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Energy Independence Lost
00:03:07
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| There's so much happening on the world stage right now. | |
| You are sorely missed. | |
| We are watching what's unfolding in Ukraine. | |
| You were so tough on Putin. | |
| You made us energy independent. | |
| You were tough on Nord Stream 2. | |
| You went to NATO and said it's time for these countries to defend themselves. | |
| What do you think right now of the media trying to say that you weren't tough on Putin? | |
| Well, it's a corrupt media. | |
| We have a very corrupt media in this country. | |
| I think I've done a few things in terms of exposing that, to put it mildly. | |
| They are absolutely terrible. | |
| They don't want to talk about immigration. | |
| They don't want to talk about election fraud. | |
| They don't want to talk about a lot of other things. | |
| And then they'll give you the opposite narrative. | |
| There was never anybody tougher in Russia than I was. | |
| And I would say that Putin would, if he was being honest, he would say that. | |
| The sanctions I put on. | |
| I was the one that ended Nord Stream. | |
| Exactly. There was never anybody even close. | |
| I mean, Nord Stream to them. Nord Stream 2 was the biggest thing. | |
| Nobody ever even heard of it until I came along and complained. | |
| And then I shut it down. | |
| And there was never anything so big that happened to Russia shutting down Nord Stream 2. | |
| And then Biden came in and he opened it up almost immediately. | |
| I couldn't believe it. And now we are where we are. | |
| It's a disgrace. The other thing, we are, and were just a little while ago, energy independent. | |
| We were producing more energy by far than Russia or Saudi Arabia. | |
| We're going to be double the size of both in a very short period of time, probably by within 12 months. | |
| But we were energy independent for the first time in more than 72 years. | |
| And that was a killer for Russia because we brought the price of energy down. | |
| We were down at $30 a barrel, $32 a barrel, $40 a barrel. | |
| And actually much less than that for a period of time. | |
| And nobody had ever seen anything. | |
| And that was certainly tough for Russia and other countries because they had to go out and they had to compete with those prices. | |
| And now they're making a fortune with what's going on. | |
| And we're buying energy from Russia. | |
| Right. Is this crazy? | |
| So now we're at $112 a barrel and it's fluctuating. | |
| We're funding this war. | |
| You made us energy independent, which also made us safer. | |
| And I don't think a lot of people understand. | |
| And you said this on the campaign trail a lot. | |
| We have to have manufacturing in this country because what if we go to war? | |
| We need to have energy independence. | |
| You also said at CPAC you're the only president in the 21st century where Putin did not go | |
| after land. | |
| He did it under Bush. | |
| He did it under Obama. | |
| He's done it under Biden. | |
| What do you say about Biden taking this Russian oil? | |
| He took over Georgia. | |
| He took over Crimea. | |
| He took over. | |
| Now he's taken over. | |
| It looks like he's taken over the world the way Biden talks. | |
| And during my four years, in fact, I watched Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd the other day, which | |
| is not often that I watch him. | |
| And he asked, I guess, Blinken a question. | |
| How come this didn't happen during the four years that Trump was president? | |
| And you know what the answer was? | |
| I don't know. But I can tell you why. | |
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Beijing's Ambition On Taiwan
00:00:43
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| We were very tough on Russia. | |
| And they knew this would never have happened had the election not been rigged. | |
| This would have been So easy. | |
| And by the way, that includes China because China is going to be making a move soon, in my opinion, on Taiwan. | |
| And Beijing is up for grabs if you look at it. | |
| China is going to make a move, and a very strong move on Taiwan. | |
| And I would say sooner rather than later. | |
| Now the Olympics, I was saying after the Olympics, now the Olympics is over. | |
| They see what fools we made of ourselves in getting out of Afghanistan the way they got out. | |
| I got it down to 2,000 soldiers and the rest was easy. | |
| And there's never been anything so mishandled, so bungled, so incompetent. | |