic. | ||
| Your optimism is contagious. | ||
| Your backbone is unbreakable. | ||
| Your conviction to fight for what is right and against all that is wrong is truly next level. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| The whole world saw your strength as you stood up, you wiped the blood off your face, and you put your fist in the air in a moment that will be remembered as one of the most courageous acts in the history of American politics. | ||
| You shouted, "Fight! | ||
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Fight! | |
| I'm honored to be your son. | ||
| I'm honored to speak to our great nation tonight. | ||
| You are a true leader. | ||
| You epitomize strength. | ||
| Our country loves you. | ||
| Our country appreciates you. | ||
| Our country misses you. | ||
| And on November 5th, our country will re-elect you as the 47th president of the United States of America. | ||
| Good night, Milwaukee. | ||
| God bless you all. | ||
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| # Ladies and gentlemen, the next First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Melania Trump. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Young and confident, Donald Trump wasn't afraid to think big and build even bigger. | ||
| And he left his mark on the New York skyline that greeted visitors from around the world. | ||
| But he wasn't just an American entrepreneur. | ||
| He became a folk hero. | ||
| Celebrities and sports stars wanted to be seen with him. | ||
| Politicians sought his approval. | ||
| And New Yorkers just loved him. | ||
| And he loved them back. | ||
| And he gave back. | ||
| Just one example. | ||
| The Wallman Skating Rink in Central Park is open again. | ||
| The city spent nearly six years and $12 million trying to fix it, and then to the rescue, developer Donald Trump. | ||
| As Tracy Egan tells us now, he accomplished in three and a half months what the city couldn't do in six years. | ||
| Donald, you performed a great public service. | ||
| There was no denying that Donald Trump was the toast of the town. | ||
| But he was also something even more important, a patriotic American. | ||
| And like many others, he was becoming increasingly troubled by the direction of our country. | ||
| Because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country, how we're really making other people live like kings, and we're not. | ||
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You've said, though, that if you did run for president, you believe you'd win. | |
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| I think I'd win. | ||
| I tell you what, I wouldn't go in to lose. | ||
| I've never gone in to lose in my life. | ||
| And if I did decide to do it, I think I'd be inclined. | ||
| I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning. | ||
| Because I think people, I don't know how your audience feels, but I think people are tired of seeing the United States ripped off. | ||
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But who would ever run for president and leave such a glamorous life? | |
| Appearances in movies, best-selling books, a widely popular TV show. | ||
| But for Donald J. Trump, The calling to save his country was even stronger. | ||
| The mission, more important. | ||
| The number of Americans being left behind, too large. | ||
| And so, in Donald Trump fashion, he announced he was running for president, in it to win. | ||
| And he did. | ||
| From his first day in office, the Washington politicians learned something about President Trump. | ||
| He's not afraid to fight for what he believes in. | ||
| They call that having the courage of your convictions. | ||
| First up, the Trump tax cuts. | ||
| Largest in America's history. | ||
| And it led to higher take-home pay for working families. | ||
| Today, taxes are up and incomes down. | ||
| The politicians just never learn. | ||
| Next for President Trump, secure our border. | ||
| Check. | ||
| Miles and miles of wall built. | ||
| ISIS and other terrorists deterred. | ||
| But now we have the Barney Fife of border security, leading to a quarter of a million Americans dead from fentanyl coming in. | ||
| Brutal migrant crimes spreading across America. | ||
| And ISIS now here. | ||
| President Trump promised he'd keep America out of endless wars. | ||
| Welcome words to And another promise kept. | ||
| He started by strengthening our military. | ||
| Then traveled the world, meeting with our allies. | ||
| And even with our main adversaries. | ||
| Just so they understood that America's strength and resolve was back. | ||
| Because that's what a strong commander-in-chief does. | ||
| And it led to a stable world at peace and our troops safe. | ||
| Today, a different story. | ||
| Our enemies smelled weakness. | ||
| Then set the world on fire. | ||
| Putin saw it. | ||
| Then invaded Ukraine. | ||
| Hamas saw it. | ||
| Then started a war. | ||
| in the Middle East. | ||
| There's one more thing we've learned about President Trump. | ||
| He believes so strongly in America, so optimistic for our possibilities, and so committed to fighting to once again Make our country great. | ||
| that there is nothing that is going to stop him. | ||
| USA! | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Kid Rock. | ||
| What up America? | ||
| If you're ready for President Trump to take the stage, I need everybody to stand up. | ||
| I need everybody to put a fist up in the air. | ||
| Everybody get a fist up in the air. | ||
| Now follow me. | ||
| Say fight, fight. | ||
| Say fight, fight. | ||
| Say fight, fight. | ||
| That's that traumatic scream. | ||
| The devil without a cause. | ||
| I'm back with the beaver hats and Ben Davis slacks. | ||
| 30 pack of strolls, straight rock and roll. | ||
| No Rogaine in the probate flow. | ||
| Rejozen one, I'm the living proof. | ||
| With the gift of gab from the city of truth. | ||
| You know I jam, stab, and I'm critics back And I did not start up when I said that I'm going platinum, selling rhymes I went platinum seven times Still the air that wanna see us fry I guess because only God knows why | ||
| Why, why, why, why They call me cowboy, I'm the singer in black Throw a fist in the air, let me see where you're at Say fight, fight, fight, | ||
| fight, fight, fight, fight Say fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight Say Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump I like AC, DC, MC, Z, Tide Both see Miss Beasties and the kings of rock | ||
| Skinner, Seager, Limp, Corn, and Stones David Attencote and No-Show Jones Yeah, pass that bottle of ground Got the rock from Detroit The soul from Motown The undercrap, straight Detroit pimp With Jackson Mack and slap back the black Never gave a baby I don't play with ass | ||
| Well, watch me rock with the Barachi Flash Walk back to clash, boy bands are trash I like Johnny Cash and Grandmaster Flash Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash Oh, they call me cowboy, I'm the singer in black North-East in the air, let me see where you're at Say fight it, fight it, fight it. | ||
| Say fight it, fight it, fight it, fight it, fight it. | ||
| Now say Trump, Trump. | ||
| Trump, Trump. | ||
| I'm an American badass, watch me kid. | ||
| You can roll and rock, but you did it. | ||
| I'm the ultimate, I'm like Amazing Grace. | ||
| I'm on rock and roll, like the rock. | ||
| This place is awesome. | ||
| I'm a fly, living double wide, side car, I'm a fly, the big dog can ride. | ||
| Bells have to share, bring a blast of flair. | ||
| Back in long hair, swinging middle figure in the air. | ||
| Next kid, boot 65, Chevelle. | ||
| She be riding, sitting, hit a rebel, yeah. | ||
| I won't live to tell. | ||
| So if you do, rock for freedom and rock for truth. | ||
| Who knew I'd blow like Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, Arizona. | ||
| I can check my head, I know it stinks in here. | ||
| Cause Trump's the shh. | ||
| They call me cowboy. | ||
| I'm a singer for black. | ||
| Throw a fist in the air. | ||
| Let me see where you're at. | ||
| Say Trump, Trump. | ||
| I need to hear you louder than that. | ||
| One more time. | ||
| I'm a cowboy, I'm a cowboy, bad ass and black. | ||
| You say Trump, Trump. | ||
| Trump, Trump. | ||
| From side to side, from front to back, I'm more Trump, Trump. | ||
| Trump, Trump. | ||
| I put Detroit city back on the map. | ||
| We say Trump, Trump. | ||
| Trump, Trump, Trump. | ||
| Get rocks in the house. | ||
| This is where I'm at. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for the most patriotic American badass on earth. | ||
| President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| But first, let's go. | ||
| Another American badass, my brother Dana White. | ||
| God bless America. | ||
| Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I am Dana White. | ||
| I am the CEO and President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. | ||
| So two weeks ago, I got a call from President Trump asking me if I'd be willing to speak tonight. | ||
| As usual, there was no pressure, no demands. | ||
| He asked me as a friend, and of course I said yes. | ||
| Then, after I accepted his offer, he sent me a text message, and I just want to read to you. | ||
| A little piece of what President Trump wrote to me. | ||
| Dana, I'm so honored that you will be doing the introduction at the National Republican Convention. | ||
| Think of it as the biggest fight you ever had, a fight for our country and even the world. | ||
| I only wish you didn't have to interrupt your family trip, but I hope they understand. | ||
| They love you, and they know how important this is. | ||
| Now think about this. | ||
| This man's running for President of the United States. | ||
| He's fighting for the future of this country and he's concerned about interrupting my family trip. | ||
| That's the President Trump that I know. | ||
| A man who truly cares about people. | ||
| The mainstream media likes to push the narrative that he doesn't care about anyone but himself. | ||
| I absolutely know that's not the truth because I've been friends with this guy. | ||
| For 25 years. | ||
| And for the people who know me, they'll know this is true. | ||
| I just want to make something very clear. | ||
| Nobody in the Trump campaign has ever told me what to say. | ||
| Nobody tells me what to say. | ||
| and I'm nobody's puppet. | ||
| And I'm not telling you what to think. | ||
| I'm telling you what I know. | ||
| And I know President Trump. | ||
| You know President Trump is a fighter? | ||
| I've been saying this since 2015. | ||
| Now look at what's happened over the last 10 years. | ||
| We have all seen it with our own eyes. | ||
| I'm in the tough guy business, and this man is the toughest, most resilient human being that I've ever met in my life. | ||
| The higher the stakes, the harder he fights, and this guy never, ever gives up. | ||
| So what's at stake here? | ||
| The answer is in President Trump's text, and I quote, "A fight for our country." I know why he's running for president again. | ||
| Why else would he put himself through everything he's dealt with just to get back here? | ||
| We all know he doesn't need this. | ||
| This guy's got a great life, he has a beautiful family, and he has achieved everything that you could possibly achieve in life. | ||
| I know President Trump is literally putting his life on the line for something bigger than himself. | ||
| and he's willing to risk it all because he loves this country. | ||
| And I know he wants what's best for the American people. | ||
| All American people. | ||
| I know he's running for president to save our American dream. | ||
| I'm living the American dream, and I know the American dream is very real. | ||
| Whether you were born in this country or came here from someplace else, this is the last real land of opportunity. | ||
| President Reagan once said, "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." And if you're buried in government red tape, how will you ever start your own business? | ||
| If you're struggling to pay your bills, how can you ever afford to start a family? | ||
| And if you don't feel safe in your own town, why would you ever buy a house? | ||
| I know that President Trump is fighting to save the American dream, and that's what's at stake in this election. | ||
| We are choosing who we want to lead us in this fight. | ||
| I know President Trump is a proven leader, a fearless leader. | ||
| And this country was in a much better place when he was in the Oval Office. | ||
| In my mind, the choice is clear. | ||
| But this election, we all get to choose. | ||
| I know I'm going to choose strength and security. | ||
| I know I'm going to choose opportunity and prosperity. | ||
| I know I'm going to choose real American leadership and a real American badass. | ||
| And I'm not telling I'm telling you what choice to make and I'm not telling you what to think. | ||
| I'm telling you what I know. | ||
| I know America needs a strong leader and the world needs a strong America. | ||
| I know Donald J. Trump is the best choice for President of the United States. | ||
| My fellow Americans, it is my honor to introduce the 45th and soon to be 47th President of the- Because | ||
| my children and my wife Thank my lucky stars To be living here today Because our flag still stands for freedom And they can't take that away Thank | ||
| you very, very much. | ||
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| And thank you, Dana. | ||
| Thank you, Kid Rock, sometimes referred to as Bob. | ||
| And thank you, Lee, right from the beginning. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| What a talent. | ||
| What a beautiful, beautiful song. | ||
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| Friends, delegates, and fellow citizens, I stand before you this evening with a message of confidence, strength, and hope. | ||
| Four months from now, we will have an incredible victory, and we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country. | ||
| Together, we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity, and freedom Color and creed, the discord and division in our society must be healed. | ||
| We must heal it quickly. | ||
| As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. | ||
| We rise together or we fall apart. | ||
| I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning. | ||
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For half of America. | |
| So tonight, with faith and devotion, I proudly accept your nomination for President of the United States. | ||
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| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And we will do it right. | ||
| Gonna do it right. | ||
| Let me begin this evening by expressing my gratitude to the American people. | ||
| for your outpouring of love and support following the assassination attempt at my rally on Saturday. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| As you already know, the assassin's bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. | ||
| So many people have asked me what happened. | ||
| Tell us what happened, please. | ||
| And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened, and you'll never hear it from me a second time because it's actually too painful to tell. | ||
| It was a warm, beautiful day in the early evening in Butler Township in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | ||
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Music was loudly playing. | |
| And the campaign was doing really well. | ||
| I went to the stage and the crowd was cheering wildly. | ||
| Everybody was happy. | ||
| I began speaking very strongly, powerfully, and happily. | ||
| Because I was discussing the great job my administration did on immigration at the southern border. | ||
| We were very proud of it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Behind me and to the right was a large screen that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership. | ||
| The numbers were absolutely amazing. | ||
| In order to see the chart, I started to, like this, turn to my right and was ready to begin. | ||
| A little bit further turn, which I'm very lucky I didn't do, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard on my right ear. | ||
| I said to myself, wow, what was that? | ||
| It can only be a bullet. | ||
| And moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down. | ||
| My hand was covered with blood, just absolutely blood all over the place. | ||
| I immediately knew it was very serious that we were under attack, and in one movement proceeded to drop to the ground. | ||
| Bullets were continuing to fly as very brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage, and they really did. | ||
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They rushed to the start. | |
| These are great people, at great risk, I will tell you, and pounced on top of me so that I would be protected. | ||
| There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet, in a certain way, I felt very safe because I had God on my side. | ||
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I felt that. | |
| The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at that very last instant, the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be here tonight. | ||
| We would not be together. | ||
| The most incredible aspect of what took place on that terrible evening in the fading sun was actually seen later. | ||
| In almost all cases, as you probably know, and when even a single bullet is fired, just a single bullet, and we had many bullets that were being fired, crowds run for the exits or stampede, but not in this case. | ||
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It was very unusual. | |
| This massive crowd of tens of thousands of people, Stood by and didn't move an inch. | ||
| In fact, many of them bravely but automatically stood up looking for where the sniper would be. | ||
| They knew immediately it was a sniper. | ||
| And then began pointing at him. | ||
| You can see that if you look at the group behind me. | ||
| That was just a small group compared to what was in front. | ||
| Nobody ran and by not stampeding many lives were saved. | ||
| But that isn't the reason. | ||
| That they didn't move. | ||
| The reason is that they knew I was in very serious trouble. | ||
| They saw me go down. | ||
| They saw the blood and thought, actually, most did, that I was dead. | ||
| They knew it was a shot to the head. | ||
| They saw the blood. | ||
| And there's an interesting statistic. | ||
| The ears are the bloodiest part. | ||
| If something happens with the ears, they bleed more than any other part of the body. | ||
| For whatever reason, the doctors told me that. | ||
| And I said, why is there so much blood? | ||
| He said, it's the ears. | ||
| They bleed more. | ||
| So we learned something. | ||
| But they just... | ||
| They just, this beautiful crowd, they didn't want to leave me. | ||
| They knew I was in trouble. | ||
| They didn't want to leave me. | ||
| And you can see that love written all over their faces. | ||
| Incredible people. | ||
| They're incredible people. | ||
| Bullets were flying over us, yet I felt serene. | ||
| But now the Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril. | ||
| They were in very dangerous territory. | ||
| Bullets were flying right over them, missing them by a very small amount of inches. | ||
| And then it all stopped. | ||
| Our Secret Service sniper, from a much greater distance, And with only one bullet used, took the assassin's life. | ||
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| I'm not supposed to be here tonight. | ||
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not supposed to be here Thank you. | |
| But I'm not. | ||
| And I'll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| In watching the reports over the last few days, many people say it was a Providential moment probably was. | ||
| When I rose surrounded by Secret Service, the crowd was confused because they thought I was dead, and there was great, great sorrow. | ||
| I could see that on their faces as I looked out. | ||
| They didn't know I was looking out. | ||
| They thought it was over. | ||
| But I could see it, and I wanted to do something to let them know I was okay. | ||
| I raised my right arm, looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting, and started shouting, fight, fight, fight, fight! | ||
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Fight! | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Once my clenched fist went up, The crowd realized I was okay and roared with pride for our country like no crowd I have ever heard before. | ||
| Never heard anything like it. | ||
| For the rest of my life I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots. | ||
| That stood bravely on that fateful evening in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Tragically, the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans, Corey Comparator. | ||
| Unbelievable person, everybody tells me. | ||
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Unbelievable. | |
| And seriously wounded. | ||
| Two other great warriors. | ||
| Spoke to them today. | ||
| David Dutch and James Copenhaver. | ||
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Two great people. | |
| I also spoke to all three families of these tremendous people. | ||
| Our love and prayers are with them and always will be. | ||
| We're never going to forget them. | ||
| They came for a great rally. | ||
| They were serious Trumpsters, I want to tell you. | ||
| They were serious Trumpsters and still are. | ||
| But Corey, unfortunately, we have to use the past tense. | ||
| He was incredible. | ||
| He was a highly respected former fire chief, respected by everybody, was accompanied by his wife, Helen, incredible woman I spoke to today, devastated, and two precious daughters. | ||
| He lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets. | ||
| He went right over the top of them and was hit. | ||
| What a fine man he was. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I want to thank the fire department and the family for sending his helmet, his outfit. | ||
| And it was just something, and they're going to do something very special when they get it. | ||
| But we did something which cannot match what happened, not even close. | ||
| But I am very proud to say that over the past few days, we've raised $6.3 million. | ||
| For the families of David, James, and Corey, including from a friend of mine just called up. | ||
| He sent me a check right here. | ||
| I just got it. | ||
| One million dollars. | ||
| From Dan Newland. | ||
| Thank you, Dan. | ||
| And again, when speaking to the family, I told them, I said, well, I'm going to be sending you a lot of money, but I can't compensate. | ||
| They all said the same thing. | ||
| You're right, sir. | ||
| We appreciate so much what you're doing, but nothing can take the place in the case of Corey. | ||
| And the other two, by the way, they were very, very seriously injured, but now they're doing very well. | ||
| They're going to be okay. | ||
| They're going to be doing very well. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| They're warriors. | ||
| So now... | ||
| I ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our friend Corey. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others. | ||
| This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours, and this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness. | ||
| This is what we need. | ||
| Despite such a heinous attack, we unite this evening more determined than ever. | ||
| I am more determined than ever, and so are you. | ||
| So is everybody in this room. | ||
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| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged to deliver a government that serves the American people better than ever before. | ||
| Nothing will stop me in this mission because our vision is righteous and our cause is pure. | ||
| No matter what obstacle comes our way, we will not break. | ||
| We will not bend. | ||
| We will not back down. | ||
| And I will never stop fighting for you, your family, and our magnificent country. | ||
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| And everything I have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul, I pledge to our nation tonight. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I pledge that to our nation. | ||
| I'm going to turn our nation around and we're going to do it very quickly. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This election should be about the issues facing our country and how to... | ||
| Make America successful, safe, free, and great again. | ||
| In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens. | ||
| sins we are, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | ||
| And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what's been happening in our country lately at a level that nobody has ever seen before. | ||
| In that spirit, the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy. | ||
| Especially since That is not true. | ||
| fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country. | ||
| And very big news, as you probably just read, on Monday a major ruling was handed down from a highly respected federal judge in Florida, Eileen Cannon. | ||
| Finding that the prosecutor and the fake documents case against me were totally unconstitutional and the entire case was thrown out of court. | ||
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With all of that publicity thrown out of court. | |
| If Democrats want to unify our country... | ||
| They should drop these partisan witch hunts, which I have been going through for approximately eight years. | ||
| And they should do that without delay and allow an election to proceed that is worthy of our people. | ||
| We're going to win it anyway, but worthy of our people. | ||
| On this journey, I am deeply honored to be joined by my amazing wife, Melania. | ||
| And Melania, thank you very much. | ||
| You also did something really beautiful, a letter to America calling for national unity, and it really took the Republican Party by surprise. | ||
| I will tell you, it was beautiful. | ||
| In fact, some very serious people said that we should take that letter and put it as part of the Republican platform. | ||
| That would be an honor, wouldn't it? | ||
| Right, Mr. Congressman? | ||
| But it captivated so many, so I also want to thank my entire family for being here. | ||
| Don, Kimberly, Ivanka and Jared, Eric and Lara, Tiffany and Michael, and Barron. | ||
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We love our Baron. | |
| And, of course, my ten wonderful grandchildren. | ||
| and you saw a few of them up there on my lap before. | ||
| And how good was Dana? | ||
| Was Dana good? | ||
| I mean, was he good? | ||
| You know, he was on probably the only vacation he's had in about maybe ever. | ||
| Because he works. | ||
| But about ten years with his wife, very far away. | ||
| I won't tell you where, but very, very far away. | ||
| Beautiful place. | ||
| And my people called, and he said, yeah, I won't be able to do it. | ||
| This is many, many years. | ||
| I promised my wife I can't do it. | ||
| And they came in, and they said, Dana won't be able to do it. | ||
| Because he was my first, second, and third choice. | ||
| I said, well, you know, that's too bad, but I understand. | ||
| He's away, and it's good. | ||
| It's good for him. | ||
| And that was it. | ||
| About 30 minutes later, she came back in. | ||
| Sir, Dana just called. | ||
| He's going to do it. | ||
| And his wife, she said, you can't turn him down. | ||
| You just can't do it. | ||
| You have to go. | ||
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That's a good wife. | |
| So he got on a plane. | ||
| He got here a little while ago. | ||
| Now he's going to get on the plane in a little while and he's going to go back home to his wife. | ||
| But they're great. | ||
| And I just want to thank her and him and their whole family because that's not easy. | ||
| And Kid Rock, same thing. | ||
| Colt, he said. | ||
| He said, I want to be a part of it. | ||
| I want to be a part. | ||
| Because, you know, Kid does his... | ||
| Great song. | ||
| Big, big monster song. | ||
| I had no idea. | ||
| You know, he became a friend of mine over the last 10 years. | ||
| And he's amazing. | ||
| Everyone loves him. | ||
| I didn't even know how big he was. | ||
| You know, he has rallies. | ||
| 35,000, 40,000 people he gets every time he goes out. | ||
| I think he's making so much money, he doesn't know what the hell to do with it. | ||
| You want to know? | ||
| And then we have my other friend, and I've known him so long, and we took that song, and it was a big success, but we made that. | ||
| I saw a chart of great songs to America. | ||
| That was number one on the chart recently, number one. | ||
| So that's Lee Greenwood, a very special, beautiful person. | ||
| He's a beautiful man. | ||
| But they all wanted to be here, they called. | ||
| And how about the Hulkster? | ||
| How good was he? | ||
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| Boy oh boy. | ||
| You know, they may call it, they may call that entertainment. | ||
| I know about entertainment, but when he used to lift a 350-pound man over his shoulders and then bench press him two rows into the audience. | ||
| I say, maybe entertainment, but he is one strong son of a gun. | ||
| I will tell you, I watched it many times. | ||
| There aren't a lot of entertainers that can do that, right? | ||
| You were fantastic. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Followed by Eric. | ||
| What was that all about? | ||
| Boy, that was good. | ||
| I didn't want to really come up here. | ||
| But he was so great, and he's such a good young man. | ||
| He went through a lot of... | ||
| Trouble. | ||
| And Don last night was incredible. | ||
| They went through so much trouble. | ||
| They got subpoenaed more than any people probably in the history of the United States. | ||
| Every week they get another subpoena from the Democrats, crazy Nancy Pelosi, the whole thing. | ||
| Just boom, boom, boom. | ||
| They've got to stop that because they're destroying our country. | ||
| We have to work on making America great again, not on... | ||
| Beating people. | ||
| And we won. | ||
| We beat them in all. | ||
| We beat them on the impeachments. | ||
| We beat them on indictments. | ||
| We beat them. | ||
| But the time that you have to spend, the time that you have to spend, if they would devote that genius to helping our country, we'd have a much stronger and better country. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And Jason, the biggest star in country music. | ||
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Jason, thank you for being here. | |
| Jason, thank you very much. | ||
| Jason Aldean, he's good. | ||
| I like his wife even better, by the way. | ||
| She's here. | ||
| Thank you, Jason. | ||
| But I'm thrilled to have a new friend and partner fighting by my side. | ||
| The next vice president of the United States, the current senator from Ohio, J.D. Vance, and his incredible wife, Usha. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| He's going to be a great... | ||
| Vice President, he's going to be great. | ||
| He'll be with this country and with this movement. | ||
| Greatest movement in the history of our country. | ||
| Make America Great Again. | ||
| When they criticized it, they said, we're going to try and stop MAGA. | ||
| I said, MAGA is Make America Great Again. | ||
| What are you going to stop? | ||
| There's nothing to stop. | ||
| Then they say, oh, that's right. | ||
| It's very tough to fight it. | ||
| And all of the people that did try and fight it have failed. | ||
| But he's going to be with us for a long time, and it was an honor to select him. | ||
| Great, great student at Yale. | ||
| His wife was a great student at Yale. | ||
| They met at Yale. | ||
| These are two smart people. | ||
| So, J.D., you're going to be doing this for a long time. | ||
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Enjoy the ride. | |
| And a very special thank you to the extraordinary people of... | ||
| Milwaukee and the great state of... | ||
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Oh, there they are. | |
| There they are. | ||
| You are so easy to spot. | ||
| And Green Bay is going to have a good team this year, right? | ||
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They're going to have a good team. | |
| They're going to have a good team. | ||
| Most of the audience doesn't like it, but it's true. | ||
| You're going to have a very good team this year. | ||
| And by the way, Wisconsin... | ||
| We are spending over $250 million here creating jobs and other economic development all over the place. | ||
| So I hope you will remember this in November. | ||
| And give us your vote. | ||
| I am trying to buy your vote. | ||
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I'll be honest about that. | |
| I promise we will make Wisconsin great again. | ||
| We're going to make Wisconsin. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Governor. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm here tonight to lay out a vision for the whole nation, to every citizen, whether you're a young or old man or woman, Democrat, Republican or independent, black or white, Asian or Hispanic. | ||
| I extend to you a hand of loyalty and of friendship. | ||
| Together we will lead America to new heights of greatness like the world has never seen before. | ||
| We were right there in the first term. | ||
| We got hit with COVID. | ||
| We did a great job. | ||
| Nobody knew what it was, but nobody's ever seen an economy pre-COVID. | ||
| And then we handed over a stock market that was substantially higher than just prior to COVID. | ||
| Coming in, did a great job. | ||
| Never got credit for that. | ||
| We got credit for the war and defeating ISIS and so many things. | ||
| The great economy, the biggest tax cuts ever, the biggest regulation cuts ever, the creation of Space Force, the rebuilding of our military. | ||
| We did so much. | ||
| We did so much. | ||
| Right to try. | ||
| Right to try is a big deal. | ||
| We got right to try. | ||
| They were trying to get that for 52 years. | ||
| Somebody's terminally ill, and hopefully there's nobody in this audience, but it does happen a lot. | ||
| They're terminally ill, and they can't use our new space-age drugs and other things that we are way ahead. | ||
| We have the greatest doctors in the world, the greatest laboratories in the world, and you can't do it. | ||
| They've been trying to get that approved for 52 years. | ||
| Was it that easy? | ||
| The insurance companies didn't want to do it. | ||
| They didn't want the risk. | ||
| The labs didn't want to do it because if it didn't work, people are pretty far down the line toward death. | ||
| They didn't want to do it. | ||
| The doctors didn't want to have it on their record, so I got everybody into an office. | ||
| 52 years they tried. | ||
| Sounds simple, but it's not. | ||
| And I got them to agree that somebody that needs it will, instead of going to Asia or Europe or someplace, or if you have no money going home and dying, just die. | ||
| We got them to sign an agreement, agree to it, where they're not going to sue anybody. | ||
| They're going to get all of this stuff. | ||
| They're going to get it really fast. | ||
| What's happened is we're saving thousands and thousands of lives. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| Right to try. | ||
| It's a great feeling. | ||
| Under our leadership, the United States will be respected again. | ||
| No nation will question our power. | ||
| No enemy will doubt our might. | ||
| Our borders will be totally secure. | ||
| Our economy will soar. | ||
| We will return law and order to our streets, patriotism to our schools, and importantly, we will restore peace, stability, and harmony all throughout the world. | ||
| But to achieve this future, we must first rescue our nation from failed and even incompetent leadership. | ||
| We have totally incompetent leadership. | ||
| This will be the most important election in the history of our country. | ||
| Under the current administration, we are indeed a nation in decline. | ||
| We have an inflation crisis that is making life unaffordable, ravaging the incomes of working and low-income families, and crushing, just simply crushing our people like never before. | ||
| They've never seen anything like it. | ||
| We also have an illegal immigration crisis, and it's... | ||
| Taking place right now as we sit here in this beautiful arena. | ||
| It's a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease, and destruction to communities all across our land. | ||
| Nobody's ever seen anything like it. | ||
| Then there's an international crisis, the likes of which the world has seldom been part of. | ||
| Nobody can believe what's happening. | ||
| War is now raging in Europe and the Middle East. | ||
| A growing specter of conflict hangs over Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, and all of Asia. | ||
| And our planet is teetering on the edge of World War III. | ||
| And this will be a war like no other war because of weaponry. | ||
| The weapons are no longer army tanks going back and forth, shooting at each other. | ||
| These weapons are obliteration. | ||
| It's time for a change. | ||
| This administration... | ||
| Can't come close to solving the problems. | ||
| We're dealing with very tough, very fierce people. | ||
| They're fierce people. | ||
| And we don't have fierce people. | ||
| We have people that are a lot less than fierce, except when it comes to cheating on elections and a couple of other things. | ||
| Then they're fierce. | ||
| Then they're fierce. | ||
| So tonight, I make this pledge to the... | ||
| Great people of America, I will end the devastating inflation crisis immediately, bring down interest rates and lower the cost of energy. | ||
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We will drill, baby, drill. | |
| Can you believe what they're doing? | ||
| But by doing that, we will lead a large-scale decline in prices. | ||
| Prices will start to come down. | ||
| Energy raised it. | ||
| They took our energy policies and destroyed them. | ||
| Then they immediately went back to them, but by that time, so much was lost. | ||
| But we will do it at levels that nobody's ever seen before, and we'll end. | ||
| Lots of different things. | ||
| We'll start paying off debt and start lowering taxes even further. | ||
| We gave you the largest tax cut. | ||
| We'll do it more. | ||
| You know, people don't realize I brought taxes way down, way, way down, and yet we took in more revenues the following year than we did when the tax rate was much higher. | ||
| Most people said, how did you do that? | ||
| Because it was incentive. | ||
| Everybody was coming to the country. | ||
| They were bringing back. | ||
| Billions and billions of dollars into our country. | ||
| The companies made it impossible to bring it back. | ||
| The tax rate was too high. | ||
| And the legal complications were far too great. | ||
| I changed both of them. | ||
| And hundreds of billions of dollars by Apple and so many other companies were brought back into our nation. | ||
| And we had an economy the likes of which nobody, no nation had ever seen. | ||
| China, we were beating them at levels that were incredible. | ||
| And they know it. | ||
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They know it. | |
| We'll do it again, but we'll do it even better. | ||
| I will end the illegal immigration crisis by closing our border and finishing the wall, most of which I've already built. | ||
| On the wall, we were dealing with a very difficult Congress. | ||
| And I said, oh, that's okay. | ||
| We won't go to Congress. | ||
| I call it an invasion. | ||
| We gave our military almost $800 billion. | ||
| I said, I'm going to take a little of that money because this is an invasion. | ||
| And we built most of the wall is already built. | ||
| And we built it through using the funds because what's better than that? | ||
| We have to stop the invasion into our country that's killing hundreds of thousands of people a year. | ||
| We're not going to let that happen. | ||
| I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and Ukraine, which would have never happened if I was president, and the war caused by the attack on Israel. | ||
| Which would have never happened if I was president. | ||
| Iran was broke. | ||
| Iran had no money. | ||
| Now Iran has $250 billion. | ||
| They made it all over the last two and a half years. | ||
| They were broke. | ||
| I watched the other day on a show called Deface the Nation. | ||
| Has anyone seen it? | ||
| And they had a congressman who was a Democrat say, well, whether you like him or not, Iran was broke dealing with Trump. | ||
| I told China and other countries, if you buy from Iran, we will not... | ||
| Let you do any business in this country, and we will put tariffs on every product you do send in of 100% or more. | ||
| And they said to me, well, I think that's about it. | ||
| They weren't going to buy any oil. | ||
| And they were ready to make a deal. | ||
| Iran was going to make a deal with us. | ||
| And then we had that horrible, horrible result that we'll never let happen again. | ||
| The election result, we're never going to let that happen again. | ||
| They used COVID to cheat. | ||
| We're never going to let it happen again. | ||
| And they took off all the sanctions and they did everything possible for Iran. | ||
| And now Iran is very close to having a nuclear weapon, which would have never happened. | ||
| This is a shame what this administration, the damage that this administration has done. | ||
| And I say it often. | ||
| If you took the ten worst presidents in the history of the United States, think of it, the ten worst, added them up. | ||
| They will not have done the damage that Biden has done. | ||
| Only going to use the term once. | ||
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Biden. | |
| I'm not going to use the name anymore. | ||
| Just one time. | ||
| The damage that he's done to this country is unthinkable. | ||
| It's unthinkable. | ||
| Together we will restore vision, strength, competence, and we're going to have a thing called common sense, making most of our decisions, actually. | ||
| It's all common sense. | ||
| Just a few short years ago, under my presidency, We had the most secure border and best economy in the history of our country, in the history of the world. | ||
| We had the greatest economy in the history of the world. | ||
| We had never done anything like it. | ||
| We were beating every country, including China, by leaps and bounds. | ||
| Nobody had seen anything like it. | ||
| We had no inflation. | ||
| Soaring incomes were going. | ||
| Nobody can believe it. | ||
| You can't believe what happened four years ago. | ||
| It's happening now in reverse. | ||
| And the world was at peace. | ||
| Inflation has been a killer for our country. | ||
| No matter what you're making, it doesn't matter because inflation is eating you alive. | ||
| People that were putting away money, they were making great wages, the highest they've ever made, but they were putting away a lot of money. | ||
| Now they are just being destroyed. | ||
| They're not putting away anything. | ||
| They're barely living. | ||
| They're going into savings accounts. | ||
| They're taking out their money to live because of inflation. | ||
| Inflation, remember, It's called a country buster. | ||
| You can go back to Germany from a hundred years ago. | ||
| You can go back to any country that suffered great inflation. | ||
| We've suffered the worst inflation we've ever had. | ||
| But go back and see what's happened to those countries. | ||
| We've had the worst inflation we've ever had under this person. | ||
| But in less than four years, our opponents have turned incredible success into unparalleled tragedy and failure. | ||
| Tremendous failure. | ||
| Today our cities are flooded with illegal aliens. | ||
| Americans are being squeezed out of the labor force and their jobs are taken. | ||
| By the way, you know who's taking the jobs, the jobs that are created? | ||
| 107% of those jobs are taken by illegal aliens. | ||
| And you know who's being hurt the most by millions of people pouring into our country? | ||
| The black population and the Hispanic. | ||
| Because they're taking the jobs from our black population, our Hispanic population, and they're also taking them from unions. | ||
| The unions are suffering because of it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I like you, too. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Inflation has wiped out the life savings of our citizens and forced the middle class into a state of depression. | ||
| And despair. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| It's despair and depression. | ||
| We cannot and will not let this continue. | ||
| Less than four years ago, we were a great nation and we will soon be a great nation again. | ||
| We're going to be a great nation again. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| With proper leadership. | ||
| Every disaster we are now enduring will be fixed, and it will be fixed very, very quickly. | ||
| So tonight, whether you've supported me in the past or not, I hope you will support me in the future because I will bring back the American dream. | ||
| That's what we're going to do. | ||
| You don't even hear about the American dream anymore. | ||
| With great humility, I am asking you to be excited. | ||
| About the future of our country. | ||
| Be excited. | ||
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Be excited. | |
| And by the way, the news reports... | ||
| Oh, look at all of those big networks. | ||
| Look at them. | ||
| They're all here. | ||
| But every one of them has said this could be the most organized, best run, and most enthusiastic convention of either party that they have ever seen. | ||
| Every single one. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And it's true. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| And there's love in the room. | ||
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There's great love in the room. | |
| So I better finish strong. | ||
| Otherwise, we'll blow it. | ||
| And we can't let that happen. | ||
| Now, this was great. | ||
| All of the great people that spoke and everybody hit a home run. | ||
| I mean, there's not one that I can think of where I said, oh, gee, that wasn't great. | ||
| Every single person. | ||
| I refuse to be the only one. | ||
| Don't do that to me. | ||
| They're already getting ready. | ||
| See, I gave them an idea. | ||
| Now, we had a... | ||
| This was a great convention. | ||
| This was... | ||
| I think we're actually going to go home and miss it. | ||
| You know, usually with a... | ||
| First of all... | ||
| Look at these crowds. | ||
| You'd never have this at a convention. | ||
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Look at these guys. | |
| Love. | ||
| It's about love. | ||
| This week, the entire Republican Party has formally adopted an agenda for America's renewal. | ||
| And you saw that agenda. | ||
| And it's very short compared to the long, boring, meaningless agendas of the past, including the Democrats. | ||
| They write these things that are hundreds of pages long, and they never read them after they're done. | ||
| In their case, fortunately, they don't read them because they're pretty bad. | ||
| It's a series of bold promises that we will swiftly implement when you give us a Republican House. | ||
| And Mr. Speaker, thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| We have our great Speaker of the House with us tonight, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| A Republican Senate. | ||
| We have many senators here. | ||
| And send me back to our beautiful White House just a few short months from now. | ||
| We're talking about just months. | ||
| It can't come fast enough. | ||
| We have to get it done. | ||
| First, we must get economic relief. | ||
| To our citizens, starting on day one, we will drive down prices and make America affordable again. | ||
| We have to make it affordable. | ||
| It's not affordable. | ||
| People can't live like this. | ||
| Under this administration, our current administration, groceries are up 57 percent. | ||
| Gasoline is up 60 and 70 percent. | ||
| Mortgage rates have quadrupled. | ||
| And the fact is, it doesn't matter what they are because you can't get the money anyway. | ||
| Can't buy houses. | ||
| Young people can't get any financing to buy a house. | ||
| The total household costs have increased an average of $28,000 per family under this administration. | ||
| Republicans have a plan to bring down prices and bring them down very, very rapidly. | ||
| By slashing energy costs, we will, in turn, reduce the cost of transportation, manufacturing, and all household goods. | ||
| So much starts with energy. | ||
| And remember, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country by far. | ||
| We are a nation that has the opportunity to make an absolute fortune with its energy. | ||
| We have it, and China does it. | ||
| Under the Trump administration just three and a half years ago, we were energy independent. | ||
| But soon, we will actually be better than that. | ||
| We will be energy-dominant and supply not only ourselves, but we will supply the rest of the world with numbers that nobody has ever seen, and we will reduce our debt, $36 trillion. | ||
| We will start reducing that, and we will also reduce your taxes still further. | ||
| Next. | ||
| And by the way, they want to raise your taxes. | ||
| Four times. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| And all my life I grew up watching politicians. | ||
| I always loved politics, I guess. | ||
| I was on the other side. | ||
| And they were always talking about, we will give you a tax cut. | ||
| We will give you a tax cut. | ||
| My whole life I was watching, I will give you a tax cut. | ||
| Right, Mr. Congressman? | ||
| That's all they talked about. | ||
| This is the only administration that said, we're going to raise your taxes by four times what you're paying now. | ||
| And people are supposed to vote for them? | ||
| I've never heard it. | ||
| You're paying too much. | ||
| We're going to reduce your taxes. | ||
| Still further, we gave you the biggest one, as I said. | ||
| We're going to give you more, and it's going to lead to tremendous growth. | ||
| We want growth in our country. | ||
| That's what's going to pay off our debt. | ||
| And next, we will end the ridiculous and actually incredible waste of taxpayer dollars that is fueling the inflation crisis. | ||
| They spent trillions of dollars. | ||
| On things having to do with the Green New Scam. | ||
| It's a scam. | ||
| And that's caused tremendous inflationary pressures in addition to the cost of energy. | ||
| And all of the trillions of dollars that are sitting there not yet spent, we will redirect that money for important projects like roads, bridges, dams, and we will not allow it to be spent on meaningless Green New Scam ideas. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one, thereby saving the U.S. auto industry from complete obliteration, which is happening right now, and saving U.S. customers thousands and thousands of dollars per car. | ||
| And right now, as we speak, Large factories, just started, are being built across the border in Mexico. | ||
| So with all the other things happening on our border, and they're being built by China to make cars and to sell them into our country. | ||
| No tax, no anything. | ||
| The United Auto Workers ought to be ashamed for allowing this to happen. | ||
| And the leader of the United Auto Workers should be fired immediately. | ||
| And every single auto worker, union and non-union. | ||
| should be voting for donald trump because we're going to bring back car manufacturing and we're going to bring it back fast They're building some of the largest auto plants anywhere in the world. | ||
| Think of it, in the world. | ||
| We're going to bring it back. | ||
| We're going to make them. | ||
| We don't mind that happening, but those plans are going to be built in the United States, and our people are going to man those plans. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And if they don't agree with us, we'll put a tariff of approximately 100 to 200 percent on each car, and they will be unsellable in the United States. | ||
| We have long been taken advantage of by other countries. | ||
| And think of it, oftentimes these other countries are considered so-called allies. | ||
| They've taken advantage of us for years. | ||
| We lose jobs, we lose revenue, and they gain everything. | ||
| And wipe out our businesses, wipe out our people. | ||
| I stopped it for four years. | ||
| I stopped it. | ||
| And we're really ready to make changes like nobody had seen before. | ||
| And remember, USMCA, I got rid of NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever made, and replaced it with USMCA, which is, they say, the best trade deal ever made. | ||
| Actually, probably the best trade deal was the deal I made with China where they buy $50 billion worth of our product. | ||
| They were buying nothing. | ||
| They buy $50 billion worth. | ||
| They had to. | ||
| But I don't even talk about it because of COVID. | ||
| I don't even mention it, frankly, because of what happened with the China virus. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| We will not let countries come in. | ||
| Take our jobs and plunder our nation. | ||
| They come and do that. | ||
| They plunder our nation. | ||
| The way they will sell their product in America is to build it in America. | ||
| Very simple. | ||
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Build it in America and only in America. | |
| USA! | ||
| And this very simple formula, and Congress has to go along with us, and they will. | ||
| This very simple formula will create massive numbers of jobs. | ||
| We will take over the auto industry again, and many, many hundreds of thousands of jobs. | ||
| We lost so many jobs over the years. | ||
| If you go back 20, 25 years, they've stolen going to China and Mexico about 68 percent of our auto industry manufacturing jobs. | ||
| We're going to get them all back. | ||
| We're going to get them all back, every one of them. | ||
| At the center of our plan for economic relief are massive tax cuts for workers that include something else that turned out to be very popular, actually. | ||
| Here it's very popular in this building and all those hotels that I saw that are so nice. | ||
| I'm staying in a nice one. | ||
| It's called No Tax on Tips. | ||
| No Tax on Tips. | ||
| No tax on tips. | ||
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No tax on tips. | |
| I got that by having dinner recently in Nevada, where we're leading by about 14 points. | ||
| Hello. | ||
| I'll see you there very soon, everybody. | ||
| We're having dinner at a beautiful restaurant in the Trump building on the Strip, and it's a great building, and the waitress comes over. | ||
| How's everything going? | ||
| Really nice person. | ||
| How's everything going? | ||
| Oh, Sarah, it's so tough. | ||
| The government's after me all the time on tips, tips, tips. | ||
| I said, well, they give you cash. | ||
| Would they be able to find them? | ||
| She said, actually, I didn't know this. | ||
| She said, very little cash is given. | ||
| It's all put right on the check. | ||
| And they come in and they take so much of our money. | ||
| It's just ridiculous. | ||
| And they don't believe anything we say. | ||
| And they've just hired, as you know, 88,000 agents to go after them even more. | ||
| And I said, this shows the level of my, you know, most people who are out there hire consultants. | ||
| They pay millions of dollars. | ||
| But I said to her, let me just ask you a question. | ||
| Would you be happy if you had no tax on tips? | ||
| She said, what a great idea. | ||
| I got my information from a very smart waitress. | ||
| That's better than spending millions of dollars. | ||
| And everybody, everybody loves it. | ||
| Waitresses and caddies and drivers. | ||
| Everybody's a large, large group of people that are being really hurt badly. | ||
| They make money, let them keep their money. | ||
| I'm going to protect Social Security and Medicare. | ||
| Democrats are going to destroy Social Security and Medicare because all of these people, by the millions they're coming in, they're going to be on Social Security and Medicare and other things, and you're not. | ||
| We're not able to afford it. | ||
| They are destroying your Social Security and your Medicare. | ||
| Under my plan, incomes will skyrocket, inflation will vanish completely, jobs will come roaring back, and the middle class will prosper like never, ever before, and we're going to do it very rapidly. | ||
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| But no hope or dream we have for America can succeed unless we stop the illegal immigrant invasion, the worst that's ever been seen anywhere in the world. | ||
| There's never been an invasion like this anywhere. | ||
| Third-world countries would fight with sticks and stones not to let this happen. | ||
| The invasion at our southern border, we will stop it, and we will stop it quickly. | ||
| You heard Tom Holman yesterday. | ||
| Tom Holman, put him in charge and just sit back and watch. | ||
| Brandon Judd of Border Patrol. | ||
| He's incredible. | ||
| These guys, you know, really their job is a lot easier if they don't have to do anything, but they want to. | ||
| They're patriots. | ||
| Brandon Judd, Border Patrol, ICE. | ||
| ICE goes out. | ||
| You have to see what ICE does with MS-13. | ||
| These are probably the worst gang, and ICE goes in there. | ||
| And I know a lot of people in these rows here, and they're very tough people, but they don't want to do this job. | ||
| They'll go into a pack of MS-13 killers. | ||
| They're the worst, probably the worst gangs in the world. | ||
| We have thousands of them. | ||
| I moved thousands and thousands out in my four years. | ||
| We moved them out, and it was a pleasure. | ||
| But ICE would go right into a pack of these killers, and you see fists flying, you see everything flying, and then they take them. | ||
| They put them in a paddy wagon. | ||
| They take them back and they get them out of our country. | ||
| And the other countries weren't accepting them back. | ||
| And I called up and I said, tell them that we're not giving them economic aid anymore. | ||
| And the next day I got calls from all of these countries that were terminated. | ||
| Billions of dollars we spend on economic aid to countries that does us, frankly, no good. | ||
| And the next day I was called by everybody. | ||
| I couldn't take all the calls. | ||
| Sir, sir, what's the problem? | ||
| I said, you won't take your killers back that you sent. | ||
| In caravans into America. | ||
| You won't take them back. | ||
| Well, sir, if you'd like us to, we would give very serious consideration to doing that. | ||
| And within 24 hours, they were being taken back. | ||
| For years and years, when I first came in, they said President Obama tried to get him to go back, and they wouldn't accept him. | ||
| They'd put planes on the runway so you couldn't lead the plane. | ||
| They'd close the road so you couldn't take the buses. | ||
| It'd all have to turn back. | ||
| As soon as I said no more economic aid of any kind to any country that does that, they called back and they said, sir, it would be a great honor to take MS-13. | ||
| We love them very much. | ||
| We love them very much, sir. | ||
| We'll take them back. | ||
| At the heart of the Republican platform is our pledge to end this border nightmare and fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the United States of America, and we're going to do that on day one. | ||
| applause That means two things in day one, right? | ||
| Drill baby drill and close our borders. | ||
| And by the way, and I think everybody as a Republican, as a patriot in this room, and most Democrats, we want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally. | ||
| Legally. | ||
| Less than four years ago, I handed this administration the strongest border in American history. | ||
| But you can see on the chart that saved my life. | ||
| That was the chart that saved my life. | ||
| I said, look it, I'm so proud of it. | ||
| I think it's one of the greatest. | ||
| It was done by the Border Patrol. | ||
| One of the greatest charts I've ever seen. | ||
| It showed everything just like that. | ||
| You know the chart. | ||
| Oh, there it is. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
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| Last time I put up that chart, I never really got to look at it. | ||
| But without that chart, I would not be here today. | ||
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APPLAUSE Never got to look at it. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I said, you got to see this chart. | ||
| I was so proud of it. | ||
| And by the time I got to there, I never got to see it that day. | ||
| But I'm seeing it now, and I was very proud. | ||
| If you look at the arrow on the bottom, that's the lowest level, the one on the bottom, heavy red arrow. | ||
| That's the lowest level of illegal immigrants ever to come into our country in recorded history, right there. | ||
| And that was my last week in office. | ||
| And then you see what happened after I left. | ||
| Look at the rest. | ||
| And if you go out a little bit further, it's getting to be a little bit old. | ||
| But I love it anyway, right? | ||
| But you can go much higher with those numbers. | ||
| Look what happened right after that. | ||
| The invasion began. | ||
| We had the opposite. | ||
| We stopped the invasion. | ||
| But the invasion that we stopped was peanuts by comparison to what happened after I left. | ||
| Look at what happened after I left. | ||
| They took over our country. | ||
| We ended all catch and release. | ||
| We shut down asylum fraud. | ||
| We stopped human trafficking and forged historic agreements to keep illegal aliens on foreign soil. | ||
| We want them to stay on their soil. | ||
| Under the Trump administration, if you came in illegally, you were apprehended immediately and you were deported. | ||
| You went right back. | ||
| The current administration terminated every single one of those great Trump policies that I put in place. | ||
| To seal the border. | ||
| I wanted to seal the border. | ||
| Again, come in, but come in legally. | ||
| You know how unfair it is? | ||
| So many people, hundreds of thousands of people, have been working for years to come into our country. | ||
| And now they see these people pour into our country at levels that are unprecedented. | ||
| It's so unfair. | ||
| And we're not going to do it. | ||
| We're not going to stand for it. | ||
| They suspended. | ||
| Wall construction ended, remain in Mexico. | ||
| We had a policy, remain in Mexico. | ||
| You think that was easy to get from the Mexican government? | ||
| But I said, you must give it to us. | ||
| If you don't give it to us, there will be repercussions, and they gave it to us. | ||
| But not easy. | ||
| Canceled our safe third agreements. | ||
| Demolished Title 42. Implemented nationwide catch and release. | ||
| That's catch and release where we catch them and release them into our country. | ||
| We catch them and release them into Mexico. | ||
| There's a slight difference. | ||
| And took 93, this is the previous administration, 93 executive actions to throw open our border to the world. | ||
| The entire world is pouring into our country because of this very foolish administration. | ||
| The greatest invasion in history is taking place right here in our country. | ||
| They are coming in from every corner of the earth, not just from South America, but from Africa, Asia, the Middle East. | ||
| They're coming from everywhere. | ||
| They're coming at levels that we've never seen before. | ||
| It is an invasion indeed, and this administration does absolutely nothing to stop them. | ||
| They're coming from prisons. | ||
| They're coming from jails. | ||
| They're coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. | ||
| You know, the press is always on me because I say this. | ||
| Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs? | ||
| The late, great Hannibal Lecter. | ||
| He'd love to have you for dinner. | ||
| That's insane asylums. | ||
| They're emptying out their insane asylums. | ||
| And terrorists are coming in at numbers that we've never seen before. | ||
| Bad things are going to happen. | ||
| Meanwhile, our crime rate is going up while crime statistics all over the world are going down because they're taking their criminals and they're putting them into our country. | ||
| A certain country, and I happen to like the president of that country very much, but he's been getting great publicity because he's a wonderful... | ||
| Shepherd of the country. | ||
| He says how well the country's doing because their crime rate is down. | ||
| And he said he's training all of these rough people. | ||
| They're rough, rough, rough. | ||
| He's training them. | ||
| And I've been reading about this for two years. | ||
| I think, oh, that's wonderful. | ||
| Let's take a look at it. | ||
| But then I realized he's not training them. | ||
| He's sending all of his criminals, his drug dealers, his people that are in jails. | ||
| He's sending them all to the United States. | ||
| And he's different in that he doesn't say that. | ||
| He's trying to convince everybody what a wonderful job he does in running the country. | ||
| Well, he doesn't do a wonderful job. | ||
| And by the way, if I ran one of the countries, many countries, many, many countries from all over, I would be worse than any of them. | ||
| I would have had the place totally emptied out already. | ||
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| But we become a dumping ground for the rest of the world, which is laughing at us. | ||
| They think we're stupid. | ||
| And they can't believe that they're getting away with what they're getting away with, but they're not going to be getting away with it for long. | ||
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That's what I can tell you. | |
| In Venezuela, Caracas, high crime, high crime. | ||
| Caracas, Venezuela, really a dangerous place, but not anymore. | ||
| Because in Venezuela, crime is down 72%. | ||
| In fact, if they would ever win this election, I hate to even say that, we will have our next Republican convention in Venezuela because it will be safe. | ||
| Our cities will be so unsafe, we won't be able. | ||
| We will not be able to have it there. | ||
| In El Salvador, murders are down by 70%. | ||
| Why are they down? | ||
| Now, he would have you convinced that because he's trained murderers to be wonderful people. | ||
| No. | ||
| They're down because they're sending their murderers to the United States of America. | ||
| This is going to be very bad. | ||
| And bad things are going to happen, and you're seeing it happen all the time. | ||
| That's why, to keep our families safe, the Republican platform promises. | ||
| To launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country. | ||
| Even larger than that of President Dwight D. Eisenhower from many years ago. | ||
| You know, he was a moderate, but he believed very strongly in borders. | ||
| He had the largest deportation operation we've ever had. | ||
| Just recently I spoke to the grieving mother of Jocelyn Nungary, a wonderful woman. | ||
| A precious 12-year-old girl from Houston who last month was tied up, assaulted, and strangled to death after walking to the convenience store just a block away from her house. | ||
| Her body was dumped near the side of the road in a shallow creek found by some onlookers who couldn't believe what they had witnessed. | ||
| Charged with Jocelyn's heinous murder, two illegal aliens from Venezuela. | ||
| Who came across our border, were in custody, and were then released into the country by this horrible, horrible administration that we have right now. | ||
| I also met recently with the heartbroken mother and sister of Rachel Moran. | ||
| Rachel was a 37-year-old mom of five beautiful children who was brutally raped and murdered while out on a run. | ||
| She wanted to keep herself in good shape. | ||
| It was very important to her. | ||
| She was murdered. | ||
| The monster responsible first killed another woman in El Salvador before he was led into America by the White House. | ||
| This White House let them in. | ||
| He then attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in Los Angeles before murdering Rachel in Maryland. | ||
| Traveled all throughout the country doing tremendous damage. | ||
| Rachel's mother will never be the same. | ||
| I spent time with her. | ||
| She will never be the same. | ||
| I've also met with the... | ||
| Wonderful family of Lake and Riley, the brilliant 22-year-old nursing student. | ||
| She was so proud of being first in her class, who was out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia when she was assaulted, beaten, and horrifically killed. | ||
| Yet another American life was stolen by a criminal alien set free by this administration. | ||
| These were incredible people we're talking about. | ||
| These were incredible people. | ||
| Who died? | ||
| Tonight, America, this is my vow. | ||
| I will not let these killers and criminals into our country. | ||
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| I will keep our sons and daughters safe. | ||
| As we bring security to our streets, we will help bring stability to the world. | ||
| I was the first president in modern times to start no new wars. | ||
| You know, we were the toughest, we were the most respected. | ||
| And you saw this. | ||
| Hungry, strong country, run by a very powerful, tough leader, tough guy. | ||
| The press doesn't like him because he's tough. | ||
| And he came out recently. | ||
| They were asking him at an interview. | ||
| The whole world is exploding. | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, very tough man. | ||
| He said, I don't want people coming into my country and blowing up our shopping centers and killing people. | ||
| But they said to him, tell us what's going wrong, what's happening, what is it? | ||
| He said, there's only one way you're going to solve it. | ||
| You've got to bring President Trump back to the United States because he kept everybody at bay. | ||
| He used a word I wouldn't use because I can't use that word. | ||
| Because you'd say it was braggadocious, the press would say. | ||
| He was a braggart. | ||
| I'm not a braggart. | ||
| But Viktor Orban said it. | ||
| He said Russia was afraid of him. | ||
| China was afraid of him. | ||
| Everybody was afraid of him. | ||
| Nothing was going to happen. | ||
| The whole world was at peace. | ||
| And now the world is blowing up around us. | ||
| All of these things that you read about were not going to happen. | ||
| Under President Bush Russia invaded Georgia. | ||
| Under President Obama Russia took Crimea. | ||
| Under the current administration Russia is after all of Ukraine. | ||
| Under President Trump, Russia took nothing. | ||
| We defeated 100% of ISIS in Syria and Iraq. | ||
| Something that was said to take five years, sir. | ||
| It'll take five years, sir. | ||
| We did it in a matter of a couple of months. | ||
| We have a great military. | ||
| Our military is not woke. | ||
| It's just some of the fools on top that are woke. | ||
| I got along very well. | ||
| North Korea, Kim Jong-un, I got along very well with him. | ||
| The press hated when I said that. | ||
| How could you get along with him? | ||
| Well, you know, it's nice to get along with somebody who has a lot of nuclear weapons or otherwise, isn't it? | ||
| See, in the old days, they'd say, that's a wonderful thing. | ||
| Now they say, how could you possibly do that? | ||
| But now I got along with him, and we stopped the missile launches from North Korea. | ||
| Now North Korea is acting up again, but... | ||
| When we get back, I get along with him. | ||
| He'd like to see me back, too. | ||
| I think he misses me, if you want to know the truth. | ||
| Our opponents inherited a world at peace and turned it into a planet of war. | ||
| We're in a planet of war. | ||
| Look at that attack on Israel. | ||
| Look at what's happening with Ukraine. | ||
| The cities are just bombed out. | ||
| How can people live like that where massive buildings are falling to the ground? | ||
| It began to unravel with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the worst humiliation in the history of our country. | ||
| We have never had a humiliation like that. | ||
| Thirteen heroic U.S. service members were tragically and needlessly killed. | ||
| Forty-five others were horrifically wounded. | ||
| Nobody ever talks about them. | ||
| No arms, no legs. | ||
| Face explosions. | ||
| Horrifically, horrifically wounded. | ||
| And by the way, we have a man in this room who's running for the U.S. Senate from a great state, Nevada, named Sam Brown, who paid the ultimate price. | ||
| Thank you, Sam. | ||
| Thank you, Sam. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| He paid the biggest price probably ever paid by anybody that is running for office, and I think he's going to do great. | ||
| He's running against a person that is not good, not respected, a total lightweight. | ||
| But Sam, I think, paid, really. | ||
| We were talking about it with some of the senators that are working so hard for Sam. | ||
| But he paid the biggest price. | ||
| Of any senator ever to run for the Senate. | ||
| I don't think anybody's ever what he did. | ||
| He was a real hero, a really great person. | ||
| And he's running, and I hope that everybody gets out and votes for Sam Brown. | ||
| And we also left behind $85 billion worth of military equipment, along with many American citizens were left behind. | ||
| Many, many American citizens, emboldened by that disaster, Russia invaded Ukraine. | ||
| They saw this group of people that were incompetent. | ||
| We took the soldiers out first. | ||
| No, no, we're going to take the soldiers out second. | ||
| If they would have followed my plan, we had a great plan. | ||
| But the plan only kicked in if they did everything perfectly. | ||
| And they weren't doing things perfectly, so we said it doesn't kick in. | ||
| You know, 18 months in Afghanistan, we didn't have one. | ||
| They were killing them left and right, snipers. | ||
| And I spoke to the head of the Taliban. | ||
| You've heard this story. | ||
| Abdul, still there, still the head of the Taliban. | ||
| The press got on me. | ||
| Why would you speak to him? | ||
| I said, because that's where the killing is. | ||
| I don't have to speak to somebody that has nothing to do with it. | ||
| And I told him, don't ever do that. | ||
| Don't ever do that again. | ||
| Don't ever, ever do that again. | ||
| You've got to stop. | ||
| Because during the Obama administration, many... | ||
| Great people and soldiers. | ||
| A lot of soldiers were being killed from long distance. | ||
| I said, if you keep doing that, you're going to be hit harder than anybody's ever been hit by a country before. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And he said, I understand your excellency. | ||
| He called me your excellency. | ||
| I wonder if he calls the other guy your excellency. | ||
| I doubt it. | ||
| The other guy gave him everything. | ||
| I mean, what kind of a deal was that? | ||
| He walked out, gave him everything. | ||
| Do you know that right now Afghanistan is one of the largest sellers of weapons in the world? | ||
| They're selling the brand new beautiful weapons that we gave them. | ||
| But think of it. | ||
| He actually said to me, but why, but why do you show me a picture of my home? | ||
| I said, you'll have to ask your people or one of your wives. | ||
| But he could figure it out. | ||
| And for 18 months, we had not one attack on an American soldier by the Taliban. | ||
| And then we had that horrible day where soldiers were killed. | ||
| I was not there because of a ridiculous election. | ||
| But we had that horrible attack. | ||
| And they also gave up Bagram, one of the biggest bases anywhere in the world, air bases, anywhere in the world, the longest runways, most powerful, hardened, thickened runways. | ||
| We gave it up. | ||
| And I liked it not because of Afghanistan. | ||
| I liked it because of China. | ||
| It's one hour away from where China makes their nuclear weapons. | ||
| And you know who has it now? | ||
| China has it now. | ||
| We were keeping that. | ||
| And now China is likewise circling Taiwan and Russian warships and nuclear submarines are operating 60 miles off the coast in Cuba. | ||
| Do you know that? | ||
| The press refuses to write about it. | ||
| If that were me running this country and we had nuclear submarines in Cuba, I will tell you that headlines every day would be, what's wrong with our president? | ||
| You don't even hear this. | ||
| You're not hearing about this. | ||
| Russia has nuclear submarines and warships. | ||
| Sixty miles away, Mr. Congressman, from Miami, by the way, happens to be here. | ||
| Correct? | ||
| In Cuba. | ||
| And that would not be stood for if it were somebody else. | ||
| They don't want to mention it, but now maybe they will. | ||
| And the entire world, I tell you this, we want our hostages back, and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price. | ||
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without A victory in November. | |
| The years of war, weakness, and chaos will be over. | ||
| I don't have wars. | ||
| I had no wars other than ISIS, which I defeated, but that was a war that was started. | ||
| We had no wars. | ||
| I could stop wars with a telephone call. | ||
| I could stop wars with just a telephone call. | ||
| If properly stated, it would never start. | ||
| We will replenish our military and build an Iron Dome missile defense system to ensure that no enemy can strike our homeland. | ||
| And this great Iron Dome will be built entirely in the USA. | ||
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We're going to build it in the USA. | |
| And Wisconsin. | ||
| Wisconsin, just like I gave you that massive ship contract, and you're doing a very nice job, Governor Wright. | ||
| Thank you, Governor. | ||
| And they're doing a great job. | ||
| In fact, I had a little design change. | ||
| We gave them a tremendous for essentially what we used to call destroyers. | ||
| These are now the most beautiful. | ||
| They look like yachts. | ||
| They said, we have to take the bow and we have to make it a little nicer and a little point at the top instead of a flat nose. | ||
| And the people at the shipyard said, this guy sort of knows what he's doing. | ||
| We have the most beautiful ships, right, Governor? | ||
| Everybody's sitting over there. | ||
| And it was a big contract that everybody wanted. | ||
| I gave it to Wisconsin. | ||
| But we're going to have a lot of that built right here in the state of Wisconsin and all other states. | ||
| Israel has an Iron Dome. | ||
| They have a missile defense system. | ||
| 342 missiles were shot into Israel. | ||
| And only one got through a little bit. | ||
| It was badly wounded. | ||
| It fell to the ground. | ||
| But most of them are... | ||
| And Ronald Reagan wanted this many years ago, but we really didn't have the technology many years ago. | ||
| Remember, they called it starship, spaceship, anything to mock him. | ||
| But he was a very good president, very, very good. | ||
| But now we have unbelievable technology. | ||
| And why should other countries have this and we don't? | ||
| No, no, we're going to build an iron dome over our country and we're going to. | ||
| Be sure that nothing can come and harm our people. | ||
| And again, from an economic development standpoint, we're going to make it all right here. | ||
| No more sending it out to other countries in order to help. | ||
| It's America first. | ||
| America first. | ||
| We will unleash the power of American innovation. | ||
| And as we do, we will soon be on the verge of finding the cures to cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and many other diseases. | ||
| We're going to get to the bottom of it. | ||
| You remember this gentleman that I don't want to mention other than one time I had to, because when you say you're the 10 worst, I had to do it. | ||
| I didn't want anybody to be confused. | ||
| But this man said, we're going to find a cure to cancer. | ||
| Nothing happened. | ||
| We're going to get to the cure for cancer and Alzheimer's and so many other things. | ||
| We're so close to doing something great. | ||
| But we need a leader that will let it be done. | ||
| We will not have men playing in women's sports. | ||
| That will end the media. | ||
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| And we will restore and renovate our nation's once great cities, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again. | ||
| And that includes our nation's capital, which is a... | ||
| Horrible killing field. | ||
| So many things. | ||
| They leave from Wisconsin. | ||
| They go to look at the Washington Monument. | ||
| They end up getting stabbed, killed, or shot. | ||
| We will be very soon very proud of our capital. | ||
| Again, Washington, D.C. America is on the cusp of a new golden age, but we will... | ||
| Have the courage to seize it. | ||
| We're going to take it. | ||
| We're going to make it a current. | ||
| I mean, we're going to bring this into a golden age like never seen before. | ||
| Remember this. | ||
| China wants to do it. | ||
| Japan wants to do it. | ||
| All of these countries want to do it. | ||
| We have to produce massive amounts of energy if we're going to produce the new... | ||
| If you look at some of the things that have been done and some of the things that we're going to do, but AI. | ||
| Needs tremendous, literally twice the electricity that's available now in our country. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| But instead, we're spending places where they recharge electric cars. | ||
| They built eight chargers at a certain location toward the Midwest. | ||
| Eight chargers for $9 billion. | ||
| Think of them as a tank for filling up your gas. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| They spent $9 billion on eight charges, three of which didn't work. | ||
| And if you were going to do this all over our country, this crazy electric mandate, if you're going to do this all... | ||
| And by the way, I'm all for electric. | ||
| They have their application. | ||
| But if somebody wants to buy a gas-powered car, gasoline-powered car, or a hybrid, they're going to be able to do it. | ||
| And we're going to make that change on day one. | ||
| So, to conclude, just a few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended. | ||
| We know that. | ||
| And yet, here we are tonight, all gathered together, talking about the future, promise. | ||
| A total renewal of a thing we love very much. | ||
| It's called America. | ||
| We live in a world of miracles. | ||
| None of us knows God's plan or where life's adventure will take us. | ||
| I want to thank Franklin Graham for being here tonight. | ||
| He's an outstanding man. | ||
| He wrote me a note recently. | ||
| I have a lot of respect for him. | ||
| Sir, I love your storytelling. | ||
| I think it's great in front of these big rallies. | ||
| But sir, please do me one favor. | ||
| It won't make any difference. | ||
| Please, don't use any foul language. | ||
| I was a little embarrassed. | ||
| He said, it won't make any difference. | ||
| Actually, the story's not quite as good, but I've been very good. | ||
| The story is not quite as good, to be honest. | ||
| I've got to have a little talk with Franklin. | ||
| But he was great. | ||
| He's a great gentleman. | ||
| His father was so incredible. | ||
| Billy Graham. | ||
| My father used to love taking me to see Billy Graham. | ||
| My father would take me to see Billy Graham at Yankee Stadium. | ||
| He had the biggest rallies you've ever seen. | ||
| He was a good rally guy, too. | ||
| But he'd get up, and he was a fantastic guy. | ||
| My father loved Billy Graham. | ||
| But I love Franklin Graham. | ||
| I think Franklin's been fantastic. | ||
| And I'm trying. | ||
| I'm working so hard to adhere to his note to me. | ||
| I'm working hard on it, Franklin. | ||
| But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on earth is a gift from God. | ||
| We have to make the most of every day for the people and for the country that we love. | ||
| The attacker in Pennsylvania wanted to stop our movement, but the truth is the movement has never been about me. | ||
| It has always been about you. | ||
| It's your movement. | ||
| It's the biggest movement in the history of our country by far. | ||
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It can't be stopped. | |
| It can't be stopped. | ||
| It has always been about the hardworking, patriotic citizens of America. | ||
| For too long, our nation has settled for too little. | ||
| We've settled for too little. | ||
| We've given everything to other nations, to other people. | ||
| You've been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. | ||
| I am here tonight with the opposite message. | ||
| Your expectations are not big enough. | ||
| They're not big enough. | ||
| It is time to start expecting and demanding the best leadership in the world, leadership that is bold, dynamic, relentless, and fearless. | ||
| We can do that. | ||
| We are Americans. | ||
| Ambition is our heritage. | ||
| Greatness is our birthright. | ||
| But as long as our energies are spent fighting each other, our destiny will remain out of reach. | ||
| And that's not acceptable. | ||
| We must instead take that energy and use it to realize our country's true potential and write our own thrilling chapter of the American story. | ||
| We can do it together. | ||
| We will unite. | ||
| We are going to come together. | ||
| and success will bring us together. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It is a story of love, sacrifice, and so many other things. | ||
| And remember the word, devotion. | ||
| It's unmatched devotion. | ||
| Our American ancestors crossed the Delaware, survived the icy winter at Valley Forge, and defeated a mighty empire to establish our cherished republic. | ||
| They fought so hard, they lost so many. | ||
| They pushed thousands and thousands of miles across a dangerous frontier, taming the wilderness to build a life and a magnificent home for their family. | ||
| They packed their families into covered wagons, trekked across hazardous trails, scaled towering mountains, and braved rivers and rapids to stake their claim on the wide open, new, and very beautiful frontier When our way of life was threatened, American patriots marched onto the battlefield. | ||
| Raced into enemy strongholds and stared down death and stared down those enemies to keep alive the flame of freedom. | ||
| At Yorktown, Gettysburg, and Midway, they joined the roll call of immortal heroes. | ||
| So many horror. | ||
| Just so many heroes. | ||
| So many great, great people. | ||
| And we have to cherish those people. | ||
| We can't forget those people. | ||
| We have to cherish those people. | ||
| And building monuments to those great people is a good thing, not a bad thing. | ||
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They saved our country. | |
| No challenge was too much. | ||
| No hardship was too great. | ||
| No enemy was too fierce. | ||
| Together, these patriots soldiered on and endured, and they prevailed. | ||
| Because they had faith in each other, faith in their country, and above all, they had faith in their God. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Just like our ancestors, we must now come together, rise above past differences. | ||
| Any disagreements have to be put aside and go forward, united as one people, one nation, pledging allegiance to one great... | ||
| Beautiful, I think it's so beautiful, American flag. | ||
| Tonight I ask for your partnership, for your support, and I am humbly asking for your vote. | ||
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I want your vote. | |
| It's going to make our country great again. | ||
| Every day I will strive to honor the trust you have placed in me. | ||
| And I will never, ever let you down. | ||
| I promise that. | ||
| I will never let you down. | ||
| To all of the forgotten men and women who have been neglected, abandoned, and left behind, you will be forgotten no longer. | ||
| We will press forward and together we will win, win, win. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Win, win, win, win, win, win! | ||
| Nothing will sway us, nothing will slow us, and no one will ever stop us. | ||
| No matter what dangers come our way, no matter what obstacles lie in our path, we will keep striving toward our shared and glorious destiny. | ||
| And we will not fail. | ||
| We will not fail. | ||
| Together, we will save this country. | ||
| We will restore the republic. | ||
| And we will usher in the rich and wonderful tomorrows that our people so truly deserve. | ||
| America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, freer, greater. | ||
| and more united than ever before. | ||
| And quite simply put, we will very quickly make America great again. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much, Wisconsin. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| God bless you, Wisconsin, and God bless the United States of America, our great country. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Reach out to me for satisfaction. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Call my name for quick action. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm coming. | ||
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Hold on, I'm coming, yeah. | |
| Hold on, I'm coming, hold on, I'm coming, yeah. | ||
| Hold on, I'm coming, yeah. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| is oh oh oh oh oh a baby's dying tree. | ||
| America! | ||
| Oh, well, well, I feel so good, yeah. | ||
| I just touched down on a mini-national runway. | ||
| Took a check back home overseas to the USA. | ||
| New York, LA, how I've done for you. | ||
| Detroit, Chicago, China, do the bad news. | ||
| Let alone just to be at my home back in Memphis too. | ||
| I'm going to be a little bit of a new movie. | ||
| I'm so glad I'm living in the USA. | ||
| I'm so glad you'll be living in the USA. | ||
| Anything you want, you got it right in the USA. | ||
| I'm so glad, I'm so glad. | ||
| I'm so glad. | ||
| I'm so glad. | ||
| Anything you want, you got it in the USA. | ||
| I'm so glad. | ||
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| Now ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Watley of North Carolina. | ||
| I need everybody to move up and out. | ||
| And now to deliver this evening's benediction, please welcome Dr. Mario Dickens from Milwaukee. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| I want to thank God for being here and granting me this opportunity to address the Republican National Convention 2024. | ||
| I'm staying on script, but I gotta say one thing. | ||
| Just four hours ago, my granddaughter was born. | ||
| Ayanna Lea Dickens. | ||
| Yes, my granddaughter is here. | ||
| I just wanted to welcome her into the world on this stage. | ||
| One Nation Reflecting on the significance of this phrase is crucial in the days to come. | ||
| The path we have traveled has not been easy, but it must be navigated with dignity and perseverance. | ||
| The Holy Scriptures state that the peace of God surpasses all understanding. | ||
| I pray for peace in this nation. | ||
| Peace on the campaign trail, peace on our streets, and peace in our homes. | ||
| We extend prayers for Cory Comprator, who tragically lost his life in Saturday's assassination attempt. | ||
| For the innocent bystanders injured and for their grieving families, may the presence of God be with them. | ||
| It is God who established Governments, as explained in Romans 13, verse 1. And for that, we are grateful. | ||
| My wife, Cherie, I love you. | ||
| My parents and my children know that God is the ultimate answer. | ||
| As you leave this Republican National Convention, do so with the confidence that he will guide your path and keep you in his grace. | ||
| My hope is that we all find joy in the days to come and embrace leadership in the up-and-coming elections that will guide the next four years with wisdom and peace. | ||
| So please stand with me as I end this prayer. | ||
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible. | ||
| With liberty and justice for all. | ||
| In Jesus' name, we pray. | ||
| God, we give you the honor, the praise, and the glory. | ||
| Hallelujah! | ||
| President Trump, Senator Vance, may God lead you and guide you. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The chair, Rao, recognizes the delegate from the state of Wisconsin for the purpose of making a motion. | ||
| Chairman Mike Watley, thank you so much for bringing this convention to the greatest state in America, Wisconsin, a great city of Milwaukee. | ||
| It's been a great commission. | ||
| I, Tommy Thompson, governor, former governor of Wisconsin. | ||
| Along with my good friend, Governor Scott Walker, and Chairman, our Chairman Wadison, Chairman Brian Chimney, the whole Republican delegation at this particular time wants to adjourn, sign a die, the 2024 convention. | ||
| Thank you, all of you, for coming. | ||
| safely home. | ||
| The question now occurs on the motion to adjourn the greatest Republican convention in history. | ||
| Signing aye. | ||
| All those in favor signify by saying aye. | ||
| All those opposed signify by saying no. | ||
| In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. | ||
| Accordingly, the 2024 Republican National Convention stands adjourned. |
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