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May 30, 2024 - Loomer Unleashed - Laura Loomer

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EP50: MELTDOWN: Trump Causes Libertarian Party to IMPLODE!EP50: MELTDOWN: Trump Causes Libertarian Party to IMPLODE!

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	Good evening and welcome to episode 50 of Loomer Unleashed.
	I'm your host, Laura Loomer.
	For the upcoming 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump and his campaign team have made a calculated push to make significant inroads into voting groups usually claimed by Democrats and third-party candidates.
	Seizing on Joe Biden's historic unpopularity, the Trump camp sees a golden opportunity to engineer a landslide in November and bring many new voters to the Republican Party permanently.
	This idea of having a Big Tent MAGA movement is not a new one.
	Trump forged a massive coalition of voters back in 2016, all from scratch.
	That grassroots movement, the energy it created, and the base it constructed allowed him to upset Crooked Hillary nearly eight years ago.
	In 2020, the Trump team attempted to expand the base by appealing to minority voters, particularly in the black community.
	In doing so, the Trump campaign made two critical errors.
	Firstly, they failed to provide enough red meat to their base.
	Much like the country's demographics at large, the MAGA movement primarily consists of white middle-class voters.
	Many were less than ecstatic with the rhetoric coming out of the campaign in 2020, which seemed watered down compared to the original run in 2016.
	The second key mistake, though, was the way in which the campaign reached out to minorities.
	Instead of leveling with them, the Trump team chose a strategy of pandering to these communities.
	Many would say.
	This cheapened the earnest, common-sense policies of Trump's America First ideology, and many people noticed that Trump was being held back from being Trump.
	Many voters undoubtedly saw through all of this, and they were not enticed.
	However, things have changed, and now in 2024, it seems that the Trump campaign has learned its lesson.
	Over the past few weeks, Donald Trump has been very busy making his case to anyone who will listen.
	Last week, he held a rally in the middle of the Bronx, New York.
	As we all know, that is not exactly friendly territory to Donald Trump, or any Republican for that matter.
	Yet, in spite of that, Trump's rally drew a raucous crowd of over 25,000 people, all of whom were avid supporters who flocked to Kratona Park.
	Many of the attendees were African American and Hispanic.
	Who showed up not because they were being pandered to, but because they believe in MAGA policies, they love Trump's larger-than-life personality, and they see through the decades of lies and false promises sold to them by the Democrat Party.
	This rally ended up being a major success, to the point that some New York Democrats are actually concerned that New York may be a closed contest this fall.
	Donald Trump's campaign has said New York and New Jersey are in play.
	Ex-New York Governor David Patterson, who's a Democrat, called the rally a wake-up call and proclaimed that Donald Trump is within striking distance of actually winning the state of New York.
	The fact that New York, a longtime liberal bastion that hasn't gone red in 40 years, is actually being considered in play is a testament To just how disastrous Joe Biden really is and how effective Donald Trump has been at energizing his base while simultaneously adding to it by just being himself.
	Gee, imagine that.
	People like when Donald Trump is able to be Trump.
	Hmm.
	Such a novel idea.
	But not every Trump campaign outreach program has been so effective.
	You see, on Saturday evening, President Trump attended the Libertarian Party's National Convention with the hopes of garnering a chunk of their vote this election cycle.
	There, he found a rather tough crowd that wasn't particularly joyful when he took the stage to deliver his speech.
	Yet, to President Trump's credit, he stuck to his guns.
	He did not pander, nor did he cut corners to try to make his message more appealing to the room.
	Instead, Donald Trump gave the Libertarians some tough love, telling them that you will only vote for me if you want to win, and if you want to lose, don't do that.
	Keep getting your 3% every four years.
	Now, if you know anything about the Libertarian Party or third parties in general, then you'll understand how true President Trump's comment really is.
	You see, America has operated under a two-party system for over a century, and there are few signs of that changing anytime soon.
	These third parties are based around niche issues, whether that be the environment or minimizing the government's role in our society as it relates to specific social issues.
	In any case, these third parties lack the broad appeal, the fundraising ability, and the voting base to hold a candle to the larger two parties, for better or for worse.
	It doesn't help that these parties are often led by highly unrelatable and eccentric personalities who do more harm than good for the causes they claim to champion.
	Yet this does not stop the Libertarians from attempting year after year to play spoiler in the presidential election.
	There is a scenario, however, where no candidate for president earns the necessary 270 electoral college votes needed to become president, forcing what is called a contingent election.
	This could happen, really could happen, if a third party candidate were to somehow net a significant number of electors.
	If this were to happen, The responsibility of electing a president would then fall on the House of Representatives, which would be grouped into state delegations.
	However, it seems that Libertarians can't help but nominate the worst candidates imaginable to move on to the general election.
	The worst.
	The worst people you'll ever see.
	Some of the recent all-stars for the Libertarian Party were Gary Johnson, you know, the stoner who had never heard of Aleppo, even in the middle of the Syrian Civil War.
	And Joe Jurgensen, best described as the open borders grandma of the Libertarian Party.
	This year though, however, the Libertarians have really outdone themselves.
	At their convention on Saturday, believe it or not, they nominated a freak show by the name of Chase Oliver, a flaming homosexual who despises Donald Trump and supports BLM, the trans movement, and vaccines.
	Oliver is frequently described as being armed and gay.
	Ooh, wow, he's so, you know, out of the box, right?
	And also, he likes to call himself a pro-choice libertarian.
	He also thinks that advocating for grooming policies, like telling kids to call him mommy if their parents don't agree with them being trans and gay, and also saying that trans kids are libertarian, yeah, he thinks that that's acceptable libertarian policy, too.
	It gets worse, though.
	Back in 2012, this character, Chase Oliver, was actively campaigning and fundraising for Barack Hussein Obama, whose presidency devastated the social and cultural fabric of our nation.
	Worse still, this libertarian was happily cheering on President Trump's deplatforming from social media just two days after January 6 and even publicly called for the 25th Amendment to be used against Donald Trump to remove him from office.
	I'm not exactly sure what part of banning free speech is libertarian.
	I guess Oliver only cares about free speech when he's posting gay and queer images online advocating for trans kids in what many would call borderline pedophilic behavior or even groomer behavior or when he's rallying in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
	Is this really the best guy that the libertarians have to offer?
	You mean to tell me that they chose this freak show over Donald Trump?
	Would they really rather vote for a gay liberal who is totally fine with killing babies and gagging presidents than the candidate who wants to clean out the deep state, deregulate DC, and reignite the economy?
	No wonder why these people struggle to get 3% in the elections every single presidential election season.
	What a joke of a party the Libertarian has become.
	I mean, I guess no one should be surprised, right?
	This is the same crew that almost nominated Vermin Supreme in 2020.
	Embarrassing.
	There is a young female journalist, conservative journalist, by the name of Laura Loomer.
	If America's men acted like Laura Loomer, our problems would be fixed in about five minutes.
	Chained herself to Twitter?
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	I'm your host, Laura Loomer.
	We have a really exciting show for you tonight.
	I'm sure that it's going to really cause some backlash.
	I don't care though, because everything I'm going to tell you tonight needs to be said.
	And a lot of people don't want to talk about this, but we're going to do something different tonight.
	Something we have done on the show in the past.
	We did this when I was exposing Judge Ingoran.
	We're going to go through the live social media accounts of Chase Oliver live on the show tonight, and I'm going to show you in real time some of the stuff that I'm finding out about this guy who has been nominated to be the official presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.
	We're still gathering tons of information.
	The Libertarian Party is in absolute meltdown mode.
	Over the weekend, you may have seen on Saturday that President Trump decided to, and some people thought this was good.
	Some people thought this was bad.
	You know, I personally wasn't really a fan of President Trump speaking at the Libertarian Convention because I, of course, knew ahead of time what was going to happen.
	I think that President Trump did a great job, but I don't really feel like they deserved to get President Donald Trump at their convention because they just were incredibly disrespectful.
	We have clips to show you They were making motions on the floor before Donald Trump spoke to say, oh, I would like to make an official motion to tell Donald Trump to go fuck himself.
	Their words, not mine.
	They were getting boatloads of rubber chickens that said, debate Bobby, as in Bobby Kennedy, who's in the gator mouth tonight.
	We're going to talk about Robert, Robert Kennedy Jr.
	because Well, what is he?
	He's a plant.
	He's a Marxist.
	This is a guy that's running as a third-party candidate, and as I outlined in my monologue tonight, his whole purpose for running isn't to even win.
	He knows that he can't win.
	In fact, all of these candidates know that they can't win.
	And if you saw the reporting from Loomer Unleashed this weekend, we sent our DC correspondent, the amazing Charles Downs, who was in attendance this weekend at the Libertarian Convention and, you know, got some of the great video that went viral online that's causing these people to meltdown.
	You know, we caught them on camera advocating and putting up signs and like holographic banners that said things like, oh, stop 270, prevent Joe Biden and Trump from winning 270.
	Well, what does that mean?
	That means then that you would have a contingent election.
	And as is outlined in the United States Constitution, that would mean that the United States Congress would then select our president.
	And no, they would not be deciding between the people on the ballot, so it would not be between Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Chase Oliver, or Bobby Kennedy.
	No, it could be anybody.
	We could literally get President Alex Soros, okay?
	We could literally get President AOC.
	We could get President Ilhan Omar.
	And so I think that we just really need to, you know, put all of this third-party bullshit to rest.
	And that's why tonight I wanted to have one of the leading voices in the Libertarian Party on to discuss this implosion and really this existential, I guess you could call it, identity crisis that is now happening in the Libertarian Party, where these people are now going to have to come to terms with whether where these people are now going to have to come to terms with whether or not they want to vote for a groomer, radical leftist anarchist who really doesn't even seem to support the Constitution, or whether they want to save America and
	So joining me now is the host of Wake Up America, Austin Peterson.
	Thank you so much for joining me, Austin.
	Hey, Laura.
	It's great to see you again.
	Thanks for the kind invitation.
	I'm glad to be here and looking forward to talking about libertarians for Donald Trump, baby.
	Yeah, I think that you are one of the only adults in the room.
	You attended the convention, right?
	No, I wasn't there at the convention this weekend, but I was getting all of the updates.
	So for those who don't know, I was a candidate for President of the United States as a libertarian in 2016.
	In 2017, I actually joined the Republican Party, ran for the U.S.
	Senate here in Missouri.
	And this year, I actually lost that election as well, but won my very first election this year when I was nominated to be a delegate for Donald Trump here in the state of Missouri for the Missouri Republican Party.
	But I am actively leading the charge to get as many libertarians as we can to vote for Donald Trump to save our country this fall and to fight against the woke left, which is what the Libertarian Party has embraced since I ran for office.
	Now, We can go through many of the things that Chase Oliver said.
	I've interviewed him.
	He says, yes, trans the kids.
	Yes, drag queen story hours.
	He compared public nudity at Pride parades to, oh, it's just like Mardi Gras.
	And so I think that that obviously is a disqualifying view when it comes to his politics.
	But, you know, I think actually, Laura, you're looking at this sort of the wrong way, because you should be happy that the Libertarian Party has nominated this guy, because this is going to help Donald Trump get re-elected.
	Libertarians who don't stand for drag queen story hours and who can't tolerate pride parades with naked adult people out in public around kids, they're not going to vote for this Chase Oliver character, but that means that Donald Trump is now the only right-wing candidate out of a sea of left-wing candidates, Bobby Kennedy, Joe Biden, Cornel West, the Green Party candidate, Jill Stein.
	This is a perfect storm for Donald Trump.
	So let's celebrate Chase Oliver and the gays for Gaza. - Right, well, what I think is crazy though is, look, I think that the lack of leadership that we saw this weekend at the Libertarian Party needs to be called out.
	You know, I've been attacked by this.
	I saw that Bobby Kennedy's PAC, American Values, went crazy on me on X and they said that, you know, that I was lying about the reception that President Trump received because I pointed out the fact that he Walked on stage to getting booed by the audience and then I said by the end of his speech he was being cheered, which is true because he actually said that he would commit to pardoning Ross Ulbricht on day one of his administration.
	And a lot of the people, it's a fact, it's really big.
	That is a huge talking point.
	And even though Bobby Kennedy likes to call himself, you know, a candidate who appeals to libertarians, he did not mention Ross Ulbricht once during his speech.
	And then, of course, his campaign and the PAC were rushing after President Trump's, you know, historic speech and presence at the Libertarian National Convention to try to, you know, make up for his shortcomings.
	But, you know, I was getting into it with the Kennedy PAC.
	And then I also got into it with Angela McArdle, who is now, I guess, the reelected chairwoman of the Libertarian Party.
	And, you know, she said, well, generally, I respect activists, but I don't respect Laura Loomer because, you know, Loomer Unleashed caught her on camera at the convention saying, and these are her words, if you're a Trump supporter, you need to get out of the front row.
	And it got so hostile, they even threatened to use security to remove Trump supporters who waited in line just as much as other people did to see President Trump speak at the convention.
	And it just seems a little aggressive to threaten Trump supporters with removal by security.
	They even threatened the Loomer Unleashed correspondent and said, we are going to remove you, physically remove you, not just remove you.
	They said physically remove you if you don't give up your seat.
	Well, Laura, you know what they say, the Libertarian Party, it's like, you know, even if you win a gold medal in the Special Olympics, you're still retarded.
	So at the end of the day, I think Trump was actually being quite kind when he said, if you want to win, come with me or keep your 3%.
	3% was the high watermark for the Libertarian Party.
	That was the highest.
	They've never gotten anything higher than that.
	They're slated this year to get Worse than they've ever gotten.
	As a matter of fact, if you look back in history, the last time that the Libertarian Party got fourth place in the national election was in 1992 when Ross Perot got 18 percent.
	In the 2020 election, Joe Jorgensen, the LP candidate, only got 1 to 1.5 percent.
	So, I mean, it was kind of... Donald Trump was there on a mission of mercy.
	He was there trying to save them from themselves and say, hey, listen, the boat's going down.
	Let's go.
	Let's go get on the lifeboats.
	He also, you know, graced them and blessed them with his presence.
	And some people will say, you know, oh, you know, how can you be so entitled?
	Well, no.
	Donald Trump actually gave you guys the time of day.
	You know, the complaint is, is, oh, why would we support the two-party system when the two-party system doesn't even recognize that there's a fraction of American voters that don't support the two-party system?
	Isn't Donald Trump the embodiment of what it means to say fuck you to the establishment?
	You know?
	Isn't Donald Trump the embodiment of what it means to break up the establishment two-party system?
	I mean, this is a guy who has literally been taking bullets for the last eight years of his life from the deep state, from the Republican establishment, and from the Democrat Party as a whole.
	Okay?
	He's the first candidate ever in my lifetime To make the word uniparty a household name for everyday Americans who now understand it doesn't matter whether you're Republican or Democrat, all parties are working against the American people.
	Donald Trump offered the Libertarian Party a golden ticket.
	Not only did he say he wanted to free Ross, he said that he would put Libertarians in a cabinet-level position, which I don't know where they're going to find somebody that's qualified enough as a Libertarian who could actually fill that role, or get through the Senate hearings that would be necessary in order to get across the finish line.
	That's a pretty dang tall order in itself, but still, he said that he would do it.
	He said that the White House, the Oval Office, would be open to Libertarians.
	He said that he would actually put Libertarians on commissions for presidential pardons.
	This is a massive potential victory for people who believe in the principles of economic freedom and personal liberty like myself.
	Laurie, you and I go back, you and I go back a very long time.
	Yeah, like 2015 or so, right?
	I think, or before then.
	I think we go back to 2008.
	I'm pretty sure.
	I think so.
	During the Ron Paul revolution of 2008, you and I met in DC with Shane Corey and Stephen Gordon.
	We are old school activists, and you know me.
	I have always been a principled libertarian, but I've never been the type of person to put party Above principle.
	And too many people, I think, they look at the Libertarian Party and they think that just supporting that party itself means that you support Libertarian bona fides.
	But that is not the case.
	What are we doing here?
	We're trying to save a country.
	We're trying to advance our ideas.
	And probably one of the most unspoken things in all this, Laura, which your listeners might actually find very interesting in this, For the libertarians here in the United States who are big fans of what's happening down in Argentina, who do you think, as President of the United States, is going to be a better friend to Javier Mele of Argentina?
	Do you think Joe Biden and the Democrats want to see Javier Mele of Argentina be successful in advancing Austrian economic principles?
	No.
	I'll tell you, Laura, as somebody who's interviewed dozens of Argentines surrounding Javier Mele, they all want Donald Trump to be elected.
	Javier Malay wants Donald Trump to be elected.
	He showed up to when he I think he visited the United States a couple months ago and there's a video of him literally kissing Donald Trump like not on the lips of course but he grabbed Donald Trump's face and you can see Secret Service getting really crazy about it.
	Maybe we even have the photo we can pull up here on screen.
	He grabbed Donald Trump's face and kissed him and he said make In his accent, make Argentina great again.
	That's what he said.
	He said MAGA.
	So, I mean, he literally is trying to be... He called himself the Donald Trump of Argentina.
	Geert Wilders, okay, calls himself the Donald Trump of the Netherlands, okay?
	All of these populist nationalist candidates that are getting elected across the world are replicating their campaigns and their identities and the personalities that they convey to the voting populace as Donald Trump replicas.
	We have to destroy the left.
	Vivek Ramaswamy at the convention said that he wants a libertarian nationalist coalition.
	We're talking about changing not only politics here in the United States.
	We're not just going to make America great again.
	We're going to make Argentina great again.
	We're going to make the Netherlands great again.
	Italy.
	We're going to build a populist coalition to fight back against the elite.
	Because what are we fighting against?
	We're fighting against the globalists.
	Laura, this isn't just a battle here for the heart and soul in the United States.
	We're fighting against the World Economic Forum.
	We're fighting against living in the pod and eating the bugs.
	We're talking about international socialists.
	That's what our battle is.
	And we're going to need more allies than just the libertarians here in the United States, which frankly, of course, we all know is pretty small potatoes.
	I think Donald Trump was actually pretty kind in going and speaking to them and offering them what he offered them.
	But he's got bigger fish to fry.
	We've got bigger enemies.
	We've got bigger enemies on the international stage.
	And if Donald Trump is reelected as president of the United States, he is in a situation which many people know from the art of war in Sun Tzu where his back is to the wall.
	It's fight or die.
	Trump is on death's ground.
	He is fighting for his own survival.
	The only way out for Donald Trump now for his own safety is through, through the deep state, through the globalists, through the international cabal of socialists who want to take away our rights and our God-given freedoms.
	That is the biggest reason to vote for Donald Trump, because people say, oh I can't trust Trump, or I don't know if he'll actually live up to that.
	You idiots.
	He has to fight.
	He has to, because all of his enemies, by the way, and when I ask Libertarians this, they all agree, that do they have the same enemies?
	I asked Angela McArdle, the head of the Libertarian National Committee, do you and Donald Trump have the same enemies?
	And she said, Yes.
	Libertarians and Donald Trump have the same enemies, which means that if Donald Trump has to drive a freight train through his enemies in order to survive for himself, he's doing you a big damn favor.
	It wasn't the Libertarians that defeated the neocons.
	It wasn't the Libertarians that defeated George Bush.
	It wasn't the Libertarians who defeated John McCain.
	It was Donald Trump.
	That is our best hope for liberty in the short and medium term.
	Angela McArdle's tweet today, by the way, in which she was saying, well, I guess we can get it pulled up on the screen.
	Do we have that tweet?
	We have the tweet pulled up.
	Angela McArdle posted earlier today that, you know, the party was freaking out, understandably so, and that ultimately the Libertarians were going to need to make a choice this election season about whether or not they were going to You know, want positions in the White House or whether or not they were going to, uh, you know, carry on business as usual.
	Can we please get that up on the screen?
	All right.
	Well, in the meantime, while they're getting that pulled up, um, you know, it just seems like the Libertarian Party, Austin, is devolving into absolute chaos.
	You have, uh, Karen Ann Harlos, as well, who is apparently the secretary.
	Another thing I wanted to talk to you about.
	The secretary of the National Libertarian Party National Convention, as well, Saying today, if you are now alleging voting for Trump because you don't like Oliver, you are not in the party for thick and thin.
	And that's fine, but that's not how third-party movements survive.
	I am sticking around to carry on our legacy.
	I'm a party person and never, ever hid that.
	I remain so.
	I mean, that seems to be on par to me with Joe Biden's comments to blacks when he said, oh, if you don't vote for me and you're black, you're not really black.
	Karen has a good heart, I know her, but she's putting her party above country, and I'll just say that there are a lot of good people in the Libertarian Party who mean well and are doing their best to try and... and they fight against the Uniparty, just like Donald Trump talks about, you know, but the thing is, is like you said earlier, Donald Trump really is sort of a third party, and for those who don't remember, he was a part of the Reform Party back in the day before that fell apart.
	He is as close to a third-party candidate that you're going to get in the 2024 elections.
	He's not owned by the deep state.
	He's not owned by these institutions.
	And how do you know that he's not?
	Well, look what they're trying to do to him.
	They're trying to throw him in jail.
	They're trying to prosecute a leading candidate for President of the United States.
	I'm telling you right now, that is the sign right there that you and Donald Trump have the same enemies.
	If you're against the uniparty, You can't just show it just by saying, oh, I'm going to show that I'm a part of a third party.
	I'm not part of that official party.
	The thing is, the reality of politics, and I've been in a long time, Laura, just as long as you have, is that every once in a while you got to take some losses, right?
	But after a while, you've got to recognize that if you cannot get your principles across the line with the tactics that you have been using, Keep your principles, but change your tactics.
	And that's what I've been doing.
	And you know what?
	I've been notching up some wins here in the state of Missouri.
	More Republicans here in the state of Missouri are calling themselves Liberty Republicans or Libertarian Republicans, are proudly and openly supporting people like Vivek Ramaswamy and Donald Trump.
	I think that the problem is that people don't recognize that you can have outsider movements even inside of the two main political parties.
	But here's the thing.
	I'm white-pilled, Laura.
	I actually think that Donald Trump is going to win the election this fall, minus any potential cheating that could potentially happen.
	But if it's at least somewhat, something of a fair election, I think Donald Trump is going to win.
	Not only because of the minorities that are exiting the Democratic Party in droves, You know, Hispanics and blacks that are tired of Joe Biden.
	I saw he was trying to take away the menthol cigarettes from the black community the other day and he had to walk that back because of how terrified he is of all of the men.
	I mean, Scott Adams described the Democratic Party as the party of women and the men who are scared of women.
	Couldn't be more accurate.
	But consider this.
	In 1968, when Hubert Humphrey was the Democratic presidential candidate, he got blown out in the 1968 election, in large part because the progressive anti-war left protested the Chicago Convention, and they could not stand the war policies, the Vietnam War policies of Lyndon Baines Johnson, which Hubert Humphrey identified himself with.
	And then when those young progressive you know, quote unquote, anti-war leftists, abandoned the Democratic Party.
	They handed the election to the Republicans.
	And now we're seeing something of a mirroring of that today where the Democrats are going to hold their nominated convention in Chicago, the Gays for Gaza, the Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC squad caucus, or they're going to be We have some of these posts from Chase Oliver, actually.
	1968.
	And now they're going to look around for a protest candidate.
	And what are they going to see?
	They're going to see Chase Oliver, the biggest gay for Gaza there is, who has called for an end, an end to genocide in the Middle East.
	He's, yeah, I want to get some of these.
	I want to get some of these posts up.
	We have some of these posts from Chase Oliver, actually, where I mean, we have so many of them.
	So we're just going to pull them up on the screen.
	And I have people going through the archives as well of his old Facebook post going back so that people can see just genuinely how deranged all of his positions are.
	I mean, there's one here that says, should the government continue to fund Planned Parenthood?
	He says, yes, their services reach far beyond abortions and can save Many lives through cancer screening, prenatal services, and adoption referrals.
	So, he still wants the government to fund Planned Parenthood, which is a leftist position.
	I mean, this guy is not really a conservative, and I would say that, you know, most of these I'm looking right now, while I do this live on air, so hopefully you can stick around for a while, because I want to get your reaction, because I find you, Austin, to be one of the more common sense members of the Libertarian Party, which makes sense since you're, you know, leading the charge right now.
	Let's get these photos up in the chat.
	That we have of him in the crop top?
	Here is Chase Oliver.
	So this is the guy that the Libertarians just nominated to be their presidential candidate.
	He's wearing a shirt that advocates for equality.
	It's just like the biggest flamer outfit I've ever seen in my life.
	Let's see, we have another one as well in a rainbow outfit.
	He's got a lot of rainbow outfits.
	Let's get the other photo on screen.
	Here we go.
	We have one of him engaging in really weird kind of like rumor signaling behavior at Disney World.
	Let's get the photo of him at Disney World on camera as well.
	Let's see, we have that, we're getting that pulled up right now where he's at Disney World posing in Disney gear while wearing rainbow ears.
	Let's see, we have, if you look on my Twitter, If you go to my X account and you can see I just posted these photos as well.
	Let's go to my X. Let's pull the X up and people can see what we posted right before we went live.
	Chase, for Liberty, the Libertarian candidate for president is a groomer.
	He posted pics saying that if minors' parents don't accept them for being gay.
	Here we go.
	I don't know if you can see this, Austin.
	Uh, if they don't accept them for being gay and trans, then the kids can call him mommy instead.
	What do you think about that, Austin?
	What do you think about him?
	Let's get a full screen of that graphic so people can see that came from his, uh, his, uh, Facebook.
	Here we go, Austin.
	It says, uh, support trans kids, vote libertarian.
	If you scroll down, you can see it says Chase Oliver, April 2nd, 2021 at the bottom of the photo.
	Okay, uh, next.
	Let's click on the next photo.
	We have another 2021 Facebook post from Chase Oliver that says, if your parents aren't accepting of your identity, I'm your mom now.
	And it says, hashtag free mom hugs or dads.
	I mean, that's really, people would say that's groomer behavior, and I would even go as far as saying that is borderline pedophile behavior.
	I mean, telling kids to put the hashtag free mom hugs or free dad hugs, and if you're gay or trans, call me mommy or daddy.
	What do you think about that, Austin?
	As a libertarian, this is the guy that the Libertarian Party just nominated as their presidential candidate.
	Well, listen, I'm not a social conservative, and I believe that a consenting adult should be allowed to do as they please, provided they harm no one else.
	In Missouri, we like to say, you know, so long as it doesn't spook the horses, it's fine.
	But you're right.
	This is groomer behavior.
	This is beyond the pale.
	You might not remember this, some of your listeners might, but in 2016, when I ran for president as a libertarian, I famously was booed at the convention when I said that there should be laws that protect children.
	You should not be allowed to sell heroin to a five-year-old.
	Boo, Austin, boo.
	And some people will say, well, is that because, Austin, that they actually wanted to sell heroin to five-year-olds?
	Or is it because they just didn't want to create a system that perpetuated the war on drugs, man?
	And my answer is, both.
	Both, as a matter of fact.
	For those who might be curious about the long-sorted history of the what-of-the-child-consents-though branch of the libertarian movement, look up the name Brad Spangler from New Hampshire who's doing time in a federal prison now for what he did to his underage child.
	And I will tell you that there are people who want to sell the heroin to the five-year-old.
	There are people who think that Going to the Drag Queen Story Hour and putting the underage minor up on stage and putting dollar bills in their pants is perfectly normal behavior and should not be allowed or punishable by law.
	There is a problem in the liberty movement of people who do not understand liberty and license and who think that they should be allowed to do anything to anyone that they want and they do not understand what true harm is.
	They have a problem when it comes to the question Of children.
	And I'll just, without getting too deep into the weeds of libertarian philosophy, I think it really does boil down to the problem of what we call the non-aggression principle.
	And this is why a lot of libertarians hate me, because I think for myself, and I don't necessarily buy into the orthodoxy, I always consider myself to be a heterodox person, meaning that I will consider different strains of thought within my own, you know, general broad thought pattern.
	But why I never considered myself to be an anarchist is because when it comes to the non-aggression principle, Murray Rothbard, who is the father of the anarcho-capitalist movement, said explicitly in his book, Ethics of Liberty, that while a parent, if they decide to allow their child to starve to death, it is morally wrong for a parent to allow their child to starve to death.
	But no one should be forced, by law or otherwise, to have to feed their child Because that would be an initiation of force, and because the initiation of force is the foundational principle of the non-aggression principle, Murray Rothbard said, it's immoral to starve your kids to death, but it should not be illegal.
	And that was the moment when I read that and I said, alright, I'm out.
	I'm looking for something else.
	And I found Robert Nozick and minarchism and limited government, which is what I absolutely believe in.
	So the anarchist wing of the libertarian movement has always had a problem when it comes to defending the rights of children.
	They think that they're just going to mount up a posse if we live in an encampment and be able to take care of kids.
	But that's where this problem comes in.
	When it comes to the rights of children, they are unable to define what are the legitimate rights of children.
	And the way I consider it to be is that those rights are held in escrow, either by their parents or by the state, if the parent is not in the picture.
	But no one has the right to harm a child, to give drugs to a child, to touch a child inappropriately or do anything.
	If the libertarians took that message, we believe in freedom, we believe in America, we believe in limited government, we believe in the Constitution, abolishing the Federal Reserve, free Ross Ulbricht, let's have a gold standard, what have you.
	If they took that and said, but we're protecting the kids, no sex traffickers, right, no violence on the southern border, we're going to enforce the rule of law, protect people from being – you can't steal $900 worth of goods in San Francisco.
	If they would just run on that platform and then say, we're going to protect these kids, the libertarians would get elected in this year's election.
	But they don't.
	They can't because they are fundamentally morally compromised. - Yeah.
	Yeah, and I really like what you just said, Austin.
	I want you to comment on some of these posts, though, because I just feel like we need to put pressure on the Libertarian Party to disavow Chase Oliver.
	I don't think it's enough to simply condemn their choice of candidate and to make fun of these people for not supporting Donald Trump and missing the opportunity to support Donald Trump There needs to be an open condemnation of these posts.
	I mean, I'm going to just show you some of these posts here.
	Let's show the photo of him at Disney World in these ears here.
	I'm not accusing him of being a pedophile, I'm not saying he's a pedophile, but I do find it to be really strange when adults go to Disney World in gay memorabilia.
	It just seems really strange to be trying to advocate for homosexual activity at a children's theme park.
	What do you think about this?
	I mean, you can clearly see, let's get the photo back on screen here, it says Chase Oliver, October 25th, 2021.
	I mean, what is your reaction to that?
	What does it say What does it say about the Libertarian Party and their lack of vetting for candidates when they are going to sign their name off on this?
	I mean, why is there not massive, massive protests or why are there not calls for Angela McArdle to ask for this guy to resign because of his inappropriate comments and the imagery that he has which suggests that he is okay with the sexualization of minors?
	Well, it reminds me a little bit of a quote from Ann Coulter, when I think she said, our gays are better than their gays.
	You know, and I'm a Republican now, and if you consider the difference between the gay Republicans, people like who Donald Trump was talking about, the first Rick Grinnell.
	Rick Grinnell.
	This is a complete 180 from the kind of behavior that you see from gay Republicans versus gay Libertarians.
	I don't understand why we can't, and again I go back to that, how are you going to have somebody from the Libertarian Party pass a Senate confirmation hearing in order to be able to have a position in the cabinet?
	You're probably not going to have it because this is the kind of behavior That they would point to if you were to try to get through a Senate confirmation and say, there's no way that somebody like this is ever going to be able to hold high a point in office.
	Maybe.
	Now they have the queers and the flamers having gay anal butt sex on the Senate hearing tables in the United States Senate.
	You know, what used to not be acceptable behavior is now acceptable behavior in the United States Senate.
	I mean, did we ever think that we were going to see a Democrat Senate aid worker having gay sex on Amy Klobuchar's seat and broadcasting it on his Instagram?
	Yeah, it's fatherless behavior.
	You're right.
	And that really is what it is, the culture war.
	It's funny because a lot of these, Laura, a lot of these people that you and I have sparred with, as a matter of fact, in the last few months, people like Dave Smith and Clint Russell and Scott Horton and others, they were lecturing people like you and I, telling us, you know, being anti-war is the most important thing.
	Being anti-war is the most important thing.
	Suggesting that we're in favor of genocide because we want Israel to defend itself.
	They called Donald Trump a war criminal example for his behavior.
	But what you're seeing is, and not Dave Smith necessarily, I haven't seen him say he supports Trump, but many libertarians who agree with Dave and were supporting him and have been, you know, part of the gaze for Gaza crew to some extent, were lecturing us about how being anti-war is the most important thing.
	Now they're abandoning Chase Oliver.
	They're abandoning the Libertarian Party.
	They're coming over to Donald Trump, the warmonger, they called him.
	Apparently being anti-war isn't the most important thing.
	Right.
	We've sparred publicly.
	We debated for the first series of Zero Hedge's debates.
	And Dave has called me a moron.
	Ask him if he's supporting Trump.
	Ask him if he's supporting that war monger.
	He has attacked me publicly online and called me stupid.
	And, you know, he thinks that I'm like a genocide... Oh yeah, everyone who disagrees with him is stupid.
	He says that I'm a genocide lover because I'm a Zionist.
	And, you know, look, but I wanted to invite him on tonight even though I absolutely do not agree with his pro-Palestinian sentiments.
	I think that he's on the wrong side of this, not just morally, but also as a Jew.
	I think that it's wrong, and he seems to think that it's okay, right, to be a Jew supporting the efforts of the Palestinian Resistance, aka Hamas, even though he will say, till he's blue in the face, that he does not support Hamas.
	But I did respect the fact that he...
	Yeah.
	- Laura, being anti-war is the most important thing, he says, so that should mean he should be supporting Chase Oliver.
	Chase Oliver is the most anti-war candidate on the, Chase Oliver thinks that it's a genocide going on there.
	Why don't they support Chase Oliver?
	I saw Dave Smith posted today.
	He's not supporting Chase Oliver.
	Why not, Dave?
	I thought that being anti-war was the most important thing, Dave.
	Sounds like now you're part of the problem.
	And that's exactly why I invited Dave on my show tonight.
	He ignored me by the way, like full disclosure.
	He didn't get back to me.
	So I guess I got ghosted by Dave Smith.
	He's nursing his wounds.
	Yeah, he didn't get back to me, even though I invited him.
	I was like, listen, Dave, I know that we don't agree on the topic of Israel, but I want to invite you on my show tonight to talk about Chase Oliver, because I noticed that Dave was one of the only people at the convention that actually stood up and said, OK, look, Donald Trump is here.
	Let's respect him.
	Even though he hasn't exactly said, you know, the nicest things about Donald Trump in the past.
	But, you know, look, everybody is welcome on Luma Unleashed.
	Even if you have attacked me online in the past, I will have you on Luma Unleashed to talk about issues that are relevant in the news cycle.
	But he did not accept my invitation.
	He did not even reply to my text message.
	But it goes to show you there's a lot of hypocrisy in, you know, the libertarian movement.
	Exactly, right?
	Like, Donald Trump is a Zionist as well.
	So you have a lot of these libertarians that say that we're genocide lovers, and they said that we're just as bad as the neocons and the warmongers.
	Well, if the Trump-supporting Zionists, which is what Dave Smith had previously said, are just as bad as the neocons, why is Dave Smith now supporting Trump, right?
	Well, obviously there's another issue.
	Exactly, exactly.
	We were entreated to nothing but lectures for months, Laura, about how being anti-war is the most important thing, Trump is a warmonger, you're a Zionist, etc, etc, etc.
	But then now, all of a sudden, that they've got their anti-war candidate, they don't want him anymore.
	It's because they realize, like you said, There are some more important things that we're at fight with.
	This is the battle for hearts and minds in the culture, protecting our children from the groomers and the pedos and the left, the MAPs, what they want to call themselves.
	That is an important issue that affects the heart, that is happening now.
	You know, drag queen story hours happening around our country, even in conservative red state Missouri.
	We have that screenshot.
	Let's get the screenshot too of Chase Oliver talking about a drag queen story hour as well.
	I believe I posted that in the chat.
	He has a social media post in which he openly talks about, let's see, maybe I didn't post those in the chat.
	We have them though here.
	So yeah, we have, yes, it's in that chat.
	We're doing this in real time right now because we still have people searching through his Searching through his post, here's one where he says, this seems like a good time to remind folks that same-sex pairings and sexual intercourse has been noted in hundreds of animal species.
	Okay, so, you know, I don't know if that is, you know, kind of like a borderline endorsement of, you know, not just like homosexuality, whatever.
	I'm not I personally believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
	That's true.
	He's right, but here's the thing.
	Just because animals do it doesn't mean it's good.
	It's a naturalistic fallacy.
	Right.
	What is it?
	Cyanide and arsenic, for example, is a naturally occurring substance.
	Doesn't mean it's a good thing, right?
	Just because something is natural, something in nature, doesn't mean that it's good.
	Now, again, I don't care what adult, consenting adults do with their time or their energy.
	That's between two consenting adults.
	But what we're really talking about, what we have to hone in on, because we all, here's the thing, we're going to lose if we make this about being gay.
	If we make this about consenting adults or overturning gay marriage, Laura, you're losing the plot.
	If we focus in, like, laser-intense on, you know, men dressing up as women and playing in women's sports and taking away their scholarships, right?
	Men going into the women's bathrooms.
	If we laser-focus in on drag queen story hours, we focus in on that, we will win.
	Because the majority of the American people agree with us on those things.
	And you know, Donald Trump is a pragmatist, right?
	I don't necessarily agree with him when what he talks about when it comes to abortion.
	I'm pro-life, probably more pro-life than he is, but he's a pragmatist and he knows that we have to win elections.
	So in my opinion, I think we should be focused on what he's talking about when it comes to children because there is a whole wealth Yeah, look, we have screenshots as well of these tweets.
	Let's get these pulled up on the screen here, too, where you can see full screen here.
	He goes, guess what?
	about the fact that he's just gay or we attack him for being gay, we're going to lose that argument.
	We're going to lose that fight.
	Focused in on what he said about kids, that is the winning argument in my opinion.
	Yeah, look, we have screenshots as well of these tweets.
	Let's get these pulled up on the screen here too where you can see full screen here.
	He goes, guess what?
	You can see these comments right here.
	You know, it just seems like open support and endorsements of grooming He goes, guess what?
	I went to a Pride event featuring Drag Queen Storytime and there was no grooming or sexualization, just happy kids hearing a story about rainbows.
	When you see something firsthand, you can see past media scare tactics.
	And then again, he says, you can see full screen here again.
	And guess what?
	It wasn't grooming or indoctrination.
	It was someone reading a story about how you can be proud of being yourself.
	That's a good message to send kids.
	Imagine being the libertarian parent of a trans kid.
	You didn't ask for it, you just know you're going to do your best for them.
	And then imagine how they feel seeing their national party equating the care they seek from their kid from their doctor to, you know, grooming a kid for abuse.
	Yeah, he's trying to shame the Libertarian Party into supporting the sexualization of children.
	Like, oh, just imagine how hard it would be for a Libertarian parent to have a trans kid.
	Like, kids don't wake up knowing they're trans, okay?
	You have little kids that eat grass and they say, Mommy, I'm a cow.
	You don't send your kid to a slaughterhouse just because your kid says they're a cow.
	You know, it's just unbelievable.
	Like, I ate glue as a kid sometimes.
	I remember in preschool, like, I sometimes ate glue, and I had, you know, little sparkles in my glue, and my parents would tell me, stop doing that, and I would have my mouth washed out with soap, and you're taught a lesson, right?
	I mean, kids do stupid shit all the time.
	Because the next day you had sparkles in your poop, Laura.
	But kids do stupid shit, Austin.
	I mean, you have kids, right?
	Do you have kids?
	My first child is being born next month, as a matter of fact, yeah.
	Yeah, so kids wake up and they wake up and they say, you know, Mommy, Daddy, I want to go to school dressed as Cinderella or Spider-Man.
	Like, you don't tell your kid for the rest of their life that they're a princess or they're Spider-Man or that they're an animal because they dress up like an animal for Halloween, right?
	I mean, it's just absolutely asinine.
	Laura, I love you.
	Listen, the Libertarian Party has given us a gift.
	This is our shot, a golden opportunity now.
	All of the Libertarians who cannot support Chase Oliver, and there will be many of them, are going to be looking for an alternative.
	There is only one candidate who actually wants to cut taxes.
	Cut spending, who actually has a record of cutting regulations.
	And while Donald Trump may not be the perfect candidate, the truth is, is that he is the best candidate.
	He is the best house in a bad neighborhood.
	And we're all looking down the pike of potential violence when it comes to our elections.
	I promise you that the Democrats are, if Donald Trump wins, I promise you there will be violence.
	I predict right now that there will be violence if Donald Trump is elected.
	I would actually be surprised if he lives to see his nomination because the left has gone that insane.
	I think that they probably are going to try and JFK him.
	And if they don't, it will be a miracle.
	But the Libertarian Party this year has given us a gift in giving us the weakest possible candidate to run against Donald Trump.
	And we can bash Chase and laugh all day at his positions and the silly pictures that he's taken.
	You know, you ate glue as a kid, and I went to a Pride rally back in 2008 once.
	There's a picture of me with a drag queen out there.
	If I had won, they would have been posting that everywhere and said, Austin's a gay lover.
	Like, whatever.
	But the truth is, is that Chase Oliver is the best candidate to help us get Donald Trump re-elected.
	I posted a bunch of merch that I created yesterday.
	It's Libertarians for Trump merch, and I took the Gadsden flag snake.
	And I put the Donald Trump hairdo on the snake with the sign that says Libertarians for Trump and I put it on t-shirts kind of like this and on flags.
	Laura, they're selling like hotcakes.
	If the capitalistic economy is showing us anything, the signals that it's showing us are that there are a lot of people who are going to be willing to say, you know what?
	I'm a principled libertarian.
	I don't agree with Donald Trump on everything, but I sure as hell agree with him a lot more than I agree with Chase Oliver when it comes to protecting our children, fighting for a stronger economy.
	I'm a libertarian for Donald Trump.
	I've got the MAGA hat on and I may have to grit my teeth, but I'm gonna wear it.
	So what is your message then to other libertarians, Austin, who may be sitting there after the convention this weekend Saying, oh, well, you know, I want to stick to my principles as a libertarian, and I want to give the middle finger to the two-party system, and I want to vote third party, but I can't bring myself to actually support a Black Lives Matter, you know, flamer, groomer.
	So what am I going to do?
	What's your message to them?
	Well, first of all, I already had interviews this morning with actual Libertarian members, people like Jeremy Coffman.
	So if you won't listen to me about why you should vote for Donald Trump, listen to people like Jeremy Coffman and others.
	I mean, these are radical anarchists living out in the woods of New Hampshire, you know, guns and machine guns and heroin for adults and all that stuff.
	So if you if you think that I'm too normie or you think that I'm a sellout or a statist or a neocon or a Zionist or you just don't trust me for whatever I just, you know, appear too normal for your tastes.
	Listen, listen to Jeremy, listen to Jeremy Kaufman and the other radicals in New Hampshire who are actually winning battles for the Libertarian Party out in places like New Hampshire, actually winning battles for liberty as card carrying members.
	Don't take it from me, take it from them.
	Jeremy Kaufman, and you can view his interview that I did with him today on my YouTube channel at AP for Liberty, and he explains in great detail why he is voting for Donald Trump.
	Or, if you can't vote for Donald Trump, and you're, you know, here's what I would say.
	If you absolutely just cannot vote for Donald Trump, do the most principled libertarian thing there is, and don't vote.
	How's that?
	Well, I think that this is the most important election of our lifetimes, and I think that, you know, the average age, Austin, of an empire is 250 years, and America's gonna have its 248th birthday this year, this 4th of July, and, you know, it's like, people need to understand that we're right on that verge, okay, of having the collapse of the American empire, and so I wouldn't advocate for people not to vote.
	I would say that You know, you need to vote.
	You need to vote for Donald Trump.
	Because if Joe Biden gets four more years, or if we have a contingent election, Congress isn't going to put a constitutional conservative in.
	They're not going to put a nationalist in.
	They're not going to put a libertarian in.
	Shit, they're not even going to put a populist in.
	They are not even going to put a moderate Democrat in.
	They are going to put the most radical, totalitarian, leftist, somebody who's going to make Joe Biden look like a competent moderate, okay, in office if they're able to get their way and have a contingent election because of third-party nonsense.
	And so everybody needs to vote for Donald Trump.
	And as Donald Trump said, and I know he's been mocked for saying this, if I wasn't a libertarian now, then I sure as am now, right?
	Because he has realized how the deep state has been weaponized And how all of these agencies that Republicans have protected and championed for years, we were told the FBI is good, you know, we were told that DHS was good, we were told that the police were good, and for the most part I would say that most police officers, you know, try to do good.
	It's the people on top that are often corrupt, so I'm not a cop hater, but You know, I definitely do think that we need to defund the FBI.
	I think that these are positions that have been hard for conservatives, traditionally, to come to.
	And if anything, the Libertarian Party should be grateful to Donald Trump for mainstreaming the idea of defunding the FBI, for mainstreaming the idea of, you know, going after the deep state.
	And the FBI being corrupt.
	Like, I never thought in my wildest dreams that saying, deep on the FBI or, you know, the FBI or the deep state is corrupt or we need to, uh, you need to fire all of the political appointees within DHS and all of the intel agencies would be a mainstream conservative, uh, policy or statement.
	Because after 9-11, conservatives were taught that, oh, you have to support the national security state You have to support the intel agencies because that is the patriotic conservative American thing to do for the sake of combating this war on terror.
	But now everything that the Patriot Act was used for and the implementation of the Patriot Act and all these intel agencies that, you know, were supposed to be funded for the sake of countering Islamic terrorism, They created the concept of digital de-platforming, which was supposed to be used as a counter-terror tactic for Islamic terrorism, and they have instead weaponized it against white, Christian, conservative Americans, for the most part.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Ann Coulter the other day was talking to Vivek Ramaswamy, and I'm a huge Vivek fan.
	Yeah, I like Vivek.
	I'm pulling for him to be the vice presidential pick.
	I've actually made a pledge to my fans and supporters.
	I said that, you know, I have not worn my Make America Great Again hat yet.
	I have not put it on yet, but I have said, I have pledged, that if Donald Trump nominates Vivek Ramaswamy as his vice presidential pick, I am going to, for the very first time on my show, put on this Make America Great Again hat.
	Because Vivek Ramaswamy has talked about a libertarian nationalist alliance.
	And that means, Laura, that means people like you and me being in charge.
	That means, you know, people like yourself.
	Can you imagine what it would be like if we had people like yourselves, hardcore nationalists like yourself, make America great again types.
	And people like me every once in a while being like, are you sure you want the government to do that?
	You know, maybe we should cut the taxes a little bit more.
	Yeah.
	You know, maybe we should keep the guns and the due process, you know?
	Maybe we shouldn't ban bump stocks, you know, and things like that, right?
	Wouldn't that be a much better vision for America?
	But I wonder, do you agree with Ann Coulter?
	And maybe she just said this to be shocking, but you remind me of her sometimes, every once in a while, just because she's, you know, just so out there.
	But do you agree with Ann Coulter?
	Because she said she would never vote for Vivek Ramaswamy because he's an Indian man.
	What about you?
	Would you vote for Vivek?
	Absolutely I would vote for Vivek.
	I like Vivek.
	You know, look, I think that Vivek Ramaswamy should definitely be in the second Trump administration.
	I think that Vivek Ramaswamy and Carrie Lake are the two best communicators in the Republican Party outside of Donald Trump.
	I don't really feel like there's a lot of good leadership in the Republican Party.
	People say things like, oh no, we need to draft Ron DeSantis in 2028.
	I think Ron DeSantis has, you know, effectively killed all chances of him ever being president ever again.
	What happened to him?
	Because of his, you know, failed presidential campaign.
	But Vivek Ramaswamy is probably the top contender right now for 2028.
	If Carrie Lake, you know, let's see, I hope she wins her Senate race.
	I believe she's going to win her Senate race.
	She was just on the show last week.
	But, you know, depending on what happens, who knows?
	You know, maybe we could see Carrie Lake in 2028 too.
	But I do think that, I don't know, I don't agree with Ann Coulter's remarks, but unfortunately, I think that that's how a lot of Americans feel.
	We saw in Iowa, Vivek Ramaswamy had a better ground game than any of the candidates.
	And look, I love Donald Trump, but I will say that Vivek Ramaswamy had more ground game activity than Donald Trump did in the state of Iowa.
	I mean, that's just a fact, right?
	He did the Grassley multiple times.
	And I love Donald Trump, but the reality is that Vivek Ramaswamy outworked everybody.
	And yet, he didn't do as well as people thought he was going to do in Iowa.
	And I genuinely think it's because a lot of people can never see themselves voting for a brown Hindu.
	And I'm not like that.
	I would vote for him.
	I would vote for him.
	But I do think that we have a lot of people in this country who still have that mentality of, I'm not going to vote for a brown Hindu.
	I certainly do not agree with Ann Coulter.
	Laura, the saddest thing this election cycle has been, not necessarily DeSantis himself, but his supporters and how badly Donald Trump broke them.
	I mean, I posted earlier today, I'm a Vivek Ramaswamy Republican thinking, oh, this is probably something uncontroversial because I identify very much with him.
	He retweeted it.
	Yeah, he retweeted it.
	I saw that.
	Yeah, he said, let's do a Libertarian National Alliance.
	I'm like, yes, let's do it.
	Let's get that up on the screen.
	Here's the thing.
	The only people who were attacking me, Laura, if you go through the quote, check out the quote tweets on that.
	It's all DeSimps.
	It's all DeSantis people.
	The ones with the gators in their profile.
	There's no way DeSantis is going to be president of the United States with supporters like that.
	Like, they have full-blown Trump derangement syndrome.
	I mean, at least DeSantis is smart.
	He goes out there.
	He's fundraising for Donald Trump.
	He's endorsed him.
	He's supporting him for the United States.
	It's like, what are his supporters doing?
	It's kind of the same thing like what happened to a lot of Ted Cruz supporters back in 2016 – They just, I understand, like, you're conservatives, you want to have a conservative across the finish line, but in many ways, they're kind of acting a lot like libertarians, that they're kind of like little bitches, you know what I mean?
	Yeah, they can't get over it, you know, they can't get over it and they like to say, you know, oh yeah, you know, Ron DeSantis is gonna fundraise for Donald Trump and he's gonna support Donald Trump.
	I've yet to see it.
	Let's get that, let's get that tweet up on the screen here.
	The retweet here of Vivek Ramaswamy.
	The Vivek Ramaswamy retweet.
	Yeah, my whole timeline is now filled with your shows.
	Yeah, I've seen it.
	I was looking at it now.
	Libertarian Nationalist Alliance is the future.
	I really like Vivek.
	We're going to get that up on the screen right now.
	I just DMed it to your Twitter profile, by the way.
	Yeah, we have it.
	We're getting it pulled up.
	I've had Vivek on the show a few times.
	This is the future, Laura.
	It is the future.
	This is our chance.
	This is the chance.
	A pro-America coalition of people who believe in the philosophy of the Founding Fathers, but who also have a realist foreign policy, who understand that there are dictators around the world and people who want to do us harm, who know who our enemies are, who are the true enemies of the United States.
	And like Donald Trump said to the Libertarian Party Convention the other night, the biggest enemies that we have are not necessarily overseas.
	They are right here in the United States.
	A libertarian nationalist alliance is one of secure borders.
	It is one of an orderly immigration system that accounts for merit for people who want to come to the United States.
	It is one of deportation of violent criminals and an end to trafficking, human trafficking in the United States.
	And Chase Oliver doesn't support a border wall.
	Let's get that up here too because he posted a meme as well where he was attacking Donald Trump for saying he wanted a border wall to prevent human trafficking and drug smuggling and criminal activity on the border.
	Let's get that graphic pulled up on the screen here in the chat.
	Let's get that pulled up here.
	There's just so many screenshots here.
	I mean, I have hundreds of screenshots here.
	There's so many of them.
	We're getting them all organized right now because it's real time.
	I mean, literally, I'm looking right now.
	I have over 200 screenshots right now from this guy.
	Here we go, right here.
	Here it is.
	It's just unbelievable.
	I want $5 billion for the wall now.
	And then he has a screenshot you could see here of Dr. Evil saying, how about no, you crazy orange bastard?
	That's from Chase Oliver, January 8th, 2019.
	Which, of course, was during the longest government shutdown in U.S.
	history when the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi famously said, a wall is an immorality.
	Remember when she said that, you know, in her bright pink outfit?
	And she goes, oh, you know, a wall is an immorality.
	It's not who we are as a people.
	And they refused to give Donald Trump $5.7 billion, Austin, for a border wall.
	But shit, man, we can shill out $300 billion for Ukraine, okay?
	We can give...
	How much money?
	Like, I mean, just an obscene amount of money?
	How much money was that Gaza peer?
	How much money was it?
	I mean, I just lose track of all these numbers, but the Gaza peer, the Ukraine funding... It's because many of the Libertarian Party have bought into the same failed ideology of people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
	And I've been on the warpath against these people because what they do is they engage the same mentality of people who tore down statues in 2020, the George Floyd riots.
	This Chase Oliver guy was out there supporting Black Lives Matter and kind of, you know, dog whistling about the, oh, fiery but mostly peaceful protests, right?
	Like, trying to gaslight us about what was really going on in these places.
	And, you know, people who were not fans of Kyle Kenosha, Right, Kyle from Kenosha and how he defended himself against violent Black Lives Matter protesters, right?
	So when you talk about the word woke, everybody uses the word woke, but Chase is woke.
	He falls right in line with those people who tear down statues.
	Now, these aren't the type of people who have the balls to actually go out and tear down statues.
	But what they do is they engage in a form of cultural vandalism that is the same thing philosophically as what the people who believe in critical race theory and postmodernism and cultural Marxism believe in.
	That the United States is the great evil, the great Satan in the world.
	That the United States is a colonial power, that we are oppressors.
	And that is why they want open borders, because that way they can thin out the population of patriotic Americans who want to have secure borders, who want to protect American culture, who want to say, hey, we want America to be number one around the world and be respected and be powerful and be strong and believe in peace.
	But peace through strength, not in the way that even Ronald Reagan envisioned it, but in the way that Donald Trump, I think, has articulated it the best in the 21st century.
	As a matter of fact, Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump is probably the greatest, the most libertarian president since Calvin Coolidge, probably more than Ronald Reagan.
	As much as I actually sort of have a, you know, a love and an admiration of the 1980s and what Ronald Reagan did to protect us from the Soviet Union, at the end of the day, When it comes to the foreign policy of Donald Trump, his is the closest to what I truly believe, which is peace through strength.
	I was actually explaining to my lovely wife the other night about this photograph of Donald Trump, which is iconic.
	If you could find that one, put it up, about the one of Donald Trump Where Angela Merkel is leaning over him, where the Prime Minister of Japan, formerly Shinzo Abe, rest in peace, who was assassinated I believe a year ago, there's a picture of Donald Trump sitting down and Angela Merkel is looming over him, which is a perfect metaphor for how the rest of the world looks at the United States and Japan.
	By proxy.
	They want to bully us.
	They want to force us to go to live in the pods, eat the bugs, go along with the vaccine mandates, go along with the World Economic Forum's agenda, right?
	You will own nothing and you will be happy, right?
	And many of these leftist-style libertarians, they have bought into that cultural mindset and that cultural view.
	It is what some people call this a cosmopolitanism, right?
	They're so...
	I guess entranced by the leftist Marxist cultural vision that they get because they spend their entire time living in these cities.
	And the old agrarian versus industrial divide that drove this country into a civil war has reimagined itself in this country now with what you might call red states or blue states.
	But really what we're talking about is an urban and rural divide.
	And listen, I've lived in cities Laura, you've lived in cities.
	I lived in Washington, D.C.
	and New York at the same time as you.
	We ran in a lot of the circles.
	We know a lot of these elitist people.
	But let's be frank, Laura, you and I both know most of these people, they never leave the cities.
	They never go outside.
	They're always at the Cato Institute, you know, getting free drinks at the bars in Washington, D.C., going to the cocktail parties.
	And they are so rich and they are so powerful that they are completely out of touch with how people, like in my community where I live in a small town here in Jefferson City, the simple, common, meager, the people, the yeoman farmers,
	as Thomas Jefferson liked to call, the old industrialist as Thomas Jefferson liked to call, the old industrialist versus agrarian split of the United States, again, that led to that bloody civil war with hundreds of thousands of American lives that were killed, is fulminating again here in the United States.
	But instead of being a regional question, it is a question of urban versus rural, cosmopolitan versus rural, and And that is the struggle here in the United States.
	Because many of the people who are here in the U.S., they are traitors to what makes America truly great.
	When neocons talk about American exceptionalism, they look at this as a completely different view of how I look at things.
	Because there's something about American conservatism, and I'm going to lump libertarianism and The thing that makes America truly unique or exceptional in the world is our idea of individual ordered liberty.
	American conservatism is not like European conservatism.
	And Laura, you're a worldly woman.
	You know what conservatives from the UK are like.
	They're pro gun control.
	They're for bigger taxes.
	Many of them were for the European Union.
	I mean, they have to get a— Well, and they don't have free speech either in these other countries.
	We're the only country that really actually has a First Amendment.
	And so— We're different.
	We're really different.
	We're a lot different than all these other— These libertarians, these Chase Oliver libertarians, they want us to be more like Europe.
	They want us to be—like, he was talking to me in my interview when I interviewed Chase Oliver.
	He was talking about the nudity, the public nudity.
	He's like, well, in Europe they have nude beaches and all these kinds of things.
	And it wasn't just that he was trying to make excuses for young children seeing naked adults in my interview.
	He was really talking about a liberal and a feat, leftist, liberal, culturally Marxist view that comes out of Europe that people like Chase Oliver want to see because— They despise rural agrarianism.
	They despise blue-collar workers.
	They look down on us.
	They think that everybody should live like they do in Europe, smoking cigarettes and eating croissant and going to nude beaches and children can see, you know, the wing-wings of adults, you know, because it's fine, it's no problem, ha-ha, merde, right?
	America is not France.
	Right?
	I hate when people are like, well, we need to be more like Europe.
	And there are Republicans who do this, too.
	There are conservative Republicans who think that we need to be more like Europe.
	I don't understand why more Americans, especially right-wingers, aren't willing to make a stand on American individualism and defend the values that truly make America great, which is our willingness to look at the rest of the world when Angela Merkel leans over the table and says, You're going to go along with us, Donald Trump?
	We look at the rest of the world, and we've got Japan behind us, and we say, no, fuck you.
	We're making America great again.
	We're going our own way.
	That's where I'm at.
	Well, I love it.
	So are you then, I guess you could say, like the official leader of Libertarians for Trump?
	Uh, probably not.
	They're probably going to find some weird patsy guy to come in who will like, you know, they'll replace me with some dummy guy who looks really like a good politician and doesn't say things like, fuck you on live streams.
	Maybe somebody more diplomatic, Laura.
	But listen, I'm having the time of my life here in Missouri, trying to affect change at the local level.
	Like I told you, I'm about to be a father.
	I've got a smoking hot, red-headed, libertarian wife.
	She's going to have my baby in July.
	My first child will be born.
	I'm building a family.
	I've got my own show, the Wake Up America Show.
	I've got my own merchandise shop, APForLibertyShop.com, where I sell shirts like these.
	Libertarians for Trump merchandise there as well.
	I hope people will check it out.
	But I'm living the dream.
	If you're a libertarian, you don't get a better life than I do.
	I live on five and a half acres.
	I've got two beautiful dogs.
	I've got a beautiful wife, a family that's growing, a good business, a good job.
	I advocate for the things that I advocate for.
	I stand on principle.
	I don't need the cosmopolitan elite beltway libertarians in D.C., their permission to do anything because I don't work for any of them.
	I don't take any money from any of them.
	So I'm truly free and independent so I can say what I want to say, do what I want to do, fight for the things that I want to fight for, and say what I know is right.
	Because I'm not owned.
	There are no strings on me, right?
	The old Pinocchio song?
	I've got no strings to keep me down, right?
	There's no puppet masters behind me.
	I have true liberty here in the United States, and I know that if more people in the United States had the kind of freedom that I have, if they weren't locked into these cities, if they weren't being forced into 15-minute cities, if they weren't being forced into many of these regimes, if they weren't being forced into these corporate jobs where they're treated like dirt,
	And they don't get pensions at the end of their careers, and they're not allowed to work from home, and they can't spend time with their families, and they've got to work five, six, seven days a week just to be able to, you know, pay for the McDonald's these days, which is like $30 a hamburger.
	If more people could live like we live here in the Midwest, just, you know, voluntarily choosing to be able to have the kind of freedom that we have in places like Missouri, if we were to bring Missouri freedom to the rest of the country, I'll tell you what, this country would be more prosperous, it'd be more free.
	And hey, there's a reason why Missouri voted for Donald Trump.
	Absolutely.
	Well, Austin, where do people follow you?
	I really appreciate you, you know, coming on tonight and talking some common sense into the Libertarian Party and being a voice for the many Libertarians that actually do want to vote for Trump instead of, you know, supporting a pro-BLM, pro-vax, pro-child grooming.
	I mean, it just gets so bad if I go through all the isms that this guy, you know, purports to represent and support.
	But thank you for being a voice.
	Yeah, thank you, Laura, and thanks for having me.
	I mean, we, again, we go back to 2008, Stephen Gordon days.
	I mean, and we've got a lot of memories together, and I hope that someday soon you and I can actually see each other again in person, because it has been a long time.
	But I'm grateful that you think of me and that you invite me on.
	If any of your listeners hear me now and really enjoy this commentary, I do this five days a week on my own show, The Wake Up America Show, which is 7 to 9 a.m.
	Central Time.
	So, 7 to 9 a.m.
	Central Time.
	And I'm right here on Rumble.com slash AP4Liberty.
	So, if you type in AP4Liberty, you'll find me there.
	And if you're really hankering for one of them Libertarians for Trump shirts, and I've convinced you, do check out my merchandise shop, AP4LibertyShop.com.
	Type in Libertarians for Trump.
	You'll find it there.
	Get your flag.
	Fly it high.
	We're voting for Donald Trump this fall.
	We're making America great again.
	Thanks, Laura.
	Thank you so much for coming on us, and I really appreciate it.
	We'll talk soon.
	Have a good night.
	Thank you, you too.
	Well, Austin Peterson, everybody.
	He's a longtime friend, a Libertarian, and as you heard here on Loomer Unleashed, he is supporting Donald Trump for president in 2024.
	He will not be supporting the Libertarians pro-Groomer candidate, Chase Oliver.
	We're going to take a quick break because we're having some delays with the stream here.
	So we're going to go to a quick standby, but we'll be back momentarily because I want to make sure that you're able to watch the stream in full without any glitches.
	But we may need to just restart the connection.
	So standby and we'll be right back.
	Well, thank you so much for tuning back in to episode 50 of Loomer Unleashed.
	I'm your host, Laura Loomer.
	I apologize for those technical delays.
	There appears to be some kind of internet issue that, you know, I don't know what's causing the stream to lag.
	I don't really know what the issue is.
	I'm not a techie, but either way, the stream is back up.
	And I apologize if the interview is choppy.
	We recorded it on our end here in the studio and what we'll do is we will upload it again after the fact and so you will be able to watch the replay of the interview and the entire episode of Loomer Unleashed tonight without the interruptions in case the stream was glitchy for you.
	But with that, Austin Peterson, of course, is a leading voice, a leading thought leader in the Libertarian Party.
	And so it was really good to have his perception tonight, his analysis of the situation, his perspective on the convention this weekend at the Libertarian Convention in Washington, D.C.
	And so we'll be able to post that interview.
	It will all be put together after the show tonight, and you will be able to watch it.
	We have some clips actually from this weekend and I mean we just told you all about Chase Oliver the disastrous libertarian candidate and so why don't I go ahead and play clip 11 of Chase Oliver talking about how voting and gender are non-binary just so you can see how much of a radical leftist this guy really is.
	Voting and gender are non-binary. Voting and gender are non-binary.
	It's a very good time.
	You know, as you can imagine, it was quite a hostile situation this weekend at the Libertarian Convention.
	We actually had Loomer Unleashed correspondent Charles Downs on the scene where he captured Trump supporters being removed from the front row of the Libertarian Convention so that they could make room for Kennedy supporters.
	And of course, you see that Kennedy is in the gator mouth tonight.
	So let's go ahead and play clip number 17.
	I'm a delegate who attended this convention and paid thousands of dollars to travel across the country to have the reserved seats that I promised them.
	Those of you who are Donald Trump supporters, I think what I would like to see tonight is for us to all get along and.
	And come to an understanding and find areas of agreement, even if we don't agree to vote for the same person.
	I want us to have some camaraderie and go through some experience.
	and spiritual friendship in the country.
	Because I know that we all want to do things like hate the federal reserve.
	We hate corruption in government.
	We don't like who's sitting in the White House right now or being propped up on life support, whatever it is.
	We should focus on our areas of agreement.
	I would also really appreciate if our delegates could have a seat where they can see the stage because they came thousands of miles to this and it's what was promised.
	And so if some of you could share some of your seating with them, it would be great.
	And then I don't have to come down there Like, in a dress and, you know, flats.
	Thankfully not heels.
	And, like, get in a chair fight.
	Because that is... I am the chair of the party, but that is, like, so ugly.
	I don't want to, like, fight with people or beg and plead.
	Like, let's just make room for the delegates.
	Because those are the people you're trying to persuade right now, right?
	Like, you're already sold.
	Our delegates are not sold.
	And President Trump is here to try to sell them and talk to their concerns.
	We want to make sure they're heard.
	So let's take like five or ten minutes to try to sort it out so I don't have to have security get involved.
	First four rows plus tables.
	First four rows plus tables.
	Tables had reserve signs on them too.
	So as you can see, of course, that was the new Libertarian chairwoman, Angela McArdle, saying that they were going to get security involved if Trump supporters didn't give up their seats.
	In the front row.
	So, doesn't really seem very pro-free speech to me, but what do I know?
	I'm not a libertarian.
	But look, even though President Trump had a rough reception at the Libertarian Convention, he still hit on topics like freeing Ross Ulbricht, like I was talking to Austin about, that other candidates he spoke didn't necessarily speak on.
	So, let's go ahead and play clip number 16 of President Trump promising to pardon the J6ers and to free Ross Ulbricht.
	I can sign their pardons for commutation one day a week.
	And I will ensure that Libertarians are helping to lead that task force.
	You'll be on that task force, many of you.
	As everyone knows, it will be my great honor pardon the peaceful January 6th protests, or, as I often call them, the hostages.
	They're hostages.
	There has never been a group of people treated so harshly or unfairly in our country's history.
	This abuse will be rectified, and it will be rectified very quickly.
	And if you vote for me on day one, I will commute the sentence of Ross Albert.
	We're going to get them home.
	I'm proud that I have put forward a DPO plan to smash the censorship.
	We have another clip of President Trump telling the libertarians that he doesn't throw his enemies in jail, unlike Joe Biden.
	This was another highlight from this weekend at the Libertarian Convention.
	Let's go ahead and play this clip.
	A lot of people ask why I came to speak at this libertarian convention.
	And you know, it's an interesting question, isn't it?
	But we're going to have a lot of fun.
	Well, in the last year, I've been indicted by the government on 91 different things.
	So if I wasn't a libertarian before, I sure as hell am a libertarian now.
	And unlike Joe Biden, I don't throw people in jail for disagreeing with me.
	I don't do that.
	And even though President Trump was receiving some boos throughout the convention, by the end of his speech, he was actually receiving a lot of chants from the very people that were booing him.
	So I think that, you know, President Trump you're gonna see is going to earn a lot of the Libertarian vote.
	I don't even think they're gonna get 3%.
	I think that now the fact that the Libertarian Party has actually nominated a full-blown, you know, radical leftist as their candidate, Chase Oliver, I think you're gonna see a lot of these people just kind of Uh, you know, plug their nose and swallow their pride and, you know, they're gonna vote for Donald Trump because I think that a lot of these libertarians are right-wing at the end of the day and they don't want to vote for a Marxist.
	And I think that Chase Oliver, you could say, is a Marxist.
	Let's go ahead and play clip 19 of the crowd chanting, We Want Trump!
	Donald Trump!
	- Oh, you're in my way!
	There you go!
	And of course, along with the Libertarian Convention this weekend, some other hot news items.
	Today, of course, this week began the closing arguments in the Trump trial in New York City.
	And so you had members of the Trump family and several elected Republicans join President Trump today in court, where he unfortunately had to sit in that chilly courtroom with Judge Mershawn for 11 hours with closing arguments.
	There are reports today out from CBS News.
	We'll get that up on the screen momentarily so you can see.
	They are now talking about how Secret Service met with the police.
	They met with the jail staff in the jail in New York City to discuss preparations for Donald Trump for being jailed.
	So it's really intensifying now and of course we know that Donald Trump hasn't received a fair trial because he's been gagged this entire time.
	You can You can pull up the front cover of Drudge.
	Just look at the cover of Drudge Report right now.
	Go to DrudgeReport.com and you can see that the top headline here says, Judgment Looms, Evidence Overwhelmingly.
	Go back.
	That's all right.
	Verdict countdown begins.
	Bad boy behavior turned off.
	Jury secret service preps with jail.
	Click on that right there.
	Secret service.
	So what happens if Trump is convicted in New York?
	No one can really say.
	So this article came out earlier today from CBS News and you can scroll down.
	down.
	And you can see if you keep on scrolling down.
	If Trump is found guilty, Judge Mershon would have a fairly wide leeway in determining a punishment, including sentencing Trump to probation or house arrest.
	You can see Levin said the option of confining Trump to his home followed by a period of probation might be appealing to Mershawn, who has repeatedly indicated he's concerned about limiting a presidential candidate's ability to speak freely.
	Such an option would allow Trump to do interviews and access social media from his home.
	From the day Trump was first arraigned on April 4th, 2023, Mershawn has said he was loath to interfere with Trump's ability to campaign.
	Yeah, okay, well, if he really actually didn't want to interfere with Donald Trump's ability to campaign, then he probably wouldn't put a gag order on Donald Trump to prevent him from speaking out about the fact that his daughter, Lauren Mershawn, is the president of a company called Authentic Campaigns, which is a major Democrat political consulting firm for the leading Democrats in our country, including the Biden-Harris campaign.
	So, you can scroll down.
	Marshawn called incarceration truly a last resort for me, saying, quote, I also worry about the people who would have to execute that sanction, the court officers, the correction officers, the Secret Service detail.
	Still, that day, he cautioned Trump that jail is not out of the question, saying, quote, I want you to understand that I will, if necessary and appropriate, put you in jail, Marshawn said.
	And, of course, that was when Donald Trump, they said, violated the gag order by talking about The fact that Judge Mershon's daughter is making millions of dollars off of these pro-indictment Democrats.
	And of course those stories were broken by me and Donald Trump ended up having to pay $9,000 in fines for sharing my reports.
	Scroll down.
	Where Trump might serve any jail or prison sentence is one of many factors that remains up in the air.
	Shorter sentences can be served at the city's Rikers Island Jail.
	So they want to put him in Rikers Island.
	I mean, they put some of the roughest, toughest criminals in our nation in Rikers Island.
	They want to put Donald Trump in Rikers, you guys.
	This is how ridiculous this is.
	A non-violent, you know, man who is in his late 70s.
	His birthday is going to be in a few days.
	And they're going to do this, of course, right before his birthday, too, just to be assholes, right?
	They're already talking about, scroll up a little bit, further up in the article.
	Yeah, it's a possibility that officials and state and federal agencies have begun preparing for, according to a New York corrections source who said that Secret Service has met with local jail officials.
	As a former president, Trump is entitled to Secret Service protection for the rest of his life.
	Wherever he happens to be, behind bars, corrections officers would in turn be responsible for protecting those agents assigned to Trump.
	So, actively talking about jailing Donald Trump, President of the United States of America.
	So, pretty dire situation.
	We had a lot of action today at the courthouse though.
	You had Robert De Niro who was of course rolled out by Joe Biden and the Democrats in front of the courthouse to give this very bizarre press conference where he was actually shouted down by Trump supporters.
	Let's go ahead and play these clips.
	Thank you.
	I mean this is really, even these people over here, it's kind of crazy.
	It's really crazy and this thing, Donald Trump, has created this.
	He should be telling them not to do this, but he's just...
	He wants to sow total chaos, which he's succeeding in some areas and places to do.
	Anyway, beside all that, this is my neighborhood, downtown New York City.
	I grew up here and feel at home in these streets.
	I feel comfortable.
	So you can hear he was shouted down by Trump supporters and there was actually a New York Post article about it too.
	Let's pull this up about De Niro today getting shouted down by Trump supporters.
	Let's see.
	De Niro headlines bizarre Biden campaign presser outside Trump trial.
	He said you're an effing idiot.
	So, you know, he really didn't receive favorable press today.
	outside of this courthouse.
	And of course, the Trump children put him on blast as well as Judge Mershon.
	Let's play video number eight of Donald Trump Jr. calling out the sham prosecution of his father.
	Michael Cohen is the embodiment of reasonable doubt.
	And this entire case hinges on someone who has quite literally lied to every single person and body he's ever been in front of.
	He's lied before, I believe it's every branch of Congress.
	He's lied before his wife.
	He's lied to anybody he's ever been in front of.
	He's lied before I believe it's every branch of Congress.
	He's lied before his wife.
	He's lied to bankers.
	He's lied to all of you in the press.
	And he's actually lied to that very jury.
	And yet, he's the only person of relevance that this entire case hinges on.
	We understand that this is a political persecution.
	That was evidence today.
	Today, by the Biden campaign themselves, holding a rally here.
	They bring in Robert De Niro, who was shot down, but apparently he needs attention because it's been a while since he's cranked out a good movie.
	But think about it.
	They bring out one actor.
	Remember in 2020 when every A-list actor in the world showed up for Joe Biden?
	They lined up one by one.
	Now they get one person.
	Dwayne The Rock Johnson disavowed, said, hey, listen, I regret voting for him.
	Cardi B, all the people that lined up behind Joe Biden understand that he has failed our country.
	He has failed the citizens of this nation.
	Frankly, he has failed the world.
	But the fact that they are holding A rally across the sea from this very witch hunt right across the street.
	It tells us exactly what we all knew all along, that it is a political persecution.
	It is a witch hunt.
	There is a reason one of the people sitting at that desk was the number three person in Joe Biden's DOJ.
	I know my father is not allowed to say Matthew Colangelo in his name, right?
	Because he's been gagged.
	The President of the United States is not allowed to exercise his First Amendment rights in New York City in this day and age.
	Does that not tell us all everything we need to know about what we're witnessing?
	It's a witch hunt they're using as a political fundraiser, just like this very judge's daughter has profited from this very case.
	It is an insanity.
	It is an embarrassment.
	It's an abomination to democracy and to our republic.
	And yet it continues.
	Everyone in this case is conflicted, and it hinges on one man who's not just a liar, convicted, someone who's lost his law license, has been disbarred, someone who's served jail time for lying before congressional bodies, and that's it.
	That's where we are today in America.
	This is a sham, it's insane, and it needs to stop, because if you think for one second that this ends with Donald Trump, you have not been watching what's going on in the Democrat Party in the last few years.
	They want power at any and all costs.
	Your rights be damned.
	That can't stand.
	That can't happen.
	This sham prosecution, this insanity, this abomination has to stop now.
	We also had Laura Trump, who is now, you know, at the RNC, of course, with Michael Watley, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, talking about how this case is about politics.
	And of course it's about politics, right?
	I mean, why else would the Biden campaign not come out for the Trump trial for the last six weeks when this trial's been taking place?
	And then they have Robert De Niro.
	How much was Robert De Niro paid to come out and read a script?
	I mean, he literally had a script in his hand, okay?
	He's an actor.
	You don't think this guy can remember his own damn lines, okay?
	He had a script in his hand and he came out to give a scripted presser today in front of the courthouse for the Biden campaign.
	So let's go ahead and play Laura Trump commenting on, again, another sham trial.
	Go ahead and play the clip.
	I don't know what else to say that hasn't been said but I think it's pretty obvious after all of the evidence has been presented now.
	We can very clearly see, if you didn't already know, that this was never a case about seeking justice.
	This was never a case about prosecuting an actual crime.
	This was never a case about protecting the citizens of the city of New York.
	This is a case about politics, pure and simple.
	And then we of course had the other Trump's son, Eric Trump, who of course is Laura Trump's husband, outside the courthouse today as well talking about the absurdity over the fact that, you know, shouldn't these people in the DA's office and all these people in the courthouse in Manhattan be more concerned about the rising crime levels in New York City, which has turned into an absolute shithole?
	Shouldn't they be actually worried about, you know, police officers who are being shot to death, which just happened a few weeks ago as well?
	With illegal aliens flooding the streets, with people being pushed to their deaths in the subway system, but instead they're all obsessing about trying to get Trump, right?
	So let's go ahead and play clip number nine of Eric Trump outside the courthouse.
	So I sit here today as a son.
	Forget about politics for a second.
	I've been in that courthouse with my father almost every single day.
	And not a single New Yorker has a look at murders in the streets, women getting thrown in front of trains, kids getting shot in Times Square, the degradation of this city.
	Not a single New Yorker believes that over $130,000 payment From nine years ago, from eight years ago, that the entire DA's office is lining that courtroom.
	They're sitting there, they're laughing, they're giggling.
	This was their moment.
	This is how they embarrassed Donald Trump.
	This is legal lawfare.
	All while this state absolutely melts.
	Everybody that sits here right now, every single one of you, Knows that this is not the same state that we knew 10 years ago.
	Knew it was not the same state as we saw 5 years ago.
	You have total degradation of New York State because the only thing that Alvin Bragg wants to do, only thing that Letitia James wants to do is criminally prosecute Donald Trump.
	And they're doing it for one reason.
	They're doing it because they have a political vendetta.
	They're all funded by George Soros.
	That's what this is.
	This is political lawfare and it absolutely has to stop.
	And I watch a man, he's the toughest man I've ever seen, and he endures this nonsense every single day.
	He sits in that seat.
	And that's not comfortable.
	He's never done a damn thing wrong.
	They tried to impeach him in D.C.
	They tried to impeach him a second time.
	They went after his Supreme Court justices.
	They turned the DOJ, they turned the FBI against him.
	They couldn't stop him.
	When that didn't work, guess what they did?
	They went after his family.
	They went after me.
	110 subpoenas later that I've received, I've never gotten so much as a parking ticket.
	A hundred and ten percent subpoenas.
	They went after Don.
	They went after Laura.
	They went after little Barron Trump as a young kid, as a young teenager.
	They went after Tiffany Trump.
	They tried to make his life hell.
	And then they weaponized every single DA.
	They weaponized every AG in every far-left area because Biden is incompetent and he's losing in all the polls.
	Across the board, he's losing in every quantifiable metric.
	Our country is going to hell.
	And this is their answer.
	Go after him for $130,000.
	And I want to say sorry to the jury that's in there.
	This has been the greatest, colossal waste of time.
	I want to say thank you to the NYPD.
	You have thousands of officers down here.
	Thousands of officers down here that could be protecting our streets.
	Instead, they're guarding this courthouse against a sham trial.
	This has cost New York millions and millions and millions of dollars.
	And New York deserves so much better than this.
	And I cannot wait for the day that we win.
	We will.
	We're right.
	The entire country knows that this is nonsense.
	They don't buy it.
	A poll just came out from the New York Times.
	Even Democrats, the vast majority of Democrats, know that this case is a sham.
	And I think we're going to prevail and I'm just proud of the toughest person I've ever met in my entire life for having the backbone and fortitude to go through this whole mess as uncomfortable as it's been.
	And I'm proud to have stood there every single second by his side in that freezing cold courtroom against unthinkable odds and a corrupt judge and people making a lot of money and this political witch hunt.
	He's an inspiration to me every single day and he'll be vindicated.
	Thank you very much.
	Just unbelievable.
	It's so sad, you know, what not only Donald Trump is, you know, having to be subjected to, but also what his children are having to be subjected to.
	I mean, poor Barron just turned 18 and, you know, didn't even know if his own father was going to be able to, you know, attend his high school graduation because Judge Marchand didn't want him to go to the graduation.
	Well, luckily now, you know, President Trump was able to attend the graduation, but I just imagine, you know, he doesn't get to spend time with his dad.
	His dad has to, you know, rush to the graduation and then leave the graduation because he barely gets any time to campaign because he's stuck in a courtroom every single day of the week except Wednesdays and Saturdays and Sundays.
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	Another thing that happened in New York that was pretty funny.
	Well, not that really any of this is funny, but this, of course, was a little bit of humor on top of the trial because, you know, the media, of course, has been attacking Donald Trump and outside of Robert De Niro getting totally mogged by Trump supporters today, A few days ago you had Morning Joe MSDNC host Joe Scarborough, clip number two,
	getting confronted at the airport outside of New York City by a Trump supporter who called him out for his attacks on Donald Trump and Of course for attacking President Trump during this trial So it's always really funny when these leftists get a taste of their own medicine.
	I really enjoy it first of all, so They had an article up about this too because President Trump actually shared my video the video that I posted of Joe Scarborough getting confronted which was posted exclusively by me and Loomer Unleashed and Because it was sent to us by the guy that confronted him.
	So let's go ahead and expand the clip and play it because it's just so funny and I think it's hilarious that Donald Trump actually shared this clip on his true social account.
	I can't wait for Uncle Donnie to win.
	I can't wait.
	He'll get rid of all you fuckin' liberals.
	Your liberals are gone when he fuckin' wins.
	You fuckin' blowjob liberals are done.
	Uncle Donnie's gonna take this election landslide, cuz.
	Landslide, you fuckin' half-a-blowjob landslide.
	Get the fuck outta here, you stumbag.
	I can't wait for Uncle Donnie to win!
	I can't wait!
	He'll get rid of all you fuckin' liberals!
	Your liberals are gone when he fuckin' wins!
	You fuckin' blowjob liberals are done!
	Uncle Donnie's gonna take this election landslide, cuz!
	Landslide, you fuckin' half-a-blowjob!
	Landslide!
	The fuck outta here, you stumbag!
	I can't wait for Uncle Donnie to win!
	I can't- So that's pretty funny.
	I think it's great when these people get a taste of their own medicine.
	We had President Trump, of course, speaking out.
	So you had the Trump kids and a lot of these Republicans speaking out about the sham trial.
	And then today you also had President Trump speaking out about Joe Biden ahead of the closing arguments in the trial today.
	So let's go ahead and play clip number three and hear what President Trump had to say today before he went in for closing arguments.
	Make no mistake about it, I'm here because of crooked Joe Biden.
	The worst president in the history of our country is destroying our country.
	This country is being destroyed rapidly, not slowly, rapidly.
	On the borders, on energy, on inflation, on everything you can name.
	Afghanistan removal, everything about what he's done.
	He's destroying our country.
	I think a lot of people in this country are starting to wake up and realize that this is a sham trial.
	I saw today that Fox News actually released a poll that showed that 65% of Americans said that it doesn't matter if Trump gets convicted, their vote is not going to change.
	So, you know, that's good news for President Trump.
	I think it's actually probably a lot more than that.
	I think that, you know, we live in such a volatile political climate that people are probably scared to really say the truth about what they think about Donald Trump and what they think about his trial.
	But I think that a lot of people see through this.
	There's even Democrats that are saying that Mershawn should have recused himself, that it's inappropriate that the daughter's running this political consulting firm.
	So I think that, you know, regardless of what happens, it doesn't matter if Donald Trump is convicted or not.
	I think the best thing that could happen to his presidency is if he is jailed, honestly.
	If he's jailed overnight, he will raise $100 million overnight, and people will just lose their minds.
	People will flood the streets in support of President Trump.
	They will flood the polls, and it's really going to jolt people into getting out there and supporting President Trump.
	And who knows?
	Maybe that's what it's going to take.
	Maybe it's going to take Donald Trump getting arrested again, like he was in Fulton County on August 24th of 2023, right?
	Maybe that is what it's going to take.
	Not that I support that, of course, because I love Donald Trump, but we saw that it really energized the base and really jolted people into saying, holy shit, you know, they really arrested Donald Trump.
	What do you think would happen if Trump went to jail?
	What's the loomer prediction?
	Well, look, if Donald Trump goes to jail, he'll raise $100 million overnight.
	So it'll be the best thing ever.
	He'll become a better fundraiser than Lorne Mershawn is for the Democrats, okay?
	So he will officially outdo Lorne Mershawn as it relates to political fundraising.
	And I think that it will cause outrage to the point where you see even moderate Democrats crossing the aisle and saying, I can't be a part of this anymore.
	I can't support this weaponized government.
	I think that you're going to see people take to the streets.
	I mean, I'm not advocating for violence, but I do think that there are some people on both sides of the aisle in this country who would be triggered to taking it to the streets, perhaps in a violent manner.
	I'm not saying that Trump supporters are going to be violent, but I think that that could be the tipping point for a civil war in this country.
	I really do think that something like that could happen.
	Let's hope it doesn't happen because I would hate to see President Trump go to jail.
	But at the end of the day, I don't think that it would be the worst thing for him because I think that people would support him regardless.
	I really do.
	I really do believe in President Trump and I think that people would support Donald Trump regardless.
	Of whether or not he's convicted or whether or not he's jailed again.
	I mean, look, he's only increased in popularity since he was arrested and jailed.
	Well, he wasn't really, really fully jailed in Fulton County, right?
	But they booked him, and they took his mugshot, right?
	So, his popularity has only increased since then, and I could see the same thing happening again, so.
	We will see, but we're gonna keep on monitoring the updates in the Trump trial.
	Obviously, Monday was Memorial Day.
	Tuesday, today, was closing arguments Wednesday.
	There is no court because, well, that's mental health court day for Judge Mershawn, and as we know, the patients are running the asylum.
	So you're not going to see anything tomorrow, Wednesday, but we will see a continuation Thursday and Friday, and we'll see what happens.
	But Loomer Unleashed will be following this Extensively.
	And of course, be sure that you're following me on Twitter, True Social, Gab, and Getter at Laura Loomer.
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	It's probably just going to be a replay of tonight's stream.
	And again, I apologize for any of the technical issues, but the stream will be put together and available to watch on replay on my Rumble channel.
	That's rumble.com slash Laura Loomer for those of you that want to watch it.
	And then, of course, this Friday, tune in to TimCast in the evening.
	I'm going to be live with Tim Poole on Friday, May 31st on his show to discuss his interview with President Trump at the Libertarian National Convention and many other Trump-related topics.
	So again, no Loomer Unleashed Thursday.
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	And with that, I will see you next week for episode 51 of Loomer Unleashed.
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