Laura Loomer and Joey Mannarino host a live Iowa watch party for Trump's January 15th town hall, criticizing Chris Christie as a "pathetic politician" while Vivek Ramaswamy defends Loomer against Haley and DeSantis. During the event, Trump claims credit for 500 miles of border wall and blames Biden for inflation and chaos, later discussing abortion and NATO with Steve King, who endorses Ramaswamy and attacks Kevin McCarthy as a narcissist. The hosts predict Trump's victory and frame the World Economic Forum as an existential threat, positioning Trump as the primary enemy against radical global agendas. [Automatically generated summary]
It is officially the five-day countdown to the Iowa caucus, which is going to be taking place here in Iowa on January 15th.
And tonight, President Trump is in Iowa, where he's being hosted by Fox News for a town hall.
At 8 p.m.
Central and so I thought what better way than to have a Trump Town Hall watch party and also a meet-and-greet to meet all of these amazing MAGA patriots who are here behind me.
You can see we got the we got the flat screens up, we got the projector up, we have pizza, we have meatballs, and I have Ron DeSantis.
He will be irrelevant to pretty much everyone, which he kind of already has been for most of the race, but it will be the official pronouncement of his political death.
Absolutely, and Joey and I have spent the entire day together.
We just got back from Vivek Ramaswamy's press conference, and there was also a protest inside the Iowa State Capitol.
No eminent domain for private gain, and it was great because, you know, you had Vivek Ramaswamy there, you had Congressman Steve King, who's on his way right now to my watch party, and also you had the Iowa State Director for President Trump.
A lot of Trump supporters at this event.
Yes, expressing their support for Iowa farmers and everyday Americans who are facing the threat of eminent domain where the government comes in and essentially they confiscate your property for pennies on the dollar.
It was really great to see not just Vivek Ramaswamy there but also a ton of Trump supporters including a lot of Trump caucus chairs for the Iowa caucus.
Right and it's very important to point out Vivek had some stuff to say about you and he really came out and defended you hard against Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis who unjustly threw you out of the events and he said an investigative journalist is allowed at my events and shame on them for not Allowing you there, so I thought that was a big deal.
Yeah, and they actually had protesters climate change people showed up to protest and Instead of you know throwing them out like Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley would have done but they actually gave the lady the microphone make a deal with it, you have 60 seconds. - Well, in fact, yeah. - And he said it's important that we respect free speech in America.
And I showed up wearing my Trump hat.
I showed up in my Trump hat, in my Trump scarf, and Vivek was completely fine with it, even though it's well known that I'm a Trump supporter.
But I respect the fact that Vivek is pro-free speech.
I think that he is definitely laying the groundwork to be a nominee in 2028.
I do believe Trump needs to be our nominee in 2024 so that we can take America back and save our country and right this wrong of a stolen election.
But the vague is certainly, in my opinion, the number one contender for 2028.
Interesting timing, five days before the Iowa caucus and just a couple weeks before the January 23rd New Hampshire primary and he actually got caught on a hot mic today in which he said that Nikki Haley's gonna get smoked by Trump and he also said in this hot mic audio that Ron DeSantis called him petrified and said that Donald Trump is going to win Iowa and so I take that as an endorsement of President Trump from Chris
Well, Chris Christie doesn't endorse anything but the KFC buckets, and this is a man who stayed with Trump for four years, supporting him, pseudo-supporting him.
He did debate prep with him, and then when it became politically expedient, he got in the race and tried to do nothing but tear him down.
Chris Christie is a pathetic politician.
He actually helped Obama win in 2012, if you remember.
He also, he had a guy by the name of Dominic Santana, who was a political operative and a friend of Chris Christie's, who dressed up in a con man outfit and stormed President Trump's motorcade.
Well, we have a lot of really interesting people here in the room tonight, and we're going to be watching President Trump's town hall, and in between commercial breaks, we're going to be interviewing people.
Like I said, we have Congressman Steve King, we have several of the Iowa state representatives who have endorsed President Trump, who are here tonight with their families to show support.
And people are trickling in still, because it is snowy and the roads are icy, so people are taking their time.
Yeah, and big shout out to Destination Grill as well.
If you live in Iowa or you're coming to visit, really amazing event venue.
So if you're looking for events, the food is amazing, the owner is pro-Trump, and he believes in free speech.
I mean, this is an owner who comped us tonight.
A lot of, yeah, a lot of, he comped us the space because he supports Trump, but he believes in free speech, and he's hosted Ron DeSantis here for events, Vivek Ramaswamy, and when I said that I wanted to do a watch party here, he, you know, in the spirit of free speech, decided to comp some pizzas and drinks tonight, so really a big shout out to the owners here at Destination Grill.
Amazing venue space, amazing food, so you're gonna want to check them out in Grimes, Iowa.
So be sure you guys, I believe this is on the front page of Rumble right now, and be sure that you share the link live.
We are live right now.
We're going to be having the camera, you know, we're not going to be talking the entire time, but we're going to have the camera focused on the attendees tonight as well as the big screen screen behind us so that you can see President Trump's town hall.
And we're going to be doing some commentary as well, some interviews and a lot of great people here.
And if you live in Iowa, be sure that you commit to caucus.
You can go to ia.DonaldJTrump.com to learn all you need to know about how to caucus for President Trump if you live in Iowa.
And I know that Casey DeSantis, Casey Jill Black, whatever she likes to call herself, Ron's wife, encouraged voter fraud.
She actually got in a lot of trouble for telling people from out of state to come and caucus.
And so that's voter fraud.
And it received a condemnation from the Iowa GOP that had to actually issue a statement saying that you cannot caucus for Trump unless you live here in Iowa.
And so remember, you can only caucus for President Trump in Iowa if you are an Iowa president.
a Democrat watching and you are sick and tired of the mess that Joe Biden has created and you live in Iowa and you want to become a Republican and vote for Trump, they actually have same-day registration on the same of the caucus.
And so you can walk in and vote for Donald Trump and change your registration to Republican if you are an independent or a Democrat watching tonight.
So just like I said before, go to ia.DonaldJTrump.com to get all the information that you need.
We have those little, show us those little green things over here.
This is the President Trump back-to-back Iowa champ, 2016, 2020, and most likely 2024, unless they pull some shenanigans, which they really can't beat this landslide coming in Iowa.
I'm excited to see basically what he's gonna say if there's anything new that they're gonna come up with as far as the questioning about the case because what people are not talking about enough in this election is Donald Trump cannot run a campaign like he wants to Because he has to go back and forth to court.
Trump's in Iowa tonight for the town hall, and then immediately tomorrow he has to go to New York for closing arguments.
And then the judge today, Arthur Ngoron, was just being malicious.
And in the email thread that I posted between Trump's lawyers and Arthur Ngoron, you see the judge just being so spiteful and saying, well, no, now you don't get to give your closing arguments.
And mind you, President Trump's mother-in-law, okay, Melania Trump's mother just passed away last night.
And usually, if you have a death in the family, you're able to reschedule your court dates.
And anybody with a heart would, you know, not express opposition to that.
So our prayers go out to First Lady Melania Trump with the death of her mother and President Trump, the death of his mother-in-law.
It's just awful what the Trump family has been subjected to.
But you know, Rhonda Santos, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, and really every other Our candidate has been able to stay here for weeks at a time and like get comfy, get cozy in their hotels.
And Donald Trump constantly has to travel because he's being harassed.
And that's just a preview of what's going to happen in the general election with him too.
So what we're going to have to do is it's going to take people like us, people who really support to actually get out there.
We're going to have to be holding events because there's no way he's going to be able to do everything on his own with what they're going to try to put him through.
So if you are a Trump supporter, Get involved and get active now, because we're gonna have to carry that message forward.
Yeah, because Chris Christie dropping out is a trick.
I know we're all celebrating, haha, the fat man lost, he can go back to being the Michelin Man little representative, but the fact of the matter is, Haley is allegedly trailing him really closely in the polls.
With Christie dropping out, if people push behind her, Trump could be in trouble in New Hampshire.
So there is no room for complacency whatsoever when it comes to this race.
They will try every trick in the book.
They want him out of power.
They want him gone.
So if you think that you can just take it easy and rest on your laurels, not going to happen in this election.
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So we are about to get started.
We're going to put the microphones down and get the audio blasted because we are two minutes away from President Trump taking the stage.
So stay tuned and we will be back soon and I hope that you will enjoy the wash party.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
unidentified
He can show the American people, Hunter Biden can, that he is present and available.
Hunter Biden is tired of being kicked around and maligned in the public eye.
So the public relations objective here was to make the point Hunter Biden is willing to answer any questions the committee had.
And only idiots think that Hunter wants to answer questions.
These hijinks are just going to force Republicans to fast-track impeachment.
So this spring you'll have Trump in court, and it'll be counter-programmed with Biden's impeachment hearing.
And if Trump wins the election, Biden will pardon his son during the lame duck.
And if Biden wins re-election, they'll ride the tax cases out for a no-jail-plea deal or a midnight pardon.
But the effect this is going to have on America's confidence in our political system and our judicial system It's only going to invigorate American populism.
Let's bring in South Carolina Congressman Nancy Mays.
She's a member of the Oversight Committee.
Congressman, why didn't you just say, alright Hunter, game on, call your bluff, here's a glass of water, let's do the interview right now.
Well, if you saw how many times the Democrats interrupted me in the hearing today, they didn't want to hear anything that I had to say, none of the facts that I had that I was throwing out there to Hunter Biden.
I was the only Republican who was able to take him head-on because he fled as soon as it was over there for less than 10 minutes.
And can you imagine, Jesse?
That if this was one of your millions of viewers that defied a congressional subpoena, showed up and spit in the face of Congress by not coming before us, by not doing the deposition, and then walked out, you would be held in contempt of Congress, your viewers would, and they'd be thrown in jail.
But instead, if your last name is Biden, it's a completely different standard.
Whereas years before, with Trump and the Trump family, whenever they were subpoenaed, They showed up.
Don Jr.
showed up how many times to a congressional subpoena?
Dozens of hours before Congress, with depositions, because Donald Trump and every member of his family follows the law in this country, which is what we're about.
I don't believe that is allowed in a hearing like this.
And like you said, this was a PR stunt gone awry.
The American people knows what this was.
This wasn't real.
This is for his movie.
And this was all completely fake.
And the other thing that I want to make the point about today is that I was the only member in the hearing today that has held both the right and the left accountable.
So whatever the standard is in this country, Both sides got to be held accountable, and I pointed out the hypocrisy of the left on this issue.
Every single one of them, because of how they voted in the past with congressional subpoena power, should have voted to hold Hunter Biden in contempt, but they're too scared to do that.
He should be held in contempt like we've done with others in the past, but it'll be up to a particularly corrupt DOJ to throw him in jail and indict him on it, because all we can do is refer charges once it gets out of the House.
All right, so it's not going to look good if he's voted to be held in contempt, and Biden's Justice Department, who I believe they arrested a bunch of Republicans who were held in contempt, doesn't lay a hand on poor little Hunter's head?
The former president and the GOP frontrunner, and we note once again that none of the campaigns have input into who was invited, what the questions are that will be asked tonight.
Well, you know, you have Democrats in New Hampshire and they vote and you have independents in New Hampshire in large numbers and they vote.
And I have polls that show me leading by a tremendous amount in New Hampshire and a lot in Iowa and nationwide we're leading by almost 60 points.
So I'm not exactly worried about it.
I understand New Hampshire very well.
I've won it twice.
And did very well with New Hampshire.
I love the people.
They love me.
I think we did a good job for New Hampshire economically and even from the standpoint of the military taking care of the vets.
And I think we're going to do very well in New Hampshire.
Now, you know, Chris Christie was in and he got a hot mic I heard about.
I thought actually the biggest story wasn't the fact that he dropped out.
Nobody cared too much about that.
He had a hot mic where he was talking to somebody about the weather and he happened to say that she doesn't have what it takes, she'll be creamed in the election.
And, I mean, I know her very well and I happen to believe that Chris Christie's right.
That's one of the few things he's been right about, actually.
Some of my friends that supported you in 2020 are not this time because they believe a Trump presidency will bring four years of chaos due to your haters.
Yeah, thank you for your service and for your question.
Thank you for being here tonight.
One of the things that Ron DeSantis said in a town hall this week was that it might feel good to Republicans to vote for you and support you in the primary, but he felt they shouldn't leave the general election, potentially up to 12 jurors in a D.C. court.
If you look at it, it's election interference by Biden because he can't win it fair and square.
So he's doing that.
And interestingly, you see what happened in Georgia with Fannie Willis and a million dollars almost to her boyfriend is the prosecutor of Trump.
That one's blown up now.
It's horrible what has taken place.
But it's very interesting when you look at Ron's numbers.
He's practically out of the race.
In fact, a lot of people say he's leaving the race after Iowa because he's doing so poorly.
He's also doing very poorly, as you know, in New Hampshire.
I mean, really poorly.
And I'm leading Biden in every single poll that's been taken over the last month or two.
I just see one.
I'm leading in Michigan by 11.
That's great.
The autoworkers are smart.
They know that Biden has sold them down the tubes.
With the electric cars, all electric car mandate, the craziest thing I've ever heard.
And they're going to all be made in China too.
So I think when you look at what we've done, we are doing a great job and we did a great job, and that's why I'm leading in the polls by 60 and 70 points.
You know, in recent days, you seem to issue a warning that if in the courts, and even the US Supreme Court, if they didn't treat you fairly, I'll say what Donald Trump won't.
Political violence is never, ever acceptable in the United States political system.
bedlam in the country.
And in the last two days, at the same time, in the last two speeches, President Biden is focusing his campaign on the threat to democracy and political violence.
Take a listen.
unidentified
I'll say what Donald Trump won't.
Political violence is never, ever acceptable in the United States political system.
So let's hear from Jane Jack, who is a teacher from Rhodes, Iowa.
Jane, thank you so much for being here.
And you said that you plan to caucus for DeSantis, but you're not completely decided.
Is that right?
unidentified
No, I am firmly, I will be caucusing for DeSantis, but I will say, Mr. President, I am extremely grateful that in your first term you accomplished so many great things, but it was also with the help of many great people.
Since that time, you have publicly criticized and personally demeaned so many of them.
If you're given four more years, how will you convince good people to take the risk of working with you?
Well, one of the things would be energy, even though I set records on energy, but I was going to be energy dominant.
We were energy independent, and we had your bills down low.
We had your gasoline for the car down to $1.87 a gallon.
We had it down even lower than that at some points.
Now it's at $4 and $5.
That's not acceptable.
Your home heating bills are four and five times higher than they were with me.
So I'd be doing that.
I'd be doing... I'd finish up the wall.
You know, we built over 500 miles of wall.
That's one of the reasons we had the great... And we got Mexico, by the way.
We got Mexico, very importantly, to give us 28,000 soldiers free of charge.
That's more money than anybody can even imagine, free of charge.
And we also remain in Mexico policy, not remain here, remain in Mexico.
So we did a lot of great things, and I would just say we're going to just keep expanding.
We rebuilt the military.
We even did something that hopefully nobody in this room needs so but right to try where we're able to use space age medicines that won't be approved for four or five years that work in many cases and I've saved thousands and thousands of lives with right to try.
I can't talk in front of Trump because I live in Florida, but I wanted to come out to support President Trump and, you know, just express my gratitude to him because he really is the greatest president we've ever had.
And I want to recognize as well... Yes?
I want to thank the owners tonight of Destination Grill, both of them who are here tonight, who were so generous to actually comp their venue tonight.
unidentified
And also... Mark, do you want to say a few words?
Mark actually donated all of the food here tonight.
All of the food and all of the drinks and his venue space tonight.
It's a beautiful venue space.
He's a Trump supporter who believes in free speech.
He's actually hosted events here for Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis, but he is a Trump supporter and when I flew in from Florida and said I wanted a place to host a watch party for everybody who couldn't get inside the Fox News Town Hall, he was more than welcome and he said, come on in and let me Let me do what I can to help.
So if you want to say a few words about your business before we get back.
I also want to take a moment to recognize elected officials and previous elected officials who have joined us tonight.
We are honored to have Congressman Steve King here with us tonight.
Congressman Steve King has always been a strong supporter of President Trump, He's endorsed Vivek on the issue of eminent domain, but he has assured me that when President Trump wins the Iowa caucus, that he will be giving President Trump his endorsement.
And so, you know, Steve King has always been a man of integrity and honor.
He was one of the first to endorse me when I ran for Congress.
And I think that means a lot that, you know, he can have differences on one issue, right, this issue of eminent domain, but still come out to support President Trump tonight and support free speech.
And he's always been a fighter.
and I'll tell you, he's the best congressman your state has ever had and probably will ever have.
Mark Cisneros, who's a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, who has endorsed President Trump.
So thank you so much for coming out.
And I know there's more people on their way as well.
It's just that it started to snow pretty heavily right as the event was beginning.
But I also want to say thank you to the Trump campaign.
unidentified
This is not a Trump campaign event, but they were gracious enough to Welcome back to our town hall with former President Donald Trump live from Des Moines.
We were doing better than anybody has ever done for two and a half years.
And then COVID came along.
We were getting ready to start selling oil to Asia, to Europe.
We're going to pay down our debt, where we were at that time at like $29 trillion.
Now we're $36 trillion.
But we're going to start paying down our debt.
We're going to do things that nobody could believe.
You take a look at Saudi Arabia.
You take a look at some of these countries.
Take a look at Russia.
I mean, Biden drove up the cost of energy.
That's what caused inflation.
But it's also what caused Putin to become rich enough to go and prosecute a war.
And he never even talks about it.
He's the one that caused that war, both rhetorically and by the fact that he drove up the price of oil to $100 a barrel, which is getting close to record.
And Putin was making a fortune.
He's the only guy who made a fortune during a war.
If he didn't have it—I was at $40 a barrel.
If he was at $40 a barrel, Putin wouldn't have done it.
Now, he wouldn't have done it for another reason—me.
He wouldn't have done it.
But he also wouldn't have done it because he couldn't have done it because oil wasn't high enough.
At $100 a barrel, he made a lot of money.
And he's making a lot of money because it's so high.
And it's also what caused the inflation.
Because energy is so big, it's such a big deal, that when energy goes up, if you make donuts, if you make hamburgers, if you... anything you do, you have trucks that deliver your product, you have to heat your stoves, your ovens.
Anything you do, it's all energy.
And we had the highest cost of energy in history.
You know, when they talk about New Hampshire, New Hampshire has the highest price of energy, the highest cost of energy of any state in the nation.
I say very simply, we were starting to pay down debt.
We were going to pay down a lot of debt when COVID came along.
If I didn't inject this country with money, You would have had a depression the likes of which you've never seen.
You had to inject money.
We gave businesses that were going bankrupt, temporarily bankrupt, but they needed money.
We helped businesses.
If I didn't do that, you would have had a depression in this country.
That was a very good investment.
And now, what they should be doing, instead of the kind of debt that they're building at record levels, they should be paying down their debt, and they ought to go into the energy business instead of this green new scam business that they're in.
Well, they're going to be ended because the Democrats are going to end them because you can't sustain it.
If you look at New York, you have a mayor of New York who now is really hostile to the administration because New York City, that's my place.
I love New York.
It's gone.
It's had a tough time.
The previous mayor was the worst mayor in the history of our country, de Blasio.
Do you ever hear of de Blasio?
The worst.
But what's happened is We cannot, this country cannot sustain 15 or 16 million people because I think that's the real number.
I think by the time his administration ends, and hopefully quickly, it's going to be 18 million people.
That's bigger than New York State.
That's bigger than just about every state other than one or two.
Eighteen million people.
Remember this.
Many of those people come from jails and prisons.
Many of those people come from mental institutions and insane asylums.
And many of those people are terrorists.
You know, I saw on Fox the other day, it was horrible but beautiful because from my standpoint, in 2016, They had no terrorists that they know of that came into the country.
We had no terrorist attacks at all during my four years.
We had the Trump travel ban.
And by the way, Iran was broke.
Iran was broke.
I said to China, if you buy oil from Iran, you're not dealing in here.
They immediately dropped.
India, France, Italy, all of these countries were buying from Iran.
Iran would give out billions of dollars to terrorists.
They had no money.
I watched a Democrat congressman the other day on one of the shows.
And he said, I'll say one thing about Trump.
He said, Trump, I'll say one thing about Trump.
When he, uh, when he did that number on Iran, they were broke.
They were absolutely broke.
When I left, they were broke.
They had no money.
There was no money for Hamas, for Hezbollah.
There was no money for anybody.
They had no money.
And you would say that too.
I mean, I think even the two of you would say they were absolutely stoned.
And you know how much money they have now?
In three years, under Biden, they have $250 billion.
Again, the energy business is a big business.
And not to mention the five hostages that they paid $6 billion for, not to mention they got $10 billion for supplying some electricity to Iraq, which, by the way, they own.
And Iraq has $300 billion.
And essentially, it's a subsidiary.
It's a subsidiary of Of Iran.
It should have never happened.
Iraq—remember I used to say a long time ago when I was a civilian—now I'm sort of a civilian, but I think I'll never be quite a civilian again.
I'd love to be.
But I used to say, don't go into Iraq.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
But if you're going to do it, keep the oil.
Remember, keep the oil?
They didn't keep the oil.
So they have $300 billion.
And we have nothing.
We have nothing.
You know, they used to say about wars, to the victor belong the spoils.
We go into someplace, we obliterate it, and then we leave.
We are run by fools.
We're run by stupid people.
But we ran it very smart for four years and we won everything.
You get questions about what a second term is going to look like.
When you're in your rallies, you spend a lot of time talking about retribution.
And so there are questions about how much a second term of a Donald Trump presidency, second term, would be about retribution and looking backwards and grievances and how much would be looking forward.
Mr. President, before we wrap up this, you know, there is this report, House Democrats, documents that say that nearly $8 million in payments to your businesses from foreign governments, China included, Saudi Arabia, while you were in office.
They say Article 1 of the Constitution says you can't accept money from foreign governments while president.
Would you pledge to divest from your business in the second term, as other presidents have done?
We have Congressman Steve King who just showed up and you know he's endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy but he has assured me that when President Trump wins the nomination that he will be supporting President Trump, right?
And so now, but I want to see Vivek step up because he's the strongest voice on property rights, the strongest voice on constitutional rights.
And I'd love to see President Trump step in and take that same position.
I think he believes that.
And if he would just use his megaphone between now and the caucus night, he could kill off that boondoggle CO2 pipeline that's trampling our property rights right now.
I hope so as well, and I know that President Trump has, you know, spoken out about this issue.
He spoke out last week, and hopefully, you know, I know that you committed to me when I asked you, well, you know, if President Trump wins the Iowa caucus and he's officially the GOP nominee, which I believe he will be, you said that he has your full support and endorsement, right?
There isn't one iota of hesitation when it comes to that.
And furthermore, as two people that have been, well, Three people.
You've been run through the gristmill.
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unidentified
I have been run through the gristmill.
And President Trump, he's been through one that is ten times worse than mine, which was pretty bad.
Maybe it's a hundred times worse.
But when you see something like that happen, the American people need to rise up and say, that's the end of that.
We are not going to tolerate you doing that to our candidates.
And for him to walk through this minefield, this gauntlet that he's going through, the lawfare gauntlet, all of the tricks of the trade that are being used, we need to shut that down.
We need a president that shuts that down.
And Trump has the biggest reason to do that.
And if he's a little bit vindictive on those evil people that are working against America, that's fine with me.
Go find them all and perp-walk them out of here and clean it up and put our country back on a sound foundation again.
I think we're getting back from the commercial break now, so anything you want to promote while we're on here right now?
unidentified
Well, I'd say that if people are interested in my book, which you know I was going to bring it up, but when I was, let's just say, politically less by Kevin McCartney, Liz Cheney, and some of those others that have since bitten the dust, I wrote a book about the whole saga of that political lich party that they had on me that lasted for about two years.
The title of my book is, Walking Through the Fire, My Fight for the Heart and Soul of America.
And it can be found at my website, steveking.com.
They go to steveking.com, come to my warehouse with my autograph on it.
Now, I happen to be, for the exceptions, like Ronald Reagan, with the life of the mother, rape, incest.
I just have to be there, I feel.
I think probably 78% or so, Paul, about 78%.
It was Ronald Reagan.
He was for it.
I was for it.
But I will say this.
You have to win elections.
Otherwise, you're going to be back where you were.
And you can't let that ever happen again.
You've got to win elections.
If you look at it, Iran, DeSantis, I don't know what he really believes, because, you know, you never know with a politician.
And he's just another politician, as far as I'm concerned.
But his poll numbers have gone down to a level that he's going to be out of the race very soon.
He's going to be out very soon.
You know, I watched him last night.
He's standing up with his shoes, his fancy shoes.
And he's going to be out of the race within, you know, a lot of people say before New Hampshire.
I don't know if that were the reason.
I hope it wasn't the reason.
I hope it's for other reasons.
I can see a lot of other reasons why he shouldn't be.
But he's doing very, very poorly.
It happened to coincide with that, because a lot of people say a lot of, you know, if you talk five or six weeks, a lot of women don't know if they're pregnant in five or six weeks.
I want to get something where people are happy.
You know, this has been tearing our country apart for 50 years.
Nobody's been able to do anything.
And again, you can only ask that question, and you ask it brilliantly.
And I understand exactly where you're coming from.
I love where you're coming from.
But we still have to win.
elections and they've used this, you know, we have some great Republicans and they're great on the issue and you would love them on the issue.
And a lot of them have just been decimated in the election, decimated.
I mean, absolutely.
So we're going to come up with something that people want and people like.
I would love you to, first of all, you have to go with your heart, okay?
You have to go with your heart first go with your heart your mind go with it But you do also have to put in there a little bit you have to win elections But if it weren't for me with Roe v. Wade you wouldn't even be talking about this up You wouldn't be asking that question because would write back.
I remember this they're the radicals.
We're not the radicals because they'll kill a baby remember I had the debate with crooked Hillary Clinton and I don't call her crooked anymore.
I use that now for Joe Biden, as you know.
I call her beautiful, Hillary.
She's a beautiful woman.
But in the debate with Hillary Clinton, I said, they said, you know, she's willing to rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month.
And you know, I never heard this.
It happened to me.
It just came to me during that debate.
I didn't go up there thinking I was going to say that.
And she even winced.
Nobody wants to see that happening after a certain period of time.
Nobody.
They're the radicals because they're willing to kill the baby in eight months, nine months, or even after birth.
If you remember the former governor of Virginia where he said, you kill the baby after the ninth month or even after it's...
You set the baby aside and you have a conversation with the mother.
And of the conversation, can you imagine?
But these are the radicals.
We're not the radicals.
We are not the radicals.
But we're living in a time when there has to be a little bit of a concession one way or the other.
And I think, you know, I want to get it right.
I have to get it right.
But without what I did, you would never even be asking that question, because there was no chance that that was going to happen.
For 54 years, they campaigned on that issue, and nobody pulled it off but me.
The European countries took advantage of... I want to use a word starting with an S, but I don't want to do it because I see some young, very good-looking children in the audience, and I assume they're watching on television.
But they took advantage of us on trade, and then they took advantage of us on our military protection.
Of the 28 countries at the time, only 8 countries were paid up.
We were paying the difference.
And I went to him and I said, if you don't pay, we're not going to protect you.
And they said, do you mean that?
I said, I mean that.
And the next day, billions of dollars poured into NATO.
The reason they have money right now to prosecute what they're doing with helping Ukraine is because of the money I got them.
So we're going to be right back with just a quick final segment right after this time out.
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And the other thing I think is it's supposed to snow for the next two days or three days.
Really?
Yeah.
And so that's what my wife tells me, and her name is Weather Woman.
Right.
So, but if that happens, and if it stays snowing like it is now, Well, I think the energy in the party is with the America First, the Trump, the Vivek, the Haley's and the DeSantis.
We've had that forever.
and we'll go, ah, it really doesn't matter that much to me.
That means that the solid Trump supporters, the solid Vivek Ramaswamy supporters, they're going to turn out, I think, in greater numbers than the folks for the election.
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So I'm I'm always thankful for any stress reliever that we have.
And the ability to interact with them and help them out, encourage them, lift them up.
And I draw energy from other people.
It's not, they say they draw energy from me, I draw it from other people too.
It's always a two-way thing.
And so all that interactivity and all the ways that we've been able to help people over the years, wherever it might be, and I had my staff, 17 of them, and their job was to help people.
And so we did a lot of that, and now as I go around the district, almost invariably somebody stands up and says, thank you for, and they explain what it was, they give me credit, it was usually my staff that did it, but that's what our object was, to help just make this world a smoother place.
And more or less open the doors for people so they can just walk through with low stress.
And I didn't realize either how many places I had been, how many things I'd done, how many countries I'd been to, how many different levels of government and business and for politics and personalities.
But all of that experience gives me some insight so that people don't know how to navigate that.
And they come to me and say, well, what do I do?
And it's kind of surprising.
I have a lot of answers for their conundrums.
But it's because they haven't been confronted with that as much as I have been.
So that's what I do.
I help people.
I developed, I call it a very highly successful consulting company.
Okay.
Which means I've got far more work than I can get done.
And the big reason is, I don't let anybody pay me.
Well, you're not going to be corrupted then by the special interests, right?
And these crony capitalists.
That's right.
But you've always been a man of integrity and honor, and so what did you think of the town hall?
I mean, I know you're very popular, so I don't know how much of it you got to watch, but what did you think of the town hall, and what do you think about what's going on in Iowa?
Oh, I like this.
unidentified
We've got a nice rhythm in here, and good people, and they're enthusiastic, and we did a little program a little while ago recognizing many of them.
And I walk in here and I find some friends that I had seen before that are actually good friends.
Yes, I believe we are both getting a lot of satisfaction.
You know, I never asked you in person.
What did you feel?
Where were you when you got the news that there was a motion to vacate McCarthy?
I mean, that must have been a really amazing day for you.
You must have been so elated.
Did you go out?
Did you celebrate?
Did you party?
Did you have a nice dinner with your wife?
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Well, I did watch what was going on and I sent a bunch of texts in there to my former colleagues.
And they let me know, too, that in the first election of McCarthy as Speaker, those 15 rounds of votes, they said that my name was there in those negotiations throughout.
Yeah.
Because McCarthy would try an argument, they'd go, No, we're not buying that.
You did that to King.
You're not doing that to us.
And so they kept pushing that back at him.
Well, now the decision to vacate the chair, part of what he did to me is what motivated them, because they knew they could not trust him.
The facts were not going to get in McCarthy's way.
I've had people that know McCarthy well say to me, and I'll say in a brain-trust environment, McCarthy will look you in the eye and lie to you and he doesn't care if you know he's lying.
And I honestly, I personally think that Kevin McCarthy retired early from Congress to diminish the House majority because he wants Democrats to take back control of the House in the middle of our election year to screw President Donald Trump.
I really do believe that because we have a one-seat majority right now.
We have a one seat majority right now.
unidentified
That's pretty tight.
I guess it does, right over the course of the year.
And another thing that Kevin McCarthy did, he raised lots of money.
I mean, $200 million or so that he managed within the funds.
And I saw him doing this.
He would go out, and he had an affirmative action program.
And it was, I'm going to find people that fit the minority categories, and I'm going to give them money.
Right.
and run them in primaries against other people that are just principled conservatives like you and I are.
Right.
And so what he was doing was he wasn't just dumbing down the Republican conference, he was moving the center of that thing to the left.
He was moving to the left saying he was doing it because he wanted a conference that looked like America, that sounded like Bill Clinton's cabinet back in 1993.
But instead it really was about the ideological component of that, They were rhino enough to vote for McCarthy, and I saw this happen in Texas.
I got behind, I'll give his name, Roland Lopez, a solid, principled conservative, and he should have gone to Congress, but McCarthy found a person that fit his minority category more strongly than Lopez, put a million dollars in there and said, stay in your basement like Biden, we'll get you elected, and he did.
There's a vote for Speaker when that happens.
That happens over and over again.
And so, we need to have, first of all, this party, this Ronna McDaniel party, and the Kevin McCarthy party.
She does need to go.
But they were configuring this thing for something other than our platform.
Yeah, I remember when I was a teen, I was like 16 years old and I snuck into the back room because I was so eager to meet her and I wasn't supposed to be back there and the administrators were like, what are you doing?
You're not supposed to be back here.
And I remember she was gracious and she said, Oh no, it's okay.
And she's like, Oh, what's your name?
And you know, it's, uh, That's her.
You know what I do, I loomer people and I always was so excited, but I got to meet her.
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But the decision that she came down with, wrote the majority opinion on was, well, we kind of need this yet because we've still got racism in the country, but maybe in 25 years we can get rid of it.
And I go, no!
The Constitution is what you're ruling on.
You're not ruling on the movement of society.
That's got nothing to do with it.
You have to come down on the fact that are people going to have equal opportunity or are they not going to have equal opportunity.
Right.
And so now here we are nearly 25 years later and you're seeing these decisions come down that are getting rid of affirmative action.
We've got decisions in Texas that the universities in Texas closing down their diversity offices because the legislature has prohibited any of this further affirmative action.
And now you have the presidents of elite universities like Harvard resigning, right?
Under pressure.
And I think that we're maybe going to see a rejection of DEI, right?
Because people are now getting nervous about the kind of social chaos, right?
And conflict that DEI brings.
And the safety concerns, especially as it relates to this recent story that just broke about the airliner, right?
And the plane that had a hard landing.
I don't know if you heard about that story as well.
But a lot of people are now starting to say, you know, I think we're tired of this DEI, you know, bullcrap.
We need to get back to meritocracy, right?
We need to get back to a system of merit.
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Well, who was it that when they got on, it might have been Muhammad Ali, when he'd get on a plane and he'd look in and he'd see the pilot and he would think, hmm, I don't want to have an affirmative action pilot.
He also said, Muhammad Ali, I love the way he characterized things.
It was just pretty simple.
He was wiser than he got credit for being.
He would say, well, don't worry about not having the integration part of this thing.
Bluebirds fly with bluebirds.
Blackbirds fly with blackbirds.
That's their choice.
But I'll say, here's something about humanity is that people gravitate towards like kind.
And you can define like kind in a number of different ways.
But, for example, we gravitate together because we love our country and the Constitution and we're conservatives.
We used to have family reunions, and my mother's family, there were five kids, and each of those kids, my aunts and uncles and my mother, had five kids.
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And so we'd do a family reunion, and there would be five picnic tables for the nuclear families.
And they all sat together.
Part, part, part.
And I thought, I'm here for a family reunion, I'm going to go sit down with these.
And I'll go sit down, pretty soon I'll be talking to one of them, not the rest of them, because they go reform at another table.
Well, okay, I'll go try another family, and we'll do the same thing.
I mean, it wasn't that...
It wasn't that they were rejecting me.
They were just more comfortable in their own family unit, even in a family reunion.
Well, I think that, you know, we're wrapping up our programming for tonight.
The town hall is over.
Everybody had a really wonderful time.
I think that, you know, there's a lot of enthusiasm, right?
There's a lot of enthusiasm here for President Trump.
There was a lot of enthusiasm today.
at the Vigramaswamy's press conference.
And regardless of whether people agree or not, the great thing about this country is that we have free speech and we're able to have these conversations.
And so I really want to thank you for coming out tonight.
I've always really admired you and thought so highly of you.
And I wish that you were back in Congress.
I really do.
unidentified
Well, you are a vigorous personality, and I want to thank you for hosting this tonight.
Well, and I wish that there wasn't, you know, torrential snow downpour right before the event started, because unfortunately Only a few people had to cancel because of the snow, but, you know, I do what I can, you know, and I want to come out and I want to meet everybody.
I'm a grassroots person and so I want to do my part to take our country back.
I don't want to live in a communist country.
unidentified
Let's just keep pounding away on those leftists and those idiots and the rhinos.
And then we have to take on the World Economic Forum.
Yes.
And I just had this conversation back in the back of the room, but of all of the existential threats that we have, and there aren't many for the greatest country in the world, but China, Russia, the World Economic Forum is the number one most existential threat to the United States because they seek to break down our entire economy, our civilization, our constitution, our family life, every component of what makes America great is under assault.
And we have to push back on that and eventually take them down.
I have a lot of reservations about him trying to push for a contingent election.
You know, pushing for a contingent election?
Because I don't want Congress deciding who our next president is.
And Kennedy is pushing for a contingent election.
Yes, his whole entire strategy, as he just announced recently, is investing $15 million into getting on the ballot in key states so that they could push for a contingent election.
And I think that that is the most globalist thing that you can do.
It deprives the American people of their ability to actually select their own president.
But yeah, I would agree that Donald Trump is the number one enemy to the World Economic Forum, which is why I support him.
But it's been a great event.
I want to thank you, of course, for coming out.
And again, where can people follow you, Congressman, if they want to follow you?
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They can go to steveking.com.
That's my website.
And there, if they'd like to pick up a book, Walking Through the Fire, that comes right out of my warehouse with my autograph on it, and I ship them out myself.
You gave it to me at the American Renaissance conference, actually, in Tennessee.
But with that, thank you so much to everybody who tuned in.
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