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Nov. 22, 2019 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Interview 2 - Donald Trump Jr. (Ep 1118)

In this episode, I interview Donald Trump Jr. about his new book “Triggered” available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/154608603X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZV.1DbBKDY07G   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
Welcome to Dan Bongino's show, our end of the week interview segment.
I am proud to announce today we are going to be interviewing Don Trump Jr.
in just a moment after interviewing his father, the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, last week.
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My interview with Don Trump Jr., and I wanted you to pay particular attention to Don Trump Jr.' 's answer, especially at the end, about his own political ambitions.
I know a lot of you like Don Trump Jr.'s.
I do as well.
I believe he'd make a great candidate in the future.
You're not going to want to miss it.
Check it out.
My interview with Donald Trump Jr., author of the new number one New York Times bestselling book, Triggered.
All right, it's my great pleasure to welcome to the Dan Bongino Show a great American, a patriot, and I'm honored to call him hopefully a friend, Donald Trump Jr.
Don, thank you so much for coming on today.
I deeply appreciate it.
It's my pleasure, buddy, and you can certainly call me that.
Well, listen, we've met a few times.
I've watched you speak.
We've spoken about issues, and I know these mean a lot to you, issues that matter to conservatives.
I'm showing your book here on our show.
Don Trump Jr., the author of what I'd like to add is the now number one New York Times bestseller, Triggered.
I'm three quarters of the way through.
I have a number of questions on the book.
But just before I get to that, Don, I was just listening to your dad on Fox & Friends, a great interview.
He was kind enough to come on our show last week.
And, uh, I mean, just a kind of a personal question.
I know the audience, I get this a lot.
You know, how's your family holding up under this just relentless assault?
I mean, we're in the middle of hoax three.
That's what I said.
I mean, I talked about it in the book, which is I was the number two target of hoax number one, right?
The original hoax that started, you know, let's call it November 9th, 2016, the day he won.
It's, you know, it's sort of, it sucks, obviously, Dan.
I mean, it's no fun, it's this kind of thing, but the reality is, you know, we get the genes to program to fight, and that's what we did, and that's what we've done all along, and that's what we'll continue to do.
And, you know, again, the American people are seeing it.
I'm reading an article on the way into work this morning, you know, Democrats holding an impeachment party in D.C.
It's like, well, what happened to them taking it very seriously?
It's a terrible and somber process, Dan, because I keep hearing that from them.
But it's one big joke for these guys.
Ukraine's a big problem all of a sudden.
It wasn't a problem when Russia invaded Ukraine.
It wasn't a problem when Russia shot down a passenger airline under Obama's watch.
Those things, that wasn't a big deal.
We're not going to do anything about that.
We're not going to say peep.
But Trump had the conversation.
It's just insane.
But again, they've overplayed their hand so many times.
I mean, you've said this so well throughout that the American people no longer give these guys any credibility.
I put up a tweet yesterday which literally goes, and it's over for Trump.
You know the first time they said that?
January of 2017.
Okay, about moments after the inauguration.
The Washington Post wrote the first, the article, the case for impeachment, in quotes, on exactly 19 minutes after he was sworn into office.
After the inauguration, that's about the amount of time it took Obama to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
It is disgusting.
It's going on under our eyes.
The corruption at the high levels of these institutions is disgusting, and we gotta do something about it, and we will keep fighting.
So, yeah, it's no fun, but, you know, we all have the Trump gene, and we like to fight.
Well, you know, it's interesting.
Nobody seemed to care, and I'm holding up the paper article here because liberals have a tough time with digital.
Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire from Politico, the infamous now Ken Vogel piece.
Nobody seemed to care about Ukraine then either, Don.
I mean, as long as Ukraine and Ukrainian officials we now know documented on the record, it's not a conspiracy theory, were working against your dad, it was practically celebrated by the left.
100%.
But the problem is now they're pretending like this has been debunked.
No, it hasn't.
It's only been debunked because it's convenient for them to say that it's debunked.
But that's the way it works.
There's a double standard in all of this reporting.
The Democrats and the mainstream media are one.
The mainstream media has no longer, there's no longer a pretense of objectivity.
They've just decided, hey, we are going to be the marketing wing.
Of the Democrat Party, we're going to say whatever it is that's possible to do that.
It's why they have no credibility.
They literally... Hey, I was a part of three of the biggest bombshells of, you know, the last two years, right?
Apparently, where I apparently got WikiLeaks before everyone else, because, you know, Adam Schiffer, one of his lackeys, you know, changed the number on the date of the email.
They erased a 1, so a 14 became a 4, so it looked like I had the emails from WikiLeaks six days before, rather than four days after the rest of the world.
Oh, you know how many corrections I got on that one?
Zero.
Then I knew, because Cohen knew, that I told my father about it.
I mean, his own lawyer walked it back.
His own lawyer walked it back and said, no, no, no, that was wrong, that was wrong.
No corrections, no nothing.
And each one of them, oh, we got him now.
We got him this time, Dan.
They're just hoping to get him on anything.
And if only they had the same sort of scrutiny.
Over the people at the top of the FBI.
I don't mean the door kickers.
Those guys, I mean, those guys come up to me on a daily basis.
They're disgusted.
They're like, I can't believe what these guys have done.
I can't believe they tarnish our badge.
And it's not the door kickers.
It's not those guys that are actually doing the real work.
You know, carrying badges and guns.
It's the lawyer schmucks.
At the top, that have been politicized, and it's the same thing.
By the way, you see that with so many of the military brass.
You see that with the Vindemans.
The amount of vets that I know, whether it's the Rob O'Neills we're speaking about it being, this is the guy that we all hated when we were in the military, you know?
It is truly sick, but because he's a leftist, because he's giving the Democrats exactly what they want, he is beyond reproach.
It was Bob Mueller.
Bob Mueller wasn't there because he was a great or competent prosecutor.
Bob Mueller was chosen because they could say, hey, he's the former head of the FBI, Dan.
He's a decorated Marine.
Trump can't touch him.
Trump can't criticize him, even though the process is purely politicized.
Trump can't touch him.
Okay.
Then you put him on the stand and you realize in about 30 seconds, oh my God, this guy's about 30 years past his prime.
He has no idea what he's talking about.
It doesn't even appear as though he read the report that bears his name.
And again, these are why I wrote a book.
I was able to put this thing in long form.
They could take my Twitter account and you can only say so much in 280 characters or less.
So, you know, I put it in 300 pages and so far it's worked out pretty well.
It's been a bestseller for two weeks in a row.
We're talking to Don Trump Jr., author of the book, as you can see here, Triggered, an absolutely fantastic book.
It covers everything from targeting on YouTube, to identity politics, to socialism, to what I might add is Don Trump Jr.' 's version and his story, the inside scoop on what happened with the collusion hoax.
Folks, please pick it up today.
Don, how do you feel about last night, breaking news, obviously a leak to CNN and The Washington Post to take the edge off what I believe is going to be a damaging report I don't want to be hyperbolic, like, you know, see everything to your dad is a bombshell!
You know, I'm so tired of that nonsense.
But it appears it's going to be damaging the IG report.
It leaked last night that an FBI line lawyer may have manipulated evidence against Carter Page to further a warrant to be able to spy on essentially who was at one point an operative inside the Trump campaign.
How does this make you feel?
How about it's about time?
I mean, Dan, go back on my Twitter feed.
I mean, we've all been talking about this.
All conservatives have been suspecting this for so long.
They wouldn't touch these guys because they're above reproach.
Again, you can be John Brennan and you can go lie in front of Congress, and what happens?
Nothing.
But if you're a Michael Flynn, a decorated general or something like that, you screw up because you can't afford their tactics.
Don't forget, their tactics weren't about the law.
Their tactics were about getting people in there long enough.
You know, a guy like Michael Flynn can't spend millions of dollars on legal guys.
To be able to go in there and be able to make sure that they have everything.
So he went in in good faith and probably screwed up whatever it may be and they'll destroy his life for it.
Remember?
He's on the conservative side.
He was on Trump's side.
So he doesn't get the same benefit of being above reproach.
It's not just the FBI.
It's all of these institutions.
And someone's got to start investigating the investigators because it's run amok.
You've seen what's going on with Comey, with Brennan.
The list goes on and on and on, whether it's Susan Rice, whether it's the outrage of last week, which was me apparently outing the whistleblower, even though his name...
His name was in the article that I retweeted, and it's like I'm outing the whistleblower.
I don't know.
I saw him on Drudge four days ago.
We're pretending that we don't know who this guy is still.
What are we, children?
Meanwhile, Don, didn't CNN go hunt down a woman down south who put out a meme about defending your dad?
These are women who are innocent civilians.
Ridiculous.
I mean, so the outrage was that I apparently outed this guy, even though he's on drugs report.
Like I, so I outed him.
They weren't mad that I outed him.
They're mad that once you did people could see, Oh, he was Joe Biden's guest at state dinners.
Oh, he's friends with Brennan.
Oh, he's in the photograph crying like a petulant child.
Outside of the Oval Office the day after my father won.
Like, this guy isn't the quote-unquote humble public servant they're trying to make him out.
He's a CIA partisan hack that's been, you know, that's on the other side.
And they don't like that out there because it makes their narrative go worse.
You could see them crying about the outrage that I was a part of a few weeks before because I was speaking at a conservative conference down in Florida.
Was that there was a meme.
Literally a cartoon meme.
I didn't even see it.
It was shown in a back room on a laptop to eight people.
Literally, like, eight people.
Like, it wasn't, like, played.
And it depicted, like, they put little avatars on a cartoon, like a Tom and Jerry thing, I guess.
And, like, it was violence against the media.
And there's outrage.
Front page of the New York Times, all this.
Outraged violence against the media from conservatives.
But you know how much time they spent on literal Actual assault committed against Trump supporters coming out of the rally in Minnesota that same weekend by Antifa and these guys, like, where people are sent to the hospital?
Zero.
They were upset about a cartoon, but they're not upset about actual violence against Trump supporters.
Because guess what?
If you're a conservative, if you support Trump especially, you know what?
It's okay.
They probably deserve it.
You know, we went from being deplorables to irredeemables and now it's like you know what you're
disposable that's all it is they don't give a crap and so there's a tacit acceptance in there and it's
disgusting what's going on in this country right now when you look at what my father's
accomplished despite this kind of 2020 should be over but it's not because you're on twitter you see the
language on twitter deplorables being kind I mean, you've seen it.
I know you're on there as well as I am.
I mean, the stuff they call us is outrageous.
Can I ask you one question on this, on fake whistleblower?
Because it's not a real whistleblower.
Every time I tweet whistleblower, I always put it in quotes because I'm not calling this person.
They didn't blow the whistle on anything.
That's what a whistleblower is.
You know, what bothers me about this case with the whistleblower is I don't think tactically, typically the Democrats are smarter than this.
Listen, I obviously ideologically share nothing in common with the modern Democratic Party, but they're usually a little more tactically efficient.
I swear to you, Don, I think they should, you and your dad should send the thank you card to Adam Schiff.
His approval rating's up.
His swing state numbers are up.
It's Trump derangement syndrome.
I mean, they can't, they can't think straight.
The hatred is just so visceral.
They can't even imagine, you know, when Adam Schiff, well, I don't know who the name of the whistleblower was in the middle, I don't know, other than I gave them the information, like, well, they both, I mean, they're literally under oath on stage, like, you really don't know it?
Like, I want them to be looked at and prosecuted the same way that if I lied under oath to those committees.
Oh, you'd be in handcuffs in a minute.
I did 30 hours of testimony.
I want them to be treated the same way that I would have been had I lied to those committees in doing it.
Guess what?
That won't happen, Dan.
Because if you're on their side, there's an element of protection.
And the reality is this.
Very few on our side fight the same way that they do.
Very few people go all in.
And that's why Trump has been successful.
Because he doesn't just cave.
He doesn't just fold.
He doesn't just crawl up into a corner and die because the other side would like him to.
That's what conservatives have done for years.
That's sort of the Mitt Romney school of thought, you know, in politics.
That's the Paul Ryan school.
Oh, well, I want to be liked.
I want to get invited to the cool person, you know, holiday party.
It's just very different now, and so it's great to see guys like Lee Zeldin, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz.
These guys that are coming out of the woodwork and fighting.
God knows we need that in our party for a change, and Trump created that.
Well, I think they understand these guys.
And I'm with you, by the way, Don.
I was under the impression in the past, and I still am with respect to, unfortunately, all too many people.
A lot of Republicans up on the Hill are really Democrats, but no Democrats are really Republicans.
And that's been the problem for a long time.
But I think they understand that if they're allowed to take your dad down, and this is unquestionably a soft coup.
Anybody telling you otherwise is Quite frankly, delirious.
I think they understand if this is allowed to succeed, there will never be another Republican president, again, allowed to stay in office because they'll have a successful model.
So you're seeing guys... Well, that's not true for every Republican.
It's just the hatred for Trump is that much more.
They don't like someone who's unconventional.
The reason my father has been successful is he doesn't just follow the talking points from some bureaucrat stiff who's never done anything in the real world, who sits in a place for years but is all of a sudden a subject matter expert, not because they've had any successful policy, whether it's the Ukraine or Russia, they haven't made any strides.
But they're sitting there, and then they're outraged that he doesn't just blindly follow their incompetence.
You know, that sort of Einstein's definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting a different result.
Trump doesn't do that.
He handles things differently.
He always has.
Just look at the way he speaks, look at the actions he's done, and then more importantly, Dan, look at the results.
There's a reason we're getting the results that we have for the first time in decades.
And it's not because he's following the talking points.
It's not because he's following the status quo.
He's not doing what they've done, which is fail, for decades, and that scares them.
Well, we're talking to Don Jr., author of the new book, number one New York Times bestseller, Triggered.
Again, a fantastic book, highly recommended.
Don, in the book, you absolutely slam identity politics.
It's a terrific portion of the book.
And in relationship to that, you and your father have, throughout your life, have committed yourself to causes all over the spectrum, regardless of color, race, creed, whatever, through your charities.
And again, a personal question, but it relates to policy as well.
How does it make you and your dad feel I mean, listen, the Democrats are always concerned about feelings.
No one seems to be concerned about your dad's feelings.
This is a genuine question.
So your father's record, you have record low minority unemployment, black unemployment, Hispanic unemployment.
He has made a concerted, vocal, public effort to recruit minority voters and make them feel welcome in the White House.
And yet the media turns around and disingenuously calls anyone associated with the Trump orbit without any evidence whatsoever.
Matter of fact, with counter evidence, racist.
I mean, probably the worst thing you can call someone.
I gotta wonder, how does that make you and your dad feel?
Well, it sucks.
And the reality is that he's the first conservative to sort of break from those norms.
I mean, you think that prison reform was a Republican talking point before Trump made it happen?
You know, I watched the Democrat debates and they talk about all that injustice.
I don't know, Joe Biden, why didn't you do something about it for the 50 years you were there?
Like, you know, why you're going to do it now?
What about the last half a century?
What would you do?
They talk.
You know, and I see that.
And I mean, hey, I wrote about it extensively in the book, but half the people that are out there leading the charge of racism and all this stuff, I'm like, that's funny.
We weren't so racist when you're having dinner with us five years ago.
You weren't so racist when they brought this finale, when you're hanging out with us backstage, taking pictures back and forth.
You know, I saw that over and over again.
And, you know, my father nailed it.
Tell the story about sort of the last, you know, the last moments that we had with him before he announced, uh, you know, that he was running before he announced his candidacy back in, uh, June of 2015.
And we're going down in the elevator together as a family before he sort of walked over to the escalator to do this sort of, uh, you know, infamous, uh, you know, approach to the mic.
And he just looks at me and he goes, now we find out who our real friends are.
And he nailed it.
No truer words have ever been spoken.
Meaning, he knew exactly what was going to happen.
He knew how vicious it was going to be.
He knew how many quote-unquote friends would turn.
Guys that have said incredible things about his past, all of a sudden now all that's forgotten and they're conveniently hiding away from these things.
Whether it's Alice Sharpton, whether it's Jeffy Jackson, whether it's the rappers that used to write about him and used to hang out with us.
All of these things.
You know, he just knew it.
And what's cool, and what's sort of more the measure of the man, Dan, is that he said that to us before he announced, but he did it anyway.
Meaning, he knew what was going to happen.
He knew exactly what was going to happen, and he did it anyway because it was worthy.
It was important, and it had to be done.
And it wasn't going to get done with conventional politics.
It wasn't going to get done by whoever else would have been the Republican nominee.
You know, if any of the other Republicans up there, how many of them would have stood with Kavanaugh under those accusations?
What, Jeb?
He would have lasted for about three seconds, maybe less, before he rolled over, allowed them to steamroll this guy, destroyed his life, pulled the nomination for the Supreme Court, And moved on.
And then they would have done it to the next guy.
And the next guy.
Because there is no limit to what the left is willing to destroy.
They did it to Kavanaugh.
The only thing I'd ever seen from him prior to that was him working like a soup kitchen every Sunday for the last 20 years.
They did it to a kid like Nick Sandman.
You know, 16-year-old kid who did nothing.
He literally stood, frankly, he had much more control than I probably would have when confronted by that sort of That activist clown, you know, pretending to be a combat veteran.
They would destroy a 15-year-old kid's life.
Why?
Because he's white, because he's male, he's wearing a MAGA hat, he's from the South, and he's a Christian.
That's like the holy grail of leftist identity politics.
We can nail one guy that serves five of those great things that are so terrible In America, we can just ruin his life.
And you know what?
We'll do that to a 15 year old.
Who cares?
There's no limit to what they're willing to do.
No, there isn't.
The moral depravity.
I jokingly call it TDS level six.
I mean, I just fabricated the number because they fabricate the charges against your dad.
One of the things I saw recently, which I found fascinating, is approval ratings in the black community for your father are nearly double what they were even at the high point of prior Republican presidents in the last two or three decades.
So I have to tell you, Don, I don't think the attacks against you, the fake, disingenuous, I would call them, and I mean this, evil, Because there's really nothing worse you can call someone than a racist.
It speaks to a level of ignorance your father doesn't have.
Yeah, I don't think they're working at all.
I know we're short on time, but another chapter of your book, you just fillet socialism and you relay some experiences from family members of yours in Czechoslovakia.
Listen, with this far-left bent of the Democrat party, Elizabeth Warren talking about, at one point, I kid you not, close to 100% tax rates, confiscating the wealth of millionaires, which, by the way, Bernie and Elizabeth are of that class.
I gotta believe this plays well for your father out there, this class warfare strategy the Democrats are engaged in, because that's not America.
America's not an envious, jealous place.
No, 100%, and again, like, I get it.
In 2019, I got a caveat.
Everything I say with yes, I get it.
I'm the son of a rich guy from New York City, but, you know, my mother escaped communism.
As a child, my grandfather was a blue-collar electrician from over there, said, hey, the blessings, the experience, the freedoms that you have in America are so incredible, but you have to see the other side.
And so he took me from like the age of six over there.
I have friends.
I spoke the language fluently.
I used to spend, you know, four to six weeks there every summer, you know, before the fall of communism over there.
And like, I've waited in those bread lines, Dan.
I can assure you, they're not awesome.
Like, it's not this great system.
So I always say, You know, if the Democrats, they'll get up on stage and tell you that $93 trillion, you know, 15 times U.S.
government revenue to stop farting cows and air travel, that's a wonderful plan that will magically pay for itself, like the Green New Deal, right?
They can get someone to say anything, no matter how stupid it is.
They'll get someone to sell it.
How come they don't have someone?
From Eastern Europe who lived under communism, from former Soviet Union, from China, from Cuba, from Venezuela.
How come they can't find one person who's actually lived under communism and extreme socialism who will come here and say, no, no, no.
Let's bring this stuff here.
Let's bring it here.
It's wonderful.
It's been so good for my country.
They can find someone to say anything and they can't find that?
There's literally not a single person who's lived under these systems who will vouch for it and say we should try it here.
And yet it's no longer a fringe element of that party.
I mean, it's always been out there.
But like, now it's literally the leading candidates.
They're all basically socialists.
They're all basically going there.
And my 93-year-old grandmother, who is still alive today, who lived under those systems, and this is not a soft lady, this is someone who escaped, you know, who hid in the basement of her farmhouse.
During the Nazi invasion during World War II for two years.
This is someone who lived under 40 years of communist occupation.
She calls me to this day in tears because she sees CNN over there.
There's no conservative outlet.
You can't let them do it.
It always sounds so good.
Everything's always for free until it's not.
This is a woman who's gone through a lot who's in tears, Dan, for fear of her grandchildren, me.
My kids, her great-grandchildren, for fear that she knows what this bait-and-switch is all about.
She knows what these big government policies do in the end.
She's lived it!
She knows how terrible it is, and she's been through a lot, and she's in tears every few weeks saying, you can't let it happen.
I'm like, trust me.
Trust me, I'm out there fighting.
She doesn't see that because she doesn't get the alternative viewpoint.
But it's scary stuff, and that's my motivation.
It's a powerful part of your book.
Again, we're talking to Don Trump Jr., author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Triggered.
How great does that feel, by the way, to have the New York Times have to put you number one?
I think that's just fantastic.
Oh, man, only to be a fly on the wall when that happens.
They do the whole thing, well, you had some bulk sales.
I go, yeah, you mean the RFC did a promotion where they marked up the book 300%.
They made half a million dollars selling my book on their website to individuals.
I go, But take it out.
I was still double the next number two, so they're trying to create this fake story like I warehoused them, like I bought them somehow myself and put them away, like I didn't buy 71,000 books.
It's ridiculous.
And there's very few conservative books that actually say more than sort of the milquetoast conservative aspect, and so it's been... Listen, I think it bodes very well for us.
I mean, it means that there are people out there that are interesting.
I mean, when the R&T did their email blast, Twenty-seven percent open rate on an email, which is unheard of.
I mean, if you get two or three percent, it's normally a miracle.
But that didn't happen.
So, you know, it's interesting.
And I think it says a lot for 2020.
And again, if you look at the results, If those results are able to filter down to regular people, you know, you mentioned the African-American community, I mean, it should be a no-brainer, but make no mistake, it's going to be hard to get that message down to the final voter, because the DNC has a stranglehold on the messengers.
It's going to be difficult to do it, but they've got to be able to see it.
If they open their eyes, they see the results, they see what's actually happening, and they don't just vote with history.
Same with the Rust Belt.
I see that all the time, you know.
Well, you know, if my grandfather knew I was voting for a Republican, you know, he'd be rolling over in his gravedown.
I'd go, what would your grandfather think about today's Republican Party?
What would he think about what's going on today?
And that's when they're like, oh, you're right.
Like, this isn't your grandfather's Democrat Party.
Don't listen to some of the speeches JFK gave.
You would think they were today's Ronald Reagan speeches.
He'd be all right.
He'd be a conservative Republican.
Liz, I know you have to run to me.
I have two quick questions that we're on.
Again, we're talking to Don Trump Jr., author of the number one bestseller Triggered.
We'll put a link up on our social today as well.
This is a tough one to ask, but given everything that's going on and people in the White House that seem to just not get the memo that your dad won the election or in and around the executive branch, I shouldn't say in the White House specifically, Do you trust the people around your dad, Don?
It just seems like left and right, these swamp rat bureaucrats do not want to accept that your dad won the election, and we have things like this fake whistleblower who blew the whistle on nothing.
The answer is very few.
There are some that I do, but the reality is this.
Hey, like all things in D.C., we've seen that it's a swamp.
People are covering their butts.
They're not going to go all in for Trump, because guess what?
In five years, there'll be a time after Trump where he's not in there, and while if you supported him, then there must be something.
You know, if they try to bring it back to the old norms, Uh, you know, so that's the problem is people are still catering to sort of the swamp.
They're not catering to the president.
They're not following through with his agenda.
That's what we saw all this week where, you know, ambassadors, they're supposed to be delivering his agenda, not their thoughts.
No, no, they're delivering the consensus policy.
And if they go all in with Trump, that means they're going to be hurt later on.
And they're trying to protect that career for later, not doing their damn jobs.
So that part is pretty scary, but that's the hard thing that he's done.
That's the hard thing about coming in as an outsider.
You don't have that Rolodex of people that you've been working with for a long time that you can trust.
So you have to fill up 4,000-something positions in government.
You're doing that, oftentimes, guided by people who don't always have your best interests or want to take care of their friends.
They're sort of in the game.
Whether they were with you or not, they'll pretend they're with you.
So it's a swampy place, and it's pretty difficult.
Yeah, I heard a hysterically consensus foreign policy.
Your dad's the foreign policy.
They should read the Constitution sometime.
Exit question.
It's a quick one.
I get this all the time.
I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you.
I mean all the time from people who love your dad and are familiar with your family.
You have any political ambitions?
I mean, people really like you, Don.
They feel like you're a really strong advocate for the Second Amendment, the Constitution.
They like your go-get-em style.
Any political ambitions for you in the future?
Listen, I enjoy the game.
I like it a lot.
I would never rule anything out.
My reality is my only and sole focus for the next 12 months is getting him back in office because I see the changes that he's making.
I love the damage that he's doing to the establishment institutions that have failed us for so long.
I love having an outsider's voice, so my only focus right now is getting him re-elected.
After that, we can have a conversation, but that's the only thing I care about.
I will waste exactly zero energy on anything other than that for the next year.
Understood.
Totally understood.
Don Jr., Don Trump Jr., author of the great book, Triggered.
Folks, please pick it up.
I can't thank you enough for your time.
God bless you and your family.
I really feel sorry for everything you got to go through, but if this was anyone else, they would have folded a long time ago.
Your dad's got a titanium spine, so thanks for everything you're doing, Don.
Appreciate your time.
I appreciate it, my friend.
Thanks, and be well.
Thanks a lot.
Take care.
All right.
Bye-bye.
All right, welcome back.
I hope you enjoyed the interview.
Glad to hear that Don Trump Jr.
is not ruling out any political ambitions in the future, but obviously his goal is to get his dad, who I support, strongly re-elected in 2020, advance those conservative principles.
We addressed a lot of things.
We covered identity politics, socialism, the relentless attack on his father, the breaking news last night, which we covered on my podcast, our regularly scheduled show, earlier in the day about the FBI employee who altered information.
Just devastating stuff, folks.
Please spread the word on the interview show next week.
We have Brian Kilmeade from Fox scheduled.
I have a bunch of questions from what it's like working there.
His new book about the Alamo, which has some information.
Shockingly, I think a million books have been written on the Alamo.
There's stuff in there that I haven't heard told that way.
You're going to love it.
Check it out next week.
Brian Kilmeade.
Thanks for tuning in, folks.
I really appreciate it.
I will see you all on Monday.
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