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Jan. 6, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 3296: Telling The True Story Of Ashli Babbitt; Corruption In Colorado
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unidentified
Today you've seen the polling showing that a large chunk of Republican voters think that 1-6 was an inside job.
How do you break the fever of disinformation that seems to have taken hold of many on the right?
Well, January 6th was an inside job by Donald Trump and his followers and Steve Bannon and the members of Congress on their side of the aisle who cooperated in it, but it certainly was not an inside job by FBI agents or Antifa.
They go around blaming it on Antifa and FBI agents, and the rest of the time they're down at D.C.
jail protesting for their release.
Why were they protesting for the release of Antifa?
Fighters.
So look, Joe Biden was very clear about this.
We have to uphold the actual historical record of what happened.
There are more than 700 criminal convictions of right-wing mega followers for assaulting our federal officers, for seditious conspiracy, conspiring to overthrow the government, for destruction of federal property.
That's the reality of what happened in January of 2021.
joe biden
We saw with our own eyes the violent mob storm the United States Capitol.
I was almost in disbelief as you first turned on the television.
For the first time in our history, insurrectionists had come to stop the peaceful transfer of power in America.
First time.
Smashing windows, shattering doors, attacking the police.
Outside, gallows were erected.
As the MAGA crowd chanted, Hang Mike Pence.
Inside, they hunted for Speaker Pelosi.
The House was chanting as they marched through and smashed windows, Where's Nancy?
Over 140 police officers were injured.
Jill and I attended the funeral of police officers who died as a result of the events of that day.
Because of Donald Trump's lies, They died because these lies brought a mom to Washington.
He promised it would be wild, and it was.
He told the crowd to fight like hell, and all hell was unleashed.
He promised he would write them, write them, everything they did.
He would be side by side with them.
Then, as usual, he left the dirty work to others.
He retreated to the White House.
As America was attacked from within, Donald Trump watched on TV in a private small dining room off the Oval Office.
The entire nation watched in horror.
The whole world watched in disbelief.
And Trump did nothing.
Members of his staff, members of his family, Republican leaders who were under attack at that very moment, pled with him.
Call off the mob.
Imagine had he gone out and said stop.
And still, Trump did nothing.
He was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history.
Let's be clear about the 2020 election.
Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election.
Every one.
But the legal path just took Trump back to the truth.
that I had won the election and he was a loser.
unidentified
APPLAUSE Well...
joe biden
From knowing how his mind works now, he had one act left.
left.
One desperate act available to him.
The violence of January the 6th.
And since that day, more than 1,200 people have been charged with assault on the Capitol.
Nearly 900 of them have been convicted or pled guilty.
collectively to date, that has been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison.
What's Trump done?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe biden
Instead of calling them criminals, he's called these insurrectionists patriots.
They're patriots.
And he promised to pardon them if he returns to office.
Trump said that there was a lot of love on January the 6th.
The rest of the nation, including law enforcement, saw a lot of hate and violence.
One Capitol Police officer called it a medieval battle.
That same officer was called vile racist names.
He said he was more afraid in the Capitol of the United States of America, in the chambers, than when he was fighting as a soldier in the war in Iraq.
He said he was more afraid inside the halls of Congress than fighting in the war in Iraq.
In trying to rewrite the facts of January 6th, Trump was trying to steal history the same way he tried to steal the election.
But he, we knew the truth.
steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
unidentified
Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon
I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.
donald j trump
The people have had a belly full of it.
steve bannon
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified
MAGA Media.
jake tapper
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
steve bannon
It's Friday, 5 January, Year of Our Lord 2024.
A absolutely repulsive speech by the illegitimate occupant or usurper.
That happens to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Raheem Kassamu, join us, get more into that.
Breaking news as we're coming on right now, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the 14th Amendment case.
Arguments will be 8 February.
More on that, we're trying to track down Boris and Mike Davis.
What we do know, of all the lies, spin, misrepresentation there, you've heard those lies before coming out of Biden.
The one fact is that a Air Force veteran, a 14-year veteran, defended her country.
Sergeant Ashley Babbitt was gunned down in cold blood and nothing's been done about it until today.
Her husband Aaron Babbitt joins us.
Aaron, Judicial Watch, the great Tom Fitton, working with the estate of Sergeant Babbitt, has sued the federal government for $30 million for wrongful death plus a bunch of other charges.
Can you walk us through exactly what's going on?
unidentified
Yeah, so it's going to be a civil action in the Southern District of California.
So we will be the first case outside of D.C., which is a blessing in its own right.
I think there's four or five counts in there, wrongful death, assault and battery.
It's all tied into the Fourth Amendment.
Keeping them on the job.
I mean, you read into that, that man should have never had a job that day to be there to kill my wife.
So it's been a long time coming.
It's been a long, long road to hope.
But I'm in very good hands with Judicial Watch, and I couldn't be happier.
Ashley's got the clout that she finally deserves.
steve bannon
Tell me about the officer.
We have a Republican house.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Is he still employed up there?
Because this is a guy, and I think you go into it in the filing.
I know I talked to Tom.
You guys are really going to bring it up.
He left a loaded Glock one time in the bathroom.
This guy has got another, I think, a big reveal in this.
That he's got another violation where he fired into a car, his car was stolen, and he took a service revolver and fired into it with a group of teenagers had, I guess, stolen the car.
This is a dangerous guy.
Why is he, is he still employed by the Republican House up there with the Republican speaker?
unidentified
To the best of my knowledge.
I haven't gotten full clarification on that, but I think it was three or four months ago, you know, it got leaked out that he got promoted.
So he's now a captain.
So that tells me he's stolen a job.
steve bannon
Hold it.
He gunned down Sergeant Babbitt in cold blood at point-blank range, and he's been promoted on the watch of the Republicans McCarthy and Johnson in this crowd?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
It was under McCarthy.
steve bannon
Has McCarthy or any of the people, even the new leadership, has anybody reached out to you and Ashley's mom, heroic mom, to sit down and hear your side of the story, what you guys would like to see done?
unidentified
I have not dealt with the Speaker personally.
He has facilitated other things for me, Speaker McCarthy, but Ashley's mom, Mickey, did have a sit-down meeting with him.
And that's when he admitted, and this was within the last year, and that's when he admitted to her that he had never even watched a video of Ashley getting shot.
But prior to that, he said that Michael Byrd was doing his job, and then she called him out on it, and he said he hadn't even watched the video.
So, it's disheartening.
It really is.
But I haven't heard anything from Speaker Johnson yet.
steve bannon
Hold a hanger for a second. He actually had said when he met with Ashley's mom that in 20, the year of our Lord 2023, that he had never watched the video of Sergeant Ashley Babbitt being gunned down in cold blood at point blank range?
Correct, but he felt the need to offer his opinion on it prior to that. If it hadn't been for Judicial Watch, look, Tom Fitton's the best Judicial Watch is the best.
Do you think official, the official Republican party or official Washington dealing with Republicans has abandoned a Sergeant Babbitt?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'll tell you with a clear conscience that if it wasn't for Judicial Watch, we wouldn't be where we are right now.
And we have done the most in-depth comprehensive investigation To what happened to my wife, you know, and I mean, I'd rather not be sitting here today talking to you right now, but I'm happy to be sitting here talking to you right now because Ashley's finally, it's finally, her story is finally coming out.
And you know, there's going to be a lot of people that won't read it.
They just will never look at it.
They have so much hate in their heart, but the middle of this country, the middle, you know, as far as left, right, they're going to read the facts now.
And these are all hard.
Facts.
And it's going to show that there was a lot of people involved, a lot of failures, and the government is responsible for negligence of a large amount of their employees that day.
steve bannon
Were you shocked by anything particularly as you guys did this investigation before you filed?
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, I've had a lot of this stuff in my head for going on a year and a half now.
I mean, we've been We've been putting this thing together for a year and a half.
That's why I've been quiet this long.
Um, there's a lot of shocking things in there.
Yeah.
I mean, you touched on one of them already, you know, and there's, there might be other use of force issues that we couldn't lay claim to be factual at this time, but now we get to go into discovery and we're going to be able to drive that out and hopefully get our hands on an OPR report and, you know, just delve into the training.
There's a serious issue going on there at the Capitol with their police department.
There's good police officers there, but there's a lot that shouldn't be working.
steve bannon
Talk to me about, I mean, why did it take Judicial Watch and you, the family, working so hard to get this to come forward?
Why have no officials?
I mean, why has there been no criminal investigation of this?
I know this is civil, but why no criminal?
unidentified
Well, I mean, the DOJ kind of took that away.
I mean, we talked about that the last couple of years.
We thought the DOJ rushed through their investigation.
Claimed all was good.
The Capitol Police Department and Metro, they all did their own investigations and they deemed him free and clear.
So the civil route was the way to go.
It's unfortunate.
Maybe down the road sometime he can be held accountable, but he is the large, the large swath of that 32 page filing.
I mean, a lot of it is about Michael Byrd.
So, I mean, It's unfortunate.
I agree.
And I hear what you're saying, but this is the, uh, this is the route we're going down right now.
steve bannon
Uh, when you hear Biden today, you know, call them all criminals and the worst people in the worst domestic terrorist, you, MAGA, uh, Sergeant Ashley Babbitt, others, how does that strike you?
unidentified
Uh, he's white noise to me at this point.
Um, but I will just speak for my wife and, you know, part of the investigation is I've, I've seen her on every camera angle inside that building and it's written, you know, it's, it's, she walked around by herself.
She came in well after the crowd.
She was walking around taking selfies.
Um, she was directed by a female Capitol police officer on the Senate side to walk towards the house side.
She did so by herself.
Um, you know, she's on camera pleading with police officers to call for help.
She was on camera punching.
A main aggressor at those doors.
I know Ashley did nothing violent.
That thing didn't hurt anybody.
So he can call it whatever he wants to.
I know my wife was not an insurrection or a violent rider.
steve bannon
Aaron, if you can just hang on for one second, we'll hold you through the break.
Aaron Babbitt joins us.
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch, the estate, representing the estate, filed a $30 million wrongful death.
Action, action, action.
Raheem Kassam, Boris Epstein, Aaron Babbitt, next in the war room.
unidentified
We rejoice when there's no more, let's take down the CCD!
They have all died!
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm.
Okay, just an update.
steve bannon
President Trump was supposed to kick off at 5.
That's why we're kind of moving things around here.
It turns out now, we're hearing from Jason Miller on the team, we're probably closer to 545.
So we're going to have some time to get some things done here.
Of course, the big news this afternoon, of course, the third big news.
First, President Trump Fine, $371 million dollars, or proposed fine by Letitia James.
An increase, I think, of $121 million over the $250 million.
Just unbelievable.
We'll get to that.
Massive news, finally going on offense, Ashley Babbitt, Sergeant Ashley Babbitt's estate has sued the federal government, $30 million.
For wrongful death, plus a bunch of other charges.
So, represented by Tom Fenton and the great team over at Judicial Watch.
Tom was typing that he's going to join us tomorrow.
We're doing a two-hour J6 special.
We got Jim Hoff.
My co-host for the entire time is Julie Kelly, and Tom Fenton's going to join us also.
You're not going to want to miss that.
Aaron Babbitt, we want to make sure that we stay close to this and all the updates.
So where do people go for the social media?
Where do they go to your website?
How can they get the filing?
We want to make sure everybody immerses themselves over the weekend.
And Sergeant Ashley Babbitt, finally in her memory, you guys are going on offense after doing a thorough investigation for the last couple of years.
unidentified
Oh, the great thing about having Judicial Watch in my corner is that there is such a well-oiled machine that everything is there at judicialwatch.org.
They're, you know, a bunch of their social media sites, Twitter, Instagram, they're everywhere.
So they go to judicialwatch.org and they can find everything, the filing and all the updates.
steve bannon
Perfect.
I will send it right over there.
This audience of big fans of Judicial Watch and big supporters.
Aaron, I know it's bittersweet tomorrow, but the audience has got your back in the memory of Sergeant Ashley Babbitt.
Burns bright.
Finally, hopefully the first steps towards justice for her because she's a great American and yes, she is a patriot and a hero.
Sir, thank you very much.
unidentified
Thank you.
steve bannon
We're going to get to Rahim in a second.
You think of that, look, Ashley Babbitt defended her country for 14 years.
What did she get for that from Byrd and from really the people running the house at the time?
Shot, point-blank rage, killed in cold blood, murdered in cold blood.
And it's outrageous that Judicial Watch had to take a couple of years working with Aaron Babbitt and the team to come up, do this investigation independently, and finally file this.
And they filed it out in San Diego, her hometown, or where they lived.
And not in D.C.
because D.C.
is too corrupt.
Speaking of corrupt, the Supreme Court, a huge announcement.
February 8th, they've agreed to take the Colorado case.
Mike Davis joins us by phone.
Mike, can you give us an update?
What does this mean?
unidentified
Yeah, this is expected that the Supreme Court will take this case.
They had their routine conference today, and they decided to accept this case from Trump and the Colorado Republican Party.
I presume that the Supreme Court is going to very quickly, after oral argument on February 8th, reverse the Colorado Supreme Court's egregiously unconstitutional decision To take President Trump off the ballot, it is a gross abuse of power by these four partisan Democrat whack jobs out here in Colorado in a 4-3 decision.
You have this Democrat Secretary of State, unelected non-lawyer Secretary of State in Maine, Shanna Bellows, thinking she can do that unilaterally, not even through a bogus court proceeding.
So the Supreme Court understands that this is a dangerous precedent that Colorado and, frankly, Maine has set here.
They need to rule and rule quickly.
This should be nine to nothing if these three Democrat-appointed justices on the Supreme Court have any integrity, any sense of their legal duty.
They will join the six Republican-appointed justices and smack down Colorado.
This is the most anti-democratic decision imaginable by these four left-wing whack jobs on the Colorado Supreme Court.
steve bannon
When you say there's arguments, I guess you guys will do briefings or arguments on the 8th, is this going to be expedited or will this just be in the normal course of business and we'll hear about the results in June?
unidentified
No, this has already been expedited.
They've set a briefing schedule.
When they granted cert today, they set an expedited briefing schedule and they set an expedited argument schedule.
So this will be, the Supreme Court is going to rule and rule very fast.
Expect the Supreme Court to smack down the Colorado, Colorado Supreme Court very firmly.
steve bannon
Mike, I know you're traveling.
Where do people go to, because I know you'll have a lot of stuff on social media later, where do they go to find all your information on social media about this, and where do they go for the website?
unidentified
Article3project.org.
Article3project.org.
You can donate there, at Article3project, at Article3project, on Gitter, Twitter, Truth.
And my personal is at MRDDMIA.
MRDDMIA.
And thank you, Steve.
steve bannon
Mike, thanks for the update, and thanks for changing the schedule around.
Okay, you've got it right there.
Briefings on the 8th of February, expedited.
Also, argument schedule.
We'll get you the full schedule and get it up.
This is going to happen, and it's going to happen fast.
Rahim, founder, publisher, editor-in-chief at National Pulse.
Rahim, you and I have been through a lot of this stuff, but I've got to tell you, for a kickoff of a campaign, as bad as that one-minute video was, I was not prepared for how, and this one got me more angry than even the thing he did at Independence Hall last year.
Walk me through your assessment, sir.
raheem kassam
Yeah, that's right, Steve.
I mean, you know, the Independence Hall speech was kind of a warm-up for this.
People will remember Joe Biden deploying all sorts of pejoratives against his political opponents, but never before, really, have we seen quite the tissue of lies built on top of one another.
Kind of just recited, as wrote, as given, as we saw today.
I have an analysis up about this at TheNationalPulse.com.
It's called Truth Loose and Policy Free, because that is exactly what Joe Biden intends to run the next 11 months of his campaign on.
He's trained his whole life for it.
He is a conman par excellence.
He is corrupt par excellence.
He is a plagiarist, par excellence, and the next 11 months will allow him to put that training that he's used for the last 81 years of his life into practice.
You saw when it came to the January 6th stuff, you know, he said that Trump didn't do anything.
That's not true.
Obviously, we know Trump requested the National Guard prior to that.
We know he put out a statement that told people to go home once things got ropey.
We know that he told people to march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol and cheer on your members of Congress.
He extended that lie to a very variegated other things that he was talking about today.
So, you know, it was it was it was rage inducing, but that's entirely what it was created to do.
It's it's a it's a it was a gaslight speech.
And I think importantly as well, it was it was desecration.
We know that Democrats have have willingly and gleefully desecrated America's national monuments now for years.
They went to Valley Forge today to do just that.
desecrate the memories that were created there, desecrate the history that lays there, and desecrate this political campaign in 2024 with what I believe will be Joe Biden's downfall, which is avoiding any policy issues whatsoever, because he frankly cannot talk about them.
So it's just our democracy, our democracy, our democracy over and over again, And it might land with some sympathetic Democrats, some sympathetic Moderates, some sympathetic Independents right now, but it will quickly become tarsome and the pathos will wear off.
steve bannon
This is really important because this is when I saw it.
I wanted to get you up here right away because I think it's a great initial take on this thing.
The sub-headline is Biden's Valley Forge speech and his campaign plan.
Tie those together.
What's the campaign plan and how is the predicate the speech?
raheem kassam
Yeah, you know, I've seen what President Trump is expected to say in his speech in just a moment, and I think it's exactly right.
He's going to talk about how pathetic this attempt was to revise history, especially revise January 6th.
Talk about how, what fear-mongering it was.
And I say in the article, I say in my analysis that, you know, I really encourage people to go to TheNationalPulse.com and read it after this show and make sure you're sharing it around with people as well.
You know, you note that he alleges in his speech that Donald Trump wants, quote, all-out war.
Well, perhaps, you know, after the political establishment has assailed him And his supporters, ordinary Americans for the last six years.
Yeah, maybe the time has come for that all out war.
You know, you and I would have probably said the time was due for that in 2016 when he took office.
But President Trump, you know, wanted reconciliation as a nation.
President Trump wanted to bring peace all around the world, which he did in the Middle East, by the way, which is no small feat.
started no new wars all around the world and yet Joe Biden has the audacity to go up there and say that Trump is responsible for the all-out war that's coming. Well listen, all-out war is coming. I don't suspect that you can pin the responsibility for that on Donald Trump but I do think Trump and his movement are going to end that.
steve bannon
Rahim, can you hang on for a second?
Because I want to ask you, given what Aaron Babbitt told us, some other information has come this way about kind of the lack of action.
We still got the J6 report out there.
Tom Fitton's going to join us tomorrow.
I know I talked to Tom, and he's going to have a lot of discussion about the Republican House.
So can you just hang on for a second?
I want to hold you through the break.
unidentified
President Trump is scheduled to- Yeah, make sure, people should get the app in the break.
raheem kassam
Download the National Pulse app in the break, and then you'll get the article to read at the end of the show.
steve bannon
No, you've got to get, this is, it's really a fantastic piece, particularly coming so quickly after the speech.
You must have been writing it during the speech, so it's fantastic.
Make sure everybody goes, download the National Pulse app.
As I tell people, National Pulse should be in your diet, your media diet, the first thing of the day.
It's like a Warpath cup of coffee.
Get the jolt right out of the box.
You get Rahim's best thinking.
Over night and early in the morning of the news of the day, the important news.
So make sure you go to National Pulse right now.
Raheem's going to stick around after the break.
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unidentified
back in a moment. Okay, welcome back.
steve bannon
We're gonna go live right now to Mason City Highway.
President's taking the stage live.
Let's go see the speech.
unidentified
I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land.
God bless the USA.
And I'm bound to be an American where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up, next to you, and defend her still today.
Cause there ain't no doubt, I love this land.
God bless the U.S.A.
Thank you.
donald j trump
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Wow.
donald j trump
This is a packed house.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
We're going to take our country back.
We're going to take our country back.
donald j trump
So sad to see what's happening.
Hello, Iowa.
And a very, very happy New Year.
We're going to have a great year.
Hopefully, it's going to be one of the greatest years ever.
You know why?
Because in November, it's going to be big.
It's going to be bigger than anything that's ever happened to this country, I think.
It really is of that magnitude.
And I appreciate such a big turnout.
We come to every little part of this place, and the people are greater and greater every stop.
And we want to hit every corner.
And we're really honored to see the crowd, that we had the turnout, that we have your incredible people.
You built this country.
You built this country.
Ten days from now, the people of this state are going to cast the most important vote of your entire lives.
I believe that, too, very much.
I used to say that 2016, and I believed it then, and now I believe this is even much more important.
Our country's going to hell.
You don't mind me using that horrible word, don't you?
I use that word because our country's really in trouble.
It's in trouble like it's never been before, in my opinion.
We have a man who's grossly incompetent dealing with nuclear war.
He's dealing against Russia.
He's dealing against President Xi of China.
If you would deal with these people, you'd say it's not a fair fight.
By delivering the massive victory, it's going to be, I think it's going to be really a tremendous victory in Iowa because I'm seeing polls that are phenomenal.
But the, the main thing I got to ask you, look, we got to get out and vote because you know, bad things happen when you sit back.
We love him.
We love the job.
We love the job he did for the farmers, for the whole state.
But let's sit home and watch it.
Maybe it'll be a little bit cold at night or a little bit rainy.
So important that we get out and vote and really show it, show the strength, because the only way we can get hurt is if you sit home and want to watch the great results on television.
Then you say, is it too late?
We got to get out there fast.
But that's not going to happen.
But if you would get out and vote, even though, you know, the polls have this way, way up Uh, strange things happen.
So, uh, if you don't mind, look, she's shaking her head.
You're right.
You're right.
Oh, we've seen some very strange things happen, but I'm not worried about that.
You know, the one thing I'm here, I'm worried about it.
A lot of other places.
I'm not worried about it here.
What I'm worried about here is we have to just get out and show the support because it's gonna make a big difference in November.
We're voting now, but it's gonna make a big difference in November.
By delivering a massive victory in Iowa, you'll send a thundering message to Crooked Joe Biden.
He's a crooked man, an incompetent crooked man.
You're going to send it to the fake news media right back there.
Well, that's a lot of press for this corner, this beautiful, this beautiful location.
You know, they said, you didn't really have to come here.
I said, like hell I don't have to come here.
I have to come here.
If I didn't come here, I'd be in big trouble.
I'd be in big trouble.
Brad, my first supporter, you know, he's right here.
I think I call him the Marlboro man.
Right, Brad?
He's right here.
He said, you better get there, sir.
You better get there.
I said, I'll get there.
But all the evil and all the sinister people trying to destroy our nation.
And that's what happens.
They are destroying our nation.
I don't know how much more our nation can take.
When you look at the border, when you look at Afghanistan, the way we got out, we're going to get out.
We're going to get out with strength and dignity.
And the way we got out was something, I think, the most horrible day, the most embarrassing day or moment in the history of our country.
And that led to a lot of other bad things, including Russia going into Ukraine.
A lot of other bad things it led to.
With your vote for our campaign on Monday, January 15th, you'll declare that we are going to take back our country, we're going to defeat crooked Joe Biden, and we're going to make America great again.
unidentified
Right?
donald j trump
And it all starts right here.
You know, because of me, I will tell you, I'll take full credit.
I'll take 100% of the credit if you don't mind, Governor.
Go first in the nation.
And you are first in the nation.
And that's something that was very important to me.
You know, you have a great tradition in Iowa.
Uh, great tradition for farming and plenty of other things, but you have a great political tradition and they wanted to move you to the back of the pack.
I said, we're not doing that to Iowa.
We're not doing it.
Maybe somebody else someday, hopefully long down, because I'll have signed, I'll have signed those rights into your corner for a long period of time.
You'll be here.
I said the, I said from day one, right?
I said, we're never moving you, you know, and you have forces that want to move.
You notice the Democrats moved.
You did notice that a couple of people maybe noticed that.
But they moved.
But you didn't move because of what I did.
It all starts here in Iowa at 7 p.m.
on Martin Luther King Day.
7 p.m.
So don't stay home.
If you want to save America, each and every one of you, get out and vote and really bring your friends.
We talk about 10.
Bring 10 people, but bring whatever it is.
You can also bring more than 10 people, I guess.
But bring whatever you have to bring.
Before going further, I want to send our support and our Deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa.
To the entire community, we love you, we pray for you, and we ask God to heal and comfort really the whole state and the pain that you have.
This is something that's very unique to your state.
We're really with you as much as anybody can be.
It's a very terrible thing that happened.
It's just horrible to see that happening.
That's just horrible.
So surprising to see it here.
But I have to get over it.
We have to move forward.
We have to move forward.
But to the relatives and to all of the people that are so devastated right now, to a point they can't breathe, they can't live, we are with you all the way.
We're with you and we love you and cherish you.
We're also really delighted today to have some of the great endorsers and my great friends, State Senators Lynn Evans, Kevin Allantz, Jeff Taylor, and Brad Zahn.
I told you Brad was the first one in the nation.
He endorsed me three months before I ran.
Where's Brad?
The Marlboro Man.
Where is he?
Where is he?
Come here, Brad.
Get up here, Brad.
unidentified
Come here.
donald j trump
Want to say something?
unidentified
Come on.
That was easy to endorse for you.
joe biden
And he is the best president of my lifetime.
unidentified
The 47th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
donald j trump
I said, who's that guy named Brad in Iowa?
Because this was three months before I even knew I was running.
I never wanted to say that.
I had no idea I was running, Brad.
But he said, if that guy in New York wants to run, he's got my endorsement.
He's going to do it.
He can turn it around.
He's the only one I know that can turn it around.
And he was actually the first.
I endorsed him, he said.
I said, that's my first endorsement.
So when I finally got to meet him, which was around 2015, in 2015, so it's a long time already, but a lot of great things have happened.
And then we had a lot of bad things happen in the last three years.
A lot of bad, bad things happened.
I was very honored by Brad, and there's a special feeling you have for some people, you know, when that happens.
And I have that special feeling for him.
He's a great person, and he loves this state very much.
Does a great job.
Today, I'm also proud to announce that our campaign has been endorsed by pastors and faith leaders in every single one of the 99 counties.
That's almost, I think, a first.
Thank you very much.
God is with us.
I think so, right?
Thank you very much.
These are great people.
That's a great honor.
I think that's the first to all 99 counties.
The stakes for this election could not be higher under crooked Joe Biden.
Our borders, if you noticed, and I'm sure nobody's noticed, our borders have been erased.
They've been obliterated.
We have people coming in, millions and millions of people coming in.
They're coming in from Prisons are coming in from mental institutions.
They're terrorists.
Millions of people are coming in that shouldn't be here.
If you look at the world's not just the three or four nations that we think about, whether it's Mexico or if anyone, any one of the nations, you could also, by the way, you know, we also have a northern border that's not exactly doing too well.
But if you look, Honduras, El Salvador, any one of these nations, it's not them, it's everybody all over the world.
They caught prisoners the other day from the Congo.
When I say caught, they catch them and they release them.
We used to catch them and release them into Mexico.
Do you remember?
We released them into Mexico.
It was called catch and release into Mexico.
And they gave that up.
You think that was easy to get from Mexico?
No, but they did it.
They did it.
They did it very gladly.
We didn't have to pay.
Now they want billions of dollars to help us with this problem.
And with me, they never even asked for billions of dollars.
I said, you're going to pay billions of dollars if you don't help us with this problem.
But all over the world, we're talking about not just the countries near us or the countries only in South America.
They do.
They come from the Congo.
They come from Africa.
They come from Asia.
Many people from China.
They happen to be about the age of this gentleman right here, you know, around Twenty for perfect age, in his early twenties.
Just perfect for the military, isn't it, huh?
Twenty-seven thousand people from China, all males, all between twenty and twenty-five.
Perfect for the military.
I wonder what that's all about.
So, it's a pretty scary thing.
We have them coming in from Russia, the same thing.
They all seem to be between nineteen and twenty-four or twenty-five.
I wonder why that is.
We're going to be paying a price, but we'll take care of it.
We get in, we're going to be taking care of it.
We're going to have no choice but to take care of it.
We're not going to have a country.
But our middle class is being crushed by Biden's crippling inflation.
The inflation has been the worst that we've ever had.
They say 72 years, sir, to be accurate.
I say, I think it's the worst we've ever had.
There's never been anything like this.
Food prices have tripled.
Every single thing you do, the energy prices, look at what's happened to energy.
Violent criminals are running wild in Democrat-run cities while law enforcement has been weaponized against Christians and conservatives and people of faith.
It's weaponized against Christians.
It's really weaponized.
I don't know how many Catholics are in the room, maybe not that many here.
Are they?
Well, what are we doing with the Catholics?
I mean, they are going, they're persecuting Catholics.
And then the Catholics, it's 50-50 between Catholics and us.
Trump.
50-50.
And I say, you know, it's amazing.
I got a call from the Cardinal, New York.
A very good man.
And he said, Sir, this was during the pandemic.
He said, Sir, we need billions of dollars to help us with our education.
Our schools were losing a fortune.
And I got him the money.
It was very important to get it because they do a tremendous service and they have great schools, but they were hurting badly during that.
And I was able to get him the money.
And then I look at the voters.
It's like 50-50.
And I say, why?
But now they are persecuting Catholics, in particular.
I don't know what's going on with the Catholics.
You guys are Catholic.
What's going on with Catholics?
Why are they doing this with Catholics?
Something's happening.
But they're doing it with Christians, and they're doing it with parents, and they're doing it with a lot of people.
And you explain that one.
Let's go and get the parents at the school board meetings, right?
It's ridiculous.
But we have Wars in Europe.
We have war in the Middle East.
China is threatening Taiwan.
Iran is inches away from a nuclear bomb.
They're going to have a nuclear bomb, they say, in 34 days.
And when we were in charge, Iran was broke.
Iran had no money for Hamas.
They had no money for Hezbollah.
They were broke.
Now they're very rich.
They have $250 billion, they say, not including the $6 billion they got for a hostage trade.
We got five and they got five.
I said, all right, that's good.
That's better than they usually do.
Usually, you know, we give up.
Well, we gave up the king of terror.
You know, we last with the basketball player, Brittany Greiner.
We we gave up.
We gave up the greatest purchaser of military arms and equipment and very deadly equipment in the history of the world, they say.
He was called The Phantom of Death.
So they got him, and we got Brittany.
And that was a tough trade.
That was a tough trade.
But, you know, at least she's standing now for the National Anthem, I think.
But she didn't stand too much.
She always wanted to tie her sneakers during the National Anthem.
I didn't like that.
I didn't like it.
That was the time, when she heard the National Anthem, that meant it was time for her to tie up her sneakers.
I don't like that.
But our military has gone woke, and we're teetering on the edge of World War III.
We've never been closer than we are right now to World War III.
There's only one candidate in this race who's going to be up to the task of saving America from every single Biden disaster starting on day one.
Number one, I know the players on the other side, and they always respected your country.
I don't want to say they respected me, but, boy, did they respect This country, when I was in charge.
They respected us like they've never — like they've never respected us.
Right?
You wouldn't have had Ukraine.
You wouldn't have had Israel being attacked.
Russia wouldn't be attacking Ukraine.
But you wouldn't have had the attack on Israel.
You wouldn't have had inflation.
You wouldn't have had any of this stuff.
You wouldn't have China longing to go into Taiwan.
You know, they're just waiting for the right moment.
They wouldn't even talk about it.
They weren't even talking about it, though.
And they won't be, I promise you that.
But with your vote in these caucuses, we're going to finish the job and we're going to get it done.
And we're going to actually be stronger than ever before.
It's hard to believe because you see the damage.
That's a hell of a list.
has ever, ever.
You know, I often say you can take the 10 worst presidents in the history of our country, you can add them up, put them together, and they haven't done the damage that Joe Biden's done to this country.
What he's done to this country is unthinkable.
Biden's record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption, and failure.
Other than that, he's doing quite well, isn't he?
Don't you?
That's a hell of a list.
That's a hell of a list, right?
That's why Crooked Joe is staging his pathetic, fear-mongering campaign event in Pennsylvania today.
Did you see him?
He was stuttering through the whole thing.
He's going, he's a threat to democracy.
They've weaponized government.
He's saying, I'm a threat to democracy.
He's a threat to democracy.
unidentified
Wow.
donald j trump
Couldn't read the word.
He's a threat to democracy.
You know how bad the press is?
You know what they do?
They take me saying that, like that, and they say, Trump couldn't say the word democracy!
unidentified
Look!
donald j trump
No, that's what they do, they're so bad.
You know, I don't know if you saw it, I was on Sean Hannity, a good guy, really good guy, right?
And we did a town hall, and he says, tell us, you're not going to be a dictator, right?
I said, Sean, I'm going to be a dictator for one day for drilling and for closing the border.
And after that, I'm not going to be a dictator.
So, so remember the way I said, I'm going to be a dictator for one day for those two things.
And then after that, I'm not going to be.
So I said, I'm going to be a dictator for one day for drilling.
Right?
So what do they do?
What do they do?
We say, drilling in the border.
Then I go, and then after that I'm not going to be a dictator one day.
So they have me on the news all over the place.
I'm going to be a dictator.
Cut!
Did you see that?
This is the fake news media.
They have the first part.
I'm going to be a dictator.
unidentified
Cut!
donald j trump
And they had to cut it fast because I kept it going fast because I know exactly what they did.
They had me the other day.
I was imitating Biden because he can't walk off stage, right?
You know, I could know he can never find the exit.
So they have me turning around and looking.
You can never find I mean, these stages have a lot of stairs on them.
Some of them are four or five stairs.
And he did.
He had, like, so many stairs.
He couldn't find it.
And they showed me that I couldn't find the way off the stage.
In other words, they said he couldn't find a way off the stage.
And it's just terrible.
They're so bad.
You guys are so dishonest.
You're so pathetic.
That's why they're all going out of business.
I'll tell you, they are just so pathetic.
And, you know, it's so important.
Having an honest media is so important.
But they just aren't.
And it's a lot of times what they don't say.
It's not only what they say, it's what they don't say.
So I have to be very careful with sarcasm, because I'm a little sarcastic sometimes, and you say something, and everybody there is laughing, having a good time, but they put it on as though you mean it, you know?
So you can't have any fun during these rather terrible times, if you think about it.
Because Biden, I mean, if you take a look at what he's doing on the border, Uh, or inflation or our military that horrible day in Afghanistan.
You look at what he's done with energy all throughout the world.
We're an embarrassment as a country.
We become an embarrassment as a country.
The only reason Biden is at Valley Forge abusing George Washington's legacy.
I mean, he's abusing Washington's legacy, and he never sticks up for Washington.
You know, they've taken the name George Washington off many schools and many different... Can you believe it?
The name George Washington is coming down from many schools, many in California.
And he ought to stop that.
But it's a legacy to — it's really a slander and a horrible statement he's making to 75 million Americans.
That's what they say.
It's much more than that.
You saw the numbers that came out yesterday on the election.
Everybody saw those numbers.
They were released.
The fake news doesn't want to talk about them.
But it's a disgrace, what happened in 2020.
It's a disgrace.
And everybody knows it.
I think they have 81 percent of the people understand that.
But he knows he can't show his face at the southwest border or in East Palestine, Ohio, where I love those people.
They were great people.
I went there early when they had that really bad situation.
And he went to the autoworkers' factories.
He's given away our auto business to China, mostly to China.
You could sit down if you want.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
See?
I'm not kidding with those people.
That's it.
You can't stand up in the front, right?
But thank you very much.
But, you know, people are waiting for three, four days in these things.
That's cold out there.
That's a long wait, right?
It's pretty cold out there.
I said, where's my coat?
I had to walk 15 feet from the car to the... I said, do you have a coat?
And these people are waiting for three days.
So that's good.
That means you're hardy.
You're hardy people.
You're strong people.
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
donald j trump
But if you take a look, Crooked Joe cannot Talk about a single issue that matters to hard-working Americans, because he's failed you and he's betrayed us on every single issue.
And on policy, he's the worst ever.
And people have known that for a long time.
Secretary of States have said he doesn't know what he's doing.
Obama said it.
A lot of people said it.
But he doesn't know what he's doing.
You look at what's happening in the Middle East.
You look at what's going on with Ukraine.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
Biden and the Radical Left Democrats lied to us because they know that Americans can't stand the truth about them because they know how badly they're doing.
They are doing so badly.
You know, they start off with a base.
Because people said, a friend of mine called up, we're leading by 11 in a number of places.
Now, 11's a lot, but a friend of mine called up, how come you're only leading by 11?
This guy can't put two sentences together.
I said, well, they start off with a base like about 39.
He's at 38.
That's interesting.
It's hard to be a 38, as a Democrat.
But Republicans have to do it the old-fashioned way.
We have to earn every one of them.
But they have a base.
I won't exactly tell you what that base is, but we all know what that base is.
They have certain people that are going to vote Democrat almost no matter what.
But I'll tell you, the union part of that base is coming to us.
The union part.
I can also tell you another.
The Hispanic part is coming to us at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
We're leading with Hispanics.
That's never happened before.
And African American is coming to us at a level that I don't think any Republican has seen.
Because they understand that this man is not capable.
He's not a capable person.
I mean, if you had a store and you wanted to take a week off, you wouldn't put him in charge of the store.
No, you wouldn't.
Would you trust him to run your store?
I don't think anybody would.
That's a little question.
It's a little, you know, thing.
If you have a store, would you trust the President of the United States to run your store?
He couldn't do it!
This election is our last chance to save America.
Very important.
and the battle begins in Iowa on January 15th, and Joe Biden's banana republic ends on November 5th, 2024.
And I believe, because the stock market's doing okay for the last six months, but I believe the reason is because we're leading in all the polls.
I think if we weren't, the stock market would be going down at a level that you haven't seen.
And I think if we don't win, I think you're going to end up in a stock market like you had in 1929, not a recession, a depression.
I believe that.
I have to say it.
I really believe you're going to end up in a depression.
You take a look at what these people are doing, how they're wasting all this money on the Green New Scam.
It's called the Green New Scam.
unidentified
It's horrible.
donald j trump
Horrible, horrible.
With your help, we're going to bring our country back from Disaster.
Our country's a disaster.
Laughed at all over the world.
Since 2016, you and I have been in this battle side-by-side.
I mean, we won twice, and we're going to win a third time.
We're going to win by more now, they say.
We're going to win by more in terms of November.
We're going to win by more than we did even the first two times.
And we won nicely.
We won very nicely.
Look, I did get you $28 billion, in all fairness, right?
Who the hell else would get you $28 billion from China?
The farmers of America.
I say, the farmers of America are not voting against Trump.
They're all smiling.
They opened as big.
Remember, I said, here's what you do.
We're going to take a little while with China, but we're going to end up winning the negotiation and we're going to make a great trade deal.
You know, I don't even talk about that trade deal.
I talk about USMCA.
I talk about all the many trade deals I made and re and redid because you had such crazy deals.
I used to say, who makes these deals are so bad.
But I don't talk about China, but China was probably the biggest of them all.
$50 billion they have to buy.
They used to buy 10, 12.
$50 billion they had to buy.
Now, I don't know if they're watching it because I don't think Biden's going to enforce anything because China pays him a lot of money, you know?
Gives him a lot of money.
So he's a Manchurian candidate.
And do you know what a Manchurian candidate is?
This young gentleman.
He doesn't know.
You don't want to find out.
He's a Manchurian candidate.
We took on the entire corrupt system in Washington like no one has ever done before, and together we stood up to the failed establishment, the corrupt media, the deep state, the globalists, the warmongers, the Wall Street special interests and open border fanatics.
I mean, a lot of these Wall Street guys, they know me, they like me, and I see that they're endorsing, like, Nikki Haley, Birdbrain.
They're endorsing Nikki Haley, who does not have what it takes, by the way.
I'm just telling you.
I've spent a lot of time with her.
She does not have... I hope you enjoy her, you know, with her little quips.
Like, how did the Civil War start?
What was... Well, it had to do with government.
No, it was slavery.
You know, I never questioned her on that.
I never wanted to pile on.
But you'll find out about Nikki, and you're going to find out that Ron You gotta have a little personality, you know?
We took him from practically zero.
He begged me for the endorsement.
I gave him the endorsement.
He was like a rocket ship.
One day he was leading, and he won.
And then I helped him win the general.
And then four years later, they said, will you run against the president?
And he says, I have no comment.
I said, that means he's running!
Oh, man, this guy's running.
I got him elected.
He's gonna run against me.
So I started hitting him very hard, and a lot of my geniuses backstage, they paid a lot of money.
Sir, don't go after him.
He's a Republican.
I said, I don't care if he's a Republican or not.
I said, he said he has no comment.
I got him elected.
But you need a personality still, and there's not a lot of personality there.
So, you know, you need a personality to charm.
Foreign leaders.
You think President Xi is easy to deal with?
And Putin?
And do you think Kim Jong-un, North Korea?
You're going to get into a nuclear war.
If Hillary won that election, you would be in a nuclear war.
Who knows where you'd be right now?
Because nuclear is a level that nobody wants to even think about.
And, you know, again, now we have the problem with Iran, and they're going to have it.
You know, when I busted up that whole Iran situation, they were supposed to make a deal.
But they didn't do anything.
They didn't do anything.
And now they're going to have a nuclear weapon that they allowed them to sell?
I told China, if you buy oil from Iran, you can't do business in the United States.
steve bannon
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