Bet on a Trump Rally: From Wildwood, to Wall St, to Main St, Live with Legendary Investor Scott Bessent | TRIGGERED Ep.136
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Guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
We're changing things up a little bit today.
We're going to be doing a deep dive into the world of finance and how the markets are going to be affected by this election in November.
I'm going to be talking with Scott Besson.
Scott is one of the top fund managers on Wall Street.
He's the founder of Key Square Group and actually, you guys,
You guys are gonna appreciate this.
Actually, used to be the Chief Investment Officer for the Soros Fund, as in George Soros.
So, uh, I'm sure he's probably under NDA about some of those things, but we can figure out what's going on with some of that investment.
So I think it's gonna be, uh, fascinating.
I think we can do a deep dive into a lot of the stuff that we're probably curious about that rational people can't even imagine right now, given what Soros is funding out there.
So, uh,
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
He's not a leftist.
This is gonna be a great show, an interview, and later I'll also be taking your questions live.
He has got a hard out, so I'm gonna do news of the day.
We're gonna get to Scott, then I'm gonna take your questions live because there's a lot going on.
Going on.
Obviously, you had Michael Cohen on the stand today, so I think I probably have a relatively unique perspective onto everything that's happened there and what's going on.
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And with that, folks, let's get into some of these top headlines.
Alvin Bragg.
The Alvin Bragg case.
It reached the peak of absurdity today as Michael Cohen took the stand.
As a refresher, just for you who don't know who Michael Cohen is, here's CNN.
CNN!
Like, the Communist News Network explaining his, let's just call it, less than stellar track record with the truth.
Who's lied to Congress, who's lied in court, who's lied to the IRS, who's lied to the Southern District of New York, who lied to his banker.
You know, the entire prosecution witness team has been lied to by Michael Cohen.
Guys, seems like a wonderful star witness, okay?
This is who they're hanging their hats on.
Like, when you've lost CNN, just so we're clear, when you've lost CNN in the witch hunt against Donald Trump, it's probably a problem, okay?
Choosing Michael Cohen to serve as a witness, not just a witness, but the star witness, is like choosing Joe Biden to jump over the hurdles in track and field at the Olympics.
Or, like hiring Keith Olbermann to be your anger management therapist.
It's not gonna work out well, even a little bit.
Cohen is uniquely qualified to tell the truth.
Just kidding.
Not even a little bit, okay?
That's what they're gonna try to tell you.
But despite literally serving prison time for lying, despite being disbarred, despite being discredited and embarrassed on a world stage over and over again, he's the star witness there.
Today, during his testimony, Cohen said that he couldn't remember how old his son is or how old he was when he started to work for the Trump Organization.
But somehow,
Magically, folks, he remembers other extremely small details from decades ago.
I mean, I don't know.
If you don't remember how old your son was, you're probably not gonna remember the little details.
But hey, in the communist show trials, what difference does it make?
He literally claimed today that he had to take out a home equity line of credit to afford a $130,000 wire transfer.
That doesn't make sense.
Okay?
Cohen lived in, like, an $8 million apartment.
I know that because I sold it to him.
Something else is going on here.
Okay?
That's not normal.
Cohen also admitted to prosecutors that he would secretly record my father without his permission.
Uh, doesn't seem like the thing a, uh, credible lawyer would do, but he only did it in this one instance, is what he says.
And then, he only did it to protect Trump.
Really?
Maybe the other recordings were probably exculpatory, so they probably just magically disappeared.
I have a feeling if you do it once, you're probably doing it more than that.
Minor details, you know?
The DA, they also lost some of the conversations between him and Stormy Daniels and the phone records.
They just magically disappeared!
Because that's what happens in a show trial, folks.
Here's good friend, Senator J.D.
Vance, who is literally in the courtroom today.
Listen to what he has to say.
Witness so far in my couple hours in there.
First of all, Michael Cohen is the prosecution's star witness.
This guy is a convicted felon who admitted in his testimony that he secretly recorded his former employer, that he only did it once, allegedly, and that this was supposed to help Donald Trump.
Reasonable, sensible person believe anything that Michael Cohen says.
I don't think that they should and I actually think that his testimony is going to hurt with any reasonable juror and hopefully we have a few of those.
I want to say two other things here very quickly.
Number one,
The thing that the president is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative.
The judge inside, his daughter, is making millions of dollars running against Donald Trump, raising money for Donald Trump's political opponents.
The number three person to the Department of Justice, Biden's Department of Justice, left to become a local prosecutor to go after Donald Trump,
And of course there's Alvin Bragg, a Soros-funded prosecutor who promised to go after Donald Trump and now is doing exactly that.
Now look, whether you love Donald Trump, whether you like Donald Trump, or whether you're a Democrat or don't care about politics, what's going on inside that courtroom is a threat to American democracy, ladies and gentlemen.
The problems with this case run deeper than just Michael Cohen.
Even Bill Maher.
Bill Maher!
Like, not exactly a conservative, though I guess he's made a couple interesting points over the last year.
It's sort of like the arsonist calling the fire department, but Bill Maher, of all people, did some investigative reporting this weekend.
He showed how Stormy Daniels, her story has changed rather dramatically over the years.
In other words, she lied on the witness stand.
Listen to what she had to say to him back in 2018 and juxtapose that to what she said last week on the stand.
They're not the same.
They're not even close to that.
Okay, but you say it's not a Me Too case.
It is not a Me Too case.
I mean, I wasn't assaulted.
I wasn't attacked or raped or coerced or blackmailed.
They tried to shove me in the Me Too box to further their own agenda.
And first of all, I didn't want any part of that because it's not the truth and I'm not a vixen in that regard.
That's not what she's saying now.
Uh, she's talking about he was bigger and blocking the way.
It's all the Me Too buzzwords.
She said, uh, there was a power imbalance of power, for sure.
My hands were shaking so hard.
She said she blacked out.
Blacked out?
She's a porn star.
Listen, there's so much commentary I could give to that comment right now, but that's just gonna get me in trouble at, like, the family dinner table, but, like,
There's so much I could say about that, but I mean, think about that.
So now, he's blocking the door.
You'd think they'd say that, you know, six years ago when it first started and she was doing her publicity tour and trying to, you know, but again, when the two star witnesses are a convicted liar, a disbarred and disgruntled attorney, and a porn star who's also changing their story, you probably don't have that much of a case.
We also learned on Friday that Alvins Bragg's office tampered with evidence.
I'm shocked!
It's almost like all of these cases are doing the same thing.
I know, guys.
It's shocking.
I know.
You didn't see this one coming at all.
One of the district attorney's paralegals admitted on the stand.
On the stand!
That Bragg's office deleted three pages worth of phone calls between Stormy Daniels' lawyer, Keith Davidson, and Michael Cohen.
Why would they do that?
Huh?
That's strange.
It's almost like they don't want to actually know what happened in those conversations because, again, liar's gonna lie.
This is insanity.
How on earth is this not a felony?
Committed by Bragg and his minions.
Any other lawyer in the country would be disbarred.
Imagine this was my father's team?
What they would do to them?
It sure would be a problem if Team Trump did it.
Alvin Bragg also has still not explained to the jury what the alleged underlying crime actually is.
I figured that was a basic tenant
Of the way our legal system is supposed to work.
It's like they're gonna wait till the final stuff is presented, and then they're gonna say, well, maybe we can figure out how to back into this guilty verdict.
I mean, think about that.
They haven't even alleged what the underlying crime is.
It doesn't matter.
Even across CNN, again!
Again, like I said, you know, it wasn't an anomaly.
They're losing CNN across the board.
They were saying this.
They were saying that Michael Smirconish made the exact point earlier today, okay?
On CNN.
And he's not alone.
Fareed Zakaria also even knows what's going on.
He literally admitted that this case would not have been brought against anyone else.
Anyone other than someone named Donald Trump, this wouldn't happen.
This is Fareed Zakaria.
Not exactly a conservative.
Not even a moderate voice on CNN.
Listen to what he has to say.
...keep him in the spotlight, infuriate his base who sees him as a martyr, and even may serve to make him the object of some sympathy among people in general who believe that his prosecutors are politically motivated.
This happens to be true, in my opinion.
I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.
A majority of Americans are skeptical that Trump will be able to get a fair trial, according to a CNN poll.
But it didn't stop there, folks.
Zakaria went even further.
Basically coming clean that the election interference has failed, and that voters are rejecting the insanity of Bidenomics.
They're not actually not going to believe their lying eyes.
They see what's going on, and they're rebelling against Democrat stupidity, insanity, and corruption.
None of this is playing out as I thought it would.
Trump is now leading in almost all the swing states, but behind those numbers lie even more troubling details.
As someone worried about the prospects of a second Trump term, I think it's best to be honest about reality.
I understand that polls are not always accurate, but in general they have tended to underestimate Donald Trump's support, not overestimate it.
I doubt that there are many shy Biden voters in the country.
And we're seeing this, guys.
We're seeing it in poll numbers across the country.
Today, from the New York Times alone, the Siena survey, they show that Joe Biden is down in five key swing states.
In fact, in Nevada, Joe Biden is down by 13%.
I'm surprised it's not down by 100% because of this moron, but you know, you still have to...
You still have to get through some of the noise.
Whether in the Nevada desert or at the Jersey Shore, Americans are making it clear.
They want Donald Trump.
They want to put an end to this lunacy.
They want to put America first.
They want to live in a prosperous nation.
They want their children to be able to thrive and live the American dream.
And they all understand that that will not happen under Democrat rule.
They understand that would be an impossibility under Joe Biden.
Just look at the massive turnout of nearly 100,000 patriots in Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday to watch my father speak.
This is a rally in New Jersey, right?
This isn't Alabama or like, you know, deep red country.
This is a blue state.
At least it's supposed to be.
And yet, it's the largest Trump rally of the year.
People have had enough.
They're sick of it.
Now, rallies are great.
They feel awesome.
It's so important for people to understand you can go out there and show your support.
I think success begets success.
Other people understand you don't have to hide in the corner anymore about your support, but
Guys, we have to turn that into actual votes.
The Democrats are going to show up with ballots.
Whether they're legitimate or not, I don't think they care.
They're going to show up with it anyway.
We have to beat the margin of fraud.
The Democrats have no shame.
They won't say, you know, we can't cheat that badly because no one's gonna believe that we weren't able to roll this guy over the finish line.
They couldn't care less.
There's no decency there.
They will do what it takes to win and to hold on to power.
Joe Biden couldn't get 100 people to go out and watch a speech.
Who would want to be associated with Joe Biden?
Biden stands for open borders.
Endless wars, high inflation, a destructive economy.
He promises to raise your taxes by letting the Trump tax cuts expire.
My father will cut your taxes and not raise them.
Instead of a Biden tax hike, I'll give you a Trump middle class, upper class, lower class, business class, big tax cut.
You're gonna have the biggest tax cut.
The Democrats' response to this is to attack voters.
They've stopped trying to convince America that Joe Biden is a good president.
After all,
Honestly, like, who's gonna believe that?
You just, you know, you'd have to be pretty stupid.
But they've just given up entirely.
It's just too big of a lie, even for them.
So, instead, they claim that voting Republican, you're somehow ending democracy.
I mean, that's quite an ironic claim.
That a vote, literally a vote for the person you want to be president would be anti-democratic.
But Morning Joe, you know, these people are imbeciles.
Watch for yourself.
So there's no mystery here.
So there is absolutely no mystery here.
So anybody that votes Republican and doesn't understand you are voting for the end of democracy.
Yes, if you vote Republican, you're voting for the end of democracy.
I mean, you know, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, but it doesn't have to.
It's MSDNC, right?
That's what they do.
Remember, it's totally democratic for the party in power to be using their power, to be using their Department of Justice, to try to imprison their political enemies, to censor them, to suppress them, to place gag orders on them so that people can't defend themselves anymore.
That's totally democratic, probably according to the same morons on MSNBC, but
People are voting Trump because under Joe Biden, they are poorer and they are less safe.
For example, Iran.
Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terror, just reportedly bragged that they've obtained nuclear weapons.
Now we'll wait and see what the details are, but the fact is that our adversaries are emboldened as ever under Joe Biden.
Guys, that's the nature of predation, right?
Predators pounce on the weak.
America is exuding weakness.
When you put Joe Biden on a stage, or on a flight of stairs, or at a teleprompter, what you see is utter incompetence, weakness, and stupidity.
It's feckless.
Our enemies watch it, they see it, and they act accordingly.
They are taking advantage of America right now because they know they can get away with it.
And get this, guys.
According to a local news site in Virginia, an illegal immigrant just tried to break into the Quantico Marine Corps base.
Potomac Local reported that two men in a box truck tried to force their way onto the base earlier this month.
The outlet reported, one of the individuals inside the truck is a Jordanian foreign national who recently crossed the southern border into the United States, and that one of the occupants is on the U.S.
terrorist watch list.
Terrorists that have come here across our wide open porous border because of Joe Biden and Democrat policies are literally trying to take over marine bases in box trucks.
What's going to happen when they come to your neighborhoods, folks?
Because they will.
Seems like a big deal to me.
Seems like a lot more than just a local news story.
Where is the national coverage?
That's the problem.
Big Tech, mainstream media, they are doing the bidding of the Democrat Party.
They are going to make sure that no one actually ever sees this.
It's why I need you guys to hit the like button.
I need you guys to pass this along.
I need you to send it to your friends so they can see it.
Because until I was doing research for this show,
Digging way down the rabbit hole, I had no idea that that had actually transpired.
You would think it would be the biggest story in the world.
If it was a bunch of red hat wearing MAGA Republicans, it would be a story.
But when it's terrorist watch list individuals who come here across Joe Biden's open border, taking advantage of our ridiculous policies,
Nothing to be seen here, folks.
We're just gonna hide it from you and pretend like it never happened.
They're literally trying to brainwash you.
They're manipulating you into thinking that things are alright when they are not.
We have to put an end to this insanity.
Meanwhile, folks...
At the Department of Veteran Affairs, Joe Biden is practicing racism.
Shouldn't surprise you based on his history, but the Washington Free Beacon reported today that the VA is offering race-based training programs that exclude white veterans.
These include programs meant to deal with trauma.
One VA official said that equity means realizing that treating everybody the same might not be enough.
Let me say that for you again, okay?
Equity, guys.
Equity, according to them.
This is in quotes, literally.
They're saying it out loud.
They couldn't care less.
Equity means realizing that treating everyone the same might not be enough.
It's why the DEI programs are destroying great American companies and doors are falling off, planes at Boeing and wheels are falling off, and eventually they'll be falling out of the sky, but you know, hey, equity!
Wonderful.
We will guarantee outcomes despite merit or any other things that would make any kind of sense whatsoever.
I'm pretty sure he's just describing state-sanctioned discrimination, and I'm pretty sure that's illegal.
But again, in this Justice Department, nothing's going to happen about that.
And lastly, guys, a few closing thoughts before we get to our interview.
I visited our good friend Peter Navarro in federal prison in Miami on Saturday morning early.
He's in good spirits.
I think they're treating him pretty well there.
They're not treating him so well in D.C.
He's in prison.
He's in prison while he's still under appeal in the presidential immunity case.
So you're under appeal, but they throw him in prison anyway, because they want you to suffer.
It's not, let's get to the result and let's see what actually happens once the legal system plays itself out.
It's important though, that we show our support for the people who've been wrongly persecuted by the Biden administration's witch hunt against conservatives, against MAGA, against people who are American first,
Peter did nothing wrong.
He was the architect of our China policy.
He was tough in our trade practices.
That helped us grow our economy and put our enemies in their place.
I understand that's a cardinal sin in Washington, which is why they're going to go after him this way.
His only crime was being an effective advocate for America First policies.
But, you know, I went down there early on Saturday morning, despite being, I guess, I was 48 hours out of my knee surgery.
But, again, I think it's so critical that the people who are fighters, that they understand that we are with them.
You know, send them letters, do whatever you can.
You know, he's got a couple more months left in there, even though he's under appeal.
So he could be found totally innocent, but guess what?
You don't get those four months of your life back.
So it's really important.
We got to do the same across the board for those who've been persecuted against us.
So I guess it's also a reminder of why we need authentic America First candidates up and down the ballot in November to end this madness once and for all.
So if you're watching this from West Virginia, make sure to get out there tomorrow and vote for Patrick Morrissey for governor.
He's a great patriot.
He's the MAGA candidate.
He's the Attorney General
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He's going to be a great candidate.
He'll do a great job.
He's got a primary tomorrow.
He's going to do what's right for West Virginia.
Get out there and support him as well.
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With that, guys, joining me now, founder of the Key Square Group, Scott Bessett.
Scott, good to have you, man.
How are you?
Oh.
You on mute?
There we go.
Thanks for having me.
It's all good.
It happens.
I do that about four days a week, so it's all good, man.
How you doing?
Good, good.
Here in your old hometown?
Yeah, it actually almost looks similar to my view.
It sort of looks like Central Park heading north, so I guess I was probably a little east of you there, but a similar view to my office.
Yep.
Well, you know, 27 stories up, it's nice.
Down in the street, it's kind of falling apart.
Yeah.
You know, I noticed that it's sad.
I was there, uh, you know, last week, just, you know, kind of quick in and out.
And you're right.
It does not, it does not feel the same.
It's gotten to the point where I was walking around.
I'm like, you know what?
I grew up there with my whole life.
And if you told me I couldn't come back, perhaps the only thing I'd miss is the food.
Otherwise I'd be like, you know what?
You can have it.
Yeah.
I'm with you.
So Scott, you know, you've talked about the stock market.
One of the things that's perhaps the anomaly is that, you know, I see the stock market, I see where it is, you know, and I'm like, it doesn't make any sense to me.
And you've actually said that the stock market's done so well because of my father's, you know, dominance over Joe Biden in the polls, you know, corporate America saying it's like, okay, hey, we're going to have a chance to actually survive this.
Can you get into the details of that?
Because again, where the market is relative to what I see,
Across the country, sort of the pain, the suffering, inflation, what interest rates are doing to people.
It doesn't seem to jive or make all that much sense.
Right.
So, Don, let's go backwards from there.
When you said, you know, the pain and what you're seeing is, you know, with the Biden economy, what's really happening is this great, I call it the great bifurcation.
And we've got a two-tier economy and the top 20% have never done so well.
And, you know, I'm talking about wage earners, asset earners, and the bottom 50% are just getting schmeisted.
And, you know, it's the opposite of when your father was president.
You know, when your father was president, capital did well, labor did well.
The bottom 50% of wage earners had, you know, real wage gains.
They had real household net worth increases.
The top end did just fine, but in the Biden economy, the top end does great, big companies do great, but the lower half and small business is doing terrible.
And when I call this the Trump stock market rally, it's based on two different factors.
One is the market focusing on November 5th, and President Trump's policies being restored when he wins, and the Trump tax cuts being extended or made permanent, energy independence, light-touch regulation, and some semblance of order overseas.
But the other thing that's equally important is the Biden apparatus is now panicked.
And I tell you that completely inappropriate speech that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave in Arizona on Friday saying that democracy was at risk.
You know, she is panicked that Biden is behind, and so she is flooding the zone with liquidity.
She's shortened the U.S.
debt profile.
She's adding short-term risk to try to get her guy, you know, to
Hobble across the finish line on November 5th.
You know, bad for the country, but short-term good for the stock market.
So, you know, we're in the Nirvana portion right now, so markets focusing on Trump pro-growth policies, and then the Biden economic apparatus just pumping in, you know, anything at all costs to try to get him across the line.
So, you know, I'm reading about, you know, Joe Biden, he wants to let the Trump tax cuts expire and then raise capital gains tax to 44.6%.
I mean, it seems sort of scary.
I mean, what effect would that have long term, but also what effect would that have
You know, in the next year.
I mean, I think if that's coming, hey, if that's coming next year, I mean, do people just sort of, you know, dump all their stocks, take the sort of realized gains right now at a lower long-term capital gains rate, rather than risk that?
Does that happen practically?
What do you think goes on with all of that?
Yeah, no, look, I think that you framed it really well.
I think the market would be in for a shock.
I'm sure you remember better than anyone, in November 2016, with your dad's surprise, it didn't surprise me, but surprised
We're good to go.
The opposite of that, I think the market would go down and just stay down in the event of a Biden win.
And to your point, it would be the largest tax increase in history if the 2017 Tax Cuts and Job Act isn't renewed.
And this is already with the, you know, there's not much gas left in the tank.
As you said, is we're running these gigantic budget deficits.
We're running a 7% peacetime budget deficit.
Never done it before is 7% not a war, not a recession.
And this is so fiscally imprudent.
And, you know, they're doing anything to try to help Biden.
And, you know, these crazy policies.
So, you know, I think
That, you know, we could have real market drama, you know, November, December, if Biden wins.
Yeah, I mean, you know, because you sit there and you're like, hey, you don't want to react like that.
You want to sort of long term hold.
You know, I'm a real estate guy, right?
So I'm holding differently.
By the way, the inflation sort of works well for me because that's what happens to those kinds of assets.
Even if it's sort of, you know,
Perhaps only nominal, not real, because the inflation gets you in other ways.
But it is scary to think about that, because why would anyone invest in anything if your capital, why would you take a risk if your potential gains, especially for holding long term, are going to be so penal?
And if that's coming, the people who have those sort of, let's call it gains in place, but have been holding,
I could see them dumping everything, and that works fine for a person who's able to trade that way, but people who have 401ks, people who are tied into the markets, people who have long-term pensions, those pension funds aren't going to liquidate, but I could see that being a serious problem for a lot of that sort of unfunded pension liability, etc., that's out there in the country for blue-collar, hard-working Americans.
Well, you know, you know, just just for starters, we'd get, you know, an immediate 10 or 15% sell off just based on the corporate tax rate dropping and, you know, interest rate, excuse me, tax rates going up, earnings going down.
So, you know, that's just for starters.
And then, you know, there's all the regulatory uncertainty.
And Don, I'm not going to put words in your mouth, but I think you agree with me that whichever candidate wins in November, he has a mandate that for Trump 2.0, everything that your dad's been put through,
When he goes across the finish line and wins on November 5th, he will have a mandate.
But if somehow Joe Biden is the winner, he will have a mandate for super progressive policies that the majority of the country doesn't want, and bad economically.
But, you know, he's going to double down on them.
Joe Biden win will be proof that, you know, fiscal irresponsibility, high regulation, you know, this Green New Deal, which is just going to, you know, a giveaway and doesn't help production, unfettered immigration.
They're going to double down and the market will not like that.
And, you know, add in, you know, as you said, the, you know, globally,
Uh, you know, everything that's going on is whether it's China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela is, you know, they're all going to take it as a all clear symbol or the all clear sign to keep doing more of what they're doing.
Yeah, no, it's scary.
And I mean, I think it puts our long-term prosperity at incredible risk.
I'm curious, you know, just because I keep seeing it today, what do you make of some of these, the meme stocks like GameStop and, you know, people doubling back down into all of that?
Is that just noise?
You know, what are your thoughts behind it?
Why now and again after, you know, after everything we've seen, how is that going and what do you make of it?
Yeah, what I make of it is the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell keeps saying he's going to cut interest rates because financial conditions may be tight.
When you get speculation like this, this is not a sign that financial conditions are tight.
It's a sign that they're too easy.
There's a ton of speculation.
It just tells me that there's a lot of liquidity out there, and people are willing to kind of shoot the moon in an effort to try to stay ahead.
I came to the conclusion over the weekend that Biden is lost on the economic issues.
Is the American people will never trust this administration, I believe, to handle the economy.
Given the great inflation that happened, given what's happened to interest rates with mortgages, people under 40 despondent that they're never going to be able to own a home.
And look, I think it's a combination of policy is not too tight, and people are desperate.
They want to shoot the moon.
If you make 65% in GameStop in a day, maybe you can buy your starter house.
It's interesting.
Yeah, no, I guess that's what it's just, it's the ultimate gambling.
And you sort of want to see these guys win, but I see it also with a lot of the conservative stocks, you know, the few that are out there, whether it's, you know, again, you know, Public Square or Rumble or, you know, probably, you know, DJT.
I'm not allowed to talk about that because I'm on the board, but like,
You see sort of a lot of almost artificial short selling trying to prevent those guys from being able to succeed.
You saw that sort of in the original GameStop, right?
The big guys took on the little guys.
Ultimately, it's a waiting game.
They had billions that they could sort of wait it out.
And, you know, ultimately, you know, what do you see there?
Because it does feel like if I look at some of these, you know, the few conservative stocks that are out there listed,
You look at revenues, you look at earnings, you look at everything, you compare that to another stock that's out there that's, you know, let's call it more progressive, and their valuations are so much more.
They don't have that same negativity around it.
Is there a reason for that?
Look, I you know, I I think there's a general bent in terms of mainstream media reporting is you know, I I can talk about DJT and You know, I I would say that the media coverage is definitely biased is you know There are all these other growth stocks that are supposed to be you know These incredible Silicon Valley darlings that don't make money for two three four or five years and then they come out swinging on
You know, DJT's revenues or projections, and, you know, it's not balanced coverage.
So, you used to be Chief Investment Officer for the Soros Fund.
You know, I know in the live chat, I get that a lot.
You know, obviously, it's someone who's funding, you know, a lot of stuff that certainly my following doesn't understand, doesn't believe in.
It seems like you're a conservative guy as well, so I'm curious what that was like, and perhaps, what was he like?
Yeah, it is.
Look, George Soros was one of the world's greatest investors, and unfortunately for our side, he applied that to, you know, politics.
And I feel like, myself included, a lot of us got caught flat-footed.
And look, you know, George is strategic,
He is ruthless, and he is persistent, and he just kept trying until he worked out this formula, whether it was with the district attorneys or all these dark money groups.
Everyone asks me, why am I coming out now into, you know, politics?
And, you know, one, it's I see what's happening with Bidenomics, or, you know, as I call it, Bidenitis, and the economy.
And two is, you know, I've seen it from the inside, and I know how that machine works.
And, you know, I want to use my resources to try to do the same thing for our side.
But, you know, we've got to catch up.
We've got to be mindful that this could happen at any time.
And, you know, I think we're seeing groups like Moms for Liberty
Who have pushed back in a similar fashion and using similar tactics.
So, you know, I think that our side just has to be as strategic, as ruthless, as smart and well-funded.
Yeah, and listen, for those watching in the live chat, you know, obviously you're going to be under, you know, NDA, there's only so much you could say, but what do you think sort of drives that worldview?
You know, when you have someone
It feels like they're trying to create chaos.
It's not, you know, about liberty or fairness.
I mean, you know, defund the police, let criminals out, make sure that, you know, rapists and murderers are released immediately.
What drives that sort of worldview?
I mean, I think Elon basically said he just hates humanity.
I don't know if you agree or not, but, you know, as someone who spent, you know, a lot of time in the area, you know, what's the upside for that?
I mean, you know, he has children or a child, I guess, and, you know,
What's gonna happen, I guess, are they just powerful enough that they can have armed guards and live behind walls that they don't actually have to ever see the pain that's ultimately inflicted into the places where these policies, you know, are put into effect?
Yeah, look, I think in general a lot of people at a certain level become very detached and, as you said, move around kind of like heads of state with security and armed guards.
And George Orwell had this great saying, you know, it's an idea so stupid only an intellectual could believe it.
Um, so, um, you know, I can't say much more than that, but I, you know, some, some of these things that, you know, it just, it boggles, it boggles the mind that anyone, you know, would think this would work.
One of my favorite books is the Stanford Hoover Institute intellectual Thomas Sowell.
He, he has a book called The Vision of the Anointed.
And, you know, I like his phraseology, the anointed, and there's certain people in the world who just think that they know better, you know, it's this elite attitude, whether it's in COVID and, you know, foreign policy, like these are the same people who think that they can dictate military policy to Israel, that Israel doesn't know how to fight their own war, that
It's just a stream of endless crisis response and failure, and there's rarely any accountability.
Don, I think the real word is accountability.
You and I, we're business people, we have accountability.
At the end of the day, the politicians are accountable to the American people, but there's a whole group of, whether it's policymakers, the donors to these organizations, and there's no accountability.
Yeah, I mean, listen, I think the best example I saw, I guess, you know, video clips over the weekend where Biden's economic advisor, I think his name's Jared Bernstein, he was literally getting mocked for totally stumbling over, you know, if you're in that position, you're an economic advisor to the President of the United States.
I mean, he just totally botched a basic question on how money works.
How much of these issues are actual policy, and how much are personnel?
Are they just sort of like, hey, he was a bundler and he raised us a lot of money.
It's sort of like, you know, Anthony Blinken became Secretary of State because he's the guy that corralled the 51 intelligence officers to say that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, even though anyone with a brain realized it wasn't.
You know, are they just putting incompetence in these positions?
Because like,
Man, I don't do anything like that, and I feel like I would have done a significantly better job answering that question.
I mean, just basic economics, he just didn't even seem to understand it.
And yet, this is someone who wields a lot of power in this economy, in this White House, and to not have a basic understanding of these things seems truly scary.
Yeah, look, it was a shocking interview, and there's a lot about it that I found shocking.
He was asked a question on modern monetary theory, and look, if someone had asked me that question, I would have said, look, MMT, as it's known, is neither modern, nor monetary, nor theory.
It's the idea of just uncontrolled spending, it's been around forever,
It's not monetary.
It's fiscal.
It's the government spending.
And it's not a theory.
The Biden administration did it.
They ran big deficits.
The central bank, the Federal Reserve, bought the bonds.
And, you know, so it's, you know, I would call it ancient fiscal practice.
And this is why we've got this.
This is why we had this great inflation that the American people have never recovered from.
Yeah, how do you assess, you know, speaking of some of these policies, again, you know, when we're talking meme stocks, you know, I can hear the printers whirring in the background, you know, printing more money, but how do you assess Jerome Powell's performance?
Do you think he's ever going to lower interest rates before November to try to sort of help
Help Joe Biden get across the finish line.
I feel like they're playing so many, you know, short-term games.
You know, eventually you have to pay the piper, but they don't really care as long as they get what they want.
They'll deal with it later.
They'll print more money to get out of it.
You know, it doesn't matter what that does to America, our purchasing power, or anything.
You know, what do you think's going on there and what would you do differently?
Yeah, well, first of all, the Federal Reserve or central banks, their greatest resource is credibility.
People have to believe that you are inflation fighters, and your local population, global population, and we've seen that the
I think so.
And I have a contrary view about what Jerome Powell's doing, is I actually think he may have done in President Biden by trying to help him too much.
Interesting.
Again, if you do it too much and too soon, you actually reap the negative side of the pot.
You may get the little bump in the short term, but you actually may get the negative while people are still awake and before the election.
Exactly, and that's what happened is, you know, I had an editorial on Fox Digital last week, basically called Jerome Powell Ate the Marshmallow, which, you know, the famous marshmallow test is for children, and are they able to exercise self-control?
And, you know, postpone gratification.
And, you know, I actually think that, you know, the Fed, having lost a tremendous amount of credibility, fell to the American people in 2021, did one of the fastest interest rate hiking cycles in history.
And so we cruise into late fall of
23, inflation was dropping, but economic growth was flattening out, and Jerome Powell walked out of the FOMC meetings in November and December.
The FOMC statements were very anodyne, very middle of the road, but he goosed
We're good to go.
I actually think if he hadn't done that, probably he could be cutting interest rates now.
And, you know, it's back to my earlier point that by loosening financial conditions, who benefits from that?
It's the top 20 percent.
And the bottom 50 percent is getting run over.
So, you know, in Biden's America, you either own assets
Or you have debt.
And if you own assets, you know, Jay Powell and Janet Yellen are pumping up asset prices in like this unstable equilibrium.
Or you have debt and the interest rates are high, and we've now seen the credit card delinquencies of 30 days.
Just hit a record.
They're three and a half percent of all credit cards are now delinquent.
That is the highest that they have recorded since they started keeping the statistics in 2012.
It's appalling.
Yeah, I saw a stat the other day.
It was like 43% of small businesses are going to make rent this month.
Like,
That's, I mean, how, I mean, that's not sustainable.
I mean, that's not, that's not like something that goes away one month or just by, by luck.
I mean, that, that, that's a serious problem.
I, I mean, I love the analogy of, you know, ate, ate the marshmallow because, you know, for those of you who don't know, it's sort of the, you put a kid there, you give them a marshmallow, it was like $10,000 and you, you know, they choose the instant gratification of, of the marshmallow.
I, I've used it as an example, you know, in my memes,
We're good to go.
It's truly scary.
And we're already seeing that play out before the election, which, you know, I guess good for us, but it becomes a much larger problem to try to fix because the more you do this, the further down the hole you go, the harder it is to get out.
Yeah, and look, you know, there are all these kind of spurious stories of, you know, whether President Trump would fire the Chair Powell and all this.
You know, I can tell you, if I were Joe Biden, I'd be coming after him because, you know, in trying to help, because his thinking is so linear, and we live in a non-linear world, he's actually hurt his election chances, which I find very amusing.
What do you think, you know, with everything going on, not obviously central bank related, but as it relates to, you know, cryptocurrency and everything happening there?
Obviously, you know, we're sort of against the central bank stuff because I think it defeats everything that those who believe in crypto are probably about, which is exactly why the government wants to, you know, do it.
But what about, you know, crypto in general?
What do you see happening in those markets?
What do you think the future of that is?
I know there's gonna be a lot of people curious, sort of, in the live chat about that.
Yeah, look, I think it's super exciting.
I live in the Bahamas part of the year.
I sussed out Sam Bankman Freed pretty early on as being a fraud, and was happy to see him get sentenced.
I didn't think the sentence was high enough.
And look, I think the interesting thing about crypto
Several fold is one is the technology associated with it.
Two is anytime you have competition, it should make the incumbent better.
You know, a good incumbent gets better because of competition.
So if the U.S.
Treasury, the U.S.
dollar, if we have to improve our policies because money is coming out of the dollar into gold into crypto, then that is a standard that we have to compete against as opposed to not having competition.
And thirdly, I think the great thing about crypto is it's getting a whole generation excited about free markets.
Crypto is the ultimate free market.
Could it be governed better?
Perhaps.
But we really need to put in some durable, long-term solutions to helping people invest in crypto, because it's not going anywhere.
I like that, actually.
It's the ultimate sort of free market in a time where a lot of those free markets seem to be, you know, at risk or on the table or, you know, I guess if you took the libertarian approach, so heavily taxed or regulated that are they actually free?
You know, even if they're free markets, it's sort of a really interesting take.
Well, you know, it's that, but it's also, look, I am sympathetic to the millennial generation that they've had a bad ride so far with, you know, what is called capitalism.
They, you know, maybe they lived through the dot-com bust, you know, if they're a little younger that they had the great financial crisis, and then COVID, and the great inflation, and, you know, the surveys show that there is a
The lack of confidence in the free market and capitalism, and my message to them is always, you haven't seen real capitalism.
You've seen crony capitalism, you've seen poor regulation, and that
Crypto is getting people and this generation excited about the possibilities, and that's how we keep capital and the capital markets going in the United States.
And I think it's fantastic.
My 14-year-old trades these coins that I've never even heard of, and he loves it.
Yeah.
Listen, hey, and that education process, again, perhaps as long as you're not betting the farm or the house on something like that, just that education process.
I know my son's sort of fascinated in some of this stuff as well, and it's a learning experience before, you know,
Before, a lot of people would be doing that, and I think that's so important to learn at an early age, because you make your mistakes when it's small, you learn it, understand it, and allows you to succeed later.
And so I guess, maybe, I know you have a hard out in a couple of minutes, but I'd like to ask, you know, with that, these days, you know, what does it take to be a successful fund manager?
What separates the good from the bad in 2024?
Yeah, look, I think it's the same as it's always been, is thinking about the long term, paying attention to the short term, and the main thing for me is being able to separate reality from noise.
I'm fortunate to have, going into the election, everyone tells me, oh, Trump 2.0 is going to be chaos, it's going to be this, it's going to be that.
I wrote to my investors and said, I think there's a chance that Trump 2.0 could be the opposite of chaos.
is, you know, I think it could be smooth functioning, maybe we could go back to the roaring 20s.
And, you know, so what I really think being successful is, is sitting down, not listening to the, you know, the prevalent kind of themes of the day, and having a real well reasoned data driven view.
And
I'm hopeful that the U.S.
will continue to do well, but I also think the rest of the world could do well.
Japan's doing great.
I think that Europe, hopefully within a year we have the end of Russia-Ukraine war, and I think Europe could really do well.
Depending on what happens on November 5th, I think that the U.S.
could do great.
We could have roaring 20s again, but for me, for our team, we just sort through data, we decide, okay, this is what people are saying, and does it make any sense?
Well, Scott, thank you so much.
I really appreciate you doing this, taking the time.
You know, different worldview, different kind of interview in terms of the finance side of things.
Where can people find you so they can follow you, they can check out what you're doing?
You know, I know that there's sort of a general discontent that there's so many people in your world that just, you know, don't believe in any of the policies that, you know, certainly my following does.
So I'm sure they'd love to check you out and see what you're doing.
Yeah, so I'd love to hear from them.
So it's ir at keysq.com.
That's a central email for our firm, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
Love to come back, and really enjoyed this.
And again, I'm optimistic.
I am.
The news now is, you know, it's kind of multi-crisis all the time, but markets live in the future.
And, you know, hopefully January 21, 2025, you know, markets will start anchoring on that.
Well, I really appreciate the time, man.
Thank you very much.
Great talking to you.
And with that, guys, check that out.
Follow Scott where you can.
And we're going to go do, I'm going to do some Q&A now, because I know people probably curious about that from the financial side.
Though Scott's going to be certainly more qualified than me to answer those questions, obviously.
Also, if you're on, if you're on Locals, I'll go over there live simultaneously now.
So, you know, if you do the AMAs after the show,
Uh, the regular one, you know, I'll do this here, but I'll, you know, it's sometimes a little hard to follow the live chat because so many people are, you know, on it and asking questions.
So if you're on Locals, go over to there.
You'll be able to stream it simultaneously, but you'll be able to get your questions in.
Uh, yeah, let me see both of them, guys.
Thank you.
Perfect.
Uh, and, you know, and I'll watch that.
So, you know, any questions about that?
Any thoughts on the, you know, the Cohen testimony and all that, uh, you know, nonsense?
Also, oh, before I get there, just make sure you guys are liking, sharing, subscribing, okay?
I don't tell you guys to do that enough.
Uh, I probably should a little bit more.
There's always a little bit of a, uh,
You know, there's a discrepancy between how many people are watching live and how many people are liking it, and that's not just the trolls.
So, you know, take the effort to do that.
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It's not too late to be red-pilled.
Yeah, that's for sure, guys.
I mean, it's gonna be in November, though.
If you don't get red-pilled by November, we're all in serious trouble.
So, OrangemanGood, love your book.
Are you working on another book?
So it's interesting.
So, you know, in the old like, hey, you don't like it, build your own.
I literally built a publishing company.
We're actually publishing Peter Navarro's book right now.
You know, I've done Carrie Lake and Marjorie Taylor Greene and like a lot of the people in the movement that literally can't get another liberal publisher to do it.
You know, it's, you know, they always say, oh, you don't
Go build your own.
So like guys like me, actually go do that.
You know, MXM News, the news app.
You know, subscribe to that.
MXM, like minute by minute.
MXM News.
You know, check that out so you can get the news that I'm seeing.
It's what I base the show on.
You can sort of select what you want to see, how you get it.
We give you both sides.
We were debanked, deplatformed, all that stuff.
So they say build your own, but then they throw up every roadblock imaginable.
They don't actually mean it, but when guys like
Uh, you know, me take that time and the effort to make sure that you can see it.
It's awesome if you guys can support those kind of things.
So, I actually started a group called Winning Team Publishing.
So, I was actually gonna work on a... I was starting to work on a book on government waste and the problem is I just... I had another book and this and the campaign and I...
So, I will get to that eventually, because I have two books out.
I wrote Triggered, um, you know, I guess in 17, uh, sort of right after the election, the story of the election, plus sort of my political leanings.
You know, that became a New York Times number one bestseller.
Uh, I did another second book that I started publishing myself, because I was like, why am I giving all this sort of, uh, to a publisher that probably hates my guts and all of this stuff?
Uh, started my publishing company, did my second book, would have also been a number one bestseller, uh, but
The New York Times number one bestseller list no longer looked at it because it wasn't from one of the big houses, even though I said, hey, here's my Shopify account.
You can look at all of the information and see for yourself that it's legit and real.
Uh, didn't matter.
You know, they don't want you to succeed.
Uh, yeah.
So I started winning team publishing that, you know, part of, I'm putting out Peter Navarro's book.
Uh, you can get that at NewMagaDeal.com.
If you want to check that out, help support Peter.
This is the one I spoke about with him, uh, right the day before he went into prison.
Um, you know, about the plan, uh, you know, for this election and what would be the plan under the, the second Trump term.
Uh, so the long, sorry, long winded answer to your question.
Will I write another book?
Yes.
I've got two bestsellers already, but I've been publishing other people's bestsellers and, uh, trying to make sure that we get all of that word out.
So I will get to it.
I've actually really enjoyed the process of doing that.
And, uh, so it's been great, but you know, there's,
A lot going on.
A lot going on.
Win-win-win Trump.
How's your knee, Don Jr.?
May we know what happened.
Get well soon.
We love you.
Well, thank you, win-win-win Trump.
Probably a fan.
That's either a fan handle or a serious troll, one or the other, but the knee's doing well, actually.
I mean, I'm walking at times almost without a limp.
I had, for those of you who don't know, I literally had knee surgery less than a week ago.
I guess it was last Tuesday evening I got out of the operating room.
I was, so Field Ethos, my outdoor publication, I was with them in the UK doing a collaboration with Rigby, the, you know, classic British gun maker, sort of really cool, like, you know,
A feather in our cap to work with a 250-year-old British gunmaker with this sort of like brash, unapologetic, masculine sort of adventure lifestyle magazine that I do, Field Ethos, and we were over there and I was literally walking.
We went like roe deer hunting, stalking, and whatever, but I was literally walking on a road.
Uh, and I felt a snap.
It didn't fall, didn't slip, whatever it was, but I felt a snap.
And I guess, uh, I was a rower in college and I must have done some damage to my knee.
And, uh, literally my meniscus just popped.
Uh, the placa, another thing under the kneecap, sort of rolled in under the kneecap.
And so it was like walking with a...
A pebble in your joint.
So it went from being 100% fine and I was, you know, a couple days before that I was like, you know, squatting 300 pounds, no problems, and literally one step and just pop, snap.
I have a good buddy that's a top orthopedic surgeon.
In the country, does a bunch of, you know, great athletes and all that stuff.
And he was like, he got me in, you know, I got home.
I was in the UK.
I got home.
I went to Formula One, could barely walk.
I think I told you guys about that one with my father, Miami.
That was a Sunday.
Monday at 9 a.m., I was in an MRI.
Tuesday at 3, I was on the operating table and, you know, less than, you know, five days out, whatever it is, I'm pretty much, you know, I don't think I could run, but I'm walking without too much of a limp even right now.
So coming along well, I can't go too crazy on it.
I gotta, that's not easy for me.
I usually go pretty hard.
I'm pretty hard on myself, whether it's working out, whether it's just, you know, traveling and whatever.
So, I mean, yeah, 24 hours out of surgery.
I was in Toronto speaking at for Rumble, you know, up there, had a great event there on Friday.
So, yeah, it's a mess, but no, it's coming along well.
Haven't had to take the painkillers.
They'd call me Hunter Biden if I was, so I'm just, you know, eat some of the pain, just deal with it.
And it's, yeah, it's a problem.
Whiz jimmies.
You've busted all sorts of bones.
Nine motorcycle accidents.
Go slow and recover good.
Yes.
By the way, good advice.
Like, I have- I'm the similar guy.
Like, I have- I've broken every major bone in my body.
Probably well over a thousand stitches, severed tendons, torn ACs, 15 pins in a plate in my ankle.
Like, I'm a mess.
I'm the guy that's hoping for, like, medical, like, orthopedic-
We're good to go.
You know, going light.
They're like, come in and we'll take the stitches out on Wednesday.
I was like, I'll take the stitches out myself.
There's no reason for me to come in.
I'll deal with that on my own.
I've done that a thousand times.
But yeah, you do, for anyone who gets hurt, you do the PT.
It's totally worth it.
ANNMC7.
God provide Don Jr.
with a quick and complete recovery.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Just Peachy Superman.
I don't know about that, but
USA Now and, okay, what they have done, why so many broken bones?
So, like I said, growing up, sort of, you know, it's why, like, I sort of have, like, an adventure lifestyle magazine.
I'm that guy that, like, try everything, jump off mountains with parachutes, tri-mix diver, licensed airplane pilot, free diver, like, I just, I love sort of adventure, and I do think that whatever, like, when they were handing out, like, a sense of self-preservation, I skipped it, and so,
You know, whether it was mountain bikes or whitewater kayaking or whatever, you know, motorcycles and motocross, like, I just did all of that stuff growing up as a kid.
I was blessed to be able to do it.
And, you know, so, you know, when you're the guy that's like, I'll go first, I'll go break trail, I'll see if it can be done.
It's like, eventually that catches up to you, you know, so you combine the sports with a little bit of a
Otherwise misspent youth, and yeah, you do a little bit of damage.
Steph71, glad to hear the news going good.
You maintain well in Canada.
That was a good rumble show.
It sucks getting old.
Yes, it does.
Honestly, like, I think there's not an aspect in my life now that probably isn't better a little bit older.
Like, I feel like, you know, at 46, like, probably not even, not even peaked yet.
Like, except,
The part about getting old that sucks is waking up sore every damn day.
That part sucks.
The part I miss most about youth is not waking up sore.
So, you know, that's a good one.
Shooting this Saturday as a form of PT.
Let me see, this Saturday.
I don't know.
If I'm around, George, make something happen.
If you're gonna be up in the area, let me know.
I'll see what I can pull off.
I know I got to start traveling again, campaign trail and a bunch of other stuff and probably go see DJT in court next week.
Just, you know, not that I can help with anything, but just, you know, there's this, you know, show of force, sign of support, no different than sort of, you know, me going down to visit Peter Navarro in prison on Saturday.
Still in crutches then, but, you know, we just got to, we got to be out there and we got to stand up against the tyranny that we're seeing transpire.
Dapper Dave, you're thinking if dad picks J.D.
Vance, then he can negotiate with the governor of Ohio to pick Vivek to serve as senator.
He's from Ohio.
That's actually a great idea.
I mean, listen, everyone, it's no secret that I'd love J.D.
to be VP.
I think while they're holding my father up in a courtroom and they're going to continue to try to do so for
You know, months on end, you need someone who can take the fight to the lunatics.
And you watch him on CNN, you watch him take out these reporters and just, you know, make a mockery of them.
You know, they don't... Well, you said that, you know, elections were rigged.
It's like, yeah, because they are.
Like, not, you know, we don't have to agree with their narrative just because they pretend that they know what they're talking about because they don't.
So, I love a JD out there as a fighter.
I think we need that.
If DJT's in a courtroom, you let him go out and start doing those things.
So, I'm all for sort of picking a VP early.
By the way, JD is going to be on the show on Thursday.
So, for those of you...
Who either love JD or want to learn more about him.
JD's gonna be on Triggered on Thursday.
So you're going to want to see that one.
I'm sure he will bring the heat because he always does.
Just, you know, someone who's become a very good friend.
Incredible background.
I mean, you know, he wrote the book, you know, Hillbilly Algae about sort of his childhood in Appalachia and growing up, you know, about as poor as it gets and just crushing it.
I mean, this is, as far as I'm concerned, you know, one of the top future
People, you know, in the America First movement already is probably our strongest advocate in the United States Senate by a long shot.
So he'll be great.
Diane Marie, Byron Donaldson, a good pig too.
Byron's a great guy, good friend.
Tough guy.
Listen, there's a lot of good choices.
You know, I see, you know, JD's ability on TV and just smacking these guys down is though, I mean, it's like, it's like Trump level.
So I think that'd be great.
You guys will see for yourself on Thursday.
If you tune in, you know, make sure to check that out.
I'm sorry you're convinced J.D.
Vance is it.
Okay, Steph, yeah.
Listen, I don't know that he's it.
I mean, he'd be my pick, but that's not up for me.
There's a lot of other considerations.
I'm sure my father takes what I say quite seriously.
He knows I'm out there.
He knows I'm on the ground.
He knows I probably spend more time on the ground than just about anyone.
Yeah, but there's a lot of other considerations that go into these things.
Yep, J.D.'
's also a vet.
Incredible background, he gets it.
So yeah, but yeah, make sure to tune in on Thursday or, you know, download the Rumble app so you can get a notification when we go live, triggered on Thursday.
It will be live with JD Vance.
Should be a great show.
And for those of you who don't know him, that'll be great.
They say Burgum is a great pick for VP.
He has the running business aspect of that position.
Listen, Doug Brigham's a great guy.
I like him a lot.
Definitely successful businessman.
JD, too.
Both actually kind of come from, actually, surprisingly enough, you know, a tech background.
Sort of interesting.
You know, a couple conservatives from that.
So, that's someone who I've gotten to know.
I did events for him years ago, even.
But, like, I've gotten to know more in the last, you know, six months.
So, you know, I like Doug a lot as well.
Let's see.
Thoughts on the New York pretty much validating the use of fraudulent mail-in ballots.
New York Republicans won five seats in 2022, giving them control of the House.
You lose those seats, you might lose the House.
That's going to be a problem this election.
Yeah, well listen, that's why, you know, that's why we're campaigning in New Jersey.
Right?
You gotta win those seats.
It's not just about the presidency.
You're not gonna see anything.
You may not win a state for the presidency, but if you can pick up some of those House seats, you know, they're doing the gerrymandering thing in New York.
They're trying to pull all those wins away from conservatives.
Like, that's what you have to deal with.
That's the problem.
I mean, you know, there's a lot of things we'd like to do, but we also gotta live in the real world and understand how these things go, how they happen, and we gotta play that game back.
So we can't just say, hey, you know, maybe you don't win New Jersey.
Maybe you do.
Maybe it's on the table.
It could be.
I mean, man, based on those crowds, maybe it is.
But again, we have to convert those ballots, that enthusiasm into actual ballots, right?
The Democrats are going to show up with ballots, whether they're harvested, whether they're illegal, whether they're from people who no longer live there or died years ago.
You know, they're going to show up with ballots.
We got to do the same thing.
Um, you know, though we, though we, you know, for better or worse, we'll have to do it legally because that's what we do.
Uh, you know, they do not prescribe to that, in my opinion, even a little bit.
They don't care.
There's no pretense of, you know, of honesty or objectivity.
So, you know, but we got to do what we can and we got to overwhelm the system.
As I've said, sort of, we have to beat the margin of fraud.
We don't have to win by one vote.
We have to beat the margin of fraud and the fraud is going to be significant.
They are up and running.
They are funded incredibly.
You know, you heard from someone who used to work for George Soros just earlier in the show, like, you know, there's a lot of money, a lot of, you know, whether it's unfounded or insane, the ideology is there and they're going to keep putting billions behind it.
It's crazy.
Are all of you older Trump kids close with Barron?
Listen, there's a huge age difference, right?
I think so.
Barron's much closer to, like, my kid's age.
So, you know, he'll play with, like, my son a lot or hang out with, like, my son, uh, you know, much more, right?
So he just turned 18.
My son's 15.
Like, that's three years.
I'm 46.
It's a...
It's a pretty significant difference.
That gets a little tighter as you get older, but he just turned 18.
Last week, you saw the talk probably about, you know, him.
I guess the campaign put every sort of eligible Trump family member in as a delegate in Florida, where we all live.
And, you know, you could see, oh, Barron's gonna be a delegate, isn't he?
And you could just see the left like, excellent.
Now, he's 18, he may be a child, but, you know, we're gonna go after him now.
Oh, now it's open season!
He's getting political.
So, uh, it seems like, you know, Melania may have put a stop to that one and just, you know, let a kid be a kid.
Uh, but you could see the left salivating.
Remember, Hunter Biden is a 50-something-year-old child.
He cannot be touched.
But Barron, because he was going to serve as a delegate to be able to, you know, sort of an honorary position.
There's not even much of it.
But you could see the left salivating like, oh, it's open season.
He's political now.
We can go get him.
It's pretty crazy and pretty disgusting.
But so I think Melania probably intelligently put an end to that because, you know, I can only imagine what
What the jackals, uh, the hyenas in the mainstream media would try to do to an 18-year-old kid.
Uh, I don't think he's done anything wrong, but I, you know, who the hell knows what they'd come up with.
Uh, so probably a, probably a smart move.
I saw the internet ablaze the other day.
Oh, it's great!
He's gonna be in the game!
Like, I was like, I don't know if that's the greatest idea ever.
That's, uh, you know, only because I understand just how depraved and evil, uh, our media is.
Would it be a good idea for DJT to be interviewed by Russell Brand?
I don't know, listen, Russell's an interesting guy.
I got to know him through Rumble, hung out with him when the Rumble office opening.
I know he's actually going to be over here, I think it's like next week, right?
Or the next two weeks, something like that.
He's going to be over here for like a little while.
I think he's going to be on the west coast of Florida, but I know I was talking with Chris Pawlowski at the Rumble event that we did on Friday in Toronto.
We're good to go.
Took out, you know, the work week for his ability to actually, you know, be out there, obviously very intentionally.
But, you know, that's sort of the game.
So, I think Russell's an interesting guy.
Like, I love the free speech platform.
I love that he, you know, I hate that he's going through it, but I love that he's finally maybe seen just how, again, depraved the left is all of a sudden, right?
He was married to Katy Perry, probably one of the biggest stars, perhaps,
In the world ever and you know that was fine and the second he starts questioning the narrative all of a sudden he's you know a predator and you know like from 35 years ago it's like he wasn't predator like two years ago and he was like one of the most famous people in the world but now now he is it's
You see him doing it over and over again.
It's literally the Trump playbook, and they use it, and they run it, and they weaponize it against everyone.
So for those of you who want to, you know, reach out and support a great patriot, you can do that.
Let's see.
Oh, send letters, cards, or prayers to Peter Navarro.
Why don't we check to make sure that's right?
It looks right.
But thank you very much for posting that.
I think he'd really appreciate it.
I know when I, you know, I spent 90 minutes with him or so on Saturday morning early, you know, he loved that.
I mean, you know, first day, they're like, hey, come get your mail, but go bring a, bring a bag.
I mean, thousands of letters of support.
So it's, it's great.
And so, yeah, we'll post that up here, you know, under the, you know, under the, maybe not in the chat because it's gonna be hard to, you put it under the, yeah.
Under the description on the episode.
So, for those of you who want to, you know, send them a letter of support or anything like that, you know, do that.
Let's see.
PT is totally worth it.
Yeah, we're back to the knee 100%.
Like, I'm a big believer of the guys I know who have not done well.
And by the way, my dad's, like, very anti, like, if you don't have to get cut, don't get cut.
I didn't have a choice.
I could barely walk.
Uh, there were a couple other times I was going to get cut, whether it's for, you know, separated shoulder, torn AC, severed bicep tendon, like, where I was gonna do something and they were like, hey, try it out.
Like, I actually went to a DO, like, uh, uh, I guess you, um...
Sort of, it's almost like an MD that's also a chiropractor.
Orthoscope, what the hell's the O?
But anyway, like a chiropractor that's also a licensed doctor.
It's a DO, osteopathic doctor, I guess is the official term.
And like a couple times I was gonna go get my shoulder fixed and the guy was like, I don't think it's your shoulder.
And even the surgeons were like, hey, we think we can fix it, but we think it could be this, it could be that, it could be that.
Well, that's like 33%, so we're gonna, like, remove, you know, a bicep tendon and try to put it onto a different spot to free up some whatever, like, it's... And the guy's like, I think it's coming from your neck.
It snapped me around, like, twice, and within, like, a week, I was literally lifting overhead, and I, like, saved myself, you know, nine months of recovery and a surgery.
So, if I can avoid getting cut, I usually will, but yes, if you do have to get cut, do the PT.
Do the PT.
Ooh.
Diana Marie, neck fusion surgery coming next month.
That can't be fun.
And as someone who's got, like I said, neck and, you know, it comes back every, you know, every couple of months or just sleeping on planes and stuff when I'm traveling a lot.
And it's like, it's literally neck pain, but it manifests for me as like shoulder pain.
So my, when my shoulder gets all weird, it's actually my neck, but it doesn't feel like it, it feels like it's my shoulder.
And so I gotta, you know, so yeah, do the PT, uh, put in that time.
And for me, you know,
Try to stay in shape, try to stay strong.
You know, never know when the zombie apocalypse is coming or whatever the hell else they throw at you.
So, uh, you know, I train hard to kick ass at life.
Uh, but, but with that and years of it, uh, it ends up with some problems.
So yeah, you got to take care of yourself, uh, as well.
Yeah, no, I know.
Dio's not a chiropractor, but they do some of that with a little bit of different training.
It's more equal to an MD under a different thing.
So it's a little bit different.
But yeah, he'll snap me around like a chiropractor, but he's an osteopathic doctor.
And man, my guy down here in Florida literally has like...
It changed my life like it's it's huge so I'm a I'm a huge believer uh in D.O.
and it's it's it's not just sort of uh you know you know cutting for for the sake of cutting and stuff like that and again my friends that are you know the guy that did my knee he's a good friend of mine but like you know if I gotta get cut you get cut and you know but he's not one of those guys that's gonna convince you that
You know, hey, everything needs a surgery, right?
When you're a hammer, everything's a nail.
Especially in our medical system, but that's why it's nice to have friends like that.
They'll give you the honest opinion, not just say, yeah, surgery will probably fix that and we'll make a couple bucks and whatever.
So yeah, my guy's just an awesome, awesome guy.
Maga Patriot, I will not give you his name.
I don't know if he needs the shit that he'd get for that.
But a super great doctor, super good friend.
And man, like I said, I haven't even had to take the painkillers, you know, even the day of the surgery.
So whatever he did, it feels great.
Like I'm walking without a limp, you know, five days out right now.
And again, I probably push myself a little too hard because that is what I do.
But it's pretty good.
Hunter's physical therapy is hookers and cocaine.
That's fair.
Tough, but fair.
Any thoughts on Sarah Sanders?
I like Sarah a lot.
I think Sarah's great.
She's a good friend.
She was very helpful to my father.
She took a lot of heat, you know, for that.
So yeah, no, I like Sarah a lot.
Let's see.
Never knew G.J.T.
Not use the phrase swamp until May.
Swamp is God creating life in a life-giving environment.
Yeah, except for the D.C.
swamp.
The D.C.
swamp is undefeated.
And none of it's good.
Regular swamps, great.
I love it.
But, yeah, the D.C.
swamp, yes, while the swamp may be a life, you know, beginning area, I know the swamps down here in Florida, you know, the Everglades, like, it's the genesis of a lot of life and so much.
But, yeah, the D.C.
swamp is definitely different than that.
Rotator cuff surgery.
Would not wish that on your worst enemy.
Yeah, no, it's brutal.
Yeah, I tore my rotator cuff, separated my AC in a motocross crash 15 years ago, and it's like, that's literally the one that still gets me, even though, like, you know, there's just times it's like, can't lift overhead, can't do this, and that's where the DO, you know, snapping, it was, like I said,
Injury with shoulder but it's like it comes from the neck and when he when he fixes my neck the shoulder clears up and it's like literally I go from like being able to do nothing to lifting overhead and you know full range of motion and everything that sort of sort of amazing.
We defeat the Swamp by changing the moral landscape.
I hope that's right.
I hope that's right.
I think sometimes, you know, we do the morality thing and we lose, you know, fighting an unrealistic battle, because while that may be right and great, if the other side's not playing by the same rules, you know, sometimes we give up a lot in that fight.
We can be our own worst enemies in a lot of that.
So, you know, you don't know.
Oh my God, I might be getting PTSD from hearing in his injuries.
Yeah, I had a lot.
I've broken both my legs, my right ankle twice, my left ankle once.
I have 15 pins and a plate, I think, in my right ankle.
Both my wrists, shoulder, separated AC, torn rotator cuff.
Obviously, you know, fingers, knuckles from like,
We're good to go.
Like I said, a lot of fun, misspent youth, very underdeveloped sense of self-preservation, and I'm hoping that medical technology catches up to my injuries and my early-onset arthritis, because otherwise, it's gonna hurt a lot.
So, let's see.
You're really gonna hurt at 80.
I know, it's gonna be a disaster, man.
I hurt at 46.
But, you know, like I said, I try to stay in shape.
I try to stay strong.
I believe in that.
I think that's just, you know, a fundamental thing.
You know, I try to be pretty religious about trying to, you know, hit a sauna and a coal plunge and do all those things as well.
You heard walking Evel Knievel.
Yeah, without any of the cool stuff.
Like, I did like mini Evel Knievel shit that like...
End up hurting me a lot anyway, so, you know, definitely nothing as legendary as Evel Knievel, but probably a lot of the same issues.
Let's see, take Ivermectin.
Yeah, listen, I'm a believer in all that stuff, so it's like, you know, I'd much rather take that than a lot of the other crap they'd, you know, give us.
But no, you know, one of the things I've been working on, a buddy of mine who's sort of a world-class, you know, bodybuilder and lifter, but, you know, because of that has, you know, done a lot of, you know, injuries and damage to himself, Jason Poston, he told me from my shoulder also to start taking some of the peptide stuff, and I've started playing with that.
And like, you know, BPC-157, and like, and I'm like, come on, like, yeah, I took the pills for a while, didn't really notice anything with the pills.
Started taking the, you know, injectable peptides, and literally in like four days, I was like, Jesus, like, it was, it was great.
It was great.
So, I mean, as that technology improves, and then I have other friends that swear by, you know, they've done some of the, you know, where they spin the white blood cells and inject that back, like, you know, some of the stuff that they won't even, you know, they won't let you do it in America.
Not because the technology is there or because it's ineffective, but because, you know, Big Pharma has a much more expensive and a much more permanent
Way to lock in an annuity for themselves than actually fixing it, right?
There's no money in the cure, there's money in maintenance in keeping you in there.
So, yeah, peptides work, mitral barrier, or just testosterone.
Yeah, okay, so when I hit 40, I was like, man, I felt sluggish.
It was like, you know, after I think the 18 cycle or whatever it was in midterms, I was on the road so much, I just felt sluggish and I was like,
I tried to, I couldn't do it.
I guess, I felt like I'd come down so much, but I still had like an 840, 860, whatever it was, testosterone level.
But I'd felt like I'd come down so much, they're like, well, we can try you on like, you know, a quarter dose of what it was.
And like, literally, Kim was like, you got to get off that stuff.
Like, you're literally, I could not talk to people.
I wanted to just like fight everything.
It was, it was...
So, by the way, I'm a believer.
I know guys that do it.
Perhaps I gotta, you know, figure out how to regulate that one well.
I guess luckily for me, I still produce enough sort of natural that I, you know, I know other guys my age, some of them big jack dudes that were like 120, 200, like really, really low levels.
And, you know, as we're figuring out that and, you know, the balance of that, but I tried a very minor dose of that for like two months and literally was like,
Like, I felt great, basically, if I wasn't around anyone.
If I was around people, I just wanted to constantly kill people.
And it was not, you know, metaphorically speaking, I know that, you know, this Biden DOJ will lock me up for the crime of having thought about jokingly killing someone.
So, I don't want to say that too carefully, and it's gonna be like, the hell was that movie?
Like, The Adjustment Bureau?
Or, you know, where they start throwing you in jail for the crimes that you thought about possibly committing?
Minority report.
That's the one.
Minority report.
Yeah, so they'd start doing that.
So yeah, that could be a rough one.
So yeah, no.
I imagine there will be a... There'll be a time I gotta do that more fully, and I think I should...
Down and get with 10X Health in Miami, Gary Barreca.
Gary's a great guy.
I've met him a bunch of times with Dana White at UFC.
Yeah, I gotta just get into the details.
And I do the full blood work and everything like that.
And I'm pretty solid across the board, other than I have high cholesterol.
But that's like, when I was a D1 rower in college, I had a 34 resting heart rate with like 500 cholesterol.
So I'm just...
You know, I'm that guy.
But, no, I'm a believer in all that stuff.
I may not be there yet on the testosterone, or I gotta figure out how to do it where I'm just not, like, just mean and angry.
If you think I'm mean and angry on a regular basis, if you saw me on this, it was, like, next level.
Even I was like, holy crap, man, you gotta calm the hell down.
Um, so, let's see, you'd like Tulsi just for the Kamala debate?
I want Tucker just for the Kamala debate, but Tulsi I think would do a great job as well, and so would JD in that one.
I would, like, I mean, you know, that's sort of like, you know, Mike Tyson fighting a toddler, but like, it would be pretty amazing.
We're good to go.
Like, for me, it's 99% diet.
I can lift as much as I want.
It doesn't matter.
Like, I'm very gut-fat right now, but I'm also probably quite strong other than the knee issue.
But like I said, I was probably squatting 300 a week ago before my knee.
So, you know, for a 46-year-old dude, that's whatever, like...
You know, felt pretty solid.
You know, I don't know what, you know, my bench max and stuff is because of the shoulder.
I try to take a little bit more easy there, but like I feel relatively strong for my age, deadlifting over four.
But yeah, it's, I probably got to stop even thinking about maxing because it doesn't really do all that much for me.
Let's see.
Do I have the same testosterones as Michelle?
I assume that's Big Mike.
I'd like to believe so, but I see some of the photos, I'm saying, I'm not so sure.
I'm not so sure.
You know, I've been blessed to been able to maintain, I guess, relatively high levels this late in life, but yeah, who knows?
Jesus Christ.
Some of the pictures getting posted right now on the local's live channel.
You people need Jesus.
Let's see.
Nothing after 6 p.m.
Cut out carbs.
Weed lowers testosterone.
That's not really a problem for me.
It's not my thing.
I don't have a problem with it, actually.
If more people who had drinking problems smoked weed, the world would be a better place.
But it's just never been my thing.
All right.
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