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BEHIND THE SCENES WITH FAUCI AND THE NEXT CHAPTER OF MAGA, Trump Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Joins | TRIGGERED Ep.58

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Guys, welcome to another awesome episode of Trigger.
Today we're joined by a great MAGA patriot, Peter Navarro.
Peter served as the Assistant to the President as Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the Trump White House.
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Okay guys, we're joined with the great Peter Navarro, certainly one of the architects of the America First trade policies, someone who has also been persecuted by the Deep State, the Uni Party in D.C.
with the unequal
Uh, systems of justice.
But I think we have a lot to talk about, Peter, because you were there on the front lines.
You were there, uh, you know, guiding an America First trade policy.
And they went after you, you know, like they're doing to my father.
But to start off with, uh, it's clear that the swamp and the deep state, they're not even trying to hide their corruption anymore.
They're not even trying to hide their bias.
I mean, they're basically just coming out and straight at...
Just saying it.
They're willing to destroy the lives of pretty much anyone in the MAGA movement, anyone that gets in their way, either by putting, say, my father and his allies in jail, or burying them in legal fees, or tying them up.
You know, not everyone can defend those things.
It's brutal.
All because they're terrified of the America First movement.
What comes next in your mind?
I mean, you know, they did this to you, contempt and this, and wanted to bring you out in cuffs.
I mean, it's absolute lunacy.
And as someone, you know, it's easy for me to complain about me and my father, but you were another person that, you know, they tried dragging through this mess.
Talk about it a little bit.
What do we have to do next?
Well, first of all, to that point, I'm actually, Don, the first
Senior White House official in the history, the entire history of our republic, to ever be charged with contempt of Congress.
Never happened before, and for good reason, because of the constitutional separation of power.
So, you know, the fact they went after me, the fact they're going after virtually every Trump official and advisor, including up and up to your father,
Indicates very clearly to both of us, I think, that they are deeply afraid of a MAGA agenda, which will return the old slogan in the 60s, power to the people, power to Main Street.
And that to me, what's going on, and what I like to do
Don, is try to distinguish clearly for your viewers between the signal and the noise.
The noise is going to be indictment after indictment after indictment, which is like throwing chum in the water for the MSNBCs and CNNs on the left, but also
The disreputable now Fox News under the Murdoch's with Roger Ailes gone.
It's the excuse to not cover the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the Oval Office, which is what's going on with Biden.
It's like, hey, we don't really have to cover it because we're doing this.
I mean, it's all distraction.
Look at this shiny object over here.
Don't ignore what you're actually seeing.
Yeah, I mean, the cognitive dissonance there, the dual system of injustice, the weaponization, the two-tier system of injustice, whatever you want to call it, Don.
This is like, the myriad of people understand this is fundamentally wrong, which every time a new indictment comes up, your father goes up in the polls.
But all of that is noise compared to the signal.
The signal here, which we can never lose sight of,
Is that this is a seditious conspiracy to prevent Donald John Trump from getting back in the White House in January of 2025.
And look, you mentioned that I was there at the beginning.
I don't think anybody would have bet on me at the time that I would have been only one of three senior White House advisors
That went all the way from the campaign in 2016 to the end.
It was me, Miller, and Scavino, right?
We were the guys who survived because we had a mission, which was to serve the mission of your father.
And the other part of the thing that people have to understand is, historically, this started from the campaign itself.
Trying to take your father out.
This is like election interference, seditious conspiracy, and everything in between.
It starts with the Russia hoax, we go impeachment one, impeachment two, yada yada.
And now we've got like, like, what is it, like four different sets of indictments?
Yeah, four different sets, 75 different charges.
You know, I don't know what, what yesterday added, you know, apparently added or last week, I guess, added.
You know, perhaps the death penalty, but before that, before that, it was already, I think, 460 years, which, you know, even for someone as young and vibrant as Donald Trump is a, let's call it a long period of time.
He's a high energy guy, but that's a long time to wait.
Well, what's, you know, look, what's distressing about the whole thing is that, you know, the strategy is always to throw as many counts at the defendant as you can.
I don't know.
We simply look at, first of all, Brazil.
Bolsonaro was the Trump of Brazil.
He basically lost an election last year that was stolen from him by the socialist Lula, with help from the Chinese Communist Party.
Simple as that.
That was flat-out election fraud.
Bolsonaro gets pushed out.
And the next thing that happens is the judiciary of Brazil
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right?
The Trump of Pakistan met the same fate.
He gets out of office, he can run again, and now he can't run again because the judiciary took him out.
So we come here.
And that's the signal.
This is all about stopping Trump's policies.
And who is it?
Look, who is it that's trying to stop these Trump policies?
It starts with Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the multinational corporations who all want to have insecure, open borders to bring in cheap labor, right?
And offshore
I think so.
I'm almost getting to the point now where I'm going to feel sorry for DeSantis, because the only thing he needs now, he's like a milking cow for the pollsters and political consultants sucking him dry, and good for them.
Oh, well, yeah, I think, what was it, like, 67% or something of every dollar goes to Jeff Rowe.
I mean, it's mind-boggling.
I've never seen it collapse that bad.
I'm watching all of his paid influencers in the last two weeks.
They're literally taking the Adam Schiff talking points.
The Adam Schiff, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney talking points and running with them.
I mean, the flip-flop on Ukraine out of DeSantis.
The flip-flop on the weaponization I saw right after my father was charged.
Well, he's gonna take that out of D.C.
It's like, oh, I remember three weeks ago when he had no interest and he was like, oh, that's not really a problem.
Man, it sucks because I had actually hoped, I had hoped for a lot for him in terms of, I want us to have a deep Republican bench.
To your point about, you know, Bolsonaro, you know, they try to take Trump out, but I want to make sure we have other people that can eventually fill those shoes and run with that same agenda.
But we don't.
We have people controlled by, you know, the billionaires.
We have people controlled
Yes.
And more importantly, you know, they need the money, so they'll do and say anything that they need to, flip-flop at a hat like we've seen DeSantis, to try to keep that money flowing.
And it's like, wait a minute.
Like, I actually thought you were America First.
I thought you believed in these things, but literally all of your influencers are pushing the January 6th committee, like, talking points now?
Because that's what... I mean, it's lunacy.
You know, once that person gets into office and he's beholden to all of these people, do you really think he's going to be America first, or do you think he's going to be, you know, China first with, you know, we'll say a couple nice things about America occasionally, because, you know, that's what I think we get.
Well, look, I had a piece last week in the Washington Times, and it's also in my sub stack, and it was a piece about irony.
The irony being that your dad
He'll go down in history as one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America, ever.
But the irony is that he has created a never-Trump industry
Which is making hundreds of billions of dollars, and it's dedicated to Donald Trump's destruction.
And we mentioned the Wall Street, the Silicon Valley, and all of that.
But you also have what I call the Trump disloyalists.
You know, besides the Christie's and the Haley's and the Pence's, you've got, like, when I was in the White House, Don, you know, I'm serving side by side with Elissa Farah,
in the press shop.
Kayleigh McEnany in the press shop.
Stephanie Grisham in the press shop.
Two or three of them were actually press secretaries.
I'm serving with Bolton.
I'm serving with Mulvaney.
I'm serving with Bill Barr and Kudlow and all of them, Don.
Every single one of them has sold their soul to the never Trump devils in exchange for either fame or fortune.
It's like, you want to get a TV gig on CBS or ABC or CNN?
What do you do?
You sell out Donald Trump.
You lie about it.
And so it's like, it's going to be
It's going to be so important to win this election.
We can never lose sight of what's at stake in November of 2024.
And I think that's why the left is not just doubling down, they're quadrupling down.
And that's what it is.
Not everyone can fight it.
Not everyone has the stomach to fight it.
And the left and, you know, and again, and the swamp,
We'll take advantage of that.
There's no level they won't stop.
They're playing with other people's money.
They're playing with house money, right?
They're using government resources to do it, so it doesn't actually cost them anything.
So they say, hey, let's make their lives miserable.
We'll ruin their families.
We'll make them foreclose on their home.
I mean, you've seen it play out.
I mean, you mentioned your sub-stack column, and you basically said that, you know, you think that Democrats are trying to push us towards civil war.
I mean, for all the unity talk that I heard coming out of Biden during the campaign, it's a soundbite, but then he'll vilify, you know, 75 million Americans, you know, in his speeches and stuff like that.
So it's, you know, like everything else, probably all bullshit, but can you explain
You know, what you meant by that, and what that means, because obviously, you know, it's a big statement, and we got to worry about it.
Yeah, and thanks for mentioning it.
Look, the substack is peternavar.substack.com, peternavar.substack.com.
What I'm trying to do there, Don, with that substack, is provide cutting-edge, like short-form op-ed length
Uh, articles that also become podcasts as well.
And what I'm trying to focus on are two major things.
One is like all things Trump 2024, and also all things how the communist Chinese are trying to take us down.
pieces I had recently in the Substack was this threat of civil war.
The left kind of, their heads exploded when I even mentioned that.
But I was very careful to start it off with polling from very reputable pollsters that say that half are Republicans and a third, roughly, are Democrats.
I think we may have a second
Civil War, and I attribute this to a couple of things.
One is that the American public has lost faith in our democratic system as a result of everything the Democrats did leading into the 2020 election.
You know, before 1980, Don,
We had a system where it was paper ballots and legal ballots counted, and paper ballots with really good signature match and ID verification.
And we never even had to worry about that.
We've morphed into this world of absentee ballots, mail-in ballots, universal voting, drop boxes, ballot harvesting.
The Democrats pushed all of these reforms as a way of legally getting illegal ballots into the voting stream.
So that's one of the things pushing us towards civil war.
But the other thing is the radical portion of the Democrat Party, which controls it and Biden, are hitting us with things that are so offensive to God, country, family, culture,
It's just crazy stuff they're trying to jam down our throats, and we're saying we don't want any part of that.
And it's frightening to think that we could get four more years of that from a fool who can't even stand up the stairs going into Air Force One.
I'm talking about Joe Biden, of course.
Well, listen, I mean, there's no question there seems to be another industry there in creating that strife between the American public.
And I know, you know, Orange Man bad and such, but I don't think a reasonable person could look at where they stand today versus four years ago and say they're better off.
You know, I guess I have an economics degree from Wharton.
You know, I'm not a professional economist, but I can't think of a single metric, not one, where anyone is better off today, whether that's inflation, whether that's interest rates, whether that's, you know, literally anything.
Energy independence, jobs, there's no number.
You know, Joe Biden, I know they're very good at sort of changing the way things have historically been measured to paint a glowing picture, but
You know, but talk about that, because, you know, for all the false and all the things that they say about Trump, like, I don't think anyone could really sell, you know, I see Joe Biden selling us Bidenomics, but I'm the son of a billionaire.
Like, if I'm pissed off when I'm filling up my truck or when I take my kids to, like, a grocery store because I got them for the weekend, like,
Well, look, I'm old enough to remember as an adult, a young adult, the 1970s stagflation.
And what's important to understand about stagflation, which is a combination
Yeah.
Because it just taxes the hell out of you, particularly if you're like a deplorable, right?
You've just been killed.
And the thing to remember about the 70s that probably 99% of Americans really don't realize is it lasted over 10 years, okay?
The 70s are a decade, but this whole thing started in 68.
Lyndon Johnson, it went all the way to 81, 82.
With Ronald Reagan kind of ringing that out and getting us off on a better path.
But it's a very long time of pain.
And when I was in the White House in May of 2020, right, I actually wrote a memo to the Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, that was supposed to go to your father.
I doubt if it ever did, because that's what Meadows did, frankly.
Um, but I warned precisely of stagflation in that memo because I saw how the pandemic was was attacking the resiliency of our supply chains.
I saw how
The urban environment was shifting.
People were going to the suburbs, were howling at her.
And it was just a recipe for the kinds of conditions that we would have.
And so what we did at the time was double up our efforts to bring our supply chains home, which was critical, make them more resilient, take the kind of MAGA steps that we needed to do
And then the election happened, and out your father went.
And when Biden comes in,
He's like a stagflation creator, right?
The first thing he does is surrender our strategic energy dominance, right?
It's like, yeah, you can't be growing.
You can't be on those lands.
No pipelines or whatever.
We get spikes in oil prices, which then go to spikes in food prices, because food prices are driven by fertilizer prices, which is made from oil.
As well as transportation, even though that's not included in CPI.
They conveniently leave that one out.
Yes, they conveniently leave that out.
So Biden does this, so he's creating stagflation there.
And that's what we call cost pushing inflation.
And then he starts passing these multi trillion dollar bills over and over.
And that's demand pull inflation, which is this is like a freight train going now.
I mean, we've had a little spot where it kind of looks like the economy's growing, but it's the eye of a hurricane down because interest rates are not going down for a very long time.
And that's slowly choking small business.
It's slowly choking the corporations who do a lot of deal-making.
And it's slowly choking consumers because it's hitting them with the credit card debt.
And all of this, as your father once said in a famous speech, is a politician-made disaster.
That's binomics.
Binomics equals stagflation.
Binomics equals stagflation.
Repeat after me.
And that's what we got.
You know, campaigns are about powerful, short messaging.
And that's one of the ones I'm going to be carrying.
Look, the other reality here is that two-thirds of the time that Biden's been in office, real wages, which are wages adjusted by inflation, have been falling.
Yeah, wages falling with prices rising is not a recipe for success, and that's my basic understanding of it.
So that's a disaster.
Listen, as someone who was sort of on the front lines of the America first, not China first,
Uh, policies.
Talk a little bit about that.
I mean, you were there with my father fighting the insanity of the trade stuff.
You were, you know, in there dealing with all of that.
Talk about, you know, what was accomplished there as well as how quickly you've seen some of that eroded.
Because I look at this administration, you know, I guess the billion dollar investment in Hunter, you know, is proving to be one of the great returns on investment in all time in the sense that
We're getting an America Last, China First policy.
And you have to wonder, and again, if we had other than regime propagandists in our media, you'd be asking the question, are they making these decisions because China has all of that?
Well, let me start with something that's happening right now that's absolutely frightening as a result of your father not being president.
We've got Rocket Man, Kim Jong-un, in North Korea.
Just setting off unprecedented amounts of rockets and bombs and testing and developing first and second strike capabilities to hit the United States, okay?
And when your father was in office, he went head-to-head and face-to-face with Rocket Man and that little dude, he wasn't doing anything!
He knew that Donald Trump was going to come bust his ass if he pulled any of that crap, okay?
So go back to the beginning.
The way I ever wound up at Trump Tower in the summer of 2016 on the campaign was your dad read my first book on China called The Coming China Wars.
Which was published in 2006, and he happened to say something in the LA Times that it was on his top 10 list, and I reached out to him through RONA, and we began a correspondence, and when time came for the campaign, he was like, fine, Navarro, let's get some China stuff done, right?
And the macro stuff was a bonus.
We're good to go.
China, you are doing what I call the seven deadly sins.
You know, it's the intellectual property theft, the cyber hacking, the subsidies, the state-owned enterprises, and the fentanyl.
Let's not forget the 50,000 Americans they kill every year.
And your father said, look, you stop doing that or I'm going to put tariffs on and effectively begin to decouple from your economy.
You're going to pay.
And so,
We went through a series of meetings.
I was at several of them with your father, with Xi Jinping, first at Mar-a-Lago, and then I think it was in Osaka or Buenos Aires.
I forget which of those G20 meetings.
And your father stood strong.
He stood tall.
And we were able to at least hold China at bay for a while.
Yeah.
And as soon as your father's gone, it's like Katy barred the door.
And here's the thing, Don.
It's like the difference between a democracy like ours and the Chinese bureaucracy is those same son of a bitches that I would sit across the table from and negotiate with are the same sons of bitches that are doing it with the Biden people.
They have continuity.
And the advantage of continuity is they can read who's across the table.
They didn't give us any crap.
They wouldn't dare.
They didn't give Donald Trump crap.
They give Biden crap from the day that Secretary Blinken flew to Alaska for his first meeting with Tiger Yang.
Yeah, you can see the body language.
Janet Yellen's there bowing like we're begging for them to do us a favor.
I mean, we're not exerting or we no longer exert any of the
You know, natural advantages that we have.
It's total capitulation to them.
And again, I imagine some of that's because, you know, they have been bought and paid for.
But watching it happen, watching it transpire is remarkable.
And, you know, so what would be
What would be the first steps that you would do, as someone who's been there, to stop it once we get this back in 2024?
What should America be doing to prevent that threat of China?
And are they this big?
Obviously, they're a huge threat.
I think they're our number one threat by far.
You know, are they as strong as they lead, or is it because, again, the continuity, you know, they're able to wait things out, you know, they get a hundred year plan, this is where they want to be in a hundred years, and they'll steamroll anything that gets in our way, whereas our politicians sell their soul every two years to get reelected, and they'll do whatever it takes, and then, you know, it, you know, there's something about, I don't love most of their system, but there's something, the continuity component, especially if you have competent people,
Well, let's start with the observation that the American consumer is paying for the rise of the Chinese military.
It's scary to me that our
Trade deficit with China is roughly the size of their military budget.
Think about that, Don.
So when we go to the Walmart, the big box retailers and buy that made in China crap, which is what it is, it's like we're essentially funding the missiles and the aircraft carriers and the submarines that China is going to use against us to sink our aircraft carriers and our submarines and bomb Guam.
In the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the South Pacific, okay?
That's kind of the chessboard.
And remember, they're fighting on home turf.
So even if their military isn't as good as ours, we're fighting 7,000 miles away.
Now to your point, what's the first things we do?
I think it's really important.
Your father is like Teddy Roosevelt, okay?
It's like, walk softly, but carry a big stick.
He, you know, as strong as his rhetoric was with Communist China, it was never over the top.
It was just, hey, if you're going to do this, we're going to do this.
And he was convincing enough that they believed that, and that that was the way to go.
What we need to do now, because we know
That's right.
Yeah, they show up with a briefcase of cash, they bribe their way into every rare earth mineral mine, and we're
We're pushing green energy, whether it's the windmills that are made entirely in China or the solar or the batteries for your EVs, all of it 100% controlled by China.
The statistic you mentioned about our trade deficit is roughly their military budget.
I mean, I've actually never heard that amazingly enough, but to me, that's like the strongest
You know, metric I've seen out there to understand, like, why we have to stop feeding into that.
Why we got to either have, you know, create the incentives to do these things ourselves, find other trade partners, not be beholden to China because we can save that, you know, last tenth of a cent because, you know, they're having slave labor do the stuff, again, in less than environmental conditions and against all the sort of
Democrat talking points that are out there.
I mean, these people are doing it ruthlessly.
They're doing it in a corrupt fashion.
They're doing it with slave labor in many cases, or essentially that, in terrible conditions.
You know, I think once we wake up to that, and I think that's a great way of saying it, our trade deficit is what they're spending on our military, that military will eventually be weaponized against us.
Because it's not just their military.
I mean, they're able to get ahead in business because they steal our IP.
And to that point, we've also got to stop our companies from providing
China with a kind of competitive advantage to hit back on us.
If you look, for example, at artificial intelligence, there's a lot of reasons why this is going to be a technology that is going to pose threats to the world.
But the biggest one has to be in military applications.
It just has a dizzying array of military applications.
So why is it
That Microsoft, for example, has been working with the Communist Chinese in research on artificial intelligence.
It makes no frigging sense that we would allow that.
Yeah, it's like why would our NIH and, uh, you know, the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci be funding China's research into basically bioweapons?
I wonder what could go wrong, Peter, what could go wrong?
But this is happening every day and they own
Our biggest companies.
If you want to do any business in China, you've got to just submit and give them all of your IP, all of your technology, all of your trademarks.
So they see and they just start building from there.
No base level work.
It's scary, but we're so beholden to their 1.7 billion people.
We want to get to those markets that our corporations have sold their soul and our country and our future to satisfy that.
Well, let's talk about Zuckerberg and Musk for a minute.
Zuckerberg played a major role in the 2020 election theft because he was the guy funding all the drop boxes in the ballot harvesting.
Here's another stat for you.
I don't know if you know this stat, Don.
Zuckerberg actually spent more money in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania
Yeah.
Okay.
All of his Tesla production over to Shanghai.
In the beginning, it was like, yeah, we're gonna do some of it over there, but mostly it's gonna be in America.
No, no, no, no.
He's won his big bet in Shanghai, and we've seen him go over there, kiss the Chinese ass, kowtow to them, because he knows, as you and I know, that one crossword about Xi Jinping or communist China
And communist China is just going to take his Tesla factories.
And meanwhile, what Musk doesn't understand, as smart as he is, that it's only a matter of time before communist China takes that plant and the technology of Musk, just like the Nazis took the plant from Henry Ford in the 30s when Ford went over there with the same kind of naivete.
And so you've got
American corporations going over there, giving them the technology.
That's one of the seven deadly sins, forced technology transfer, Don.
You know this.
You've said it many times.
It's like, if you want to go play in the Chinese market, you got to give me your technology.
Okay?
That's a death sentence.
I mean, look what happened to GE, one of the greatest corporations in the world, up to the point where it wasn't.
What killed it?
The Chinese taking all of its technology in exchange for giving them some slave labor for a while.
Yeah.
No, it's crazy.
And I think we have to wake up to that a little bit sooner.
And you're right.
There's people that, you know, they say the right thing sort of on TV, but ultimately, you know, we got to understand that they are beholden to those governments.
And, you know, if you're in the battery space, I mean, China owns all of it.
They didn't get those contracts.
Through good dealings or otherwise, they show up with a briefcase of cash to other corrupt countries and they take advantage of that.
If we even thought about doing that, they'd put us in cuffs.
I'm not saying it's right, but we're not playing on a level playing field and we have to wake up to that and or do something about it.
Someone smart I know once basically said that, hey, if you ever found out that, you know, these contracts were, you know, acquired illegally, you should be able to, you know, bring them back, expatriate them, you know, back from these things.
And, you know, China would lose their minds because they know exactly the ill-gotten gains.
Peter, I wanted to, you mentioned AI.
And, you know, obviously there's a lot there.
I had an interesting conversation with Palmer Luckey.
He was the founder of Oculus.
He was the first sort of conservative that ended up on the Facebook board.
They threw him off later because he was a conservative, even though he was like 19 at the time.
But, you know, super advanced tech guy, you know, founded Oculus, sold that to Facebook, yada, yada, yada.
But he was talking to me about AI like five or six years ago.
He goes, you know, the real problem with it that we haven't realized is that, especially China, they'll weaponize this, is at any other point in history, you know, people could get together and they could, you know, rebel against oppression and do that.
But with AI and a camera any corner,
It basically is allowing those governments and those dictatorial regimes, you know, the second two people interact that way.
Before they could ever hit a critical mass, they can end it.
So there's no actual hope for change as one of the scary aspects of AI.
You mentioned the military component.
Are there other things that we have to be thinking about?
Because, you know, I think AI has a lot of benefits.
I think it's going to displace all of our
Well, look, if you look at it from a military perspective, let's suppose that China commands
The AEI Heights.
The AEI Heights, right?
What can it do with that?
I mean, first of all, it can command a whole set of drone armies, navies, and air forces.
You know, it's the war of the machines.
It's like sci-fi writ large.
And it can deploy these kinds of weapons
Yeah.
You can imagine the Chinese AI military completely overwhelming ours.
And that's a real kind of possibility.
The second thing AI can do from a military perspective is totally scramble all of the logistics
Yeah.
They have this doctrine called unrestricted warfare.
To them, it's like nuclear weapons are so like 1950s.
It's like, we don't need that.
But what we can do is we can deploy AI, for example, and merge it with blockchain technology, and go in and de-encrypt all the financial systems of the United States, like in a heartbeat.
And suddenly, it's like, people don't have any money to spend.
Yeah.
Well, listen, it's interesting, you know, I hear, you know, you'd mentioned Musk earlier, you know, I hear him talking about, you know, the dangers and the pitfalls of it, and I agree.
The problem is, I don't think that China or Iran or Russia or our enemies around the world, I don't think they care.
So the problem is, we'll put restrictions on ourselves.
Our enemies will not allow any of those restrictions.
And just by the nature of it, just pure processing power, you lose.
You
You can't win, so I agree with him, but, you know, you mentioned, you know, China will never adhere to a document that they sign.
They'll sign a document, and three seconds later, they'll be breaking it and doing whatever they can, hoping they don't get caught.
If they get caught, they'll start over.
We'll go in there in good faith, pretending that they're gonna do the right thing, and they won't do it, even though they say they will.
And it never ends, so that aspect of it's scary, because, you know, once the genie's out of the bottle, if there's no real way to police our enemies,
I'd love to see the restrictions, but only if they were universal, and they almost will never be.
The biggest restrictions we should have, and the ones that make the most sense, are restricting American companies and American capital from helping China develop AI.
That's a certainty.
We don't help their academics at our universities.
We don't help their companies.
We don't fund their finance.
That's a reasonable restriction, but you're absolutely right.
This genie's out of the bottle, and it's an arms race now.
It's an AI race, and we damn well better win this.
So give me your Fauci.
Yeah, I had brought it up, you know, as an example, but as, you know, you had to sit there with that guy, so give me what you got.
I'm sure our audience wants to hear about it.
I mean, you know how your dad
I mean, if he's ever disappointed in you, you know that's the worst thing that can happen, right?
That's the D word you don't want to go.
So the only thing I would say with my experience in the White House with Fauci is I was disappointed
Cause I, I told, I told the boss to fire Fauci on two different occasions and it was early on.
It was like, um, there's this, this, I think it's rightfully say a historic account, an encounter with Fauci in the iconic Situation Room.
Yeah.
There was resistance among, Mulvaney was against it.
You had these guys who I didn't yet know from the healthcare bureaucracies against it, right?
So I go in the Situation Room, and there's this little gnome of a guy sitting across from me that I didn't know who he was.
I didn't know him from Adam.
And like five minutes in to the meeting, I'm in like this almost angry shouting match with this son of a bitch because he's vehemently against the travel ban and he's giving me no reason why.
He's just saying they don't work.
It's like, I'm going, you mean to tell me?
It's like, we're going to have 20,000 Chinese people come in every day into our country.
on aircraft direct from a hot zone where people are dying left and right, and that's not going to help?
So that was Fauci, and it was like, I didn't know he walked on water at the time.
My takeaway, and what was funny about it was, is he and Mulvaney kind of win that day, but I go that night and I write this memo
That turned out to be as accurate as anything I've ever read.
I said, look, you don't do this travel ban and take other measures.
We're going to kill half a million people.
And it's equally important, not less important, but it's going to cost our economy trillions and trillions of dollars.
And what I did is a classic bureaucratic trick.
You'll love this, Todd.
It's on the record!
Yeah.
How did he become this hero?
His record was terrible.
He'd never done that.
Now, the media made him into, you know, again, I agree with you.
I think he's an incompetent asshole, but like, I think you also probably couldn't fire him.
I think you'd be killed.
They'd have been, you know, Congress would have impeached Trump for endangering Americans for not listening to the deity that they created.
Now, and I know this only because
Trump did not go along with what he wanted a bunch of times.
And when he didn't, it was the end of the world.
They wanted to kill Trump.
He's literally killing people, Peter.
Remember that?
Literally killing families and women and children.
And the fact that your dad didn't fire him, that's why he's president and not me, because he made the calculated judgment.
But the best part of it, here's the best part of this story, Don.
The best part of this story is that at the time,
Fauci knew.
He knew with certainty that that thing came from the Wuhan lab.
And he knew with certainty because he himself had funded gain-of-function research in the lab.
And he was already writing to his academics to get them to cover up what was his sin by propagating this phony lie about it being from nature, okay?
So if he had just come clean, if he had just come clean with your father and the American people right then, we could have developed a much more effective vaccine faster
And we could have held the Communist Chinese accountable for what they did.
And because he lied, and lied, and lied, and lied... Well, he lied before Congress!
You and I... He hasn't been held accountable!
You and I would not get that benefit of the doubt, Peter.
They're putting me in leg irons.
Fauci killed millions of people, literally, and he's walking free.
Go figure.
Yeah.
Well, listen, talking about that sort of, you know, unequal system of justice, it's no coincidence, obviously, that these indictments, uh, magically of Trump, come, you know, the day after major news, uh, happens on the Biden.
You know, the first indictment came the day after he's implicated.
Then, you know, Hunter Biden gets the sweetheart deal with Grant.
You know, all sorts of extra immunity and, like,
Like, why are we giving him immunity for something that has nothing to do with the charges that we already know about that no one else would have gotten that benefit of it?
Next day, more Trump charges!
You know, then you have the Devin Archer testimony implicating Joe Biden in direct involvement.
The next day, more charges.
I mean...
Uh, what's going on here?
When should, or should the House start moving towards impeachment?
Because, you know, I heard a lot, and you heard a lot during the Trump presidency, every little, every time, if he tweeted something, it was worse than Watergate.
It's worse, you know, Bob Woodward and all these clowns, uh, you know, they come out there and do this, but this is way worse than Watergate, and it's like, they're
They're allowing it to be overshadowed by weaponizing their government against their political enemies?
It's mind-boggling, actually.
Well, this is why, Don, this is seditious conspiracy.
I mean, let's think about this.
Sedition is basically
Two or more people working to overthrow the government.
Now, the government they're trying to overthrow is the one that Donald Trump will form in January 2025, but that's sedition, or at a minimum, election interference.
And the conspiracy is, this is what we have to find out once Donald Trump's elected, is like, Jack Smith, who's he talking to?
Okay?
Or is he operating in a bubble?
Merrick Garland?
And then is Garland talking to Biden?
Or somebody over there?
And what about the FBI?
The FBI put Stephen Halper, an ex-CIA guy, as an informant into the Trump campaign in 2016.
I mean, what?
So, this is what we have to find out.
This is the worst kind of sedition, and these people need to be held accountable for it.
So, you know, I always say, you know, coming into, you know, politics, this wonderful journey we've got to be on for the last seven or eight years, I always say, you know, as ruthless as business could be, it doesn't even compare to the abuses and corruption in politics.
You know, the stuff we've seen against my father, my family, and his allies, the inverse response, you know, for the Democrats and actual, you know, corruption, you know, the people who,
You know, at the FBI, who lied before Congress, nothing happens, they get rewarded with jobs as talk show hosts and pundits on CNN and MSDNC.
They didn't get the treatment that you or I would have gotten.
Talk about how, you know, you've been a victim yourself in all of this.
Virtually everyone in my father's corner has been.
You mentioned leg shackles.
They literally wanted to put you in those for not going along with their nonsense.
And now going after the president himself.
These charges last week about the new January 6th stuff.
Because they didn't do it two and a half years ago when it happened.
They just see him rising in the polls.
So now is when we have to throw more on there to do it.
Well, look.
When I was in the White House, my primary mission was to help your dad create jobs, primarily manufacturing jobs.
I was the manufacturing czar, as it were.
And for the first three years, he did a heck of a job at that.
And, you know, I personally can claim at least partial and sometimes full credit boots on the ground for doing things like saving the Philadelphia shipyard or helping to save
I mean, that's what we did.
And then the fourth year, I became effectively the quartermaster during the pandemic.
I saw it sooner than just about everybody in the White House because, I don't know if you know this, but back in that book I was telling you about, The Coming China Wars, I actually wrote that China was going to create a pandemic.
I forecast that.
So when this stuff started happening, I spent all my time
In 2020, like bringing home our supply chains and making sure we had all of the PPE, the ventilators, that was one of the great feats of Donald, John Trump, is to go from a series, all of that, right?
So like, if in ordinary times, I get out of the White House, it's like, hey, maybe, maybe people show me a little respect, TV, maybe welcome back in academia, maybe a corporate board or something.
It's like, no, I wind up getting hounded, hounded, absolutely hounded by the Biden FBI and DOJ.
And the story with the FBI, I mean, it's, it's, here's the thing, you can't make this up.
It's like, I live in an apartment, Don, in Washington, D.C.
on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Okay, I go out on the balcony, and I look to my right, and it's the FBI.
I look across the street, it's the Department of Justice, and I look across the street a little more to the left, and it's the National Archives.
And all three of them, all three of them,
Either trying to put me in prison, or prosecute me in some way.
And so, what the FBI did when they arrested me, is instead of calling my attorney, as I asked them to do, and having me walk across the street to their headquarters, or being cordial about it,
They let me get on a plane with a loved one, go out to Reagan Airport, sit there for an hour, and then they take me down with five armed FBI agents in a gangway.
Slap handcuffs on me, wrap my arms behind my back, and like, throw me on the backseat of their little car, take me in, and kind of roughly process me there, and it's like, yeah, yeah, take off your necktie so you don't hang yourself, you take off your belt so you don't hang yourself, put yourself in leg irons, and it's like, there's comical moments.
I'm going, really?
Is this what you really want to do?
Is this this guard?
I mean, he's a nice guy.
But he's walking fast down the jail cell aisle like I'm supposed to follow him.
I go, wait a minute, you can't walk very fast in a leg iron.
And they're proud of the fact that they put me in the same cell that John Hinckley was sat in when he shot Reagan.
It's like, okay, there's a pretty good moral equivalence there, guys.
And it was all designed to punish
And intimidate me and maybe turn me against your father.
I mean, that's what it was about.
Yeah.
They did the same to Roger Stone and to Steve Bannon and anyone who's a powerful voice in that movement.
You know, meanwhile, Hunter Biden, they call, they give him advance notice, then they can't do the search because once they've had the advance, like, it's, you know, again, I hope that people just wake up to these patterns because, you know, there's no coincidence in any of this, obviously.
Don, look.
You lived a life which appears to be both highly successful, ethical, and honorable, okay?
You're a good son, okay?
Contrary to what they say on CNN.
If you had done what Hunter Biden had done, can you imagine how you would be treated
Okay, you'd be like, you'd probably be locked up in Guantanamo.
That's what I say.
By the way, if I acted like Hunter, DJT would put me there himself.
Yes.
Deservedly so.
So, I mean, look, I mean, you're, you're the, I mean, I'm not bad as a poster guy for, for this dual system of injustice, but, but I got to play second fiddle to you.
I mean, all the, all the testimony, all the crap they throw at you, it's just like, it's just, it's just,
And the American people, look, ultimately the American people understand that this is wrong.
Yeah, I think so.
I think they get it.
I think they get it because... Yeah.
You know, and amid all of this, Trump is actually getting stronger and stronger in the polling.
I mean, that's, you know, I think initially it was designed, you know, to make it look, oh, well, maybe we got to get away.
Then it became so egregious, so excessive, so over the top that, like, ordinary Americans, even those in the center, they're like, wait a minute, wait a minute.
I'm watching Never Trumpers be like, listen, I don't like the guy, but this can't stand in America.
Because they're smart enough to realize
That if they can do it to Trump, they can do it to anyone.
If they will do it to Trump, someone who's got a huge soapbox, the power of beans to be able to push back and fight, who won't they destroy?
I think we've watched.
The FBI, whether it's what they did to you or whether what it is do they do to a school mom who's concerned and goes to a PTA meeting and say, hey, I don't want my kids being indoctrinated.
Oh, you're a domestic terrorist.
So, you know, with all of this and Trump getting stronger, what do you think's going on in this primary?
Is it over?
Are the other candidates there just to, you know, waste
Resources that could be used to defeat Joe Biden because, you know, they're ultimately establishment clowns and there's no, you know, there's no consequence, right?
If they lose, they'll get some sort of ambassadorship and if they can stop Trump from taking it over, you know, that's okay and the ends justify the means?
Well, look, when I was in the White House,
Going into 2020, sitting in the Oval with your dad and you'd have people come in and blow smoke, you know, where say everything is going to be cool.
It's like, I was always the person who would say, this is going to be tough.
I don't care what the national polls say, it's all about the battlegrounds.
And what I think is, right now, if you held it today, it's over.
But please understand, Don, there's going to be an October surprise, a November surprise, a December surprise, a January surprise going into that first primary
In South Carolina where they already have the deck stacked.
This is another thing I wrote about in my sub stack.
It's like you've got Nikki Haley and Tim Scott is the favorite son and daughter there and you've got a state and DeSantis is going to try to pick people off and so they're going to try to break his momentum early and then there's blood in the water.
I think that that the most important thing right now is just
He keeps doing what he's doing.
He's putting out tough policy pieces.
And he's banned Donald Trump, who is the master communicator.
And he will not let his foot off the accelerator this time.
I don't think he ever has.
And we just got to go forward, Don, like this is a dogfight.
And yeah, it's going to waste resources.
And you know, look, these people are... Chris Christie, to me, is like the most despicable person associated now with that primary as of face.
Of course, all the money that's behind him and all of the left-wing press and the Fox that puts him on TV all the time, even though he's got like 2% in the polls, it's like, this is what's going to happen.
And so, you know, I'm the guy who says,
You know, just keep doing what you're doing.
The American people are behind you.
They understand your message.
And the difference between him and people like DeSantis, DeSantis can try to steal.
He can try to steal everything that Donald Trump stands for with a speech in New Hampshire like he did last week.
But people understand that Donald Trump actually did it, and DeSantis doesn't mean it.
It's just as simple as that.
Yeah, they've seen the flip-flops.
But that was interesting.
You talked about sort of a January surprise, a December surprise.
I mean, most of the time, we think of the October surprise in a general election.
But you're actually talking about sort of the games that the Republican establishment will try to play in the primary.
Not quite, you know, a little less than a year in advance of the general.
I mean, break that down a little bit further, because again, we always think of, you know, the October surprise in terms of a general election.
But what are your thoughts?
What are the games that are going to be played in the primary?
Well, let's talk about how the Democrats illegally won the 2020 race.
It was lawfare, Don.
They went in and over a sustained period of time changed all the rules.
Yeah.
In California, they've tried to do it proportional.
It's like California has the largest amount of electoral votes.
Those are the kinds of games they're going to play.
They're going to come up with new alleged scandals.
They're going to come up with new indictments.
You know, we still got the Fulton County folks going.
I wouldn't be surprised if the RINOs and the Democrats under Katie Hobbs out in Arizona try some crap.
And it's just, it's going to be the proverbial crap storm.
I'm leaning up to that.
But what's interesting to me, Don, is the public
Every time this happens, the public sees through it.
And I hope they just keep seeing through it and keep getting disgusted, not just with the Democrats, but with these rhino Republicans.
I mean, Chris Christie.
I mean, that son of a bitch.
How dare he?
How dare that son of a bitch do what he is doing?
I saw him.
I remember the last time I saw him was in the East Wing working on debate preparation
with your father and that son of a bitch was terrible at helping your father and he is he's just a lame ass no good guy who's like taking money from rhinos and and just he's on some kind of ego trip and that's what but that's what we're up against
Yeah, well, you know this.
He says all the things that he's going to do differently.
What he doesn't say is that Chris Christie was in charge of the Plumb Book, that actually put so many of those rhinos and never-Trumpers in positions of power in the Trump White House.
That was his job on the transition committee.
He genuinely thinks he's going to be different.
Some of the initial, I'll say it, you know, bad hires were because we trusted people like Chris Christie who did have a little bit more inside knowledge and put in those people.
That's not Trump.
That's on him.
You know, there's thousands of people to fill.
And so, you know, this notion that he's going to do it differently and better, like, wait a minute, like you're, you're the root cause of half of the crap.
It's a, it's sort of special to watch.
Yeah, a little breaking news for you.
I've never really talked about this or had to talk about it, but I remember during the height of the pandemic when I was trying to get enough masks and thermometers and other PPE and everything.
I'm working hard on that.
Chris Christie at one point is calling me
And he's like a lobbyist pimping some kind of client.
You know that's all he was.
I mean that's all he is.
You know I still, my favorite moment of Chris Christie is that guy sitting like a whale on the beach.
During a lockdown, he's sitting there getting a suntan when everybody else in New Jersey can't go to the beach, and his poll ratings fall to like 9%.
I mean, he's never recovered from that, nor should he.
Yeah, no, it's, uh, yeah.
You remember that picture?
Oh, I, uh, hey Peter, some things you can't unsee, uh, unfortunately.
So, uh, yeah, no, I remember that picture.
It haunts my dreams, uh, but it, it's my motivation to work out as often as possible, but so I got one more for you.
I got one more for you, because there's lots of speculation that Biden's going to be replaced in 2024 somewhere.
I mean, I think Biden really, he gives the deep state and the Democrats everything that they want.
I mean, he's sort of a useful idiot that way.
I mean, he doesn't have to be cognizant.
All he has to do is be able to sign a piece of paper that they stick in front of him.
How much incentive is there really to replace him if he's doing the bidding?
I think Obama would have wanted to do the things that Joe Biden is doing.
He just wasn't willing to destroy his reputation to do so.
So I feel like these are almost Obama plans for America, but they could care less about Joe Biden and his legacy.
Well, I'm surprised he's lasted this long, but I can explain why.
I said early on, even before Biden was inaugurated, that he wouldn't last more than half the time, but it was premised on Kamala
A far better, better job than she's even come close to, right?
If she were, like, popular and competent, they would have, like, gently nudged him out already.
Yeah.
Because, you know, the Hunter thing, the stumble up the stairs, all of that stuff.
But I do think that, ultimately, they... See, the same deep administrative state, Don, that's trying to take your father out,
We'll probably turn on Joe and use Hunter as a way to do it, right?
There'll be a deal cut and, you know, Hunter will get his pardon and Joe will walk away.
And the question then becomes, is it Newsom or Michelle or whoever?
And, you know, that's a whole nother speculation.
I mean, all we can do right now is keep doing what we're doing, which is support Donald John Trump,
With our MAGA Republican agenda, fend off the rhinos, repudiate the Dems, and key point now, this dual system of injustice, which I think is really a strong argument right now, particularly to the independents, who just, I mean, they're just up in arms over this.
I'm glad.
I lied.
That was the second to last one for you.
What's your best Trump White House story?
You were there with him on a daily basis.
You saw the BS that he was being served.
You saw his reaction to all of that.
What's your sort of best Trump story from your time in the White House that can
Well, look, let me just say generally that one of the things I love about serving in the White House, which was generally a very arduous kind of existence every day, was
Watching your dad hold court in the Oval when we were debating like a critical policy and he'd have like eight or nine of us around the Resolute Desk and he'd have people calling in on the phones and we'd be debating things and it was like this beautiful symphony orchestra with him as the conductor leading everything and
He's so warm and funny to kind of the deplorable people, but at the same time, he could finish people's thoughts and then cut them off and move on to the next person in a heartbeat.
So that I love.
I guess my favorite story is when we went head to head
The two times with Xi Jinping, the first time was that was in Buenos Aires, and we watched Xi Jinping, the most powerful person in the world, according to him, literally kowtow to President Trump.
I mean, it was a thing of beauty.
It was like, wow, this is how
Yeah.
Yeah.
Talks about how the American military basically was responsible to drive the Japanese out of China during World War II.
And like, Xi Jinping like went ballistic and he like, he just went off on this long rant and, you know, just
All but pounding the table, right?
They're like, no, no, no, it's the brave people.
It's like total bullshit, right?
Total revisionist histories, they say in China.
And the fun part was when we walked out and your dad looks at us and his eyebrows are up and is like, yeah, yeah, that's who that guy is.
That's who I thought he was all along.
And sure enough, that's who he was.
Well, that's awesome, Peter.
Listen, thank you for what you're doing.
I look forward to spending a bunch of time with you in the coming next brutal 18 months going on the campaign trail.
But thanks for always holding true to those American values, the America First policies, everything that you did.
You're a true patriot.
And hey, guys, go check out his sub stack.
Follow him there.
I think you can learn a lot that you're not going to learn from the regular sources.
So, Peter, thanks so much.
It's always great to be with you, and I look forward to seeing you in person in the not-too-distant future, my friend.
Hold fast, stand tough, and say hi to KG for me.
I'll do that, buddy.
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