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		Hello everyone, welcome so much for being here.
		I'd like to introduce everyone to Robert, or bring on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
robert f kennedy-jr ▲ ● ▼		I'm sorry to keep everybody waiting.
		Sixteen months ago, in April of 2023, I launched my campaign for President of the United States.
		I began this journey as a Democrat, the part of my father, my uncle.
		The party which I pledged my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote.
		I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960.
		And back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution of civil rights.
		The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship.
		Against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars.
		We were the party of labor, of the working class.
		The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment.
		Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power.
		True to its name, it was the party of democracy.
		As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with.
		It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money.
		I wanted to abandon democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the call.
		After the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an independent.
		The mainstream of American politics and journalism derided my decision.
		Conventional wisdom said that it would be impossible even to get on the ballot as an independent because each state poses an insurmountable tangle of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures.
		I would need over a million signatures, something no presidential candidate in history had ever achieved.
		And then I'd need a team of attorneys and millions of dollars to handle all the legal challenges from the DNC.
		The naysayers told us that we were climbing a glass version of Mount Impossible.
		So the first thing I want to tell you is that we proved them wrong.
		We did it because beneath the radar of mainstream media organs, we inspired a massive independent political movement.
		More than 100,000 volunteers sprang action, hopeful that they could reverse our nation's decline.
		Many worked 10-hour days, sometimes in blizzards and blazing heat.
		They sacrificed family time.
		Personal commitments and sleep month after month energized by a shared vision of a nation healed of its divisions.
		They set up tables at churches and farmers markets.
		They canvassed door to door.
		In Utah and in New Hampshire, volunteers collected signatures in snowstorms, convincing each supporter to stop in the frigid cold, take off their gloves, and to sign legibly.
		During a heat wave in Nevada, I met a tall athletic volunteer who cheerfully told me that he had lost 25 pounds collecting signatures in 117-degree heat.
		To finance this effort, young Americans donated their lunch money, and senior citizens gave up part of their Social Security checks.
		Our 50-state organization collected those millions of signatures and more.
		No presidential campaign in American political history has ever done that.
		And so I want to thank all of those dedicated volunteers and congratulate the campaign staff who coordinated this enormous logistical feat.
		Your accomplishments were regarded as impossible.
		You carried me up that glass mountain.
		You pulled off a miracle.
		You achieved what all the pundits said could never be done.
		You have my deepest gratitude, and I'm never going to forget that.
		Not just for what you did for my campaign, but for the sacrifices you made because you love our country.
		You showed everyone that democracy is still possible here.
		It continues to survive in the press and in the idealistic human energies that still thrive beneath a canvas of neglect and of official and institutional corruption.
		Today, I'm here to tell you that I will not allow your efforts to go to waste.
		I'm here to tell you that I will leverage your tremendous accomplishments to serve the ideals that we share, the ideals of peace, Of prosperity, of freedom, of health, all the ideals that motivated my campaign.
		I'm here today to describe the path forward that you've opened with your commitment and with your hard labors.
		Now, in an honest system, I believe that I would have won the election.
		In a system that my father and my uncles thrived in, A system with open debates, with fair primaries, with regularly scheduled debates, with fair primaries, and with a truly independent media untainted by government propaganda and censorship.
		In a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards, everything would be different.
		After all, the polls consistently showed me beating each of the other candidates.
		Both in favorability and also in head-to-head matchups.
		But I'm sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media, and for our government, and most sadly at all for me, the Democratic Party.
		In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it.
		Lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.
		Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court.
		State after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.
		It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.
		It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden.
		Then, when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.
		They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.
		My uncle and my father both relished debate.
		They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe to toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.
		They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days.
		This is profoundly undemocratic.
	Whom they are choosing?
	And how can this look to the rest of the world?
	My father and my uncle were always conscious of America's image abroad because of our nation's role as the template for democracy, the role model for democratic processes, and the leader of the free world.
	Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs.
	He engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing.
	No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.
	There, in Chicago, a string of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day.
	Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate?
	In contrast, at the RNC convention, President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.
	I do interviews every day.
	Many of you have interviewed me.
	Anybody who asks gets to interview me.
	Some days I do as many as 10. President Trump, who actually was nominated and won an election, also does interviews daily.
	How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle?
	We know the answers.
	They did it by weaponizing the government agencies.
	They did it by abandoning democracy.
	They did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising American voters.
	What alarms me isn't how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates.
	What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control and the weaponization of the federal agencies.
	When a U.S. president colludes with or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it's an attack on our most sacred right of free expression, and that's the very right.
	Upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest.
	President Biden mocked Vladimir Putin's 88% landslide in the Russian elections, observing that Putin and his party controlled the Russian press, and that Putin prevented serious opponents from appearing on the ballot.
	But here in America, the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot.
	And our television networks expose themselves as Democratic Party organs.
	Over the course of more than a year, in a campaign where my poll numbers reached at times in the high 20s, the DNC-aligned mainstream media networks maintain a near-perfect embargo on interviews with me.
	During his 10-month presidential campaign in 1992, Ross Perot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks.
	In contrast, during the 16 months since I declared, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave only two live interviews from me.
	Those networks instead ran a continuous deluge of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vile...
	Perjuratives and defamatory smears.
	Some of those same networks and colluded with the DNC to keep me off the debate stage.
	Representatives of those networks are in this room right now and I'll just take a moment to ask you to consider the many ways that your institutions have abdicated this really sacred responsibility, the duty of a free press.
	To safeguard democracy and to challenge always the party in power.
	Instead of maintaining that posture of fear, skepticism toward authority, your institutions have made themselves government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power.
	You didn't alone cause the devolution of American democracy, but you could have prevented it.
	The Democratic Party's censorship of social media was even more of a naked exercise of executive power.
	This week, a federal judge, Terry Doty, upheld my injunction against President Biden, calling the White House's censorship project, quote, the most egregious violation of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America.
	Odie's previous 155-page decision details how just 37 hours after he took the oath of office, swearing to uphold the Constitution, President Biden and his White House opened up a portal and then invited the CIA, the FBI, CISA, which is a censorship agency.
	It's the center of the censorship industrial complex.
	DHS.
	The IRS and other agencies to censor me and other political dissidents on social media.
	Even today, users who try to post my campaign videos to Facebook or YouTube get messages that this content violates community standards.
	Two days after Judge Doty rendered his decision this week, Facebook was still attaching warning labels to an online petition.
	Calling on ABC to include me in the upcoming debate.
	They said that violates their community standards.
	The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles and has joined this systemic attack on democracy.
	It also, the media justifies their censorship on the grounds of combating misinformation.
	But governments and oppressors don't censor lies.
	They don't fear lies.
	They fear the truth, and that's what they censor.
	And I don't want any of this to sound like a personal complaint, because it's not.
	For me, it's all part of a journey, and it's a journey that I signed up with.
	But I need to make these observations because I think they're critical for us doing the thing that we need to do as citizens in a democracy to assess where we are in this country and what our democracy still looks like and the assumptions about U.S. leadership around the globe.
	And are we living up?
	Are we really still a role model for democracy in this country?
	Have we made it, you know, a kind of a joke?
	Here's the good news.
	While mainstream outlets denied me a critical platform, they didn't shut down my ideas, which have especially flourished among young voters and independent voters, thanks to the alternative media.
	Many months ago, I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler.
	A spoiler is someone.
	It will alter the outcome of the election but has no chance of winning.
	In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to electoral victory in the face of this relentless systematic censorship and media control.
	So I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers to keep working their long hours or ask my donors to keep giving when I cannot honestly tell them that I have a real path to the White House.
	Furthermore, our polling consistently showed that by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats with whom I disagree on the most existential issues: censorship, war, and chronic disease.
	I want everyone to know that I am not terminating my campaign.
	I am simply suspending it.
	And not ending it, my name will remain on the ballot in most states.
	If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or Vice President Harris.
	In red states, the same will apply.
	I encourage you to vote for me.
	And if enough of you do vote for me, and neither of the major party candidates win 270 votes, which is quite possible.
	In fact, today our polling shows them tying at 269 to 269.
	And I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election.
	But in about 10 battleground states, where my presence would be as a spoiler.
	I'm going to remove my name.
	And I've already started that process and urged voters not to vote for me.
	It's with a sense of victory and not defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities.
	Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures, we changed the national political conversation forever.
	Chronic disease, free speech, government corruption, breaking our addiction to war.
	I've moved to the center of politics.
	I can say to all who have worked so hard the last year and a half, thank you for a job well done.
	Three great causes drove me to antithesis race in the first place primarily.
	And these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent.
	And now to throw my support.
	To President Trump, the causes were free speech, a war in Ukraine, and the war on our children.
	I've already described some of my personal experiences and struggles with the government's censorship industrial complex.
	I want to say a word about the Ukraine war.
	The military industrial complex has provided us with a familiar Comic book justification, like they do on every war, that this one is a noble effort to stop a supervillain, Vladimir Putin, invading the Ukraine and then to thwart his Hitler-like march across Europe.
	In fact, tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle initiated by the ambitions of the U.S. neocons for American global hegemony.
	I'm not excusing Putin for invading Ukraine.
	He had other options.
	But the war is Russia's predictable response to the reckless neocon project of extending NATO to encircle Russia, a hostile act.
	The credulous media rarely explain to Americans that we unilaterally walked away from two intermediate nuclear weapons treaties with Russia.
	And then put nuclear-ready Aegis missile systems in Romania and Poland.
	This is a hostile, hostile act.
	And that the Biden White House repeatedly spurned Russia's offer to settle this war peacefully.
	The Ukraine war began in 2014 when U.S. agencies overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine.
	And installed a hand-picked pro-Western government that launched a deadly civil war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
	In 2019, America walked away from a peace treaty, the Minsk Agreement, that had been negotiated between Russia and Ukraine by European nations.
	And then in April of 2022, we wanted the war.
	In April of 2022...
	President Biden sent Boris Johnson to Ukraine to force President Zelensky to tear up a peace agreement that he and the Russians had already signed and the Russians were withdrawing troops from Kiev and Donbass and Lugansk.
	And that peace agreement would have brought peace to the region and would have allowed Donbass and Lugansk to remain part of Ukraine.
	President Biden stated that month that his objective in the war was regime change in Russia.
	His Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin simultaneously explained that America's purpose in the war was to exhaust the Russian army to degrade its capacity to fight anywhere else in the world.
	These objectives, of course, have nothing to do with what they were telling Americans about protecting Ukraine's sovereignty.
	Ukraine is a victim in this war, and it's a victim of the West.
	Since then, we have since tearing up that agreement, forcing Zelensky to tear up the agreement, we've squandered the flower of Ukrainian youth, as many as 600,000 Ukrainian kids, and over 100,000 Russian kids, none of whom, all of whom we should be mourning.
	I've died, and the Ukraine's infrastructure is destroyed.
	The war has been a disaster for our country as well.
	We squandered nearly $200 billion already, and these are badly needed dollars in our communities, suffering communities all over our country.
	The Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and the sanctions have destroyed Europe's industrial base, which formed the bold U.S. national security.
	A strong Germany with a strong industry is a much, much stronger deterrent to Russia and a Germany that is de-industrialized and turned into just an extension of U.S. military base.
	We've pushed Russia into a disastrous alliance with China and Iran.
	We're closer to the brink of nuclear exchange than at any time since 1962.
	And the neocons in the White House don't seem to care at all.
	Our moral authority and our economy are in shambles, and the war gave rise to the emergence of BRICS, which now threatens to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.
	This is a first-class calamity for our country.
	Judging by her bellicose belligerent speech last night in Chicago, we can assume that President Harris...
	We'll be an enthusiastic advocate for this and other neocon military adventures.
	And President Trump says that he will reopen negotiations with President Putin and end the war overnight as soon as he becomes president.
	This alone would justify my support for his campaign.
	Last summer, it looked like no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick end to the Ukraine war.
	To tackle chronic disease epidemic, to protect free speech, our constitutional freedoms, to clean corporate influence out of our government, or to defy the neocons and their agenda of endless military adventurism.
	But now one of the two candidates has adopted these issues as his own, to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration.
	I'm speaking, of course, of Donald Trump.
	Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination, Gali Means called me on my cell phone.
	I was then in Las Vegas.
	Gali is arguably the leading advocate for food safety, for soil regeneration, and for ending the chronic disease epidemic that is destroying America's health and ruining our economy.
	Cali has exposed the insidious corruption at the FDA, the NIH, the HHS, and the USDA that has caused the epidemic.
	Cali had been working on and off for my campaign, advising me on those subjects since the beginning.
	And those subjects have been my primary focus for the last 20 years.
	I was delighted when Cali told me that day that he had also been advising President Trump.
	He told me President Trump was anxious to talk to me about chronic disease and other subjects and to explore avenues of cooperation.
	He asked if I would take a call from the President.
	President Trump telephoned me a few minutes later, and I met with him the following day.
	A few weeks later, I met again with President Trump and his family members and close advisors in Florida.
	In a series of long, intense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues.
	In those meetings, he suggested that we join forces as a unity party.
	We talked about Abraham Lincoln's team of rivals.
	That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately, and fiercely if need be, on issues over which we differ.
	While working together on the existential issues upon which we are in concordance.
	I was a ferocious critic of many of the policies during his first administration, and there are still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences.
	We are aligned with each other on other key issues, like ending the forever wars.
	Ending the childhood disease epidemic, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the U.S. intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans, and interfering with our elections.
	Following my first discussion with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with Vice President Harris.
	Vice President Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me.
	Suspending my candidacy is a hard-rending decision for me, but I'm convinced that it's the best hope for ending the Ukraine war and ending the chronic disease epidemic that is eroding our nation's vitality from the inside.
	And for finally protecting free speech, I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children, above all things.
	In case some of you don't realize how dire the condition is of our children's health and chronic disease in general, I would urge you to view Dr. Carlson's recent interview with Kelly Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, who is the top graduate.
	of her class at Stanford Medical School.
	This is an issue that affects all of us far more directly and urgently than any culture war issue and all the other issues that we obsess on and that are tearing apart our country.
	This is the most important issue.
	Therefore, it has the potential to bring us together.
	So let me share a little bit about why I believe it's so urgent.
	Today, two-thirds.
	We spend more on health care than any country on Earth.
	Twice would they pay in Europe.
	And yet, we have the worst health outcomes of any nation in the world.
	We're about 79th in health outcomes behind Costa Rica and Nicaragua and Mongolia and other countries.
	Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have.
	And during the COVID epidemic...
	We have the highest body count of any country in the world.
	We had 16% of the COVID deaths, and we only have 4.2% of the world's population.
	And CDC says that's because we are the sickest people on Earth.
	We have the highest chronic disease rate on Earth.
	And the average American who died of COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases.
	So these were people who had immune system collapse, who had mitochondrial dysfunction.
	And no other country has anything like this.
	Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues.
	Fifty years ago, that number was less than 1%.
	So we've gone from 1% to 66%.
	In America, 74% of Americans are now overweight or obese.
	And 50% of our children, 120 years ago, somebody was obese.
	They were sent to the circus.
	Literally, there were case reports done about them.
	Obesity was almost unknown.
	In Japan, the childhood obesity rate is 3% compared to 50% a year.
	Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes.
	When my uncle was president, I was a boy.
	Juvenile diabetes was effectively non-existent.
	A typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career, a 40- or 50-year career.
	Today, one out of every three kids who walks through his office door is diabetic or pre-diabetic.
	And the mitochondrial disorder caused diabetes, also causing Alzheimer's, which is now classified as diabetes.
	And it's costing this country more than our military budget every year.
	There's been an explosion of neurological illnesses that I never saw as a kid.
	ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette's syndrome, archilepsy, ASD, Asperger's, autism.
	In the year 2000, the autism rate was 1 in 1,500.
	Now autism rates in kids are 1 in 36, according to CDC nationally.
	Nobody's talking about this.
	One in every 22 kids in California has autism.
	And this is a crisis that 77% of our kids are too disabled to serve in the United States military.
	What is happening to our country?
	And why isn't this in the headlines every single day?
	There's nobody else in the world that is experiencing this.
	This is only happening in America.
	About 18%, and by the way, you know, there has been no change in diagnosis, which the industry sometimes likes to say.
	There has been no change in screening.
	This is a change in incidence.
	In my generation, 70-year-old men, The odds of the rates are about 1 in 10,000.
	In my kids' generation, 1 in 34. I'll repeat, in California, 1 in 22. Why are we letting this happen?
	Why are we allowing this to happen to our children?
	These are the most precious assets that we have in this country.
	How can we let this happen to them?
	About 18% of American teens now have fatty liver disease.
	That's like one out of every five.
	That disease, when I was a kid, only affected late-stage alcoholics who were elderly.
	Cancer rates are skyrocketing, and the young and the old.
	Young adult cancers are up 79%.
	One in four American women is on antidepressant medication.
	40% of teens have a mental health diagnosis.
	And 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall and half a million children on SSRIs.
	So what's causing this suffering?
	I'll name two culprits.
	The first and the worst is ultra-processed food.
	About 70% of American children's diet is ultra-processed.
	That means industrial, manufactured in a factory.
	These foods consist primarily of processed sugar.
	Ultra-processed grains and seed oils.
	Laboratory scientists, many of them formerly worked for the cigarette industry, which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and 80s, deployed thousands of scientists to figure out chemicals, new chemicals, to make the food more addictive.
	And these ingredients didn't exist 100 years ago.
	Humans aren't biologically adapted to eat them.
	Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe, but ubiquitous in American processed foods.
	The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment.
	Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies.
	This assault on our children's cells and hormones is unrelenting.
	And name just one problem.
	Many of these chemicals increase estrogen because young children are ingesting so many of these hormone disruptors.
	America's puberty rate is now occurring at age 10 to 13, which is six years earlier than girls were reaching puberty in 1900.
	Our country has the earliest puberty rates of any continent on the earth.
	And no, this isn't because of better nutrition.
	This is not normal.
	Breast cancer is also estrogen-driven, and it now strikes one in eight women.
	We are mass poisoning all of our children and our adults.
	Considering the grievous human cause of this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, it seems almost crass to mention the damage it does to our economy.
	But I'll say...
	It is crippling the nation's finances.
	When my uncle was president of our country, he spent zero dollars on chronic disease.
	Today, government health care spending is almost all for chronic disease.
	And it's double the military budget.
	And it is the fastest growing budget item in the federal budget.
	Chronic disease costs more to the economy as a whole, costs at least $4 trillion, five times our military budget.
	And that's a 20% drag on everything we do and everything we aspire to.
	War and minority communities suffer disproportionately.
	People who worry about DEI or about bigotry of any kind, this dwarfs anything.
	We are poisoning the poor.
	We are systematically poisoning minorities across this country.
	Industry lobbyists have made sure that most of the food stamp lunch program, about 70% of food stamps and 70 or 77% of school lunches are processed foods.
	There's no vegetables.
	There's nothing that you would want to eat.
	We are just...
	Poising the poor citizens, and that's why they have the highest chronic disease burden of anybody, any demographic in our country, and the highest in the world.
	The same food industry lobbied to make sure that nearly all agricultural subsidies go to commodity crops that are the feedstock of processed food industry.
	These policies are destroying small farms, and they're destroying our soils.
	We give about, I think, eight times as much in subsidies to tobacco than we do to fruits and vegetables.
	It makes no sense.
	We want a healthy country.
	The good news is that we can change all this.
	We can change it very, very quickly.
	America can get healthy again.
	To do that, we need to do three things.
	First, we need to root out the corruption in our health agencies.
	Second, we need to change incentives in our health care system.
	And third, we need to inspire Americans to get healthy again.
	Eighty percent of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest.
	These are the people, virtually everybody who sits in a Joe Biden just appointed.
	A new panel to NIH to decide the food recommendations.
	And they're all people who are from the industry.
	They're all people who are from the processed food companies.
	They're deciding what Americans hear is healthy.
	And the recommendations on the food pyramid and what goes to our school lunch programs, which go to...
	The program, the Swiss program, the food stamp programs, they're all corrupted and conflicted individuals.
	These agencies, the FDA, USDA, and CDC, all of them are controlled by giant for-profit corporations.
	75% of the FDA's funding doesn't come from taxpayer, it comes from pharma.
	And pharma executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies with President Trump's backing.
	I'm going to change that.
	We're going to staff these agencies with honest scientists and doctors who are free from industry funding.
	We're going to make sure the decisions of consumers, doctors, and patients are informed by unbiased science.
	A sick child is the best thing for the pharmaceutical industry.
	When American children or adults get sick with a chronic condition, they're put on medication for their entire life.
	Imagine what will happen when Medicare starts paying for Ozempic, which costs $1,500 a month, and it's being recommended for children as young as six, all for a condition of obesity that is completely preventable and barely even existed 100 years ago.
	And 74% of Americans are obese.
	The cost, if all of them took their Ozempic prescription, is $3 trillion a year.
	A drug that is made by Novo Nordisk, the biggest company in Europe.
	It's a Danish company, and the Danish government does not recommend it.
	It recommends change in diet to treat obesity and exercise.
	And in our country, the recommendation now is, for example, to children at age six.
	Novo Nord is the biggest company in Europe, and virtually its entire value is based upon its projections of what it's going to sell, of the exempt it's going to sell to America.
	And we have the food lobbyists have a bill in front of Congress today that is backed by the White House, backed by Vice President Harris and President Biden.
	To allow this to happen, this $3 trillion cost that is going to bankrupt our country.
	For a fraction of that amount, we could buy organic food for every American family, three meals a day, and eliminate diabetes altogether.
	We're going to bring healthy food back to school lunches.
	We're going to stop subsidizing the worst foods with our agricultural subsidies.
	We're going to get toxic chemicals out of our food.
	We're going to reform the entire food system.
	And for that, we need new leadership in Washington because, unfortunately, both the Democrats and the Republican parties are in cahoots with the big food producers, Big Pharma and Big Ag, which are among the DNC's major donors.
	Vice President Harris has expressed no interest in addressing this issue.
	Four more years of Democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and neocon power, and our children will be the ones who suffer most.
	I got involved with chronic disease 20 years ago, not because I chose to or wanted to.
	It was essentially thrust upon me.
	It was an issue that should have been central to the environmental movement.
	I was a central leader at that time, but it was widely ignored by all the institutions, including the NGOs, who should have been protecting our kids against toxins.
	It was an orphaned issue, and I had a weakness for orphans.
	I watched generations of children get sicker and sicker.
	I had 11 siblings and I had seven kids myself.
	I was conscious of what was happening in their classrooms and to their friends.
	And I watched these sick kids, these damaged kids.
	In that generation, almost all of them are damaged.
	And nobody in power seemed to care or to even notice.
	For 19 years, I prayed every morning that God would put me...
	I'm in a position to end this calamity.
	The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president, along with ending censorship in the Ukraine war.
	It's the reason I've made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump.
	This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes my wife and my children and my friends.
	But I have the certainty that this is what I'm meant to do.
	And that certainty gives me internal peace, even in storms.
	If I'm given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years, we will watch chronic disease burden lift dramatically.
	We will make Americans healthy again.
	Within four years, America will be a healthy country.
	We will be stronger, more resilient, more optimistic, and happier.
	I won't fail in doing this.
	Ultimately, the future, however it happens, is in God's hands and in the hands of the American voters and those of President Trump.
	If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts the country will disappear.
	This is a spiritual journey for me.
	I reached my decision through deep prayer, through hard-nosed logic, and I asked myself, what choices must I make to maximize my chances to save America's children and restore national health?
	I felt that if I refused this opportunity, I would not be able to look myself in the mirror, knowing that I could have saved lives of countless children.
	And reverse this country's chronic disease epidemic.
	I'm 70 years old.
	I may have a decade to be effective.
	I can't imagine that a President Harris would allow me or anyone to solve these dire problems.
	After eight years of President Harris, any opportunity for me to fix the problem will be out of my reach forever.
	President Trump has told me that he wants this to be his legacy.
	I'm choosing to believe that this time he will follow through.
	His son, his biggest donors, his closest friends, and all support this objective.
	My joining the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children, but worthwhile if there's even a small chance of saving these kids.
	Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.
	That's why I launched my campaign to unify America.
	My dad and uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation, not so much because of any particular policies that they promoted, but because they were able to Inspire profound love for our country and to fortify our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by ideals.
	They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans and to unify a national populist movement of Americans, blacks and whites, Hispanics, urban and rural Americans, inspired affection and love.
	And high hopes and a culture of kindness that continue to radiate among Americans from their memory.
	That's the spirit on which I ran my campaign and that I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump.
	Instead of vitriol and polarization, I will appeal to the values that unite us.
	The goals that we could achieve if only we weren't at each other's throats.
	The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children.
	If we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, the health, and the future that they deserve.
	Thank you all very much.
unidentified		Thank you.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		Hello, everyone.
		This is Robbie Myers, one of Benny's producers.
		We are joined by Kate Johnson, his lovely wife, and they are in the car with Benny right there beside her.
unidentified		We're driving to family vacation following the DNC, so Ben can get a little bit of sleep, hopefully.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		So, Kate, let's kick it off.
		You're a nurse.
		He said one of the main reasons he was dropping out was to basically go after the CDC, the FDA, and the health crisis facing America.
		You're big on this issue, and I know that's very important to you.
		We've talked about it over the years, about the importance of clean food, clean living, and what's being injected into our lives.
unidentified		Robbie, you more than most know how passionate I am about this topic, but it is without a doubt one of the most important crises facing our nation without addressing the issue.
		When we're addressing the health of this nation, we don't have a future.
		We have an absolute crisis of health among our children, and it's not sustainable.
		We talk about the lives and the toll that wars take, but we don't often talk about the toll that the health crisis in our own country is taking.
		And I have long loved the physicians of RFK Jr. for his passion.
		for addressing this topic.
		I mean, I know he has opinions on other topics, but this is his real passion project and it spans everything from the food that we consume to the amount that people engage in daily activities to promoting just general overall healthy lifestyle.
		But he's able to really dive deep into the policy side because of his family's legacy and how much they have been in and around government.
		He really understands how to dig into the Bureaucratic side of this topic and really make changes from a policy perspective.
		And I think him joining forces with Donald Trump is just incredible.
		I am so excited for this.
		I really hope that Trump pulls him in and makes him a part of not just his campaign and kind of educating Donald Trump himself and the campaign on the importance of this topic, but then continuing this further into the actual administration.
		I hope that He gives him a position of prominence in the administration to actually take some action and make...
		Our country is dying, and we need to see some change.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		So the big news, obviously, you just broke it after a great speech.
		I think it was an amazing speech.
		I know we're sort of right of center, but if we're going to sit there...
		And have to listen to a Democrat.
		Man, I wish there were more Democrats like that.
		And it's fitting that that is why he left the Democratic Party and ran as an independent.
		So the big news is JFK Jr. has resigned because, as he put it, the chronic disease crisis, ending the Ukraine war, and supporting children.
		He just could not agree with the Democratic Party on that.
		And I think if you look at it, you've got...
		The opportunity here to bridge a gap from Donald Trump to the rest of the party that is very unique.
		You look at him in a sense of Trump knows that he needs to have a wide tent, and the Democrats are sitting here shoving everyone out of their tent.
		And with that, I think he's going straight into what matters to people.
		And he sees a parallel between himself and Donald Trump.
		As he put it, The Democratic war machine has gone after him.
		They have gone after him hard.
		And they've used lawfare against him.
		And we're going to take Kate off the screen right now.
		And I'm going to go full screen.
		I'm waiting for Danny to pop up on here.
		I know he's on.
		So we're going to get him up in a second.
		But I'm going to continue on.
		Oh, I think we have Kate back.
		But we'll let her get situated first.
		So going on.
		With that, we're going to go back to the big points from today.
		His whole thing was truly independent media is dead.
		And with that, he's saying there's a sham primary going on, he has no ability to run, and that it was essentially a glass mountain that he had to scale, and he was told it was nearly impossible.
		And it was very difficult for him to do that.
		You talk about the millions of dollars that he poured into this.
		This wasn't just a resignation.
		This was an opportunity for JFK Jr. to say to his supporters, there's another avenue for you.
		There is a way I can pull these people over towards someone who will not denigrate our country more like the Democratic Party has.
		And with the lawfare stuff, he has been attacked left and right.
		They didn't let him in debates.
		He's sitting here looking at what just happened with Kamala Harris, and he has more votes than Kamala Harris, yet he is the one who is shoved out of the party.
		So he's sitting here running a parallel.
		They use lawfare against me.
		They're going to do it again to someone else.
		So I've got to go over to Trump.
		And I think that's the big takeaway from today is I think what we're going to see later tonight, and we will be live for it, everyone, we will be carrying President Trump's rally live.
		He will go out to speak at 7 p.m., and there is a rumored special guest.
		And I think we all know that it probably is going to be JFK Jr. since he's just up the street from the president.
		And looking at this, I think it's actually a very good parallel.
		It's a parallel that allows for him to look at what Trump might have been missing and fill in that gap.
		And let's just go through the notes.
		The no interviewer unscripted moments for Harris.
		He takes 10 interviews a day.
		If you look at Donald Trump, He just rolls with it and rolls.
		And you go on and on and on, and it's one of those things where you look at it, and the American role for democracy, what is the model?
		He sits there and he draws this parallel between America of the past and the America of today.
		If you look at the America of the past, JFK, who was our president, probably wouldn't be a Democrat today.
		He'd be a Republican.
		And I've got Nurse Kate.
		I'm gonna put her back on.
		We've got her connection back.
		Here we are.
		Nurse Kate, you're back.
		You look great.
unidentified		Oh, thank you.
unidentified		We're trying to keep all three kids happy during a long time, so it's always tricky.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		So I don't know if you could hear, I was getting into the idea of what the Democratic Party was.
		And I think that if...
		If John F. Kennedy Jr. was running today, he'd run as a Republican.
unidentified		I think without a doubt he'd run as a Republican.
		I've watched RFK's campaign because he aligned so well with me on this topic of chronic disease and intervening in the American life.
		And societally on that topic that I've really followed his career for a long time, but particularly over the last couple of years.
		And I think it was surprising to RFK to find out that he's not a Democrat.
		Like in the middle of the whole thing, he was like, wait a minute, this party left me.
		This isn't my party anymore.
		And I think that's like, I think it's a really amazing thing and shows that he actually has a lot of integrity to be willing to To see that and then to make that change.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		And he noted that one of the hardest parts of this process of endorsing President Trump in these swing states is that his own family is going to hate him for it.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		I mean, he sat there and said he agonized over it.
unidentified		He specifically mentioned his wife is going to hate him for it.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		Yes, he did.
unidentified		A house divided, you know?
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		It's going to be tough.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		It's going to be tough.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		It's always a really good measure of a person's conviction towards their values when they're willing to stake their even, like, just personal risks in their own life to, like, really pursue what they believe.
		And we saw that here with RFK.
		That was a powerful speech.
		I mean, I was sitting through that, and I had, like, chills, like, 90% of the time.
		And he's out here, like, throwing his support behind Trump, doing it where it really matters.
		And as he said, he even cited some...
		He said he's going to get divorced.
unidentified		He said he'll get divorced.
unidentified		He did.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		He said if he was Trump's vice president, I'll get divorced.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		He's not going to get divorced.
unidentified		We have that clip, actually.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		Kennedys don't get divorced.
		They drive their wives into rivers.
		That's not a thing.
unidentified		I think that was a girlfriend.
		I think it really does speak to a level of integrity, which I also think really translates very well into putting him into a position of power with a lot of power.
		If he has the convictions to go out here and be so against the grain, like willing to stand up against the social scrutiny that he's going to face with his wife and his friends and kind of the Hollywood elite that he tends to hang with, I really do think that that speaks very well for him getting a position where he can do some real good and make some real change.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		Well, JFK Jr., even on our show this week, said that he...
		JFK Jr., sorry.
		Donald Trump Jr., too many juniors, Donald Trump Jr. was on the show this week and Benny outright asked him, you know, what do you think about JFK Jr., RFK Jr. joining into the administration?
		He was open toward, you know, CDC, you know, FDA oversight.
		And I think you're going to see some, I think you're going to see some movement there because one of my favorite quotes was, "Censors don't fear lies, they fear the truth." And I think what you're seeing right now is that sort of censorship of the truth.
unidentified		Yeah, I think all these topics that he's talking about actually coalesce very nicely.
		The three things that he was most passionate about in this campaign and the reasons that he stated he was running are all actually...
		They all actually overlap.
		The censorship actually impacts people's health because people are not allowed to have access to the information that they need to make better informed decisions for themselves.
		You're not allowed to go against the grain.
		You're not allowed to go against the establishment's mandates and wishes.
		I won't say specifically what that means, but I think you know you'll lose your job over it.
		I had a nursing license in D.C. that was nearly stripped from me for Making a personal health decision about my body and my choice.
		And RFK's passion projects here are like, you know, even when he's talking about Ukraine, he's talking so much about this stealing of the youth of Ukraine because they're just mass slaughtering them, right?
		And that's also his passion here on this topic.
		So I think he has this really deep core of caring about...
		Seeing nations thrive and flourish.
		And that really translated to me in that press conference.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		And he cited the three reasons for throwing support behind Trump as free speech, anti-war, and attack on our children.
		I think that's what really makes Trump special in this context.
		He's kind of that one-generation candidate, once-in-a-generation candidate, where he reaches into issues that appeal to both sides.
		And if there's anyone who would...
		Sort of thwart that gap.
		I think it was going to be RFK Jr.
		So it was really, really interesting to see him sort of throw his support behind him.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		So other topics that were hit on within this was the weaponization of government.
		And he linked it not just to censorship of the media, but also, again, to censorship of the FDA, CDC.
		And how it's not just being weaponized against him, it's being weaponized against all of us.
		And I think that's a very great parallel message to what Donald Trump says when he says, you know, they're coming after me and I'm standing in the way, you know, I'm fighting for you.
		It's a very parallel message.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		That's exactly right.
		I think he understands the weight of the moment that's unlike a lot of politicians.
		A lot of politicians will just try to ride it out as best as they can, get all the spoils for running for office.
		But he said, you know what, now's the time where I really have a chance to use the platform I've built over the past year or so running for president.
		And let's do something that actually impacts this country in a way that aligns with my values.
		So I think it was really powerful.
		And, you know, they were talking about Joe Biden.
		At the DNCA, they were talking about Joe Biden voluntarily, you know, stepping down from power.
		And he was short of Washington and all this stuff.
		It's like...
		Yeah, it didn't take a lot of risk.
		I mean, they pushed him out.
		It was a coup.
		And in this case, you have a man who stood by his principles and even at personal costs.
		And he's doing what he can to push his values forward.
		So I think it's very encouraging that we have more leaders emerging like this.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		And you talked about the censorship part.
		You know, he had more people watching him, I think, on this stream than most nights at the convention did.
		I bet we go back and look at the numbers now that they're all finished.
		I bet he had more people tuning into his X, his YouTube, and his other social channels and across all these news platforms.
		Because I was looking at, you know, our channels.
		Everyone's tuning in right now.
		94 plus thousand people on X. You know, there's an appetite for this type of message.
		And we didn't see that appetite.
		We were at the DNC all week.
		I didn't see that appetite.
		I mean, it almost got there when there were rumors of Taylor Swift coming on stage.
		But last night, people were asking, no Beyonce?
		Why did it come?
		You know, I didn't see that at all this week.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
		He kicked off his Xtreme with almost a million people already tuning in.
		And it was just a blank stage at that point.
		And it took him probably like 30 minutes from that point on to actually join the stream.
		And I'm sure it just blew up from that point.
		But I think, yeah, I think people are looking for a direction to substantially throw their vote behind this cycle.
		I think people understand it's a really important cycle to make your vote count.
		And I think that's exactly what RFK's highlighting.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		And they underestimate the power of his one million people watching.
		That's enough to sway an election.
		And that's why the Democrats fear him so much.
		And I think this is, you talk about...
		A bad week for the Democrats.
		All week long, their polling numbers have declined during their convention.
		That is the opposite of what should happen at a convention.
		You should come out with a post-convention high.
		You should be up two, three points.
		Nope, they're down one, two points.
		And now Trump and RFK Jr. are just slapping them in the face and going, uh-uh, we're taking this back.
unidentified		I think that RFK has been way underpolled, actually, because there is a huge contingent of people Who, like, they weren't necessarily interested in another, like, Trump-Biden head-to-head challenge.
		But they weren't actually polling people for our case.
		So I think that they really underestimated how...
		And him full-on outright endorsing President Trump, I think, is going to be powerful.
		I think it's going to pull a lot of swag.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		Kate, it looks like you're stopping there.
		Let's give you the last word here.
		What do you got for us?
unidentified		Well, I think if anything, this should encourage everyone to double down on their vote for Donald Trump to get out there and really pound the pavement, man.
		Get all of your friends and neighbors to vote, even if...
		Before, you didn't think people were going to be Trump voters.
		Be like, look, even RFK is on board.
		Not just on board with the agenda, but he's full-throatedly supporting and endorsing him and requesting that his people join forces.
		So I think it's a really powerful, really strong message.
		And should embolden people who...
		Honestly, my voting block tends to be a little bit...
		Like suburban white women tend to be a little bit timid when it comes to being politically outspoken and having an opinion, especially when it comes to Donald Trump.
		They feel like there's like a social stigma around that.
		And I think that this can really encourage people like, hey, look, this guy who is an establishment, like, you know, party accepted kind of guy, he's supporting Donald Trump.
		So now it makes it more acceptable.
		For people to be vocal about their support as well.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		I apologize to our audience.
		I keep on confusing my RRK, JFK, and Don Juniors.
		I know it's RRK Jr.
		We're running on three hours of sleep a night for the past week coming off this convention.
		And we have more coverage coming for you.
		We're going to be going live with President Trump's speech and a special guest tonight at 7 p.m.
unidentified		What's going on?
		It's Theo!
		What's happening?
		He's wearing his red, white, and blue.
		This is Kate's number one issue.
		There's a really big buzzer in there.
		Alright guys, it was so fun to be on here.
		You gotta go get on vacation.
		Get on it, Kate.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		Enjoy.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		So that's always fun.
		You know, I think our audience, there's a good contingent of audience that just can't get enough nerds.
		We should have her on more.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		I agree.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		She's a complete natural.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		Kids running around everywhere.
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		That's how it's got to be.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		I know.
		You know, going through, I think we've covered all the main points.
		We'll do a recap of all of this leading up to the 7 p.m. show tonight.
		And we will be carrying President Trump's speech live, as we said, at 7 p.m. Eastern.
		And the special guest, we're hoping it will be RFK Jr.
		We watch the comments.
		We hear y 'all.
		They were flying during this.
		I think our audience is excited for this.
		We know you.
		Our freedom lovers, we know that you're America first.
		And you have, with an RFK junior backing, you have someone who's going to do that.
		And you have someone who is not going to be a warmonger and who is going to be in the ear of President Trump trying to fix this country for the better.
		That's what the right is all about.
		You cannot have dissenting views on the left.
		And that's what the show is all about.
		The show is all about making sure that every single one of you have a voice.
		And we work as hard as we can to make sure that we are getting the truth out there and that people are just informed.
		We're not here to give opinions.
		We're here to say we're America first and we're all about freedom.
		Any closing words, Danny?
danny de urbina ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		I actually tend to agree with Kate's last point.
		I mean, this election is really, I mean, it's tight right now.
		It's normalizing, but it's tight.
		It's going to happen in the margins.
		And this is really a powerful moment where you pull those people away from the margins.
		These are your Joe Rogan listeners that, you know, don't like the status quo, but they want something different.
		They were probably throwing their support behind the RFK.
		Maybe it's a suburban woman, you know, throwing their support behind the RFK.
		But this is where you really pull those people from those margins into the mainstream.
		So I'm hoping this is going to have a pretty massive effect on the election.
		We'll see what happens, but it's pretty exciting and pretty encouraging.
robbie myers ▲ ● ▼		It's very exciting.
		Well, with that, I think we're done.
		We will see you later.
		Boys, we got the stinger ready?
		All right.
		Thank you, everyone.
		We'll see you at 7 p.m. tonight.
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