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USAID Slush Fund Slashed, X Cyberattack, Plus Interview with Nate Morris | Triggered Ep.223
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Thank you.
Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
Another day with another batch of big breaking news.
And that includes an apparent cyber attack against Elon and X. Could this be retaliation due to the non-stop work exposing the grift and graft across the globe?
We'll find out.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to deliver on their promises to cut government waste, root out the fraud.
Secure the border and onshore American jobs.
And Democrats?
They'd just rather complain about it than admit what's obvious.
This is all good for America.
And later, I'll sit down with Kentucky Senate candidate Nate Morris with all the behind the scenes.
of what's happening inside the bluegrass state and beyond.
Just so we're clear, Nate Morris is the anti Mitch McConnell candidate, a guy that came from a similar background really to JD Vance in Appalachia, grew up with nothing, was a recipient of food stamps with him and his family, went on to become an incredible entrepreneur.
And now wants to get in the game and give back to the people of his home state.
Last time I went out there on a limb, I think it worked out pretty well because I think you all like our incredible vice president.
And based on the memes I've seen this weekend, maybe the most memed person other than maybe DJT, you know, in the entire world.
So I don't know.
I think I usually have a pretty good sense for this stuff.
So Nate Morris will be here.
If you're not following him already, check him out.
We gotta do whatever we can to unseat the nonsense that is the McConnell machine, okay?
With Republicans like Mitch McConnell at this point, you might as well have Democrats, and that's a no-no.
So tonight, there's a lot to get into.
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And now, guys, let's get into all of the top headlines.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced that 83 percent, 83 percent of USAID funds have been cut, explaining that 5,200 contracts, yes, 5,200 contracts would be canceled because 5,200 contracts would be canceled because the program did not serve U.S. interests.
And we will now save our country tens of billions of dollars.
This stuff shouldn't have ever been happening, but now we know, and now we have people in positions of power who have the guts to put an end to the fraud.
Remember, guys, USAID was the swamp slush fund that was paying for gender-affirming care in Guatemala, Sesame Street in Iraq, and circumcisions in Mozambique to the tune of billions of dollars.
Many, many other insane things.
I think I could probably do a one-hour show just listing the insanity.
You heard some of it at the State of the Union last week, but it was ridiculous.
And now it stops.
And the remaining programs will be overseen by the State Department, okay?
So there will actually be checks and balances.
Instead of USAID being its own agency, infiltrated by the radicals, funding whatever they wanted in their pet projects, probably all kickbacks to Democrats, and it will no longer just be another arm of the corrupt bureaucratic blob.
But the waste doesn't stop there, guys.
Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, Now, I don't know about you,
but a kid under the age of 18 can't even sign onto a loan, and yet $300 million just given out to kids under the age of 12. I don't understand.
Doesn't even seem legal, but it doesn't matter because there was no oversight.
The loans were issued in 2020 and 2021 during COVID, and it's unclear what they were even used for.
And like I said, we're still just at the tip of the iceberg, and there is much, much more to come.
And meanwhile, guys, the Ukrainian first lunatics, they are truly ramping up their insanity, including Harassing a child of your favorite vice president, the most memed man in America, at least this week, maybe ever, J.D. Vance.
It just makes these people look even more like the unreasonable fanatics that they truly are.
Check this out.
No one is articulated in this traffic case.
Sell them out!
Absolutely!
I don't respect them.
I disagree.
I think what we're doing is we're actually enforcing a diplomatic settlement.
There's nobody in between benefits.
No one.
Do you think Russia can be diplomatic?
What's about the United States?
This is about a separate country, and I don't think our investment in that country can go on indefinitely.
I understand the industry.
You're forcing them to settle.
We're forcing both the Russians and Ukrainians.
Russia won't settle.
Exactly.
They certainly invaded Ukraine in 2022. But their needs would be a settlement.
Ma'am, I understand that that's your view.
And certainly, I have condemned, ma'am.
I'm speaking with you and I'm trying to be respectful.
I have condemned the invasion, but I've also condemned the perpetuity.
That is the policy of the administration.
And I've talked to you guys now for about five minutes.
What's changed?
Ma'am, now that's a different question.
I'm happy.
Would you like me to talk about how I've changed my view on Donald Trump for more than 10 years ago?
Because I talked about it a lot during the campaign, and then the American people voted and made it the president of the United States.
You've got no integrity.
It's what I expect like it.
It must be nice to go through life.
It's a little bit of everybody who disproportionately has no integrity.
I have more respect for you.
I'm looking at my three year old daughter now, and I told you, I talked to you for five minutes.
And now, I did not agree to have my three year old to have people run around and yell at her.
And I did talk to you, and I said, if I talk to you for a few minutes, we leave my three year old daughter alone and you said yes.
So I'd like you guys to respect that.
Thank you.
What they should actually all be outraged about is all the fraud and the endless taxpayer dollars being shipped to Ukraine with little or no accountability.
And how did all of this fraud go unchecked for so long?
Well, for one thing, the last four years, we didn't even know if Joe Biden knew what he was signing.
Literally, we don't know.
The Heritage Foundation found that nearly all of Biden's signatures were via AutoPen.
It's a machine that will copy your signature.
This raises questions about who controlled the AutoPen.
Did Joe even know what he was signing?
Did he give authority to Dr. Jill or someone else?
Was it someone even lower level, a total unelected bureaucrat, doing this?
Who knows?
You know the difference?
You know when you see those things signed?
You see DJT doing his sort of patented signature, yada, yada, yada.
Like, that's real.
Notice you never saw Joe Biden actually doing that?
Because it was done by a machine, and no one knows who was actually controlling it.
And according to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, if the widespread auto pen use turns out to be true, these executive orders, Pardons and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.
That's a really big deal, guys, because you could undo some of the insanity that was being done.
Like, remember when they let out, like, all of death row?
They commuted the sentence of people who murdered young children and, I mean, some of the most heinous and terrible people in the world.
Joe Biden just, eh, we'll let him out.
Well, if Joe Biden didn't actually do it and didn't know whatever it may be...
They could be legally void, and those criminals could be back behind bars.
It's incredible to me, and probably to you, that this actually happened.
Though, at this point, it shouldn't be surprising.
There's literally overwhelming evidence that Biden's cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval, right?
We've talked about this on the show for years.
Since I started, like, I don't know.
Three years ago?
We've talked about it all the time.
There's no way that the geriatric, somewhat senile, old Irish dude really thought that three-year-olds getting gender-affirming care was the social justice issue of our time, right?
We understand that did not actually happen, right?
So if anyone ever asks you what you mean by the deep state or the bureaucratic blob, this is a prime example.
It seems like they just ran roughshod.
With the presidency, unelected bureaucrats doing whatever their radical agenda wanted.
Totally unchecked, totally unfazed, totally blacked out by the mainstream media, who probably knew exactly what was going on, but they're in on it.
They've been part of it.
They were just fine with the results because they too have been radicalized so badly that it just went unchecked.
Imagine if you would for one second, guys.
Imagine...
Imagine how the media would be losing their minds over this if Donald Trump didn't know what was going on, if he wasn't personally signing all of these things, if he wasn't reading it out loud to the public, because I think he's taken more questions in the first six weeks of this administration than Joe Biden took in his entire four years.
Can't make it up, guys.
And meanwhile, ICE is ramping up deportation enforcement.
of students who are here on visas, who are spewing anti-Semitic hate speech, creating violence and chaos on Ivy League campuses.
Look at the cover of the New York Post today that reads, Ice Knowing You.
By the way, I think in my next life I actually want to write headlines for the New York Post because they get it pretty good.
Ice Knowing You.
And here was the scene just yesterday.
So the Trump administration making good on his promise to crack down on pro-Palestinian students, causing chaos on college campuses across the U.S. ICE agents arresting the Palestinian activists who led anti-Israeli protests at Columbia University here in New York City.
The Secretary of State, Rubio, warning we will be revoking the visas and or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.
And guys, it does not stop there.
My father is also signing executive orders to revoke security clearances for major law firms who participated in the BS Jack Smith and Mueller witch hunts, making it clear that there are actually consequences.
I know, I know, there are consequences for weaponizing illegally the legal system.
It's kind of nice.
I'm not sure why people at a law firm would need security clearances anyway.
It doesn't seem...
Like, it benefits anyone other than, I guess, they can make a lot of money off of it.
It's common sense.
But to regime media, to the scribes that write down whatever the radical Democrats want and pretend it's news, it's a Trumpian power grab.
Watch this segment from none other than PBS. Yeah, public broadcasting systems.
Yeah, I'm sure these guys are unbiased.
I want to just talk about a few events which may have slipped under the radar this week, but seem pretty...
So, Donald Trump signed an executive order stripping lawyers at the firm.
Perkins Coie, which had represented Hillary Clinton in 2016, of their security clearances and other privileges, which follows a similar executive order, which he signed, stripping those same privileges of Covington Burling, who'd worked pro bono with Jack Smith.
Then earlier today, the administration stopped a huge number of grants and funds that were going to Columbia University to punish them.
Dan, I just want just...
What's the pattern?
What are we seeing when we see all these things lined up?
Well, I mean, we're seeing what he promised, which is retribution.
And some measure of revenge against the people that he thinks did him wrong over the last four years.
They've been quite systematic about that.
They've done it through the whole Justice Department in a variety of ways.
And now they've broadened it out into the private sector, if you will, and into the universities.
I don't think there's any doubt that Columbia is not the last university that's going to see funds stripped from them.
Particularly elite universities feel that they are on notice.
He's done things to try to rein in the press or to target the press, as we know, particularly the things that have gone on with the press pool.
And all of this is part of his effort to dominate everything about the federal government and to accrue as much power in his hands as he can.
You want to talk about a political power grab?
How about trying to throw your political opponents in jail based on phony smear tactics?
How about trying to take their businesses away?
How about fining them?
How about waiving statutes of limitations so that you can go after things for 30 years that no one can disprove or prove otherwise because no one even remembers any of it?
Uh, guys, that sounds a bit more like a power grab to me.
You don't have to believe me.
If you've paid even a little bit of attention over the last nine years, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
They did it with reckless abandon.
They did it not just to my family, myself, my father.
They did it to hard-working Americans.
They did it to concerned mothers showing up at PTA meetings who were domestic terrorists.
They did it to people who were practicing Catholics.
I know, those radical Catholics in America.
Ooh, gotta stop them.
Not the communists.
Not terrorists.
Never ends, folks.
Of course, the media is melting down because deep down, they know the Trump agenda is working.
For example, just look at this new report from Reuters titled, and I quote, companies eye U.S. expansion to less out the fallout from political and potential tariffs.
Laying out a list of companies like Samsung, Apple, Volvo, Honda and many more who are now investing in America.
It's not that hard, folks.
This can be done.
We can bring these things back.
We can do it here in America.
We can employ hard-working, God-fearing Americans, and we don't have to have the single export of their American dream.
We can do it.
It's not that hard.
Here's my father on Air Force One laying out his economic agenda.
I think the tariffs are going to be the greatest thing we've ever done as a country.
It's going to make our country rich again.
We have many companies, as you know, auto companies are opening up plants now.
We've had four or five announced already, but many more are coming.
And we're basically going to take back the money, a lot of the money that we've given away over many decades.
We've lost our jobs.
We've lost our factories.
We've lost 90,000 factories since the beginning of NAFTA. It's not that long ago.
90,000 factories.
Think of that.
And we're going to get them back.
And they're coming back.
And they're coming back in records.
Look at what happened with the big chip company, the biggest in the world.
By far the most powerful chip company in the world from Taiwan.
And they're going in with $200 billion of money.
And they're going to build something that's going to give us 35-40% of the chip market just in one company.
No, it's gonna bring it back.
And I think it's gonna make us, bring us to a level that we've never had before.
But the Democrats have learned nothing, guys.
They've learned nothing from their crushing losses.
In fact, they're doubling down.
Guys, they're going all in on Democrat insanity.
For example, at a recent Bernie Sanders rally, a trans lunatic singer performed a song with the lyrics that read, Does God have a big fat D-I-C-K? That's the lyrics.
I mean, is it necessary?
Do they need to do it?
I mean, you really have to have that out there?
These people are freaking sick.
Check it out.
Check it out.
a mind virus that infects the soul.
And I'll close out the news rundown on another just absolutely bizarre woke moment.
This clip from the Netflix show Love is Blind is going viral after a dating show contestant left her fiancé at the altar because he didn't support BLM, LGBTQIA++ issues, and the COVID vaccine.
Guys, I don't think it takes much to say this guy.
I know it probably hurt.
I know it's probably embarrassing on TV. This guy dodged a bullet, okay?
I promise you, if someone's gonna leave you because they disagree with your political views or because they're pushing the incentive, stay away, okay?
It's like nature.
You ever notice, like, the most poisonous plants are the most vibrantly colored, like the purple-haired freaks?
Like, this guy dodged a bullet.
Stay away from lunatic insanity.
Stay away from the radical leftists.
I promise you, It will not work out well.
Check this out from Love is Blind.
I love you so much.
But I've always wanted a partner to be on the same wavelength.
And so today I can't.
Like, I feel like I know him.
Like, really.
Yeah.
Like, I remember, like, I asked him about, like, Black Lives Matter, and I'm no expert.
But, like, when I asked him about it, he was like, I guess I never really thought too much about it.
That affected me, especially in our own city.
Like, how could it not?
How did he not make you think about something?
I asked him, too, like, what his church's views are, and he said he didn't know.
And so then I watched a sermon online.
From his church?
About, yeah, sexual identity.
And it was traditional.
Nate Morris.
He's coming up in just a few minutes.
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Joining me now, CEO of Morris Industries, Nate Morris.
Nate, good to see you, man.
Hey, it's great to be with you, Don.
Well, first of all, I love that we had dinner last week, so I love that you're making your world around the MAGA sphere.
You're getting in the game, doing it the right way.
It seems like a contrast to a lot of your potential opponents.
Yeah, absolutely, Don.
I mean, this thing is shaking out to be McConnell versus MAGA in Kentucky, and I think that that's all Kentuckians need to know.
We know what Mitch McConnell's been doing to your father, particularly over the last two months.
It's been crazy to watch.
And the fact that we have my two potential opponents that are, one's in the race, one may be getting in.
They've said Mitch McConnell's their mentor, and they owe everything to Mitch McConnell, which I think is absolutely ludicrous that they would even think about running for office here in Kentucky, especially with the mandate that your father was given right here in the Bluegrass State.
Yeah, I mean, it seems really odd.
It's actually almost hard to believe that Mitch is able to win in Kentucky.
It's often close, but I guess when you control the purse strings in the Senate, I guess you can spend all the money on your race.
It makes it a little bit easier.
But I've heard from multiple sources.
They're out there telling me that Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell's entire operation are literally doing everything they can to stop you from going forward, to stop you, period.
And they're basically determined to stop anyone that is not entirely controlled by Mitch.
Why is that?
Well, look, Don, this is a career for these folks.
These are career politicians.
They've been paid by the swamp for generations.
And the cronies that have surrounded McConnell for years, this is how they make their money, Don.
And that's one of the things that you've got to look at this race to say, look, MAGA is about outside, being outside the system, right?
And coming in and shaking things up.
And when you get the establishment like these folks threatening to do all these things and threatening to come after you, I think that's the right signal to us that, look, we're in line with President Trump.
They fear us.
And they feared the change that we could bring.
And most importantly, draining the swamp here in Kentucky.
You know, McConnell has had a stranglehold on Kentucky politics for the last 40 years.
And it's been sickening to me that he's opposed your father over and over and over again and made it his last mission of the Senate is to back up the truck for Zelensky in Ukraine.
And this is not what Kentucky wants.
And this is not what they voted for when they elected.
Your father here, about 30 points in Kentucky.
And the fact that these guys are lining up so early, that means they fear us and that means they're coming after us.
But I look at it as a badge of honor, Don, and we're going to keep fighting.
Oh yeah, 100%.
I mean, if you're on Team Mitch and they're going after someone, it means you're over the target, Nate.
I mean, that's a big deal.
But think about in Kentucky, a state that we won by a lot.
We want it bigly, so to speak, to use the Trump vernacular.
It's hard to believe that a guy like that can be in the Senate and that kind of leadership, control the pork strings, and vote against virtually every Trump cabinet member.
I mean, honestly, at this point, and I don't know if it's just that Mitch the Glitch, the circuit board is short-circuited a little bit, but that doesn't seem, that's not even MAGA, that's not even Republican at this point.
I mean, honestly, watching the way he's voting, especially for the cabinet, the way he's just blindly funding Ukraine.
And I've, you know, I've told the story on the show of thousands of times where, you know, I've surveyed every live audience I've spoken to for the last three years since the start of the war.
After I heard Mitch McConnell say that Ukraine is the number one issue for Republicans across the country and.
I've surveyed over 200,000 people live where it's like, I'll give you the mic.
Is it top three?
Is it top ten issue for you?
Zero people were top three.
Three people out of 200,000 said it was a top ten issue.
One guy was from Ukraine.
One guy misunderstood the question.
He actually wasn't.
And the other guy worked out like Raytheon.
So of course he wanted it to keep going because the war pays well for those guys.
But otherwise, zero Republicans.
So it's odd.
So I love that you're doing this, but I think it's important.
You know, tell the audience maybe a little bit about your background, Nate, growing up.
I mean, it actually, you know, when we first met and then even just following up, you know, last week and talking about it, I mean, you actually have a story that's really similar to another guy that we pushed into a Senate seat and turned into a rock star for the base and for the Republican Party, or at least for conservatism and for MAGA. Sounds a lot like J.D. Vance.
Tell me a little bit about it.
Yeah, look, I'm proud that JD and I have so much in common, and that's why we became fast friends.
You know, I grew up raised by a single mother.
My dad left when I was two.
He got locked up for not paying child support.
And my mom and I were on food stamps when I was a kid.
And like many Kentuckians, we fought, scrapped, battled for everything that we have.
19 of my family members worked in an auto plant.
And I'm proud that I was raised in a blue-collar, working-class home.
And JD and I also share lineage in Appalachia.
You know, my family descends from Morgan County, which is the county next to Breathitt.
And you talk about tough and fighters.
You can find in Appalachia all day long.
And, you know, Kentuckians, we've been fighting since the very beginning, since our people came over the Cumberland Gap and established the Commonwealth.
We've got it in our DNA to fight.
And I think that that's what JD has.
That's what he's showcasing.
And I think that's one of the reasons why we were kind of kindred spirits because of those tough backgrounds and the challenges we had early on.
But I think, look, Don, that's what shaped me to be an entrepreneur, to go out on my own, to stand up to the establishment, whether it be in business.
And now as we talk about politics, you've got to be able to stand up to the establishment and fight.
And I think that's what that's what people are looking for today.
And I think that's what people get so excited about your father.
Yeah, talk a little bit about the business side of that.
I mean, you know, JD, same thing.
He was a venture capitalist, made a lot of money in tech, obviously still a super staunch conservative, but...
You know, he got through all of that.
He was able to break through that cycle, you know, create a successful business, then go on to become a U.S. senator and now the vice president of the United States.
I mean, you know, what I loved about that whole story was that you had all of it, right?
You had sort of that tough upbringing.
You understand, like when you're voting on things, when you're pushing for policy, like when you've been the recipient of food stamps or you've had to go through that.
I mean, I think that really frames that narrative.
But then when you get through that and also know how to run a business.
And have done so successfully for years, it's that breadth of knowledge that's so lacking in Washington, D.C., where basically everyone's just a bureaucrat.
They were better at being a bureaucrat than anyone else.
They've oftentimes never created anything.
They've never signed the front of a paycheck.
They don't know what that's like.
They're good at playing that game.
I'll give them that.
But there's so more to actual policy.
There's so much more to life than just being a bureaucrat.
Talk a little bit about the business side of that so people understand that, because again, the similarities to you and JD are really astonishing.
Well, look, Don, I was proud that JD and I were the hillbillies out in Silicon Valley when we'd go out there, and that made us stand out in a big way.
But look, Don, I was in the waste management business, and I'm sure you've watched The Sopranos.
I love The Sopranos.
I mean, you talk about a tough industry.
These people are the toughest to come by in business.
And look, this is a space.
That was owned by Bill Gates.
He is the biggest garbage man in the world.
Bill Gates.
Really?
He owns the two big garbage companies, and they're corporate thugs.
And I just said, look, as a young guy, we need to bring transparency.
We need to bring taxpayer savings.
We need to bring opportunity for small businesses in the waste business.
And that's what my company did.
And I started with $10,000 on a lot of credit.
I grew that company to take it public on the New York Stock Exchange at $2 billion.
You know, over my career, I employed thousands of people.
And these are great American jobs.
And I'm really proud of what we built.
We gave free health care to all of our employees.
And that's something that, you know, I learned from my grandfather that there's opportunity everywhere.
A lot of people laughed at me like, why are you going in the garbage business?
You know, you went to Princeton and Oxford.
Why are you doing this?
And I was like, you know, that's where the opportunity is.
That's where the American worker is.
And that's where I felt most comfortable fighting.
Against these big corporate thugs that had owned this industry for generations.
And we took a lot of big contracts away from these guys and built one of the largest American garbage companies across the country.
So, look, I'm very proud of that.
But more importantly, it taught me to fight as well at the corporate level.
And look, I saw all kinds of crazy stuff, Don.
You wouldn't believe it.
You know, there's a lot of talk about ESG and DEI. Talk about that, because I know you touched on it with me, but it's sort of amazing.
There's ESG and DEI in the waste business.
It never ends.
It's absolutely crazy, Don.
And let me tell you, I mean, look, I thought I'd seen tough people in union politics, which is a knife fight in a ditch.
And I thought I saw tough people in the waste business, which is the Tony Soprano industry.
But there's nothing like the ESG mafia when they're threatening to shut you down.
If you don't do this or don't do that in the name of ESG or DEI or BLM, whatever it is.
And I'm really proud.
Many times I stood up to this, but look, by the end, I'd had enough and didn't even recognize my company.
I'm like, what is going on here?
And one of the first things I did when I left my company is I invested in Strive with Vivek.
And I just said, look, this nonsense has got to stop.
And Don, more importantly, it's radicalized me to say we need leaders in Washington.
To get government out of business and get woke politics out of business.
And you need somebody who understands how to take those fights to Washington.
You know, a lot of these guys that are looking at this race, Don, they talk this big game about ESG. They're sitting in a cubicle.
You know, someone like Daniel Cameron sitting in a cubicle, opining about all the pitfalls of ESG. He's never had a job, never been in corporate America.
And yet he makes all these crazy statements.
He has no idea what he's talking about.
And I think that's the big difference is when you send business people, they know the pressures and they know what it's like to be under the microscope.
And most importantly, how to fight this stuff and keep it out of our business.
I think that's so critical.
Again, it's one thing.
It's sort of like the professor that lectures you about all the things that he's never actually done.
So you've actually done it.
What are the worst or most glaring examples that you saw of ESG, DEI, and just how bad it was?
Because, no, that mafia is real.
I mean, they've gone after me.
I stopped caring.
And I think, to your point, you're right.
There are those that sort of have the stomach to actually become radicalized against What I think most people probably view as insanity.
I think this last election was a mandate on much of that insanity.
But it's easier to do it when you don't have something at risk, when your whole company's not at risk, when the loan that you need to expand your business gets...
Pulled away in an instant because you didn't hire a purple leprechaun.
Give us a couple of the stories because I'm sure people will love to see this stuff.
Unless you're doing it every day, you may not even realize.
You assume some of it's happening, but like all things, like Doge, like USAID, you assume there's some grift, there's some graft, there's some nonsense, but you don't realize just how pervasive it is and more importantly, just how bad it is.
You know, that's right, Don.
And let me tell you, I've had examples of Fortune 500 companies come to us.
You know, we manage their waste across the country.
And they said, look, unless you do this ESG report, DEI reporting, you're going to lose the business.
You're going to lose the business.
And some of these contracts, Don, $100 million contracts.
You know, what am I supposed to tell our employees when they get laid off if I say, no, we can't do that, and they lose their job?
Well, I'm not going to be in that business as the leader of the company saying, you're going to lose your job because we're not going to comply with what the customer wants if they control $100 million of our revenue.
Or you've got an investor that's invested $200 million in your business.
What are you supposed to say?
And look, I made the tough decision to say, look, I'm going to stand with our workers and make sure that they keep their job.
But ultimately, we're going to try to fight and beat this back.
And we ultimately were able to get them off the DEI and ESG train in many cases of what we had to report.
But there were some tough calls and tough moments.
And unless you've been in business and you have something very large, hundreds of millions of dollars to lose, you have no idea what you're talking about.
And you're talking, you know, like you said, as an armchair quarterback, you know, some professor.
Just, you know, given this hypothesis about what you believe can happen when you've never actually been in the fire and never actually stood up to any of these guys before.
So I understand, you know, obviously you've grown a couple of great businesses, but, you know, multiple great businesses.
So I love someone running for office.
Who does not need the job?
It's a significant pay cut, unlike everyone else in Washington, D.C., who needs the job.
Unless, of course, you start trading like Nancy Pelosi and maybe you'll become one of the greatest investors of all time.
Nate, who knows?
I think you've done well enough.
You don't have to worry about it.
But I also understand the corollary to that is, you know, your grandfather was the head of a local union.
He was a big inspiration to you.
So, you know, beyond just fighting for the workers as a CEO, you actually understand where those guys are coming from.
Just like I sort of understood perhaps, you know, regular people getting, you know, fully acknowledging how blessed I was.
But because my mom was from communist Czechoslovakia and she made me spend my summers over there as a kid.
So I got like glass tower on the 70th floor of Trump Tower overlooking Central Park and like two months of communist Czechoslovakia.
And then, you know, you combine those experiences and you end up with a pretty radicalized individual like myself who perhaps gets it all.
No, that's that's right.
Don.
It was the closest thing I had to a mentor.
You know, a lot of people talk about mentors, the people that are looking at this race, and they both said Mitch McConnell.
But my grandfather, who ran a union, who worked for Ford Motor Company for over 50 years, never missed a day of work, served as a janitor, worked on the assembly line, did all kinds of jobs for Ford, and ultimately was elected to lead his local 862 right here in Kentucky.
You know, when people got laid off, we felt it.
We knew about it.
We were fighting to keep those layoffs from happening.
We saw people struggle.
We saw people needing more health care.
And that's real America.
That's real Kentucky.
And I'm really proud that my grandfather taught me, number one, to value the American worker and what the American worker puts into our economy.
And I saw it firsthand.
And second, he taught me to buy American.
You know, my grandfather is one of these guys, Don.
He would look at the tag and say, Where is this thing made before I buy it?
And he'd probably slash your tires if you showed up in a foreign car at his house.
And that's the kind of stuff that he taught me.
And I still look for American-made stuff, still drive American cars for that reason.
And we have to support our own, Don.
We have to support the American worker and put our people first before anybody else's interests.
And I think that's what your father continues to get right.
And the Trump administration's all about is serving the American worker.
And I think that's what's got everybody excited in Kentucky.
So how did you get into business in the first place, Nate?
What inspired you to do that?
How did you break out of that, you know, the upbringing, really, to become this success?
You know, look, I was broke, Don.
I think that's great motivation.
You know, I wanted to make money.
I wanted to help my family.
I saw a challenge in the waste business that there hadn't been a new generation of leadership.
These were...
Sort of stagnant old relic kind of companies that have been run the same way.
And I said, look, we could disrupt that.
We could change it.
We can make it more transparent, more friendly to small business.
And that's the opportunity I saw.
And look, there's nothing like the garbage business.
We make tons of it in America.
And I don't think there's anything more American than making money with trash.
And that's what always got me excited.
I think I hear a campaign slogan in there somewhere.
Taking out the trash in Kentucky.
It seems to work, but I won't even, you know, it's all yours if you want it, okay?
I won't even steal it.
Yeah, no, it's, and look, I love seeing your dad in the garbage truck.
You know, that really struck a chord with me.
And look, we got plenty of trash in Washington, D.C. that needs to be cleaned up, right?
There's a big mess up there right now, and I think...
Sometimes you need the grit and the determination of people that are in the trash business.
They're the toughest people in business.
They do a tough, tough job.
And I think that's what really appealed to me, that blue collar grit that I grew up with.
And I saw that DNA in the space and how we could make it better for all Americans.
So, I mean, you took a company public at a $2 billion valuation, guys, just so you know what we're talking about, that you founded on a $10,000 credit line.
What was it like to find so much business success that young?
I mean, that's the American dream, man.
It is alive and well if you're able to still pull that off.
Well, look, I learned by watching my parents.
My mother, she worked so hard as a single mother.
In many cases, she worked two jobs to help support me.
My grandfather, like I said, never missed a day of work.
And I just took what they taught me as a kid to, you know, show up on time, overwork, spend as many hours as you can working nonstop.
My grandfather's one of these guys that just never quit, Don.
And he was always working, always doing something.
And it was that determination and that work ethic that I just applied it, kept doing the next right thing.
And you'd be surprised how much garbage is in America.
So, you know, it was a great opportunity to build something from scratch.
But I think also we were able to showcase a vision for an industry that a lot of people didn't see what it could become and how it could change.
And, you know, I'm proud, Don, that we saved the American taxpayer, just in my last two years as CEO, over $70 million just by finding abuse and fraud and waste in local government.
And these are the things that really inspired me that you could do great things through business.
You don't necessarily have to be elected to do great things in the country.
And I saw that in your dad as well growing up.
So you're a successful business guy.
You're able to contribute back that way.
Why are you considering jumping into the rat race to replace Mitch McConnell?
What gives you that motivation, Nate?
Look, I've just had enough of these career politicians, Don.
I've had it.
And I'm sickened by what I've seen.
I'm absolutely sick about it.
You know, whether it be Ukraine, the border, all the nonsense that's been in our politics.
The fact that Mitch McConnell is just so brash and openly opposing your father after the mandate he got in Kentucky makes me sick, Don.
And I've just had enough of it.
And I think people in Kentucky have had enough of it.
They've had enough of the career politician.
We've had 40 years of Mitch McConnell.
And, you know, we don't need 40 years of the same.
We don't need 40 years of, you know, cronies, career politicians that continue to feed at the public trough.
We need people to shake things up, stand with the MAGA movement, stand with your father.
And I think as an outsider, that gets me really excited of the change that can be brought on behalf of Kentucky and on behalf of the country.
And we've got to get rid of these rhinos and career politicians.
They've had their chance.
They've had their day in the sun.
It didn't work.
And now we've got to bring something new to the table.
So for those of you who are tuning in a little bit late, we're on with Nate Morris, who's considering jumping into the Kentucky Senate race to replace Glitch Mitch McConnell.
Nate, what has the reaction been so far?
What do Kentucky voters...
Think of Mitch McConnell right now.
And how rough is that sort of party establishment there?
I mean, I know based on his votes versus my father's votes, he still puts it through.
But again, you know, when you control the purse strings of the entire United States Senate, I imagine you're boosting yourself more than others.
So maybe he can get through that.
But what's that whole dynamic look like right now?
Look, it's been really encouraging, Don.
Look, I'm so excited about the enthusiasm that's out there.
As you know, Don, we were one of the first people to call for Mitch McConnell to retire.
I wrote an op-ed in the Louisville Courier Journal, which is Mitch McConnell's home newspaper, by the way.
We wanted to send a very strong signal.
You need to retire.
You need to move on.
And I think we've seen an avalanche of courage and bravery, people standing up to his cronies and his apparatus after we called for him to retire.
And the groundswell around this and what we've been saying, I think, is really exciting.
But I've also had a share of really funny moments, Don.
I'll tell you, on Friday night, I was at this dinner for the big donors of Republican politics.
And, you know, all the Mitch apparatus was there.
McConnell Inc.
was there.
And, you know, I pay a lot of money to go to this thing.
I mean, this was, you know, thousands of dollars to attend this.
I'm sitting right there in the front.
Our Speaker of the House gets up there and cries like a baby.
He's 60 years old, Don.
Crying about how much he's going to miss Mitch McConnell.
And he looks right at me and he says, shame on you for the way you've treated Mitch McConnell on his way out.
And I was thinking to myself, I was like, is this guy really sad about Mitch McConnell or is he sad about that his moment is over, his day in the sun is over because he owes everything to Mitch McConnell.
And everybody in that room owed Mitch McConnell something except for me.
I was there because I was standing up as a business guy.
There is an outsider.
But this is the kind of blowback we also get from a lot of his folks.
You know, my wife is pregnant right now.
We got accosted by former Mitch McConnell staffers.
Like, how dare you take on the leader?
How dare you say what you say?
And they're used to being bullies and pushing people around.
How dare they?
How dare they?
They represent a group of people that they knew a third of what Mitch McConnell was doing and were paying attention.
They'd run them out of office in two seconds, but they're able to get by because they control that entire apparatus.
And yeah, you're right.
I mean, you've been going viral left and right on social media, lighting them up for months now.
I've been doing that for quite some time myself.
But what has the reaction been like from regular people?
The establishment's going to establish.
That's what they do, right?
They're going to be the worst of the worst, and they get paid well to do so, or they've been paid well to do so.
It's sick.
But I mean, it really is perhaps the most glaring example, perhaps more so than honestly even D.C. versus the rest of America.
Mitch McConnell versus conservatives in Kentucky.
There couldn't be a greater divide between what people think they're getting and what they're actually getting.
Yeah, that's right, Don.
And look, Saturday night I was in Nelson County.
I got a standing ovation for what I said from...
This is rank-and-file party members.
They've had enough, and they're glad that someone's finally standing up to this and finally taking on the McConnell machine and saying enough is enough.
And I was very proud.
I had a lot of friends from the Kentucky Bikers Association.
They couldn't have been more excited.
They're like, finally, somebody is speaking out and saying something about this.
And, you know, a lot of people have been very terrified, Don, and I think people are now feeling confidence and courage to stand up and say enough is enough.
We need to send somebody different back to Washington.
So, Nate, how do you get through, you know, again, in the beginning of this, I talked about, yeah, I'm hearing, you know, the political world is small.
I get it.
Not, you know, even some of the regulars, the establishment folks, they still have inroads with me or their former establishment guys that have seen the light.
And so, you know, if I'm hearing from people that, you know, the guys like Karl Rove are going through and the rest of the McConnell machine.
You know, I imagine that goes down to a lot of the typical establishment media is going to be going after you.
How do you break through?
Is it just boots on the ground, door to door in Kentucky?
Because, you know, those are going to be forces that are going to be working against you.
Not because it's real.
But as we saw with Russia, Russia, Russia, it doesn't matter.
You still have to deal with the BS. How do you break through the things that we all know are inevitably going to be happening behind the scenes where, you know, the establishment, even establishment media, even establishment conservative media is going to be doing whatever they can to shank you for whoever Mitch's guys are?
Look, Don, we've got to keep fighting.
We've got to keep doing what we're doing.
But we need the grassroots.
We need a groundswell.
And continue this movement to stop Mitch McConnell and his cronies from occupying the seat.
I mentioned the dinner on Friday night.
Every one of these people keep standing up for Mitch McConnell every time he's mentioned, like he's some sort of god.
And they're standing up for my potential opponents as well.
And that tells you everything you need to know about this potential race here, is that you've got these guys that are owned by McConnell that are trying to get in.
One's already gotten in, by the way.
It's going to take the grassroots.
It's going to take everything we've got to fight Mitch McConnell and his cronies from occupying this seat through a different vessel.
Because, look, any of these two guys looking at the race, they're going to occupy it with McConnell loyalists, McConnellites.
It's going to be McConnell 2.0.
And everybody needs to realize that as we continue this fight and we continue to have this dialogue with Kentucky and bring the fight directly to them.
I'm not afraid of them.
And very few people have ever been able to stand up to this guy.
Yeah, I saw that, I think it was earlier today, or maybe it was over the weekend.
I read the Wall Street Journal article, you know, Daniel Cameron, who's like literally a Mitch's protege, he literally, when he ran, he ran as Mitch's protege, and he said there's zero light between Mitch and me on anything, ever, whatever.
And then in the Wall Street Journal, it's like, you know.
Daniel Cameron, he's going against Mitch now.
I'm like, come on, guys.
Does no one realize...
If you're trying to win a primary in Kentucky, I promise you, if you're doing it for real, you're not leaking it to the Wall Street Journal that he's really taking them on so he's not just Mitch's guy.
They understand it's probably harder to win being Mitch's guy right now, but like...
You see the creation of the fake narrative in real time.
I went, what'd you make of that one?
Because I was like, I don't know, guys.
It seems like if you're actually going to do it, call them out loud, call them out aggressively, do it at home, not in the Wall Street Journal where, you know, I'd say very few, you know, base Republicans will ever see even a little bit of this.
But it's just such a setup, obviously.
Yeah, I mean, look, Don, my family doesn't read the Wall Street Journal.
The guys that worked in the factory, they don't read the Wall Street Journal.
And look, I think they're not trying to speak to Kentuckians.
They're trying to speak to the Washington establishment.
And it's a complete bogus lie.
Yeah, they're trying to form it like, oh, it's not really Mitch's guy.
Let's all get on with those talking points so that we can try to shape this thing the way they want.
And then they get in and all of a sudden he's Mitch's guy.
Absolutely.
And look.
Don, the biggest thing I took from that piece, you read that Cameron said that he would unite the party.
That's AKA, we're going to keep toeing the line for Mitch if we get in.
That's what he was saying.
And now he's trying to say he's a uniter and bringing both factions of the party together.
And look, Don, this is really simple.
This is a referendum on McConnell, period.
This is what this is all about.
And this is what this race is going to be about.
It is a referendum on Mitch McConnell.
You either stand with McConnell.
Or you stand with President Trump.
There is no in-between.
And Daniel Cameron knows everything to Mitch McConnell.
He was a McConnell scholar at the University of Louisville.
McConnell plucked him from riding the bench at the University of Louisville football team.
Couldn't get on the field.
So Mitch McConnell gives him a scholarship and says, look, I could turn this guy into a United States senator.
He interns for Mitch McConnell.
And you know the first thing he did, Don?
When he was working for McConnell, is he helped to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Now, that's AKA amnesty, open borders, porous borders.
That's the first thing he did when he got out of the gate in politics, is to stand with Mitch McConnell on open borders.
It's crazy.
And every step of this guy's career, whether he be general counsel for Mitch, you know the general counsel signs off on everything.
That a senator does.
And so he signed off on everything Mitch McConnell did.
His cronies ran his race for attorney general and governor.
And by the way, Don, he squandered your father's endorsement.
I mean, he lost by almost six points.
My dad endorsed him because it was, you know, the guy at the time or whatever it was.
And he wouldn't even embrace it in Kentucky.
You know, it's great.
I'll get it.
But they wouldn't run an ad when he just.
It's mind boggling.
I mean, I could understand if you're running as a Republican in New York City, maybe.
But like in Kentucky, like that's.
That's all you needed.
And instead you lose and you end up with a Democrat governor and it's wild.
And it's preposterous.
And look, we just had Kentucky Fried Chicken leave Kentucky.
Can you believe that, Don?
And that's because we elected a Democratic governor.
And I blame Daniel Cameron for Kentucky Fried Chicken leaving our state.
I mean, if we had a Republican governor in there, there's no way that would have happened.
And look, I think that it's really clear.
Terry Carmack told, who's Mitch McConnell's chief of staff, told Trump to stay out.
Of the general election and not come to Kentucky.
I mean, how ludicrous of an idea is that?
And so, look, and then you look at the other guy, Andy Barr, and look, this is a guy, Don, who said that Mitch McConnell was his mentor at 50 years old.
This was several months ago, maybe five or six months ago, said that Mitch McConnell was his mentor.
First of all, I don't know any 50-year-old men that still have mentors, let alone Mitch McConnell.
You should be mentoring others at that age, right?
Yeah.
That's wild.
Well, as someone who is a Kentucky colonel, myself, and a Duke of Hazzard, by the way, or spent a lot of time in Hazzard, Kentucky, I'm glad to see someone taking this on and putting an end to it.
So, Nate, let everyone know where they can find you, because Nate's social game is...
For a newcomer into politics, at least, really strong.
So I suggest you follow him, check him out, watch the campaign.
And more importantly, if you're from Kentucky, let's make sure we do whatever we can to make sure you don't end up with another Mitch Disciple in there, because America doesn't need that.
MAGA certainly doesn't need it.
And, you know, if you're not from Kentucky, you know, this is going to be one of those Senate races that we're going to have to really fight, because as we've seen, right, with, you know...
Republicans like Mitt Romney or otherwise in the Senate, you might as well have a Democrat.
So let's make sure we don't end up with a Mitch Democrat in the Kentucky Senate seat.
That should be an otherwise, I don't want to say easy win, nothing's easy, but should be pretty much a no-brainer.
Yeah, Don, I'm on X, at Nate Morris.
Give me a follow.
Let's engage in discussion.
And Don, I'm so grateful for you having me on the show today.
It's great to be with you again.
It's my pleasure, man.
I'm sure we'll do a lot together and we will see you soon.
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