Aug. 14, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| We want to let you know, Justin, DC has updated its policy on cooperation with federal law enforcement as it pertains to immigration. | ||
| From what we've gathered so far from reading this executive order by the police chief, this mostly has to do with how information is shared and how some individuals are transported. | ||
| We're going to dig into that. | ||
| But, you know, D.C.'s police chief and even the mayor have acknowledged the opportunity they have here with an enhanced presence to really boost their arrest numbers, which they've seen happen. | ||
| It's something that wasn't able to happen before, they said, simply because it's a numbers game. | ||
| They now have more people out. | ||
| They're able to scoop up the people that they have been looking for and seeking to arrest. | ||
| Now, even though we're getting this kind of, you know, it's somewhat support from local officials here, you have Democrats at large just pushing back. | ||
| Like this is the worst thing in the world. | ||
| You have Senator Chuck Schumer brushing off any idea of prolonging federalized DC police force. | ||
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Listen. | |
| If he went to Congress and said, you know what, there's this crime emergency. | ||
| We need the National Guard out there longer. | ||
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We need to take over Washington, D.C., would you grant it? | |
| No way. | ||
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We'll go. | |
| We'll fight him tooth and nail. | ||
| All right. | ||
| He was pretty clear there. | ||
| Opponents have also seen this as an opportunity to renew calls for locals to have more control by turning D.C. into a state, a ridiculous notion, according to the president. | ||
| We want to straighten the place out. | ||
| Statehood's ridiculous. | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| It's the Democrats want it because the Democrats have, you know, about 95% in this little area. | ||
| Even I, I didn't get it very much. | ||
| They want that. | ||
| They want to pick up two senators and it's not going to happen. | ||
| It's not going to happen. | ||
| A D.C. resident found out what happens when you take qualms too far. | ||
| According to police, a 37-year-old verbally assaulted law enforcement before chucking a sub, some call it a hoagie, whatever you might call it, and a customs and border protection officer. | ||
| Here is U.S. Attorney Janine Pierrow. | ||
| He thought it was funny. | ||
| Well, he doesn't think it's funny today because we charge it with a felony: assault on a police officer. | ||
| So there, stick your subway sandwich somewhere else. | ||
| All right, she's also very clear when she speaks here. | ||
| And, you know, the U.S. Attorney Bureau, she brought up a saying that you've heard from the president: if you spit, we hit. | ||
| That pertains to how police officers and federal agents are treated out in the streets. | ||
| But it is worth reminding people that spitting, that's considered assault as well. | ||
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Not a yes, sir, not a follower. | |
| Fit the box, get the mole, have a seat. | ||
| I was lightning before the thunder. | ||
| Thunder, thunder. | ||
| Lightning and the thunder. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Why not just be live all day? | ||
| It is Den Truman Show at this point, and it's a blast. | ||
| And we're going to have some fun today. | ||
| And we got something very unique for you that I wanted to start off the top of the dome with the news that President Trump has a major announcement from inside of the Oval Office. | ||
| That's what we're going to cover today. | ||
| And that coverage is going to be rejoined with a very interesting shot that we don't normally get. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
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We have the reporters. | |
| That was actually the face of the reporters when I walked into the briefing room this week. | ||
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Oh, what are we going to get? | |
| What are we going to get? | ||
| We don't actually know what the announcement is going to be from President Trump. | ||
| And of course, you don't ever know, because even if Donald Trump's doing an announcement about the national debt or like, I don't know, air traffic controllers, like Donald Trump's gonna take questions from the press and he's gonna like rip roar. | ||
| This is a live shot, ladies and gentlemen, of the reporters waiting in the colonnade outside of the Oval Office. | ||
| I think this is really cool. | ||
| I'm glad that they're going live right now. | ||
| You can sort of see it. | ||
| I'm not sure there's any audio, is there? | ||
| Okay, I'm not sure there's any audio, but you can see the reporters gearing up to be brought into the Oval Office. | ||
| There's a Secret Service agent there who will then let them into the Oval Office. | ||
| And so, very cool. | ||
| We'll be able to get them set up and then President Trump gives his remarks. | ||
| Presumably, the president will be sitting there. | ||
| They'll bring the press in and then we'll get going. | ||
| So, that's what we're going to do on this live. | ||
| ALX, do we have, do we even know? | ||
| Nobody, as far as I know, we don't know what President Trump is going to talk about. | ||
| We have, however, some major breaking news. | ||
| Pop of my feed is, well, ladies and gentlemen, that Democrat men, left-wing men have criminally low, terminally low testosterone. | ||
| And we've been able to cover this. | ||
| It's its own pandemic. | ||
| I mean, the real pandemic are men like this who decide that because they want to try and get some chick who looks like an orc or an orca that they are going to like fight the power. | ||
| I don't know, dude. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| This guy, for instance, is one of our favorite left-wing archetypes. | ||
| The left-wing protester. | ||
| I've been protesting. | ||
| What happened to this guy protesting in LA? | ||
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I shot me in the nuts. | |
| And now I'm losing a ball. | ||
| Surgery is tomorrow. | ||
| So, fact check, fact check. | ||
| The guy has on these pink painted fingernails. | ||
| Did he ever have any balls? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not going to be the one to do the fact check. | ||
| But I am here to tell you that there is a real problem with soy beta rage on the left. | ||
| And it's a true crisis, but it is also a hysterical crisis. | ||
| It ends in some really funny videos like this: a man caught throwing a subway sandwich at federal officers in Washington, D.C. He has now been charged with a felony. | ||
| But I think the original crime is obviously going to be the fact that this man clearly has some real deep-seated mommy and daddy issues. | ||
| Let's go ahead and watch the original video. | ||
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Eh? | |
| Oh! | ||
| Oh! | ||
| It's fucking good! | ||
| It's fucking good! | ||
| *coughs* | ||
| President Trump has vowed to make decent boys. | ||
| Grab me the video. | ||
| I need the video of a man running around and screaming at the officers, please. | ||
| This is Judge Janine responding. | ||
| That's what I need. | ||
| I need the clip of the man roaming the streets, screaming, taunting, raging, hysterically, shrieking at the officers. | ||
| I need it, and I need it now. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Let me know when you got that, Klein. | ||
| Let's just load it up as a play beside. | ||
| Yeah, I need the original clip here, please. | ||
| Gonna be very important to play. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| That's it right there. | ||
| ALX just sent it. | ||
| Please load that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm going to show you guys the full, gonna show you guys the full breakdown. | ||
| I mean, listen, you know what? | ||
| It's live. | ||
| Sometimes they get an asset wrong. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Pop it up. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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You see these fascists right here. | |
| Fascists! | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| Fuck you, fascists! | ||
| Shit! | ||
| Shame! | ||
| oh Motherfucker! | ||
| Oh! | ||
| You fucking gun! | ||
| Could you imagine being that thing's parents? | ||
| Because I can't call them a man. | ||
| You're not a man. | ||
| You're just not. | ||
| If you're limp-wristedly raging in favor of the machine, you're raging in order to have Washington, D.C. be a crime-adled hellscape that nearly killed my family and has killed many other families. | ||
| Many don't escape. | ||
| Washington, D.C. has the murder rate much higher than most third world failed states. | ||
| But that's what this man is fighting for, right? | ||
| This man is fighting for more little black kids to be just like shot and drive-by shootings. | ||
| That happened on my block, by the way, with regular, regular occurrence. | ||
| That's what he's fighting for. | ||
| This is what these people are. | ||
| It's grotesque. | ||
| He's fighting for more homeless encampments. | ||
| More on that in just a second. | ||
| Well, ladies and gentlemen, we just found out that Cuckboy here was actually a DOJ consultant. | ||
| It's a contractor, man charged with felony for assault, hitting federal agents with a Subway sandwich. | ||
| His name is Sean Charles Dunn. | ||
| He's 37. | ||
| And Janine Piro said in a statement that the police are not out there to get pushed around or beat up. | ||
| He attacked them with a Subway sandwich. | ||
| This individual, look at this even during the, you know, the receding hairline, you know, all of it, the receding hairline, the beta soy rage, the mommy and daddy issues. | ||
| All of it is just archetype stuff. | ||
| It really, you know, just, and there we go, of course. | ||
| Here he is outside of the subway. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Outside of the subway. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Outside of the subway and the gay bar. | ||
| Got it? | ||
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Okay. | |
| Yeah, perfect. | ||
| What a, what a, what a, what a perfect DC scene here. | ||
| So apparently, this individual is a federal employee working at the DOJ. | ||
| Absolutely remarkable, this story. | ||
| This was explained to us by Harmee Dylan on our morning show. | ||
| I guess we'll let Judge Janine take it away first, explaining what's going to happen here to Mr., and let's name and shame here, Sean Charles Dunn. | ||
| Take it away. | ||
| Safe and beautiful again. | ||
| And as part of his effort to fight crime, he's bringing in our federal law enforcement partners like FBI, ATF, DEA, apart police, everybody to help the Metropolitan PD fight crime. | ||
| And the president's message to the criminals was, if you spit, we hit. | ||
| Well, we didn't quite do that the other night when an individual went up to one of the federal law enforcement officers and started jumping up and down, screaming at him, berating him, yelling at him. | ||
| And then he took a Subway sandwich about this big and took it and threw it at the officer. | ||
| He thought it was funny. | ||
| Well, he doesn't think it's funny today because we charge him with a felony. | ||
| Assault on a police officer. | ||
| And we're going to back the police to the hilt. | ||
| So there, stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else. | ||
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*shh* | |
| You know what? | ||
| You can say so much about this administration, but at least we're going to have a fun time. | ||
| At least it's going to be entertaining. | ||
| Harmeet Dylan talking about this case on our morning stream saying, some have said this was assault with a deli weapon. | ||
| No joke to assault law enforcement. | ||
| FAFO says Harmeet. | ||
| Here's what Harmeet had to say on our morning show. | ||
| It's rock and roll. | ||
| Telling me that the man in the salmon colored shirt here is a DOJ contractor. | ||
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Yes, the man in the salmon colored shirt with the effete gesture there of throwing a subway sandwich was a DOJ contractor. | |
| He is no longer. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| And can you give us any further circumstance here? | ||
| He's just attacking the police out of what? | ||
| Blind rage? | ||
| Out of like anger that they solidarity. | ||
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Let me tell you something. | |
| You know, woke leftists all over the United States have come to believe the rhetoric that somehow, you know, he's a white man, clearly. | ||
| They're oppressors and they need to somehow pay penance for that. | ||
| So they engage in stupid stunts like this. | ||
| And that could have hurt somebody. | ||
| That could have hit an officer in the eye and wounded them or worse, or he could have had a projectile in there. | ||
| So we have zero tolerance for that kind of nonsense. | ||
| Nobody should feel comfortable attacking our law enforcement. | ||
| And, you know, he's a moron and he'll pay the price for that. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| Oh, wonderful. | ||
| Let me know when we can go cover this case. | ||
| I look forward. | ||
| I would like to look to sit and listen to the explanation as to why you would attack with a deli weapon. | ||
| They're lucky they weren't in Florida. | ||
| I'll play you a clip in just a moment of a Florida sheriff explaining what would happen if you were to hurl an object at an officer here in the state. | ||
| First off, let's go through and check out some of the viral comments about this. | ||
| Again, ladies and gentlemen, this just happened. | ||
| The FBI arrested this individual last night. | ||
| He has been charged with a felony assault on a federal officer. | ||
| This is a federal case. | ||
| These crimes happened inside of the District of Columbia. | ||
| And Sean Charles Dunn is done. | ||
| Let me just tell you what. | ||
| DC, I mean, it's all on camera, right? | ||
| You're not going to be able to skate on this one. | ||
| Foot-long felony, okay? | ||
| Cash Fellow saying the overnight data in DC, FBI and our partners made 45 arrests, 29 immigration-related, 16 tied to violent crime. | ||
| Now, ICE is cooperating with the DCPD. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| Talk about a club sandwich. | ||
| Am I right, folks? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you. | ||
| I just learned about this defendant worked at the Department of Justice no longer, says Pambondi. | ||
| Not only is he fired, he's going to be charged with a felony. | ||
| This is an example of the deep state that we've been up against. | ||
| I mean, can you imagine? | ||
| Like, you loathe, you hate Washington, D.C. so much. | ||
| You hate law and order so much that you're going to assault an officer and you work at the DOJ. | ||
| U.S. officer attorney is getting charged and getting completely destroyed. | ||
| The video is priceless. | ||
| It is really funny. | ||
| Turns out foot-long felons also worked at the DOJ and was fired this morning. | ||
| Not a good day for the deep state. | ||
| Okay, ladies and gentlemen, here we go. | ||
| President Trump live inside of the Oval Office, ready to rock, just getting started. | ||
| This is live. | ||
| President Trump at the resolute desk. | ||
| Waiting for the cameras to get set. | ||
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Thank you very much for being with us. | |
| Good time for this country where you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. | ||
| I think you're hearing it from a lot of people, not just from me. | ||
| We're doing very well in so many ways. | ||
| And the gentleman on my right, we recruited him. | ||
| We tried to get the best person. | ||
| We got a man that you'll hear in a second. | ||
| He's done an amazing job with respect to social security. | ||
| He's running it and he's running it like nobody ever even dreamt possible. | ||
| And it's the 90th anniversary right now of Social Security. | ||
| So today we celebrate that 90th anniversary of one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever signed into law, the Social Security Act of 1935. | ||
| And we're going to make it stronger, bigger, and better. | ||
| Really doing a job. | ||
| In the campaign, I made a sacred pledge to our seniors that I would always protect Social Security. | ||
| And under this administration, we're keeping that promise and strengthening social security for generations to come. | ||
| You keep hearing stories that in six years, seven years, Social Security will be gone. | ||
| And it will be if the Democrats ever get involved because they don't know what they're doing. | ||
| but it's going to be around a long time with us. | ||
| Very much. | ||
| You'll be surprised to hear some of the numbers. | ||
| I'm delighted to be joined by the commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Frank. | ||
| Please to be joined by the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Frank Pizignano, who in the world of business, in fact, I wrote some of the little things down. | ||
| He's had an amazing, amazing, he was chief operating officer of J.P. Morgan Chase. | ||
| He worked for Jamie Diamond. | ||
| And Jamie Diamond said that he was amazing. | ||
| So think of that chief operating officer, J.P. Morgan Chase had a storied career. | ||
| Then he went to First Data. | ||
| For those in the business, you'd know it's the largest payment company anywhere in the world. | ||
| And it worked for Henry Kravis, and it was in big trouble. | ||
| He took it over as CEO. | ||
| He made it incredible. | ||
| They merged with FISERV, and he became CEO of that. | ||
| And that became extremely successful. | ||
| That was in Milwaukee, I guess they had the Milwaukee Arena, and where we had some good success and some good speeches. | ||
| But he's a really legendary guy, and he wanted to do this. | ||
| I mean, he just wanted to straighten out Social Security because he loves our country. | ||
| And what he's done in a few months is amazing. | ||
| Almost 60 million American seniors rely on Social Security for peace of mind and a life of dignity and retirement. | ||
| These Americans paid into the system and they deserve leaders in Washington who are going to protect the benefits they've had and protect Social Security. | ||
| Under Biden, Social Security went down like nobody's ever seen. | ||
| It deteriorated. | ||
| There's never been anything like it. | ||
| The four years of Biden were very, very destructive. | ||
| It couldn't have gone on much longer. | ||
| Social Security was going to be destroyed. | ||
| It was being destroyed. | ||
| The average call wait time reached an all-time high of more than 42 minutes. | ||
| Field office wait times were at 32 minutes, which is unheard of. | ||
| And the disability claims backlog was the longest ever in recorded history. | ||
| In other words, it was run just like the country was run. | ||
| It was run really badly. | ||
| But I'm pleased to report that under our leadership and Frank in particular, the changes he's made and what he's done is sort of a miracle. | ||
| Sort of like what happened with the country as a whole. | ||
| Field office wait times are now down 30% since last year, and it looks like it's going to a total record number. | ||
| And the record was set in a long time ago when the world was a lot different place. | ||
| We're going to beat that record. | ||
| Call wait times are down 73% while serving twice as many customers per day. | ||
| The disability claims backlog is down 26% and seniors now have 24-7 online access to their accounts, which they never had before. | ||
| Whereas under Biden, the website was down 29 hours a week for maintenance purposes. | ||
| It was essentially not open very much. | ||
| They were always maintaining it, but they didn't know what the hell they were doing. | ||
| They had a person running that that had no idea what they were doing. | ||
| Among my very first acts was to order all government employees to return to the office or be removed from the job, which means our social security offices are now open for full business hours five days a week. | ||
| So unlike being shut down all the time, we're open at record levels also. | ||
| We're making it really great for the people that want and demand social security and they paid into the system. | ||
| They deserve it. | ||
| Last month, I signed one big, beautiful bill and allowed no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. | ||
| Okay, so how's that? | ||
| Not bad, right? | ||
| No tax on Social Security for our seniors. | ||
| And to protect our benefits, we've already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system. | ||
| These are people, many of them have already left the country, and yet we were sending them checks all the time. | ||
| And 275,000, and that number is now even larger than that, Frank. | ||
| It's an unbelievable job. | ||
| And what that's doing is making the system strong. | ||
| It's making it strong. | ||
| Biden never kicked anybody off. | ||
| Everybody joined. | ||
| And we're carrying out historic deportations to remove many more illegals committing social security fraud. | ||
| It's a social security fraud that was taking place at levels that nobody's ever seen. | ||
| We cleared 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database over 120 years of age. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| So we had 12.4 million names where they were over 120 years old. | ||
| Is that right? | ||
| That's a hell of a statement. | ||
| I have a feeling, Dan, that's not really going to really happen, did it? | ||
| So you have 12.4 million names listed in the Social Security database that were over 120 years of age, meaning you were breaking records because I've never heard of anybody at 125. | ||
| There were nearly 135,000 people listed who were over 160 years old and in some cases getting payments. | ||
| So somebody's getting those payments and we're after that. | ||
| We're also fighting the menace of inflation to make life more affordable for American seniors and we've ended Biden's inflation nightmare. | ||
| So we had the worst inflation in the history of our country and now our inflation is down to a perfect number, a beautiful number, hardly any at all. | ||
| And yet our country is taking in tens of billions of dollars and trillions of dollars, actually trillions of dollars in tariffs. | ||
| And you know all about it. | ||
| It's been amazing. | ||
| They say, why are we taking in so much money? | ||
| Last week they found $29 billion and they couldn't figure out where it came from. | ||
| I said, check the tariff shelf. | ||
| And they said, how did you know that's where it came from? | ||
| Taking in billions and even trillions of dollars in tariffs paid by other countries who, frankly, were taking advantage of us for many, many years. | ||
| And they were doing that to us, but our people didn't know it. | ||
| We didn't have smart business people. | ||
| We've ended Biden's inflation nightmare and came in below expectations. | ||
| And yet, again, this past month, we have set records. | ||
| Gasoline prices are way down and really dramatically, as everybody knows. | ||
| And energy prices have been going down other than in certain states where you have Democrat-run states where they put windmills all over the place. | ||
| Anytime you see a windmill, you'll say, well, they have bad energy costs. | ||
| It's happening in New Jersey. | ||
| I saw that there's a revolution going on in New Jersey. | ||
| They closed up a nuclear power plant and they're raising electricity rates by 21, 22, and 28%, something like that. | ||
| And you're going to have a new governor in New Jersey. | ||
| I'll tell you what, you have a good man running in the Republican Party. | ||
| He'll get him down. | ||
| But what they've done is they've killed so many good sources of energy for very expensive windmills and lots of other things that don't work. | ||
| 401ks and retirement accounts are soaring and the stock market is setting record highs almost every day. | ||
| We're going record highs. | ||
| And yet, we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. | ||
| So it's turned out that Trump was right and they were wrong. | ||
| Few smart people knew what was going to happen. | ||
| Few of us were right. | ||
| So we're going to keep the fighting going. | ||
| We're going to make America's seniors every single day. | ||
| We're going to fight for it. | ||
| We're going to make them richer, better, stronger in so many different ways. | ||
| But Social Security is like pretty much the one that we think about. | ||
| And we love it and we love what's happening with it. | ||
| And it's going to be good for 90 years and beyond. | ||
| Again, you were given only a short period of time. | ||
| Social Security was supposed to be like down. | ||
| Had they won the election, Social Security would have defaulted during Biden or Kamala's election, whoever they so chose. | ||
| Two beauties. | ||
| And now what I'd like to do is ask Frank to say a few words. | ||
| Again, this is a man with a really storied past. | ||
| He's one of the most successful anywhere in the world. | ||
| What he did at JPMorgan Chase and what he did for Henry Kravis and all of the others are like legendary stories. | ||
| And he just wanted to do this. | ||
| He's making about a tiny fraction, I would say, a tiny fraction of what he used to make, but he didn't care. | ||
| He wanted to do it. | ||
| He made a lot of money. | ||
| And he said, I want to run that system. | ||
| I want to put it back on track. | ||
| And he's got unbelievable talent over there. | ||
| It's like a different place. | ||
| So, Frank, would you say a few words, please? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| There's a less than 1% tiny fraction, sir. | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Less than one. | ||
| That's a tiny fraction. | ||
| That's an honor. | ||
| It's an honor. | ||
| It is an honor. | ||
| And I'd like to start off by thanking the president for his tireless effort in running the country and what he's done across the country, meeting every commitment. | ||
| And, you know, I see it directly in the big, beautiful bill, the opportunity that it's brought to seniors, but his effort on every commitment, delivering against it, and delivering on world peace tirelessly. | ||
| I'd like to also thank him for my opportunity. | ||
| You know, he's teasing me, I'm teasing him about the economics of the job, but the reality is to serve 300 million Americans, which is what Social Security serves, is a tremendous honor. | ||
| And him putting that faith in me and building what I believe, what I believe, and I think I have a right to say it, is the best leadership team ever assembled in the White House and in the cabinet. | ||
| So that's my great honor. | ||
| So I come here and get the opportunity to serve the American public in a manner that I never imagined in my life. | ||
| And what we found was the opportunity to fix a foundation. | ||
| The reality is, people talk about 72 beneficiaries. | ||
| I talk about over 300 million Americans with a social security number that we must protect through the system. | ||
| And when you look at what we talk about in eliminating social security numbers that were live in the system, they could carry fraud through the whole system. | ||
| So the first thing was to root out fraud, waste, and abuse. | ||
| But while doing it, the best way to be more efficient is to provide more accurate payments and better service. | ||
| And you heard the numbers. | ||
| I think the most staggering number is that we had a website that was down 29 hours. | ||
| This will be a digital first agency. | ||
| And we are building my SSA accounts. | ||
| That's the digital account. | ||
| And we have a bold goal of 200 million Americans to have a digital SSA account by the end of next year. | ||
| It will happen. | ||
| Just like we had a bold goal of single-digit wait time on the calls when they were at 40 minutes. | ||
| And we did that. | ||
| This is my 100th day. | ||
| We did that within 90 days, right? | ||
| Get the web up and running, bring technology to our field offices, use digital presence to answer and serve the American public. | ||
| That's the job. | ||
| When we do all that, then we'll really know the answer to if we have a hole, right? | ||
| I was presented my second week on the job with $18 billion in errors by the inspector general. | ||
| It was public. | ||
| In less than a month, we solved 9 billion of it. | ||
| So that's the type of swift action we can take, right? | ||
| You see the things like the big beautiful bill for the seniors. | ||
| You see better digital services. | ||
| You see field office wait times down. | ||
| If you make an appointment to have a field office, it now happens in six minutes. | ||
| Unprecedented. | ||
| We are serving more people and delivering more than was ever delivered before in a manner with the highest possible quality. | ||
| And we've just begun. | ||
| You should expect this to be a great digital first agency. | ||
| My commitment to make this happen is as deep as the president's commitment to make the world a great place. | ||
| And you see the fabulous job happening here across America and what he's doing in the world. | ||
| You should expect Social Security just like the president. | ||
| I thank him for making America great again. | ||
| It's happening. | ||
| Social Security will be great again. | ||
| You have my commitment. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I'm going to sign the new proclamation, please. | ||
| Sir, this is a proclamation both commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, the signing of the Social Security Act, and also the incredible accomplishments of your administration, fixing and promoting and safeguarding Social Security. | ||
| And it also obviously mentions the fact that as part of the one big beautiful bill, a vast majority of our senior citizens are no longer paying taxes on their Social Security benefits, as you promised in your campaign and as you delivered for the American people. | ||
| That's a big factor, isn't it? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| I think they're very happy about it, too. | ||
| They're very happy about a lot of things. | ||
| Good job, Frank. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| And Frank has brought with him some of the most talented people in business. | ||
| And they were making, again, they were making a lot of money, but they made a lot of money. | ||
| They had money they didn't have to make anymore, and they just want to do this. | ||
| They want to have our country become strong and good. | ||
| And that's what's happening. | ||
| And we're doing that in a lot of locations, a lot of areas. | ||
| You deal with some of the people that are commissioners, that are secretaries of state, secretaries of treasury and commerce, people that were really, really successful people. | ||
| And they gave all that up to make a very small amount of money. | ||
| They don't even consider it a fraction. | ||
| You say 1%, less than 1%. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| That's a big pay cut. | ||
| But Frank is one of the most outstanding of all. | ||
| His career has been incredible. | ||
| And you just have to look at what happened at JPMorgan Chase and look at what happened with First Data. | ||
| First Data was the biggest company of its kind in the world. | ||
| But it was not going to make it. | ||
| He went in, and it became a tremendous success. | ||
| It merged into another company, and he became the head of that company. | ||
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And he said, let me go save Social Security. | |
| Because as big as that stuff is, it's small potatoes compared in terms of numbers, right? | ||
| In terms of numbers. | ||
| These are big numbers. | ||
| Government numbers are big numbers. | ||
| So I want to thank everybody for being here. | ||
| But I'm really proud of you, Frank. | ||
| And here's your proclamation. | ||
| And let's take a look at what that looks like. | ||
| Signed by the human hand. | ||
| For a change. | ||
| That's good, right? | ||
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Do you have any questions for Frank? | |
| How about the questions for Frank? | ||
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How about the questions for Frank? | |
| For Frank? | ||
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Mr. President? | |
| Yes. | ||
| For Social Security. | ||
| Please. | ||
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First and foremost, this was a major campaign promise that you had. | |
| 2023 was one of the first Agenda 47s that you put out. | ||
| It was titled, We Must Protect Medicare. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Social Security. | |
| Why was this important for both of you to get done, given the fact that it will impact millions of lives? | ||
| Well, it was very important to me because I knew how Social Security, I've been hearing about it for years long before I came to office, that it was really going to die very shortly. | ||
| And I had to put somebody outstanding in. | ||
| And we were talking. | ||
| I was talking to him on a business sense once. | ||
| And I said, this guy's amazing. | ||
| And he said, I'd love to help you with Social Security because it's sort of what he does. | ||
| You know, he takes troubled entities in terms of around. | ||
| And he did some of the biggest messes in the world. | ||
| And Social Security in a certain way, I guess, you know, you reported it all the time. | ||
| In four or five years, it's going to go bust. | ||
| But not anymore. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| And he's got it turned around so well. | ||
| The proclamation helps. | ||
| All of the things we've done help. | ||
| And he's finding such tremendous fraud where we have illegal aliens. | ||
| We have people that don't even exist on Social Security now. | ||
| They don't exist. | ||
| And what it does, it makes it totally secure and powerful for the people that are on it and need it. | ||
| And we're very proud of the job he's done. | ||
| One of the best. | ||
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This is Eric Castro from Lintel TV. | |
| How are you today, sir? | ||
| Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren continue to peddle the lie and the claim that you're trying to cut Social Security despite your repeated promises to protect it. | ||
| Why do you think they keep pushing this misinformation and literally terrorizing the elderly in America? | ||
| that sadly keep watching the very mainstream media i love your question i should have called you almost first but i love his questions also was but uh it's such a good question it's so vicious what they do elizabeth warren said she was an indian we call her pocahontas she's a liar uh She lied her whole career. | ||
| Based on the fact that she was an Indian, she was able to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into certain universities to work there. | ||
| She's a liar and a mean person. | ||
| She's a nut job. | ||
| I watched her the other night. | ||
| She's all hopped up endorsing a communist in New York City. | ||
| And she was all excited and jumping up and down. | ||
| She's got to take a drug test. | ||
| She really does. | ||
| She's got to take a drug test. | ||
| There's no way somebody can act that way and be normal. | ||
| What she's done to our financial institutions, he destroys people. | ||
| You know that you had a lot of great banks in the Midwest and banks that loaned to farmers and others and they went out of business. | ||
| She put them out of business, stone-cold, mean. | ||
| Banks that were open 150 years, family banks that supplied the farmers and manufacturers and others. | ||
| And she put them out of business. | ||
| She's a mean, horrible human being. | ||
| Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders. | ||
| I don't mind him so much. | ||
| He's just a liberal guy, very liberal guy. | ||
| He's a wacky guy. | ||
| He's still sharp. | ||
| I got to tell you, you know, he's 86 or 87 or something. | ||
| He's still sharp. | ||
| You compare that to Joe Biden. | ||
| It's, you know, sort of what happened. | ||
| So I don't mind Bernie Sanders. | ||
| With him, you know what you're getting. | ||
| You're getting a guy. | ||
| He's a nasty guy, but he's somebody that I don't know if I call it a fastball, but he's able to throw the ball pretty well. | ||
| He's okay. | ||
| I watched him the other day. | ||
| He was totally on the opposite side of things. | ||
| I will say this. | ||
| The biggest issue right now and an issue that's really taken hold is crime, stopping crime in the cities. | ||
| And the Democrats are fighting the stopping of crime. | ||
| So I think that's like men playing in women's sports is okay or transgender for everybody, okay? | ||
| But this is a bigger issue. | ||
| This is the biggest of all issues. | ||
| Crime is rampant in DC. | ||
| It's rampant in our generally blue-run cities. | ||
| And they've got to do something about it, or they're never going to win another election. | ||
| And instead of calling me a dictator, they like to say Trump's a dictator. | ||
| Trump's a dictator. | ||
| Well, I had calls from many, many friends, including Democrats, a lot of Democrat friends, but they're normal people. | ||
| And they were thanking me so much for what I'm doing in DC. | ||
| They feel so safe already. | ||
| And, you know, at the border, we had, Frank, we had zero people come in. | ||
| And this is done by a liberal group. | ||
| They're the people that do it. | ||
| I have nothing to do with it. | ||
| Zero people in three months. | ||
| We had zero, zero, and zero for three months. | ||
| And last year, we had millions of people pouring in from all countries, from jails, from drug addicts, gang members, drug dealers by the thousands and thousands. | ||
| 11,888 murderers, half of whom committed more than one murder. | ||
| They flown into our country. | ||
| And for the last three months, we had none. | ||
| And I didn't get, remember when Joe Biden used to always go, I need legislation. | ||
| I had no legislation. | ||
| I just said we're closing the borders. | ||
| And the whole world understood it because they respect your country again. | ||
| They really respect this country again. | ||
| They didn't respect it. | ||
| When he said it, it didn't mean anything. | ||
| But now they know it meant a lot. | ||
| And Mexico does what we tell them to do. | ||
| And Canada does what we tell them to do because we had the two borders. | ||
| We have the northern border, the southern border, and they were both horrible. | ||
| But now it's, some people say it's a miracle. | ||
| Well, what Frank has done with Social Security also is something very special. | ||
| But what we're doing with crime, which will be your next question, I guess, because everyone's fast, they're afraid. | ||
| Half of the people here, maybe all of the people here, most of you live in DC, you are petrified to go out. | ||
| And you're liberal. | ||
| And if you're liberal, you're going to have to change. | ||
| You're Democrats. | ||
| You're going to have to change your ways. | ||
| So we will have crime under control very shortly in DC. | ||
| But there are record numbers. | ||
| And sadly, what I guess the mayor did, but whoever it was, they asked the numbers to be fudged so that it would show less crime than the fact. | ||
| The fact is, it's worse than it's ever been. | ||
| And we will have it just like we did at the border, where with borders are totally in great shape right now, the best ever, record-setting shape. | ||
| We'll have the crime situation solved in D.C. very soon. | ||
| And we're also going to beautify the city. | ||
| We have a beautiful city, but you can't have graffiti and you can't have roads with potholes and you can't have the medians, the dividers in the roads falling down on the street. | ||
| We're going to be beautifying the city, making it really beautiful. | ||
| We're going to be getting the criminals the hell out of here. | ||
| We don't want the criminals in Washington, DC. | ||
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Mr. President, one on your Putin meeting and then one on DC crime. | |
| Are you prepared to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare minerals to incentivize him to end the war? | ||
| We're going to see what happens with our meeting. | ||
| We have a big meeting. | ||
| It's going to be, I think, very important for Russia and it's going to be very important for us and important for us only that we're going to save a lot of lives. | ||
| Look, we have, you know, we're not paying any money, as you know, to Ukraine. | ||
| We're supplying equipment. | ||
| We're being paid 100% plus for that equipment by NATO. | ||
| And I got NATO up from 2% to 5% of GDP. | ||
| They now have billions of dollars. | ||
| NATO is a very rich group of countries, and we make the best military equipment anywhere in the world by far. | ||
| And they're buying our equipment and they're paying 100% for the equipment, 100%. | ||
| In fact, they owe us about $2 billion now. | ||
| They're going to send a check. | ||
| Another one was sent recently for a billion dollars. | ||
| So we're not spending any money anymore. | ||
| Biden gave them $350 billion, got nothing for it. | ||
| And if you look, and by the way, we also signed a rare earth deal where we get, you know, years of rare earth to get our money back, the money we spent. | ||
| But what I'm really doing this for is to save thousands of soldiers a week. | ||
| You have Russian soldiers, you have Ukrainian soldiers, and then you'll have missiles dropped into various cities and towns in Ukraine. | ||
| And they're losing seven, last week they lost 7,251 people, mostly soldiers, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers. | ||
| I'm doing it for that reason. | ||
| We have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow. | ||
| I think it's going to be a good meeting, but the more important meeting will be the second meeting that we're having. | ||
| We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President Zelensky, myself, and maybe we'll bring some of the European leaders along, maybe not. | ||
| I don't know that it's going to be very important. | ||
| We're going to see what happens. | ||
| And I think President Putin will make peace. | ||
| I think President Zelensky will make peace. | ||
| We'll see if they can get along. | ||
| And if they can, it'll be great. | ||
| You know, I've solved six wars in the last six months, a little more than six months now, and I'm very proud of it. | ||
| I thought the easiest one would be this one. | ||
| It's actually the most difficult. | ||
| We had one war raging, as you know, for 37 years. | ||
| One in the Congo with Rwanda was raging for 31 years. | ||
| We solved six of them, made peace, not just solved them, we made peace. | ||
| If you look at Pakistan and India, planes were being knocked out of the air. | ||
| Six or seven planes came down. | ||
| They were ready to go. | ||
| Maybe nuclear, we solved that. | ||
| I thought this would be maybe an easier one. | ||
| It never made sense this war. | ||
| It would have never happened when I was president. | ||
| If I were president, this war would have never happened. | ||
| But millions of people have been killed. | ||
| And I'm there for one reason to see if I can solve. | ||
| This was Biden's war. | ||
| This isn't my war. | ||
| I want to see if I can stop the killing. | ||
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Rare earths, do you plan to offer him access to that at all? | |
| We have great rare earth. | ||
| We made that as payment for all of the money that we've spent so foolishly in Ukraine. | ||
| We've spent $350 billion. | ||
| Now, Europe spent a billion. | ||
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| They spent $100 billion. | ||
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| But we shouldn't be spending a lot more money than them. | ||
| And they understand that. | ||
| And I think that's maybe why we're not spending money anymore. | ||
| We're not spending any money. | ||
| They're paying us for everything. | ||
| So it's pretty, people are shocked when they hear it. | ||
| They don't even understand. | ||
| They don't even write about it. | ||
| But we're not spending money, but we are spending a lot of time trying to get the war solved. | ||
| If we can get the war solved, we'll be very happy. | ||
| As far as rare earth, that's very unimportant, Road. | ||
| I'm trying to save lives. | ||
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On D.C. crime, sir. | |
| On D.C. crime, do you have a message for the Democrat lawmakers like Nancy Pelosi or media who are saying after living here for many years that there is no crime and you're trying to start a new news cycle. | ||
| It's another reason why the Democrats lost the election in a landslide. | ||
| They lie. | ||
| It's just why, look, the crime is very bad. | ||
| I think they'd be much better off saying we want to help President Trump with the crime because it's an epidemic. | ||
| It's a tragic situation. | ||
| It's the worst it's ever been. | ||
| And we want to help President Trump with the crime as opposed to he's a dictator. | ||
| He's a dick. | ||
| People are so happy to see our military going into DC and getting these thugs out. | ||
| As you know, we arrested a lot of people yesterday. | ||
| We arrested a lot of people today. | ||
| We're getting people that have arrest records that you wouldn't believe. | ||
| 28 arrests, 15 arrests, brutal, brutal people. | ||
| And we're going to have to do something about this cashless pale because people shoot somebody, they kill somebody, and they're out on the street in less than an hour. | ||
| Now, that's when it's all started in New York, in Chicago, Los Angeles. | ||
| You take a look. | ||
| If we didn't go to Los Angeles to help this incompetent governor and a mayor that doesn't know what the hell she's doing, if we didn't go to Los Angeles, you wouldn't have a big part of it burned down. | ||
| The other part of it would have burned down too. | ||
| You would have not had, I don't think you would have been able to have the Olympics. | ||
| We have the Olympics. | ||
| I have a lot at stake with that because I'm the one that got the Olympics. | ||
| I got it in my first term. | ||
| And I didn't, I was saddened because I got it for what would be my third term, okay, which turned out to be second term. | ||
| And the Olympics, it's a great honor, but I felt badly because I said I won't be president when the Olympics came. | ||
| Well, through circumstance, I am president. | ||
| I want to make sure the Olympics is great. | ||
| The World Cup is great. | ||
| And the 250, maybe the most important of all, is the 250-year celebration is great. | ||
| So what's happening is we will work very hard. | ||
| You would not have had, I don't believe that if I didn't send in the troops, I don't think you would have had Los Angeles in condition to have the Olympics. | ||
| I think you would have had to tell them, I'm sorry, you're going to have to go someplace else. | ||
| And if you look at the police commissioner or the sheriff, he said, we really needed them. | ||
| Thank God they were here. | ||
| We really needed them. | ||
| That was the first two or three days after we solved their problems. | ||
| Then he said, well, I think we could have maybe done it. | ||
| No, he was told what to say. | ||
| He said, you go back to your files and see what he said. | ||
| He said, thank goodness they came. | ||
| If I didn't go and put our military there or National Guard in that case, and we'll go military if we have to, but the National Guard went there. | ||
| They were very effective. | ||
| If we didn't do that, I don't think you would have had the Olympics in Los Angeles. | ||
| The place would have been just like the 25,000 houses that burned down, where, by the way, the governor ought to focus on getting their permits. | ||
| You know, the federal permits are given. | ||
| Those are the hard ones. | ||
| And they were given a long time ago. | ||
| People can't rebuild the house because they can't get permits from the state and the city. | ||
| And they ought to focus on that because it's very upsetting. | ||
| I went there right after the fires. | ||
| I walked the streets and I met a lot of great people that wanted to rebuild their homes. | ||
| We took care of it from the federal standpoint, but they're not taking care of it from the city side, the mayor, and the governor. | ||
| They're not getting their permits. | ||
| They can't build their houses. | ||
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Go ahead, please. | |
| Mr. President, thank you. | ||
| Do you think this summit and the incentives for peace you were putting on the table could end up rewarding Putin for his invasion of Ukraine? | ||
| And what kind of signal do you think that could potentially send to other aggressors? | ||
| No, I don't think it's a reward. | ||
| I think that what we have is a situation that should never have started, should have never started. | ||
| It didn't start under me, and for four years it wasn't even discussed. | ||
| And I could see it was going to happen after I left. | ||
| I could see what was happening. | ||
| Everything that we did was wrong. | ||
| Everything that was done was wrong. | ||
| Everybody's to blame. | ||
| Putin's to blame. | ||
| They're all to blame. | ||
| This is a war that would have never happened. | ||
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The other question on LA. | |
| Mr. President, earlier today, the Washington, D.C. police chief issued an executive order allowing metropolitan police officers conducting traffic stops to notify federal immigration and customs enforcement about undocumented immigrants that they encounter. | ||
| Yet the city has a long-standing pro-immigration policy, including allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections. | ||
| Which is ridiculous. | ||
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And limiting cooperation with federal immigration agencies. | |
| Did your administration pressure the D.C. police chief to review and repeal these policies? | ||
| And will you require other cities to roll back similar policies to avoid possible federal takeover of local laws? | ||
| So, what you're saying is that it was a very positive thing. | ||
| When they stop people, they find they're illegal, they report them, they give them to us, et cetera. | ||
| That's a very positive thing. | ||
| I have heard that. | ||
| It just happened. | ||
| That's a great step. | ||
| That's a great step if they're doing that. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's going to happen all over the country. | ||
| We want to stop crime. | ||
| I think if the Democrats aren't strong on this issue, they won't be able to do it. | ||
| I think this is a bigger issue than all of the other ridiculous things that they like. | ||
| Open borders. | ||
| Well, open borders is bad. | ||
| Open borders has caused a lot of this problem, allowing millions and millions. | ||
| I think 24 million people were allowed to come into our country. | ||
| Many of these people from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions. | ||
| This was the Biden policy. | ||
| And I don't believe it was him. | ||
| He was never there before. | ||
| It was the people that encircled this very beautiful desk, the resolute desk, radical left lunatics who were smart, but radical left. | ||
| And I'm very happy to hear what you just said because I've heard that. | ||
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And Mr. President of LA, if I may, the mother of a 15-year-old California boy was briefly detained at gunpoint in the case of mistaken identity. | |
| The LA USD superintendent says that surveillance video shows armed agents wearing police and border patrol insignia. | ||
| Given the National Guard, the border control, ICE agents, they're not trained in local policing. | ||
| What specific steps are you taking to ensure that young people are not put in harm's way with these types of operations? | ||
| Yeah, what they are trained in is common sense, and they're very tough people. | ||
| And they have great common sense, and they are highly trained. | ||
| I heard the mayor of LA was saying, oh, they're not trained this way. | ||
| I heard this character from, where was he from? | ||
| They talk about him as a candidate. | ||
| He's got no chance. | ||
| The governor of Maryland, I watched him this morning saying that, saying that the governor of Maryland, yeah, they say maybe he'll be a president. | ||
| He's not presidential timber at all. | ||
| But I heard him today talking about how the National Guard or the military is not trained in police, but they're trained in common sense and they're trained in not allowing people to burn down buildings and bomb buildings and shoot people and all the things. | ||
| They've done a great job. | ||
| Again, if we didn't send them, and very importantly, if we didn't send them into Los Angeles, Los Angeles, the rest of Los Angeles would have been burned down to the ground. | ||
| When you look at Minnesota, Minneapolis, I sent them into Minneapolis because the governor wouldn't make the call. | ||
| If I didn't do that, you wouldn't have Minneapolis. | ||
| It wouldn't be, I don't think it would be existent today. | ||
| You remember the famous scene burning over the CNN anchor shoulder? | ||
| He said, everything seems to be very peaceful. | ||
| And behind him, the whole city's burning down. | ||
| So you had the whack job governor who ran for vice president and made a fool out of himself. | ||
| You would have had, I saved that city. | ||
| I'll tell you, I saved that city. | ||
| So the bottom line is these are very tough people that are trained in a thing called common sense. | ||
| And they're also trained in doing what we're talking about right now. | ||
| And you watch crime stuff, but you wouldn't have Los Angeles, it wouldn't be existent today. | ||
| We would have had to cancel the Olympics if I let that go on. | ||
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Will you pressure Israel to allow journalists into Gaza to cover the humanitarian efforts the U.S. is pursuing? | |
| I'd like to see that happen, sure. | ||
| I would like to see it happen. | ||
| I would be very fine with journalists going in. | ||
| It's a very dangerous position to be in if you're, as you know, if you're a journalist, but I would like to see it. | ||
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And Ontario's Brazil, Mexico, and Latin America are getting closer to China. | |
| And they say it's partly because of the tariffs you're imposing in those countries. | ||
| Are you concerned them getting closer to China? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| I'm not concerned at all. | ||
| They can do what they want. | ||
| You know, none of them are doing very well. | ||
| And what we're doing in terms of economics, we're blowing everyone away, including China. | ||
| We're doing better than any other country in the world right now. | ||
| Brazil Has been a horrible trading partner in terms of tariffs. | ||
| As you know, they charge us tremendous tariffs, far, far more than we were charging them. | ||
| We weren't charging anything, essentially. | ||
| And Brazil has some very bad laws happening where they took a president and they put him in jail or they're trying to jail him. | ||
| And I happen to know the man. | ||
| And I will tell you, I'm pretty good at people. | ||
| I think he's an honest man. | ||
| I think what they've done, this is an electric. | ||
| This is really a political execution that they're trying to do with Bolsonaro. | ||
| I think that's terrible. | ||
| But they also treated us very badly as trading partners for many, many years. | ||
| One of the worst, one of the worst countries on earth for that. | ||
| They charged tremendous tariffs and they made it very difficult to do anything. | ||
| So now they're being charged 50% tariffs and they're not happy, but that's the way it goes. | ||
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On DC concert, on DC crime, are you concerned at all that some federal officers that are helping DC police might be being pulled away from other high priority assignments? | |
| Like what? | ||
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Like what? | |
| Terrorism. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Terrorism. | ||
| They'll stop terrorism as part of what they're doing right now. | ||
| No. | ||
| The soldiers that we have, first of all, we have plenty of them, long beyond what you have here. | ||
| We're just using a very small force. | ||
| You know, in Washington, D.C., they have thousands of police. | ||
| They have a lot of police, but the police weren't allowed to do their job. | ||
| We have a lot of great ones. | ||
| And you have some that weren't so good, to be honest, but they weren't allowed to do their job. | ||
| But now they are allowed to do their job. | ||
| And essentially, it's only two days, but you look at the numbers already, they're dropping. | ||
| And no, they're not being pulled off for anything. | ||
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Mr. Putin, as you know, there were some very concerning reports about crime statistics. | |
| Police are manipulating crimes out at downplaying crime in D.C. Will the administration release its own crime statistics to counter their misinformation? | ||
| And will those individuals who are intentionally misrepresenting crime data and fudging the books, like you said, be penalized for endangering the public? | ||
| They are under investigation right now. | ||
| They are giving us phony crime stats, just like they gave other stats in the financial world, but they're phony crime stats. | ||
| And Washington, D.C. is at its worst point, and it will soon be at its best point. | ||
| You're going to have a very safe, you're going to have a crime-free city. | ||
| I mean, I say that, you know, virtually a crime-free city. | ||
| And these are strong men, but the criminals are strong men and women, but they're strong men. | ||
| And these are people that don't play games. | ||
| We're not playing games. | ||
| These are criminals we're dealing with. | ||
| And they treated people. | ||
| They took one of the people that worked for us the other day. | ||
| You saw the beating, the pounding, 10 against one, and they pounded the hell out of him. | ||
| He's lucky to be alive. | ||
| He's barely almost killed. | ||
| And we're not going to have that happening, please. | ||
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Mr. Tulsi Gabbard declassified more documents last night related to the Russia game folks. | |
| She's doing a great job, by the way. | ||
| That was another fake story. | ||
| I'm very happy with the job she's done. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| They declassified some terrible documents talking about Democrats and what they did. | ||
| Radical left lunatics. | ||
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They showed that then DNI, James Clapper, sent out emails to IC officials saying that it would be a team sport to push then the debunked 2017 ICA report and that it might need them to compromise on their normal modalities. | |
| What's your reaction to the latest declassification? | ||
| And in your view, sir, what does real accountability look like for the players? | ||
| It's incredible what we're finding. | ||
| Absolute proof of guilt. | ||
| And we'll see what happens. | ||
| But Clapper and Comey and that whole group of criminals, they're criminals. | ||
| And they made it very tough. | ||
| You know, they did the fake Russia, Russia, Russia witch hunt that lasted for two years. | ||
| And I got totally exonerated. | ||
| There was no doubt about it. | ||
| But there was a whole scheme to try and demean Trump so that I couldn't win an election. | ||
| And that is a criminal group of people. | ||
| They're sick people. | ||
| And they're criminals. | ||
| And they should be taken care of. | ||
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Does Putin have a strong hand tomorrow? | |
| Well, he came to our country and I heard CNN fake news talking about that. | ||
| That was a big win for him. | ||
| Normally, he would say the opposite, but they said, oh, it's a big win that he came here. | ||
| Normally, I would say the opposite. | ||
| You know, he came here. | ||
| I think that President Putin would like to see a deal. | ||
| I think if I weren't president, he would take over all of Ukraine. | ||
| It's a war that should have never happened. | ||
| If I weren't president, in my opinion, he would much rather take off, take over all of Ukraine. | ||
| But I am president, and he's not going to mess around with me. | ||
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Would you support or agree to reducing NATO troops in Europe in countries like Poland in order to get Russia to agree to a peace deal? | |
| That hasn't been put before me, and I'll think about that for later, but it has not been put before me. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| Is anything less than an unconditional and immediate ceasefire a victory for the U.S.? | ||
| Tomorrow? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, tomorrow we'll see. | ||
| I say, you know, I don't know where that comes from. | ||
| It's sort of not a good question. | ||
| I would say that tomorrow, all I want to do is set the table for the next meeting, which should happen shortly. | ||
| I'd like to see it happen very quickly, very shortly after this meeting. | ||
| I'd like to see it actually happen maybe in Alaska where we just stay because it's so much easier. | ||
| But I think that I think it's going to be very interesting. | ||
| We're going to find out where everybody stands. | ||
| And I'll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, or five minutes. | ||
| We tend to find out whether or not we're going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting. | ||
| And if it's a bad meeting, it'll end very quickly. | ||
| And if it's a good meeting, we're going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future. | ||
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Okay. | |
| How about one more? | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| On the Smithsonian, I know that your administration is seeking to weed out a lot of this left-wing spam that's in the museums, but we're seeing from people like Brian Schelter or other commentators that they're insinuating that you are trying to change history according to you when you heard it. | ||
| What's your response to that? | ||
| And is there anything you particularly like to say? | ||
| Well, we want the museums to treat our country fairly. | ||
| We want the museums to talk about the history of our country in a fair manner, not in a woke manner or in a racist manner, which is what many of them, not all of them, but many of them are doing. | ||
| Our museums have an obligation to represent what happened in our country over the years, good and bad, but what happened over the years in an accurate way. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
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Thank you, friends. | |
| Thank you, President. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thanks, guys. | ||
| Gentlemen. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
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Thanks, guys. | |
| Keep coming. | ||
| Let's go guys. | ||
| Thanks, guys. | ||
| Thanks, guys. | ||
| Thank you, Press. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thanks, guys. | |
| Thank you, Fred. | ||
| We met some of the wranglers of the White House. | ||
| This lady's, Alex, you would have loved this. | ||
| Alex wasn't allowed to go to the White House. | ||
| They were like, you probably recognize my voice. | ||
| I'm the one who goes, thanks, thanks. | ||
| See ya. | ||
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Thanks. | |
| Bye. | ||
| A couple of chicks come up to me and they're like, you probably have recognized, like, you'll probably recognize me yelling at reporters. | ||
| And this is what they do. | ||
| And they wrangle. | ||
| It was a great press conference from Donald Trump. | ||
| It was on the social, social security. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| I mean, like, important, kind of, I think. | ||
| Social Security is a scam and there should be, I think that there should be a way that you can, like, instead of going to Social Security, you can like invest that money perhaps in the market or better yet, just keep all your money and not have your wages garnished for some communist policy from 100 years ago that should have never been enacted. | ||
| Just a thought. | ||
| But anyway, because Social Security is obviously bankrupt and it's just used as a giant money pool for our elite class to thieve from. | ||
| Look at comments from the president. | ||
| Not a lot of questions about Social Security. | ||
| A lot of questions about Washington, D.C., law enforcement, and also President Trump with the intelligence community and the D-Class of so many of the very, very naughty, naughty things that has been happening throughout the federal government. | ||
| And that, ladies and gentlemen, is something that I definitely want to get to here just while we're still rolling through the very end of the live here. | ||
| I just wanted to, something that we wanted to, is that thunder? | ||
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Okay. | |
| Love it. | ||
| Okay, well, better get through this quickly. | ||
| I know. | ||
| You can hear the thunder rumbling here in Tampa, Florida. | ||
| Yeah, you know how it goes here in the South. | ||
| Have we decided? | ||
| Is Florida in the South? | ||
| I know people like fight over this. | ||
| Is Florida in the South or is Florida the Caribbean or whatever you want to call it? | ||
| Is Florida the East Coast? | ||
| Is it the South? | ||
| Yeah, everyone yells and argues over it. | ||
| Okay, well, let me tell you what. | ||
| There is something fascinating on the horizon when it comes to Bill Clinton and the potential for Bill Clinton. | ||
| to have some real justice done against him and by the federal government. | ||
| It all sort of stems from Bill Clinton being incapable of ever fielding questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
| It's something that we've talked about at length. | ||
| Bill Clinton has never been asked about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
| He's never been confronted at all on the record about it. | ||
| When Bill Clinton is asked about Jeffrey Epstein, the response goes like this. | ||
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Any comments on the allegation of your introduction with Jeffrey Epstein? | |
| No. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| What evidence is clear? | ||
| You've never given any evidence. | ||
| The only evidence we have from interviews like this, Kevin Spacey. | ||
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I was very fortunate that President Clinton introduced me a lot of business leaders in London because he knew I was coming to the old Vic. | |
| Do you know who I never asked for anything? | ||
| Was Jeffrey Epstein? | ||
| I didn't want to be around this guy because I felt he put the president at risk on that trip to South Africa because there were these young girls. | ||
| And we were like, who is this guy? | ||
| So I will say this. | ||
| There were young girls on those flights. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's been out. | ||
| They've talked about it. | ||
| Some of the young girls, we actually looked into this. | ||
| Some of the young girls are the ones who were inside of the Epstein documents saying, hey, listen, like, this is obviously a criminal enterprise and a sex trafficking enterprise. | ||
| And oh, by the way, Bill Clinton likes them young. | ||
| This is directly from the court documents and the testimony of one of the young girls who was on the flight with Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton. | ||
| Well, ladies and gentlemen, we may actually get an investigation into this. | ||
| I'm very excited about it on this program. | ||
| The investigation that we're looking for would come from the House Oversight Committee, who has subpoenaed Bill Clinton. | ||
| And James Comer has said that he is the top suspect of their investigation. | ||
| They really thought they'd swing this bat and hit Trump. | ||
| What they're going to end up doing is getting Clinton. | ||
| Let's read. | ||
| And boys, we're going to need this clip loaded. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| A top Republican congressman has labeled Bill Clinton a prime suspect in his Jeffrey Epstein investigation and put forth a far-fetched theory that could be punished with jail time if he skips the meeting. | ||
| House Oversight Committee Chairman Jamie Comer, friend of the show, fanned the flames in his ongoing probe into the deceased sex offender during a Newsmax interview on Monday evening this week. | ||
| Everybody in America wants to know what went on on Epstein Island, and we've all heard reports of Bill Clinton, a frequent visitor. | ||
| He's a prime suspect to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee. | ||
| Clinton has denied ever visiting Epstein Island, although he's on the flight log. | ||
| So he's also on the flight logs, the ones where he ditched his Secret Service, which you have a right to do. | ||
| I remember talking with Don Jr. about this. | ||
| Don Jr. wanted to go on a very dangerous hunting trip and he didn't want, or like a very remote hunting trip. | ||
| He had to get a bunch of lawyers. | ||
| He had to sign a bunch of documents to get rid of his secret service. | ||
| Bill Clinton was dumping his secret service like every single one of these flights. | ||
| So what's going on there exactly? | ||
| What didn't he want his Secret Service to observe? | ||
| Does it have something to do with Kevin Spacey and the little girls on the plane? | ||
| Trump claimed that his former Democrat president made many trips to the island. | ||
| Earlier this month, Comer issued a subpoena for both Bill and Hillary Clinton to compel them to testify matters related to Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
| Hillary Clinton is being asked to sit for a deposition on October 9th. | ||
| Committee wants to depose Bill Clinton on October 14th. | ||
| Other top Obama and Biden-era officials are being called for interviews. | ||
| James Comer writing here, protecting Americans and cracking down on crime is fundamental to conservative values. | ||
| And this would be some major crimes that you could crack down on. | ||
| Whatever happened here on this little island. | ||
| I mean, listen, a lot of these people have access to islands, have access to private clubs. | ||
| Why were they going exactly to this specific island? | ||
| Don't know. | ||
| Here's James Comer explaining, ladies and gentlemen, what he's about to do to Bill Clinton. | ||
| American people want to know what happened on Epstein Island. | ||
| I'm not going to drop this topic. | ||
| You've subpoenaed Bill Clinton. | ||
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He's going to fight you tooth and nail with the best lawyers in the country in some cases. | |
| Do you think Bill Clinton ever actually testifies? | ||
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I think his date is what, October 12th. | |
| Yes. | ||
| I think we have a very good chance at this. | ||
| I've never lost a subpoena battle. | ||
| I've been chairman of that committee for a year and a half. | ||
| This is the most challenging subpoena I've ever issued. | ||
| But what makes this subpoena different is that the Democrats voted with Republicans. | ||
| This is a bipartisan, congressionally approved subpoena. | ||
| And I think that will hold a lot of weight in court. | ||
| And you're absolutely right. | ||
| He's going to have the best lawyers in America fighting us tooth and toenail on this. | ||
| But the fact that this was voted on by Republicans and Democrats, because we're hearing from our constituents, everybody in America wants to know what went on at Epstein Island. | ||
| And we've all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there. | ||
| So he's a prime suspect to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee. | ||
| So hopefully we'll win that court battle with that subpoena and see President Clinton in October. | ||
| James Comer dropped a bombshell naming Bill Clinton as the prime suspect in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. | ||
| He's the prime suspect. | ||
| Well, somebody finally answered these questions. | ||
| Why was Bill Clinton's portrait hanging in Jeffrey Epstein's house? | ||
| Why was Bill Clinton wearing the famous blue dress? | ||
| What the hell was this about? | ||
| This is, of course, a throwback to the Monica Lewinsky famous DNA-stained dress from Bill Clinton himself. | ||
| Is this a message saying, I got you? | ||
| Is this a message saying, no, no, no, no, like I cooked you. | ||
| I own you. | ||
| You know, Jeffrey Epstein had a photo, never before seen published photo of Bill Clinton front and center on his mantelplace with the two of them just being buddies, just being buddies, just being pals, hanging out together. | ||
| James Comer says Bill Clinton is the prime suspect of the Epstein investigation. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Bill Clinton, prime suspect of the Epstein investigation. | ||
| Bill Clinton is the prime suspect of the Epstein investigation. | ||
| This is an incredible photo taken when Rudy Giuliani walked into the debate between Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton with all of the rape accusers of Bill Clinton in tow. | ||
| Juanita Broderick, Paula Jones, and a couple of other names that I can't recall right now, but this is what Bill Clinton's face looked like when all of his rape victims came walking in. | ||
| Everybody's saying, yeah, it's popping popcorn time. | ||
| Better lock in. | ||
| Again, we're looking for popcorn for October. | ||
| The fall is going to be the fall. | ||
| Do you understand? | ||
| Remember, remember, the 5th of November. | ||
| Bring it. | ||
| Better up your security, though. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Tick tock. | ||
| I believe it when I see it, but let's be hopeful. | ||
| Popcorn ready. | ||
| There's something going on here, man. | ||
| I mean, there's something going on. | ||
| Something big happened. | ||
| Something big happened. | ||
| We don't have direct sources on this. | ||
| I know a ton of these, the people who are involved in this. | ||
| We've been asking. | ||
| We've asked on the record. | ||
| We've done our level-headed best to be as honest and as forthright and as thorough on this issue as possible. | ||
| Jelaine Maxwell is cooperating with the DOJ. | ||
| Is that why all this is happening? | ||
| Jelaine Maxwell was moved to Club Fed in Grapevine, Texas. | ||
| I'm sorry, in Bryan, Texas. | ||
| This is a minimal security prison for people who are cooperating with the feds who are being moved in order to benefit their cooperation or because they're about to be released. | ||
| I have never advocated for Jelaine Maxwell to be released. | ||
| I've never said that she's innocent. | ||
| I think Jelene Maxwell is one of history's greatest monsters. | ||
| I think she was clearly an Intel asset running all of this. | ||
| Her father was connected, like just absolutely steeped in massad and intelligence work. | ||
| I think that's what this all was. | ||
| But what I'm saying is, she is the key to everything. | ||
| She observed and witnessed all of it. | ||
| She was an architect of it. | ||
| And if she's willing to give up Clinton to the feds, then you know what? | ||
| Yeah, like, you know what? | ||
| You got to pay for that information. | ||
| So, are they doing a deal? | ||
| According to documents, Jelaine Maxwell was given immunity and has been asked about a hundred key names in this investigation. | ||
| As soon as we learn that, Jamie Comer is out on national TV saying Bill Clinton is the critical target of this investigation. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| The prime suspect. | ||
| Is it all coming together? | ||
| Are we going to learn about this? | ||
| I mean, remember, we have photos of Jelaine Maxwell and Clinton. | ||
| We have new photos of Bill Clinton on the Lolita Express from The Butler, right? | ||
| Bill Clinton, like they're stuff we've never seen before. | ||
| Bill Clinton has fingerprints all over this. | ||
| And the more we learn, the more Jelaine Maxwell told DOJ that Trump never did anything concerning around her. | ||
| The butler, Epstein's butler, who's now talking to the public, he's like Epstein's longtime butler. | ||
| He saw everything. | ||
| He witnessed everything. | ||
| He's like, I've never met Trump. | ||
| I don't even know Trump. | ||
| I met Bill Clinton a bunch of times, the Royal Family a bunch of times. | ||
| They were skisballing around with Epstein all over the world, but I never met Trump. | ||
| The more this rolls out, the more President Trump is exonerated and the more dangerous it gets for people like Bill Clinton. | ||
| Yeah, there's the photo right there. | ||
| Two funny little photos, two very funny photos from this butler. | ||
| One of Jeffrey Epstein wearing a Mossad shirt or wearing an Israeli Defense Forces shirt, but Mossad, I think, is part of the Israeli Defense Forces nonetheless. | ||
| The last known photograph of Jeffrey Epstein, actually, here in this Israeli Massad shirt. | ||
| And then here's the butler with Bill Clinton. | ||
| You know, here's the photo of Bill Clinton wearing a just do-it. | ||
| I'm sure he took that advice. | ||
| Just do it shirt. | ||
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There he is right there with the butler. | |
| And then here's the photo of the IDF Mossad. | ||
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Goodness gracious. | |
| So we'll see. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| It's going to be an interesting fall. | ||
| We had the chairman of the Intelligence Committee on our show this morning. | ||
| And his name is Rick Crawford. | ||
| He was talking about how he's going to subpoena, or at the very least, ask the CIA about Epstein-level intelligence and whether he was working with them. | ||
| And so there's a, this is what we're going to do. | ||
| We're going to like put our shoulder to the wheel. | ||
| We're going to get the truth. | ||
| And the truth shouts at you free. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for tuning in so very much to our program. | ||
| And as ever, just a reminder that in the end, we win. | ||
| It's your boy Benny. | ||
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See ya. | |
| You know, uh, all this talk about Washington, D.C. and the National Guard and crime and big balls and whatnot, That's not how I remember it. | ||
| Just ask my mic. | ||
| That shit ain't right. | ||
| D.C. is the safest and cleanest city in America. | ||
| Hey. | ||
| That's my bike. | ||
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