Aug. 25, 2023 - Candace Owens
04:58
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| We're not going to get into many of your comments today, but I had a bunch of people tweeting me yesterday asking me about Don Jr. | |
| and Kimberly Guilfoyle because what was running concurrently or actually rather after the debates, Don Jr. | |
| and Kimberly Guilfoyle were there. I actually didn't see them because they were sitting on the opposite side and behind me. | |
| But I then went into the spin room because I was invited to go to the debates by Vivek Ramaswamy's team. | |
| And the way that it works is that if you are invited by a candidate that is on the stage, you get a special colored pass that allows you to then go into the media room thereafter. | |
| And it's only one person that's permitted. | |
| I was also traveling with my assistant. | |
| She didn't have that colored pass. | |
| And it allows you to see all of the candidates that go in. | |
| And they answer questions and their comms teams answer questions. | |
| So people are asking, what did you think about the fact that Kimberly Guilfoyle and Don Trump Jr. | |
| were not allowed into this room because they threw a fit, a figurative fit, not even figurative, a literal fit, talking about the injustice of not being allowed into the spin room. | |
| Let's take a listen to what they said. | |
| Right now, trying to ban people from actually having discourse about politics. | |
| How un-American. Probably shouldn't surprise any of us. | |
| But that's what it is. I've been told by others that I would be able to go in. | |
| So they said we were able to go in. | |
| Then they said they were in now that we're here. | |
| And the candidate that... | |
| Who said you can't go in the spin room? | |
| They're telling me right now, Fox won't let me into the spin room. | |
| That's what the American people should know. | |
| They're telling him, he works for security here, but they're telling him that I'm not allowed to go in there. | |
| Because the candidates that they've been boosting while simultaneously trying to cut down Trump for the last, what, two years? | |
| Didn't perform as they had hoped. | |
| So they can't have someone who can maybe be a representative of my father. | |
| Just like a few weeks ago when I was cancelled after the first indictment, I was scheduled to go on. | |
| And about five minutes before I'm on, I found out I'm no longer on because apparently I wouldn't be a great surrogate to talk about my father's indictment. | |
| Just so we understand what we're dealing with here. | |
| So it shouldn't surprise any of us. | |
| And it's also why... Trump was 100% right to not go to this debate. | |
| It's beneath him, and when you know that you're walking into a setup because of exactly these kinds of circumstances, you understand exactly what's going on in mainstream media, even conservative. | |
| I like to knock the one side, but I've got to call balls and strikes. | |
| This is no different than what we see from the Democrats. | |
| Okay, I want to be first and foremost very clear that I like Don Trump Jr. | |
| very much. He has always been very good to me. | |
| In fact, when I was starting my career, a lot of the events that I did, just because his name was tied to it, I was able to get a lot of people in through the door who probably would have never heard me or attended otherwise. | |
| I just want to make that very clear, that I'm separating my critique of what he just did here from the person, because Don is actually a phenomenal human being. | |
| But this was bratty and privileged, and it was an unnecessary sidebar. | |
| Let's just get a couple of facts clear. | |
| Donald Trump was invited and he was courted to attend this debate. | |
| He declined to attend the debate. | |
| And by the way, I also want to say I think that was the right decision. | |
| I don't know that there would have been an upside for him. | |
| He was treated very poorly at the last set of debates when everything was actually rigged against him, right? | |
| Had his father had attended these debates, he would have been allowed into the spin room. | |
| That's how it works. You attend the debates. | |
| you're allowed into the spin room. | |
| Suggest that your father can not attend the debates, his own decision making, right, | |
| can also run an interview with Tucker Carlson, which got hundreds of millions of views | |
| at the same time as the debate, and yet should still have his surrogates | |
| allowed into the media spin room, even though they were trying to create | |
| an obvious distraction from the debates by running his interview at the same time. | |
| It's just bratty. It's just bratty. | |
| There's nothing here happened. Kimberly in the background saying, is this un-American? | |
| No, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| It's completely bratty and privileged to suggest that you should still be allowed in this bedroom. | |
| Now, if there's something I'm missing, I'll correct the record. | |
| If he was told by a Fox News person, and he had the actual colored card, | |
| that he was allowed to go in and speak on behalf of his father, | |
| which would be utterly nonsensical if you're Fox News. | |
| And I'm saying this as a business person. | |
| It would be utterly nonsensical to allow that. | |
| When you're trying to keep the focus on the candidates that were on stage, then I will recant my statement. | |
| I'll say I was wrong. I didn't realize that someone had personally texted me and said that. | |
| But what I just saw there was a completely bratty sideshow. | |
| It's hyper-privileged. It's not un-American. | |
| It's a private company. They had their rules. | |
| And it would have been amazing if your father was there. | |
| I actually hope he goes to the next one as the candidate field gets smaller, | |
| because he will love to watch Trump. | |
| I'm actually, you know, I got in very late so I didn't get to watch his interview with Tucker, but I'm going to watch it because I absolutely love Tucker Carlson. | |
| And we obviously know that Donald Trump has a way with communicating with people. | |
| So hearing him talk about issues that the American people care about, seeing that he trumped the GOP debate in terms of all the views, all of that is wonderful. | |
| But let's not make what happened on the Republican debate stage about you guys because it just wasn't. | |
| Alright, if you like this video, you are definitely going to like the full episode even better. |
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