Feb. 21, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Cash Patel is right on the cusp of becoming the next director of the FBI, with the Senate holding its confirmation vote for that controversial nominee. | |
| In fact, right now, Republicans have, unsurprisingly, rallied around Patel's emphasis on fighting crime, with the Senate Judiciary Chair calling him the right man at the right time. | ||
| But Democrats have warned he is unfit for the position, raising concerns that he's going to use the agency to target the president's political enemies. | ||
| Well, I wouldn't say it's unusual, but he makes, I think, a very astute point. | ||
| If the idea is that you want to make the FBI apolitical, it's hard to pick a more political person to take the job, someone who has, as you noted, been a diehard champion of Donald Trump for a long time. | ||
| And even going back before... | ||
| It's not surprising that Republican senators are not persuaded by this, though, and I think it's for an important reason. | ||
| The things that Kash Patel has said, and I think truly believes, that there is a deep state that was out to get Donald Trump and January 6th was all about, you know, that that was a political, you know, the election was stolen from him and this was all politics. | ||
| Those are all standard, fair things that Republican senators are forced to say now when they go back to their states and they're talking to their constituents. | ||
| They'll say it with a bit of a wink and a nod, and yeah, yeah, the deep state. | ||
| Kash Patel truly believes it, but the point is, you can't be against Kash Patel for believing in a deep state if you also have been talking about the fact that there's a deep state in the federal government. | ||
| So none of the things that he has said publicly that I think get a lot of people upset are all that different than what most Republican senators basically say anytime they're back home in their states. | ||
| And you mentioned the deep state, and I have a quote. | ||
| This is something that he said on a podcast. | ||
| He said, on day one, I would shut down the FBI Hoover building and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. | ||
| So, given all of this, the tenor of everything, Frank, now that it is edging toward reality, what could a Kash Patel-led FBI look like? | ||
| Yeah, that's the big question. | ||
| How bad is it going to get? | ||
| get because it's clear to everyone that there will be major changes and reforms at the FBI. | ||
| The only question is how bad is it going to get? | ||
| Everybody's all about reforming. | ||
| I'm about reforming huge bureaucracies and pivoting and changing and reassessing. | ||
| That's characterized my 25 years at the FBI. The biggest strategic change, of course, was after the terror attacks of 9-11 when the FBI... Fully dived into the intelligence community and became an agency that's beyond investigation but rather predicting bad things before they happen. | ||
| And this concerns me because, look, there's every indication so far based on what Pam Bondi has done and acting DAG Emil Bove has done, demanding the list of agents who worked January 6th, dropping corruption cases like Eric Adams that now has gone to court because Trump wants them dropped. | ||
| And of course, we understand Patel will work for Bondi and Beauvais. | ||
| And so if he's going to keep his job and remain loyal to Trump, he's going to have to fall into line and continue to close down cases that Trump doesn't like and open cases that Trump wants open. | ||
| We've already seen Bondi destroy, dismantle the foreign influence task force at the FBI that keeps foreign adversaries out of our elections. | ||
| That's gone. | ||
| So the question is... | ||
| What is the FBI not going to work anymore? | ||
| It's not about... | ||
| I know he wants to work violent crime. | ||
| He's already said FBI agents are cops. | ||
| They should be working rapes and murders. | ||
| By the way, those aren't federal violations. | ||
| The question is what they're not going to work, and that's what bothers me. | ||
| And I just want to have our director, if we can, put up that count, the tally right there, as we're trying to get to the very end. | ||
| We're very close, everybody. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| To the vote, we're going to stay... | ||
| The watching it. | ||
| He has been confirmed. | ||
| This has just happened, everyone. | ||
| It is not a surprise. | ||
| We figured this would happen. | ||
| It would have taken a number of Republicans to flip away from the party and not vote on a partisan level, as we had expected them to do. | ||
| We did get that from Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, but it would seem every other Republican has voted for Kash Patel, and every Democrat has voted against him with the final tally there. | ||
| 51 to 49. So there you have it. | ||
| It is a done deal and there will be consequences of this as far as the Democrats are concerned and Republicans will be happy that they are continuing with President Trump's agenda in confirmation of his appointees both to cabinet and high-level positions in the government. | ||
| 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 at 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. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega 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. Band. | ||
| All right, we're live in the war room at CPAC. | ||
| Another great day. | ||
| Yesterday was stellar. | ||
| Today's even better. | ||
| We got breaking news. | ||
| We got Ben Burquam in the house. | ||
| Ben, Mike Davis. | ||
| Great host, Sobik. | ||
| But Sobik, why don't you lead off with the headline of the day? | ||
| The headline of the day is this, is the sound that you heard was every liberal elite's head exploding right here up the river. | ||
| And the other spike that we hear is that all... | ||
| You go to Google right now, in Washington, D.C., the search for... | ||
| Defense lawyer just spiked up to 100% because Kash Patel was just confirmed as your ninth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | ||
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Say it again. | |
| Say it again. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Can we get an amen out there? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Has been appointed. | ||
| What's the name of his book? | ||
| Government Gangsters. | ||
| Everybody ought to read it. | ||
| It's the playbook. | ||
| That's the playbook. | ||
| I was joking before. | ||
| I said, look at the career trajectory, right? | ||
| So he goes from, he's a defense lawyer. | ||
| He then becomes a federal defense lawyer. | ||
| He becomes a U.S. attorney. | ||
| And then he gets hired by HIPSE. So he's on the HIPSE committee under Nunez. | ||
| He uncovers Russiagate. | ||
| Then he goes to National Security Council, chief of staff to the Department of Defense. | ||
| Then... | ||
| A brief stint as a war room contributor, and then he leveraged the war room to bounce back, or I don't know if it's an upgrade or a downgrade, from the war room to the FBI director. | ||
| Perfectly logical. | ||
| Only in America, folks. | ||
| Perfectly logical. | ||
| Only in America. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| Way to go. | ||
| Good setup. | ||
| Mike Davis, what's that mean? | ||
| FBI, what's at stake here? | ||
| Well, I'll tell you this. | ||
| When President Trump nominated Kash Patel... | ||
| The very smart people in Washington said his nomination was dead on arrival. | ||
| And then the war room posse went to the Article III Project's action page and lit up the Senate. | ||
| And we gave the Senate an attitude adjustment. | ||
| And he just got confirmed today. | ||
| And he's going to go in there and bring bold, serious reforms to the FBI after it was politicized. | ||
| And weaponized to go after Trump, his top aides like Bannon, who went to the clink, Peter Navarro, who went to the clink, parents, Christians. | ||
| There is a new sheriff in town today, and his name is Kash Patel. | ||
| Yeah, Mike, our Article 3 project, Mike Davis, go look him up. | ||
| Give us, us non-lawyers, a sense for the scale and scope of his duties, responsibilities. | ||
| As head of the FBI, what all does that entail? | ||
| It's a major job. | ||
| He's in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | ||
| He is going to take the lead on everything from terrorism to violent street crimes to migrant crimes. | ||
| And what we need to do is refocus the FBI from its political focus on those mean grandmas who trespassed on January 6th and took selfies. | ||
| And we're going to focus the FBI on real crimes in real America that affect real Americans, like vicious migrant gangs, Tendaya migrant gangs who are terrorizing Americans. | ||
| We're going to focus on gun crimes. | ||
| We're going to focus on making America safe again instead of going after Trump supporters on January 6th. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Way to go, Mike. | ||
| Segway is perfect. | ||
| To the border with Ben Burquamp. | ||
| Ben, what are the implications of this? | ||
| FBI slot, USAID slot, CIA slot. | ||
| What's it mean for you and your world? | ||
| Well, first off, what a difference a year makes from last time we were in CPAC to today. | ||
| Standing here today. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| But you look at that. | ||
| I just want to touch on real quick what Mike was talking about. | ||
| We just had Joe Biggs on with Jack Posobiec on his show. | ||
| And you talk about what they did, what the FBI did in the last four years. | ||
| FBI agents off of active terror investigations, jihadist terror investigations, to investigate American citizens. | ||
| Grandmas and grandpas, guys that were simply there walking around. | ||
| My friend, Coy Griffin, who was there praying at the Capitol. | ||
| They spent our tax dollars, our time, going after J6ers. | ||
| And on day one, President Trump... | ||
| Releases those guys. | ||
| And now we have an FBI director. | ||
| Shout out to all the guys here. | ||
| I know we got a lot of J6ers here. | ||
| Shout out to these guys. | ||
| Now we have an FBI director who's actually going to put the rule of law first again. | ||
| Not put himself first, not put President Trump first, but the rule of law first, which is how it should be. | ||
| We're not going after our political enemies. | ||
| We're going after the traitors to this country that committed crimes against this nation, and we're going to hold them accountable. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| And on the border, look. | ||
| What we've got started is the beginning. | ||
| We've covered this for four years. | ||
| The left weaponized our asylum process to invite an invasion, the Trojan horse, invasion into our country. | ||
| They spent four years, brought 15 million illegals in. | ||
| We covered that from start to finish. | ||
| It's part of the reason why President Trump won, part of many reasons why President Trump won. | ||
| Now we have the opportunity to turn it around. | ||
| Tom Homan's doing that. | ||
| We're embedding with ICE. We're embedding with Border Patrol. | ||
| ICE is going after them. | ||
| But when you look at the task that's in front of them, the amount of money it's going to cost, the manpower it's going to take, it is enormous. | ||
| And so this is the beginning of it. | ||
| But to me, the bigger side of that, what has to happen, two things. | ||
| We have to defund, we've talked about this, defund the NGOs, defund all these organizations, the Global Compact of Migration, get out of the UNHCR, all of these things. | ||
| And we have to use now the Justice Department under Kash Patel to go after the NGOs and all of these organizations that were working with the cartels to divide and undermine our country from within. | ||
| That has to happen, and I believe we're actually going to start seeing some of that. | ||
| Just give us a brief overview of how the FBI is supposed to work with Department of Homeland Security and the other major institutions that should have been doing their work on the border. | ||
| What's their role? | ||
| It's directly what we've seen the last three weeks, four weeks now. | ||
| God bless it. | ||
| It's one month today. | ||
| They're working directly with them. | ||
| FBI has intel on counter-terrorist information. | ||
| They have intel on Train de Aragua, you mentioned, on MS-13, on all of these now labeled terrorist organizations. | ||
| They have all this information. | ||
| Now they're going to share that information with Department of Homeland Security, with ICE, with Border Patrol, with all these organizations, so that these organizations can work together. | ||
| The DEA, we are seeing that happen in real time. | ||
| All of these organizations that were weaponized against the American people are now weaponized against the bad guys in our country. | ||
| It's what this country was supposed to do. | ||
| It's how we're supposed to operate. | ||
| Mike, give us a little more on that. | ||
| All the DOJ, FBI, Department of Homeland Security. | ||
| DNI, all the security apparatus are all hitting on all cylinders right now. | ||
| The rule of law is going to be in play. | ||
| What's it going to look like in a year from now? | ||
| What it's going to look like is President Trump is refocusing our intel agencies and federal law enforcement on our southern border to protect our border from this invasion, this intentional invasion by Biden. | ||
| And his DHS and these outside NGOs, they intentionally led this mass invasion of 15 million unvetted and unvettable people from these dangerous places, these third-world hellholes. | ||
| And we are in a very dangerous place as a country because of this. | ||
| Ben's been covering this for four years. | ||
| And President Trump is going to fix this. | ||
| And he's going to focus... | ||
| Federal law enforcement on real crimes instead of political enemies. | ||
| Somebody's coming at me. | ||
| They were complaining and saying, well, how could President Trump say that Ukraine could hold elections when they're being invaded? | ||
| I said, well, we just did last year. | ||
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That's right. | |
| How about United States 2024 with our invasion? | ||
| You can't say that! | ||
| No, watch the war room. | ||
| Watch Ben Burkwam. | ||
| He'll tell you exactly what it's called. | ||
| Jack's been watching X for us. | ||
| We also had an earlier break in the news. | ||
| Steve Bannon standing up in front of a huge video this morning of Senator Mitch McConnell. | ||
| What are you seeing on X? What's the reaction to the Kentucky Senate? | ||
| Well, what's interesting with Mitch, he drops out, but then announces, I think it was expected, but also he voted for cash. | ||
| So I think it's an interesting day. | ||
| It's an interesting day for old Mitch McConnell. | ||
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Right. | |
| And then the lineup at CPAC, give us an overview. | ||
| What's the lineup? | ||
| I think Elon's coming out. | ||
| The current lineup is that Elon is going to speak right before Steve. | ||
| Is he going to hand Steve the mic? | ||
| That's what I want to know. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Maybe a little debate. | ||
| All right, folks. | ||
| We're going to break. | ||
| Stay tuned to the war room. | ||
| You see, we got a great... | ||
| The killers are in the house. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| All right. | ||
| Back in the war room with the great Stephen K. Bannon at CPAC. It's an honor to have John Eastman in the house. | ||
| He's been through a living hell over the past few years. | ||
| I always love to hear him speak. | ||
| You can just see his brain at work. | ||
| He's doing a panel. | ||
| He did a panel. | ||
| He's got another panel coming up on lawfare. | ||
| And he's the perfect guy to have in the house with the news breaking on. | ||
| Cash Patel today. | ||
| John, why don't you frame it as you wish? | ||
| Thanks for being with us. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Well, the first thing I've got to say, quote Churchill, when you're going through hell, don't stop. | ||
| Keep going. | ||
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So that's what we've been doing. | |
| Yeah, we're doing a panel on lawfare tomorrow, but it just got much more exciting with Cash Pell's confirmation earlier today because he's already indicated that he is going to look into what I believe is a nationwide conspiracy to deprive people of the constitutional right to speech, to petition our government but it just got much more exciting with Cash Pell's confirmation earlier today because | ||
| And, you know, the people that are engaged in that conspiracy, these NGOs, these state prosecutors, and all of the money flowing through USAID and everything else that's going into this effort to shut us down, that's a conspiracy and that's a federal felony. | ||
| And I hope Cash will investigate that fully and, if warranted, put a bow on it and hand it over to Pam Bondi. | ||
| Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt. | ||
| That they're going to be able to show some elements of conspiracy. | ||
| But what I'm worried about is just the logic you see unfolding, whether it's the economic issues, the foreign policy. | ||
| You find a liberal judge and they say, you've got a jury of your peers and we gave you proper justice and they can hold up all policy from the executive branch using the courts. | ||
| What's the way forward on that? | ||
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Well, I think the courts are going to learn very quickly here that there are three articles. | |
| Dividing powers in the Constitution. | ||
| Article 1 is the legislative branch. | ||
| Article 2 is the executive. | ||
| And Article 3 is the judiciary. | ||
| And while the judiciary has to hold up the law, it doesn't have the authority to direct the president how to manage his department any more than he can tell the judges who to hire for their clerks or whatever in the running of their department. | ||
| And these nationwide injunctions, particularly the most egregious one, telling the incoming Secretary of the Treasury, appointed by the President, nominated by him, and confirmed by the Senate, that he couldn't look at what his own department was doing because that would interfere with the career bureaucrats that had been running roughshod over taxpayers that he couldn't look at what his own department was doing because That was absurd, and they quickly backed away from that because I think that was on the fast track of not only being overruled, but getting rid of these nationwide injunctions by the Supreme Court. | ||
| That one seemed highly, grotesquely offensive. | ||
| So they backtracked. | ||
| The politics was so bad. | ||
| But these other stays, I mean, they have the ability to at least delay for a few months until we put things, I forget what you lawyers call it, but whatever you have to put into the Supreme Court to clear the decks. | ||
| And so, but I'm fascinated because, like, just take USAID, right? | ||
| So that's under the State Department. | ||
| Now that's under Rubio. | ||
| Rubio is the Secretary of State. | ||
| Who serves at the pleasure of the president. | ||
| And the courts are getting in the middle of that line. | ||
| And so what can the president do? | ||
| Can he ignore a stay if in... | ||
| He's the chief magistrate of the country. | ||
| Can he ignore a stay if it's grotesquely out of bounds and challenge it to the Supreme Court himself? | ||
| What options does he have? | ||
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He should not be able to do that because... | |
| Otherwise, you undermine the legitimate role of the judiciary. | ||
| But these things are getting so egregious. | ||
| I know people are talking about that. | ||
| I hope it doesn't come to that. | ||
| But I'm working on an article right now called the Rule 11 option. | ||
| Supreme Court Rule 11 lets the Department of Justice ask the Supreme Court to review these cases even before the Court of Appeals have ruled. | ||
| And we want to get back on the fast track. | ||
| Because what's going on here, they know ultimately they're going to lose most of these cases. | ||
| Because the president clearly has authority. | ||
| His legal team that has been working overtime for the last four years to get ready for this have crossed the T's and dotted the I's. | ||
| They've got the statutory authority. | ||
| They've got the constitutional authority. | ||
| So I think they're eventually going to lose. | ||
| And their goal here is to try and run the clock on President Trump's agenda. | ||
| The agenda that we, the American people, voted to implement. | ||
| And he's doing it, and they're trying to stop him and delay it as long as they can. | ||
| And I can't imagine a more perfect case for Rule 11 asking the Supreme Court, put a stop to this now. | ||
| We can't tolerate this. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, you're monitoring this stuff in real time. | ||
| Any questions for John Eastman? | ||
| Well, John, you know, you were on my program earlier today, and we were talking about this very issue. | ||
| But just take us back to what the concept of that is, because this is separation of powers. | ||
| The founders understood that each branch should, of course, you have the check on the power of the other branch, but not for internal matters of that branch. | ||
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That's right, and that's what's going on. | |
| These independent, unelected... | ||
| Life-appointed judges are trying to micromanage how the president runs his own department. | ||
| And the claims that what he is doing illegally are specious. | ||
| And so what they're trying to do is use these pretexts to basically act as if they were the ones that the American people elected to run the department, the executive branch of government. | ||
| And by the way, the role of the judges is limited. | ||
| It's not all the judicial power. | ||
| It's only certain things that are spelled out in the Constitution. | ||
| Just like the legislative power is limited. | ||
| It's only the powers herein enumerated that are vested in the legislature. | ||
| But the president is the sole executive, and he holds all the executive power, it says. | ||
| The executive power is vested in the president. | ||
| And what these judges are doing in many instances is trying to become the executives themselves. | ||
| Kamala Harris, who at least got some votes in the general election, it's more like her running for the primary. | ||
| They didn't ever get a single vote. | ||
| And they have no authority to run the executive department, the executive branch of government. | ||
| Dave, John had a good example earlier. | ||
| It's like a judge couldn't come in and start dictating military policy to the Secretary of Defense and block money if you're in the middle of a war. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| We understand that that would be completely inappropriate, and yet when it comes to these other cases, and of course the media is not on our side, but it's obviously a gross overstepping of their bounds. | ||
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Well, and more fundamentally, it's based on a hundred-year misconception of government. | |
| Way back under Woodrow Wilson and then on steroids under Franklin Roosevelt, they brought in experts to run our lives rather than we the people running them. | ||
| And over a century, they've gotten a view that we all work for them rather than the other way around. | ||
| And that's how you get a judge decision saying the Secretary of Treasury put in office by the person we just elected. | ||
| Can't look at what his own employees are doing because they're the permanent bureaucracy and they're really running the show. | ||
| It's a complete upside-down view of our government. | ||
| And that's where, and I don't usually pull this card out very much, but as a Claremont Fellow, when I learned... | ||
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You did all your good learning. | |
| Where I got a little bit of education. | ||
| Not a lot, but a little bit of education. | ||
| They taught us that... | ||
| This was the problem where sovereignty essentially leaked out of the governmental system, spread into the expert class, and then joined at the hip with what? | ||
| Academia. | ||
| So this is where you get the academic split, whereby you have these, like, Ivy League professors with security clearances going to the CIA and dictating national security policy that are completely unelected, and the president doesn't even know what's going on. | ||
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Well, except he does now after the first four years. | |
| Yeah, fair, fair. | ||
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And he revoked a lot of those security clearances. | |
| Look, you know, back in the first Trump 45, there were a couple of articles, I think, in the New York Times. | ||
| The president is violating the law because he's not listening to the intelligence community. | ||
| Last I checked, they worked for him rather than the new way around. | ||
| And then the big one was, and he wanted to put in his own guy as acting attorney general. | ||
| This was somehow nefariously wrong. | ||
| I'm sorry, he's the boss. | ||
| He ought to be able to put in who he wants. | ||
| And the Constitution gives him that authority. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| The Constitution also says he can ask those department heads for opinions on how they ought to operate. | ||
| It's right there in the Constitution. | ||
| Yeah, A+. Ben Burquam, use of lawfare on your issue. | ||
| What do you got for John? | ||
| Yeah, so two things. | ||
| One, I was just up with Christina Bob, and you think, you know, look what they're doing to her. | ||
| Look what they did to you or doing to you. | ||
| All of that. | ||
| How do we, first off... | ||
| What's going to happen with all those cases? | ||
| And then how do we hold these judges accountable? | ||
| Are we impeaching them? | ||
| What do we do to make sure this doesn't happen in the future? | ||
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So let me talk about Arizona, where Christina is my co-defendant in the Arizona criminal matter down there. | |
| The so-called fake electors case. | ||
| Alternate electors, anyway. | ||
| We won a big victory last week. | ||
| Where the judge held that we had met our initial burden under the state's anti-SLAPP statute to get the case dismissed. | ||
| We showed that the prosecution infringed our First Amendment rights, and we showed that it was substantially motivated by political bias and an effort to silence us on our rights. | ||
| Now they have to prove that, oh no, it had nothing to do with politics or the exercise of our First Amendment rights. | ||
| So that was a huge win. | ||
| They're fighting tooth and nail not even to let that stand. | ||
| They're trying to appeal that. | ||
| But that was a big win, a big win for free speech, a big win for getting rid of this lawfare. | ||
| You know, what do we do with these judges? | ||
| I think the Supreme Court is finally going to put an end to these nationwide injunctions. | ||
| You know, I also am a firm believer in arguing for decades that we've let judges run amok because we weakened the impeachment power. | ||
| We somehow got to the notion that you can only be impeached for criminal conduct off the bench, not for egregious violations of your office on the bench. | ||
| That's a no-brainer. | ||
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The founders would have thought a little crime off the bench is much less significant than violating your duties on the bench. | |
| That's where the public interest is abused. | ||
| And I don't think in our politics right now, even if you could get an impeachment through the House, you would never get the two-thirds vote in the Senate. | ||
| But let's still put them through the ringer. | ||
| Let's make them go through the impeachment process. | ||
| They've put me through the ringer for the last four years. | ||
| And Trump. | ||
| And I'd like to get even with them a little bit. | ||
| Amen. | ||
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Not because I'm a vengeful man, but because I believe in justice. | |
| Amen. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| John Eastman in the house. | ||
| Just to lay out the agenda here, I think we're waiting on the main stage for Elon Musk. | ||
| They're running. | ||
| It looks way behind. | ||
| And then after Elon Musk. | ||
| We've got the great Stephen K. Bannon on the main stage at CPAC. And so all of that coming. | ||
| We could be breaking at any time to go to the main stage. | ||
| But in the meantime, we've got the killer team here with John Eastman. | ||
| And we'll be with you in the morning again for the regular show out of CPAC. Folks, come find us in the morning. | ||
| We'll give you more details on that, Cameron. | ||
| But we're going to break. | ||
| And so stay tuned. | ||
| For a short break, and then back with Elon Musk. | ||
| We'll be live off the main stage. | ||
| We might get into a little antitrust discussion. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| All right, back in the war room at CPAC, standing in for the great Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| I think he's getting ready to go on the main stage. | ||
| We got Burquam, Bowling, Rap, And Basobiec. | ||
| Basobiec. | ||
| Sorry about that. | ||
| I just wanted all B's. | ||
| That's my attempt at you. | ||
| A lot of B's. | ||
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That's a lot of B's. | |
| Anyway, we got great news. | ||
| We got Eric Bolling in the house. | ||
| He joined RAB today. | ||
| He has his own new show. | ||
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That's right. | |
| Give us a summary there. | ||
| So I found out in a press release. | ||
| I was reading the paper. | ||
| I saw a press release. | ||
| We're going to be the 4 o'clock show in RAB. I said, oh, okay, got it. | ||
| That's how it works. | ||
| But, yeah, we're going to 4 o'clock and we're going to lead into the 5 o'clock. | ||
| Bannon War Room. | ||
| It's going to be great. | ||
| Again, Steve and I have known each other forever. | ||
| We were part of the original crew. | ||
| I would love Steve to be here right now because I remember having cocktails with Steve Bannon, Andrew Breitbart, and Ann Coulter at Del Frisco's across the street from Fox many times. | ||
| As a young guy getting into the business, I couldn't have had a better education. | ||
| Than those folks right there. | ||
| And those are some of the best people in, you know, America First, in anti-globalist movement that is now all of a sudden sweeping the country. | ||
| Right. | ||
| What's the theme of the show? | ||
| What are you going to highlight? | ||
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I don't know yet. | |
| I've been doing this show. | ||
| It's been a podcast, which will continue with Red Seed Ventures, which is the group that's producing Megyn Kelly and Tucker and O'Reilly and Pierce Morgan. | ||
| So it's the same group. | ||
| It's probably going to be very much the same show. | ||
| We're just going to have to bleep some words out once in a while. | ||
| But it's a four o'clock show. | ||
| The market closes at four. | ||
| If a lot's going on, we have Elon Musk, we have Trump, we have businessmen. | ||
| We'll talk about that a little bit, too. | ||
| It's free-flowing, Dave. | ||
| I'm not really sure exactly what it's going to be, but I know it will be America First. | ||
| It will be full-throated MAGA editorial straight up. | ||
| That's where we're going. | ||
| You and Posobiec. | ||
| Give us a little CliffsNotes version. | ||
| You've been doing this a bunch of years. | ||
| The changing media environment, where the power centers are. | ||
| Give us a little CliffsNotes view. | ||
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So the legacy media has been dying to slow death. | |
| Every year, the total legacy media, the ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, the pie shrinks by 8%. | ||
| And a lot of it is emigrating to... | ||
| The people who are doing what we're doing here. | ||
| We're creating organic content. | ||
| Honest content. | ||
| If you watch... | ||
| Now, I come from Fox. | ||
| I love them. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| Do you see Kilmeade, Ainsley in the morning, dear friends of mine, but every word that comes out of their mouth is measured. | ||
| They're thinking about, how am I not going to get in trouble? | ||
| How am I going to not step into a lawsuit or get myself hauled up to the second floor, which is where the off-executive suites are, and get in trouble? | ||
| With this content, we just let it rip, and we let it rip organically. | ||
| But just one final thought, Jack. | ||
| The legacy media got smoked in the election. | ||
| No one was honest enough in the legacy media to say, this is a Trump slam dunk. | ||
| Well, Eric, there's another name I'd throw on that, and that's the name of another former Fox guy, Pete Hegseth. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I've noticed that, and people know Pete from on air, obviously, and they see his Twitter, but it seems like, if you listen to that speech he gave at NATO, if you listen to that, I say, wait a minute. | ||
| That's not the Fox News line on NATO. That's not exactly what you would hear normally from there. | ||
| So it's kind of like, wait a minute, this is the real Pete Hegseth coming out now. | ||
| This isn't that, you know, and I'm not saying anything against it, but it's what you're saying, right? | ||
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Well, everything is measured, Jack. | |
| There's no measurement. | ||
| There's no worrying about being called upstairs. | ||
| I'm going to tell you the God's honest truth because he's been given an opportunity to do this. | ||
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You know who's the last person to do that at, I'll call it legacy media, but certainly Fox, was Tucker. | |
| Tucker, yeah. | ||
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Tucker said exactly what he felt, what he knew, and they removed him for it. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, there's no other reason to have left the most successful cable host, probably in the history of cable news, and tell them, you know, find another job. | ||
| It's insanity, other than... | ||
| They couldn't handle advertisers who were concerned with what was coming out of Tucker's mouth, which obviously the people loved and kind of lines up with what's going on right now in MAGA. Ben, the war room, the big... | ||
| I think people are going to like this, connecting the dots with the media. | ||
| Bannon's great at doing it. | ||
| Endless wars, the economy, and then the border invasion. | ||
| That's your turf. | ||
| Had any of the mainstream media gotten any of those three? | ||
| Those were also the big three issues. | ||
| Polling for the country for the election. | ||
| About three weeks before the election, mainstream media started saying, oh, we've got a problem on the border. | ||
| I mean, it was that bad. | ||
| But I've got to say, what you're talking about, Eric... | ||
| And all of this, you know, I'm looking over at Patriot Mobile. | ||
| I got their new hat on. | ||
| I'm wearing over here. | ||
| This is a combination. | ||
| Shout out to Glenn Story. | ||
| We love Patriot Mobile, don't we, folks? | ||
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We love Patriot Mobile. | |
| Mobile code RAV. We love those guys. | ||
| But this is, talk about, Eric, about the cancel culture, how that is dying. | ||
| It tore down legacy media. | ||
| It tore down the people, you know, the influencers. | ||
| And now you see that the power is gone. | ||
| And so when it came to the border, I got permanently banned on YouTube for using the term illegal alien. | ||
| Now you see Elon take over Twitter, turn it into X. You see Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| Who would have thought that turning over? | ||
| And now you see all of these companies stepping up and saying, you know what? | ||
| We're going to support the companies, the media that supports the values that we believe in. | ||
| And we're going to, in turn, support those companies. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| All of these people are then going to, in turn, support those companies and these companies. | ||
|
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Piers Morgan's Uncensored a couple nights ago. | |
| And Lindy Lee, if you know who Lindy Lee is, she's a young lady who was all the way through the Biden presidency, the re-election campaign. | ||
| She was one of the major advisors and one of the major fundraisers as well. | ||
| And then she jumped over to Kamala Harris and she was full-throated Kamala Harris for the entirety of the campaign. | ||
| Trump wins. | ||
| Lindy Lee says, you know... | ||
| I've really been conservative a long time. | ||
| I kind of like what's going on here. | ||
| Now I'm pro-Trump. | ||
| And I was on with her on Pearson. | ||
| The first thing I said out of my mouth was, I don't trust you. | ||
| You're a Trojan horse. | ||
| You're going to flip back the other way. | ||
| And we've got to be careful on the right. | ||
| We have to be careful who we're embracing because these are long-term Trump derangement syndrome haters who now see... | ||
| Mark Zuckerberg. | ||
| Now see the path to Trump paved with gold. | ||
| She lied on Piers, too. | ||
| And Piers actually called her out because he called it because she said, oh, I secretly didn't vote for Kamala. | ||
| Or she said anyone. | ||
| But then it was publicly saying it that she's still supportive with posting pictures and everything. | ||
| And then people went, dug through her Twitter account and said, wait a minute, you have a post that says right here, I voted early for Kamala Harris. | ||
| You did like the mail-in voting. | ||
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That's why you don't trust these folks. | |
| But what I would also say though, and I'll just throw this out, and that's what I love about the war room and Real America's Voice as well, is... | ||
| You don't hear any of those games played around here. | ||
| We don't play that whole, oh, I'm a convert. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| If you're going to platform somebody, let's platform somebody like an Eric Balling, someone who's been there from the start, someone who's got a tried and true record, someone who we understand is on our side, that is fighting in the same direction as us. | ||
| We're not going to play this game of entryism. | ||
| And then because what these people do, and I see I see a lot of this going on right now with a lot of the 2017 or types that come in like, well, maybe I'll be a Trump supporter now. | ||
| And they come in and they act like they have some moral judgment authority, like a moral authority on the rest. | ||
| Well, you can't talk to that person. | ||
| You can't have that. | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| Who are you to be able to say that to us? | ||
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When their side comes over to the other side, either way, frankly, even if it's a Republican who decides, you know, I'm now a liberal, Then the liberal networks will pick that person up because they love to see the food fight. | |
| They love to see a former Democrat. | ||
| They love a good turncoat. | ||
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So it's clickable. | |
| And I said to her, you're just doing this because Fox is booking you like crazy. | ||
| I don't want to book you. | ||
| I think you're full of crap. | ||
| Eric, what you're saying, this is very, very important. | ||
| And this is why independent media, like Real America's Voice, is dominant and is ascendant. | ||
| Because they don't want the food fight. | ||
| They don't want the games anymore. | ||
| They don't want the little cafeteria nonsense. | ||
| Look, we know what Steve says about Fox. | ||
| I'm not going to say it right now. | ||
| But you want the 301. This is 301. This is going back to school, right? | ||
| Liberty. | ||
| This is graduate-level studies around here. | ||
| We don't play those games. | ||
| Brass tacks, numbers. | ||
| That's what the war room is about. | ||
| And look, if someone... | ||
| I'm not saying, by the way, that it doesn't happen. | ||
| If someone legitimately has a conversion and goes, and I'll say this as a Catholic, Brad will love this, does their penance, does their penance, right? | ||
| See, this is why we have that Catholicism, right? | ||
| You do your penance and you show everyone that you're not just Mark Zuckerberg, you know, I'm going to throw a million bucks. | ||
| A million bucks, that guy sneezes and it's five, right? | ||
| A million bucks to Trump and all of a sudden he's feeding around? | ||
| No way, dude. | ||
| No way. | ||
| Hey, you guys, keep going. | ||
| What do you, each of you in a minute, what do you see in terms of platforms coming around the corner in the next few years? | ||
| Anything, I mean, you're about as savvy on the social media platforms out there. | ||
| Well, I think what we're already seeing, I'll say it this way, because you're already seeing it, what the Trump administration and the White House is doing, and they... | ||
| When they brought me over on the trip to Ukraine, they're like, we're bringing Posobiec over to Kiev, and he's going to be in with the negotiations and the peace deal, the economic, the mineral deal with Besant. | ||
| And then Hegseth invites me and says, how could you invite this guy? | ||
| He's a social media. | ||
| He says, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| What they're doing is they're embracing radical transparency. | ||
| So what's happening with media is, and that's through Real America's Voice and through social media, podcasts, etc., they're pulling back the curtain. | ||
| There's no backroom deals anymore because with social media, with the reality, you can put someone in the actual room. | ||
| And what the Trump administration is doing is totally disintermediating all the gatekeepers that Eric is talking about because with the power of a cell phone, you can put someone right in the room. | ||
| So Trump, by doing that, that's why all the Obama bros on the podcast network, that's why they're all freaking out because they're like, wait, why didn't we do this? | ||
| Then they realize they should have done it. | ||
| Outstanding. | ||
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Eric, keep going. | |
| Continuing what Jack just said, Trump revolutionized campaigning, number one. | ||
| He also sped up the process. | ||
| Remember I said the pie shrinks for legacy media by 8% a year? | ||
| I think he pushed that even further by going on Joe, spending three hours with Joe Rogan. | ||
| Kamala couldn't spend five minutes with a reporter. | ||
| He spends three hours with Rogan. | ||
| So I believe the world... | ||
| Wait, wait, Eric. | ||
| Would you have wanted three hours of Kamala Harris? | ||
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No, but she couldn't come up with it. | |
| She didn't have an answer for one question. | ||
| How are you going to fix inflation? | ||
| And Trump would spend three hours talking about everything. | ||
| That was a fascinating interview, by the way. | ||
| But what it did was it kind of showed the world, like, okay, so there's more to media than just watching... | ||
| You know, the big three, ABC, NBC, CBS, and the other three cable networks, networks like this. | ||
| My show is still going to be available on podcasts, as I guess others are as well. | ||
| I think that's where things are going. | ||
| I just wanted to show you guys this real quickly. | ||
| Ah, look at that. | ||
| This is a White House hard pass. | ||
| Trump gave this to me. | ||
| You're rubbing that in. | ||
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Trump gave this to me in 2016, day one, or week one. | |
| Week one. | ||
| I had it for four years. | ||
| When Biden was elected, they pulled it. | ||
| The Biden administration, it's a hard pass, allows you to present to the White House complex and just show it, and you get in. | ||
| You don't have to have a meeting. | ||
| You don't have to have someone get you. | ||
| And he came back and got it. | ||
| And Jack, when they put that new media seat in the briefing room, and they don't start with the AP, by the way, it's Gulf of America AP. They don't start with the AP first question every time. | ||
| It's fantastic. | ||
| When they took your card away from you, did the press report, that's unfair? | ||
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No. | |
| They didn't quite get there. | ||
| They didn't have your back on that one? | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
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I found out the hard way. | |
| I showed. | ||
| Eric, did you see what Caroline just announced this morning? | ||
| Either this morning or last night. | ||
| It's not just new media. | ||
| You know what she's doing now? | ||
| Local media row. | ||
| I love this idea. | ||
| So a whole media row, where I guess it's going to be on a rotational basis, where they're bringing in local media from all around the country, people who would never get a bite at the Apple normally, say, yeah, bring them in. | ||
| Unreal. | ||
| Ben, any last? | ||
| Well, I think I used the wrong promo code for Patriot Mobile. | ||
| I've got to use War Room. | ||
| Which is the Patriot Mobile one when we're on war? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| One of them. | ||
| Just use Patriot Mobile. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We're in the War Room at CPAC. Inner Harbor, D.C. Next year in Texas, we're announcing the Eric Bolling Show. | ||
| 4 p.m. | ||
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every day? | |
| Every day at 4 before Bannon at 5. We're coming back. | ||
| We're expecting Elon. | ||
| I think he's wrapping up. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon's on the main floor. | ||
| Maybe back in the shop. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
|
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| All right, back with the great Stephen K. Bannon War Room at CPAC this year. | ||
| The Washington Harbor Gaylord Hotel. | ||
| Make your way down. | ||
| We're in the basement room. | ||
| We got in a little trouble last year. | ||
| We're making too much noise and being too rowdy. | ||
| Dungeon, Dave. | ||
| Dungeon. | ||
| I think we're in the dungeon. | ||
| I think we got Stephen K. Bannon coming up to the main stage. | ||
| Mike Lindell is with us. | ||
| We'll be coming back to him to sell some pillows. | ||
| But here we go. | ||
| The great Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Main stage at CPAC. Here we go. | ||
| Give him a round. | ||
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Yo! | |
| What a glorious day! | ||
|
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Hold it. | |
| How did I draw the card to follow Elon Musk? | ||
| Come on, man! | ||
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You bring out the world's wealthiest guy, Superman, I'm supposed to follow it? | |
| I'm just a crazy Irishman. | ||
| This is a glorious day. | ||
| You know why it's glorious? | ||
| Kash Patel is director of the FBI. Confirmed by the United States Senate, as was Bobby Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hexeth. | ||
| Didn't they tell you it couldn't be done? | ||
| The mainstream media say it couldn't be done. | ||
| None of them, right? | ||
| It's a glorious day. | ||
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Mitch McConnell. | |
| Mitch McConnell's gone. | ||
| He retired. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You did that. | ||
| Remember on the Ukraine vote? | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| You broke. | ||
| He broke his pick on that. | ||
| You delivered that. | ||
| Just like you delivered Tulsi and Bobby and Pete and Ken. | ||
| He said Trump wouldn't get any of his cabinet members as key. | ||
| He got them all. | ||
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Why? | |
| Because of you. | ||
| Scott Besson today said Elon's group, in the first 30 days, found $55 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse, right? | ||
| $55 billion. | ||
| That's going to add up to $600, $700, $800 billion. | ||
| In one month, they've done that. | ||
| And President Trump comes that day, he's so excited, he says, hey, I think we can balance the budget. | ||
|
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Right? | |
| President Trump, hang on for a second. | ||
| Let's just get it down under a trillion. | ||
| We'll start there. | ||
| Zelensky's been put in his place. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Right? | ||
| And the J6ers are here at CPAC. All of them. | ||
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From the medium-high security prisons to the U.S. penitentiaries to the men that got diesel therapy, all of them are here. | |
| Right? | ||
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They don't like that up there. | |
| You don't like the J6s being here. | ||
| The J6s are here. | ||
| I I talked to Ambassador Rick Grinnell last night, and the J6ers, I think, the J6 choir is going to play the Kennedy Center for a night in honor of their families. | ||
| Hey, and let me tell you something else. | ||
| In fact, I got an idea. | ||
| The night that they play, the J6 choir plays and opens the new, you know, the new... | ||
| We have the J6 choir, right? | ||
| And we invite all the families, they try to destroy the J6ers, and they get to sit in the boxes where the elites sit, right? | ||
| And we take the elite for just one night, and we take them down to the D.C. Gulag, right? | ||
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For one night. | |
| Think they can handle that? | ||
| I don't think so either. | ||
|
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Who's the game? | |
| Game likes game, right? | ||
| Game knows game, right? | ||
| I tell you, it's game. | ||
|
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The gentleman sitting in the White House, Donald J. Trump, it's a glorious day. | |
| Days of thunder. | ||
| Days of thunder and years of lightning. | ||
| Every day is Christmas Day. | ||
| Every day you get more executive voice, more executive actions. | ||
|
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It's not going to stop. | |
| But you know what's the most important thing of all that? | ||
| It's you. | ||
| You're here today at CPAC. You represent the tip of the tip of the spear of the populist nationalist movement. | ||
| All of that from Kash Patel to McConnell leaving, to the J6 being free, right? | ||
| To Zelensky being put in his place. | ||
| And Elon just said it right there. | ||
| It's been nothing but grief. | ||
| The parents and the kids in Ukraine didn't want them to die. | ||
| Who want them to die? | ||
| The globalists want them to die. | ||
| Who said stop it? | ||
| You said stop it. | ||
| You gave voice to President Trump. | ||
| Now, why is it so important that all the media is here and the world's here and the Financial Times of London and the New York Times and all these? | ||
| Why are they all here? | ||
| They're not here to see me. | ||
| They can see me every day on Real America's Voice screaming like a madman into a microphone. | ||
| They can see Rob Schmidt and Elon. | ||
| Elon's everywhere, right? | ||
| It's great he did this. | ||
| He's everywhere. | ||
|
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Right? | |
| J.D. Vance gave a great speech. | ||
| You can see J.D. all the time. | ||
| President Trump's going to give a magnificent speech on Saturday, is he not? | ||
| But they get enough of President Trump every day, don't they? | ||
| Hell yeah! | ||
| He calls them in to the Oval Office. | ||
| He signed an executive office. | ||
| Office of executive orders, and they're sitting there throwing these questions. | ||
|
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Ba-boom! | |
| Ba-boom! | ||
| He's like a Howard sir. | ||
| Oh, they got enough of President Trump. | ||
| You know what they're really here for? | ||
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They're here because of you. | |
| They can't defeat what they don't understand. | ||
|
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Amen. | |
| They can't destroy. | ||
| What they don't understand. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They can't contain what they don't understand. | ||
| From Riyadh, to Beijing, to Berlin, to the City of London, to Buenos Aires, you name it, every world capital, every hedge fund, every political consultant, all the money, all the power, all the legislation, you know what they want? | ||
| They want to understand MAGA. You know why? | ||
| You represent the best of the American people. | ||
| In your righteous indignation, you rose up. | ||
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Right? | |
| You rose up. | ||
| How many times I've been doing this? | ||
| Last two or three years? | ||
| What did I tell you last year on this very stage? | ||
| We're going to win. | ||
| We're going to win the primary. | ||
| We're going to win the general election. | ||
| And Donald Trump's going to return to the White House. | ||
| And all these guys, all the mainstream media, the fake news, mocked and ridiculed. | ||
| Trump's not going to win the primary. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They had, who was it? | ||
| Nikki? | ||
| Nikki Haley? | ||
| Had Governor, and I like Governor Sanchez's life. | ||
| Governor Sanchez dropped out by then. | ||
| I don't remember. | ||
| But it was soon thereafter. | ||
| You had Trump's back. | ||
| You had Trump's back in those dark days of 2021, did you not? | ||
| Remember, he went to Mar-a-Lago, and it was like a lion in winter, and they all abandoned him, except for you. | ||
| And the Schlaps had enough guts and courage to taking the CPAC in Orlando in March, 47 days after he had gone into exile, because, guess what? | ||
| They stole. | ||
| The 2020 election. | ||
|
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Is there any doubt in your mind that they stole the 2020 election? | |
| They stole it! | ||
| And they know they stole it! | ||
| They thought you were finished. | ||
| They were going to debank you. | ||
| They were going to deplatform you. | ||
| You are nothing but trash. | ||
|
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You're nothing but garbage. | |
| You're nothing but deplorables. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You surprised them with Hillary Clinton in 16, and guess what? | ||
| 11 more, 74 million, 11 more than we had in 2016 voted when you won the 2020 election. | ||
| And the reason the J6ers are here and they're patriots is because that was a fed surrection, totally set up by the FBI, by the Justice Department, by all of them. | ||
| And we're going to show the receipts. | ||
| We're going to show the receipts. | ||
| And they thought, Trump's finished, and you're finished. | ||
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No. | |
| I want you to look within yourself right now of that journey. | ||
| Go back to 2021. Go back to your life. | ||
| Go back to the anxiety. | ||
| And man, Trump won, but they stole it. | ||
| The system's so big, so corrupt, so powerful. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| Back on our heels, right? | ||
| You didn't quit just like in any military contest. |
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