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Feb. 28, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Steve King — "Walking Through the Fire." (2022)
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It is time for our afternoon speaker, and of course you all know who that's going to be.
it's going to be Congressman Stephen King.
Thank you.
The Congressman represented the state of Iowa for 18 years in Congress, from 2003 to just last year.
Before that, he started a construction company.
He was in the Iowa Senate for six years.
And when he went to Washington, he was always on the front lines in the hottest part of the battlefield where he was fighting the establishment, all the woke craziness that we so are vividly and unfortunately aware of today.
He was out there working so hard that at one time he was probably the most hated man in the country.
And of course the reason he was so hated is he gave the other side reason.
Not insufficient reason.
The Washington Post called him the U.S. congressman most openly affiliated with white nationalism.
Oh, oh.
The New York Times just called him straight up a white nationalist.
They weren't being around the bush.
And so when he wrote his memoirs, it was appropriate to title them Walking Through the Fire.
We have been sitting with a congressman for the last hour, and he has regaled us with so many interesting stories, I hope he has at least a few left for you, ladies and gentlemen.
So please welcome Congressman King.
Wow! Thanks, thanks a lot.
I so appreciate the welcome and the invitation to be here, Jerry.
This is something that I wanted to do.
We brought this together sometime maybe last February or so when we started working on it, and I said, I don't know if I can actually make the schedule work.
But as it worked out, it took a little work to make the schedule work, but we got it done, and I'm really happy to be here.
If I wasn't the speaker tonight, I'm still happy I had the chance to be with all of you.
So I wanted to talk about Western civilization to start this out and then roll through some things.
It's been a topic that's been part of our other speakers' discussions here throughout the day that I've heard.
And I just would trick you quickly through the history so you get a foundation of it.
Because if you're probably under about 40 years old, you didn't have a chance to learn anything about Western civilization in your college courses.
Because they've scrubbed it out of our universities all across this land.
And so here's where I'd go with you.
Start with Moses.
And Moses laid down.
The judges, the framework of the judges, and the rule of law.
The foundation for the rule of law.
And then the Greek philosophers, Socrates and Aristotle and others, they debated and then they would get called out.
And they would say, wait a minute, this isn't your idea as a Greek.
You robbed this from Moses.
It was his idea.
And then it went over to the Romans.
And the Romans took the foundation of this and they said, they borrowed also Moses' rule of law.
And they spread this rule of law across the entire Roman world at the time.
And that would take you to the birth of Christ.
And the most seminal event in the foundation of Western civilization was Jesus Christ.
And when I was in 2016, at the opening of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, I'm sitting on a panel with MSNBC.
You know, you've got to go into the enemy camp once in a while.
Chris Hayes and, let's see, Charlie Pierce.
And what was her other name?
I think Ryan was her name.
She's a black reporter there.
But anyway, April Ryan was her name.
And I'm sitting on this panel, and we're doing this little debate about the beginning of the Republican Convention.
And they're shutting this thing down.
It's the end of the segment.
And Charlie Pierce says, well, one could be an optimist and hope that this is the last Republican Convention.
Where old white people have anything to say about it.
And I was supposed to let them go to a commercial at that point.
Well, you know.
And I said, Charlie, that's getting a little tired.
It's a little tired to hear that over and over again.
And I'd invite you to describe to us what other subgroup of people has contributed more to civilization than Western civilization.
And let's see if we get this wrong.
And then Chris Hayes, the moderator, he looked over at me with a leer.
It was a leer.
Then Western Civilization, he said, then white people?
He thought he had me.
And I said...
No, then Western civilization itself, the foundation of which is everywhere where the footprint of Jesus Christ laid the foundation, and that's all of the Western Hemisphere, every square mile of the Western Hemisphere.
It's Western Europe, it's Eastern Europe, it's along the Mediterranean, at least as far as Greece, and it goes east of Moscow.
That's what Western civilization is.
And the foundation of it is built upon, I don't get to talk this long, but I'm telling you a little more now, it's built upon the pillars of American exceptionalism.
And we are, today, in this country, we are the flagship of Western civilization.
And they're seeking to sink us.
So Roman law spread across Europe.
And it spread across because of Emperor Constantine that said, you all need to become Christians.
And as it spread across Europe, the Romans went into Germany, they went into England, and in those years...
Like Germany was finally occupied by the Romans by about 12, number 12 BC, before the birth of Christ.
Then in about 43 AD, the other side of the birth of Christ, when Christ would have been about, I guess, 43 years old if he had lived through the crucifixion, which of course he didn't.
But that's the era, right about the birth of Christ, that the Roman influence was all over Europe.
And into Europe came the Roman concept of the rule of law.
And I want to tell you something.
This is Steve King's interpretation of Scripture.
So, you know, anybody can challenge it if they want.
But I came to this conclusion.
When Christ stood before the high priest, and the high priest said to him, Caiaphas was the high priest, he said, did you really say those things?
Did you really teach those things?
And Jesus said, pointed to the Jews, and he said, ask them.
They were there.
I spoke openly in the synagogue.
And the guard struck Jesus.
And Jesus said, if I have spoken wrongly, Then you must prove the wrong, but if I've spoken rightly, then why do you punish me?
Two things in there.
Jesus asserted his right to face his accusers, the Jews that he pointed to, and he asserted his right to be innocent until proven guilty.
Those two things came out of that.
My interpretation, maybe nobody else's, but that's what I believe.
And then, so, the concept of all this flowed across Europe after the birth of Christ, but a couple of bad things happened.
One thing happened that was pretty interesting.
In Cologne, Germany, 332 A.D., under Emperor Constantine of the Romans, they built a Catholic church, I'd call it that now, a Western Roman Catholic church.
In 332 A.D., they built this church.
We call it today maybe a modest-sized church compared to what we see over there, but the cornerstone was laying in 332, right on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne.
And they went to church there all those years.
And then when the Romans were sacked in 410 A.D. by the Visigoths, that church is still there.
They chugged along.
But that's what kicked the world into the Dark Ages in 410 A.D. when the Visigoths invaded and sacked Rome.
That's kind of the seminal date.
It didn't happen all at once, but that's how that was.
As Rome went down, we went into the Dark Ages, and this civilization that had been developed, actually the Romans were the greatest civilization the world had ever seen at the time, but the world forgot how to think, how to reason.
We went into paganism.
They destroyed all of the principles and all the values, and the buildings and everything raised them to the ground because they had such contempt for the Romans, the pagans that had taken over and the Visigoths and others.
And so the Dark Ages went on from 410 A.D., and I'm just going to skip a little fast forward now up to...
1050. And 1050, there in Cologne, they looked at their church that had been built in 332 A.D., and they decided, huh, we need to have a better church, a new church.
Let's kick our architects together.
And they drew up a set of plans for a Gothic cathedral.
Those plans were finished in 1050 A.D., and they began building this Gothic cathedral for 200 years.
At about 1250, they ran out of money.
And they stopped, because they were fiscally prudent people.
But they continued their fundraising drive, and if I think of it, I'll get you back to the rest of that mystery.
So that was 1050.
1215 A.D., here came the Magna Carta, this idea that a man's home is his castle and you have a sovereignty within yourself, and King John wasn't eager about signing that, but he liked his head, so he signed it.
And that was one of the other principles of this American exceptionalism we have, or Western civilization, I should say.
And then...
We've got to mention Columbus.
He showed up in 1492.
That was pretty important.
And there are people out there now that would think, well, the Western Hemisphere, discovered by Columbus, we really shouldn't have ever gone in and invaded this land and taken it over and settled it because, after all, the indigenous people had a right to it because they'd been there.
Well, they were killing each other, beheading each other.
They were eating each other.
We civilized them.
We taught them how to scalp and take the scalp instead of the whole head.
That was more efficient.
But the critics out here, the left, say we should have set aside the entire hemisphere for the indigenous people's preserve so they could live for eternity without a wheel or a written language or the things we brought to them.
I think that's merciless, not merciful to do that.
But that's their argument.
They have no idea on what to say that we should have done with the Native people population in the North American or South American continents.
And I've asked them this.
I've challenged them on it and some of those folks within Congress.
But anyway, so the timing of this.
So Columbus 1492.
I've got to also point you out when I get to this point.
Magna Carta 1215.
1250 was when They decided, okay, they stopped building on the Cathedral of the Dome.
It was 1050 to 1250 when they stopped building.
I'll just put that on pause again.
1492 Columbus, Martin Luther, 1521, when he nailed up his precepts on the Diet of Worms.
And that was an important thing, too, in our history.
They don't teach you history and how religion impacts our history, but we're driven by ideology.
And Martin Luther said, well, the Catholic Church is selling intentions.
And it's really not the principles that we should be behind, so he laid out these principles.
And what happened was, it clashed the Catholic, the Western Church, along with the Protestant churches, and that was a long and ugly time.
But in the end, it reformed the Catholic Church, and in the end, we got back together here in this country.
So that's what I'd say about that.
1529, the Muslims, the Ottoman Turks, launched an assault on Vienna.
And they had about 100,000 of their troops that surrounded Vienna, and there were about 20,000 Christian troops within Vienna who fought off that siege and defeated the Ottomans in 1529.
1571, October 7th, by the way, we had the Battle of Lepanto.
And that was when the Holy League's armada matched up against the Ottoman Muslim armada, I will say, their fleet.
And the Muslims, they always had to turn their fleet around in a C shape, like you'll see their crescent.
They like to fight with a crescent curve like this.
For whatever reason, strategic, I don't know.
Maybe you know, I don't know.
And so they've got, this is the last battle fought with oars instead of power or whatever.
But the Christians are thinking, you know, we've got to beat those guys.
What are we going to do different?
We've got to turn our ships sideways to get a broadside in order to shoot at these Turks, their navy.
And they said, well, you know what?
It would be a lot better if we could just sail straight into them with all our firepower and blast them down and shoot their mass off and board them and kill them and sink them.
And so they put their heads together, and they did what I would call, I'm a construction guy, they set up these cantilevered platforms out on the sides of their ships.
And so they rolled out these heavy wooden platforms and stick it out either side like wings or you might think of it as a catamaran without floats.
And then they rolled their cannon out on here.
And so it was time to sail into that crescent shape of the Turks.
They had all their firepower aimed forward.
They sailed into those Turks and unloaded what was the equivalent of the broadside while the Turks were trying to turn broadside to shoot back.
And they wiped them out mercilessly.
And it was like, I wrote the number down, 187 Turkish ships were either captured or went to the bottom of the sea.
187. At a cost of 40,000 of the Turks, where the 10,000 of them were captured, 30,000 of them went also to the bottom of the sea.
They don't swim that well, I hear.
And we lost 7,500 Christian sailors in that battle, but freed 12,000.
Out of the hulls that were pulling the oars on the Turkish ships that were slaves.
Now, I go back to this, what I didn't plan to say, but there's a book written by a professor Ford from Ohio State University called Christian Slaves and Muslim Masters.
And he must have had a lot of interns and help, but they went all around the Mediterranean, all the way up the coast of France, around England, into Iceland and Everest, looked through the church records.
To see what happened to those people that used to belong to those churches that were captured by the Turkish corsairs on the open seas in the Mediterranean merchant marine ships.
And he showed that the records that the Turks had during that period of time from 1500 to 1588.
And the only reason I consider 1588 was that's the Spanish Armada year.
But anyway, in that period of time, he said there were between 1 million and 1.25 million Christians who were pressed into slavery by the Barbary pirates on the open seas, As merchant marines.
Not a lot of women because it was far too dangerous.
But the men.
And so when the Turks got them, or when the Muslims got them, and these were Barbary pirates, so I should actually call them Barbary pirates.
So when they got them, they put some down in the hold to pull the oars.
They hauled a lot of them rest back to the Barbary coast.
And the edifices that were built there were built by Christian slaves.
And you wonder, well, where are the sons and daughters of those Christian slaves?
Well, the real answer is...
They really aren't hardly any because they took the knife to those slaves.
And we hear these words about castor raiding young kids today.
They didn't stop there.
They were completely emasculated.
And they put a little tube in them so they could urinate.
And when they got to where they couldn't work them anymore, they threw them over the side and killed them.
So that's why there isn't a leftover population.
Occasionally, though, over and out of that area, and I've been through there, you'll see a blue-eyed...
Barbary Coaster.
And that would be like at least a second generation, more like a seventh or eighth generation, where the concubines were pressed into their jobs, and the blue-eyed recessive shows up in the second or third or beyond generation.
That's what was going on.
It was awful.
And I walked down alongside those walls with Sheila Jackson Lee.
The whole trip, Sheila's going, I'm going, Sheila, see that fence over there?
Do you think it works?
You tell me walls don't work, see that one?
What about that wall with the barbed wire on top?
Why do they do that if it doesn't work?
These are your people, and they've got walls with wire over the top of them.
Are these people stupid, your people, or does it work?
You tell me.
Well, anyway, so we're walking under this 40-foot high wall over there in Morocco, and I go, Sheila, look up at that.
Do you know that that wall was built by slaves?
Oh, eh?
And do you know what it was?
These are white slaves.
Christian slaves that built that wall.
Did you know that?
And at one point, my wife's along, and she said, and she said, would you treat your little sister like this?
And I said, yeah, I do, but she can defend herself.
And so, anyway, that's some of the history of how bad it was.
But I think an important thing is this, and I wanted to put this out to you in this way, and I hope it pops up on my phone.
Because I couldn't get it copied in.
Okay, here it is.
Now we're at 1607, 1588, now 1607.
And an important thing happened on this continent.
1607 Jamestown, the earliest permanent settlement on the North American continent, at least that I know of.
And when they settled there, they built a cross, and they received communion, and Reverend Robert Hunt offered this prayer.
I want you to really listen to what this prayer means because it says something about our calling and the destiny of America.
He said, And may this land,
along with England, be evangelists to the world.
May all who see this cross remember what we have done here and may those who come here to inhabit and join us in this covenant and in this most noble work that the Holy Scripture may be fulfilled.
Does that sound like Manifest Destiny to you?
It is the prayer that launched Manifest Destiny in my humble judgment of what history is.
And they knew that.
They knew the first settlement, what their calling was.
All of this land.
They didn't know where the West Coast was, but they knew they were called to settle all that land and evangelize all the people, not just here, but in the world.
That's been America's calling from the beginning and is the foundation of our Declaration of Independence.
And so that was 1607.
I wanted to bring you back to Europe, 1683.
That was a good year for us all.
Turned out to be.
And if you remember in 1983, Pope John Paul II celebrated a mass in a church called the Kallenberg Church on the west side of Vienna.
And it got my attention because this began on September 11, 1983.
September 11, 1683 was the beginning of the Battle of Vienna.
The Turks had, again, surrounded Vienna.
They had about 450,000 troops this time instead of 100,000.
They had besieged that city.
They had dug underneath the walls.
They had detonated their black powder.
The walls would crumble.
They'd dig it out and put some more back in.
Vienna was then one to three days of being stormed by the Turks.
And once they penetrated the city, there was no stopping them.
Everybody that they want to rape is raped.
Everybody they want to behead is beheaded.
And they would have raided and looted the entire city.
And I don't know of a historian that believes that the Turks then would not have swept all the way across Europe.
Now, if that had happened, All of our foundation, our western foundation, would be gone.
Christianity would be scrubbed out of Europe.
And where would it remain?
I'd remain somewhere.
But it would be devastating to who we are and what we are as a people.
And so, barely in time, there were three German kings.
I don't remember their names anymore.
But they each got a hill on the Kallenberg area looking down from the west side of Vienna.
They're looking down.
And this glorious pole.
The poles don't get a lot of credit in the world, you know.
But King Jan Sobieski.
He was a fantastic hero.
And we owe him a lot of gratitude for what he accomplished.
He led a cavalry of about 20,000 to 25,000 from Poland down there.
They were the class cavalry in the world at the time.
And they were poised up on the mountains.
Well, okay, so skirmishes are going on September 11th.
And I've been to this church a few times.
It's a wonderful place to stand and contemplate.
But in any case...
The Kallenberg Church itself had been razed to the ground by the Turks and they raided everything for miles around for food and whatever else and killed all the people they could.
But that night...
Jan Sobieski, three German kings of their infantry, and as many officers as they could get, surrounded the ruins of the Kallenberg Church, and they celebrated that night.
Well, I should say celebrated a mass.
I'm Catholic, so I think of it that way, celebrating a mass.
But they prayed that God would deliver a victory.
These were not Catholics alone.
These were Catholics and Protestants together.
Finally, they put our Christianity together, and they prayed that God would deliver a victory for them the next day.
September 11th, that evening, that service, the next morning, just as the sun was coming up, one of the German kings launched an all-out assault and sent all his troops down the hills after the Turks, 450,000 of them, surrounding Vienna and tried to enter.
And when that happened, the other two kings, well, they launched an all-out assault too.
And once they ran down that hill and engaged the Turks, then King Jan Sobieski rode in there with his 20,000-plus cavalry They scattered the Turks, chopped them up into pieces, and chased them back to their home territory,
I should say.
And I heard this from the historian, the Austrian historian, and he put it to me this way.
Well, we had a certain advantage that morning because when all the Turks stopped to wait in the morning, they had their posteriors in the wrong direction to defend themselves.
And so they raided them and kicked them back out of the West and chased them back as far as they could to, I'll call it Constantinople, yet.
But that was a seminal moment in history that turned them back.
And then I guess I'm going to go on to, oh, I walked into a coffee shop with Governor Branson in Iowa, a couple of other people, Joni Ernst and others, a little while back, and they had this continuum painted up on the wall.
I'm speaking last, the rest of them give their platitudes.
I'm looking at that and it says, the history of coffee.
And it starts in Yemen, and then it goes to, oh, let's see, Mecca, I think it is.
Anyway, and then the Turks brought coffee to Vienna.
And I'm looking at that, and they put it on a mural like, well, yeah, the Turks must have just taken some wagons, loaded some coffee, and gone to Vienna.
And I go, no, I gave them a speech, and I go, that's not what happened at all.
The Turks hauled their coffee along.
They thought they were going to drink it, but they got their butt kicked, and they left the coffee, and they ran.
And... And...
Thank you.
So this date of September 11th means something to them, to the Muslims.
And there's another case that was, let's see, the Battle of Zenta, and that was 14 years later when they tried to cross the Tisla River up by, it's over in Serbia right now, but the city of Zenta.
And let's see, I haven't refreshed myself on this, but it was Prince Eugene, the last...
The last really good commander of the Habsburg military caught them crossing the river.
They had these pontoons across the river.
It would take about three days to move their whole army across the river.
And they had moved their artillery across.
They had their officers across.
They had about 2,000 Janissaries across.
And the rest of their regular troops were on the other side of the river with the pontoons sitting there.
And so Prince Eugene pulled his artillery out of the woods and unloaded a barrage on there on those pontoons.
And when it was done, the river was plugged.
With the Ottoman troops, the Muslim troops, and that sent them back again.
And that was kind of the last time they tried.
They were a little stubborn, but they met against, I'll say, superior brain power.
They were outmaneuvered.
And each one of these times that I have mentioned, because...
Western civilization, people have creative minds.
We lay awake at night thinking of things.
And we're not stuck in a rut on what did we do before.
And that's the cantilevered boards out there with the cannons on it.
That's at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, deciding to unload an artillery barrage on the Turks that are crossing the river.
And that's when you bring together the Christians all together and launch the infantry down the hills from the Kallenberg Church.
And I have...
That's a special, special place for me to stand in that church and know what that means to our civilization.
And that's where, in Vienna, as I would like to establish, the Center for an International Organization to Restore Western Civilization for the World.
And
And I'll circle back to that.
I wanted to ask you a question, too.
I wrote the number 1619 down here.
Does that mean anything to you?
Not me either.
I just thought I'd check the crowd out.
That was completely out of bounds.
So then I move forward to 1776.
There were more than one important thing that happened that year.
The Declaration, yes.
But another thing happened.
Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations in 1776.
Think of that.
Free enterprise capitalism spelled out and understood in simple terms like how you build a nail by Adam Smith matches up to the time the Declaration is signed.
And that free enterprise capitalism is a pillar of American exceptionalism.
And so it was matched up perfectly in my mind.
I thought I'd throw that into the data things.
And then think of this, that when the pilgrims and the settlers, Arrived here.
They arrived in a land that had, as far as they could understand, actually for centuries, unlimited natural resources.
It had a promise of freedom.
It had religious freedom.
Freedom of speech, religion, the press, the right to keep and bear arms.
All the things that are laid out in the Bill of Rights and the Ten Amendments to the Constitution, they're all there.
And that was a giant petri dish that allowed for our freedom to grow.
And on top of that, we had small farmers.
We had small shopkeepers.
I know even today, when we have them, and they're a threatened group today, these are the independent-minded people that believe in these freedoms, and they're exercising them, and they're under assault.
But that spirit that I've seen for years, and I am one, too.
I started a business in 1975.
It's doing fine today.
I had to fight my way uphill for a long time.
But that spirit causes you to say, I need less government, I need less taxes, I need less rules to live by.
Let me just go out and serve my customers and start a business and grow that to the extent that I can.
I need to be free!
And that's what they wanted us to be free.
And so, you know, to walk that ground between Lexington and Concord and go to that bridge, that was something for me to feel.
For years I hadn't been there, and my father would quote that poem to me.
And it created an imagination in my mind, but by the rude bridge that arched the flood, our flag to rip April's breeze unfold, there the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot around the world.
When I stood on that bridge and felt that for the first time, not that many years ago, I thought back about what my father had said to me so many times when I was little on up.
And I'd asked him, I said, the rude bridge that arched the flood, is it still there?
And he said, no, it washed away.
Well, did they rebuild it?
He said, no, they didn't need the bridge anymore.
But they rebuilt it.
They rebuilt it for historical reasons, and I was there to see that.
He was right the day he said it.
I checked the math on that.
So that was an inspiring, inspiring thing.
And then, so to get some of the, a little bit of the part here of the subject matter, I wanted to ask you this.
There's a quote here that I wanted to deliver to you, and it's a quote from, Joseph Sobrandt.
And his question is this.
Why do they hate us whites?
Why do they hate us?
And his statement was, and this was in 1997, April, Western man towers over the rest of the world in ways so large as to be almost inexpressible.
It's Western exploration, science, and conquest that have revealed the world to itself.
Other races feel like subjects of Western power long after colonialism, imperialism, and slavery have disappeared.
The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel not hostility but only baffled goodwill because they don't grasp what it really means, humiliation.
The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn't conscious of it, and superiority excites envy.
Destroying white civilization, Is the most desire of the league, excuse me, is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.
Joseph Sobrant.
And he's right.
And there's a certain, the envy, the jealousy of this, that's what generates much of the hatred that's there.
So I just say, who built this country?
White! It was.
And, I mean, I know about, what, the 54th Massachusetts.
They fought in the Civil War.
One battle I know of.
Battle of Andersonville, I think it was.
And we know about, what, the Tuskegee Airmen.
Well, can we talk about, is there any squadron or is there any air wing in the Second World War that you remember that wasn't the Tuskegee Airmen?
Can you name a single regiment in the Civil War that wasn't the 54th Massachusetts?
Why is that?
And you've heard today, and I agree and I support it, that the effort to marginalize white people in this country is just pervasive.
It's everywhere.
It's ubiquitous.
And so they thought somehow that they could marginalize us to the point where we would just, what, curl up in a fetal position and apologize and beg for a scrap from the table that we actually filled?
I'd say to them, well, what did they expect?
Did they think that we would do that?
Or how could they not know that we would stand up and defend our heritage and defend our rights and defend this country?
Because if we don't do this, this country is sunk.
We're the ones that have to save America.
We have to save America.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks.
It is up to us.
And I mentioned the International Organization to Restore Western Civilization for the World.
And that's something I've been working on for a long time.
I would go in and out of Europe.
I would tuck into those places.
I watched what was going on there.
And you had these patriotic parties that were popping up across Western Europe in particular, but also Eastern Europe.
And so not only have I gone into the no-go zones in those Arab-infested places around the...
Around Europe and also in the United States, by the way.
I took a weekend and went up to Minneapolis to figure out what was going on there.
I went to seven mosques.
I decided there's nobody with me and there's nobody to tell my story if I don't make it back.
And I went to Dearborn and went through that, too, and I had a little staff with me.
But I learned a lot.
But also, the no-go zones that I've gone into, I would name them London to, I'll say, a moderate degree.
Amsterdam to a moderate, oh, I guess a full degree, but I didn't see a lot there.
Brussels. Michelle Bachman and I walked right into the heart of that in Brussels.
The State Department was just, their knees had to be knocking.
We were supposed to be safe and they didn't want us to go.
And we just parked this van here.
We want to get out and stretch our legs.
And then we did.
We walked right into the heart of the no-go zone of Brussels where some of those plans were set up.
Paris, I went there with one Marine.
He was supposed to be my security, but he was civilians.
He didn't have any more guns on him than you do.
And so we couldn't get the State Department to take us there because...
It was too dangerous to go to the no-go zones of Paris, but where they plotted that attack on Charlie Hebdo and the Bonaclan Theater and the kosher deli and the restaurant, the outdoor restaurant, I wanted to go there and stand in that place.
And yeah, I wanted to say a prayer there, but I wanted to understand what kind of hatred, what's the environment like that does that.
And so the State Department wouldn't take me, and I hired a private car, and I said, drive us over there.
Well, he ran out of nerve two blocks out, but he pointed down the alley.
So we start down the alley, and my Marine, no doubt he has plenty of courage, but his job is to protect me, right?
So he goes, I don't think we should go, sir.
And I said, well, we came a long ways, and I think we have to.
Eyes front, walk with purpose.
And so we did.
And we got down the alley, I don't know, 25 feet, and here's this Muslim guy standing there, relieving himself without, he didn't turn his back or anything, he's like, that's what they do, I guess.
It's not my civilization.
He was importing his own into Paris.
So we walked by him, and now you've got like 30 or 40 of these young, military-aged Muslim men, and they're cheering and ranting because they've got two guys there in shirts off with boxing gloves on, and they're going at each other like Rocky.
And, you know, we had a fight by hometown after Rocky was showing up in the parking lot.
You come out of a fight show, you want to fight.
And I thought, that's not going to be good, but...
Eyes front, walk with purpose, and we walked through that crowd, and we got down to the corner where that apartment complex was where these terrorists plotted these killings of the scores of French that they killed, and I was going to do a video outside that, and I got ready to do that, and I thought, you know what?
I could feel those eyes, and I decided I'm not going to do it here, so I walked up the street about a block and a half, and I did a video there where there's a little less attention, but I wanted to go into each one of those places, and I went to Rouen, France, where the cathedral there,
Where a couple of Muslims came in and beheaded the priest on the altar during Mass.
And they said, I can't go there because the church is chained up and it's not open.
And I said, well, I'm going to go there and I'm going to say a prayer.
At least if it's chained, it's chained.
They opened it up the very day I was coming.
And the Monsignor, he was going around blessing different places around the town.
They brought me right in the side of that church, right beside the altar, closer than we are to the spot where that priest was beheaded.
I know that's the spot because that's where he shook the most holy water.
Two-hour service there.
Very powerful to experience that.
But I wanted to be those places.
I wanted to see what's going on.
How does this happen?
It just seems unreal to me.
Some of us hit us here at home the same way.
So I've gone to, I don't know how many different no-go zones to make sure I understand this.
Rinkaby in Stockholm.
One of our guys is from Sweden.
He'll know that area.
Oh yeah, there you go.
I walked in there.
Maybe it was stupid, but I had to experience it.
But out of all this, I'm trying to understand what's happening.
And while I'm also doing this, I'm meeting with the leaders of the patriotic parties all throughout Europe.
From, let's say, Italy and, well, Hungary, Viktor Orban.
We talked about him here, too.
He is the gold standard for Western civilization.
The gold standard.
I was working this, I was talking about, and I was trying to meet with Victor Orban, and we couldn't get that done.
And one time, about 4.30, 5 o'clock in the afternoon, we tried again, and he goes, hey, I'll meet you now.
So we had to race down, jump on a train, go across the border into Hungary and Budapest, and race up to his office by 6.30 or something.
It was really tight.
And I go in there, and so I thought I'd talk to him a little bit.
Well, he took the first 45 minutes.
And finally I got the floor.
And I made a big mistake.
I thought that I would teach him a little bit of European history.
And he cut me off, and he jumped up, and he said, let me show you.
The mural on the top of the wall of his formal office, as tall as these walls, three sides, boom, boom, boom, is a mural of the continuum of Western civilization.
And that was fantastic.
So we had a two-hour, and I think it was two-hour and 45, two-hour and 40-minute conversation.
I got back into it then after a while, and I got my share of it done.
But that man knows what he's doing.
He understands what he's defending.
When he tells Hungarian women and families, we're going to reward you if you have babies, because that's what we have to have to sustain our country.
Babies. Policy after policy is designed to promote Hungarians.
And he said, Hungary is for Hungarians.
And so if you want to embrace our language, you want to embrace our religion, we'll take a look at you.
But if you want to come here and undermine it, we don't need you.
Or get out.
That's right, or get out.
So Victor Orban, I have a high respect for, and he is one of the bookends of Western civilization in Europe.
And then as I moved along through there, I built a good relationship with the Austrians, and their party's been kind of cracked around a little bit in the last couple, three years, but good relationships with them.
And then over into Germany, the Alternative for Deutschland, the ADF party.
I've met with many of their leaders there.
And that party had to spring up too.
It's kind of like, what did you expect when you were suppressing our civilization that they're not going to take it?
And they call themselves the Nationalist parties rather than, well, the Patriotic parties, excuse me, not the Nationalists, but the Patriotic parties.
And that's the ADF.
And then you just kind of move a little bit further over into France.
And, of course, I've been with those leaders in Germany.
And Marine Le Pen, I've been with her a couple times, and she is the leader of the Patriotic Party of France.
And she's a little left as far as ideologically is concerned, but she's got a huge following, and she believes that the French ought to be French.
And I remember going into Germany back in maybe 2005 or so, and I would hear their leaders that are maybe in their middle 50s, and they would be saying, Of course, I am German, so therefore I apologize, but I hope you consider my opinion.
Who's going to respect an opinion that's led with an apology for it?
But I saw over about the last 15 years, the younger people became double nickel 55. They stopped apologizing that way.
But I would tell them, it's time for you to stop apologizing for being a German.
Take proud in what you have done.
Be German and be proud.
And engage in this life that we have.
And some engage with the Belgians too, but I want to get to Holland, to the Netherlands now.
Geert Bilders, does his name bring a bell to any of you?
That guy is a bosom friend.
He is, I mean, he's like this much taller than me, his head's twice as big, but he is a wonderful, noble warrior, and he's fought up against, he was convicted of hate speech because he was giving a speech and he said, Well, would the Netherlands be better off with more Moroccans or fewer Moroccans?
And they said, fewer, fewer!
And he said, well, we'll see what we can do about that.
And they convicted him of hate speech for a rhetorical question.
Two rhetorical questions, I guess.
He called me when the verdict came down.
But he's part of this team, too.
Now, I'll scoot one more over.
Yeah, there's folks up in Sweden and up along the line and in Norway, and I didn't get much traction in Finland.
I kind of came up empty there, but it doesn't mean there aren't conservatives there that care about their nationality.
Then you go over to England, Nigel Farage gets it.
He understands this Western civilization formula and what we need to do.
And I've talked to all these people about this.
Bring us together, and let's launch an international organization to restore Western civilization for the world.
Plant a university someplace, preferably in Europe, with a headquarters in Vienna because that symbolism is just too great.
And build a university that's dedicated to education and promotion of Western civilization with traveling instructors and scholars so that we can spread this out in university after university and restore it within the schools across this country and across the world.
And by the way, I've got Sting's Foundation built in Australia too.
And to some degree in Canada.
So I had this foundation ready to go.
We were ready to launch a small launch in February of 2019 when they brought the whole world down on my head in January of 2019.
And that's the subject of my book that's over there.
And I should probably plug it for just a second.
But Walking Through the Fire.
And the title I was at, When Kevin McCarthy and the Hierarchy of the Republican Party...
Yeah. Do all you can to deny that man the speakership.
He's got no business ever being the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Laura knows it, and I know it, and you all know it, that he's got to go.
And by the way, he's pretty precariously positioned right now.
We had this discussion.
He's a narcissistic abuser.
The whole world revolves around him.
This is my Ph.D.
psychologist here that we concur in our analysis.
So it's not just Steve King, although I was right before I heard that.
He does not have the moral composition to be a leader of a free people.
Everything around him relates to how does it empower Kevin McCarthy.
If it threatens his power, he will kill it off.
And if it enhances his power, he'll sacrifice any moral position in order to enhance his power.
He argued that there should be exceptions for rape and incest when it comes to abortion.
Apparently because those kids are conceived in sin.
So I think he'd probably also be for abortion for babies conceived in adultery, but you can ask him that.
So just my little aside there.
So I tell you in the book about how this all unfolded, how the ambush came.
I knew it was coming.
I was advised in mid-November 2018 they were going to attack me in 2000, well as soon as they could.
And the strategy of it is in the book, but...
I preempted it at the White House with Trump to the extent that I could, and I had to wait until the 8th of January to preempt the person that was most likely to be the messenger that was going to trigger this through Trump.
I got to that Senate office on the 8th of January.
I got promised that wouldn't happen, but I know that the Horse Whisperer up in that chain had a network built with Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney and that whole network of RINO's establishment elitists.
And so the very next morning, I had a primary opponent.
And the morning after that, the New York Times story came out.
And then Kevin McCarthy went on the news on Sunday and said, I'm going to punish Steve King for a misquote in the New York Times.
And that was Sunday morning.
And on Monday, we met, and we had a one-hour knockdown dragout.
And out of that, I said, I can prove this to be a false quote.
And I need some time.
He said, how much time?
I said, 24 hours.
That was actually a real stretch.
We need a lot more than that.
But an all-nighter and LexisNexis, we could have maybe done it.
He said, you've got one hour, and walked out of the room.
Went to the steering committee and told him he got to strip Steve King of his committee assignments.
And he chooses a committee, and they'll do what he says.
So that's how that happened.
And he knew, and everybody knows, that any member of Congress has been stripped of his committee assignments by his own party.
Has never survived the succeeding election, and everyone that I know of was a convicted felon instead of somebody that fell victim to a misquote in the New York Times.
So I hope that you read my book and see that and understand how diabolically devious this leadership is now.
And it's not going to change in Congress until leadership changes.
So that's it.
Then.
This is just a little piece I wrote down so I could vent myself a little.
We're like dirt track racers in my family, so we kind of watch the NASCAR races a little bit.
I'm not really a big fan, but I watch them.
So what happens?
Bubba Wallace, he's terribly offended.
Because this little loop in a cord that was going to close the door that he drew the random for that particular garage for the race, I mean, nobody could have known what garage Bubba was going to get, but he never saw this, but somebody went in there and see this little loop in this cord was tied in a noose.
And so, we can't have that because it might intimidate Bubba when he walks in that garage because his feelings are so sensitive.
So they sent either 14 or 16 FBI agents down to investigate this little loop in this cord.
And they concluded that, yeah, it was tied in a noose, but Bubba could have never, they could have never known Bubba was going to come there, and I guess maybe he might have seen it, but he'd never get there to see it.
So, in order to make it right with Bubba, because he had been, he had been apparently, what should I call it, potentially intimidated, they get all of the NASCAR cars up, and they do this glorify Bubba Wallace race around the racetrack.
Yay, we're so good.
We're multicultural.
We're open to all of this, and we can't have anybody's feelings hurt.
Even if they're only half black, they were whole hurt.
And Bubba took it, the pansy.
I mean, if that's all you can do in this life, you're racing cars at 180 miles an hour around the third turn, and you can't stand to have the thought that somebody whispered in your ears that somebody tied a noose knot and a cord.
I went out to my garage and tied one in my cord.
And it's still there today.
It's kind of handy.
I mean, you know, that little plastic thing that always hit me in the head, now I can just slide that noose up there where I can reach it and it's just perfect.
Makes sense.
I'd like to be able to tell you I did this, but I didn't get it done when I get home.
If I had put a noose around another item in my garage, tied a knot, and I really planned to do that, but I didn't get it done, I could tell you that...
I have a white dummy hanging from a noose in my garage.
And don't be offended by that because it actually is the retrieving dummy for a bird dog.
So if there's a white dummy hanging from my garage and there's a noose in there, that doesn't mean I'm a racist.
And then I need to tell you about the Confederate flag.
I hope I'm not going too long, Jared, but I'm having fun.
He's giving me no signals, but I don't.
Anyway, the Confederate flag.
You need to know about this too.
Debate's going on on the floor of the House of Representatives.
I come through my office, big screens with the floor on, C-SPAN, and a little bit in the debate causes me to ask my staff, what are they debating down there?
And they say, well, they're debating the Confederate flag.
Now, we all know it's a battle flag, but I'm going to refer to it as the Confederate flag just for the sake of expediency.
And they're debating the Confederate flag, and Democrats have decided that they are going to pass amendments that will pull that flag down anywhere where it's attached to, any place that has any federal nexus of funding.
So any federal building, there'd be no Confederate flag on it, no battle flag.
And what are they doing this for?
Well, I knew, and I think you all know.
They were turning it into a pro-slavery symbol and a symbol of hatred and a racial division.
So it clicked in my head right away, and I went out, and I didn't say anything to my staff.
I just ran out of the office.
I ran down the hall, and I took the elevator down to the tunnel from the Rayburn building.
I ran over to the Capitol building, went up the steps, out on the floor.
I'm kind of fat and old, you know.
I have a sucking wind, but I got the floor, and I gave a five-minute speech.
I didn't even get my breath by the time the speech was over, I don't think.
But about what was so wrong about that.
That battle flag, you could put this on Google, and you type in, let's see, type in slavery.
I've done this.
Seven or eight pages come down, black and white pictures of people picking cotton.
Not a symbol.
Of the battle flag anywhere on those seven or eight Google pages.
Google should be a reflection of our culture.
Then I type in Southern Pride.
Well, there's some barbecue places there, and the rest of it's all the battle flag.
All of it.
Seven or eight pages of it.
So I came back from the floor having told them, well, I have no idea to tell you what I told them.
The core part of it is this.
That flag is Southern Pride, and Grant, Guaranteed and offered that Southern pride to Lee's troops at Appomattox.
And when Lee came in to negotiate there with Grant, he said, I want our boys to keep their weapons and their horses because they've got to go home and farm.
And it's their own horses.
They own the horses.
And Grant said, they keep their horses.
He wrote this into the agreement.
They can keep it right on the spot.
They can keep their horses, tell them to stack their arms, and the officers can keep their small arms.
And then, when that was settled, they walked out of that building at Appomattox, and a regiment of Union troops fired off a victory volley, and Grant said,"Shut that down.
That's not the way to celebrate this.
From this day forward, these rebels are our countrymen." That was a guarantee of Southern pride and respect and unity for this country, and they are dividing it over race.
That's what's going on with this Confederate flag.
So I asked my only Jewish guy and my staff, go get me a flag.
And he came back with one, a battle flag, and I posted it on my office.
So these symbols matter.
I've also got a Redskins flag, too.
I bought that right away.
Now, I just want to touch a couple bases on affirmative action because that's a poison in this culture, in this civilization that we have.
And I wrote a chapter on it in my book, but don't look for it there because I pulled it out.
It didn't fit, the overall picture.
But I did do the research on it.
So here's what it was.
January of 1963, John F. Kennedy issued an executive order that mentioned affirmative action.
He used the words affirmative action.
First place I could find it in my searches.
And he recommended that they use affirmative action in their hiring, but he didn't command it in the executive order.
He was assassinated.
And then LBJ came in, and in 1965, Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ, he issued an executive order that directed that they use affirmative action in their hiring practices.
So that's when Kennedy's idea kicked into action by LBJ, and it grew from that.
And now we know where we've got it.
It's everywhere.
It's not just only in government.
It's in private business, big business, and we've got that social credit scores for our businesses.
That all grew from that little seed.
That little seed.
And they hijacked Martin Luther King's dream of equal opportunity.
And they turned it into, now we've got this idea called equity.
Equity. The simple version of it is this.
Equity means everybody has to be the same standard of living.
We all get the same kind of income.
We live in the same kind of house.
We're like Mao's troops, wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thing that they let us think.
That's where that equity thing is going.
And I'll tell you that it divides us and divides us and divides us.
It splits hairs.
And if they can split a hair, somebody else can come along and go, oh, I want a quarter of that hair.
Then I want an eighth that hair.
Then a sixteenth that hair.
There's no end to this idea of equity.
It is the most divisive thing I have seen.
And we've got some really nasty, divisive things that have been served on us.
So King's Dream, LBJ's War on Poverty, the fathers were scrubbed out of the home by the welfare system, and the mothers were deified.
They used to be unwed mothers.
Did you ever hear that phrase any day?
No, no, today they are single moms.
They're very much celebrated single moms.
And they scrubbed the husband and the dad out of the home and replaced them with a welfare check.
And, by the way, this all happened at our reservations, too.
And we replicated it in the inner city of every major city in America with exactly the same results.
This poison that's been, it didn't have to be.
We could be a society that could be integrated, we could be flowing this all together, we'd be getting along, but the poison has been planted over and over again by the left, who are our enemies.
And so universities eliminated Western civilization teaching.
I took it to school, and I loved it.
And it made perfect sense to me, but you can't hardly find a course like that now.
Then we've got the race and gender.
They replaced it with race, gender, and Marx.
And I wanted to point out what's happened with that.
When I was in the State Senate in Iowa, in 1999 it would be, we'd elected a Democrat governor, Tom Vilsack.
He's the Secretary of Agriculture today.
And early in his term, they filed an executive order called Executive Order No.
7. They buried it on page 632 of the Iowa Administrative Bulletin.
I don't know why I remember that, but I do.
And no one would have even known, but somebody sent a fax to me as a state senator from the Washington Blade, a gay newspaper in Washington, D.C., that bragged about this executive order that granted special protected status for sexual orientation and gender identity.
And I read that, and my hair went on fire, of course.
I wrote out this analysis of it to some of my friends.
It's like a...
That was a Wednesday night, I guess it was, or maybe a Thursday.
And I sent that off to about a dozen of my friends.
It was a Thursday.
And the next morning, I'm driving down the road listening to our local Rush Limbaugh, Jan Michelson, and he's going through this analysis that I had written.
I better talk to him.
So I pulled up on the gravel road and called him up on his number that ends in 1429.
They answered and put me on.
And I never told him, but to this day I've not told him that I think somebody forwarded my analysis to him, but it had to be.
So I told him, we cannot let this governor legislate by executive order.
But what he was doing was he was taking this word sex and turning it into gender and sexual orientation and gender identity.
And I could see what was happening there.
It was opening up this thing.
And boy, did it.
So I said, I'm going to sue this governor.
And Jan Michelson said, well, do you have the support of the legislature?
I said, I have no idea.
But there are 150 of us all together.
And if 149 of them think it's a bad idea, I'm suing him anyway.
Because I don't need their support to go to court.
And I did.
And I had to pay the lawyer fees out of my kid's inheritance.
I gave him an offer.
I said, do you really have money or liberty?
And they all said money.
Well, sorry.
But it grew from there.
But I beat him, too, by the way.
really really good
Another thing I wanted to mention.
1986 Amnesty Act.
You are an astute crowd.
I love and revere Ronald Reagan.
He let me down twice.
This was the biggest letdown of Ronald Reagan.
When he signed the Amnesty Act in 1986, I'm watching it go through the House and the Senate.
I'm standing in my construction office.
I've got the radio going.
They go, Ronald Reagan signed the Amnesty Act in 86. Or we didn't say it was 86. He signed the Amnesty Act.
And when they said that on the radio, it ticked me off so bad, I hold off and I kick my filing cabinet.
And put a dent in that bottom drawer.
And it was there throughout the full duration.
You had to always bend over and give it a big jerk.
And every time that was the case, it was like, amnesty, 86, why did they have to do that?
It set the precedent for, if you can reward people for breaking the law, you're going to get more lawbreakers.
It's pretty simple.
I knew it when I was a pup in 1986.
And I thought Ronald Reagan should have known it too.
And I've since talked to several of his cabinet members, but I'll say Ed Meese III, he's with us today, and I count him as a friend.
And I've learned that they regret, they advised universally that Reagan should sign the Amnesty Act.
And Ed Meese regrets it, and Ronald Reagan regretted it in his later years along the way, because they saw what it did.
And it started the opening of the border.
So, was it?
It was.
It was the biggest mistake, and if he hadn't done that, I'd have let him pull out of Lebanon with a U.S. New Jersey.
But that was the other mistake that troubled me.
Anyway, so we got open borders.
And, I mean, today we have open borders.
So I want to just play this little game with you.
It's this way, that piece of culture that I think there's an axiom of this, that if you bring an immigrant into America, it's invariably you bring their culture with them.
So one for one.
And if he's one of them alone with the rest of us, a lot of them are going to assimilate, and they get along just fine.
If there's two of them, it's harder.
If there's three, ten, twenty, fifty, a thousand, eventually you've got an enclave, and they replicate their home country in the enclave, and they never assimilate.
That's what we have.
And so when you think cultures are equal, I just pose this to you.
I know you don't think that, but they keep telling us this, that all cultures are equal, that American civilization, Western civilization is no different than the rest.
No, no.
We are the superior civilization here.
We are...
And... We're the superior civilization.
And I'll just give you a little exercise.
So, this is for you to make arguments to others.
I know you understand this.
Let's just say this, that the Mexican culture is different than the Japanese culture.
And so, if we have...
Let's say we had a flotilla, kind of like the...
Well, it'd be better than the frotilla in Camp of the Saints.
How many of you read Camp of the Saints?
Wow! There is a PDF version on the internet that you can pass along to your progeny.
They need to read it and they should be tested on it.
That is the best book to understand what's happening here in America today, Camp of the Saints.
But they've shut down the publication of it.
You can buy a book on the internet for $1,600 and change.
Because they shut it down, and Jared told me about how that worked.
I'm looking at how to crack that code, too, because I want to do an audiobook, Camp of the Saints.
I'm working it, and I talk to my copyright lawyer.
So here's my theory.
So we have a flotilla coming from Japan, Camp of the Saints flotilla, only a little classier, and one coming from Mexico heading to Japan.
They pass ships in the night, however many it takes.
There's about, what, 124 million Japanese or a few more?
About 124 million Mexicans.
Really equivalent to the same population.
So when the Mexicans arrive in the empty island of Japan, they go to work to build a civilization there.
With all whatever equipment the Japanese left.
All the technology, the roads and all that stuff.
They're not going to haul that to Mexico.
And the Japanese arrive in Mexico without the roads and the technology and all the things that are there.
Now fast forward 25 or 50 years.
What do you think it looks like in Japan?
Mexico. And what does it look like in Mexico?
Japan. And so you don't got to be a genius to figure out what's happening to America.
They're infusing these other cultures into our civilization and eroding the continuity of who we are, and they're deifying the people that are breaking down the American civilization.
And that stuff we are going to do, battle with, and we are going to stop.
And so, let me see.
So we have Joe Biden calculating his intersectionality points.
Deciding who was going to be the Vice President of the United States.
I had that figured out.
I knew that he was looking like the skin tone charts up against Kamala.
And what else does she have going for?
Well, she's South Asian and black altogether.
Never mind her heritage is slave owner and plantation owner.
They forget that part.
She's got all that going for her.
She matches.
She's got like three good intersectionality points and nobody else on that panel had as many intersectionality points as Kamala.
So she was going to be the nominee.
It was really pretty simple.
And then what did we get out of this?
Ketanji Brown Jackson.
That was just so nakedly blatant.
I don't know what her marital status is.
Do you guys know anything about that?
She might have gotten another intersectionality point past me that I didn't know.
That's all.
But it's awful because what it does, it destroys the meritocracy that built America.
That's what we're dealing with here.
We must restore the baritocracy.
We must eliminate affirmative action in every form, in every place.
There's a case before the United States Supreme Court now that we should get a decision on in some months from now that here's these cases.
Back in, what was it, 2005, we had those two cases at the University of Michigan School of Law, and one was Grutter v.
Bollinger and the other was Grotz v.
Bollinger, and it was kind of a split decision, but Sandra Day O'Connor came down with this.
Well, we're going to have to let them use affirmative action to make appointments to the law school, I believe this one was.
But in 25 years, maybe we'll be in a plaintiff in our society.
We won't need to do that anymore.
Are you kidding?
The language in the Constitution means something different depending on how the society might change?
Not at all.
This Constitution is a contractual guarantee between the generations, and we must hold it to them.
It has to be understood to mean What it was understood to mean at the time of its ratification.
If not, then it's an artifact of history and has no value to us at all.
So these people are nuts.
They're leftists.
They would do anything to tear down our country.
They hate America.
They're a bunch of Colin Kaepernicks in the Congress.
And we have to defeat them, of course.
And so I would just want to hear about one more piece, and I'm going to try to stop if I can, promise.
I'm really going to try.
If you'd asked me on August 7th, how should this presidential race break, I would have told you I would like to see Donald Trump just kind of step back and go, help me with the midterms, and I'll be the godfather of Trumpism, but send me somebody that's young and vigorous that can carry out this mission that isn't dragging as many anchors as Trump.
Then the next morning they raided Mar-a-Lago.
That was it for me.
There's no longer any pretense.
They weaponized the Department of Justice and the FBI.
They targeted it for political reasons.
They went in there and raided that place.
When he would have handed them anything that was in that room or in that building, all they had to do was ask.
But they raided it and they made a show out of it.
And now we find after the election that the judge said there's nothing here in the building in Mar-a-Lago that had any security value.
The things that were there just had ego value for Trump.
That's it.
That's manipulating elections.
That's treasonous, what they have done.
And so I think we don't cut them any slack.
And I'm looking forward to this majority to find out what they do.
I don't think they're going to be strong enough at all.
I think Kevin McCarthy's got a go, go, go.
And if we're at 229, 21, there's only takes four good men or women, like Laura and Steve King, two more, we'd have it, wouldn't we?
And to say no.
It's a constitutional vote on the floor of the House.
The vote they took behind closed doors just says we want to nominate Kevin McCarthy.
36 said, they put 36 voted for somebody other than Kevin McCarthy.
And so, but when it gets to the floor, the constitutional vote is, you have to stand up and say to the whole world, I'm for, I can't quite say I'm for Kevin McCarthy.
I wouldn't say that.
I'm for, pick another one.
But you go down.
I'm taking a poll.
Well, maybe.
Donald Trump would be a great one, but he's got to run for president now.
But four.
All it would take would be four to shut it down.
If it's 222, it takes five.
What about MTG?
But I'm doing the work I can do to make sure we hold those guys together and make that a bigger group.
And if the day comes that Kevin McCarthy's name falls, On the floor of the House of Representatives, I'll be really happy.
And when you read my book, you'll know absolutely why I'm really happy about that.
So that's a very good place.
Although I have several other places to stop, this is about my therapy.
My psychologist said it's okay.
Let her rip.
And I so much appreciate the chance to be with you here tonight and soak this up and have it be part of me.
You give me energy, you give me spirit, and you give me optimism.
And I hope we've exchanged some of that here tonight.
Thanks very much.
God bless you all.
I think we're going to wrap it up here.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I couldn't stop.
Thanks a lot.
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