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A Georgia judge delivering a huge blow to Fulton County DA Fannie Willis' case against Donald Trump, dismissing two criminal counts against the former president.
Chanley Painter joins us with all the details.
Hi, Chanley.
Hey, Todd and Carly.
So the judge in the Georgia election interference case dismissing two more criminal counts against former President Trump, including conspiracy to commit filing of false documents and...
Filing false documents.
The judge ruling they fall under federal jurisdiction.
Now, Trump's attorney posting, quote, President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again.
A grand jury indicted Trump and 18 others more than a year ago on charges that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia.
Four defendants have pleaded guilty.
Earlier this year, the judge dismissed six other charges against Trump.
He now faces eight remaining felony counts.
Now, the case was thrown into limbo when an improper affair was revealed between Prosecutor Fannie Willis and Nathan Wade, the prosecutor she hired to help bring the case against Trump.
Wade was later removed.
Now, separately, a Georgia Senate committee is investigating allegations of misconduct against Willis related to conflicts.
Willis' attorney confirming she will not cooperate or appear at the Senate hearing until there has been a judicial determination of the validity of the subpoena.
Now that Senate subpoena demands Willis turn over all emails and all texts between her and Wade plus an accounting of all gifts or cash exchange between the two and all communications with federal offices about the case.
As far as that criminal case, the Georgia Court of Appeals paused the proceeding until October when it hears Trump's motion to disqualify Willis as prosecutor.
donald j trump
Every time I took a trip with my lover, I paid him in cash.
Where the hell did you get the cash?
benny johnson
Your Honor, I object!
unidentified
And why is that?
Because it's devastating to my case!
Overruled.
Good call!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
benny johnson
I'd actually...
I'd watch that entire movie.
I'd watch that whole...
Jerry.
Meme Maker Jerry.
If you're not familiar, Meme Maker Jerry.
Shout him out in the chat.
It's free for all Fridays.
We're gonna rock and roll.
Jerry.
Jerry.
We gotta do an entire week of Jim Carrey memes.
An entire week themed Jim Carrey memes.
That's perfect.
I'd watch that whole movie.
If Fanny Willis was Jim Carrey's character in Liar Liar...
Finally, a cultural reference I get.
And Donald Trump was the defendant.
I'd watch the whole thing.
I'd buy the ticket.
I'd buy the ticket.
I'd stand in line on opening night.
I'd get a popcorn and a Coca-Cola, and I'd sit in my seat.
We should do it, Jerry.
We should do it.
Let's do all next week, Jim Carrey colds.
All next week, Jim Carrey colds, President Trump.
It's going to be a wild one.
Oh, we have so much breaking news this morning, and we have Donald Trump live.
This morning as well.
So it's going to be a very, very interesting day.
Today's Friday.
unidentified
The 13th.
benny johnson
Dun, dun, dun.
September 2024.
Georgia Judge nukes Fannie Willis' case from space.
Fannie Willis is also supposed to be live right now, but she's skipping out on court.
Kind of like her daughter.
Amazing.
Her daughter has a mugshot.
Daughter spent some time in prison.
Had to bail out her daughter.
The hunters have become the hunted, ladies and gentlemen.
Big Fannie skips her testimony.
We'll show you what's going on in Georgia.
Julie Kelly joins the show to talk about a very strange comment that Kamala Harris made about January 6th and a demonstrable lie and a question about a pipe bomb that could lead to some other interesting questions.
Richard Blumenthal, a senator, saying that there was a deep state plot against Donald Trump to kill him?
What?
What is going on?
Is ABC rigging the debates and giving Kamala Harris the questions in advance?
We'll talk all about it today.
My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
unidentified
Woo!
benny johnson
Man, so much happening this morning.
And again, at the top of the hour, we're going to go to President Trump, who's going to be live.
I mean, last time, I see Killer Kline over here at the board, and he's like, we gotta go!
Trump's early!
He's 20 minutes early.
Trump just like swagger jacks, walks right up to the microphone.
And so we're on watch for President Trump this morning.
We're on watch.
You don't know when the guy's going to roll up and grab the mic.
He is in Los Angeles this morning.
He had a big fundraiser last night.
And so President Trump is in Los Angeles, and he's going to be doing a news conference this morning.
I'm sure he's going to have a lot to say about Fannie Willis.
So prepare, ladies and gentlemen.
We just don't know.
Here's what we guarantee you.
We guarantee you that we'll be live with the president when he takes the mic.
We're also monitoring Georgia right here, which is a hearing that should have been attended by Fannie Willis.
This is Fannie Willis' disqualification hearing and also her election interference hearing herself based on her own malign prosecutions and an election board that has been set up by the governor to look into the political motivations of prosecutors.
Some of the questions at the table this morning is, why was Fannie Willis going to the Biden White House so many times?
Why was she lying about that?
Why is she lying about her relationship with Nathan Wade?
Why are these two people still in charge?
Why haven't they both recused themselves?
And this is, again, we'll let you know.
This is live right now.
We'll let you know if Fannie Willis pulls one of those stunts.
You remember last time?
We were like this.
One of my favorite moments of the year.
I know ALX knows this is one of my favorite moments of the year.
It's ALX's favorite moments.
Remember Fannie Willis just came slumping in?
And we weren't expecting it?
She wasn't expected to testify?
And she just came marching in?
And sat down and started screaming and throwing things and losing her mind.
You never know what can happen.
You never know.
That's why we're monitoring everything live.
We'll let you know if Fannie Willis bum rushes.
Big Fannie Willis doing a big bum rush into the courthouse this morning and testifying on her behalf.
We'll see.
We'll see what happens.
But this is where we are.
All of these solid gold moments will be caught by us if you had caught.
The gold wave.
Well, you'd be sitting pretty right now.
Here's the price of gold this morning.
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Just like literally physically have bars of gold inside of the synthetic world where you don't know what is real.
You don't know how bad the psyops truly are.
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If we weren't winning, that's the question, right?
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We are real.
We are really live, and we're going to be really live when Donald Trump takes the mic later today, later this hour.
Again, he was 25 minutes early the last time, so I guess you just never know when Trump's going to get up and start shadowboxing with the press.
And it's fun because they're going to have members of the media there, and it's going to be wildly entertaining.
Donald Trump stepping off the edges of a massive, massive victory this week.
Now, there have been many victories for President Trump this week.
There's been mixed results from the debate, which is not good for Kamala Harris.
There have been mixed results from the debate, as many polls showing that independence broke hard for Donald Trump after the debate.
Libs, of course, like Kamala.
And Republicans, of course, like Trump.
That's not what the debates are for, right?
For the people that have already made up their minds.
And quite frankly, things are going terrible in this country.
People have already made up their minds.
But there are some very spooky data for Libs.
Heading into spooky season, and for spooky season, we actually have something really fun to start off the show with.
This was on my timeline this morning.
This house is going to win Halloween.
I challenge all of you.
unidentified
that amount of time on this planet and you could be viciously mediocre or you could get the fuck after it wait a minute ten toes in when we standing on business i'm a not all in a clown oh yeah
I got to get one.
benny johnson
I got to get one.
Killer Kline, I'm going to get one.
I got to get a giant.
I mean, I don't really want the clown Kamala, but I want the giant Trump.
Whose yard is this?
Whose yard is this?
Shout yourself out in the comment section.
Whose yard is this?
We have three producers on this program.
They watch the comment section like hawks.
Whose yard is it?
I know you're watching.
If this is your yard, you're coming on the show next week.
If this is your yard, you're going to come on the show next week, you're going to FaceTime us, and you're going to walk us through this whole thing.
It was good for you.
Way to go.
Ooh, man, are you ready?
It is Friday the 13th.
Why not?
Why not sprinkle a little spooky at the start of the show?
So this is very, very...
Terrifying.
Fannie Willis' charges are now being nuked from space.
More charges!
The judge, in the Fannie Willis case, Scott McAfee, the judge has been throwing out charge after charge after charge and has been essentially reducing her entire case to rubble.
Never a great sign, by the way, for a prosecutor.
Again, anyone can get an indictment.
You can indict a hand sandwich in New York, is the old saying, right?
The old mafia saying.
Anyone can get an indictment.
Now you have to prove your case.
The point of these cases were election interference.
It backfired.
You gave us the Trump mugshot.
Everyone got the Trump mugshot tattooed.
I have it tattooed right across my chest, actually.
Never seen it.
And you never will.
Okay, I should.
Maybe.
You have to talk with my wife, Nurse Kate, and see if I can get permission to do that.
All right?
We're still having that negotiation.
It backfired!
And now it's backfiring even more.
Let's read the news here, baby.
Donald Trump charges atomized.
Donald Trump has more charges against him.
Georgia case dismissed.
A massive blow to Fannie Willis.
Some of the biggest charges, actually.
Judge, on Thursday, dismissed two more criminal counts.
The U.S. state's 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump.
And one other count against his allies.
Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee found that the state prosecutors did not have authority to bring charges.
Related to their filing.
So now Donald Trump's charges have been reduced by half.
I think they charged him.
They ultimately charged him.
The full charges have like 40. Now the judges already struck down six, then nine more.
Now three more.
Most of these charges do not include Donald Trump, actually.
The case has been on hold since on June when the Georgia Appeals Court considered whether the lead prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney, Fannie Willis, must be disqualified over alleged misconduct ties, romantic relationship that she had, with Nathan's hot dog.
And interestingly enough, Nathan's hot dog has reappeared.
Nathan's hot dog is out of the hot dog roller and is now in trouble with the cops.
We'll play you that video.
And also a really fun throwback.
Here's the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Cases are falling to pieces around the country.
bret baier
The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against former President Trump and others has tossed out three counts in that indictment today.
The judge saying the charges, including two brought against former President Trump, lie beyond the state's jurisdiction.
Last March, Judge Scott McAfee...
Throughout six counts of that indictment, 32 remain, including an overarching racketeering charge against all of the defendants.
benny johnson
So, this is, I mean, listen.
If you're going to bring a case, and you're a prosecutor, and you're a very serious person, and you know that there's a single decrepit third world Rat-infested, absolute, crime-ridden hellscape of a county in Georgia.
You've got to bring the case somewhere.
You have to do it in this county.
You have to do it in Fulton County.
Fulton County is one of the highest murder rates in the world.
One of the highest murder rates in all of America.
The place is in complete shambles.
This is what Fannie Willis is spending her time doing.
Fannie Willis, of course, who can't even put her dress on correctly.
I'm standing on principle with that.
No one can convince me otherwise.
Fannie Willis zipped her dress up the wrong way and wore an upside-down American flag.
I think we actually have footage of it.
Fannie Willis comes walking into the corner house.
Looking like the hottest of messes.
unidentified
Woo!
benny johnson
Baby.
And yeah, wearing her upside-down American flag pin.
Looking like a complete and total mess.
Wearing her dress backwards.
And marches up and starts demanding.
To testify.
Again, this could happen today.
We're monitoring live.
It could still happen today.
This is Fannie Willis' major disqualification hearing over this Georgia...
So this is what's happening, obviously, in Georgia.
They're saying, did she behave unethically?
The judge disqualified the absolute and total horrors of the left.
The prosecutor, right?
The special prosecutor was Nathan's Hot Dog.
Big Fanny.
Where does Big Fanny go without Nathan's hot dog?
We're not exactly sure.
We know that they are in love.
We know they're in love.
And they're in through thick and thin.
We actually on this program have something very special, which is the capacity to see inside of the thoughts and souls of these individuals in Fulton County and show you exactly what they're thinking in this moment.
And it's very important.
I mean, you can read the legal filings, but can you actually mind read?
Okay, that's what we're capable of doing here, and we provide this to you free of charge.
unidentified
Here we go.
Did you go to a cabin with Miss Willis ever?
Ever?
ever.
No.
benny johnson
We can't help ourselves.
We're so sorry.
We try to be adults on this program, but we cannot help ourselves.
And we also think that ridicule is really powerful.
That's why we love memes.
We think that ridicule is a powerful weapon.
And they're clearly lying.
So what will this Georgia board find?
They'll find that they're lying.
You can see that they're lying.
There's this remarkable moment where Nathan's hot dog gets invited on CNN.
And he goes on CNN.
And they're so bad at telling their lies that the dude actually has to get pulled out of a live interview to go have his lawyer be like, No!
No!
These are the lies today!
These are the lies we decided on!
It's incredible.
This clip doesn't get played enough.
And I don't like Caitlin Collins on CNN, but the way she behaved here is hysterical.
unidentified
What is your current relationship with the district attorney?
Just as outlined earlier, we are great friends.
We speak regularly.
The conversation has changed, though, whereas before our conversations were about this case, I'm sure you could imagine and appreciate the amount of time that it...
It takes that you have to pour into a case of this magnitude trying to prosecute those defendants.
But our conversations have shifted to how are you?
How are you handling the threats that are coming your way?
are you being safe?
Democracy, the case will live on kind of thing.
benny johnson
Okay, I need to stop it right there.
I need to stop it just really quickly because this is where the humiliating part comes from and where he actually gets up and runs away.
What you're going to watch is Nathan Wade get up and run away from the interview.
Physically, okay?
But that answer doesn't mean anything.
That answer isn't, it's not English.
It's not a full coherent sentence.
These are the cream of the crop.
This is the best of the best in Fulton County.
The guy whose prosecutorial background was getting a set of stolen speakers back to its owner with like a $10 penalty.
That's what this guy was.
He was worse than a bus stop lawyer.
And they brought him in as the special prosecutor.
This is the guy they brought in as a special prosecutor.
This guy, that word salad.
Makes Kamala Harris look like a chef at Sweetgreen.
So here we go.
This is too great.
This is too good.
unidentified
Clarify.
When did the romantic relationship between the two of you start?
Yeah, so, you know, we get into...
There's been this effort to say that, okay, these exact dates are at issue and these exact dates are, I'm getting, I'm getting sick.
Look at this!
benny johnson
I'm getting signaled here!
He has to run away!
He literally runs off set.
unidentified
Keep rolling.
Oh, man.
benny johnson
Oh, man.
As a wise president once said, they're not sending their best.
Good for CNN.
Okay, I gotta say.
I'm so sorry, ladies and gentlemen.
I've gotta tell you.
I'm gonna compliment CNN here.
They kept rolling.
They could've cut this out.
They could've cut this out.
They kept rolling and they broadcast this.
You know, good for them because this is so humiliating.
unidentified
Look at his face!
Is everything okay?
Just to revisit the question, it was to clarify when the romantic relationship started and when it ended.
So, you know, I believe that the public has, through testimony...
benny johnson
Oh, it's too good.
Oh, man.
unidentified
So exciting.
benny johnson
Listen to him try to read the rehearsed lines.
It's too good.
He doesn't give an answer because they know that the entire case hinges on it.
So the reason why we're sort of digging up these old bones is because this is the ongoing prosecution against Fannie Willis.
They're doing a hearing right now on their lies.
We can show you here from last weekend Fannie Willis and Nathan's Hot Dog.
Re-emerging on police body cam footage when Fanny...
So you have Big Fanny and you have Little Fanny.
Little Fanny, which is her daughter, got arrested.
And she was driving suspended license.
I think one or two other traffic violations got arrested.
He got put in jail.
And here's Nathan Wade.
Here's Nathan Wade.
What they say is irrelevant here.
It's just typical jargon about what...
What policies were broken and so on.
They had to go to the courthouse.
Her daughter had to spend, I think, a day in jail.
And they had to bail her out.
Nathan Wade and Fannie Wills in their pajamas, I think.
Fannie Wills wearing this giant bedazzled shirt.
The bedazzler!
In their pajamas.
Again, they're the sharpest prosecutorial team in American history.
They're going to get Trump.
They got him now!
Here they are in their pajamas after her daughter, her pregnant daughter, gets arrested.
This is made for great fodder and a lot of fun.
And we did have a lot of fun on this.
It was very fun to watch these cases self-immolate, anatomize.
It's enjoyable.
But what's most enjoyable was watching Donald Trump take him out and make fun of them.
And here's President Trump making fun of Big Fanny and Nathan's Hot Dog.
Remember, remember this move.
You're about to see Donald Trump do this move, okay?
And I'll let you decide what this means.
donald j trump
I was indicted by Fannie in Georgia.
unidentified
Fannie.
donald j trump
How did that work out?
And her lover, Nathan Wade.
And they hired him for almost a million dollars because of his great, great experience.
Of course, he didn't have any experience.
He had experience in something else.
You know that.
A lot of experience.
And at that, I'm quite sure he was very good based on the fact that she called him 2,000 times.
I didn't know the gentleman.
I didn't know him.
Oh, you have 2,000 phone calls, 3,500 text messages.
How is it possible in a short...
I know a lot of people.
We like a lot of people.
I happen to have a very good relationship with a woman called Melania.
unidentified
*crowd cheers*
donald j trump
But I would venture to say in all the years that I've known her, I might not have called her 2,500 times.
I know I didn't send 3,500 text messages.
benny johnson
Okay, so this is...
Please don't get angry at me.
I'm almost thankful for Fannie Willis.
I almost want to send her a Christmas card from the Johnson family and from us, from all of us, because she gave us the mugshot.
She gave us these jokes.
She gave us Donald Trump.
donald j trump
He's good at something else.
benny johnson
Thanks for the memories, is what I want to say.
I do.
I think maybe we will.
Maybe we will.
We'll send her a thank you card.
And then we'll send her a...
Maybe a pillowcase full of cash.
I think these are the things that really warm her heart over the holidays.
Remember, she's been trained by her Black Panther father to sleep with all of her money under her pillow.
That was part of her testimony.
unidentified
I wonder why she's not testifying today.
benny johnson
Donald Trump, though, is still going in on Big Fanny.
donald j trump
And not only that, all these local cases like Fonny, Fonny.
It's spelled Fanny.
It's spelled Fanny like your ass, right, Fanny?
But when she became DA, she decided to add a little French, a little fancy, Fanny.
Fonny and, you know, Fonny and Mr. and Mrs. Wade, which his wife did not appreciate.
unidentified
Fonny.
benny johnson
Fanny!
unidentified
Fanny!
benny johnson
I'm so excited for Fanny Willis' next time on camera.
Whenever Fanny gets triggered, it sure is fun because she does speak to the local media.
Fanny did get triggered recently.
And yeah, it's too good.
We eat your tears.
We drink your tears.
Here we go.
unidentified
I'm over here paying them no mind.
See, I'm so tired of hearing these idiots call my name as Fanny in a way to attempt to humiliate me.
Because like silly schoolboys, the name reminds them of a woman's rear.
donald j trump
Guilty as charged!
benny johnson
You got us!
Guilty as charged.
We did get an opportunity to speak with Donald Trump about how much he made fun of Nathan's hot dog.
We got a chance to speak with him in person.
I don't believe that I am betraying any confidence here.
It was at the front of the UFC ring here in Miami.
And this is what it looked like.
I mean, there's not a lot of commentary here, but you can see...
This was right when he did the Nathan Wade.
This was right when he did the Nathan Wade.
And he was explaining to me.
Yeah, he was explaining to me the motion of the Nathan Wade.
I was thanking him on behalf of all of us.
All right?
I was thanking him.
I was thanking the president on behalf of all of us.
It was a great time.
Okay, it's worth it.
Thank you, ALX, for finding that gem from almost a year ago.
From almost a year ago.
But it was too...
Too much fun and too entertaining.
So we'll see what President Trump does.
We'll see what President Trump does later today.
I have a feeling he's going to talk about this and he's going to talk about what the humiliation of this case is and how it has flipped back around on Fannie Willis.
Again, Fannie Willis skipping out!
Skipping out on the subpoena.
So, we'll see.
We'll see.
We're monitoring.
Will Donald Trump be skipping out on the next debate?
I gotta tell you, I like these debates for the pure entertainment value of them.
I am not a political advisor to President Trump.
I will be happy to admit that...
I'm not a political advisor, really, to anyone.
I like the debates for the pure entertainment value.
I like Kamala Harris being exposed.
I want more of that.
I've been advocating for more debates.
But Donald Trump said yesterday that he's not going to do more debates.
Donald Trump rules out a debate rematch with Kamala Harris for the 2024 election.
This is President Trump's post yesterday.
Here's what he had to say.
Donald Trump says, when a prizefighter loses a fight, first words out of his mouth are, I want a rematch.
Polls clearly show that I won the debate against comrade Kamala Harris.
Call her commie Kamala, please.
The Democrats rattle off a candidate.
This is true, by the way.
Like, there's something up, right?
There's something up.
Why are they calling for another debate?
Like, right away.
It doesn't pass a smell test.
This is Gene and Crooked Joe have destroyed our country and millions of criminals, bankrupting the middle class, so on and so forth.
Everyone knows this.
All the other problems are caused by Kamala and Joe.
It was discussed in great detail in the first debate.
And the second debate with Comrade Kamala.
She is a no-show for the Fox debate and refused to do NBC-CBS.
Kamala should focus on what she should have done during the last four years period.
There will be no third debate, says Trump.
Now, could this be a negotiation tactic?
Yes, this could absolutely be a Trump negotiation tactic.
Now, I would fully, I will not support Donald Trump going into another rigged bear trap against him.
Where potentially the candidates have the questions in advance.
They obviously have every...
And we're going to get to the ABC News whistleblower affidavit in a second.
This is, I think, something very interesting.
A lot of people are talking about it and we're going to tell you what we know and what we don't know.
Here's what we do know about the debate.
Donald Trump walked obviously into a trap.
This is something that I think is really important.
We can't keep doing this as a party.
It is, the debate can't happen without both parties agreeing.
But what we end up doing is we end up agreeing to, anybody watch Monty Python, like when the knight has all of his, it's like a famous scene where the knight has all of his legs and arms cut off, and he's still trying to fight, and he's just like pretty much a bloody stump.
This is what Republicans do at these debates.
They cut our arms and our legs off and expect it and call it a fair fight.
It's not true.
The end of Gladiator, right?
When Maximus gets stabbed in the side before he's supposed to take the field of battle against the Emperor?
It's rigged.
It's not a real fight.
I think Maximus, bloodied as he is, still comes out on top, obviously, at the end of the Gladiator movie.
And I think Donald Trump still came out on top at the end of this.
Nonetheless, he was shivved.
What are the institutional biases?
One, the way they put up the cameras, the way they custom build the debate stage.
The way they set it all up, the lighting, all of it.
It's Hollywood magic for Kamala Harris.
And it's set up to make Trump look bad.
Kamala Harris has a sorority sisterhood with one of the anchors.
She has a sisterhood with the ABC News executive in charge of the debate.
She set her up with her husband.
This is like the matchmaker that put together Kamala's relationship in the first place.
You don't think they're going to put together a debate that's going to be totally and completely rigged against Trump?
Of course they did.
Donald Trump should not walk into any more of these traps and no Republican should ever walk into these traps.
We have the negotiating power.
One, we have the entire country on our side and our policies are the winning policies of the nation.
Kamala Harris in this debate really argued as a Republican on every issue except for abortion.
She argued as a Republican on all of it, on taxes, on housing, on immigration.
We've won, and they know that.
The only way that they can rig it against us, since we have all the populace on our side and Donald Trump's winning in all the polls, is to put on a debate like that where Donald Trump has his arms and legs cut off before they even say, go, fight.
And so we shouldn't ever do it again.
I'm repulsed at the fact that it continues to happen.
It was Candy Crowley times 10,000, if you understand that reference, where Candy Crowley illegally and wrongfully fact-checked Mitt Romney.
I know it's hard to imagine, but Mitt Romney was rolling against Barack Obama.
He was beating Barack Obama in these debates and doing quite okay.
He was doing okay in the polls.
He was doing well and he was defeating Barack Obama in these debates and really changing a lot of people's minds that Candy Crowley comes, you know, schlomps in there and does an illegal, because there should be no fact-checking in these debates, That should be done by the candidates, not by the moderators.
Period.
CNN practiced that, and good on them.
They, like, completely slice the guy's knees out from under him.
Mitt Romney.
I'm no fan of Mitt Romney, obviously.
But why are we blindly walking into that same trap again?
It should never happen again.
Maybe this is leverage point for Donald Trump to say, we're going to do a debate on Fox News, and it's going to be Jesse Watters hosting with special guest Tucker Carlson.
Good!
Because that is actually, that is setting the energy correct in the universe.
Like Thanos, that's like a balanced universe.
Because Kamala Harris has got her horribly rigged debate where literally her family members and sorority sisters are the ones running the debate.
Donald Trump should do the same thing.
Maybe this is a negotiating tactic to say, hey, okay, fine.
Fine.
You want this debate so badly because they need another shot at Trump.
donald j trump
They do.
benny johnson
Pardon the phrasing there.
They need another shot at Trump.
So maybe this is the point.
Here's what President Trump said about his decision at a rally yesterday concerning the debates.
donald j trump
But when a prize fighter loses a fight, you've seen a lot of fights, right?
The first words out of that fighter's mouth is, I want a rematch.
I want a rematch.
And that's what she said.
I want a rematch.
Polls clearly show that I won the debate against comrade Kamala Harris.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald j trump
And as you probably know, because you know, when you say Harris, does anybody know who Harris is?
Now, Kamala is a very different kind of a word.
Nice name.
Very nice name.
But you know her as Kamala.
You don't know her as Harris.
When you say Harris, everyone says, who the hell is that?
unidentified
Right?
donald j trump
But she immediately called for a second debate, which means that she was like a price fighter that lost the fight.
We had two debates, though.
I had a debate with Crooked Joe Biden, right?
And I had another debate with her.
She and Crooked Joe have destroyed our country with millions of criminals and mentally deranged people pouring into the USA, totally unchecked, unvetted, and with inflation bankrupting our middle class.
It has gotten bad.
Everyone knows this and all of the other problems caused by Kamala and Joe.
It was discussed in great detail during the first debate with Joe and the second debate with Comrade Harris.
benny johnson
So the question is, what is the best way to get Trump's message out there to the people?
That's the question.
Now, you'll see here in a moment, when we broadcast Donald Trump Live, we do have a live shot of the podium now.
This just went live.
Wow, this is awesome.
unidentified
This is pretty cool.
benny johnson
At a golf course, I think, in Los Angeles is where it is.
So this is just going live.
Security there.
This is where President Trump is going to speak today.
Obviously not speaking yet.
When he does, we'll cut to it.
What's the best way for Trump to get his message out there?
There's a lot on the line.
Is the best way for Trump to get his message out there, like speaking with Elon Musk, Theo Vaughn, and some of the biggest podcasters in the world go on Joe Rogan?
Yes, actually.
Is it to walk into a trap and get shivved in the back by Kamala's best friends?
And throaty, fifth earth, pinky swear.
Yeah, that's a bad way, actually, to do that.
That's a horrendous way to get your message out there.
Is it good for President Trump to sort of grab the fact that the kinetic energy of the internet and to say, listen, I am culture.
I'm Donald Trump.
I'm culture.
Donald Trump, they're eating the cats.
They're eating the dogs.
It's like the biggest song on TikTok right now.
Gold medal Olympians are dancing to it.
I'm eating the cats.
I mean, they're eating the cats.
They're eating the dogs.
Like, this is culture.
This is something that went thermonuclear on our feed yesterday.
This is how you win.
This is, I don't know how many views, let's look at the numbers here.
Donald Trump found out that Liam had a rare brain hormone disorder and he sent Liam a letter.
He's got millions of views.
He's got 31,000 likes.
He's got 116,000, 31,000 shares.
We've got 116,000 likes.
Yeah, this is, ladies and gentlemen, is far better than Donald Trump availing himself to journalistic assassins once more.
Here we go.
unidentified
Here for me.
Can you read it?
Out loud?
Here.
Sure.
It says, Dear Liam, Happy 8th birthday.
Mrs. Trump and I hope you enjoy this special occasion surrounded by the love of your family and friends.
We are so encouraged by the strength and determination you have shown throughout your young life and send our love and best wishes to you as you continue to fight.
Remember you are never alone and we are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers for continued health.
For continued care and good health.
May God bless you and your family.
Stay strong sincerely.
Can you tell me who signed that?
He knew it was your birthday coming up?
What do you say to him?
Thank you.
I love you.
What else do you say?
*cough* it.
benny johnson
I apologize for the technical difficulties here in the studio, ladies and gentlemen.
Turns out we're starting a cooking show, and we're prepping some onions right now, and they're being cut right next to me.
And I apologize.
That's what's going on.
I'm not getting emotional watching that, of course.
I would never do that on camera.
As a father of four, I don't feel that deeply.
Especially since every parent has children who go through tough times medically, right?
This is just a fact of life.
Is that better than every solitary second that Donald Trump spends on the debate stage with these childless scum from ABC News who are there to destroy him and do not have any intentions other than to malign?
Smear and slander this man who does these beautiful acts?
Yeah, this is better.
This is better.
And so I really hope that Donald Trump doesn't...
I really actually hope that Donald Trump does not ever say yes to another debate on these networks or on these platforms.
I hope he continues to do this.
I think this is how you win.
This type of activity was what had Trump up 5, 6, and 7 points in many of the polls and up 10 points against Joe Biden.
This is what it says to have a soul when you have still a spark of humanity left in you.
This is what you can accomplish and deliver.
And Donald Trump should run on this energy.
This energy.
That's the energy that saves America.
So did and will Donald Trump do another debate?
Is the reason why he's not going to do another debate partly because ABC rigged the debate and gave the questions in advance.
I want to touch on this very briefly because this is a developing story.
Here's the source.
Yesterday, there was a source that says there's an affidavit that says ABC News, there's a sign-sworn legal affidavit that says ABC News gave the questions and commentary in advance to Kamala Harris along with the assurances that Donald Trump would be the one getting fact-checked and she wouldn't get fact-checked.
This was shared quite widely, including by the president.
It is speculation as of this point.
ABC has denied it.
I mean, you know, okay.
I mean, you sort of expect that.
We're going to wait and see what the affidavit says, actually.
And we're going to look at this story like we look at every single story.
There's no such thing as a conspiracy theory.
There's just theories.
Prove what you say with facts and let those facts bear out, right?
And we'll cover it.
We'll cover those things.
You deserve to know this.
It's one of the largest trending topics in the country.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, here's the reporting on it from this morning, ABC News, denying...
That it's denying that they gave Kamala the questions in advance.
Why does this story have legs?
Why does it work?
It works because they did this with Hillary.
This is not a theory.
This is a reality that Donald Brazil gave the questions in advance to Hillary Clinton.
So why don't we look into this?
Ask the hard questions and see who has the proof, right?
We'll wait today to see what the affidavit said.
And we'll move on from there.
Somebody who's always bringing receipts and somebody who always has the proof and has some very interesting things to say about this debate is the great Julie Kelly, who is standing by as we await Donald Trump speaking today.
And I'm sure she has something to say about Kamala Harris's debate performance, especially where Kamala Harris was on January 6th.
Julie Kelly, currently joining us live now.
unidentified
I'm going to talk to you about the next episode.
benny johnson
Julie, how are you?
Good morning.
julie kelly
Good morning, Benny.
What a week.
Another crazy week.
Thanks for having me on TGIF.
benny johnson
Oh, TGIF.
It's free for all Friday.
Okay, so the president may speak at any time, so I just want to let you know we are going to be covering that press conference.
He's not speaking yet, but he was speaking earlier this week at the debate podium where he was asked a question about January 6th.
And Kamala Harris gave this performative, very canned and pre-scripted answer.
This is probably why there's also legs to this whole, she got the questions in advance, because it really did read like a movie script.
It really did read like a performance, but that's just speculation.
Here's what's not speculation.
Where was Kamala Harris on January 6th?
Because she told the whole world, I was at the Capitol.
julie kelly
Right, so this is very odd, Benny, and this just adds another layer of suspicion to the circumstances surrounding both pipe bombs that were discovered outside the RNC headquarters and then at the DNC headquarters within 20-25 minutes of each other on January 6th.
She has intimated several times on the rare occasion she's asked about January 6th that she was at the Capitol.
She was not at the Capitol.
She had been at the Capitol earlier for a Senate intelligence briefing.
She left for inexplicable reasons at 1120 that morning, went to the DNC headquarters where her Secret Service detail missed the pipe bomb.
Bomb-sniffing canines missed the pipe bomb.
Capitol Police, Metro Police, bystanders, passers-by.
We were told the device was planted the night before.
You had all of these law enforcement...
Officials and agents who were looking around the area.
She came within 20 feet of this alleged device, we were told, by the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security.
But here she is lying on the national stage saying she was at the Capitol.
How terrifying it was when she was at the DNC from 1120 until 117 when she was evacuated after the discovery of the pipe bomb.
Why is she lying, Benny?
Why is she never answered for the fact she left the Capitol not only as the incoming vice president, a sitting U.S. senator who was going to be part of the proceedings that day?
We've never gotten an answer.
All the Secret Service texts, as you know, have been deleted, which we have talked about.
So was she part of the original hoax?
Was she part of what was going to be a stunt to demand the evacuation of the Capitol that day so the proceedings would not?
Continue, meaning the debate over the results of the election in contested states.
So, but of course, Benny, there's no fact checking on that.
She also lied about that police officers died on January 6th.
No police officers died as a result of January 6th.
Brian Sicknick tragically died January 7th after suffering a stroke.
Had nothing to do with what happened on January 6th.
More lies cover up an obfuscation.
No fact-checking, and I'm sure no reporter will follow up with her about what she said.
benny johnson
I want to just take an opportunity to cut this as clean as we possibly can.
Here is what Kamala Harris said about January 6th.
There was a lot said on the debate stage.
There's a lot of emotions going around.
Here is a very short clip of what she actually said.
unidentified
The question was about you as president, not about former Speaker Pelosi, but I do want Vice President Harris to respond here.
kamala harris
I was at the Capitol on January 6th.
I was the vice president-elect.
I was also an acting senator.
I was there.
And on that day, the President of the United States incited a violent mob to attack our nation's Capitol, to desecrate.
I'm not sure if you're going to go to the next day.
I'm not sure if you're going to dominate our nation's capital.
On that day, 140 law enforcement officers were injured and some died.
benny johnson
And understand, the former Okay, so I want to just preface this by saying that what Kamala Harris is doing here makes no sense from an animalistic standpoint because what she's doing is feeding The victim position where MAGA terrorists planted a pipe bomb that could have harmed me or my secret service.
And I walked within minutes of it.
That is the thing that cannot...
That is the thing that breaks my brain.
I don't pretend to be an expert on this, Julie, but these people never miss an opportunity to call themselves the victim.
Her entire DNC speech is about her being a victim.
Her entire DNC speech is about Michelle Obama.
Oh, we're so upset when people take more than they deserve, says the lady with seven private island homes, mansions.
I'm saying that it's hard-coded in their DNA that they must claim victimhood status at every opportunity, and yet there is Kamala Harris' perfect opportunity to look Trump in the eye and go, your supporters planted a bomb.
julie kelly
Right.
benny johnson
And she misses it?
unidentified
Makes no sense.
julie kelly
That's such a great point.
I mean, why hasn't she said specifically over and over for three and a half years?
I was almost assassinated by a MAGA bomber on January 6th.
I came within 20 feet of this device.
They tried to kill me.
A sitting U.S. senator.
First female woman of color vice president ever in American history.
And the FBI, let's go back to the details too.
Why is she not angry that the FBI, despite all of the resources, it is still using Benny?
To investigate, arrest, and prosecute J6 protesters.
We still had new arrests this week, believe it or not.
Why isn't she outraged that the FBI has not identified the MAGA pipe bomber who almost took her life and the lives of those around her in her Secret Service detail?
It's the same thing.
Why isn't Gretchen Whitmer livid at the FBI for their involvement in getting these men, alleged kidnappers, to try to kidnap and kill her?
So the misplaced anger, the lies, the cover-up, really, again, just raises questions about really what happened with this pipe bomb situation, both at the DNC and RNC.
But yes, why hasn't she talked about her victimhood?
And why, when asked directly, does she continue to misrepresent where she was and what she...
Did.
And why won't one reporter ask her, why did you leave the Capitol at 1120 and go to the DNC and stay there until 117?
Joint session of Congress started at 1 o 'clock.
Why didn't she go back?
So, I mean, this is just more list of questions for her.
In addition, Benny, let's keep in mind, on the night before the 23rd anniversary of 9-11, to remember that Kamala Harris has compared January 6th to 9-11.
That alone is disqualifying for anyone who thinks that they want to be President of the United States.
What an outrage.
What an insult to the loved ones of the nearly 3,000 individuals murdered that day.
benny johnson
What we're seeing here on the screen, from your footage, is Kamala Harris arriving at the DNC.
julie kelly
Correct.
unidentified
This is...
benny johnson
This is the hard physical evidence to prove exactly where she was and to prove that she lied on the debate stage.
Yes?
julie kelly
Correct.
And we also have footage from Will Pope that shows security surveillance video footage from the Capitol showing her leaving at 11:20.
Now, of course, this is just a few blocks away from the Capitol, but those are her security detail.
The bomb, which of course, again, we don't have video of the location where the pipe bomb was found, but it's just to the right of that screen.
There were two benches outside the exterior door.
You could see those officers walking from the direction of where the pipe bomb was allegedly planted and found.
How did they miss it?
It was under a shrub between these two bushes.
It wasn't like it was buried deep in the hedges.
Once it was allegedly discovered, the photo that we were shown...
Shows that it's pretty obvious.
So how did all of those agents?
And this is after three hours, Benny, of D.C. Metro, Capitol Police, other law enforcement agencies had been in and out of that area prior to her arrival.
So that just speaks to other video that we've showed and I've talked about with you at 12.51 p.m., 10 minutes before the joint session of Congress began.
An individual, unidentified individual, gets out of a DC Metro SUV.
He has a backpack on.
He walks out of the frame, exactly where I'm saying, to the right of where this video footage ends.
He walks out of that frame, two minutes later, right to the vicinity again, where this bomb was allegedly found, walks back into the frame, and gets back in the SUV.
That seems to suggest this individual planted this stunt device.
A device the FBI said was viable and deadly, by the way, which of course it wasn't, that perhaps it appears that this individual put that device there and then was discovered about 10 minutes later by a plainclothes Capitol Police officer.
benny johnson
So the entire thing was a hoax.
This is your professional investigative opinion.
If this was a hoax that was set up, perhaps, I mean, the utility of this would be...
And in case you need any further proof, here's Kamala Harris actually leaving the Capitol building.
Amazing how this footage actually exists, and David Muir didn't watch this clip.
He fact-checks whether Donald Trump was being sarcastic enough in his commentary about losing by a whisker, but he won't fact-check this.
unidentified
Well, I've seen the footage, and I'm going to fact-check your sarcasm, sir.
benny johnson
Frauds, scum, so despicable, these jackasses.
But here we go.
This is, you're not able, this is Kamala Harris leaving before January 6th, the Capitol.
There's no emergency.
She's walking out.
There she is.
Plain as day.
And so, I guess, you know, the next question that must be asked here is, what was the utility of this plot?
Was the utility of this plot to say that there was terrorism?
Regardless of what happened that afternoon, there was going to be some type of terrorism element to it?
That was fabricated by the feds?
To smear Trump?
Was that it?
julie kelly
Well, look, the Democrats and people like Mitch McConnell wanted the proceedings of January 6th to stop, not the certification process.
This is so important that people need to recall.
You had senators and members of the House under the Electoral Count Act allowed one senator.
One House member.
They were going to take about 12 hours, Benny, to publicly vet all of the voting and election fraud in those contested states.
They were going to call for, they had 14 or 16 senators, if I recall correctly, who were going to call for a 10-day audit of the electoral outcomes in those states.
Nancy Pelosi didn't want that.
Mitch McConnell begged his Republican caucus not to engage in that, warned on the floor before this started this would be a huge mistake to spend the next several hours vetting the election fraud and calling for this 10-day audit.
It is the Democrats and never Trump Republicans who wanted the proceedings of January 6th shut down.
So let's just game this out.
She's at the DNC.
It already had prompted the discovery of the pipe bomb, had already prompted evacuations or lockdowns of nearby congressional buildings.
As you know, not everyone works in the Capitol building.
There's Senate buildings and there's House buildings.
So just imagine that, and this is what people like Dan Bongino have called Plan A. Oh my gosh, Kamala Harris is at the DNC.
A pipe bomb was found there.
A pipe bomb was found outside the RNC.
This is a few blocks from the Capitol.
We have to shut down the Capitol.
We have to evacuate the Capitol.
We can't have these proceedings begin.
This all happened around the same time.
But, turns out, maybe it was too risky of a plan.
And then they didn't need it because they had the breach teams, including Ray Epps, who had already breached the exterior lines about 1253.
So all of this is happening at the same time.
So as you have protesters coming in, you have agitators coming in, whether they're people like Ray Epps or confidential human sources from the FBI who we know were there embedded in these militia groups.
So then it just kind of took on.
It's own course.
So maybe then they abandon the whole, we have to evacuate the Capitol because of these pipe bombs.
We just don't know.
And we can't know because, as I said, the text belonging to two dozen secret service officials, including the director, including people like Kim Cheadle, who was on the Protective Services Bureau at the time on January 6th, 2021, all those texts were deleted, purged for good, never recovered.
So we can't hear what the Secret Service agents, both at the Ellipse or the White House or certainly the DNC, were saying about all the events as they were unfolding.
We also don't have records and documents.
They've refused to turn over.
The Secret Service and DHS has refused to turn over records to the Inspector General, who filed his report indicating that she had been within 20 feet of this alleged device.
So the mystery continues, and now her...
Talking about it, lying about it, even amplifies and I think really demands more congressional action about this DNC and RNC pipe bomb.
The suspect never identified, charged, or certainly convicted.
Still at large, this MAGA pipe bomber, Benny.
You know, another thing.
And one other, I know I keep adding to this.
The J-6 committee, Benny Thompson told Representative Tom Massey, The J6 committee never investigated what happened with the pipe bombs.
They never interviewed the people, including the woman who allegedly found the one at the RNC.
They didn't even cover this.
He had no idea what Tom Massey was talking about when he was showing some of this video.
The January 6th report, 837 pages, mentions the pipe bomb five times.
That's it.
It was completely buried.
Kudos to some in the House Republicans who are starting to let this footage be made available and also some other records and suspicious surroundings.
But we need to do a lot more to find out everything that happened, including why Kamala Harris went there and why she stayed there.
benny johnson
It's going to be some speculation on your part, but maybe you could answer sort of a lingering question for me, which is...
What do you think is inside of those Secret Service messages that would be so damning?
I'm aware that we probably will never know.
They are somewhere.
They do exist somewhere, right?
And so there could be a moment where you get the right administration.
We find them.
However, they clearly must have shown something that did not align with the script.
And so what do you believe they would show?
julie kelly
I mean, maybe they would demonstrate the orchestration between the Secret Service and other...
Law enforcement agencies, including Capitol Police and including D.C. Metro, to put sort of this whole operation together at the DNC, at least, perhaps even at the RNC, where the pipe bomb was discovered around 1240 by a government contractor, a woman named Carlin Younger.
We'll have a lot more reporting on this.
She worked for FirstNet.
Which is the public-private partnership of first responders.
She was very involved in the law enforcement community in Washington, D.C. She just happened to find the pipe bomb that she was going to do her laundry.
And Dan Bongino said he talked to a whistleblower who said that he thinks the person who found the pipe bomb was a government contractor.
Well, was she part of this operation?
We don't know.
She's only been interviewed by the FBI once.
The J6 Committee never interviewed her.
And I think there's some pressure to get her in for another interview.
So what would those Secret Service texts, in the best case scenario, how they missed this device, right?
All of their back and forth.
How did we miss this?
We had canines.
We had all of these officers and agents.
What happened?
Or the dark side of it is that it shows, you know, now what we know, Secret Service, an agency that with crumbling credibility, taking some sort of a role in putting the
benny johnson
Man, it is hard to do stories like this because it is dark when you realize that so many people, including those who are responsible with the protection of the president, are...
Well, I mean, I guess doing their best to make sure that we are lied to, and at worst, make sure that the president is horribly unsafe.
We can't let you go, Julie, without getting your response to Dick Blumenthal yesterday.
This is a clip that went incredibly viral, where Blumenthal, who hates Trump viscerally, comes out and says, yo, we got a problem here.
We got a problem here.
The Secret Service, the American public are going to be disgusted.
And enraged when they find out what the Secret Service failures are here.
And I don't know if this is the dam breaking or I guess the way that Democrats play this kind of stuff.
They cushion the blows and try and like step away from the radioactive zone.
I'm not sure.
You've seen a lot of Democrat lies on these issues.
A lot of covering your ass.
What do you make of this commentary from Dick Blumenthal?
unidentified
I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished, and full of minds.
What we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt, the former president.
But I think they also ought to be appalled and astonished by the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to be more forthcoming, to be as candid and frank as it should be to them in terms of providing information.
We are going to absolutely insist on the truth and the whole truth in documents and testimony as members of the United States Senate, but also as citizens.
What did you learn new today when you said they're going to be a poll?
I'm not going to go into what we have learned in specifics.
I'm giving you my reaction.
And we will have a report very, very soon that it will absolutely shock the American people.
It should.
benny johnson
So, we're not used to Democrats talking like this.
I'm not here to buy anything hook, line, and sinker from people who lie to us for a living, but your thoughts on this?
julie kelly
I mean, I think I share your shock at Senator Blumenthal saying something that seems to indicate there is great malfeasance, corruption, or something worse.
That would happen on July 13th.
So, you know, you hate to be put in a position where you're trusting any Democrat, but he seemed with those comments to be sincere.
And so let's hope that he is.
You know, let's hope that this is one issue where Republicans and Democrats in Washington can come together and find out the truth and tell the American people and hold people.
Accountable and responsible, regardless of who the target is, this still resulted in the death, the murder of one man, and the near killing of two others.
And I'm sure they're uncovering a lot of other issues with the Secret Service, as we've already found out.
We can't have an agency responsible for protecting our top lawmakers and officials that is opaque.
That is corrupt, that is dishonest, deceitful, and again, tries to cover up their own inaction or their own misconduct.
So let's hope that that's a little sign that we actually will get the truth, because I don't think anyone believes we're going to get it from the Secret Service or certainly from the FBI.
benny johnson
Yeah, according to Josh Hawley there.
The DHS is telling Secret Service not to comply with congressional subpoenas.
We did a documentary on this.
We're the only people who've actually done a documentary on it.
It's one of the most interesting stories in political history.
How Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt and walked away with a bloody deer.
And this is how a presidential candidate ate a bullet and walked away to survive.
This is a very fascinating story.
Yet it falls to our independent team on YouTube and Rumble.
And social media to go and actually look into the facts.
I guess the question that I have is there are parallels to the pipe bomb story where the novel non-curiousness of the corporate media on this topic underlies to me and signals to me that there is something so much darker and so much deeper here.
And there is a pipe bomb collusion and coordination that...
julie kelly
Well, right.
I mean, I think a lot of people are wondering how Thomas Crooks, this 20 year old...
Was able to put together what appears to be a very sophisticated explosive device.
How did that happen?
You know, explosives are always part of sort of these operations or entrapment.
We saw this in the Whitmer Fednapping hoax.
Certainly, that was a big part of keeping the group together towards the end was building an explosive to use outside of Gretchen Whitmer's home.
So I think that there is some sort of a tie there.
But certainly, you know, the Secret Service not cooperating with the pipe bomb investigation.
They did not.
And then further appears they're really dragging their feet on this investigation as well.
And you have members of Congress who have said based on their mishandling or their cover up and.
Foot-dragging and really stonewalling the investigation into the pipe bombs is an indication that they will not get cooperation in the attempted assassination investigation as well.
benny johnson
No curiosity at all.
It is the lack of curiosity.
It's like with Springfield.
It's like with the Springfield thing, eating the cats and dogs.
If it was so easy to debunk, send your reporters out there.
Spend some resources and send your reporters out there.
Get the story.
We have social media channels and we were able to go to Butler, Pennsylvania.
You didn't see any other reporters out there.
I was alone.
We were standing there alone days after Trump's assassination.
There was no one.
There was nothing.
They'd scrubbed the evidence.
Now we know that Thomas Crooks' body had been incinerated before any independent investigation could be done.
And it just smacked of a cover-up, quite frankly.
Same with the Pipe Bomber, right?
Don't they have his shoes?
Don't they have the Pipe Bomber's clothes?
So they clearly have the guy's DNA?
And they haven't released the name?
Try putting on your shoes without leaving your DNA on the shoes.
Not possible.
julie kelly
Right.
benny johnson
Yeah.
julie kelly
And even more so, when he was interviewed, Stephen DeAntuano, who was the head of the Washington FBI field office.
He oversaw the entire January 6th investigation, also the pipe bomb investigation, when he was pressed by House Republicans in 2023.
He said, yes, we did get the data from about seven cell phone providers.
Oh, but one of the files was corrupted.
And OG, knowing our luck, it was probably the provider by the MAGA pipe bomber.
So many coincidences, right?
So many.
Or maybe he did make it up.
benny johnson
Yeah, there you go.
Yes, that's right.
If this was a Hollywood plot, then we'd be walking out of the movie midway through.
You'd be like, this is unreasonable and annoying and going nowhere and obviously very poorly written.
And we're not going to get any type of resolution here.
Ladies and gentlemen, the great Julie Kelly declassified live her substack.
You got to go check it out.
She's got millions of followers on X. She has beautiful little doggies that I know.
I know the current news.
She's protecting her dogs.
And she's an animal lover and a lover of truth.
And so please follow Julie Kelly in her work.
707,000 followers.
Look at that, Julie.
julie kelly
I'll catch up with you one day, Benny.
I only have a million or so to go.
unidentified
So we'll see how that works out.
benny johnson
We love you, Julie.
We say thank you.
God bless you.
Speaking truth is the most important and dangerous thing you can actually do these days.
They don't like it, which means you got to keep doing it.
So thank you, Julie.
julie kelly
Thank you, Benny.
Thanks for covering my work.
Really appreciate it.
benny johnson
Godspeed.
unidentified
Godspeed.
benny johnson
you you you you Ladies and gentlemen, here is the live shot of President Trump.
President Trump will be holding a press conference.
In Rancho Palos Verdes.
I believe, given the shot that we have of the president's sort of dais that's been set up.
Here's Trump going on.
This is the best traffic you'll ever see in L.A., man.
You got to travel like Trump.
Yo!
You got to travel like Trump.
This is what you want to see.
Holy smokes.
Have you ever seen anything like this?
Fun fact, I was born in L.A. Fun fact.
Fun fact.
My parents, who were recovering Midwesterners, moved out West, and that's where our family started.
During the Rodney King race riots, they quickly moved back to the Midwest.
Yeah, not to Springfield, Ohio, though.
So this is the shot of President Trump.
This is the shot of the podium, please.
I thought that this was at Donald Trump's golf course.
Am I wrong, Alex?
This is not Trump's golf course.
This is a live shot, ladies and gentlemen.
Live shot of the podium at Donald Trump's golf course.
Yes, confirmed.
The beautiful Pacific Ocean in the background.
And quite a scene for the president.
Is the president going to be speaking?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, he is scheduled to be speaking at noon Eastern Standard Time.
He's on West Coast time.
So he might be a few minutes late.
Nonetheless, we will cut right to it when President Trump takes the mic.
These have been very, very entertaining in the past.
One of the last times he did this at his club, he brought out a bunch of cereal boxes and home prices and prices of goods, and he had a big set behind him.
I don't see that here, but we'll see.
Maybe he'll tee off.
You can see there's a spot.
The tee off right there.
I'm not sure which hole of the golf course, but maybe that's what Trump will do, right?
He'll just let her rip.
So we await President Trump here, and we jump further into some of the more interesting announcements that Donald Trump has been making.
This is one that has made all of the rounds yesterday.
Donald Trump, no tax on overtime announcements.
President Trump slicing and dicing the tax.
How can you be against this?
How can you be against this in the current economy?
This is what a populist movement does.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, we're not really Republicans.
I am a member of the Republican Party, okay?
I will tell you, this is how I vote, and this is my registration.
But it's more like America first.
And I want to say, as we shadowbox sort of with Vivek, and as we craft the messaging into the future, and as we're very close with some of the younger, more dynamic creators in the space, this is...
The direction to go.
Because these are the things that actually unite everyone in the country.
Let's talk to my wife about this this morning.
You know what's unifying?
And they're doing this here.
You can see this.
This is funny.
It's like the sound test here.
You can see the sound test.
This is not Donald Trump.
Not Donald Trump speaking.
No.
It's just the dude doing the sound test.
But I think quite funny.
So, you know what's uniting?
To the country?
What is America first?
And what I've learned, like, even going and speaking with, like, Hamas supporters and people like that?
Do you want to spend the treasure of this nation on foreign wars?
It's like 90% of the country says no!
Do you care about Putin or Zelensky?
No!
Do you care about what's going on in the Middle East?
No!
They've been having conflict since the dawn of time.
Since millennia before America even existed.
Like, it's...
Tens of thousands of miles away.
5,000 miles away from our shores, from our borders.
Spend our money here.
This nation is in shambles.
People are in need here.
We do not want unlimited criminal migration from the third world.
Stop it.
These are like winning issues.
You're talking like 80 and 90% issues here.
Yes, yes, we hate foreign wars.
No, we don't want innocent people to die.
Yes, we believe that both sides of war is pretty much two devils fighting each other.
That is what I believe.
There are no angels in war.
It's pretty much just two devils, all right?
And I don't want to be on the side of the devil.
I want to be on the side of, like, the American people and bettering our lives.
And that's what America First actually looks like.
When was the last time you heard a policy from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris that had anything to do with this country and the improvement of life in this country for people who are Native Americans, meaning people who were born here?
Were you born here?
You're a Native American.
That's what it means.
Like, I was born here.
My parents were born here.
My grandparents were born here.
Like, that means I have heels to dig into the soil, and it's mine.
It's like part of my, it's my lore.
It's our origin story.
And so, like, the candidate that actually supports those people should be the guy winning, okay?
Here's what those policies look like.
No tax on overtime.
donald j trump
I'm also announcing that as part of our additional tax cuts, we will end all taxes on overtime.
You know what that means?
Think of that.
unidentified
Thank you, sir.
donald j trump
That gives people more of an incentive to work.
It gives the companies a lot.
It's a lot easier to get the people.
And, you know, I went to some economists, great ones, and I said, what do you think?
They said, it would be unbelievable.
You'll get a whole new workforce by doing that.
No taxes on overtime.
The people who work overtime are among the hardest working citizens in our country.
And for too long, no one in Washington has been looking out for them.
Those are the people.
They really work.
They're police officers, nurses, factory workers, construction workers, truck drivers, and machine operators.
It's time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break, and that's what we're doing because this is a good one.
And I think it's going to be great for the country.
benny johnson
Is this better than Donald Trump on ABC?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
Ladies and gentlemen, once again, Donald Trump will be speaking soon.
We just got a...
I just got notified by my producers that there are questions for the press.
Donald Trump will be taking live questions from the press.
There are microphones set up for the press to walk up to and to take questions and to ask questions.
So we're going to have some major back and forth happening here momentarily live for you in California with President Trump speaking soon.
Ladies and gentlemen, the polling populism is popular.
Here we go, Rasmussen.
Well, okay, we'll start with Michigan.
Here's a, you know, roll the dice, killer client.
So we have Donald Trump up in Michigan.
Ooh, baby.
Donald Trump up in Michigan.
This poll was taken after the debate.
This poll was taken after the debate.
Turns out the people of Michigan don't want their cats and dogs to be eaten.
Good.
Good on ya.
Donald Trump up one in Michigan.
This is wild, man.
This is terrifying.
We haven't seen Trump up in Michigan.
Michigan's been one of those stubborn ones where Kamala Harris is sort of stuck.
Even Joe Biden did well in Michigan.
Now Trump is up one.
Joe Biden was up three, even at his worst.
Check this out from Rasmussen for all the doomers out there.
unidentified
Now Kamala, Kamala, she's up.
benny johnson
Hold your horses, baby.
Don't eat your horses.
Hold your horses.
There it is.
Trump has a six-point lead in the Daily Tracker right after the debate.
People are fired up.
President Trump getting millions and millions of views on TikTok.
Go ahead and pull that for me.
It's one of the more fascinating situations that we see right now that Donald Trump is dominating on social media.
The vast majority of people just got to understand the vast majority of people who are watching these debates already made up their minds.
They're watching it for the spectacle.
It's kind of like a sporting event.
And if they're watching it live, like everyone else has seen clips online.
And so who's winning there?
Let's pull up Donald Trump's TikTok response.
These were posted on ABC News.
So both closing statements from both candidates were posted on ABC News and Donald Trump completely and totally mogging.
So the polls swinging in Donald Trump's direction or staying stubbornly consistent with where we are because, well, again, what Donald Trump is speaking to is...
The American people to culture was...
Okay, well, we got it.
Okay, well, here you go.
Okay.
Trump's closing statement has now surpassed 23 million views on ABC.
That's six times more than Kamala at 4.4.
Let's rip those and make sure that we can...
Let's rip those and make sure that we can play them.
I think that'll be quite interesting.
What also was quite interesting and actually did surprise me, I mean, at my core, and I do this for a living, and we consider ourselves quite good technicians online and with the viral space, this got out of left field for me.
You will never find a TikTok of me dancing.
You will never find a TikTok of me doing the shimmy, okay?
And it's not something that I'm going to do.
It's not something that I'm at all gifted at that will not exist, all right, on the internet.
However, and maybe that makes me disconnected from dance culture and music culture, but Donald Trump has the number one song in the world right now that has people shaking their asses all across the internet on the no-eating-the-cats, no-eating-the-dogs banger.
Let's go.
unidentified
They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
Eat the cat, eat the cat, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, eat the cat, eat the cat They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats, eat the cat, eat the cat.
benny johnson
Eat the cats!
Donald Trump is culture.
And they can't, no matter how much they try and rig the debates and try and rig the headlines, try and rig the polls, try and put up fake suppression polls, they cannot defeat this.
They cannot defeat the kinetic power of President Trump.
And actually, we have been able to take some of these, we've been able to destroy lives through this.
We didn't actually know this yesterday.
But we really hurt the feelings of a little socialist, Meme maker and musician who posted this song, a version of this song, and it is a fascinating tale of the internet, well, gone beautifully right and horribly wrong for someone else.
So here's what happened.
I was scrolling yesterday.
Make sure we load this up, boys.
I was scrolling yesterday, and I saw a really funny video.
A remix of Donald Trump saying, eat the dog, eat the cat.
And I want to play the video, please.
And I said, this is hilarious.
This is really, really good.
And it featured this left-wing streamer named Hassan Piker.
Maybe you know him.
Guy's a soy lunatic and is quite excruciating and embarrassing and very cringe.
He sits in a little box and he's like...
You know, streams propaganda all day.
He was watching the debate, and they remixed his reaction to Donald Trump saying, you know, eat the dogs, eat the cats.
And it's a banger.
What I didn't know is that the person who created it didn't intend this clip to be used as, you know, a MAGA banger.
But we stole your memes.
We took your memes.
All your memes belong to us.
We took your memes.
They're ours.
We've seized the memes of production.
And the guy started freaking out online.
And he lost his mind.
And he got very...
He started crying and mewling.
He even changed his handle to...
He changed his handle to Benny Eats S. Try not to swear.
Try not to swear on the channel.
Benny can eat S. I think it's funny.
I think this is great.
I think this proves that we're doing our job here.
And then he said, he updated my display name.
Let's scroll down.
Because I said, I think this is funny.
I'm stuck like this now!
unidentified
Let me change it back!
benny johnson
I'm so sorry this is happening to you.
Oh, we're so sorry.
It's our meme now.
It's ours now.
Here we go, baby.
This is the...
This is the song, the closing song of the summer.
Strobe warning.
Eat the cats.
Eat the dogs.
donald j trump
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in.
unidentified
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the pets of the people that live there.
donald j trump
And this is what's happening in our country.
and it's a shame.
unidentified
They're eating the dog.
I'm out.
They're eating the dog.
Oh!
Yeah!
And this is what happens.
Dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs.
donald j trump
People are telling you.
unidentified
Dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs.
benny johnson
All right.
unidentified
Are you back and get it through?
benny johnson
All right, so...
Really fun stuff.
Really amazing stuff.
And this poor account, it blocked me.
It rage blocked me.
The tears, it must flow.
We're so very sad.
Dude, you can remix.
You can mix music for our program anytime you want.
Anytime you want.
Very talented.
Here's the account that blocked us.
And yeah, we can.
Here, right here, Klein.
Yeah, yeah.
You're welcome to go remake.
You make such great MAGA beats.
I mean, now that video was, that video, we popularized it, but now that video has been seen by like, I don't know, tens of millions of people.
You know, and you make great MAGA bangers, dude.
And so, you know, unblock us, right?
Put on the red hat.
It's like RFK.
Put on the red hat, just like Tulsi.
Put on the red hat, just like Nicole Shanahan.
Put it on.
Come on in.
Just like Joe Biden.
Just like Biden!
You could be just like your hero, Joe Biden!
Okay?
Put on the red MAGA hat.
We got Biden in the MAGA hat.
Put on the red MAGA hat!
And come on in.
The water's warm, dude.
Water's warm.
So, yeah.
Maybe this is the red pill moment.
We await President Trump and his press conference once again.
Here it is.
This is the live shot.
You're not missing anything.
We want to hear the president speak as well.
And it is, again, a report that the commentary will be quite entertaining.
He will be going back and forth with the press.
There's microphones set up for reporters to ask questions, much like the Mar-a-Lago event.
There was a Mar-a-Lago event where Donald Trump was sort of shadowboxing with the reporters there at Mar-a-Lago and doing an actual press conference.
I don't think, boys, there's anything scheduled for Kamala Harris today.
I think there's no press conference scheduled for Kamala Harris.
Probably just another event where she buses in tens of thousands of people from some decrepit, large metropolitan and urban area to fill up her stadium in a deeply disingenuous and fraudulent way.
Which is what we saw yesterday, actually, with Kamala Harris.
They did it again.
It's so hard to watch these These moments at the Kamala Harris rallies.
We do them for you.
We do watch them for you.
Here's what Tim Walz had to say yesterday.
Apparently, Libs are quite angry at the eating the cats, eating the dogs thing.
We really touched on quite a plucked a nerve here, I suppose.
Yesterday, Tim Walz did a campaign event, and everyone kept chanting.
The Libs kept chanting.
We don't eat cats.
unidentified
And you tell me you had this on your bingo card.
And they're eating cats.
And they're eating cats.
We'll be sorry.
So this is a huge victory for all of us.
benny johnson
This is a huge victory for all of us.
Our enemies are now repeating our best talking points.
This is great.
unidentified
You're right.
benny johnson
We don't eat cats as a country.
unidentified
Good.
Yes.
benny johnson
This is why we have trouble with criminal, open, unmitigated, unlimited illegal immigration.
From places that do.
It is a, if you ever travel outside of America, it is a savage and rough world.
It is a tough place.
And even if you go to what is so-called first world countries, you are desperate to get back into the United States of America once you're gone.
We live in a special and wonderful place.
It's a beautiful country.
It's something that we should all cherish.
And we should not be eating cats and dogs.
I agree with you.
This is what we've done as meme makers.
This is what we've done in this ecosystem.
And Donald Trump's shared a bunch of cat memes.
Donald Trump went on another cat meme sharing spree yesterday.
Maybe he'll talk about it today.
We await the president live.
But this is power.
This is how much power that moment had.
This is why we say Trump's culture.
Because Donald Trump shares these memes and says this at the debate, and now libs are chanting, we don't eat cats!
Thanks, dudes!
Thank you!
Good job, white dudes for Harris.
Speaking of a white dude for Trump, Joe Biden.
Saying those words, we don't eat cats.
The day after Donald Trump set out the debate, talk about the cultural permanence and penetration of Donald Trump.
Here's Joe Biden putting on a MAGA hat and saying, don't eat any cats and dogs.
unidentified
President Trump: I'm going to give you my presidential hat.
Presidential seal on it.
Do you want an autograph?
Oh, sure.
Huh?
Do you remember your name?
I don't remember my name.
I'm slow.
You're an old fart.
You're an old fart.
Yeah, I know, man.
I'm an old guy.
And you're an old fart, right?
benny johnson
I know you would know about that.
unidentified
What?
Puppy and old.
Oh, I know.
All right.
I'm a young-timer.
It reminds me of the guys I grew up with.
There was always one in the neighborhood.
Well, I'm the only one.
There you go, man.
I need that hat.
You want my autograph?
Hell no.
You don't know my name.
Come on.
I ain't going that far.
Yeah.
I said you would do a selfie.
There you go.
Yeah.
Hey.
I'm proud of you now.
Oh, I'm gonna get together in the park.
Just remember, no eating dogs and cats.
Hey, they're good.
Thank you.
They're good.
I hope you like the pizza.
You guys picked your place again.
I don't know where to go.
benny johnson
Joe Biden, don't eat any dogs and cats!
We sounded off yesterday on how fun that was.
That was great.
That was a good interaction.
That's my favorite moment of Joe Biden's presidency.
That is it.
I mean, I'll get in trouble for saying it, but this is because the machine has released Joe Biden and because there were no handlers to step in.
You've seen it for the last four years.
Some doughy, translucent, very unhealthy-looking squab comes rushing in these interactions, comes rushing in to shove the guy away and keep Joe Biden away.
That's all gone now.
They let Joe Biden do this.
And it's actually very affable.
And it's a beautiful moment.
We need more of it in politics.
I've said it, and I'm proud of it.
We need to humanize our science.
And this proves that everything they said about MAGA was bullshit.
It does.
Pardon my language.
It's proved that everything they said about MAGA was a lie.
It was all manufactured.
None of it was real.
They didn't believe any of it.
They would have never...
Joe Biden would have never touched a MAGA...
Look at all...
He still has minders all around him.
Joe Biden would have never touched a MAGA hat.
Or even spoken with this person if they actually believed this.
There's his aide.
His aide, instead of coming up and, like, tackling the guy, right?
He gives him the pen to sign the MAGA hat.
And Joe Biden puts on the MAGA hat.
The guy calls him an old fart.
And then Joe Biden, like, makes a joke about eating cats and dogs.
That's too good.
Oh, man.
Here's what Donald Trump is sharing on social media.
President Trump on social media with some cat and dog memes.
Hopefully we get a question on this.
I pray we get a question on this.
President Trump still not at the podium, 12.35pm Eastern Standard Time.
We are, of course, monitoring, and as soon as Donald Trump is live, we will cut on over, baby.
Here's Donald Trump saving Cat Turd.
If you're on X, you probably know Cat Turd.
Vote Trump and save me from me.
Don't let them eat us.
Vote for Trump.
This is President Trump.
This is the president sharing these memes.
Is he going for the cat lady vote?
Is he doing it?
Maybe he is.
Maybe he will go for the cat lady vote.
We're not exactly sure.
We do know this, that, well, Donald Trump spoke about Springfield yesterday.
He talked about, he sort of like alliterated on the Issues that that place on earth is having.
And it's tough, man.
Because the carnage is actually not with the animals.
Although we do have now verified police reports of geese going missing from the park.
We have the reports.
We have the phone calls.
So it's effectively now 100% locked in.
That there is official recordings of animals going missing, but it's really the human carnage that's most important and what we wish to focus on here.
It's like we're a human-first site, and we do care about the value of human life, and this is why we are anti-war.
This is why we are pro-America.
This is why we're America first, and that is what we need to focus on.
What about the 60,000 people that live in Springfield, Ohio?
What about them?
First, it's not up for a dispute that animals are going missing.
We have the police reports and we have the audio recordings.
So we have the documents.
So shut up!
Another ABC News lie.
But more importantly, what about the human lives?
What about the people who live there?
You know they've sent in the National Guard now to Springfield?
The state is pledging millions of dollars to assist because it's become a calamity there.
You have 20,000 people that have just been dropped in without any consideration for cultural harmony, language.
They don't speak English in Haiti.
They speak like a Creole, effectively, like a dirty French, right?
And they do this.
What about considerations for veterans who live there or homeless people who live there?
What are considerations for public resources?
Nothing?
Nobody talks about this?
Like, children have died because of car accidents?
School bus flipped over and a child died because of a Haitian immigrant who didn't know how to drive?
Nobody says that person's name, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
Donald Trump making this point yesterday on Springfield.
donald j trump
In addition to Aurora, Colorado...
There's a place called Springfield, Ohio that you've been reading about.
20,000 illegal Haitian immigrants have descended upon the town of 58,000 people, destroying their entire way of life.
This was a beautiful community, and now it's horrible what's happened.
Enrollment on the state's Medicaid and food assistance programs have soared.
Motor vehicle accidents have skyrocketed.
Recording of 911 calls even show residents are reporting that the migrants are walking off with the town's geese.
They're taking the geese.
You know where the geese are?
In the park, in the lake.
And even walking off with their pets.
benny johnson
So I want to make sure that you know, this is like the ABC News whistleblower thing.
I want to make sure that you know what we know, that you can see the hard documentation.
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
And again, we are hearing that President Trump will be speaking in less than five minutes.
We have the live shot up.
All of our producers are monitoring.
As soon as we get the go-ahead, we'll go directly to President Trump, who will be giving speech and then taking questions from the press.
Here is the police communications.
unidentified
Feel free to...
benny johnson
Retort when somebody says that this isn't real.
Send them to police reports.
Send them to 911 call.
We'll play that for you.
What else do you want from us, right?
Like, what else do you want?
Like, I don't...
It's too bad that...
Do you not like...
unidentified
The...
benny johnson
I mean, let's just don't like the reality of what's happening.
That's it.
There's facts that are...
That anger them.
Here are the facts.
Reading to you directly from the police report.
Two males, two females, all Haitian.
Each had one goose, each of them.
Four geese had been stolen, shoved into a Toyota, a newer model, and it drove towards downtown, saw them on the bike path, stealing geese.
What?
Police, like, went through and investigated.
There's actually a 911 phone call that corresponds with this police report.
ABC News, there's been no credible evidence.
You asshats.
You don't even try, do you?
They didn't even send a reporter.
If they did, they might have uncovered this.
unidentified
Well, Haitian people, there was about four of them.
They all had geese in their hand.
They got away.
I couldn't make out the first three of the license plate, but I got the numbers.
The last numbers was 9-8.
9 /8, and it was a grey Toyota Tacoma they took off on.
There was about four of them.
There was two men, two women.
I couldn't tell the age because I'm in a hurry going to the station so I don't might be late.
What direction did they go?
They went up towards the middle of downtown.
Okay, and what path are you on?
Right now?
Hold on just a second.
I'm coming.
It was an intersection of...
Give me a second here.
It says...
Water and Water Street.
Water and Water.
Is that the area you saw them?
Yes.
It was about two minutes back behind me.
I was trying to get my phone out.
And it's time to make it to this orientation.
I'm time approaching here.
And I saw that.
So there you go.
benny johnson
What does ABC News have to say for themselves?
What shall we say about this moment other than they just hope you believe the lies through November?
That's the goal.
Get them as quickly as possible to November.
Shove as many lies or as much disinformation out because actually, it's not...
It's not disinformation or misinformation.
There is simply the truth, and then there's not the truth, and then there's facts that we don't know just yet.
There's theories.
This is not a theory.
What's happening here?
I have no doubt that President Trump will be asked about this.
We can show you President Trump podium once again, awaiting President Trump live.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, why not jump into our Benny Brigade questions as we await Donald Trump live.
Let's keep the shot up.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is our live shot.
President Trump golf course in Southern California.
President Trump was in California for a fundraising event last night in Los Angeles.
And Trump is now expected any minute at this location.
We've heard that President Trump will be speaking right now.
This was the time given, 12.45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
This is where, this is now the time that the campaign has given where President Trump will be speaking.
And so we're locked in, right?
We'll leave it out.
Ask Benny from Paul Lucento.
Let's go.
Totally agree with your tactic.
Ask her a question about Biden, terrible policies, and step back from the microphone and be quiet and let her answer them.
This is an old-time sales method to ask the right questions and be quiet and let the person who speaks first loses.
This is a commentary on what we believe should be a correct debate tactic in the modern era.
There's a tactic that we have actually deployed with friends of us, approximately our age, I'm the same age as Vivek, when they were doing debates inside of hostile environments like the MSNBC debate.
Why does MSNBC get a debate?
Why did the Republican Party?
How cucked is the Republican Party that we give MSNBC a debate?
I mean, it's Stockholm Syndrome, what we're living through right now.
Why was that even on the table?
It is remarkable to me.
So Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and Tucker Carlson get zero debates for Republicans.
This is for the Republican primary.
And MSNBC gets a debate?
Dude, I'm so glad to have played a hand in getting Ron McDaniel to step down.
I am so proud of that.
It's one of the proudest things in our career on this program.
But we talked this through with Vivek.
And this is actually how you win.
It's a good tactic, boys.
Let's load the Vivek clip, please.
And then let's grab sort of our commentary on this.
ALX, I tweeted the video.
Let's go ahead and grab that.
This is effectively what we do to win.
Now, here's the concept behind the tactic, all right, as the team loads these clips up.
First of a vague and then the commentary on it because we've executed this correctly.
The commentators are rigged and biased and they hate us and they won't ask correct questions.
And so it is important for us to absorb the responsibility of being the moderator.
We can, by force of effort and by...
Properly understanding that the power comes in the asking of the question, the power comes in the controlling of the narrative, and not just talking.
So what they wanted to do in this debate was get Donald Trump to talk about himself, to talk about COVID, to remind people of abortion.
They were trying to get Donald Trump to talk about things that they know are very unpopular with the American people, or at the very least, are not Donald Trump's strong suits.
Donald Trump's strong suits are strong border, law and order, the economy.
Guess what we didn't hear about in the debate?
Border, law and order, the economy.
We didn't hear any of that.
And when Donald Trump did bring it up, he was fact-checked.
So it's very important to understand that we must absorb the role of the moderator in these debates.
And this is what we push for in this.
And this is what we've talked about this week, is how Republicans inside of these hostile environments can swaggerjack, can steal the power from the moderator in asking our own questions.
And it hotwires and fries the system.
This is what we advised Vivek to do on stage.
We wanted to make sure that Rana, we want to make sure that we went after Rana for her failures, and then went after the moderators for being Russia collusion hoaxers, right?
A very important moment.
Here's how it played out.
unidentified
Let me turn to you.
Please make your case.
Why would you, why should you be the nominee and not the former president?
vivek ramaswamy
I think there's something deeper going on in the Republican Party here, and I am upset about what happened last night.
We've become a party of losers at the end of the day.
It was a cancer to the Republican establishment.
Let's speak the truth.
I mean, since Ronald McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave that never came.
We got trounced last night in 2023.
And I think that we have to have accountability in our party.
For that matter, Ron, if you want to come on stage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will...
Turn over my, yield my time to you.
And frankly, look, the people there are cheering for losing in the Republican Party.
Think about who's moderating this debate.
This should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk.
We'd have ten times the viewership asking questions that GOP primary voters actually care about and bringing more people into our party.
You think the Democrats, and we've got Kristen Welker here, you think the Democrats would actually hire Greg Gutfeld to host a Democratic debate?
They wouldn't do it.
And so the fact of the matter is, I mean, Kristen, I'm going to use this time because this is actually about you in the media and the corrupt media establishment.
Ask you the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that you pushed on this network for years.
Was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made up disinformation?
Answer the question.
benny johnson
Go.
unidentified
Mr. Ramos-Sorry.
vivek ramaswamy
This is how we get our country back.
We need accountability because this media rigged the 2016 election.
They rigged the 2020 election with a Hunter Biden laptop story.
Mr. Ramos-Your time is up.
unidentified
Let me turn to Governor Christie.
benny johnson
Why are you-So- So the credit for that belongs with Vivek.
We spent all day with him.
We talked through all this.
We released a documentary.
We did a whole documentary on it.
We talked through this strategy and look at how Look at how wonderfully, actually, the credit belongs to debate.
We've been giving this advice for free, right?
Rhonda, Rhonda Sanders was walking through the hallways there, you know, like, he didn't ask me for advice.
He had too many consultants.
But, you know, we do this for free.
We're not getting paid.
We just think it's, we think it's good.
It's good for the country, actually.
For Republicans to learn how to do this.
So we must become our own best.
Moderators, that's how you set the frame of the page.
Well, Mr. Ron Swamy, we're not talking about that.
Well, that's what I'm talking about.
And I'm the candidate.
You're the paid shill who pushed disinformation to your audience here.
Has your audience here on MSNBC or NBC, did they know that the PP Russian dossier is fake?
Do they know that the Hunter Biden laptop is real?
Are they aware that you've lied to them?
Let then that silence stretch out.
Ah, there's power in it.
There's power in the asking of the question.
And when deployed correctly, when deployed effectively, man, it really, it really can just skyrocket.
And it's how you defeat, it's how you defeat a room that is against you 10 to 20 to 1. Do you hear the audience there?
This is my favorite part.
I was sitting in the front row.
The audience was not the vague people.
Vivek got like three tickets to the whole thing.
It was not Vivek.
This was not like a Vivek Fest.
Vivek Fest 2025.
No, dude.
The entire audience...
Vivek was pulling out like 1% at this point.
The entire audience was like DeSantis people and Nikki Haley people.
Remember at the time?
And Chris Christie was on stage, I think you can see there.
Show me the stage one more time.
Chris Christie?
The audience was not Vivek people.
I think it was Doug Burgum, I think, right?
Yeah, there you go.
Chris Christie, Doug Burgum, Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis.
This was a room filled with RNC donors, actually.
And those donors were donating, of course, to Rana.
These were Rana's people.
And with the right questioning and the right prosecutorial mastery of grabbing the energy, Vivek's able to turn a room of Rana's own donors against her!
How exciting is that?
And Trump could do it too.
Far be it for me to ever look at Trump and give advice or any critiques.
I'm just saying in this new world that we find ourselves in, until we figure out a good status quo where Tucker Carlson is the one moderating these debates, which is what should happen, this is what we have to do.
This is what we have to do.
It is what we said earlier in the week.
This was our advice to...
Our free advice to the Trump team.
This is how a debate should go.
The next debate.
Here we go.
Start the debate by saying, um, hi.
I just ate a bullet and got shot.
I survived.
Here's the scar right here on my ear.
You probably all saw it.
The blood coming down my face.
Kamala, I'd like to give you an opportunity to apologize to the family of Corey Compertor who lost their firefighter.
husband and father because of rhetoric from your side.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
benny johnson
You want to talk about the destruction of the debate?
You want to talk about the anchors shitting their pants?
Do that!
Do it!
Do it!
And then every single time the anchor tries to come for you, be like, you know what's crazy is that you...
The biased press is part of the reason why I took a bullet to the head.
Keep bringing that up.
It's important.
This is called signal boosting.
You signal boost what you want to talk about.
Well, that's not what the conversation's about.
Well, that's not what I'm talking about.
That's all you say.
It's very simple.
Well, maybe that's what you want to talk about, but what I want to talk about is the fact that I got shot.
And then, when Kamala talks about the border...
You reach in your pocket.
You pull out a photo of Lake and Riley.
And you say, hey, do you know who this is?
And then you just stop talking.
Let Kamala look and let her respond.
She doesn't know who Lake and Riley is.
You do.
I do.
You hold that photo up and you say, do you know who this is?
I don't have a photo with me, but here we go.
For lack of a better prop.
Do you know who Lake...
This is Lake and Riley, Kamala.
She lost her life.
Because of a criminal alien that you allowed into this country.
Don't need to talk about dogs.
Don't need to talk about cats.
Don't need to talk about ducks.
She lost her life because of a criminal alien that you allowed into this nation.
He slaughtered.
He killed her.
Your progressive, restorative justice policies, they killed her.
This guy should have been in prison.
Should have been here in the first place, and then should have been in prison because he committed crimes.
Would you like to apologize to Lake and Riley's family right now?
That's how you win.
Because the press won't do the job for you.
They talked about Afghanistan last night and actually attacked President Trump on the immigration issue and on the Afghanistan issue.
It is remarkable to me.
These are two of Kamala's...
This is, again, how rigged was it?
These are two of Kamala's...
These are Kamala's worst issues.
Period.
These are the worst issues for Kamala Harris.
Afghanistan, that's when Joe Biden collapsed through the floor.
He never returned.
To having any positive approval rating after Afghanistan.
They're the worst issues.
The border for Kamala, the worst issues.
All you have to do is look Kamala in the face and go, 13 service members that lost their lives in Afghanistan ought your order.
I want to give you an opportunity to apologize to their families since you've never spoken with them.
unidentified
Go.
benny johnson
What else can I throw?
That's it!
I'm going to throw over.
I'm going to throw it all.
That's all you have to do.
And then you just shut up!
Do you see how this works?
As long as you can game theory just a little bit ahead of time.
As long as you're vibing with the internet and you kind of understand how virality works.
I'm not sitting here criticizing President Trump.
I think I am low-key criticizing sort of debate tactics here because Unlike Joe Biden, we really, people don't know a lot about Kamala Harris.
People have seen Joe Biden forever, right?
There was really no defining Joe Biden.
Everyone knew he was a scumbag, right?
Everyone knows Joe Biden's dirty scumbag.
Like Kamala Harris, you need an opportunity to define her.
And that's the moment.
That moment goes thermo-effing nuclear.
Hi, so you signal boost information that you want the public to know.
You've never spoken to the families of 13 who died.
At Abbey Gate in Kabul.
At your order.
Your suicidal order.
Now I'm going to give you a chance to apologize.
unidentified
Here you go.
benny johnson
Here's a photo of them.
You've never spoken to the families.
Now, go.
Apologize.
Because they're dead.
And we can all agree that's a horrible thing.
So, go.
What does Kamala say to that, exactly?
Here's the...
Here's the...
You know, the Occam's razor.
Here's the trap that you can, like, force her into.
I do this every single day with Man on the Streets.
Not every day.
I wish I was doing Man on the Streets every day.
But we're doing as much as we can.
You literally create a win-win situation for you.
You can create, with the right question, you can create win-win situations.
If Kristen Welker apologizes for being a Russian collusion hoaxer, which she is, then that's a huge headline and a massive win for Vivek.
If she doesn't apologize and lies, that's a win for Vivek.
If he does what she did and look at the ground, look at her shoes in humiliation and reshuffle her papers and turn beet red, that's a win for Vivek.
Kamala Harris and the ABC News team box themselves into win-win situations around Trump.
It needs to be the other way around.
And I know it's a big fight, but Donald Trump's a big guy, and you can win by having the correct tactics, and that tactic would work.
What does Kamala Harris say in the face of 13 dead service members who she ordered to their death?
What does she say?
Does she apologize?
For the first time ever on camera?
That's a huge win for President Trump.
Then he got justice a little bit, a little tinge of something for the family.
Does she say nothing?
And look down and turn beet red, which is probably what she would do, and hope the moderators save her?
Well, then the moderators and her are clearly colluding, and the whole world sees it!
Does she dare not apologize and try and blame Trump for their deaths or something like that?
Well, then she looks like she's literally blaming someone else.
And Trump wins.
Win, win, win, ding, ding, ding!
Can't tell what she's going to do.
But you can put yourself in, just like Blackjack, you can put yourself into position.
It's all mathematics, man.
You can put yourself in a position to win with the highest probability.
The highest probability.
unidentified
Woo!
benny johnson
Look at it.
The transition is great.
We can do that more often.
This is the rant from earlier in the week.
These are tactics that I completely believe in and agree with.
It's something that I'm going to seed into the Republican Party.
Something I'm going to seed into our candidates as we move forward as a movement.
It's the way that you actually...
Behave as the antibody to the rigged, poisonous, utterly grotesque system that is designed to assassinate Republican candidates on stage.
And we've seen this now for decades.
We should be, we gotta be smarter.
We gotta be smarter.
President Trump, by the way, is not at the podium yet, but they have zoomed in.
They can show you some funny guy doing a sound test there, which means an imminent, I believe, President Trump.
There's a boat now behind him.
unidentified
We'll see.
benny johnson
There's a boat behind him.
He got like a, I don't know, Travis Kelsey body double there doing a Donald Trump sound check and is now walking away.
So again, we'll see with the president.
It is now 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and we await President Trump.
Microphone set up for press to ask questions.
We're going to rock and roll, baby.
Okay.
To the next question from Sam Brin.
Hey, Benny.
I joined your brigade.
Thank you.
It's important for patriots around the world.
We love you, brother.
My question is, can you give us an update on what Congress is doing about the assassination attempt on Trump?
Thanks, brother.
Well, thank you, Sam.
And we are brothers in all of us.
We are fellow warriors as we await and as we fight.
There is an official congressional investigation.
These investigations are important because they have armies of lawyers.
They have a lot of money.
Congress spends a lot of money.
They can spend millions and millions of dollars investigating.
They have subpoena power, which is, of course, the constitutional authority that they have for oversight of the executive branch.
Congress has oversight of the executive branch.
The way the Constitution is written is that Congress is the first branch of government, and it sort of supersedes all of the others.
They're co-equal.
unidentified
Fine.
benny johnson
But, like, Congress is first.
And it's first for a reason.
Executive branch is second.
And that's because Congress is the closest to the people.
And so branch number one of the Constitution should be able to look in to branch number two.
And it's branch number two, DHS, which is where Secret Service is housed under, who's now hiding and obscuring and trying to stop this investigation from moving forward.
And what are they trying to hide?
The Congressional Committee, and we played you the Dick Blumenthal, The congressional committee apparently is uncovering some very dark and very horrifying things that even Democrats are saying this is going to shock the American people.
And the American people are going to be utterly disgusted at what we find here.
And what we are unveiling is, well, if it's something that shocks Democrats who hate President Trump to their very core and makes them quite nervous, then I expect it to be, well, something...
Something pretty bad, quite frankly.
Dick Blumenthal, in his commentary, says Americans will be shocked and appalled by the Trump assassination attempt report.
I think the American people are going to be shocked and astonished and appalled by the report and their failures by the Secret Service assassination attempts to former president.
But will that report be out before the election?
Of course not.
That's the problem.
Republicans have no sense of timing.
Democrats line up all of their...
Prosecutions of President Trump to align with the national election so they can try at the highest probability to put Donald Trump in jail before the election.
Here's either a reporter or Secret Service member walking right in front of a shot there.
Oh, they are?
All right.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, they're saying a few more minutes, a few more minutes for President Trump.
They have zoomed in the shot.
And so, again, that is the live shot, the sailboat there right behind that live shot.
President Trump, a few more minutes to President Trump, 1.03 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
But you know what?
We're live.
We're just, we let her rip, right?
Hi, Benny.
Would you allow, and I just want to say before we get to the next question, thank you, Sam.
The truth is that they won't be releasing this before the November election.
There's little drips and drops out from this, and I actually would like to hit up what Josh Hawley said yesterday.
I see it right here, what Josh Hawley said yesterday on Jesse Waters' show.
So Josh Hawley yesterday on Jesse Waters' show talking about how the Biden administration is stonewalling.
I'm going to start calling it the Kamala administration.
Correct me every single time.
Correct me here.
It's the Kamala administration.
It's Kamala.
Kamala Harris has been in charge for a long time.
It's clear that Joe Biden has not been in charge at all.
And when given an opportunity, immediately wears a MAGA hat.
This is what Josh Hawley had to say about that investigation last night on Jesse Waters.
josh hawley
See, what I'm learning now is that the lead advance agent that day in Pennsylvania, this is the agent that was in charge of Trump's entire trip in Pennsylvania, that this agent actually failed one or more of her training exams.
When she first joined the Secret Service.
I mean, the pattern that is emerging here, Jesse, from whistleblowers who've come forward to me now over and over again is that the Trump rally was undermanned.
It was understaffed.
They did not have people who had experience on it.
And now this advance agent, I'm told, may have failed one or more for training exams and was known not to be a top quality agent.
I mean, this is absurd.
And the fact that the director will not level with the American people about what's going on here is just totally unacceptable and unbelievable.
benny johnson
So, Josh Hawley, who has been dogged in his investigation here and deserves a great amount of credit, saying that DHS is stonewalling him and are strong-arming people into not cooperating with the Senate's constitutional powers for oversight.
Josh Hawley has a lot of whistleblowers connected with his office.
So, that's where we are.
Sam, I know this is a long answer, but that's where we are right now.
There is supposed to be a report, but that's going to be out after the November election.
If Republicans were wise, they would have had it out today.
They would have had it out now.
And they do press conferences on this every single day.
Why aren't we doing that?
Why not have a press conference every day on the assassination of President Trump?
Because Republicans are weak?
But I gotta tell you, man, gotta tell you.
We've got a lot of powerful friends on this program.
And we can actually direct...
It's becoming fun.
We can direct narratives.
It's great.
It's exciting.
We can actually use the power of the brigade.
We can use the power of the pirate ship we've got here to direct power and energy and change the systems.
We just talked about how we did it with Vivek.
Change the systems.
The broken way that Republicans do this.
What should have happened is Mike Johnson should have taken a little gavel and announced that there's going to be a press conference every single day.
About the Trump assassination.
You know what that does?
That keeps it in the news every single day.
It becomes very hard to bury it.
And then you do the press conference.
Do the press conference in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Do the press conference in front of the DNC.
Go in front of the DNC, set up a shot like this every single day.
You're in Congress.
You're Congress.
You have the right to do that in Washington, D.C. You go and you set up a podium in front of the DNC every single day and do a press conference about the Trump assassination every single day.
That's how you do it.
I know it's really hard, and I know it's going to take a lot of effort.
But that's the energy that is required.
It's the energy that Democrats have.
Why don't we have it?
Don't worry.
I'll be press secretary someday.
We'll fix it.
I'll be press secretary one of these days, and it will be fun.
I'll probably last 24 hours.
Before they run me out of town with pitforks and flaming torches.
But it will be a blast.
It will be the fun.
It'll be the most fun 24 hours.
I'll bring my giant salt shaker.
This will be filled with giant rock salt.
And I will literally salt.
I will literally salt the reporters in the front row of the press pool in the White House.
I will salt them.
I will say, nope, you're salted.
You used to get salted today.
It'll be great.
I'm so excited for it.
All right, here we go.
From Cheryl.
Cheryl says, Hi, Benny.
Would you be able to allowing us to donate money to provide scholarships to brigade members for those people who are struggling?
Thank you, says Cheryl from Georgia.
Cheryl or Cheryl, Georgia.
Maybe that perhaps that is your last name.
Maybe you're also from Georgia.
Yes.
Yes.
The answer is yes.
I am.
I don't I don't ever.
I would much rather give than to receive, and we like doing philanthropy at this company.
I mean, as soon as we saw the East Palestine story, this is not to toot our own horns, but we wanted to sort of inspire people to do more for East Palestine.
That story was one year ago, right?
That was one year ago, right around now.
So we just take all of our earnings and hand it out on the street.
Like, I don't know, that's far more of the way that I was raised.
I was raised in the country.
Somebody needs something, you know, somebody's in need and got it worse than you do, then you go and try and help make their day.
And even if you just like lift their spirits a little bit, then that's good enough.
And so I guess what that makes me is clinically bad at ever asking for support.
But independent journalism is under attack, is obviously under attack.
Right now, they are so angry.
At this channel and the work that we're doing, they're so upset at the, well, the energy that we bring, quite frankly.
I mean, it's 11, it's 1.10 p.m.
We're just going to let her rip, man.
We're just going to let her go.
We're not going to be like, oh, we're tired.
No, man, we can chat.
We can chill.
It'll be fun.
And we'll just take audience questions.
Well, let's just do that.
We'll just take super chats.
unidentified
It's great.
benny johnson
Like, we got that energy.
But if you want, if you, yes, if you wish, I think there's a way to gift memberships on YouTube.
And so you can gift memberships on YouTube.
And that is an awesome way to do it.
And then we will set up, Cheryl, in your honor, we will set up a portal effectively on our website, BennyJohnson.com, for memberships.
I mean, we have more of this plant, actually.
We have more of this plant.
Here are two philanthropic ideas that I have that we're going to execute on.
And I hope you guys like them.
Here we go.
You're going to hear about them first.
Let's do a couple.
Let's do a couple.
We'll do a couple super chats for sure.
And then I want to show you guys these debate clips, the closing statements where Donald Trump is just absolutely mogging Kamala.
Okay, so here are two...
Two or three philanthropic ideas that we have.
I want to go to a filling station, and I want to lower the cost of gas.
Thank you, by the way, Moody Therapist, the Moody Therapist.
I need a moody therapist, please, actually, after this week of news and after the debate, after all this summer, from the RNC to the DNC, to the assassination attempts of Joe Biden dropping out.
Can I get a moody therapist?
Thank you.
War Machine 300, thank you so very much.
If you have a question to ask, drop.
Drop it in the super chat.
You can sort out the super chat so it's easier as we await Donald Trump.
Although my producers are telling me Trump will be there at any minute.
So if you have waited along with us, then hopefully the president will appear.
Here we go.
Here's my thought.
My thought is go to a gas station and work with the gas station where we cover the difference of lowering the gas price to prices when Donald Trump was in office.
So the gas price goes from $4 a gallon to $1 a gallon.
Because that's what it was when Trump was in office.
And see the line that forms.
And put up giant signs that say, like, time-traveling Trump gas station.
Wouldn't that rip?
That would be so much fun.
That'd be so awesome.
And we're going to do it.
I got stubborn producers who are not working hard enough to make this happen.
But now that I've announced on the show, this is my way of actually manipulating this into existence.
That's one of our plans.
Why do I say that?
I say this because God has been good to us, and we would rather be philanthropic with what we have.
We want to give it back to our fellow Americans.
Last year, we built a toy store in the poorest county in America to give away toys for free to poor children during Christmas time.
We want to do that again.
Thank you, Tommy Rad.
You are rad.
Tommy Rad, guitarist, became a member.
Thank you, Tommy Rad.
You are rad.
You need to use the word rad more.
We also have some other thoughts for Christmas.
Here are two of my thoughts for Christmas.
Here we go.
Thank you, Ruby Hove.
Here are two of my thoughts for Christmas.
Here we go.
It's a magical time.
You want to do good things around Christmas.
I want to go to East Palestine.
Go back to East Palestine in Ohio.
And I want to decorate the entire town for Christmas.
Fund the decoration of that town to make that town the most beautiful place, the most beautiful it's ever been for Christmas.
Those people have had a tough time and they've been treated like dogs and garbage by this administration and by the corporate media.
They need help and we went there ourselves.
Maybe we'll do this in Springfield, Ohio.
I don't know.
Maybe go to a tough town and just fund the creation of a beautiful...
Christmas environment and that can kind of turn it into a Whoville, right?
Do that.
And then nativity scenes.
I'd like to get a bunch of nativity scenes, like hundreds of them, because Christmas is about Christ.
It is the Christ Mass.
And to pour our resources into setting up nativity scenes.
Now, we can't set them up coast to coast.
Maybe someday.
That'd be really cool.
But maybe in the area, right?
We draw like a hundred mile radius.
And then go and set up nativity scenes for free for people in the 100-mile radius.
We live in Tampa here, and there are people who are struggling.
And these nativity scenes, they're relatively expensive.
And so we take some of the value of the company, we invest in that, and we go and we just give those away.
It just becomes charitable.
And we go and we'll set them up, right?
We take a photo, we set up a nativity scene, and we do that all around the area and bring more of Christ to where we live right now.
Like, bring more of, like, baby Jesus and the Christ and the manger scene and bring that more prominently to where we live.
And just go, you know, buy 100 manger scenes and just go set them up and just open up a list, right?
Just open up, like, just for free, of course.
Like, just open up a list and there you go.
Thank you, L.J. Taylor.
Five, gifted five memberships.
Thank you.
God bless you.
So, like, that's, that's, that, that, so then we film that and we put it out there and we, then we bring Christ to, like, I don't know, millions more people because, You know, the videos can do millions of views.
We do have videos that do 10 and 20 million views, depending on the video.
And then we bring Christ to then that many more people by doing that.
So that's the way I like to use the resources of the company.
We have to get through this election.
There's no time.
There's so much going on.
We have to get through the election to engage in more fun projects like that.
But that's what I want to do.
Those are some of my philanthropic ideas.
Just since we're chatting it up, you know, since we're letting her rip here.
All right.
So speaking of letting them rip, and I want to thank you all for the Benny Brigade questions.
Again, this is a live shot.
It's not a static shot.
It's a live shot.
Although we've seen nobody like wandering through the shot.
So hopefully that means Donald Trump is imminent here.
It is 1.16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
We await President Trump and President Trump's...
It's going to be a press conference because there's microphones in the audience for reporters to ask questions for us to hear them.
We brought this up and our production team pulled the closing statements for Trump and Kamala at the debate.
The comparison for this is that Donald Trump's comments got Tens of millions of views on TikTok.
And then Kamala Harris's comments.
Nobody watched it.
It was very sad.
So here are the actual closing statements.
I think let's begin with President Trump.
Because I would argue that this is probably President Trump's strongest.
Probably President Trump's strongest.
Arguably, point of the night.
His closing statement is excellent.
I wish that this was his opening statement, actually.
It's perfect.
Watch.
donald j trump
So she just started by saying she's going to do this, she's going to do that, she's going to do all these wonderful things.
Why hasn't she done it?
She's been there for three and a half years.
They've had three and a half years to fix the border.
They've had three and a half years to...
Create jobs and all the things we talked about.
Why hasn't she done it?
She should leave right now, go down to that beautiful White House, go to the Capitol, get everyone together and do the things you want to do.
But you haven't done it and you won't do it because you believe in things that the American people don't believe in.
You believe in things like...
We're not going to frack.
We're not going to take fossil fuel.
We're not going to do things that are going to make this country strong, whether you like it or not.
Germany tried that, and within one year, they were back to building normal energy plants.
We're not ready for it.
We can't sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision.
But I just ask one simple question.
Why didn't she do it?
We're a failing nation.
We're a nation that's in serious decline.
We're being laughed at all over the world.
All over the world they're laughed.
I know the leaders very well.
They're coming to see me.
They call me.
We're laughed at all over the world.
They don't understand what happened to us as a nation.
We're not a leader.
We don't have any idea what's going on.
We have wars going on in the Middle East.
We have wars going on with Russia and Ukraine.
We're going to end up in a third world war and it'll be a war like no other because...
I rebuilt our entire military.
She gave a lot of it away to the Taliban.
She gave it to Afghanistan.
What these people have done to our country, and maybe toughest of all, is allowing millions of people to come into our country.
Many of them are criminals.
And they're destroying our country.
The worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country.
benny johnson
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes.
Like, perfect.
A perfect statement.
I would argue that done in reverse.
Donald Trump, that's a perfect statement from President Trump and should have been the opening statement, actually.
Maybe the childless cat ladies will vote for Trump now and save the cats.
Yeah, that's good.
We'll do, let's do, let's do, as we await Trump, we'll do super chats on the question.
Should Donald Trump do another debate?
ALX, let's pin that to the top of the chat, please.
And should Donald Trump do another debate?
This was Kamala Harris' closing statement.
I'm so sorry that I have to do this to you and put this up.
Maybe it'll be too cringe for us to even play the entire thing.
But that's the video that did 24 million views on ABC's TikTok.
And this is the video that goes...
kamala harris
So I think you've heard tonight two very different visions for our country.
One that is focused on the future, and the other that is focused on the past, and an attempt to take us backward.
But we're not going back.
And I do believe that the American people know we all have so much more in common than what separates us, and we can chart a new way forward.
And a vision of that includes having a plan, understanding the aspirations, the dreams, the hopes, the ambition of the American people, which is why I intend to create an opportunity economy, investing in small businesses, in new families, in what we can do around protecting seniors, what we can do that is about giving hardworking folks a break and bringing down the cost of living.
I believe.
In what we can do together.
That is about sustaining America's standing in the world and ensuring that we have the respect that we so rightly deserve, including respecting our military and ensuring we have the most lethal fighting force in the world.
I will be a president that will protect our fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do.
benny johnson
You wonder why people think that it's all scripted.
You wonder why.
So I called a member of my family.
Maybe you did this too.
I called a member of my family, not particularly political, but watched this out of just the sheer sport of it.
And they said, everything that Kamala Harris sounded like, they were actually on the fence, and they told me, everything that Kamala Harris, I'm not allowed to use this person's name, but everything that Kamala Harris sounded like, sounded like an actress reciting a line.
Like she had done a rehearsal, and she was an actress reciting a line.
What's particularly interesting about that is that ABC News, who was brought in, the ABC News executive who killed all the Epstein stories, this is a matter of fact, okay?
The ABC News executives who killed the Epstein stories and protected the Clintons was brought in in order to script out and to produce the January 6th hearings.
It's all a production.
It's actors and actresses reciting lines as part of a production.
It's not real.
It's Fugazi, Fugazi.
It's Plato's Cave.
It's Kabuki Theater.
Anyway, my favorite clip of a debate.
My favorite take on this debate was done by two Kamala Harris and Donald Trump impersonators.
It's up on TikTok.
It's great.
And you guys are going to love this.
I hope you do as much as I do.
Here we go.
unidentified
I am with Kamala, by the way, who I agreed to debate because I love to debate and I'm a very good debater.
I love to debate.
benny johnson
Here they come.
unidentified
That's debatable.
Okay.
Very debatable.
benny johnson
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
unidentified
What are my thoughts on immigration?
I think it's a perfectly fine question.
It's a very nice question.
We're going to be doing a lot because there are people over there.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, here's President Trump.
unidentified
Here we go.
benny johnson
This is live.
We are rocking and rolling.
President Trump walking up.
He has the MAGA hat there in hand.
No word on whether he stole that from Joe Biden.
Trump coming up.
Here we go.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's there.
I do not recognize the staff that he has there with him.
Maybe he'll introduce them.
Here comes President Trump to the podium live right now.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
Before we begin, I'd like to introduce the mayor of Rancho Palos Verdes, who's been a very popular mayor.
He's done a fantastic job.
And he's really something very special.
John Crookshank.
And he'll say a few words about two miles up the road.
They're having some problems with slides into a thing called the Pacific Ocean.
And a lot of people would like to hear about it.
And what the mayor is doing to get it remedied, and he'll take care of it.
So, John, please.
unidentified
Well, I was only expecting to come speak with the president today, and he's gracious enough to invite me to speak to you all, which is an important moment for the city of Rancho Palos Verdes.
In 2002, the Trump golf course opened up here.
And they've been a great business here in our community.
As the president mentioned, our city has been having a lot of issues with a landslide that's less than a mile from here.
We have about 600 homes, several thousand residents that have been affected.
They've lost power, gas, and it's been moving at an unprecedented rate for the last couple of years because of the rain.
We believe we can solve the problem, but we really need the assistance of the state of California and the federal government.
We have solutions out there for that, but the problem is bigger than the city of Rancho Palos Verdes, and so it's important that we get the attention and the help of the people of California and of the federal government.
So I'm here to thank the president of having me here today.
Obviously, I'm a tiny bit nervous.
This is a very big deal.
Thank you.
So anyhow, we very much appreciate you all being here.
And of course, I know you're here for the president, but covering what's going on in our city is really important.
And it's meant a lot to our community of 42,000 people.
So thank you so much.
benny johnson
We know that there is light audio.
We are aware of that.
We're reading the comments.
Let's listen to what happens when Trump, this is Trump's feed.
unidentified
Oh, he doesn't do too much.
There we go.
donald j trump
You have a lot of people living over there.
And I think John would like to see the help of the state government and the federal government.
And so far they're missing in action.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
benny johnson
We're getting a backup feed in case this feed really does have bad audio, but let's listen to the president here.
donald j trump
From National Los Angeles, and it's been a tremendous success for a long time.
I guess Lily would be 18 or 19 years, I think.
Right.
And I built it.
I have a little bit of a motto, but we never have to advertise because it's always loaded up with golfers, very good golfers.
It's a world championship course.
It fronts on the Pacific Ocean, as you can see.
It actually fronts, you know, most, very few courses front on the Pacific Ocean.
There's Pebble Beach and there's some others, but I always say, I have the ocean, Pebble Beach has the bay.
The ocean's better than the bay.
And this course is one of the best courses anywhere in the world, and it's done really well, and we've had a lot of fun with it, so it's been great.
It's a major property, as you can imagine.
We do also lots of weddings and lots of events in the ballroom right behind you, and people get married literally on a nightly basis looking over the Pacific Ocean, so we have something that's very special.
We're proud of it.
Well, thank you all for being here.
Before we begin, I want to express my support for all of the families affected by the landslides in Rancho Palos Verdes.
The slides are something that can be taken care of.
This area is very solid.
But you go down a couple of miles down, you'll see something that's pretty amazing.
The mountain is moving, and it can be stopped.
But they need some help from the government, so I hope they get the help, and I'm sure John will have the help.
And I want to thank the mayor for the great job he's doing.
I tell that to the people.
What a great job he's doing.
I just met with the mayor and especially want to salute all of the public safety and emergency personnel who are working down the road, as well as the utility workers who are fighting to restore service to local residents.
It's another thing when you live along the coast.
Sometimes that happens.
It's a little bit more difficult, but when they fix it.
There's nothing like it.
There really is nothing like it.
I'm here today in California with a very simple message for the American people.
We cannot allow Comrade Kamala Harris and the communist left to do to America what they did to California.
The state of California is a mess with people leaving, and nothing's going to stop them.
They're going to other states.
Some are going to other countries.
But what they've done, Gavin Newsom and Kamala, and I want to say Kamala more so, she destroyed San Francisco and she destroyed the state.
When you look at the kind of destruction that's taken place, it's all man-made or woman-made destruction, too.
It's things that should have never happened, but we're not going to let that happen with four more years of her in the White House, because if you have what happened...
To this country is what they allowed to happen in California and San Francisco, one of the great cities of the world 15 years ago, and today it's not in a very good position, put it mildly, in this state, which is probably the best piece of real estate in the world, this state.
You have the sunshine, you have the ocean, you have everything.
You have the perfect weather, the best weather, and they've hurt it so badly, so badly.
Decades ago, San Francisco was known as one of the most beautiful cities anywhere in the world.
A friend of mine, a friend of a lot of the people here.
Bob Tisch used to say San Francisco is the best city in the United States.
The best city there is.
And he passed away a number of years ago, but he wouldn't believe it.
He used to always talk about San Francisco is our greatest city.
He owned Lowe's.
Good company, great company.
We would say it constantly, and now you see what's happened.
And it can be brought back, just like our country can be brought back, because we're a nation in decline.
The decline of this whole state is one of the sad chapters in what's gone on with the radical left lunatics that we have to put up with.
As the San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala was the godmother of sanctuary cities.
She was right out there at the forefront.
And also the movement of defunding the police.
She was there right at the beginning.
She boasted, quote, we are a sanctuary city and we always will be.
Well, they're sanctuary cities of crime.
One of the people that Kamala gave sanctuary city to and put in his DA was Edwin, an illegal alien MS-13 gang member who savagely murdered a father.
And his two sons, after mistaking them for members of a rival gang, she knew this.
She came to his defense.
He had previously been arrested for robbing a pregnant woman and killing many, they say.
Kamala refused to get him out of our country.
And he went on to do very significant damage.
she also gave sanctuary to illegal alien ronnie aguilera who murdered a fourteen-year-old boy nearly decapitating him with a sword he enjoyed watching this take place with a sword by his hand kamala launched her ten years d a with the heels the only one they don't make a plea deal with is trump they go after their political opponents especially when they haven't done anything wrong Ladies and gentlemen, we switched the feed to increase the audio.
Politically inspired, it's all against their political opponent.
We won the case in the big case.
They won the big case, the big case.
I've completely won that case.
The documents case in Florida, the case was thrown out with deranged Jack Smith, deranged prosecutor.
That if he devoted his efforts to violent crime and to the border, which they should have, would be in a lot better position as a country.
In one sweetheart deal, Kamala gave only 12 years to a monster known as David Taylor who got high on crack and murdered a 65-year-old mother with a hammer and a pair of scissors.
He wanted to come out and she wanted to get him out as quickly as possible.
In another plea deal, she gave only six years to a man who killed a disabled veteran with a knife and then left his body to rot in a bathtub.
Kamala refused to seek the death penalty.
For a gang member who murdered San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza during a traffic stop, very innocent traffic stop.
She didn't have the decency to call his family, never did.
To explain her decision, why would you do this?
Why would you give such leniency to somebody that just killed the police officer but her son?
This was a major reason why the San Francisco Police Officers Association has refused to endorse her in every single race since she became district attorney.
The police don't endorse her.
She's got virtually no endorsements now, but I have almost every police group in the United States.
We just got the endorsement of almost 400,000 police.
We saw that the other day.
Fraternal order.
And it's the largest.
We have the endorsement of every sheriff, just about every single police group in the United States.
And unadulterated, they are so happy to endorse.
After Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom took charge of San Francisco, homelessness increased by over 200%, while Comrade...
Kamala Harris was Attorney General of this state.
Murders rose significantly.
Car thefts went through the roof.
Gun assaults rose at levels never seen before.
And forcible rape went up by much more than the 73% that they reported.
As Attorney General, she defined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon, and rape of an unconscious person as...
Non-violent crimes.
She put them in a new category as non-violent.
Now as Vice President, she's facilitated the largest wave of sex trafficking and human trafficking in history, the history of our country by far.
And in case you don't want to write about it, you should because there can be no bigger scandal than this.
We have, under this administration, 325,000 migrant children are missing.
325,000.
In other words, take your biggest stadium in California and you could fill it up five or six times.
Those are all missing children.
Many of them are dead.
Many of them are sex slaves and slaves of different nature.
But her destruction of the law and order in California did not end there.
In 2020, Kamala Harris proudly endorsed.
Defund the police.
We're going to defund the police.
Anybody that was even in favor of defunding the police for one month, let alone her entire career, should never be president of the United States.
She supported a plan to cut the L.A. Police Department by at least $150 million and ideally more.
This is when your crime in L.A. was reaching very significant heights.
Today, it's at the highest level it's ever been.
Harris also endorsed the Marxist Soros-backed prosecutor George Gascon to be district attorney of Los Angeles.
And with Kamala's support, Gascon has unleashed hell upon the residents of Los Angeles.
Absolute hell.
Kamala supported Gascon's decision to stop prosecuting criminals for trespassing, disturbing the peace, making criminal threats, loitering to...
Commit prostitution and resisting arrest.
And these are some of the best areas in your state.
They were left alone.
They were protected by him, actually protected by him.
They've been trying to get him out for a long time.
But she helped.
And this is where she's coming from as president.
This is where she's coming from.
This is why all of her policies changed.
She was anti-fracking.
She was anti-everything.
And all of a sudden, she changed.
Even the first question she was given at the debate.
Gave one of the dumbest answers.
They were asking about pricing and would you be better off today or four years ago?
Prices have gone up at numbers that nobody's ever seen before.
And just the concept of being better off, she didn't give the answer.
She talked about when she grew up, nobody knew what the hell she was talking about.
And based on the polls, it didn't work because Rasmussen, as you probably saw, just came out.
And they just lifted me up by six points for president, which is one of the biggest increases they've ever had in one little short period of time of a couple of days.
Up six points.
And I thought the debate was great.
I thought I did very well, but I was fighting three people.
I was fighting the crazy left radical lunatics at ABC, I think considered the worst.
By me, considered the worst broadcaster out there.
George Slopidopoulos, that whole group, they're bad.
And I lost a lot of respect for David Muir.
He came at me with things, and we'll go over it in a second.
But I was right about the crime stats going way up.
The fact is, the FBI didn't report them and were able to keep the stats essentially flat.
But the new numbers came in.
I guess somebody in government likes me because the new numbers were just released.
And you'll see the kind of numbers that we're talking about went not only up, but up at record levels like nobody's seen before when everything was included.
And thanks to Kamala, since 2020, crime and drug overdose deaths here skyrocketed by 40, 50 and 60 percent.
And murder has reached an all time high.
We don't want this for our country.
That's why I'm doing this.
I don't like...
I know you all have the nicest view you can ever have.
But somebody's got to explain this.
This is a radical left Marxist-Communist-Fascist.
As Bordazar, she then launched a colossal invasion of California's southern border.
Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Venezuelan gang is expanding its deadly reach in the United States.
First sentence of the story begins, U.S. law enforcement officials have watched with alarm the spread of a Venezuelan gang known for dismembering people.
Dismembering people, right?
Dismembering people.
From Chile to Colombia, they're all over the place.
Now they're in our country.
They're known as MS-13.
They're considered the meanest, toughest gang in the world in Long Island.
Not so long ago, two young 16-year-old girls were walking to school, and they carved them up with a knife.
They killed both of them.
They carved them up with a knife.
They didn't want to shoot them.
And we got them out.
I got them out so fast, and we did a big number.
And I wanted to thank ICE while I'm at it, because ICE has been unbelievable.
Border Patrol has been unbelievable.
And she wants to get rid of ICE.
She wants to dismember ICE.
She wants to take them out.
And if you didn't have ICE, you'd have a problem in this country.
ICE would go in, I remember, in Long Island with us.
They had a gang that was brutal, MS-13 gang.
They came out of prisons from different places.
And they formed, for whatever reason, Long Island seems to be a place.
And I'll never forget the scene of ICE going into a rat's nest, they call them when you have a lot of them together, rat's nest.
And they walked into that nest.
You just saw arms and fists and feet.
Everybody was flying.
And three minutes later, he saw it.
Three minutes later, they walked out with these guys, dragging them out by their feet and throwing them into paddy wagons and bringing them into jails.
And then we got them out of the country and moved them back to where they came from.
Which Obama was unable to do when he was president.
Obama was unable to do because the countries wouldn't participate.
They wouldn't allow him back.
But I call those countries, three of them.
Guatemala.
Take a look.
Mexico, too, to a large extent.
And I think probably the worst of all, we had four countries.
Colombia was rough.
We had four in South America.
We have...
But South America is no longer the problem.
We have bigger problems elsewhere.
Guatemala, a lot of problems in Guatemala.
A lot of bad people coming out.
We called.
I said, let me speak to the president.
I told him, you're not getting any more foreign aid.
You get $750 million a year.
I said, no more foreign aid.
Why?
Because you send people over in caravans and you won't take them back.
And they're criminals and we don't want them in this country.
And you wouldn't take them back with...
Obama, they would put planes on the runways, big planes on the runway, so you couldn't land the planes loaded up with prisoners.
And I said, that's okay.
You can keep doing it.
We're not paying you 10 cents.
And they called me back 20 minutes later, one of them the next day, three countries.
And they said we would be honored to take MS-13 back.
We like them very much.
We're wonderful people.
And we got them out by the thousands and thousands we got them out.
And that I attribute to ICE and Border Patrol.
They're incredible people.
Not only is Comrade Howard, I mean, if you take a look at this, but not only is Comrade Kamala allowing illegal aliens to stampede across our border, but then it was announced about a year ago that they're actually flying them in.
Nobody knew that.
They were secretly flying in hundreds of thousands of people.
Some of the worst murderers and terrorists you've ever seen.
They were taking anybody that wanted to come in.
And they're flying them in.
So when they tell you about their borders a little bit better than it used to be, they only did that for election reasons.
Not good, but it's a little bit better.
But they don't tell you that the flights are still coming in here, bringing in thousands and thousands of illegal aliens.
And they're being dropped into the midsection of our country.
Because all states are really border states right now.
And I'm the border president.
I solved it in 2016.
Probably got elected because of that in 2016.
And really, there was nothing to do in 2020.
I said to my people, I want to talk about the border.
What a job I did.
They said, sir, nobody cares.
You did it.
It was good.
We went from a terrible border to a great border very quickly.
We did a great job.
And then...
I come in and I look at what's happening now, and the only difference is that the border in 2016 was 120th what it is now.
We have the worst border in the history of the world.
There's never been a border like this.
And I want to be the border president, and I hope you call me the border president because I'm going to show you what a border security job we can do, and we're going to do a job like never has been done before.
There's never been a border like this.
I believe the real number is 21 million people.
And many are thugs, criminals.
And remember this, if you go to South America and if you go to these countries that have taken their prisoners out of their jails to empty their jails and dumped them into the United States like we're dumping ground, you're going to see their crime rates have gone down by 50, 60, 70, and 80 percent.
If you look at Caracas, Venezuela, they took their criminals and drug dealers and rapists off the street and they dumped them into the United States of America.
Dumping ground, they call it.
We're a dumping ground for Venezuela because we have stupid people running our country.
And you think Biden's bad?
This one's going to be worse than Biden.
Over the past three and a half years, Kamala has resettled half a million illegal migrants from Haiti into American communities, including over 200,000 who Kamala has illegally flown into the United States by airplane.
When they couldn't get through the border because, you know, the border guards backed up.
They were refusing to let them in.
They love this country.
They're saying, you can't do this to our country.
They flew them in right over the top of the border guards.
And they're doing it right now.
They're doing it right now.
In Springfield, Ohio, 20,000 illegal Haitian migrants have descended upon a town of 58,000 people destroying their way of life.
They've destroyed.
And people don't like to talk about it.
Even the town doesn't like to talk about it.
Because it sounds so bad for the town.
They live there.
They're proud.
They love the town.
For years it was a great place.
Safe.
Nice.
Now they have 20,000 and I actually heard today it's 32,000.
It's the new number.
Illegal aliens are now coming in from all over the world.
From prisons, jails, mental institutions.
They're coming in.
At levels that we've never seen before.
We cannot let this happen to our country.
And I will be your border president.
And I hope you call me a border president.
I never thought I'd have to say that again.
Because we fixed the border and now it's...
And it was 100% beautiful.
And that includes fentanyl and drugs and everything else.
We had it fixed and now nobody's ever seen anything like it.
And I guess they want to do it because we built hundreds of miles of wall.
And we had hundreds of miles, I said, after we completed, much more than I said I was going to complete.
And it had a huge impact.
But after I completed it, we had all of this wall to be put up.
It could have been put up in 200 miles, could have been put up in three weeks, would have been totally sealed and much larger than I originally said.
But it worked so well.
We were doing so well.
And not only didn't they put it up, they sold much of it for five cents on the dollar.
Very expensive wall.
Has wires inside of it for technology.
Hardened steel, hardened concrete, and rebar.
They wanted all three.
I did it as per the Border Patrol.
I disagreed with the look.
They said, sir, this is the only way.
We had to put an anti-climb panel on top.
The panel on top is an anti-climb panel.
I said, I don't like the way it looks.
They say, I know, but it stops people from climbing.
I said, all right.
We'll do it the way you want.
A president has a duty to keep you safe.
Kamala will turn America into a poor, violent third-world refugee camp.
It already sort of is.
We have elections that are a mess, and we have a border that's the worst of any border ever in the world.
There's never been a country ever in the world that's allowed 21 million people to come across in a short period of time.
And children and the children of American citizens are at the mercy of...
You take a look at what's happening in Colorado.
The governor's afraid to even talk about it.
The governor is a Democrat.
Colorado, I hope you're going to vote for Trump because you're being stampeded by your own politicians.
The governor can't talk about it because he can't go against the policies of these lunatics that want all these people to come into our country without knowing who they are.
We don't even know where they come from.
As of last week, I was told by Tom Holman, we had 168 countries represented over the last 12 months.
In other words, people came in illegally from 168 different countries.
Most people don't know there's that many countries.
There's more than that in the world.
We'll know them all pretty soon, I'm sure.
In breaking news yesterday, the premier statistical agency at the Justice Department, you remember where David Muir, Tried to correct me when I said that crime is rampant like never before.
He said, oh no.
He said, crime is going down.
He said, where are you coming from?
And you know, you wouldn't have to need a Bureau of Justice Statistics to know that crime is worse than it's ever been.
And I guess they probably watched the debate and they heard this foolish man, this foolish fool.
Make that statement to me that, no, no, crime is coming down.
The FBI said it was coming down.
The FBI defrauded everybody because what they did is they used statistics not including some of the worst areas and some of the worst cities.
So the real numbers are from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and they just released it.
So I think they probably like me because they wanted to defend me from people that are not smart.
A guy who has good hair, but not as good as it was five years ago, to be honest.
And released, they just released brand new numbers just out last night, late, showing that since 2020, so this guy, David Muir, was correcting me, the FBI.
Now the FBI defrauded, just like they defrauded on the jobs, 118,000 jobs that didn't exist.
The FBI, in this case, defrauded.
So violent crime, just out.
Nationwide is up 40%.
Rape is up 42%.
Car theft is up 42%.
Aggravated assaults are up 55%.
And violent attacks on strangers are up much more than 61%.
So those are your numbers.
Those are the numbers now.
I was...
I think he corrected me 11 times.
Of the 11 times, I don't think he had the right to correct me at all.
Didn't correct her once.
Like on Project 2025, I have no idea.
It had nothing to do with me.
He didn't correct her.
He knew that.
Charlottesville, nothing was done wrong.
All you had to do is read my statement one more sentence, and you would have seen that.
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Jesse, all of them, Greg Gutfeld, they all...
They all took that and they corrected it many times, but they keep coming with the same lies.
I'm going to save Social Security and I'm going to make it good and we're not going to raise the age, just as I did for four years when everyone, many Democrats, wanted me to do something about it.
And she'll go around saying, oh, Trump is going to do bad things to Social Security.
No, she's going to do it because she's putting these illegal immigrants onto Social Security, onto Medicare.
And she's going to destroy those programs, and the people are going to have to pay.
But I'm going to save them.
But David Muir said, exactly, I quote, President Trump, as you know, this is after I made the statement that crime is at record numbers.
President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.
Now, anybody that says it's coming down, when you look at all of the migrant crime and all of the other crimes, and this doesn't even include most of the migrant crime.
So it's up 55, 65, 75, and 85. One category is up 89%.
And these numbers have just been released by the government.
I appreciate the person that released them.
I think he came to my defense, actually.
But the people understand it.
In fact, he was wrong.
The FBI totally fudged the numbers.
And I really believe it's actually a fraud what the FBI did.
It's a fraud.
And it was a fraud when the administration, I call it the Kamala, because I don't even know who our president is anymore.
Where is this guy?
They took it away.
This was an overthrow of the president of the United States.
This was a coup.
Think of it.
You got 14 million votes.
You got no votes.
She was the first one that lost, and now I'm running against her.
They went in.
I was 19 points up in the poll.
I saw their poll.
They went up after the debate with Biden.
I have debates with everybody.
But the first debate, we had two debates.
We didn't have one.
First, I had Biden.
And he was 19 to 21 down.
And that's when they went and they said, you can't win.
You're going to get out.
And he said, no, I'm not.
I'm not going to get out.
Which was his right to say.
They said, well, if you don't get out, we're going to execute the 25th Amendment.
And he said, like I said, I'm going to get out.
And he hates her beyond any.
I think he hates her probably.
Almost as much as he hates me.
I think he still hates me a little bit more.
But he hates her.
He hates her.
He hates what she did.
And you know when they talk about democracy?
Well, that's not democracy.
He had 14 million votes.
He had none.
And she was the first one out of the 22 people or so that ran as a Democrat.
She never made it to Iowa.
First state.
She never made it to Iowa.
She was the first one out and now she's running.
So you tell me how that works.
They wanted to be politically correct.
That's all.
But we're not going to let her destroy our country.
In fact, the David Muir character, he's lost so much respect.
Everyone's talking about him.
He's a joke.
And ABC News is a joke, too.
But most of the fake news is pretty much of a joke.
He said that the FBI, and he didn't know this, I guess, at the time.
He probably did.
But the numbers and the cities that weren't included in those numbers.
We're Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, New Orleans, and many others of similar crime numbers.
In other words, so they didn't include the worst crime numbers in the country.
Look at those numbers.
Chicago is not included.
Los Angeles is not included.
So they could say the numbers are flat, but they didn't include the big boys.
And that's a fraud on the public.
And as I said, it was a fraud also, just like with the eight.
So it's 818,000 jobs that they said existed that didn't exist.
And they thought they could hold the number off until after the election, any time after November 5th.
But that didn't work out because they had a whistleblower that released the numbers.
And then you have Kamala's claim that she worked at McDonald's.
She never worked at McDonald's.
It's a lie.
They went in, they investigated it, and the fake news won't report that.
The only one that reported it was Fox, but the fake news won't.
She never worked at McDonald's.
She said she stood over those French fries when they were being fried, and it was so tough work.
She never worked there.
She's a liar.
She's a liar.
But the fake news ought to report she's a liar, because that sounds like a little thing, but it's a big thing, because it tells you they lie.
They lie about everything.
They lie about statements on the military.
Nobody loves the military more than me.
She got up today.
She said things.
It was just lies.
It's just made up.
What's bad for Trump?
Oh, this would be...
Say something bad about the military.
Oh, he said bad about the military.
Just like McDonald's.
Total lie.
It's the way they do it.
And her VP choice, I think, will go down as a catastrophic choice.
Now, maybe I'll be wrong.
I'll let you know on...
November 6th.
But I can't believe that that guy is an asset.
They had other people that would have been.
Comrade Kamala Harris and the communist left have also destroyed the economy and the quality of life all across this state and all across our country.
As vice president, what she's done to our country is not even thinkable.
California has the highest inflation, the highest taxes, the highest gas prices.
The most illegal aliens, the most regulations, the most expensive utilities, and it ranks as the third worst state to start a business.
It also has the most people leaving it.
I love this place.
Look at this.
I own this.
No partners, no mortgage, no nothing.
I own it.
And I'm talking so badly about the state.
It hurts me to do it.
I would never do that, except for the fact that I'm running for president and I want to save the country.
So I'd rather sacrifice this than lie or not speak.
But think of it.
I'm knocking the hell out of the state of California.
I'm saying how bad she was and what a bad job she's done.
What a horrible Governor Newsom has been.
He's been horrible.
So many people leaving.
And I'm hurting my own property.
And that cost me lots of money.
But it's okay, because this is unimportant compared to saving the United States of America.
So I do it for that reason.
But that's what, those are the numbers, what Kamala Harris's policies will do to America.
The cost of living here is nearly 40% higher than the national average, and the cost of housing is 97% higher, and the national average is through the roof.
And it all took place in the last three and a half years, because I had no inflation, essentially no inflation.
And it stayed that way for two and a half, two years.
So it wasn't like, oh, gee, it was ready to pop.
No, we had it down to a science.
We had no inflation.
1.4%, which is perfect.
That's better than no.
That's a perfect number.
If you go to the economists, they said, because you want a little bit, but you don't want much.
It's a perfect number.
It was perfect.
The country was perfect.
We were drilling.
We were taking it out.
Now we're buying our oil from Venezuela.
It's not even believed.
It's interesting.
They give him billions of dollars now.
Maduro, the dictator.
I call him the owner of Venezuela.
They give him billions and billions of dollars.
But then they foreclose on his plane.
They take away an old, junky plane.
It's not a good plane.
They take away an old, junky plane.
And I said, well, it's okay.
He'll buy a much better one.
We give him, think of it, a country takes away his airplane, but pays him billions of dollars for their oil, which is the worst oil on the planet.
It's tar.
And it has to be refined.
There's only one plant in the entire world that can refine that junk.
And you know where it's located?
In Houston, Texas.
For the environmentalists, so Houston, Texas is refining tar.
And that stuff is going up into the air.
It's the only place in the whole world that can refine that.
Very bad stuff.
The state is rapidly going busted with a record $68 billion budget deficit last year.
$68 billion deficit for a state.
And the government is so incompetent that it costs $1.7 million to install a single public toilet in San Francisco.
They built a toilet for $1.7 million.
And it's not even nice.
I saw pictures of it.
I built this whole thing for less than that.
Unsurprisingly, more Americans are now leaving California than any other state in the union, and over 500 companies have left since 2020.
Hurts me to say it.
Look, I have this unbelievably valuable asset, and here I am knocking the hell.
I'm sitting here thinking, and I know this, I've done it for every time I speak badly of New York.
We have a very bad attorney general there, she said.
Political hack who got elected saying, I will get Trump.
I will get Trump.
I will get him, Letitia James.
And they had a phony case where they value a house that's worth a billion to a billion five at $18 million.
The judge was corrupt.
And she's corrupt.
Very corrupt person.
It's a political hack.
And then we have the other cases.
They're all headed up by the White House.
They sent their people in.
One person in particular, but they sent their people in to head up the cases in the state.
They sent their people in from the DOJ in Washington, highest officials, to go to Letitia James, work there, get that started, and then go to the DA in Manhattan.
But I think the appellate courts are going to see what's happening.
I really do.
I believe in that.
It's hurting New York because businesses are moving out of New York because of it.
They used a consumer fraud statute.
Which has never been used before for this.
To get me in New York.
And I had no jury.
You can't have a jury.
You're not entitled to a jury.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
But I'm sure, I feel sure that the appellate courts will come in and defend.
Because otherwise our country is finished.
A thing like that can happen.
And no company wants to move into New York because of it.
Very, very bad for New York.
In the face of this crisis, the Kamala Harris Democrats and...
Sacramento.
They're in Sacramento and all over the place.
Just passed a bill that I think the governor is rejecting.
I hope he rejects, but I think he was given a lot of pressure.
$150,000 home loans for only illegal aliens.
But the fact that it even passed, I would imagine he'd reject it if he hasn't already.
They also passed a law that allows state authorities to take children from their parents if they don't, quote, affirm their child's gender.
Identity.
When Kamala Harris said the values that she has have never changed, I really think that was probably the only true statement that she made.
They've stayed true, and you look at what they are.
They're the same as what they were five years ago, ten years ago.
They want to confiscate your guns.
They want to take your guns away.
They're going to take your guns away if I'm not elected.
Anybody that owns a gun, if you vote for them, you're crazy.
Any Jewish person.
That votes for Kamala is crazy.
She wouldn't go to see the Prime Minister of Israel in Congress.
Think of that, because she had a sorority party, which she considered to be more important.
It's a big deal when a Prime Minister comes to Congress and speaks, and she doesn't want to go because she's at a sorority party.
But that wasn't really the reason.
The really reason is that she hates Israel.
And I say that Israel will not exist in two years from now.
If she's elected president.
And she'll be very happy if that happened.
Israel will not mark me down.
You know, they have a hat.
And I didn't put it.
They say, you know, Trump was right about everything.
unidentified
I've been right about everything.
donald j trump
So I end on that.
And I just want to say that I'm going to hopefully be elected.
Polls have gone way up since the debate.
I'm going to be reelected and come in for a second time.
We did, as I said, much better the second time than we did the first, but some bad things happened.
But we're doing it now, and more importantly, I'm looking to the future.
We're going to make our country bigger, better, greater than ever before.
We're going to turn it around.
We're going to get rid of the criminals that have been allowed to come into our country and prey upon our citizens, their children, and get them out.
And it's an honor that you're here if you'd like to take some questions.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, this feed is the president's feed on Rumble.
It's freezing right now, so we are going to migrate over to a feed that is not freezing.
Okay?
It is freezing.
It is not our broadcast.
unidentified
No, no, no.
donald j trump
Excuse me.
Most of my Republican allies had said I was great in the debate.
You're just like, you know, a lot of other people at Fox.
Well, why don't you say most 94% of the Republicans said I did phenomenally in the debate.
Some said that I could have been tougher.
I don't know how I could have been tougher when I said he's the worst president and she is the worst vice president in the history of our country.
94% of the Republicans and the only one that wouldn't would maybe a Mitt Romney or somebody like that.
But we've gotten great praise for the debate.
And based on the polls, like Rasmussen being up sixth today, the first poll out, based on the polls, obviously, I did well in the debate.
Also, based on the debate polls, where I sometimes had, in one case, 92% wins.
So, you know, look, you come from Fox.
You shouldn't play the same game as everybody else.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
unidentified
Republican colleagues or your allies who are concerned about your close relationship Well, I don't know what they would say.
donald j trump
Laura's been a supporter of mine, just like a lot of people are supporters, and she's been a supporter of mine.
She speaks very positively of the campaign.
I'm not sure why you asked that question, but Laura's a supporter.
I don't control Laura.
Laura has to say what she wants.
She's a free spirit.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, look, I can't tell Laura what to do.
Laura's a supporter.
I have a lot of supporters.
So I don't know what exactly you're referring to.
That's okay.
Yeah, please.
I just don't know.
Laura's a supporter.
I don't know.
She is a strong person.
She's got strong opinions.
And I don't know what she said, but that's not up to me.
She's a supporter.
unidentified
Please.
donald j trump
A lot of people do.
It's a very big plan.
unidentified
She made racist remarks about your opponent.
She also espoused conspiracy theories Well, I have to see what the remarks are.
donald j trump
You're telling me, for the first time, we're here discussing the destruction of San Francisco and California by a person that's running for president, so I don't even know what you're talking about.
I do know that she may have said something based on what you're telling me, but I don't know what she said, but I'll go take a look and I'll put out a statement later on, but I really don't know.
Please.
unidentified
Springfield, Ohio is experiencing a migrant crisis.
Will you use an event there to show the media what's actually happening in the town hall?
donald j trump
Well, we could, and maybe we'll do that.
Where are you from?
That's good.
Very good.
They're doing a very good job.
Yeah, that's very good.
No, I will.
Maybe Springfield, maybe Aurora, maybe both.
We'll go there.
I can say this.
We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio, large deportations.
We're going to get these people out.
We're bringing them back to Venezuela.
You know, he told Biden he's not accepting anybody back.
They moved all their criminals, not all of them, but the rest are moving in now.
They emptied their jails in Venezuela, emptied their criminals, emptied the nests.
They call them nests of bad people.
They're all now in the United States, and they're now taking over cities.
We're going to start with Springfield.
unidentified
The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, the police chief, the Republican governor of Ohio have all debunked this story about people eating pets.
And now there are bomb threats at schools and kids being evacuated.
Why do you still spread?
donald j trump
No, no, no.
The real threat is what's happening at our border.
Because you have thousands of people being killed by illegal migrants coming in and also dying.
You have women dying as they come up.
They're coming up.
In large groups, we call it a caravan.
I think I came up with that name, but it's really what it is.
10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people.
And you have large numbers of women being killed in those caravans coming up to this country.
And then when they get here, they can go into the country and they end up being sex slaves and everything else.
Those are your real problems, not the problem that you're talking about.
Yeah, okay.
unidentified
Quick question.
donald j trump
So you just said that you'll carry out the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants Well, you know, if you go to the people of California, they don't want to have sanctuary cities anymore.
They're tired of sanctuary cities.
Sanctuary cities are really blocks that protect bad people from deportation and other problems.
And they're going to do it.
And our federal government has tremendous power.
But we're not going to let...
States, even like California, even though I know it's largely a sanctuary state, essentially.
But we're not going to let that happen to the people of California.
They want these people out.
They're just as scared as everybody else.
The people of Ohio are scared.
The people of Colorado, you have a governor there who's very weak.
He doesn't know what to do.
And he doesn't want to talk about it.
A lot of it, as per your question, they don't want to talk about what's happening.
They say it's so bad for the city.
Let's not go public.
Let's live with it for a little while.
Maybe it'll go away.
It's not going to go away.
It's going to get worse.
It's going to get so bad.
You know, what we're experiencing now is they're just getting settled in.
There's 21 million people that have come in.
They're just getting settled in.
It's going to get much worse.
It's going to get worse at a level like nobody's ever seen before.
unidentified
Regarding the economy, we're seeing more and more companies are shipping their jobs overseas, but even for white collar jobs, they're having problems without even seeing mass layouts.
donald j trump
How would you prevent these white collar jobs By lowering taxes and regulations.
And what they're doing is they're seeing that every time it looks like Kamala's doing well, companies want to leave.
Stock markets go down.
The stock market, there's a great gentleman, Scott Besant, who is one of the top Wall Street.
He said the market's only up because they all think that Trump is going to get elected.
We had a great stock market.
Even with COVID, we ended up handing over a market that was higher than previous to COVID or the China virus coming in.
Now, we are going to make sure that the taxes are going to stay where they are and or come down, ideally come down, both for the middle class and for corporations, because corporations put the people to work.
We had the best numbers in the history of our country, by far, not even close.
And there are companies leaving because they cannot stand what's happening right now to our country.
And one of the reasons I'm doing this today is to let them know you're not going to have to leave because we're going to take care of the problem.
They have a tremendous crime problem.
Like if you're in Los Angeles, look at the crime numbers.
And then you have the FBI lying about the numbers, saying the numbers went down.
But anybody with common sense know the numbers are through the roof.
I didn't know they were as high as they are.
But think of it.
How good is a person from a government agency that would release the numbers when they saw that I was unfairly targeted by ABC?
And you could say by the FBI with false numbers.
So I have great respect.
I have to find out who that person is or who that group is.
But I have great respect.
unidentified
Go ahead.
donald j trump
One more.
unidentified
Yes.
North Korea, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, he just showed a uranium facility.
The U.S. is saying that Iran is sending ballistic missiles to Russia.
How, if reelected, how would you address the situation with our adversaries?
donald j trump
I'll be able to make phone calls and solve most of the problems.
I may actually have to meet a couple of times.
But, you know, Viktor Orban, and you've heard me say this, but it wasn't long ago, he said the only way you're going to solve the world problem is Trump has to be president again.
And I don't say it.
I didn't say it.
I sort of would be embarrassed to say it.
But he said everybody was afraid of Trump.
He said China was afraid.
Russia was afraid.
North Korea was afraid.
Everybody was afraid.
We had no wars.
We defeated ISIS in four weeks.
And they said it was going to take five years, right?
The generals in Washington.
I went there and met a great general and some great people.
And I said, go to it.
And he took them out in four weeks, 100% of the ISIS caliphate.
I flew there.
I flew to Iraq, to the field.
And they took them out.
Very short period of time.
Short order.
We have a great military, but, you know, a great military needs a leader.
If you don't have leaders, then you end up with Afghanistan.
The worst withdrawal from a country in the history.
Look, I've gotten to know great people.
I went to Arlington at their request.
And I stood.
And I was with them for hours.
And I stood with them.
They did a ceremony.
And then they asked me if I'd go down to the graves of their children.
They called them their children.
They always will be their children.
And there were tears all over, as there should be.
And they said, sir, could you take pictures with me by the grave of my son, in one case, a daughter?
And I said, I'd love to.
And I took pictures with them for a while, and then I left, and that was it.
And I got home, and I got a call from the people in the campaign.
Sir, the Biden people are saying that you did this for publicity.
If people knew how hard it was to get there.
Because I was coming from a location that was very far away, and yet they were having the ceremony, and I really felt, you know, I had them up to Bedminster, most of the family members, and I got to know them.
They're great people.
Their sons and daughter, just as though Kamala shot them with a pistol in her hand or his hand, they were killed by Biden and Kamala.
They were killed.
They should have never left from that airfield.
They should have left for Bagram.
We should have never given up Bagram.
Bagram now is controlled by China.
The reason we shouldn't have given it up was not because of Afghanistan.
The reason we shouldn't have given it up, one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.
And I wasn't giving it up.
We were getting out quickly and effectively.
I'm the one that got the numbers down to less than 5,000 soldiers.
But I would have never left unless they fulfilled their obligations under an agreement.
I had a wonderful agreement.
But the agreement said, you have to do this, this, this.
They didn't do three of the first five things.
So therefore, they would have done it.
Abdul was the leader.
And he wouldn't have done it.
And he would have never done that to us.
And just in finishing up with that, I appreciate the question, actually.
But in finishing up with that, for 18 months, spoke to Abdul over the phone.
For 18 months, not one American soldier was shot or killed.
Not one American soldier was even shot at.
Abdul understood.
Don't do it.
I said, don't do it, Abdul.
Don't do it.
And for 18 months, not one soldier was even shot at.
And that's the way it's supposed to be, right?
And then they had that horrible situation with the 13 dead, leaving billions of dollars of equipment behind.
And leaving a lot of Americans behind.
A lot of Americans.
And you know what else?
Leaving a lot of soldiers badly wounded.
Nobody ever talks about them, but I do.
unidentified
Let's talk about California.
You are claiming that we need to do major changes in this state.
If you're president, what's the biggest policy difference for the people of California?
And what would the nature of your relationship be with the leaders of California who you're calling scum?
donald j trump
Well, I would have a great relationship with them.
And what you have to do is start all over again.
You cannot have these policies of high taxation.
You can't have these policies of politics where you go after your politicians.
You have to have an honest voting system because, you know, you don't have an honest voting system.
They send out millions and millions of ballots.
They go all over the place.
Some people get two, three, four, five.
You have a very dishonest system over here.
If I ran...
With an honest vote counter in California, I would win California.
But the votes are not counted honestly.
It's a very dishonest system that you have in California.
And I'd make it business-friendly.
Right now, it's business-unfriendly.
Look, Elon Musk is a friend of mine.
He endorsed me very powerfully.
He endorses me every time he speaks.
He really wants to see us win because he knows we can do a great job and turn it around.
He left California.
I said to him, Elon, did anybody ever call you?
It was a big company.
We moved to Texas.
A lot of people moving to Texas.
Great state.
Excellent governor and excellent lieutenant governor.
Great people.
They love entrepreneurs.
They love the people that live there.
They want to keep their taxes low.
Taxes are way too high here.
But I said to Elon, so you have a big company and you're moving it to Texas from California.
Did anybody call you like the governor to try and get you to stay?
No.
Did anybody see you, write a letter, do anything to try and keep you to stay?
You have thousands of jobs.
He said nobody ever called.
There'd be so many things you could do.
This would be the easiest place to turn around if they knew what to do.
Look at it.
I mean, look at the weather.
We're standing out here on the Pacific Ocean in the most beautiful weather.
A lot of states don't have weather like this.
They don't have Pacific Oceans.
So it's many things you could do, but you start with...
Lowering taxes and making it friendly.
But think of it, Elon Musk, a great guy, brilliant guy, big company, lots of jobs, leaving.
Nobody even calls him to try and get him to stay.
I would have been on him.
I would have said, let's have lunch, let's have dinner, and then let's have breakfast the following morning, right?
I would have tried to talk him out of it.
Yeah, go ahead, please.
unidentified
What value do you feel that Laura Lumer brings to you?
And has nobody told you about conspiracy theories?
donald j trump
No, I don't know that much about it.
No, I don't.
I know she's a big fan of the campaign, but I really don't know.
I would say that she brings a spirit to us that a lot of people have.
We have very spirited people.
And in all fairness to her, she hates seeing what's happened to the country, I guess.
I mean, she hates seeing what's happened to the country.
So do I. It's very sad.
It's very sad when I have to stand out here on my property and say how bad California is.
Did you have another one?
unidentified
Mr. President, getting back to some questions that matters to the people of California.
There are a lot of folks here who feel like they are forgotten, men and women.
The state government doesn't seem to care, but you are coordinating with the local mayor.
What can you do to help this community?
donald j trump
Well, we're going to help them.
And I told John, the local mayor, but I told John we're going to help him with his slide problem.
You know, there are ways of fixing that.
We discussed it.
He knows better than anybody.
And he needs help from the federal government.
He needs help from the state government.
And it's a very wealthy area.
But you also have people living here that are elderly and have fixed incomes.
Have houses that are going to be, you know, shoved into the Pacific Ocean if something's not done.
And he wants it taken care of.
He's a great mayor.
He wants it taken care of.
He wants nothing for himself.
He just wants to help these people.
And, John, I think you said you have about 600 houses on the site that's sliding.
And he'd like to be able to save those houses for people, some of which will never be able to have a house again.
unidentified
You know, it's pretty sad.
No, I'm not selling.
donald j trump
No, I love it.
I mean, I use it as a method of getting out my word.
You know, when it opened, it went way high, but then the SEC gave us nothing but problems.
We had to go through a long, long process with the SEC.
But people think that I'm leaving.
That's why they're down, because if I leave, you know, it's different if I leave, but I'm not leaving.
I love it.
I think it's great.
Mechanically, it works the best.
And again, I'm friendly with Elon, and Elon would love me to come over to X, but I just, you know, I have close to 100 million people on X. I had 230 million people on X, and then they shut me down, and I said, I'm not going to let that happen again.
You know that.
I had hundreds of millions of people on X and Facebook and Instagram, I think more than anybody.
Zuckerberg told me at the White House, he said, congratulations, you're number one on Facebook.
This is a number of years ago.
And then all of a sudden, it went from being number one to having no voice.
And after about two or three weeks, because I have a lot to say, I put out old-fashioned press statements, like a press statement.
And they got really successful and they did very well.
And then we built this platform.
And the reason I built it is because I don't want to be, I don't want to have my voice shut down.
But a lot of people think that I'll sell my shares.
You know, they're worth billions of dollars.
But I don't want to sell my shares.
I'm not going to sell my shares.
I don't need money.
And it is a great, for me, it's a great voice.
It's a great voice.
And it's a voice.
It works so well.
And we just won.
As you know, we got final approval from the SEC.
It took us a long time.
And that really turned it off.
You know, when I originally opened that stock, it went from about two...
To about 182.
Did you know that?
It was the biggest increase in the history of the stock market.
I believe, you know, I have to say I believe because you're going to find one company, maybe, who knows.
But I believe it was the single biggest movement.
And I think I was worth $61 billion from that one stock.
And then we had nothing but problems with the SEC.
And it gets whittled down, down, down.
But I didn't do it for the money.
I did it because I really wanted to have a strong voice.
And it's a great voice for me.
And as long as my voice is on there, it's going to always be good.
But a lot of people think the reason it's down is that a lot of people think I'm going to sell.
And if I sell, it wouldn't be the same.
I can understand that.
But I have absolutely no intention of selling.
unidentified
Okay?
I agree.
donald j trump
I agree.
unidentified
What will you do to help people in this state whose homes are being damaged again and again, or are falling off of these cliffs right behind us, or burned down, or for the people across the country whose homes are jeopardized by natural disaster?
donald j trump
This is my favorite question of the day.
You're asking me what would I do for it?
Let's talk California first.
Is that okay?
You mind?
So, I was riding with Devin Nunes and some congressmen four years ago.
I was riding up north in California.
And I looked at these fields that were massive.
I was telling John, right?
My favorite question.
I love that somebody would ask me this question.
And I never told you to do it, right?
Who are you with?
Good.
Spectrum.
It's good.
New, hot, right?
It's hot.
It's doing well.
But that's because you ask good questions.
So what happened?
I'm saying, why?
I look at this field, and it's massive.
And in the middle of the field is a little spot of the most green, plush land you've ever seen.
I said, And then I'd see another one, another one.
These little plots, like one, two acres.
And you'd have a thousand acres that's barren and dead and dark.
And I said, what's the problem here?
What is that green acreage?
You know, the soil is unbelievably fertile, but they have no water.
I said, so do you have a drought?
No, we don't have a drought.
We have the water is cut off upstate, up in the north.
You know that?
And the water, in order to protect a certain little tiny fish called a smelt.
They send millions and millions of gallons of water out to the Pacific Ocean, way up north, never even gets close to here.
And you know, in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, all these rich areas, they want to give you like 38 gallons of water to use.
You buy a house for a lot of money and then you're allowed to use 38 gallons of water.
But you have no water down here.
And the reason you have no water, you have the canals.
The reason you have no water is because Gavin Newsom, Didn't want to do it.
I had it all done.
I had the Department of Commerce at the time.
Believe it or not, they're the ones that rule on this particular issue.
So you have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps in Canada and all pouring down.
And they have essentially a very large faucet.
And you turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it.
It's massive.
It's as big as the wall of that building right there.
Behind you.
And you turn that, and all of that water goes aimlessly into the Pacific.
And if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles.
They wouldn't have to have people not use more than 30 gallons and 32 gallons.
They want to do that.
They're trying to do that.
And you have so much water.
And all those fields that are right now barren, the farmers.
Would have all the water they needed.
And you could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests, where the forests are so brittle.
Because no place is like California.
I go to Austria.
The head of Austria tells me, you know, we have trees that are much more flammable than what you have in California.
We never have forest forests because they maintain their forests.
And you have all that water that could be used to, what they call water flow, where the land would be damp.
And you'd stop many of these horrible fires that are costing billions and billions of dollars by the federal government, etc.
So one thing I'm going to do for California, vote for me, California.
I'm going to give you safety.
I'm going to give you a great border.
And I'm going to give you more water than almost anybody has.
And the farmers up north are going to be able to use 100% of their land, not 1% of their land.
And the water is going to come all the way down to Los Angeles.
And you're going to have more water than you ever saw.
And the smelt is not making it anyway.
In fact, they make and grow smelt because it dies all the way up and down the line, and they put stuff that was artificially made.
You know that.
So you're going to have water in California at a level that you've never seen before.
The farmers are going to do great.
Those fields are going to be all green instead of 1% green.
And maybe even more important, you're not going to have illegal immigrants pouring into your country and killing your family.
You're not going to have the problems that you have right now.
We're going to lower your taxes.
We're going to bring the car industry back because your car industry is gone.
We're bringing it back to Detroit at levels that you'll never see again.
We'll bring it back to better than it was 30 years ago.
But with this group, everything is dead.
The automobile industry is dead.
The water coming here is dead.
And Gavin Newsom is going to sign those papers.
And if he doesn't sign those papers, we won't give him money to put out all his fires.
And if we don't give him the money to put out his fires, he's got problems.
He's a lousy governor.
And he treated me very nicely, and I treated him very nicely when I was president.
But he's done a lousy job.
But there's a case.
I said, Gavin, will you sign?
It took him like a month and a half or two months, and then he decided for political reasons.
And then we got hit with COVID and we had to solve another problem.
But you're going to have so much money, Mr. Mayor.
You're going to have so much money from...
Economic activity and growth.
And you're going to have water like you never thought.
Now, in your case, maybe you don't want so much water.
But we'll bypass your beautiful area.
But we have tremendous amounts, millions of gallons of water that's shoved right into the Pacific Ocean where it doesn't make a dent.
And all of that water is going to take care of California.
And nobody can make a bigger promise than that.
You're not going to have to do desalinization plants, which a lot of people want to do, very expensive to do, but it's better than the alternative of no water.
So California, vote for Trump, and you're going to have water, and you're going to have growth, and you're going to have prosperity, and all those people that are leaving are going to really come back.
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Mr. President, this morning, Steve Garvey, why have you not endorsed Steve Garvey?
Will you endorse Steve Garvey?
benny johnson
All right, ladies and gentlemen, what an absolute monster.
The dude has so much energy.
And thank you for sticking with us.
There was a little glitch in the stream.
We've been live for almost four hours here.
President Trump doing the debate this week, doing events right afterward, debate the next morning, facing down.
Kamala Harris, Trump saying that he's not going to debate again.
Giving a lot of commentary on the fake news, fact checks that were delivered during the debate, and hitting hard, quite frankly, ABC.
Going after Kamala Harris, though, in her home state, on her home territory, and doing so, I think, in an absolutely beautiful manner.
One, it makes Trump look like an environmentalist and talking about the ravages of what's happening in California to the people and to that beautiful state, California, a crown jewel in our nation.
I mean, it really is one of the most beautiful states that we have, if not the most beautiful state as far as gifted natural beauty.
And then Donald Trump talking about how he wishes to, well, fix the country.
I mean, really like taking a strong stance, obviously, with immigration, but then going again hard at Kamala in her home territory.
beginning his commentary with talking about restorative justice, crime, Marxism, all of the many things that we know about Kamala Harris.
And so we have a, well, we had a, hold on.
unidentified
This is Trump.
benny johnson
Trump's still talking.
donald j trump
Very undemocratic, but they did.
I'm fine with it.
We had a debate.
I obviously did very well.
unidentified
I'm leading in every poll by a lot, picked up a lot.
I thought it was Ah!
benny johnson
Hold on, ladies and gentlemen.
Hold on, ladies and gentlemen.
We will continue.
The feed is cut.
unidentified
We're going to jump over to another feed.
benny johnson
Klein, cut the audio, please.
We're going to jump over to another feed.
That's not our fault.
Our production team is on.
They're going to find another feed.
Come on, baby.
Let's go.
What happened is Donald Trump left, and he turned around next to the press gaggle, which is the term, and now Donald Trump has begun speaking once again to the press.
Some of that was being picked up by the audio of the feed that we were on, waiting for our producers.
Trust me, if anybody's got them, it's going to be ALX.
Let's pop back and make sure that we're not missing anything.
We have a rule on this channel.
They put gag orders on Trump.
They try and stop the man from speaking.
We do our best to not interrupt him and to allow him to continue to speak.
Here we go.
Need audio on this.
unidentified
But maybe if I got in the right mood, I don't know.
Right now I'm leading, and I'm leading in every single poll on the debate.
benny johnson
Thank you.
unidentified
Sir, do you believe Ukraine needs to give up land that's part of the issue?
You said that you would cut off funding to Ukraine?
Well done, Mr. President!
benny johnson
I respect it.
I respect the hustle.
Alright, so President Trump answering those questions there at the very end and here on the live feed.
It's live, man.
You know?
You just let it rip.
It's Trump.
So, this is, I think, the most important thing that Donald Trump did here.
One, he mogged Kamala Harris in her home state of California.
If Kamala Harris really has a home state, she's lived all over the place, including Quebec, Canada, which is where she gets that beautiful southern accent.
But going there to California, using the failures of California as the backdrop, is, I think, genius.
But then two, just the...
This is what President Trump was doing in the lead-up to the debate.
The proof that he can do a press conference and she can't.
The proof that he's willing to answer questions for the American people.
He's willing to stand out front and take those questions and take those slings and arrows.
Some of the questions were very, very fair.
Some of the questions were very, very not fair and completely churning on conspiracy theorist leftism and Donald Trump calling those out and then redirecting.
I love the tactic.
The final thing I'll say.
I love the tactic.
What are you talking...
That's not what I'm talking about here.
I'm here to talk about...
This is what Republicans need to do.
I'm not here to talk...
I'm here to talk about what I'm here to talk about.
My name's Trump.
I'm going to talk about what I'm going to talk about today.
I'm going to talk about the failures and the chaos and the disaster and the human carnage of Kamala Harris's policies.
Good!
That's what's called being on message.
I love it.
Stay locked in, baby.
Stay locked in.
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I think it's going to get far more interesting.
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So stay locked in.
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We were live within 30 minutes of Donald Trump getting shot.
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We need to start doing...
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ALX, give me a screenshot.
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We have too much content.
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Go ahead and give them a follow.
We are scaling up the production for these channels right now.
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It's going to be really exciting.
We've done some of the work.
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And now we're going to be launching.
So we have our Benny on the Block channel and our Benny Brews channel.
You can find them, ALX, you can find them on the main page here for our channel.
And this is going to be something that we really want to do our best.
Our limiting principle here is our own energy.
And it is unmatched because we got kids, we got a stake in this country, and we're going to fight to save it.
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We're not going to quit.
It's going to be an exciting ride.
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Launching new channels and getting ready to do a big build here.
And it's going to be...
Well, we're just very, very thankful for you.
The way that we show that is obviously in showing you the thing that keeps us the most grounded and speaking the thing that keeps us the most grounded every single day, which is our faith and our faith in God, our faith in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, power in the name of Jesus Christ from Romans.
What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who can possibly be against us?
Yeah.
That's kind of the verse of the week here, right?
So we're going to see wild stuff.
I think we have not even begun to scratch the surface of what we're going to see in 2024.
They're going to really ramp and ratchet stuff up.
This is why Kamala Harris is begging and screaming for another debate.
Trump apparently is not going to give it to him.
We'll see if it's a negotiating tactic or not.
And then what happens next?
Ooh, baby.
It's going to be very, very interesting.
It's going to be interesting.
So stay locked in.
We will be there for you.
Show up for us.
And we're in a movement together.
And we're going to win.
A really cool ad that was dropped in our four-hour live today by Nicole Shanahan.
She was a running mate, RFK.
And she dropped an ad about finding MAGA.
This is very interesting.
Very neat.
Sharp way to end the week with a little bit of creativity here and a little pep in our step.
Have a wonderful weekend in this, the greatest country on earth.
God bless you.
unidentified
Across the Atlantic in the North American country of the United States lies a fascinating and often misunderstood collective.
From its northeastern cities to its midwestern towns to its expansive west, this courageous group of individuals are most notably known for their unwavering patriotism.
Join us as we explore the fascinating world of the Maga people.
As we embarked on our journey, we were judicious in taking all necessary precautions.
Our media had warned us that these were a vicious, radical and even deplorable people.
Contrary to what we had been told, we found the Maga people to be warm, loving, And even rather cheeky at times.
As we spent time with the Mauga people, we learned that their mantra "Make America Great Again" is an optimistic belief that the United States will once again prosper by returning to its founding principles of a government by and for the people.
Under these beliefs, the Mauga people strive to protect America's constitution, freedom of its citizens, health of its people, and are yearning to restore the American dream that existed not so long ago.
Notice their rather wholesome, familial demeanor.
They often talk about their love of family, the importance of truth, and a desire for basic human rights.
As they strive to uphold the peace and harmony throughout their communities, the Mauga people are insistent on protecting their borders.
However, they are not inherently confrontational, as they advocate for ending the wars and military presence abroad.
Further observations reveal that Mauga people come from all walks of life, including farmers and ranchers, Family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, health advocates, blue-collar workers, and military servicemen.
And just recently, the Maaga people joined forces with another group, the Maha people.
Together, the Maaga and Maha have started a movement to make America healthy again.
As we departed back to our native land, we couldn't help but reflect on all that the Maaga people had taught us.
Once perceived as a dangerous and barbaric group, We found ourselves feeling enlightened by the MAGA's moral, ethical, and honest ways of life.
One could only hope that a similar movement would eventually emerge for us.
donald j trump
Every time I took a trip with my lover, I paid him in cash.
Where the hell did you get the cash?
benny johnson
Your Honor, I object!
unidentified
And why is that?
benny johnson
Because it's devastating to my case!
unidentified
Overruled.
Good call!
The biggest ships in the sea, all owned by the oldest kings.
And their dying legacy, media dealings.
So will the Fanny Show come to mind?
The salt from lives for fun.
Feed the gold and bring the gun.
We sail for number one.
Soon will the penny show come.
We'll come to mine the salt from Liz for fun.
Leave the gold and bring the gun.
We sail for number one.
The biggest ships in the sea.
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