July 16, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| 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. | ||
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It's going to happen. | |
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Babb. | |
| Welcome to the War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie G. Winters filling in for Stephen K. Bannon coming at you live from Milwaukee. | ||
| We're here a little different location in the morning but we're still at the RNC. | ||
| You can see behind us it's where all the delegates are going in to have their meetings here. | ||
| The speech is of course big news today happening in between our morning show and now J.D. | ||
| Vance being announced as President Trump's vice presidential Pick, very exciting news. | ||
| War Room approved. | ||
| I'm honored to have none other than Josh Hammer joining us to break all of that down. | ||
| We also have some RNC delegates who are going to join us later. | ||
| I hear Raheem Kassam and Jack Posobiec may be dropping by, but for now it's just me holding the fort down, which is a-okay. | ||
| But we gotta clip the mainstream media, of course, predictably, and meltdown over the selection of JD Vance. | ||
| Always a good sign. | ||
| Let's roll that. | ||
| We'll bring Josh in and have him unpack The significance of this decision. | ||
| Denver, feel free to roll that clip. | ||
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It's a strategic gamble, but I think it speaks to just how confident the Trump campaign is. | |
| Strategic gamble what? | ||
| There are major vulnerabilities with J.D. Vance. | ||
| You have tons of times that he's been on the record back when he was a never-Trumper, calling | ||
| the most horrific names that you could about the now-president. | ||
| You refer to him as America's Hitler. | ||
| America's Hitler, among others. | ||
| But he's also someone, his talent, to give him credit, he's incredibly savvy. | ||
| He can appear in mainstream media and give a coherent, eloquent version of MAGA and go | ||
| toe-to-toe with the best interviewer, but then he'll appear on extremely far-right media | ||
| where he said much more outrageous things that I'm sure Democrats everywhere are digging | ||
| up now to portray him as the most extreme version of MAGA. | ||
| There's going to be a big dump of some of the things he said on Steve Bannon's War Room and elsewhere that I think the campaign needs to be ready for, whereas a Doug Burgum would be about as safe as can be. | ||
| However, J.D. | ||
| Vance, I think, really resonates in key Pennsylvania. | ||
| He's got the story. | ||
| He's got that national profile. | ||
| So there's some pros and some major cons. | ||
| Thanks for the shout-out, Alyssa. | ||
| I wish Raheem were here to give his thoughts. | ||
| But Josh Hammer, I think we have you. | ||
| I can see you, sort of. | ||
| The glare's a little hard. | ||
| But Josh, I would love for you to walk us through the significance of this pick and why you think, predictably, the sort of right-wing, establishment wing of the Republican Party, good old neocons or Trump traitors, as we like to call them here, are really upset about the pick just because they kind of, it provides, I would say, really a Extra powerful ticket. | ||
| Get your thoughts, Josh. | ||
| Natalie, it's the single best pick that Donald Trump could have possibly made. | ||
| I have been a public proponent of Trump making this exact pick for many months now. | ||
| I wrote my syndicated column back in March, basically articulating the various reasons | ||
| why picking J.D. Vance makes the most sense. | ||
| And I'll just walk through, I guess, some of those reasons briefly here. | ||
| You know, Natalie, you hear always from the K Street consultant class | ||
| of the Republican Party, you hear, oh, you have to pick someone who appeals | ||
| to this demographic, who appeals to this intersectional identity group. | ||
| Oh, you have to pick someone who appeals to women or immigrants or this color or this sexual orientation. | ||
| You know, first of all, how about you pick someone who actually helps you with the bread and butter of your very own base, the actual people who got Donald Trump elected in 2016, which would be primarily white working-class and middle-class voters across the American heartland. | ||
| And on a related point to that, If you're actually looking at the Electoral College map right now, Natalie, Donald Trump has a very large lead in pretty much all of these Sun Belt states. | ||
| Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, obviously Florida and Texas not even in discussion right now. | ||
| Those Rust Belt states, he's leading in most of them, but sometimes it's still within the margin of error. | ||
| There is literally no one better, as even Alyssa Farrah seems to recognize, to help this ticket continue to make inroads and to solidify white voters, but obviously also other race voters there in the Rust Belt, across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in particular. | ||
| It very much puts Minnesota in play, I think. | ||
| Minnesota, a state that hasn't voted for Republicans at a presidential level going back literally decades. | ||
| Trump got very close to winning it back in 2016. | ||
| Also, how about the fact that he is a precocious 39-year-old? | ||
| I'm 35. | ||
| I've known J.D. | ||
| for years. | ||
| He's a friend. | ||
| He's four years older than I am. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance is the most eloquent spokesman I can possibly think of. | ||
| For our generation, the millennial generation and the Gen Z, Natalie, I guess you're probably a Gen Zer, slightly younger than me, J.D. | ||
| Vance is the guy. | ||
| Who can speak to the millennial and the Gen Z frustration with the way that the boomers, the boomer neoliberals and the interventionists of both parties, the Republican and the Democrat side alike, he speaks to the ways that they have sold us out when it comes to all of the failed interventionist boondoggles trying to spread democracy to third world Islamist backwaters in Iraq and Afghanistan. | ||
| The neoliberal free trade agenda. | ||
| I mean, J.D. | ||
| Vance has seen that in Ohio. | ||
| I have literally gotten a dinner with J.D. | ||
| Vance in a small town, Ohio, just walking around there. | ||
| You see what happens. | ||
| You see with your own eyes what happens in the name of so-called free trade. | ||
| This fetishization of lower consumer prices at the expense of manufacturing, at the expense Of a resilient, secure American industrial base and supply chain lines there. | ||
| He gets it. | ||
| He gets it at an instinctual, visceral level. | ||
| And he's very, very well spoken. | ||
| He's a smart guy. | ||
| He's an eloquent guy there. | ||
| He absolutely can go on mainstream media, as again, Alyssa Farrer recognized there. | ||
| So I mean, I am just over the moon. | ||
| I am just beyond happy here. | ||
| I didn't know exactly who the pick was going to be, but all the tea leaves here in the final week were kind of indicating JD Vance. | ||
| He is absolutely spot on. | ||
| The perfect man for this current moment and I just really cannot wait to see him up there this week at the convention and on the campaign trail for the Trump Vance 2024 ticket. | ||
| No, immigration, I think, is one of those issues that he's been particularly adept on. | ||
| And, of course, he was one of the most staunch, if not kind of flying solo, defenders against continuous Ukraine aid packages. | ||
| But we hear over, I think, the last few weeks, not divisions by any means, but sort of a struggle within the Trump campaign. | ||
| Some people wanting Trump to push harder to court voters, minority voters, you know, the African-American demographic. | ||
| And compounded with him dropping the sort of retribution talk, right, trying to make a better appeal to independent voters. | ||
| I'm just curious how you think this selection, in that it is, you know, a straight white man, he's not leaning into the diversity, the DEI hires on that, but also too, just JD's kind of, I would say, political CV, whether it's Ukraine immigration, how you think that sort of plays into that, not internal struggle, but those debates going on within the campaign? | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| So I guess two things kind of leap to mind, Natalie. | ||
| So first of all, I mean, JD Vance obviously is a straight white male. | ||
| I mean, you know, he's kind of the top of the, or I guess actually it would be the bottom of the intersectional hierarchy of victims to kind of use the critical theory nomenclature of the far left. | ||
| But it is worth pointing out, for whatever it may or may not be worth, his wife, Usha, who I met before, she's Indian. | ||
| She's also brilliant. | ||
| She's an attorney. | ||
| She's a partner at a law firm in Ohio. | ||
| She clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts years ago. | ||
| They met back when they were at Yale Law School together. | ||
| So she's a very, very, very smart, capable woman. | ||
| I'm sure she will be excellent in front of a camera. | ||
| So I can also easily see the two of them appearing before the cameras together In a way that I think will kind of help make inroads with suburban voters there. | ||
| But there's one other thing to bear in mind here, Natalie. | ||
| If you compare the demographic sub-voting groups from 2016 to 2020, it's actually very interesting. | ||
| Donald Trump from 2016 to 2020 made inroads in virtually every demographic imaginable. | ||
| Black voters, Hispanic voters, young voters, millennials, Gen Z. | ||
| Do you know what the one demographic was, Natalie, that he actually lost support from 2016 to 2020 just based on all the exit polling of the time? | ||
| White working class voters. | ||
| That is his bread and butter. | ||
| That is his base. | ||
| That is the base that broke through the blue wall back in 2016 and delivered Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. | ||
| So at a time like this, At a time where the Republican Party, the RNC, they are making this the convention of the forgotten man. | ||
| You know, a very long way we've come, by the way, since the Romney-Ryan convention in Tampa, Florida in 2012, which was dedicated to small business owners. | ||
| Now it's all about the forgotten man in flyover country. | ||
| Again, there is no better person to pick. | ||
| To double down and to re-solidify the very voters who constitute the core of today's modern Republican Party, which are working class and middle class voters, and once again to double down on the voters who deliver 2016 who on the margins actually peeled away between 2016 and 2020. | ||
| I wish we lived in a world where elections were just determined by candidate quality but, you know, election integrity. | ||
| Discussions aside, which we'll get into later in this show, of course, lawfare has played a considerable and hefty role and I think, well, I would say backfiring, but in terms of dictating President Trump's ability to campaign and get out there has certainly, I think, shifted his messaging. | ||
| I'd love to get your thoughts. | ||
| You always come on to break down the latest in lawfare news, but on the classified documents case down in Florida, Eileen Cannon stepping up, shall we say, next woman up, as we do here in the War Room. | ||
| Your thoughts on that case being dismissed? | ||
| Impossible to overstate how huge a victory this is for Donald Trump. | ||
| I mean, when all four of those indictments dropped in 2023, like many others, I immediately kind of latched onto the Florida case as potentially being the most troubling For Donald Trump. | ||
| Now, that indictment obviously had many, many flaws. | ||
| I mean, the fact that Jack Smith was trying to prosecute Trump on the Espionage Act, this dusty World War I-era statute of dubious constitutionality, that was obviously egregious. | ||
| But for various other reasons, I actually, personally, from a Trump perspective, was actually more worried about that than probably any of the other cases. | ||
| So you cannot possibly overstate the tremendous victory this is For President Trump. | ||
| On the legal merits, Judge Aileen Cannon did entirely the right thing, as folks like me, my Article 3 Project colleague Mike Davis, folks like Julie Kelly have been pointing out for a very long time now. | ||
| Jack Smith has no legal authority whatsoever to try to prosecute anyone, to try to prosecute your local dog catcher, let alone the former President of the United States. | ||
| And the reason for that is very simple, which is that the Appointments Clause of Article 2 of the Constitution Basically distinguishes between principal officers of the Constitution, meaning cabinet officials. | ||
| In that case, it's old school advice and consent. | ||
| The president nominates a set of confirms. | ||
| And then you have inferior officers who a department head can appoint, but only if they are authorized to do so, quote unquote, by law. | ||
| And as Clarence Thomas really demonstrated in his powerful concurring opinion in the Trump immunity case, Trump versus United States, Clarence Thomas, I think powerfully, very persuasively argued that by law means you need a direct, unambiguous, on-the-books law to actually authorize this. | ||
| You can't just kind of vaguely point, as Attorney General Merrick Garland did, to like, oh there's a statute here that allows me to kind of hire someone from this or from that. | ||
| He was basically trying to kind of just cobble together a four or five little subsections buried deep in the bowels of totally unrelated statutes. | ||
| And then argue that that somehow gave him the authority to assign a special counsel to prosecute the former president of the United States. | ||
| That's not how it works. | ||
| And this is a huge vindication for Clarence Thomas. | ||
| It's a huge vindication for Trump. | ||
| And Judge Aileen Cannon, keep your eye on her. | ||
| She's a young Trump nominee. | ||
| She deserves a ton of credit for having the courage of her convictions. | ||
| She had previously held a series of hearings on this very subject, so I am deeply hardened and overjoyed at the fact that she has now demonstrated the courage of her convictions to actually do the right thing and dismiss this case in its entirety. | ||
| And Josh, I was asking Mike Davis this morning sort of what the track, the future looks like for all these various logger cases. | ||
| We know this is one of many, but it's the only way that this case could be revived. | ||
| Is this as if the Biden DOJ sort of reworked it and brought it in a different way? | ||
| Do you think they're going to double down on the other cases now? | ||
| Well, the Biden DOJ has this case and the Washington, D.C. | ||
| case. | ||
| So one of the million-dollar questions at this point, Natalie, is whether or not the judge in D.C., Tonya Chutkan, is actually going to follow Aileen Cannon's lead. | ||
| I mean, now you had a federal judge who issued a very powerful 93-page opinion explaining why Jack Smith was not legally appointed. | ||
| Is Tanya Chutkan actually going to follow suit in Washington, D.C.? | ||
| That would be the correct thing to do. | ||
| The reality is that the Washington, D.C. | ||
| case is, I mean, maybe it's not literally on its deathbed, but it is certainly on hospice care at a bare minimum. | ||
| Because recall, in that particular case, two of the four charges against Donald Trump also involve the statute, the subsection of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act. | ||
| I've got to let you go. | ||
| I'm sorry to interrupt, you know, we'll have you back. | ||
| It's RNC week, it's a little hectic, but if in the meantime people want to follow you, stay up to date with all your wonderful writing, where can they go to do that? | ||
| Yeah, of course, all good. | ||
| So I'm on Twitter, Josh underscore Hammer. | ||
| Instagram is Josh B. Hammer. | ||
| I host two shows, The Josh Hammer Show and America on Trial with Josh Hammer, and I write a weekly syndicated column as well. | ||
| Josh, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| In War Room Posse, you know we are bringing you the signal and not the noise from the RNC. | ||
| We got the good RNC members joining us after the break. | ||
| We got Ben Berquam, too. | ||
| I think I see Raheem Kassam joining us shortly, potentially. | ||
| But, in the meantime, I think I hear Raheem. | ||
| Wish Peter Navarro a happy birthday. | ||
| We know he's rotting in Joe Biden's federal prison right now, but it is his birthday today. | ||
| He'll be hosting with us live Thursday morning, I believe. | ||
| I don't know which set we'll be at, but I'm certainly looking forward to that. | ||
| But in the meantime, keep him in your thoughts and prayers. | ||
| Probably too late to write him a letter. | ||
| Maybe if you do express delivery, it'll get there. | ||
| But we'll see him Thursday morning or possibly right back after the break. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. | ||
| ♪♪ Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie Winters filling in for the one and only Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Like I said, one of his fellow imprisoned political prisoners. | ||
| Peter Navarro will be joining us Thursday morning, but until then, you're stuck with me and Ben Berkwam and the whole cast of War Room characters. | ||
| But I hear, Ben Berkwam, I think we can bring you on. | ||
| I hear you went and Shall we say messed around with Antifa a bit today, all the wonderful paid protesters, I will say. | ||
| I took a walk through their little camp and saw all the pre-made signs and the U-Hauls and the pallets of water being busted. | ||
| Totally organic, I'm sure. | ||
| I'm sure the audience would love to hear your thoughts on what you saw. | ||
| Any good stories? | ||
| Yeah, well, Natalie, I don't know if you saw the guy with the sign. | ||
| I think it was my favorite sign of the day. | ||
| It said, uh, BLM Rent-A-Riot. | ||
| Uh, and there was a guy out there with the Trump sign. | ||
| The only guy, lone guy standing there with the MAGA hat on. | ||
| And he had this massive sign that said BLM Rent-A-Riot. | ||
| That's basically what it was. | ||
| He had these leftist groups from all over the country that were bussed in. | ||
| Shipped in, flown in, to come out against President Trump and against the RNC, and I went in for about an hour with them. | ||
| I had a couple of bottles of water poured on me, and luckily it was hot, so, and there was no spitting, as far as I know, in the bottle. | ||
| So, you know, other than that, it was no violence, but it's the same people. | ||
| They're chanting, there is only one solution, communist revolution. | ||
| It's all the same garbage. | ||
| It's a si se puede. | ||
| It's this intersectionality of the worst aspects of American culture and I asked every single one of | ||
| them. I asked over a hundred people, do you denounce the assassination attempt | ||
| against President Trump? Not a single one would say they denounced it. So not | ||
| surprisingly, honestly, but just a sad representation of America. | ||
| And now we're here, Natalie. | ||
| We actually are right out in front of the—again, I want to make sure we're clear on this. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Again, I want to make sure we're clear on this. | ||
| Yeah, so we're out in front of— No, go ahead. | ||
| —it's the PfiServe. | ||
| Yeah, Natalie, it's the PfiServe building. | ||
| It's not the Pfizer. | ||
| This segment is not brought to you by Pfizer. | ||
| It's the PfiServe. | ||
| I just want to make sure. | ||
| I said that in the morning, too. | ||
| But we're here with Joe Belnomi. | ||
| I'm familiar with you, Joe, as Jersey Joe. | ||
| You are a delegate, but you're also the Republican nominee for New Jersey for the 11th Congressional District. | ||
| Talk to me. | ||
| I want to talk to you first, though. | ||
| What's going on in New York today? | ||
| You said if you weren't here, where would you be? | ||
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Yeah, so in support of Donald Trump after that heinous assassination attempt. | |
| People, you know, they just want to get together. | ||
| They want to show support. | ||
| So at Trump Tower, I know there was a big gathering. | ||
| So if I didn't come here, like, I definitely would have went there. | ||
| I know a lot of people had showed up. | ||
| And it's just like, you know, people are motivated more than ever, you know, to support Donald Trump. | ||
| And it's just, it's... | ||
| This is a culmination of all of the dehumanizing things the media and the Democrat Party have said about Donald Trump. | ||
| It's just inevitable that something like this can happen. | ||
| So I'm hoping going forward, you know, they're going to change the tone a little bit on this man because he's not Hitler, no matter how much they try to convince you he is, and he just wants to make America great again. | ||
| Do you think that's going to happen? | ||
| And by the way, do you blame the media? | ||
| Who do you blame? | ||
| Obviously the gunman himself pulled the trigger, but who else do you blame for that? | ||
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The Democrat Party. | |
| Even my opponent herself calls me a MAGA extremist. | ||
| She calls every Republican a MAGA extremist, even if they're not that pro-Trump. | ||
| It's just weird. | ||
| This is New Jersey, where I'm from, so it's not like everybody's MAGA. | ||
| But they're just using that, and there's a very brainwashed You know, manipulative element of the party, of the Democrat party, we'll say, that, you know, they take those words to heart and they want to do something because they go, oh my God, they're calling these people extremists. | ||
| Maybe I need to do something about it. | ||
| Are you concerned for that? | ||
| And are you are you seeing the opposite side of that? | ||
| Are you seeing a shift towards President Trump because they've just taken this so far and obviously now with his assassination attempt? | ||
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You know, it's it's I haven't even really had a time to even to see like I'm just I was getting ready to go to RNC. | |
| I mean, I was getting phone calls. | ||
| Ben, you know me. | ||
| I go to a lot of Trump rallies. | ||
| People are worried that I was there. | ||
| It was in Pennsylvania, but some other event. | ||
| But in my heart, I'm thinking, I wish I was there. | ||
| I wanted to be there for him, even though my life would have been in danger and there's nothing I would have been able to do. | ||
| But that's how I feel. | ||
| I think a lot of people have that sentiment. | ||
| I forgot what your question was. | ||
| I really choked up. | ||
| I feel like Trump's like my family or something you know like and I just I really feel that he's the man that's gonna save our country and save the world really because we're seeing what's happened when we have weak leadership in America you know it's a dumpster fire you know people can't afford groceries they can't afford gas You know, inflation's out of control. | ||
| Our border's wide open. | ||
| Terrorists are entering our country. | ||
| America is less safe. | ||
| Now, you look on the other end of it, our foreign policy. | ||
| You know, there's wars breaking out everywhere. | ||
| You know, there's no end in sight. | ||
| We just keep throwing billions and billions and billions of dollars around the world while Americans are hurting. | ||
| You know, they're kicking veterans out of housing to put illegal aliens in there, and they're handing them paychecks. | ||
| People that have worked their whole lives for, you know, a pension are getting less money than illegal aliens that are just crossing the border into our country. | ||
| What is happening here? | ||
| That's deliberate. | ||
| It's failed policy. | ||
| If they're trying to get illegal aliens in here and put them on voter rolls, it's very blatant and it's very obvious. | ||
| I hope that we have things in place. | ||
| I know that they're talking about attorneys and everything, but we'll see what happens. | ||
| Joe, Joe, I love you, man. | ||
| We love President Trump. | ||
| We stand with President Trump. | ||
| You're seeing that here, the unity of people coming. | ||
| And even the Never Trumpers, I think, are finally starting to realize they have to support President Trump. | ||
| How do people support your campaign if they want to do that as well? | ||
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Yeah, let me just piggyback off what you just said, even the Never Trumpers. | |
| Like, I'm in New Jersey. | ||
| You know, it's not a MAGA state. | ||
| But at this point, Donald Trump is accepted as our nominee and the leader of the party. | ||
| So I'm loving it. | ||
| Go to VoteJerseyJoe.com. | ||
| Visit my website. | ||
| Please make a donation. | ||
| I have a race against someone who's far left. | ||
| Let's keep the words the same way. | ||
| We don't tend to talk about us. | ||
| But I can win. | ||
| This is a year with Donald Trump on the ballot. | ||
| New Jersey's in play. | ||
| My opponent's scared. | ||
| She already asked Biden to step down, to step aside. | ||
| That's alarm bells. | ||
| She's worried about a race. | ||
| She's worried about going against Jersey Joe. | ||
| VoteJerseyJoe.com. | ||
| VoteJerseyJoe.com. | ||
| Natalie, we're going to be out here. | ||
| I'm going to be talking to more of the folks. | ||
| You can see people coming out. | ||
| We're going to be talking to them the rest of the day. | ||
| Thank you, Ben. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We are honored to be joined by the one and only Patti Lyman. | ||
| I know from the first time I saw you in War Room, I was like, she's a fighter. | ||
| So I'm honored to be interviewing you. | ||
| Before we get into what's been going on inside, behind closed doors, I'd love if you could give the audience your thoughts on all things J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
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I could not be more thrilled. | |
| At the president's choice of J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| There are so many reasons. | ||
| But what this choice tells me, Natalie, is that the president is at the helm. | ||
| Not the consultant class. | ||
| Not the grifters. | ||
| Not the hacks. | ||
| He made this decision. | ||
| One man to another. | ||
| And he saw what so many of us see in J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| I saw the movie of his life, Hillbilly Elegy, just a couple of days ago. | ||
| Everybody out there, I never boost Netflix, but I will right now. | ||
| Go to Netflix. | ||
| Run, don't walk. | ||
| Watch the movie, Hillbilly Elegy. | ||
| It is the story of J.D. | ||
| Vance's early life. | ||
| And the things that that man has overcome. | ||
| I cried watching it and I already knew it was going to turn out okay for him. | ||
| And I still cried watching it. | ||
| You will have so much respect and love for him and what he's been through. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance is every man. | ||
| It isn't about him being a straight white male. | ||
| That's irrelevant. | ||
| What voters want to see is someone leading them who understands their life, their lived experience, as Steve puts it. | ||
| How many people have gone through the experience of having their credit card turned down because it was over the limit? | ||
| How many people have tried to put a family member in rehab and couldn't get them in because they didn't have insurance? | ||
| How many people have been at that fancy dinner and didn't really know what fork to use because Hey, I'm from the wrong side of the tracks. | ||
| I don't really belong here, but let's see if I can make it through. | ||
| I'm the first person in my family ever to go to college. | ||
| I've been practicing constitutional law for 27 years. | ||
| But I know what it's like to be in a family that has climbed up. | ||
| And I think the experience is universal. | ||
| Also, in addition to him, if people want to look at demographics, in addition | ||
| to him being married to a brilliant Indian wife, he is also a recent Catholic convert. | ||
| He grew up in a Protestant evangelical environment, but he's a Catholic convert. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| I think what women are looking for, for instance, is not somebody who looks like me, | ||
| who has the same chromosomes that I have. | ||
| Women are looking to feel safe. | ||
| Women want leaders to be strong. | ||
| If that strong leader happens to be a woman, fantastic. | ||
| We're all for it. | ||
| But I believe that the combination of strength presented by President Donald J. Trump and J.D. | ||
| Vance literally will be unbeatable. | ||
| And I have to say a word about our president. | ||
| I was watching live on RSVN last Saturday when the assassination attempt took place. | ||
| And all of us had our hearts dropped to the bottom of our stomach. | ||
| But that fist pump from the president was 100% gangster. | ||
| It was the most gangster thing I've ever seen. | ||
| Most badass president ever in the history of mankind. | ||
| And you know what I love about him, Natalie? | ||
| His strong defiance. | ||
| His determination. | ||
| We all need to be pumping that fist in the air just like that. | ||
| Take that! | ||
| You didn't get me. | ||
| You're not taking us down. | ||
| And do you feel that sentiment inside those walls? | ||
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Oh, I feel it 100% inside. | |
| Of course, I was in the Virginia delegation and people weren't really knowing who the VP choice was until, you know, it was a little while before President Trump went over the top, but we weren't all sure. | ||
| Some people speculated it would be our governor, and I'm grateful every day that our governor is our governor. | ||
| But MAGA is ascendant. | ||
| America First is ascendant. | ||
| Being the voice of the middle class, that forgotten man, is ascendant. | ||
| That is our new Republican Party. | ||
| That is the only—our new Republican Party is the only Republican Party that is going to survive beyond where we are now. | ||
| We have elements of our party that are fighting it, that want our party to go back the other way, but they did not get their way in this VP pick. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| And I'm so grateful that our president still remembers more than ever who he represents. | ||
| Yeah, Cry Harder, Consultant Class, Grifters, and Hacks. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Patti, if you can stay with us, I would love to. | ||
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I will. | |
| Alright, awesome. | ||
| Warren Posse, we will be back after the break. | ||
| I see Jack Posobiec hanging around, and like I said, we'll have Raheem Kassam joining us shortly. | ||
| We'll be right back after this break. | ||
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Here's your host Stephen K. Bound. | |
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| It's a bit of a chaotic scene going on here. | ||
| Mike Lindell came by. | ||
| He always draws the crowd, and Mike Davis. | ||
| He has some fans, too. | ||
| I am actually doing Tim Pool's show tonight, live from the RNC, which is exciting. | ||
| So I'm going to have to head out in a bit, but don't worry. | ||
| Jack Posobiec is standing back and standing by. | ||
| He's going to take over shortly. | ||
| But I wanted to finish my interview with you. | ||
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Can you kind of pick up where you left off, walking us through what's going on inside those doors for the audience who hasn't What is going on inside those doors is a tremendous amount of excitement for our gladiator president who has been there for us for eight years straight. | |
| He's never backed off. | ||
| Nobody could have endured what he has endured and still come forth strong. | ||
| His first concern at all moments is to lead us, his supporters, all the American people, whether they supported him or not. | ||
| He's a president for all of us. | ||
| I know he has a desire, hopefully, to come out and say hello later on, to reassure us. | ||
| The reason he did that fist bump to the crowd and said, keep fighting, was to reassure the crowd. | ||
| He cared about us. | ||
| He cared about the people that were there. | ||
| We are a team. | ||
| We are saving this country come hell or high water. | ||
| And those who need to, who have to decide, people have to decide whether they're going to get on board or get out of the way. | ||
| Because we are moving forward to save this country. | ||
| We will do it with President Trump and with J.D. | ||
| Vance and with the true patriots surrounding President Trump. | ||
| Please everyone, continue to pray non-stop for President Trump and everyone around him. | ||
| God has his hand on us. | ||
| We are going to do this by his grace. | ||
| Patti, as always, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| If people want to follow you, stay up to date with what you're tracking and writing about, where can they go to do that? | ||
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I have a Facebook page, Patti Lyman, RNC National Committee Woman for Virginia. | |
| Patti with an I. I'm also at Patti Lyman on I think either Getter or X and one of them I'm at Patti Lyman too. | ||
| But reach out to me anytime. | ||
| We. | ||
| Will. | ||
| Win. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Mr. Posobiec, you're welcome to come on. | ||
| Well, well, well. | ||
| Can you, okay, I don't know if you know the verse off the top of your head, but you said that the shooter shot Trump, what was it, at 6-11 p.m.? | ||
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So, 6-11 p.m., and Ephesians 6-11 is put on the full armor of God. | |
| And I just wanted to say that for the full armor of God and but but it's important to have in times like this because unfortunately for someone out there we have to send a message and and it is it's actually a breakup message did you know that we're gonna send a breakup message to Karl Rove and the neocons and John Bolton and Rupert Murdoch and all of them out there and More toxic than my exes. | ||
| We're through. | ||
| More toxic than Natalie Winter's exes. | ||
| We're through. | ||
| We're done. | ||
| We're not coming back ever again. | ||
| And just to be clear about something, it's not us, it's you. | ||
| It's you and it's definitely you. | ||
| We're never coming back. | ||
| You guys are never going to take this party back ever again. | ||
| So for all the coping and the seething that is going on out there, you know what? | ||
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Keep it up because you're gonna be doing it for the next 35 years To quote someone will bring it full circle Taylor Swift. | |
| We are never ever ever getting back together And with those final words I'm gonna leave because I gotta go get in my car to go to Tim's show But I see you have a whole deck of guests Dude, the deck is stacked because the work never stops here in the War Room. | ||
| The work never stops here in the War Room. | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
| Let's bring on, go catch Natalie Winter. | ||
| She's going off to do Tim Pull. | ||
| We got Mike Davis, the Viceroy. | ||
| Caitlin Sinclair, the new Turning Point Action Spokeswoman. | ||
| No, no, no, Rose Between the Thorns. | ||
| Rose Between the Thorns here. | ||
| Rose between the thorns as is necessary And I just want to say the initial reactions I've just come from inside where JD Vance received the nomination. | ||
| He hasn't spoken yet, but I saw him there This guy, I don't think he could have spoken, by the way, because he was getting choked up. | ||
| You could tell the emotions were getting to him, but I'm looking around on Fox News. | ||
| Karl Rove is melting down. | ||
| He looks like, he looks like, I don't know, like a side of ham that got left out in the sun for too long. | ||
| He's very upset. | ||
| Poor Karl. | ||
| He's sobbing. | ||
| You've got Bolton, all of these types. | ||
| What messages do we have? | ||
| And Caitlin, not that you would know about this, but for anyone going through a bad breakup like Karl Rove right now, what kind of message would you have for him? | ||
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I'm going to use a Candace Owens quote here. | |
| Get a helmet. | ||
| Life's tough, right? | ||
| Get a helmet. | ||
| And we see these crybabies and this is a result of fear mongering and being so scared. | ||
| So this is what the American people want. | ||
| On a serious note though, Caitlin, is this a generational pick from Donald Trump? | ||
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I think so. | |
| I think this is also speaking to the cultural shift, right, since Saturday about unity and coming together and having love of country again. | ||
| And we need that for the younger generations that have not grown up with love of country or patriotism, Jack, or pride for this country. | ||
| And I think J.D. | ||
| Vance really represents that. | ||
| Speaking to someone, I mean, choosing someone 39 years old, under 40, the first time that we've seen a pic like this in a long time. | ||
| Mike Davis, walk us through a little bit. | ||
| I was reporting on the morning show that you just saw every single America last Republican was trying this last-ditch effort to get Marco Rubio or Nikki Haley or someone else. | ||
| And how would you describe what Trump just did to them? | ||
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I think President Trump made very clear that this is an America first. | |
| Republican Party by picking Senator J.D. | ||
| Vance from Ohio. | ||
| He is a fantastic pick. | ||
| He is young. | ||
| He is very smart. | ||
| He's very conservative. | ||
| He's populist. | ||
| He is going to be the future of the Republican Party after the Trump presidency, and I cannot be more happy about JD Vance. He's great on every issue. He's great | ||
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on the big tech fight. | |
| He's great on the judicial fight. He is a rock-solid pick and it shows that | ||
| President Trump is serious about governing and serious about | ||
| the America First agenda. | ||
| And I'll throw out, since you mentioned America First, that JD Vance... | ||
| Vance is a pick for peace. | ||
| J.D. | ||
| Vance is a pick that tells the warmongers, that tells the war party, that tells the military-industrial complex, that tells the endless wars, that you know what? | ||
| No more blank checks to you, all of your money that's been flowing through Washington, All of your money that's been going into the purses of all of the governors and senators that you've been propping up. | ||
| No, we're not going to touch it. | ||
| This is a generational pick. | ||
| I think in many ways a baton that's being handed off to say, you know what? | ||
| We want the future of this party, the future of this movement to be America first. | ||
| He is taking the country and the party and moving it in a new direction where America | ||
| will no longer be this global empire where we're sticking our nose in everybody's business, | ||
| where we're running around trying to mitigate all these border disputes between country | ||
| after country, that we are going to be a country that stands for the well-being of the American | ||
| man, the American woman, of American children. | ||
| And by the way, if you're growing up in this country, he's going to make this country his | ||
| priority and the best in the world. | ||
| And by the way, not just for the people in New York and LA, but in Ohio and in Milwaukee, | ||
| Wisconsin and in Michigan and in Western Pennsylvania, in the South and all of these places that | ||
| we're supposed to say that we don't worry about them, but we're supposed to worry about | ||
| Kabulistan that's like 10,000 miles away. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Caitlin, talk to me about what it feels like, because you're working with Gen Z, with Turning Point Action. | ||
| What is it like when they come to you and they hear about the party, and it was the party of the past, that always seemed to be focused on stuff that was far away from us? | ||
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Yeah, exactly. | |
| And Jack, we talked about this earlier last week, right? | ||
| Gen Z, this is a generation that grew up hearing about how great this country used to be, right? | ||
| Post 9-11 hearing about love of country and pride for this country and faith and God and the family unit. | ||
| And this is a generation that is longing for all of that again. | ||
| They're longing for America First policies once again. | ||
| They're longing for the family unit once again. | ||
| They're longing for love of country once again. | ||
| And that's why you see them getting so involved. | ||
| I was thinking about our interview last week and I'm glad you brought it up because do you remember and now Mike you can this is interesting for you too as well because Caitlin you said something during our interview which was last week during the week so before Saturday and you were talking about the post 9-11 unity moment and you were saying that Gen Z can't imagine America that could come together in the face of tragedy and then Saturday night happens Donald Trump survives an assassin's bullet by moments and suddenly it does kind of feel like there's this push towards unity. | ||
| Are you seeing that? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| I think this is the cultural shift that we've been talking about just over the past few days. | ||
| And I think you're going to see that that sentiment echoed. | ||
| Even here this week at the RNC, right? | ||
| Again, this is a generation that is fed up. | ||
| They feel like they've been lied to, they've been stolen from, they've been robbed, and they've been disenfranchised. | ||
| And I used to refer to this group, Jack, as the most apathetic group. | ||
| I don't think that's the case anymore. | ||
| I think they really want to get involved and they want to make a difference. | ||
| And you know what we're doing at Turning Point Action. | ||
| We just launched our Gen Z coalition. | ||
| Encouraging young people to have a voice, to get involved, and what better way than to actually chase ballots, right? | ||
| Donald Trump will save us, but we have to save him first, and that obviously involves getting out to vote. | ||
| So, Mike Davis, let me throw it to you for a second, because this is so cute, and Caitlin, I was thinking about our interview, by the way, the other day, that she and I were talking about Gen Z. To them, 9-11 is something they read about in a history book. | ||
| The post-9-11 moment is something they've heard of, but never really quite bought. | ||
| Do you think that when you talk to other members of the party, when you're working on the Hill, do they understand how disconnected they are from the regular people out in the country? | ||
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They are very disconnected from the real Americans and real America on Capitol Hill, particularly on Capitol Hill. | |
| And I think with President Trump, look, President Trump doesn't need this job. | ||
| He's already had it. | ||
| He has a nicer house. | ||
| He has a nicer car. | ||
| He has a nicer helicopter. | ||
| He has a nicer airplane. | ||
| He does not need to do this. | ||
| What President Biden has put President Trump through with this republic-ending lawfare and election interference, they try to bankrupt him. | ||
| They've tried to throw him in prison for the rest of his life. | ||
| They tried to throw him off the ballot. | ||
| Trump's enemies even tried to kill him, right? | ||
| And President Trump is putting everything on the line. | ||
| And he has a really good wingman now with J.D. | ||
| Vance, the future. | ||
| So let me ask you about this lawfare though, Mike Davis, because Biden comes out and he says, we need unity. | ||
| And he's sitting there behind the Resolute Desk and he said, we need national unity. | ||
| But why is it? | ||
| That Joe Biden didn't follow up that speech with saying, and I'm going to take the next step by commuting the sentence of Stephen K. Bannon and commuting the sentence of Peter Navarro and looking at a full presidential pardon. | ||
| Why won't he do that? | ||
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Because President Biden is a sick, evil, bad person. | |
| And I don't say that lately. | ||
| I didn't say that about President Obama. | ||
| Biden's a bad person. | ||
| And the fact that he politicized and weaponized our intel agencies, our law enforcement to go after Trump, His top aides like Peter DeBaro and Steve Bannon who are sitting in prison right now. | ||
| His attorneys like Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani. | ||
| His supporters on January 6th. | ||
| Parents, Christians. | ||
| President Biden is a bad person. | ||
| He should bow out. | ||
| His own party doesn't want him. | ||
| He's a disgrace. | ||
| Look, I said this earlier today on Human Events Daily. | ||
| I'll say it again here. | ||
| There's been this talk about unity, and I appreciate unity, but I will say this. | ||
| Unity does not come for free. | ||
| Unity is achieved through victory. | ||
| Unity through victory. | ||
| And so we are going to see victory first. | ||
| And of course, President Trump made his announcement of the pick of JD Vance just minutes after my show ended. | ||
| So, you know, I love that in terms of the breaking news. | ||
| But I will say this, and this is going to be my message going forward here. | ||
| Victory through unity. | ||
| Unity through victory. | ||
| We are not going to forget how we got here. | ||
| We're not going to forget the fact that we've got people like Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro behind bars. | ||
| If you want unity, you have to pay for it. | ||
| Are you guys sticking around? | ||
| Are you hanging out? | ||
| We'll hang out. | ||
| We'll sweat it out a little bit. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| We hang out a little bit. | ||
| Alright, we hang out a little bit because I know there's a pillow man who's trying to | ||
| rush the stage right now. | ||
| A lot of people coming up trying to rush the stage. | ||
| We got some of the Turning Point girls coming over here. | ||
| It's bad news folks, it's bad news. | ||
| But don't worry, this is the War Room. | ||
| We love bad news. | ||
| We eat bad news for breakfast. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
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Quick break. | |
| It's all started, everything's begun, and you are over, because we're taking down the | ||
| CCP. | ||
| Spread the word all through Hong Kong, we will fight till they're all gone, we rejoice | ||
| when there's no more, let's take down the CCP. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bound. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Jack Posobiec back here live in the war room. | ||
| Give it up, folks! | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Republican National Convention, J.D. | ||
| Vance getting the pick, Donald Trump one more step to victory. | ||
| We are joined here, of course, with Caitlin Sinclair, the new spokeswoman for Turning Point Action, as well the baby honey badger herself. | ||
| Captain Maureen Bannon joining us here live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | ||
| Caitlin, before we wrap, I wanted to get your final thoughts on the pick of JD Vans and then give us all your coordinates so people get involved with Turning Point Action. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| My final thoughts are how refreshing, right? | ||
| A young face, young ideas. | ||
| We've been hearing that with also someone like Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
| We need more young people in this fight. | ||
| So speaking of, Jack, we just launched our new coalition, Gen Z Coalition. | ||
| We're hiring full time right now in Arizona and Wisconsin. | ||
| You can get involved just going to our website, turningpoint.com, going to our coalitions page. | ||
| It's not just Gen Z Coalition. | ||
| We have a Faith Coalition. | ||
| We have a Moms Coalition. | ||
| We have a Black America Coalition, Farmers Coalition. | ||
| There is something out there for everyone. | ||
| So get involved. | ||
| Caitlin Sinclair, everyone. | ||
| Turning point action, give it up! | ||
| Alright, very quickly, I would like to thank you so much, Caitlin. | ||
| I'd like to also introduce a man who really needs no introduction. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mike Lindell! | ||
| Oh, my God! | ||
| Alright, and Mike, let me get yours because, you know, we're all kind of reacting to this latest pic. | ||
| President Trump choosing Senator J.D. | ||
| Vance. | ||
| What does it mean to you, who's someone from places that people refer to as flyover America, that he picked someone from the middle of the country? | ||
| Well, I think that's important, but I also, I know J.D. | ||
| Vance, I met him, and I think if for my two picks he was in the top two, I would have picked him or Ben Carson, and I gotta trust our great real president. | ||
| He takes all the information, he usually makes great choices. | ||
| And so I think it's very important and I think he will, I know he has a passion to help our country and help people, all people. | ||
| I think it's going to say a lot to our real president's administration where the decisions made help all Americans, not just a party. | ||
| And I think that's really important. | ||
| And that's what we stand for. | ||
| This is the new megabucket that you make decisions. | ||
| Common sense, the common sense party, as our great real president calls it. | ||
| And I think JD Vance will fit perfect into that. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Captain Bannon, what are your thoughts, what are your commentary? | ||
| Well, I think that it's nice and refreshing to have someone young in office. | ||
| You know, he's 39 years old, so, you know, a young perspective, younger voices. | ||
| But given what happened Saturday, we need to make sure that everyone is registered to vote so that these two can be back in the White House. | ||
| So if you're registered to vote, you need to make sure your family members are registered to vote, your friends are registered to vote, because we need both of these gentlemen back. | ||
| President Trump back in the White House and JD Vance in the White House as well. | ||
| We're currently standing and I don't bring this up lightly, but we're currently standing about two blocks away from where over a hundred years ago, Teddy Roosevelt famously was shot while giving a speech that was right here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, right where actually the Hyatt Regency is now. | ||
| That's right where it is. | ||
| And, and it was, there was an open air platform there. | ||
| Mike Lindell. | ||
| Do you believe that what we saw with President Trump on Saturday night was an act of divine intervention? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| He said it too. | ||
| You know, he said it too. | ||
| He doesn't usually talk like that. | ||
| No, and you know what? | ||
| When you've seen him down on the ground, the one picture where they show him on the ground, it's like right there you could feel the presence of God talking to him. | ||
| He says, it's going to be okay. | ||
| It's going to be okay. | ||
| And I, you know, that picture, I brought tears to my eyes because you could just feel that. | ||
| And he, and you know, I just did interviews inside with London and media from all over the world. | ||
| I saw you and I was like, bye! | ||
| But I was telling them, they asked me one thing, do you think now it'll be a message of uniting? | ||
| And I said, that has been his message. | ||
| He is the biggest uniter this country has ever seen in history and now it's even gonna be more prominent. | ||
| When politicians and administrations make decisions where it doesn't help any people, there's a hidden agenda, and it's a very evil agenda. | ||
| This is a spiritual battle of biblical proportions, and you're going to see his messaging now. | ||
| He's so easy to unite everybody around the horrific things that have been going on. | ||
| And that manifested into that assassination. | ||
| Maureen, I've got to ask because Joe Biden came out and said that he wants unity. | ||
| But can we have unity while your father and Peter Navarro remain behind bars when Joe Biden could let them out with a stroke of a pen? | ||
| No, we can't have unity. | ||
| It's a two-tiered justice system. | ||
| The fact that Peter Navarro is still in prison, my dad is still in prison, and Merrick Garland is roaming free and not arrested shows that they don't care about the right. | ||
| So we cannot have unity while these two men are political prisoners. | ||
| I know that Peter Navarro gets out this week. | ||
| But he's been in for four months. | ||
| He was a political prisoner for four months. | ||
| We cannot have unity until both of these men are out of prison. | ||
| Unity through victory. | ||
| Unity through victory. | ||
| And you know what, I'm talking about unity of the people. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| Mike, Mike, we just got about a minute left. | ||
| here there's a difference. The people I go I'm gonna go I'm gonna try and get | ||
| Chicago to get in the Democrat Convention I said it should be easier to | ||
| flip people to this bucket of common sense now. Mike Mike we just got about a | ||
| minute left where could people go to keep up with everything you're doing here at the convention? | ||
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