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Good morning, CPAC.
Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance, led by Carol Adams, and remain standing for the National Anthem, performed by Natasha Owens.
Good morning, and welcome to CPAC.
Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance to our great country.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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God bless you and God bless America.
Please be seated.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Pastor Joshua Neberett with today's invocation.
Before I begin to pray, I just want to say that we are living in the greatest time of our era.
The Golden Age.
And I want to thank God for the greatest president of our lifetime, President Donald J. Trump.
Heavenly Father, we come before you for this great and victorious event at CPAC. We want to thank you for the leadership at CPAC. Matt and Mercedes Schlapp, because you've allowed them to lead a great organization with American patriots.
And we want to thank you for America, the greatest nation of our lifetime.
And because of you, Lord, we've turned our eyes and sought your face and your righteousness.
And now we are blessed with the golden age.
But we ask you that you bless America.
Bless our people.
And bless our allies.
We pray, God, for a victorious event over the next four days, that it be a safe event.
As we strategize and we look upon the heavens, that you find favor over us, Lord, and you continue to bless America.
Lord, we ask you that you protect our president and the vice president in all of leadership.
And that you put favor over America.
We ask you these things in the name that's above every name.
That every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Ladies and gentlemen, because thank God we're back to two genders, Elon Musk will be here on the CPAC stage.
We just launched yesterday with the CPAC International Summit where we had several key members Coming from representing from different countries with their delegations where we passed three resolutions.
It's hard for me to get over that because that's just...
Thank you for being here.
You honor us with your presence and your courage and your strength.
And we have a president now in the United States of America that will not only help your loved ones, he's going to make it so that there aren't future victims, which we have to make sure we prevent.
By the way, these resolutions were supported by all the nations that were assembled at our second annual CPAC International Summit.
We are working not as government entities, but as entities outside government to push for these policies.
And Gordon Chang wrote, a very important resolution to combat the Chinese regime, the communist regime in China.
And I want all of these despots and dictators to know that Donald Trump might talk to you.
He might make you feel like you're welcome because that's part of his job.
But in the end, we have a president that's going to stop you cold in your tracks.
And all of these countries accepted that resolution as well.
And perhaps my favorite resolution, I wish I had it here and could read to you on my phone.
But I think I have the gist of it, which is we have a message to the globalists.
Last year, Mercy and I stood on the stage and we said, globalism, at CPAC, globalism was going to die.
I thought that was an audacious statement.
I thought we'd just say it.
Right, Jerry?
Let's just say it.
And then it happened.
It's kind of amazing.
And so our message to the globalists is, No matter whether you're at the World Economic Forum, the WHO, the EU, you can boo at any time, the UN, no matter who is trying to tell you as a mom or a dad,
as a church member, as a teacher, as a cop, no matter who is trying to tell you what pronouns you should use, how you should pray to your God, how much you believe your country is racist.
And a part of that is, and this is a great way to start.
We just had Natasha out here and the great pastor from Arizona who was with us on the campaign trail in Arizona.
Part of that is, can we all just thank God for giving us a president who knows how to lead?
And I'll expand that to a great young vice president.
Who knows how to lead?
All these resolutions passed.
I don't know how CPAC became a global brand fighting the globalists with people here from like every country all over the world, but let's go with it because it seems to be working just fine.
Each and every one of you fought hard, stood up, shared this incredible optimistic message that we need to save America and in essence save the world.
So I want to thank you all personally from the bottom of our hearts as being part of this incredible CPAC family because you all have made the difference in this past election.
So, you know, there's this young guy, you know, with this beautiful family, with this beautiful wife that is actually just a shining star right now in American politics.
Marine veteran, former Ohio senator, one of the coolest guys I think we have around, and one of the best communicators in this Trump administration.
Can you please let us applaud together, let us welcome the greatest Vice President of America, JD Banffs.
Because I think he realizes this is a special moment in time.
And by the way, thank you.
Thanks to all of you for making it possible for us to do all the great work we've been doing in the administration.
I know we wouldn't have been here without you, but I think the President is acutely aware that the American people gave us a window to save the country, and that's exactly what we're going to do.
And thank God for that, because it's been a hell of a lot of fun the past month.
Well, speaking of the press, I do think that we've had maybe more executive orders than CNN has viewers each night.
So hello to our friends at CNN. I think, I actually think that their plan was they were going to go all in on anti-Trump and hope that he could save CNN. In the same way that he did, frankly, in 2017, because nobody really watched the network until he became president in 2017. But that's maybe the one thing I think the president has been unable to do, unable to save CNN's ratings over the last few months.
But look, I think that what the president has tried to do is recognize that we have a historical mandate on a few issues.
We have to secure the southern border, and thanks to his actions, border crossings are down.
Well over 90%, and we're just getting started.
He recognizes that we have to really unlock the engine of American growth.
We've got to get back to having a growing economy that creates good jobs and high wages for the American people.
And a lot of that goes back to drill, baby, drill.
We've done more on energy under President Trump's leadership.
And I think any administration in history, and that's not an exaggeration, and of course we're going to do more.
And I think the third thing that he's tried to do, of course, with the help of Elon and all the great folks at Doge, is ask, what are we doing with all of the American taxpayers' money, and why are we wasting so much of it on garbage that the American people either aren't aware that we're spending it on or don't want to be spending it on in the first place?
Like, for example...
The stuff that we've figured out, Mercedes, is unbelievable.
You were never welcome, according to the American people.
But unfortunately, you had President Joe Biden who allowed you to run free.
We're going to wage war on you.
And certainly we want you out of the United States of America.
And that's an important message, of course.
But our message, and you know this, Mercedes, our message to the families is President Trump cares about you.
He thinks that it's disgraceful what your own government let happen to your children, to your grandchildren, and it's got to stop.
And of course, we mourn with people, we pray for people, but we're also asking, as their government, why did this happen to your child in the first place?
And the answer is that under Joe Biden, your government didn't do its job.
On the economy, and I'm getting this question all the time, you know, it's this question of affordability, right?
There's a lot of stress on our families, something that I think Joe Biden could not manage in terms of really helping lower that cost of living and making things just simply more affordable.
Yeah, so one of the first interviews I did, it was, I think, six or seven days after the inauguration.
And somebody asked me, well, it's been six days.
What have you done to fix the inflation crisis created by Joe Biden?
I'm like, well, first of all, it's been six days.
We've done a lot in six days.
But it's going to take some time to fix what Joe Biden broke over four years.
And we know.
It is easy, unfortunately, to burn the house down.
It takes a little bit of time to build it back up.
And here's what we have to do.
Because, look, the fundamental goal of our immigration policy, of our border policy, of Doge saving taxpayer money, the fundamental goal is we want your children and grandchildren to be able to raise a family in security and comfort in the country that we all love.
That is the whole goal of President Trump's agenda.
Safety and prosperity, right?
It's pretty common sense stuff.
And we know that to do that, we have to, first of all, unleash American energy.
Now, why is that so important?
Because, look, we all know grocery prices got too high under Joe Biden's leadership.
Well, one of the main drivers of groceries is energy.
Because if the farmers are paying more for energy, then we're all paying more for what the farmers grow.
And if the truck drivers who are delivering the groceries are paying more for fuel, then we're all paying more for what the truck drivers are delivering to the grocery store.
If we unleash American energy, that will do more than anything to drive down the cost for the American people.
The second thing, Mercedes, is we have got to stop spending the American people's money on garbage.
Every dollar that we take in and spend, you have to pay for either through taxes or through inflation.
And if we spend the American people's money more wisely, if we stop taxing and spending the American people to death, that's also going to bring relief to all of the pricing pressures that are out there.
We're going to make it affordable to live in this country again.
What are the dynamics that are happening right now in Congress and what the administration is doing to ensure that a lot of what the president is wanting to do in terms of really pushing forward with economic prosperity and his tax...
So the Senate obviously has its own approach, and the President has been very clear that his preference is to put everything in one bill.
And part of that is just simple legislative strategy.
I think the President has learned a lot about how D.C. works.
And I actually talked to the President about this yesterday, and he said to me, look, it's very rare that you can get two reconciliation bills done in one Congress, which is why he thinks we've got to do a lot.
With that one big beautiful bill, that first reconciliation package that we're going to get through the House and the Senate.
I think if you had a record-paced reconciliation bill, we would get this thing done in May or in June.
I think we're on track to do that.
But we've got to do some basic things, Mercedes.
One, like I said, we've got to continue to unleash American energy.
That's part of the reconciliation bill.
We've got to make sure that other countries stop taking advantage of us.
That's a big part of President Trump's tariff policy, is we've got to stop being taken advantage of.
You know, of course we want to make the President Trump tax cuts permanent and extend them into the future.
We want no taxes on tips.
We've got to do some of the things we talked about during the campaign.
That's got to be part of it.
And then finally, and this is really important, everything the President has done On the border, we have got to empower him to do it, not just for a month, but for the next four years.
And we've got to hire more Border Patrol agents.
We've got to give Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem the resources they need to secure the border.
And just not to return to the border, but I think so many of our issues come back to the border, because if you take 30, 40 million illegal aliens, you take Medicare fraud.
Social Security fraud.
Why are we taking the people's Social Security payments and giving it to illegal aliens?
We know that's happening in the United States of America today.
If you get control of the border, Mercedes, you do more to control the fiscal problem, the financial problems that we have in this country than almost anything.
Get illegal aliens out of our country.
Make sure American tax dollars go to American people.
That is how you solve the fiscal crisis in the United States of America.
And I'd say it was the greatest threat in the United States until about 30 days ago, is that you've had the leaders of the West decide that they should send millions and millions of unvetted foreign migrants into their countries.
That is the biggest threat to Europe.
And frankly, it remains, by the way, the biggest threat to the United States because, yes, we've got four years of President Trump's leadership, but I guarantee you, if the Democrats ever get...
They're going to try to do it again.
We cannot rebuild Western civilization.
We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into our country.
Thank God it's stopped here, but it's got to stop there.
And a related issue, Mercedes, is...
You can't just stop it.
You have to allow European peoples, and of course the American people too, to raise issues about it.
You have to allow free speech to debate this stuff.
You have to stop doing things too.
The populations of the world, you've got to give the populations of the world the opportunity to speak up and say, no more of this BS. We want borders.
We want sovereignty.
We want to be able to speak our own mind in our own country.
And I guarantee you, if we don't allow free speech, and of course, the Biden administration, I made this point, Mercedes, the Biden administration did more to destroy free speech.
Not just in the United States, but also in Europe, than any administration in American history.
I'm not even blaming the Europeans.
I'm actually saying you follow the lead of Joe Biden into censorship and mass migration.
...international summit yesterday, and we have many of these European, conservative European leaders with us today, where we stand in solidarity because...
They have an opportunity to basically make Europe great again, make Asia great again, make Latin America great again.
And so, in essence, I think your message was very well received by many of those conservative leaders across the globe.
But what does this mean with the U.S., now that, you know, in giving that speech, what does this mean with the U.S.'s relationship with Europe?
Well, look, obviously we're going to continue to have important alliances with Europe, but I really do think the strength of those alliances is going to depend on whether we take our societies in the right direction.
Germany's entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer.
There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today.
Do you think that the American taxpayer is going to stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet?
Of course they're not.
So the point that I try to make to our European friends, and I think that they're our friends, I believe that, I know President Trump does, is that friendship is based on shared values.
You do not have shared values if you're jailing people for saying we should close down our border.
You don't have shared values if you cancel elections because you don't like the result, and that happened in Romania.
You do not have shared values if you're so afraid of your...
Your own people, that you silence them and shut them up.
So let's have shared values.
Let's defend democracy.
Let's have free expression, not just in the United States, but all over the Western world.
And I think what President Trump, what makes him such an effective negotiator, I've seen this in private, is that he doesn't take anything off the table.
When he walks into a negotiation, he says, Everything is on the table.
And of course, that makes the heads explode in the American media because they say, why are you talking to Russia?
Well, how are you going to end the war unless you're talking to Russia?
You've got to talk to everybody involved in the fighting if you actually want to bring the conflict to a close.
And I know the president does.
I'll tell you the goals that animate President Trump's policy.
It's really simple.
He wants the killing to stop.
He wants to bring lasting peace to Europe.
He doesn't just want to stop it now and have the war restart a month from now.
He wants to bring lasting peace to Europe because the president believes this, and he's absolutely right.
Peace is in the interest of Russia.
It's in the interest of Ukraine.
It's in the interest of Europe.
But most importantly...
Peace is in the interest of the American people, and he's going to fight for it for the remainder of his administration.
Wherever war breaks out, he's going to be the president of peace.
Now, he of course is a very good negotiator, a very good businessman.
He recognizes that a lot of these issues are tough.
It's going to take a smart statesman to figure this stuff out, but we've got that in the White House.
And I really believe that we're on the cusp of peace in Europe for the first time in three years because we have leadership from the Oval Office and we haven't had it in four years in this country.
And what the president did is he empowered, in particular, because this, remember, this was before we were inaugurated.
This was before we had our great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, or any of the great people around us.
You know, the president sent his dear friend, and he's become my dear friend, Steve Witkoff, as an emissary of the President of the United States, and he said, Steve, you speak for me.
Get it done, and if there are problems, pick up the phone and call me.
Steve Wyckoff with the President's leadership got it done, and it's amazing.
And of course, we've still got work to do.
We've got to finish the process.
But I really believe the President is as committed to this as any American leader in my lifetime.
Well, you know, one of the things, of course, the president got done during the first term, and I think that it's why he is accurately called the most pro-life president in American history, is he finally made it possible for the will of the people to speak on the life issue.
And that was the Dobbs decision.
What that did is it gave the abortion question back to the people.
It took it out of the hands of unelected bureaucrats and unelected judges and gave it back to the people.
And I think the most important thing that we can do, and as you know, Mercedes, I'm very pro-life, I'm a devout Christian, is that we have got to persuade our fellow Americans, because now we've got...
We've got the power of persuasion.
We've got to persuade our fellow citizens that unborn life is worthy of protecting.
It is sacred in the eyes of God and it should be sacred in the eyes of man too.
And we have to pick up the torch and fight for that every single day.
And I know you guys are up for the task.
I am too.
And I think on the administration side, what the president has said, and it's been consistent, it's going to be consistent in the rhetoric and in the policy, is we believe in the Trump administration that babies are good, that families are good, and we want to make it easier for young moms and young dads to choose life, to start families, and to bring new life into the world.
That's the whole point of our policy.
Now, some of that, of course, is supporting our great crisis pregnancy centers at the moment of these important health care decisions, encouraging young women to choose life at that important moment of choice.
Some of that is bringing costs down so that young moms and dads don't look to the future and a new baby and say, how can I afford this?
And if they're able to actually afford to raise a family, maybe they'll start thinking of babies as the blessings that we all know that they are.
And I think...
But I think fundamentally, this is going to take a lot of leadership.
From the president on down, but from every single person in this room, we've got to persuade our fellow citizens to stop thinking about babies as inconveniences to be discarded.
We've got to start thinking of them as blessings to cherish.
Well, I mean, first is I believe the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith.
It's not just a set of good moral principles, though it is that.
I think the fundamental tenet of our faith.
Is that the Son of God became man, he died, and he raised himself from the dead.
That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, and I think so much flows from that.
And I think one lesson that flows from that is that we shouldn't fear death.
Of course, death is a very bad thing, but there are much more terrible things than just losing one's life, and importantly, you could lose one's soul.
And I think whether it's fighting for the unborn or fighting for peace and security for our citizens, I want us to be the kind of society where my kids can grow up to be virtuous young people, can be good young Christians, of course, because that's what I'm trying to raise them to be.
And that's what our public policy is trying to do.
Creating the space where moms and dads can raise their children in their faith to become good young people who believe the things that I do.
That is what I'm trying to create, is the space for you, of course, to raise your children as you see fit, but the space for me to raise my kids to be the kind of young people that I think they ought to be.
And the other thing that I take from it, Mercedes, is if you look at the long history of the Christian faith, we've been around for about 2,000 years now, give or take a few years, and there have been really dark times in the history of the Christian faith.
There have been really good times in the history of the Christian faith.
And I just try to remind myself that we put our faith in God above.
We put our faith in the grace of God.
And we try the best to do His will, and we don't worry so much about whether we're going to have earthly rewards.
We worry about whether we're doing right by God Almighty above.
That's what I try to do, and that's how I try to run my life in public.
You know, I guess my message to young people generally is we're trying to make your life better.
And that is the simple thrust of President Trump's policy is we want you to be able to buy a home.
We want you to be able to work a good job.
We want you to be able to raise your kids, like I said, according to the values that you believe in.
And we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country that all of us love.
That is what we're trying to do.
And you guys, more than anybody, more than me, I'm talking about people under the age of 30 in particular, you guys are going to have to deal with the consequences of good policy.
or of bad policy for much longer than the rest of us.
And I want you guys to think about the future and ask yourself, do you want safe communities?
Do you want a prosperous life?
Do you want to be able to work a good job?
Or do you want that job shipped off to China or somewhere else?
We're fighting for you every single day.
We want you to help fight for us because we've got to win.
Not just the policy battles of the next couple of months.
We've got to win the midterm elections in a couple of years.
We need you.
We recognize that we need you.
And we're fighting for you every single day.
And I think, you know, you asked me, my message to young men is, I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge.
You should try to cast aside your family.
You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place.
And I think that my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you're competitive.
Our, like, our message, the cultural message, and I think the president's and mine is the exact opposite, but our cultural message is, I think that it wants to turn everybody, but our cultural message is, I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think talk the same, and act the same.
We actually think God made male and female for a purpose.
And we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we're going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.
And by the way, I actually think, Mercedes, this is the thing that President Trump, this is why the media went after him so hard, is because, you know...
When I think about, like, what is the essence of masculinity?
You could answer this in so many different ways, but when I think about me and my guy friends, we really like to tell jokes to one another.
He's got the best sense of humor of any American political figure.
But I think this is why young men in particular are so, you know, they're so inspired by President Trump is because he doesn't allow the media to tell him he can't make a joke or he can't have an original thought.
President Trump just says what's on his mind.
That's a damn good thing, and it's a good example to set for young men in American culture.
You know, I always tell my five daughters, I don't have any sons, but Matt and I, we have five beautiful daughters, and I always say, you know, the most important decision you'll ever make is who you marry.
The best advice Usha ever gave me, when it comes, I mean, she gave me so many good life advices.
Or a piece of advice, but the best advice she gave me when it came to politics is don't let them filter you.
And in politics, you know, you've got consultants, you've got media professionals, you've got pollsters, you've got a lot of people who try to tell you what to say or how to behave or, you know, what to do.
And Anusha just said, just be yourself, be authentic, go out there and say what's actually on your mind, maybe a little nicer from time to time.
But I think that's the best advice that she gave me, and that's why we take our kids everywhere, and that's why I'm not afraid to make a joke on social media, even if it's sometimes a dad joke.
I mean, I'm blessed to have a seven-year-old, a five-year-old, and a three-year-old, and I can't help but see the country through their eyes.
And when we were on the campaign in particular, and we would take our kids with us, All of my kids, when we were about to land in some new place, you know, they'd all rush to the window of the plane, and they'd look out, and they'd say, oh, Dad, this looks so cool.
Like, you know, the beauty of the Arizona cactuses and Arizona deserts.
Or, you know, we'd be in Texas for a fundraiser, and they'd be like, oh, my God, like, look at just all of that open space, right?
Or we'd be in North Carolina and say, oh, look how beautiful the green mountains, right?
This idea of these beautiful green mountains of Appalachian, North Carolina.
We love North Carolina.
I guess what inspires me is you can't help but be hopeful and energetic and optimistic about this country when you see it through the eyes of a child.
So I hope I never lose that perspective because it does inspire me every day.
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He bet on it.
He built on it.
And he led the way for corporations, investors, and people like me and you to invest and remain sovereign.
He remains one of the most influential voices in financial and technological history, proving that Bitcoin isn't just an investment.
It's a revolution that America has to dominate.
Please join me in welcoming one of the most fearless and financial minds in our future, a champion of digital freedom and a trailblazer, Michael Saylor.
I'm really excited to be able to address this group today because I think that Bitcoin represents the most powerful technology force for conservatism in the world.
And I don't know that that's fully appreciated, but Satoshi, many years ago, had this vision for sound money and sovereign money via technology, via modern cryptography, modern semiconductors, the modern internet.
And that idea of giving economic power to the individual in the face of the overwhelming...
Power of the collective.
When you feel like the government's against you, the banking system against you, the currency is against you, big tech is against you, when you're the little guy, when you're struggling for freedom and struggling in the face of overwhelming power, you need some advantage.
And Satoshi created this network that's based on two principles.
One principle is integrity, and the other principle is sovereignty.
The integrity, we all know, is there'll never be more than 21 million Bitcoin, and that's enforced by millions and millions of computers and hundreds of millions of people everywhere in the world that believe it's not okay to lie, cheat, or steal.
It's not okay to distort the truth.
There is a truth.
There is a universal...
There's no common ledger that no one can tamper with, no one can corrupt.
Not a nation-state, not a company, not a politician.
And that idea of a censorship-resistant, unstoppable version of the truth was a first in human history.
And then the second idea is sovereignty.
It's like, well, if there is a truth, can you own it?
Right?
So, with Bitcoin, the idea is you can own a Bitcoin, and you don't have to trust a bank with it.
You don't have to trust the city with it.
You don't have to leave it in the custody of a big company.
You can take self-custody.
So, we oftentimes say, what do you own?
The only thing you own are your memories.
Everything else in this world that you own, you own at the pleasure of someone more powerful than you.
And they can take it away from you via force.
What they can't take away from you is your experience and what's in your head.
And the brilliance of Satoshi was, what if we could put all of the money in the world into the heads of the people?
What if what you knew was the password to unlock all of your wealth or protect it, and nobody else could take it away from you?
And that's a profound shift because what Satoshi did was gave us a network where hundreds of millions of people can own and control their economic energy in a censorship-resistant, unstoppable fashion.
And that was an idea worth nothing for a year, and then it became worth a million, and then it became worth a billion.
And then it became worth $10 billion.
And then it became worth $100 billion.
And when MicroStrategy, now Strategy, got into business about four years ago, it was worth $150 billion.
We were a software company, and we were staring at a quick death or slow death or take a risk.
And, you know, when the COVID lockdowns took place and the interest rates went to zero, we had to decide, were we going to sell the company, throw in the towel, or could we find a way out?
And this is the challenge that 40 million companies in America have, which is, if you're not one of the magnificent seven, if you're not Apple or Google or Microsoft, how are you supposed to compete in a world where Trillion-dollar companies have all the power.
Big banks have all the power.
Big government has the power.
And Bitcoin offered us the way out because if you recapitalize a company on Bitcoin, you're not slave to the bank.
You're not slave to the currency.
You're not slave to the local politician that tells you what you can do and how you can use your money.
Instead of having the central bank Take interest rates to zero and keep them there forever.
Bitcoin gave us a 60% return every year because the Bitcoin interest rate is set by a global decentralized system of capital flows.
So my company was able to save itself when we switched from the U.S. Treasury or the bond to Bitcoin.
Our market cap increased from a billion to a hundred billion.
And our enterprise value increased from $600 million to $105 billion.
And we went from a $500 million company growing 0% a year, competing against a monopoly, Microsoft, where it's hopeless, to a $50 billion company growing 60% a year that's part of the digital economy.
So I feel blessed.
And we were very fortunate, but that really motivated me with a mission.
And what I realized is Satoshi gave us a way out of our conundrum.
Satoshi gave us a strategy that makes a small company big and powerful, that makes the individual more powerful than the state, that turns the power balance between the collective and the individual on its head.
And the secret to that is this powerful, worldwide network that puts the individual first, that's uncorruptible, that anybody can join, that gives you unfettered, uncensored property rights.
Bitcoin literally represents the conservation of energy in cyberspace.
Satoshi implemented a protocol which is inherently conservative.
If I send Bitcoin to you, I lose it, you have it.
I can't create more.
I can't lie about it.
The thing that's beautiful about nature is conservation of energy.
Conservative is based on natural law.
It's based on the idea that if you just make something up which isn't true, you'll be punished.
And the Bitcoin network represents that innate integrity and truth.
So if you think about the world today, there's just an inherent force.
There's a struggle between capitalism and socialism, between people that believe in freedom and free markets, and those that believe in central planning and collectivism.
And if I'm a socialist, I want to take away your guns and your money.
And Bitcoin is money that they can't take away.
Like, what freedom do you have if you have all of your money in a bank that can freeze it?
What freedom do you have if you have your money embedded in a currency where someone can print 4x more of it without your approval and debase it to zero?
What freedom do you have if you own real estate in a city where the mayor can put rent control on it or expropriate it or the governor can tax it away from your family?
What freedom do you have if all your wealth is in a business where the government can tell you you can't operate, shut down your pipeline, tax your employees, tax your income, regulate your products?
And the answer is...
You only have conditional freedom until the government changes and they just take away that freedom.
And then when they take away your wealth, when they take away your economic power, they're going to starve you to death, and then you've got nothing.
So Bitcoin represents putting your economic wealth in cyberspace.
It's beyond the reach of the mayor, beyond the reach of the governor, beyond the reach of any nation state, beyond the reach of any other company that would do you harm.
It is the first time in the history of the human race that you can bind economic energy tightly to an individual, to a family, to your company, and you don't have to ask permission to have economic wealth, to have money.
And you don't have to live in fear that someone gets up on a morning and just takes it all away from you to power you down.
And so if I am conservative, I want a family.
I want a company.
I want freedom.
Well, how are you going to pay for it?
And if you live in a country like Venezuela and the currency goes to zero, you're going to be begging for food next week.
Wouldn't it be great?
If I could take the wealth of my family and put it into a network that no one can loot, no one can corrupt.
And at the end of the day, I don't want to gamble my future.
I don't want to take my life savings and gamble in the stock market.
I don't want to take my life savings and gamble that the mayor of the city won't just take my property away from me.
And Bitcoin is a way for you to convert your capital into digital capital that will last a thousand years.
Your country will be, your company, your country, or your family will be wealthy for generations to follow.
You don't have to live in fear.
And when you don't have to live in fear, when you have economic independence, You can actually stretch your time horizon out, and you can build an institution, you can build your family, you can build a life for yourself.
The manifest destiny of this country is to own cyberspace.
And I think that President Trump understands the value of owning scarce desirable property.
If we go to cyberspace and we buy Bitcoin and the nation embraces Bitcoin, then all of the capital in the world, all of the Chinese money, all the Russian money, all the European money, All of the money from the 20th century, the money invested in a Siberian warehouse, the money invested in fill-in-the-blank, anything you could possibly own in Africa, all of that capital is flowing into cyberspace.
It's going from physical to digital.
It's flowing from the 20th century to the 21st century.
The 21st century is going to be a billion AIs thinking a million times a second, and what are they going to be?
Using to move their money around.
They're going to use digital money because they can't get a bank account.
They can't get a credit card.
I have to approve my wire transfers from my bank once a week.
It takes about 20 minutes.
And they ask me on the phone whether the money should move.
But my point really is, we've been doing it that way for 50 years.
And if you look at the way the digital economy is going to run in the 21st century, it's going to be a billion computers, thinking a million times a second, moving assets at the speed of light.
Bitcoin represents digital capital.
That network is $2 trillion today.
It's going to be $20 trillion in four to eight years.
It's going to be $200 trillion in 20 years.
Then it's going to grow faster than every other asset in the world.
The way to think about Bitcoin is, it's the most powerful digital network in the world.
It is cyber power.
If you want to dominate the next hundred years...
Just like the last hundred years is based upon dominating sea power, fire power, air power, space power, nuclear power.
You want to dominate cyberspace.
You want cyber power.
It's the unstoppable network that no one can corrupt.
And the use of the unstoppable network, among other things, is...
Hundreds of trillions of dollars of capital moving from point A to point B. But the other use of the network is I can send a message which is unstoppable, and I can store information that is unstoppable, and I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the authenticity of an instruction or a document.
No country, no company, no individual, not a trillion computers can corrupt that message.
If you want to own the future, you want to own cyberspace.
How do you own cyberspace?
You own Bitcoin, and then you run the Bitcoin network.
You mine Bitcoin, you own Bitcoin.
President Trump understands property.
He understands the value of Greenland.
He understands the value of Alaska.
He understands the value of oil rights.
Drill, baby, drill would be impossible if we didn't own the land.
I think there's an appreciation of the power of Bitcoin throughout the Cabinet, throughout the House, throughout the Senate.
There's going to be a political process by which we build consensus with the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Cabinet and find the right way through.
You know, what I would say on this topic is the U.S. could own 20% of the network like that for free.
The dollar would strengthen.
The nation would be enriched.
And the real promise is if you own 4 to 6 million Bitcoin, you're going to pay off the entire national debt.
You're going to neutralize it.
We can generate a $50 trillion to $80 trillion benefit to the United States people.
To the citizens, to the taxpayers.
And we can do it simply by seeing the future.
It cost $6 million to buy Alaska.
The payoff was a trillion.
Just like right now, you can literally buy it for a song and dance.
That's the opportunity.
The risk is that you wouldn't want the Saudis to buy it first, or the Russians or the Chinese, or the Europeans.
And there's only room for one nation state to buy up 20% of the network.
And obviously, I think it should be the United States.
I think it will be the United States.
It's a way for us to enrich ourselves and emerge as a creditor nation in a matter of a decade.
It's also a way for us to ensure that we're the economic leaders in cyberspace and the digital economy for the next hundred years.
And if we do that, Every one of our allies will follow us and then all of our enemies will end up having to buy into the network once it passes 10 or 20 million a coin and they will enrich us.
I think the key thing to keep in mind right now is that Bitcoin is a commodity.
It is an asset without an issuer.
There is no company, no individual, no country, no entity that can corrupt it.
It has reached escape velocity.
It has gotten to the point where it is basically a freedom virus, a truth virus, a monetary virus.
It has been embraced by a trillion dollars of smart money.
That is, a trillion dollars of real money has been invested in the network.
It is 99% of the digital power on Earth.
It's fairly unstoppable.
And so if you're going to capitalize a company or a country, you want to capitalize it on property or a commodity or a network, which is beyond the point where anybody could change the nature of it.
And so that makes Bitcoin the most certain thing in the digital universe.
And when you talk about certainty, and when you talk about truth, over the last four years, we've experienced as a culture travesty.
We haven't been able to speak.
We've been censored.
How does Bitcoin...
What is Bitcoin to you?
What do you see that others don't?
And how can conservatives capitalize on the opportunity to take advantage and make sure that America is dominating our future, that we have the economic freedoms, that our children and our families and America will stay at the front-runner of this industry?
What I would say to everybody in this room is if you want freedom, if you want liberty, if you want to live...
Your finest life.
You're going to need economic power.
You need physical power.
You need political power.
But you need economic power.
Bitcoin represents economic armor.
When you put on the suit of armor, then no mayor, no government, no collectivist, no socialist.
Can debank you.
They can't take your money away.
They can't impoverish you.
Just like a gun is a deterrent, Bitcoin is a deterrent, because if you have wealth in Bitcoin, you have the option to move it to any jurisdiction, and you can keep it, and no one can take it away from you via force of violence, no matter where you are on Earth.
And so Satoshi gave us an opportunity.
I hope I intrigue all of you with the opportunity and you go do the research and determine for yourself how you benefit from it.
But I just leave you with the thought that Bitcoin is economic armor.
God willing, we have as much Bitcoin as Michael one day.
This is a defining moment for digital assets.
It's a defining moment for our country.
We thank all of you.
Michael, thank you so much for joining us.
CPAC. It's going to be at the front of the digital asset industry.
We see Bitcoin and the entire industry as a significant research for our country and our people.
Thank you, everyone.
God bless America.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Republicans for Weaponization Control.
Please welcome Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Representative James Comer, Counselor to the President Donald J. Trump, Alina Haba, and your host, editor of townhall.com,
So we are here this morning to talk to you about a number of things, but most importantly, one of the most pressing issues of our time, and that is the weaponization of the federal government against its citizens.
And we have no one better here today to talk about this than these two.
Alina, let's start with you.
You've gone from working for President Donald Trump as his attorney with the law fair as a private citizen to now being in the White House and seeing how the government is still being used to thwart his agenda through the courts.
So maybe just take us through a journey a little bit of your experience and some of the differences.
I mean, I always say I'm happy to not be outside a courtroom for once and have President Trump where he was supposed to be, which is in that Oval Office.
But I think when I came to, and yeah, my journey's been a strange one for an attorney, right?
You should, I always say this, you should not know who somebody's lawyer is.
That should not happen in this country.
And unfortunately, but fortunately for us, because we're going to fix it now, they really took a wrong, a misstep in their calculations when they used courtrooms.
AGs and DAs to try and take down political opponents.
When we won the election in the most sweeping mandate on November 5th, I thought that was over.
They're a little rudderless right now, that's for sure.
So, Congressman Comer, you are the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, one of the most important committees that we have on Capitol Hill.
And you've been working for years to expose the way that the Biden administration was attacking not just Donald Trump, but also the American people who support him.
And if you look at what's been happening, really, starting under Barack Obama, when they used the IRS to go after conservatives, this is not something that it just...
It's been embedded inside the federal government by the left.
So now that you've been through the process of doing oversight with the Biden administration, how are you now working in the Trump administration with a new government and Republican control to really try and change some of these things so that Americans aren't being punished for having certain political views?
Well, for one thing, I've had conversations with Billy Long, the new IRS commissioner, as well as Kash Patel, who hopefully in a matter of a couple hours will be the next FBI director.
Our staff's communicated with Bondi staff, and we've given them specific instances of where bureaucrats have abused their power.
I think a lot of times that these bureaucrats, they do things, and even when they get caught nothing ever happens and what What we want to do, and what our committee wants to work with the Trump administration on, is holding these deep state bureaucrats accountable.
At the very least, they lose their job.
Hopefully they get drug in for depositions.
But at the end of the day, we've never seen a more weaponized federal government.
It's not just the judiciary.
It's the entire federal government.
It's the IRS. It's the FBI, the CIA. We've got other agencies.
The EPA, I would argue.
They've been weaponized.
And all the people that Trump put in office are disruptors.
That's why I strongly support him.
And at the end of the day, he's going to get every one of his nominees confirmed.
So we're going to work with them.
Jim Jordan's committee is going to work with them.
We want to get rid of these bureaucrats and allow Trump to pass his agenda that the American people gave him a mandate to pass.
So, during the election, one of the big slogans from the left was, we have to do this for the sake of democracy.
And it's becoming more and more apparent as the Trump administration gets underway with President Trump's direction that it was really about protecting the bureaucracy.
So, Alina, the president has signed more executive orders than any president in history in his first...
The first month in office.
Today is the month-aversary since January 20th.
A new administration took office and was sworn in.
He can sign these executive orders, but he has to have help from the federal government and from Capitol Hill to actually implement them.
And now you're also seeing a number of judges trying to get involved to stop his use of executive authority.
Can you talk about the judges continuing their lawfare and whether they actually have standing when it comes to blunting some of these orders and saying he doesn't have the power in the executive branch to do what he's doing?
You know, it's a lot like what I spoke about before.
This is desperate times for them.
And I'll say this.
I think that if you are going to fix a car and you don't look under the hood, how can you fix it?
So what we're doing is taking a good hard look under the hood of where the money was spent, how it was spent.
And there are tax, for instance, on Elon.
We were discussing this.
It's so baseless.
It's so ridiculous.
The fact that they're upset, for instance, yesterday, Governor Hochul in New York, that she's going to fight our administration tooth and nail for stopping congestion pricing.
Congestion pricing in New York is ruining tourism.
It's stopping people that work there from driving to work.
Their subways are not safe.
These people...
are caring more about their next election.
They care more about their face on TV and their politics than they do the people they're supposed to represent, the constituents that voted for them to do the work.
Congress, do you want to weigh in on the role that Capitol Hill has, especially with Republican control in Washington now, to make sure that these executive orders are implemented in a way?
We're going to do everything we can to pass that legislation to expedite these executive orders and to put them into law so whenever the next president comes around, they can't change them by executive orders.
Because what Trump's doing is what's best for America.
It's common sense.
He's restored common sense back to Washington, D.C. He's getting the government and the bureaucrats out of the way of the private sector, and we've got to make sure that becomes the law of the land.
And I think the support's there in Congress.
There were a few members of Congress.
On the Republican side, in the House and the Senate, that stuck their toe in the water to try to defy the president, to try to obstruct the president.
I think they got the message from their constituents back home.
They listened to their people when they went home, and they're on the Trump train now, and hopefully we can drain the swamp and make America great again.
Everybody knows that Elon Musk has been leading his team of Doge and rampaging through a number of federal agencies in Washington, D.C., which we are loving because there's so much waste, fraud, and abuse.
But as we continue to see more of what they're uncovering, yes, of course, we see these silly pet projects like Sesame Street in Iraq, for example.
But we're also starting to see a massive issue of actual corruption that has occurred.
For example, it was reported, I believe, this morning by the Free Beacon that Stacey Abrams, who was, you know, Georgia's darling, ran for governor twice.
She was involved in a lot of voter initiatives there, got a $2 billion grant from the Environmental Protection Agency after only managing $100 at a nonprofit that she started.
So, Congressman, you know, talk about what the Oversight Committee is doing.
With these new cabinet members like Lee Zeldin, for example, at the EPA to really root out this corruption and this infrastructure the left has built in D.C. to really push their political agenda on the entire country.
We're going to work with the administration when they identify something that they believe is fraudulent.
We will.
Follow through with investigation, with subpoena power.
Follow the money.
That's what we did in the Biden investigation.
We got the bank records.
You know, a lot of people say, well, go after the tax records.
As someone that's been involved in banking...
Tax records don't always tell the true picture.
The bank records don't lie.
And one of the things that we're working on, we go through a thing called the suspicious activity reports, where banks identify fraudulent behavior.
Banks usually catch when something suspicious happens.
If there's an account that had a $100 balance, which is probably the minimum to open an account, and then all of a sudden they get a multi-million dollar deposit.
Out of the blue.
That raises a red flag.
And the banks report that to Treasury.
So that's where we're going to be following the money.
We're doing this now with Act Blue.
And I think we're going to have some very interesting information to come out very soon on Act Blue.
But we're having a hearing on March 5th with the Sanctuary City mayors.
And these, other than the New York mayor, they have tried to obstruct what Tom Amund's doing and obstruct deportation efforts.
So we're going to let them explain that to the American people.
But one question we have is, who's been paying for this?
And I believe you're going to see there are a lot of...
Government pots of money that have been funneling through these NGOs, these non-governmental organizations.
And that's what we want to identify.
Musk is all over that.
Doge is all over that.
And Congress is going to be all over that.
And hopefully we can show the American people how abusive the Democrats and their allies in the deep state bureaucracies have been with their tax dollars.
They have funneled this mass implosion of illegal Immigrants in our country.
They've housed them.
They've provided free health care.
And at the end of the day, I think you're going to see a lot of tax dollars were laundered into programs like this.
So, Alina, when it comes to these NGOs, there's been a lot of lawsuits that are filed by leftist groups to try and get judges involved in stopping the taking away of the funding or even...
Giving Doge and Elon Musk and his team, who's a special government employee, much like Anita Dunn was under Joe Biden and others in previous administrations.
To keep that kind of funding.
But it does seem like there is a lot of corruption, not just maybe something that got lost in terms of going to the wrong place.
When you have a line item of trillions of dollars that does not get traced to anyone or anything, but entities that are run by family members of bureaucrats, that's a problem.
You don't have to be a lawyer to know that ain't good.
And the end of the day, look, even yesterday, Yesterday, they tried to file these restraining orders.
There was a bunch of individuals that said, oh, we're, you know, we're being hurt by this, and it was denied.
And that was actually by a very liberal judge in D.C. who sat on a lot of the January 6th issues for President Trump and other people.
Look, at the end of—this is what I can say.
We have been—I think there are 70 lawsuits that have been filed.
And I was speaking to Elon, and I said, you know, you should put in Times Square a ticker.
It'll say on the top how much money you're saving, and then on the bottom we're going to put one about how many lawsuits get filed.
One will go up, one will go down very quickly.
But they do that when we're winning and when we're hitting them where it hurts.
It happens to be tax season, so everybody's filing their taxes, going, if I don't pay the correct amount or miss a couple cents, they'll threaten to throw me in prison.
And President Trump said just yesterday, I was with him, and he was speaking at an economic forum, and he said, look, we hope to take 20% of what Doge has recovered, that is billions and billions of dollars, and put that money back to the American people who were hurt by the last administration, who can't buy and put that money back to the American people who were hurt by the last administration, who can't buy eggs But, you know, it's just ridiculous.
Secondly, we've got to follow this up with a budget, with President Trump's budget proposal.
We've got to cut spending.
We've got to ensure that the tax cuts are renewed.
This budget reconciliation bill is huge, and the reason This needs to be a very large bill is because this is the only vehicle that you can pass through the Senate that only takes 51 votes.
If we have to depend on Democrats, we might get Fetterman.
But we've got to do it on this reconciliation bill.
We've got to renew the tax cuts.
We've got to put in the tax cuts that President Trump promised.
No tax on tips.
No tax on overtime.
And put this whole agenda in.
And cut the bureaucracy and watch America grow.
Watch this country take off.
Once you get the government off the backs of the private sector.
The entrepreneurial spirit in America will flourish.
Americans will prosper.
And I think Americans will start to regain a little confidence in their government again, all because of President Trump's mandate, because of the work that everyone in this room did to get President Trump elected.
Coordination between the House and the Senate than I've seen in the eight years that I've been in Congress.
This is because we have a strong president.
We have a strong president that's put in disruptors.
The members of Congress that love the status quo, they went back home during Christmas break.
They went back home after the first weekend when Trump started making his Proposals and putting his people in place, and they heard from their constituents.
And the American people support President Trump's agenda.
And I think Congress understands that.
I think even the members that we sometimes get frustrated with in the House and the Senate, I think everybody's on board.
The President's popular, and the people have delivered a message.
So hopefully we're going to be able to pass his agenda.
And I think that the savings That Doge is finding.
It's just ironic that the Democrats are exposing their true colors.
They are obsessed with Elon Musk.
They have lost their mind over Elon Musk.
And that is the hill they've chosen to down, to protect the bureaucracy when the Republicans, being led by President Trump, want to end the bureaucracy.
So I think...
We're going to get a lot done, and it's all because of President Trump.
actually started quite a while ago in CPAC, and I enjoyed it so much that I came back for a second one, then a third, then I said, what the hell, let's run for president.
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Matt said, it's like five years ago, six years ago.
First of all, I want to thank Matt Schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and boss, Mercedes, who have been fantastic friends and supporters and so great when I watch them on television defending me, nobody has a chance.
You never stop fighting for America and I will never, ever...
Stop fighting for you.
We know that there are still more records to be shattered, new summits to be scaled, more triumphs to be realized, and more amazing history just waiting to be written.
But what I want to say today is they are not the only problem.
The current establishment stooges in Whitehall and Westminster are only the latest iteration of Britain going wrong for the past few decades.
Because, let's be honest, Britain isn't working.
The British system is deeply rotten.
Britain is becoming a failed state.
We've got people who are being arrested and locked up for posting on X and Facebook.
We've seen tens of thousands of girls as young as 12 raped, tortured and even killed by Pakistani grooming gangs.
And yet many of those perpetrators have not been brought to justice.
In fact, those crimes have been covered up.
And we know that the authorities colluded.
We know there was police collusion, and we know there was collusion from the local council.
We have a massive problem with illegal immigration, but yet we can't even deport people who are criminals from our country because of human rights.
One example was an immigrant from The Democratic Republic of Congo, who had sexually abused his own stepdaughter.
But he was allowed to stay in Britain on the basis of the right to family life.
How disgusting.
A criminal from Albania was allowed to stay in Britain because his son didn't like the kind of chicken nuggets they sell abroad.
And I'm not joking you there.
It's not just a problem we have with mass migration and illegal immigration.
We've also got a problem with our energy in Britain.
So in Britain, fracking has been banned.
I was the only Prime Minister who allowed fracking.
Sadly, I wasn't in office long enough to actually make it happen.
We have net zero policies that have decimated our oil and gas industry.
The net results...
We have the highest energy prices in the developed world.
And in Britain, we've just seen the last steel plant close down last year.
We cannot produce our own steel anymore.
We have an economic orthodoxy, a Bank of England that has printed vast amounts of money.
They've created rampant inflation.
They've wasted billions of taxpayer pounds.
If they weren't the government, it would be called a heist.
Yet in none of these cases, in none of these cases, have any of these people, any of these authorities been held to account for the fact they have completely failed. any of these authorities been held to account for the And we're in a situation where Britain is almost bankrupt.
Morally, socially and economically.
And I think people in this room might want to know, how on earth has this happened?
This is the country that invented parliamentary democracy.
It's the country of the Magna Carta.
It's the country of the Bill of Rights.
We protected freedom of the press back in 1695, almost 100 years before the First Amendment.
How on earth can the country of Adam Smith...
And the Industrial Revolution be de-industrializing.
It doesn't make any sense.
And the answer is that everything that made Britain great is being destroyed by an establishment that hates Britain and hates the West.
Like in most of Europe, our universities Our institutions and our corporations have been taken over by anti-West ideology.
Islamism, green extremism, anti-capitalism, wokery, transgenderism, you name it, they've adopted it.
And what we've seen is a massive failure of leaders in Europe to push back against this, because this is not something the population wanted.
This is not something the people in Britain or Europe voted for.
This is something that was imposed from above.
And what happened is that democratically elected politicians handed vast amounts of power over to the unelected and the unaccountable.
In Britain, Tony Blair in particular trashed centuries of liberty by...
He created a tyranny of technocrats.
He created an unaccountable Supreme Court which had never existed in Britain before.
He created a much deeper and powerful state that is not held to account.
He also handed vast powers over to an alphabet soup of international bodies, the World Health Organization.
The United Nations, the ECHR, all of whom nobody could vote in and nobody could vote out.
And all of those bodies, as you've seen in the United States of America, have been captured by the same anti-West ideology.
But what I find really incredible, really, really incredible, is it wasn't just China and Iran and Russia.
That were funding these NGOs, funding these anti-West groups.
It was actually the United States of America under President Joe Biden.
Through USAID. Now, did you know that American taxpayer dollars was funding the BBC? Did you know that they were funding the Tony Blair Institute?
Did you know that they were funding Rory Stewart's wife?
It's incredible.
We thought you were our friends.
But you were actually, American taxpayers were funding this anti-West ideology.
And the problem is, when the people in Britain voted for something different, when they tried to change the government, when they tried to change the system in 2016, in 2019, and in 2024, They found the same people were still in power.
The bureaucracy had not changed.
And it's no surprise that young people are losing their faith in democracy because they don't believe it can change things.
And amazingly, during all of this, many so-called conservatives went along with the ideology.
They were busy hugging Greta Thunberg.
They were putting up taxes.
I'm not joking about that.
They were putting up taxes.
They were increasing immigration.
They were pursuing transgender ideology.
And it's no wonder that the Conservative Party had its worst defeat since 1834. Patriotic Brits have had enough.
They've had enough.
And we look across the Atlantic with envy.
We see President Trump in the Oval Office signing off executive orders and we want some of that in Britain.
We want drill baby drill.
We want men banned from women's bathrooms and women's sports.
We want illegal immigrants deported.
We want taxes to be cut.
We want a Trump revolution in Britain.
We want to flood the zone.
We want Elon and his nerd army of muskrats examining the British deep state.
Ladies and gentlemen, we missed the first American revolution in 1776. In fact, it was actually a revolution against us.
But we want to be part of the second American Revolution.
We want to dismantle the British Deep State, which is older and more entrenched than the American one.
We need a great restoration bill to repeal all of the terrible Blair laws.
The Equality Act, the Climate Change Act, the Human Rights Act, the Constitutional Reform Act.
We need to eradicate judicial activism in Britain and restore parliamentary sovereignty.
we want our government run by the executive, not by the bureaucracy.
But most of all what we need is we need to restore free speech.
This is the lifeblood of our democracy.
And J.D. Vance is right.
Vice President Vance is right.
Free speech is in retreat in Britain and in Europe.
To Europe's governments, particularly Britain, they see George Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual.
Look at the evidence.
A British citizen was arrested for praying outside an abortion clinic.
We have German prosecutors saying that if you insult somebody, you could be arrested.
We had Alison Pearson, a British journalist, visited at her home by the police because of a tweet that she posted a year ago and since deleted.
We've all heard Vice President G.D. Vance sound the alarm.
And, of course, we've all heard President Trump repeatedly warn that judicial overreach threatens not just his presidency But the very foundation of the American democracy.
Well, I come from the future, and I know exactly how this story can end.
Okay, maybe not the future, but I come from Brazil, which is not that different, as my country has become a laboratory for censorship and judicial authoritarianism.
Since 2019, it's been used as a testing ground for the judicial weaponization against conservatives, libertarians, and Christians.
Always under the noble pretense of protecting democracy, fighting misinformation and stopping extremism, while, in reality, silencing dissidents, controlling narratives and criminalizing opposition.
We continue to face the dire consequences of this experiment every day.
Just three days ago, my father, former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was formally charged by the attorney general of the current socialist government with allegedly orchestrating a coup, a Disneyland coup d'etat, as some might call it, without weapons, without a plan.
And while he wasn't even in Brazilian territory, but in Orlando, probably debated strategy with Goofy, And taking national security advices from Mickey Mouse, maybe?
It's really the Disneyland coup d'etat.
There is no other word to talk about it.
This baseless accusation, entirely devoid of evidence, is nothing more than a tool to neutralize political opposition.
It mirrors the same tactics used against the opposition in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
Yet in Brazil...
Brazil is perceived differently on the global stage, because while its situation is in some ways even worse, the persecution is not spearheaded by the executive branch, but by the judiciary.
And that makes it all the more dangerous.
We are not talking about a dictatorship in the traditional sense.
We are talking about a place where tyrants issues decrease.
Agencies like USAID and NAD, institutions supposedly dedicated for promoting democracy, but in reality...
Channeling resources into censorship, judicial overreach, and political persecution in my country.
Let me introduce to you a man named Alexandre de Moraes.
He is not an elected official.
He is a Supreme Court Justice who has given himself unchecked power to decide who can speak, who can run for office, and even who can go to the prison.
Under his watch, Brazil has become a country where...
Social media platforms are forced to silence opposition voices or face billions in fines.
Judges and bureaucrats, not the people, decide who is fit to run for office.
Congressmen like Daniel Silveira are thrown into jail for so-called opinion crimes, receiving an outrageous sentence of eight years and nine months behind bars, simply for exposing his views in a video.
A punishment more fitting of a totalitarian regime than a democracy.
And, as I said, even the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is at risk of being arrested on the same kind of bogus charges used against opposition leaders in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
But it doesn't stop there.
The judicial system has become an instrument for persecution at every level.
Political parties that challenge the status quo are harassed and investigated, and some of their candidates are banned from competing fairly in elections.
Independent journalists face exile or worse, imprisonment for exposing government corruption or criticizing the judiciary.
Ordinary citizens who dare to express dissenting opinions on social media find themselves banned, fined, Or even arrests.
This is not democracy.
This is a judicial overreach.
This is lawfare.
And this is what happens when courts are turned into political weapons against the will of the people.
Why is it happening?
Because Jair Bolsonaro currently leads all major pools outside the margin of error.
And he's the only candidate capable of defeating the left in the 2026 election.
If he's kept out of the race, Brazil will fall completely under China's influence.
There is no doubt about that.
And Brazil cannot be overlooked with over 200 million people.
The largest economy in Latin America and the land mass nearly the size of the United States, its geopolitical and economic importance is uneniable.
China recognized this and is actively working to pull Brazil deeper into its sphere of influence.
And while you might think this is just a Brazilian problem, it's not.
This has many ramifications and has already spilled over into the United States.
Are three examples that should concern every American citizen.
Number one, Jason Miller's detention in 2021. An American citizen, advisor to President Trump, was detained in Brazil under politically motivated orders.
His crime?
Attending CPAC Brazil and supporting free speech.
Number two, Elon Musk's persecution.
He was added to an illegal fake news investigation.
That's right.
Elon Musk is under investigation in Brazil.
You should be, I don't know, maybe scared with him if he go around here, if he come around here.
Threatened with billion-dollar fines and saw his company, Axe, banned in Brazil, all because he refused to comply with government censorship demands.
The deep state scandal at CBP involving a Brazilian national, number three.
Brazilian authorities, in collusion with American bureaucrats, manipulated U.S. immigration records to fabricate justification for the unlawful imprisonment of Felipe Martins, a former national security advisor to my father.
He was subject to solitary confinement, psychological coercion, and inhuman treatment in an attempt to extract statements that could be used to incriminate President Bolsonaro.
If they can detain and silence American citizens, if they can control a country as large as Brazil, if they can manipulate official U.S. government records to imprison a political opponent abroad, what else they can do?
What stops them from doing the same to help terrorists, drug cartels, or transnational criminals?
And more importantly, if they could do all of this outside of the United States, what makes you think they wouldn't try to replicate it within?
This has gone too far.
And you, the American people, must pay attention because what happened in Brazil is being used as a blueprint for judicial tyranny elsewhere, including right here in the United States.
I told you that you have Bolsonaro supporters here.
Now they are applying the same formula elsewhere, including here in the United States, and we need to fight back, just as President Trump is doing through his legal team and in partnership just as President Trump is doing through his legal team and in partnership with Rumble by filling a lawsuit against Alexandre de Moraes for censoring and sanctioning American
This legal battle will set a crucial precedent not just for Brazil, but for the future of the free speech and democracy in the United States as well.
The Globalist Playbook is in full effect.
If you don't fight back now, you will be the next.
My name is Leo Zaki, and I'm the host of the international radio show, America Matters, on the Salem Network and the Answer Network.
I was vice president of Zaki Farms, my family's poultry company, and a board member of the California Poultry Federation for 10 years.
120 years ago, my family legally immigrated to California, where my great-grandfather started what became Zaki Farms.
Zaki Farms was a vertically integrated business and the largest poultry company on the West Coast, largest organic turkey producer in the nation, and the largest privately owned employer in California.
After 90 years, we were forced to close our doors and put thousands of people out of work because of elected officials in California who hate private business.
They raised the anti-competitive minimum wage and over-regulated the entire industry until it was impossible to exist.
Now, a lot of smart people will tell you this is just mismanagement, just waste, just incompetence.
But let's be real for a second.
This is not incompetence.
This is a deliberate strategy to destroy small businesses and the middle class.
California isn't run by the people anymore.
It's run by a political cartel.
by a handful of ruling families and their cronies who will not stop unless we drive them out.
Many of you, especially the younger ones in the audience, might not even know this, but California used to be a red state, a strong conservative state.
California still has more conservatives than any other state.
That's more than Texas, more than Florida.
So how did the Radicals stay in power?
They built a one-party dictatorship, and they call it a supermajority.
And they did this by running Democrats, but calling them Republicans.
These rhinos stole the vote from the people by making IDs for voting illegal, by inflating the census, gerrymandering, ballot harvesting, and removing all oversight that was in place to ensure election integrity.
I'm no detective, but even a dummy can smell voter fraud when the state with the most conservative somehow magically votes blue every year.
We are blessed to have Donald Trump as our president.
But all that means is that we have a few more years and a fighting chance to clean out the gangsters who are plundering our beautiful nation.
The fight continues, and we must win this battle.
And this battle is in California.
We can turn California red again.
It's responsible for some of the worst legislators in the nation and destabilizing our republic with anti-American policies.
If it happened here, it can and will happen in your state too.
But that's why you're here, to see conservative values defended against the psychotic enemies of our republic with their BS woke agenda 21 in 15-minute cities every day.
The new Department of Government Efficiency exposes more of their lunacy and disgusting waste.
California needs its own doge and a proper purchasing department to manage its spending habit with full transparency.
Transparency in our government is mandatory to keep out the bad guys.
California is over $3.2 trillion in debt.
And thanks to Doge, we will soon know some of the insanity these maniacs have been wasting our money on.
This isn't just corruption.
It's criminal.
The fires in Los Angeles have woken up a lot of lefties.
So guess what?
It doesn't matter if you used to be a liberal or conservative when you're homeless.
Losing everything tends to change your mindset.
I'm here to tell you that California is ready for change.
But it won't happen without the support of our Republicans across the nation.
That means all of you, everyone in this room and listening at home, wants to save this country and defeat the Marxist globalist woke agenda.
The time to strike is now.
But the establishment rhinos are working hard to derail our America First efforts.
Support your grassroots patriots and sign up for your local precinct committeemen.
There's over 200,000 empty seats out of the 400,000 nationwide.
If we're going to hold the line, we need to scoop them up and also run for local, board, council, committee, statewide positions.
Trump winning does not mean the war is won.
It means we are just getting started.
And Americans are gearing up.
The battle isn't just against a toxic ideology.
It's against criminals who have infiltrated our system and are trying to destroy it from within.
We are going to break the totalitarian supermajority in California with the help of God, the prayers of the righteous, and a lot of hard work.
Again, my name is Leo Zaki, and please tune into my radio show Monday through Friday and visit my website to see how you can get involved locally with other patriots.
Go to turnred.org, and I want to thank all of you so much.
America, California's in the fight.
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It's amazing how when we first started collaborating with each other and with the center and with Miklos and the whole gang, people inside of government, people outside of government, everyone said, why would you go to Hungary?
And then I read the Washington Post.
I didn't know this.
Apparently your prime minister is like a dictator or something.
I didn't realize this.
And then he was like a fascist dictator who rigged elections.
And that's what I was told.
And I remember telling one of these reporters, I think it might have been at the Washington Post, I was like, wait a minute, I'm always reading that you say you can't rig elections, and now you can rig elections.
How did all that disinformation transform into the fact now people look at Victor Orban and say, he's...
With your president, they did the same with everybody who is opposing their power structures.
That's how things look like.
And second, if you represent the truth as a politician, and as it is done...
By my Prime Minister, then time is on your side.
It means that it will turn out that your decisions, even if those were criticized heavily by the liberal institutions, and they did everything to destroy you, like we were dictators, fascists, Putins, puppets, whatsoever.
But time is on your side, and it proves that you were wrong during all time.
That was the case with the migration, when we were saying that letting In hundreds and hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants to Europe and to our country, it's not a good idea.
So we should do the other way around.
And we asked, we were the only ones who asked the people.
Migration wasn't an issue in Hungary.
So we were thinking about that, oh, we don't have legitimacy.
What decisions should be made?
So let's ask the people.
And we ask the people.
We organize national referendum, and obviously, overwhelming majority, even those who are disagreeing with the government, were saying no to illegal migration.
And then we stopped it, and then we canceled it.
And the same with the war.
Same with the war.
President Trump is right.
As it was said by my Prime Minister, this war has to end because it brings us nowhere.
So, there's this special relationship with Donald Trump and Viktor Orban, which is multidimensional, two amazing guys, very different guys.
I think the Western press tries to act like they're the same.
They have some similar characteristics.
Strength, endurance, same policies.
But they're different in a lot of ways, too, right?
I think the one thing that is the most the same is this idea of kind of getting kicked out of power, even though I don't think Donald Trump got kicked out.
That's my view.
I'm sure I'll get canceled from someone for saying that.
I don't think he ever got kicked out.
But he had this ability to come back and win the White House.
Victor Orban lost power, gained power.
That's something they have in common.
As a matter of fact, I talked to your Prime Minister on one of my trips and I said, you're the one guy on the earth who can tell Donald Trump how you do this.
He always understood that he was going to work around kind of the establishment systems.
And work with different kinds of allies.
And one of the things your Prime Minister said to us in this wonderful lunch we have, which will remain off the record, don't worry, that's one of the great things about being around a long time as you follow those rules, is he explained that one of the reasons he lost power was because he didn't have any allies.
He didn't have any allies in the media.
He didn't have any allies in non-profits.
All the major Soros-funded institutions in Hungary We're doing the dirty deeds against him.
And he realized he needed to set up institutions and organizations that could help tell the truth.
And I think Donald Trump has understood that well, too, by using social media, by being a good partner with CPAC and other conservative groups.
On behalf of the American taxpayer, we apologize to the good people of Hungary that our government tried to destabilize Orban and the good leaders in Europe.
But compared to the other option that we let everybody in and we let to have a country which is...
Destroyed is the better option.
So this is the reason in the long term we need a change.
We need a change, not just in Washington, but in Brussels as well.
Europe liberal elites, they are the most isolated people now because they are isolated themselves from Trump and the new administration isolated themselves from Russia, isolated themselves from China, and they are desperate.
But for this reason, they are dangerous and they are ready to do anything to crash their opponents.
I think we have some great titles in some of our talks.
Do you know why I think they're great?
Because I came up with some of them, so let me just bask in a tiny little bit of my glory.
But the...
There was this concept in America that we needed to have a truce on social issues.
We shouldn't talk about questions like when life begins, what is marriage, what is gender, all that stuff.
Let the teachers handle it in the schools.
And as a party, what we should do is just try to lower taxes, you know, lower regulations.
And over time, I think Donald Trump, who's not necessarily a culture warrior, I understood that it was questions of immigration, questions of families, questions of the continuation of our society that were paramount.
Viktor Orban realized this when he came back to power.
One of the most amazing things he has done with his party is try to change all these government regulations so that people want to get married.
People want to have kids.
There's little Hungarian babies in mother's arms.
You're not going to have a country if your people don't have kids.
And this idea that you're going to bring in all these migrants to be the next generation in Hungary is something you guys reject.
So, in general, the idea of liberal democracy, that the state is not interfering in any of the aspects of the private life, it sounds to be a good idea.
Because we all are freedom-loving people, and we like freedom, and we don't want to stay in our courtyard.
But in reality, what happened, the left used this argumentation to overtake the institutions, and the liberal state was interfering into the private matters.
So what we're really saying is big government ends up subsidizing...
All the activities for our young people that are counterproductive to society continually, encouraging drugs, giving out free needles, encouraging them to be on their parents' health care until they're like, what is it, 47 years old now?
Like, nobody gets to grow up at all?
And in Hungary, you said, okay, well, if the government's going to subsidize all these things that we don't want to encourage more of, what if we actually used the government system to subsidize what we want?
And you did it through tax cuts.
So if a mom decides, by the way, I don't think we should force anybody to be a parent.
It's really hard to be a parent.
The last thing you want to do is have people being parents who are really angry that they're being parents.
But like you said, if you want to be a parent, have a kid, you get a tax cut in Hungary.
You never stop fighting for America and I will never ever stop fighting for you.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to say their names.
Israeli hostage families speak.
Please welcome, father of Edan Alexander, Adi Alexander, brother-in-law of Omir Maran, Moshi Lavi, Nova Music Festival survivor and brother of Guy Dalal, Gal Dalal.
Hosted by CPAC senior fellow, Thank you all so much.
You know, this is a very difficult, difficult subject, and I see someone in the crowd, Julie Levin.
Stand up, look, Julie.
Julie Levin, Mark Levin's wife, but just a leader in this issue of being a voice for the Jewish people, for the suffering that we have seen, the tragedies that we have witnessed against innocent lives.
And these brave men have come here to deliver a somber message.
But it's also a message of hope, a message of urgency, a message of action that we need to take.
And here at CPAC, we all, a CPAC family, first we stand with your families.
When you are in pain, when you are suffering, we are suffering with you, and we are praying for each and every one of you.
And to start this, Gal, I want to start with you.
You were at the Nova Music Festival.
That day on October 7th.
Tell us what happened.
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First of all, I'll start with thank you, Mercedes, and thank you all of you for being here and supporting us.
And thank you for having us.
The NOVA Festival had almost 5,000 people in it, more than 20 nationalities.
It was like a gathering of all sorts of different people from all sorts of different cultures.
People who went to celebrate life, spiritual people.
It was a spiritual festival.
And the people who were kidnapped from them had nothing to do with this conflict, had nothing to do with this war, and they should have never used it as a currency in this war.
I went to this festival because it was my brother's first festival ever.
When that happened, tell us about the moment when you realized, oh my goodness, he's been taken.
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So after almost 10 hours of fleeing, running and hiding, while terrorists shooting on me with gunshots and RPGs, rockets, I was finally able to get rescued by our forces.
They took us to the nearest police station.
This is where I called my father.
And my father sounded broken, and I... I said to him, look, if something happened to my brother, you need to let me know.
And that's when he told me that my brother was kidnapped and that Hamas was already published a hostage video three hours before I was even able to escape, which meant that my parents, my family, everyone knew that my brother was taken, but no one told me so I can focus on saving my own life.
You know, it's a whole process for us, the families of the hostages.
Every day, it's another struggle.
But we always have on our minds that...
Our hostess, our loved ones, they are suffering much more.
When we think about the pain that they have to endure, we're still in captive, we get strength and we get the power to do everything we can to help them.
I know that my brother will do exactly the same for me, and we have to stay strong for them for when they will come back.
On October the 7th, Hamas terrorists barge into my sister Lishai and Omri's home.
They use a teenager from the kibbutz, Tomer Aravah, to lure them to open the door.
And they opened it immediately to save Tomer's life.
Homer was found dead a few days later, his body in a field.
But Domrin Lishai knew that they were opening the door to terrorists to save his life.
For hours they were held captive in their own home.
My niece Roni was awakened with a gun pointed at her face, terrorists surrounding her.
She was two and a half years old back then.
They were then grouped with another family in the kibbutz, the Idan family, whose eldest daughter, Maayan, was murdered.
They were abused for hours.
It was live-streamed on Facebook.
The terrorists took a phone of one of the captives and simply live-streamed it on their Facebook account.
And then at around 1.30 p.m., Omri was handcuffed.
Lishai told him she loves them.
She'll take care of the girls.
And ask him not to be a hero.
He told her he loves her.
And that was the last time she saw him.
Ronnie, my niece, tried to run to him.
Lishai stopped her, luckily.
And ever since, Omri has been a hero.
For 503 days, he's been a hero in captivity, fighting for survival, while we are fighting here to returning home.
I'm lucky because my sister Nisa survived.
My parents survived.
My other sister and her family survived.
All experienced October the 7th while I was in New York.
but being lucky means you have a hostage in your family that you need to fight for when we shy called you did she tell you We discovered Lishai was rescued that evening, Israel time, the night.
She was rescued 11 hours after the attack started by the IDF. After Marie was taken, she was held captive for a few more hours in that home.
And we talked for the first time a day later, the entire family on WhatsApp.
We did a video call, and it was so difficult.
By that time, my parents were rescued.
My other sister was rescued.
And luckily, Shai and the girls were rescued.
And we tried to understand what's going on.
What do we need to do?
Where is Omri?
And for the next couple of days, we discussed, what do we need to do?
I wanted to return to Israel to serve in the army.
I was a captain in the IDF. But then my sister...
My sister told me...
I need you to be my soldier in this war until Omri comes home.
I need you to speak up because there are very few people who can speak up for me and for Omri like you can.
And since that day, I've been her voice.
I've been Omri's voice.
I've been every single hostage voice because they can't speak from the dungeons of Hamas.
They are chained.
They are starved.
They're deprived of water, sanitation, sunlight.
They're calling for the rescue.
And we have to make sure to bring them home, like Vice President J.D. Vance said.
Irrespective of other issues, there is one priority right now.
Let's not sign more death certificates.
Let's make sure all the hostages who are alive return home.
and those who are murdered in captivity, like those who will return today and broke our heart, will be buried in the land of Israel.
How are you processing this every day as a father?
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You know, I'm just thinking about the place that my kids grew up in, which is Rockwell, Maryland, not far away from this hotel.
And we moved to New Jersey back in 2008. It's really hard.
I mean, Idan is an all-American kid, Tenefly High School graduate, decided on a gap year to enlist himself to IDF because he loved both of his countries, and this is what he did.
On that tragic day, he found himself on a tiny outpost next to Kibbutz near Oz, and he was the only soldier at this post.
And the post was attacked, heavily attacked.
He was surrounded by more than 20 militants.
And after conducting a short fight, he found a way to surrender.
So we kind of consider ourselves lucky that he managed to surrender.
And ever since...
You know, he was seen in the tunnels right at the beginning.
And then Hamas released this hostage video on Thanksgiving's weekend.
When we saw Edan speaking, we saw him well.
He was pale.
He wasn't himself, but he was alive.
And this is what's important for us, and this is what drives us forward.
We've seen the tragedy of the Vivas family, the two beautiful children, the mother, and we've all seen those photos.
What is your message to the leaders out there, the international leaders out there, who are just not stepping up to put pressure on Hamas to release these hostages right now?
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We have been waiting for so long to see hostages returning.
And for almost 500 days, we waited for the second deal to come.
And as soon as Trump started his role as the President of the United States, you could see hostages start to return.
And I think that's because Trump knows evil and good.
Trump can see, you mentioned it, Bebas.
Little babies should have never taken as hostages, used as a currency in a war.
That's just unimaginable evil.
And for that we thank him.
And I think that the world is looking at what is going on in the United States.
We believe that with him, we will get to see all the other hostages.
But the thing is that we are grateful for the lives that he saved already.
But there are still many lives that waiting to be saved.
Adi, your message to what you want to know, how we can be helpful for you and your family as well.
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Just keep this issue front and center.
Keep praying.
Really, this is the time to pray.
We're in the middle of this process.
Hopefully, we will be successful to pass it over the finish line with President Trump's help, leadership.
And Steve Witkoff's knowledge and leadership as well.
Just keep praying, guys.
I'll ask all this amazing audience to close your eyes and imagine with me my nieces Rony and Alma running to their father Omri.
Imagine my sister Lishai hugging and kissing her husband Omri.
Imagine Danny Omri's father shaving his beard after hundreds of days and embracing his son Omri and take that joy of picturing that to mobilize in every way you can prayer, action, rallying, writing, so that I could tell my nieces, Roni and Alma, that their father is coming home tomorrow.
Thank you for being with us at CPAC. You all really inspire us.
And yes, we're going to bring the people back home.
We're going to bring the hostages back home.
We are going to stand with you.
Stand with your families and ensure that we can start healing and start moving forward.
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Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
God bless.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, up next, Black Box Life Matters, crushing woke for business.
Please welcome U.S. Representative from West Virginia, Representative Riley Moore, co-founder and president of Patriot Mobile, Glenn Story, CEO of Morris Industries, Nate Morris, CEO of Morris Industries, Nate Morris, and your host from Newsmax.
And, yes, for us in West Virginia, it was really an existential threat for us to continue to deal with these financial institutions that had an ESG framework that was so harmful to our industries, coal, natural gas, and oil.
And so what I did was start to talk to some of our coal producers, natural gas, and the like, and they were losing access.
To financing.
They couldn't continue their operations because no one would bank them.
They were essentially being debanked.
And we had folks like BlackRock and the other big three that were moving investment away from these critical industries that just so happened to power the country and are also so important to the state of West Virginia.
So in 2021, I sent letters to them warning them if they didn't stop this activity.
That we were going to divest out of them, and they ignored those warnings, and then in January of 2022, which is a little while ago now, I became the first elected official in the United States to divest our tax dollars out of BlackRock entirely.
And then we took it a step further and created what's called the Restricted Financial Institution List, which had said if you're boycotting the fossil fuel industry, You're going to lose the ability to be able to bid on any financial service contract in the state of West Virginia.
And that's where we ended up putting a lot of other banks on that list.
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citi, a whole bunch of other guys.
And we had to tear up a lot of contracts, tens of millions of dollars.
And I think we need more people coming from the outside to help President Trump with the America First agenda.
And for conservatives, this is our opportunity to rip control that Mitch McConnell has had on the Republican Party, in aspects of our party, and taken us down this direction.
And he has tried to purposely sabotage President Trump over and over and over again.
This is our chance to get it back and give it back to the people.
Well, I do think, obviously, the country is on a fortunate trajectory with this election.
We can all feel it as we're here, as we're walking in the halls, we're exchanging ideas.
I wrote a book last year called Incoming, on the front lines of the left's war on truth, because what we saw was the Marxist professors indoctrinating kids, and then they'd go into these woke corporate boardrooms, and this was a circle that, fortunately, we've been able to break with this.
Historic election and I think we all look at Donald Trump is not just our president of this country But also somebody a visionary who will take us into an America in the Golden Age and You know your story Glenn is amazing Patriot Mobile is based on Christian values and that's something a lot of people after we witnessed Butler, Pennsylvania really are coming back to their faith Their faith in this country.
And before I go there, I just want to say thank you to Matt and Mercy and the CPAC staff and leadership to do what you guys do to bring the most important conservatives together and just raise each other up.
But to answer your question, yeah.
Patriot Mobile is a cell phone service provider.
We carve out a portion of every bill and donate back to biblical causes.
But what really separates Patriot Mobile is we're 100% U.S.-based customer service.
Our donation patterns along, yeah, it's a great thing.
But most importantly, we put God first.
He is at the helm of our business.
He's at the helm of our business.
And when he's at the helm of your business, it just changes the landscape, right?
You know you can't do wrong.
And, you know, we live by these biblical principles, and we make these donation patterns back to organizations like Right to Life, Military and First Responders, First Amendment and Second Amendment.
You look at those, those are really constitutional, biblically-driven objectives or initiatives.
I thought I saw extortion in the waste business, like we did with Tony Soprano.
The extortion I saw in the waste business is nothing compared to what ESG terrorists do to corporate leaders every day, forcing them into positions and threatening to bankrupt their company if they do not adhere to these bogus, crazy standards.
And that's one of the reasons why I'm so compelled to look at getting into politics, because we, as corporate leaders, we have to fight.
We have to fight this.
When I left my company was invest in Strive, Vivek Ramaswamy's anti-woke investment platform to say we're going to stand up to this and we're going to fight back and we're going to make sure that politics stays out of business and gets centered around merit and what the market should reward, period.
And I think that's part of the, you know, we look at J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel when they invested in Rumble.
We look at Newsmax.
We're soaring.
And it's because Americans truly have woken up.
But now there's a...
Higher demands on our elected leaders and fortunately Donald Trump doge is making a lot of advances Maybe we're all even going to get a rebate from what they're saving but congressman Moore.
I know I like that You know what it's like being in politics and being in Congress now People are going to be held accountable.
He's talking about Mitch McConnell officially announcing, but their old guard has been put on notice.
Can you talk about that since you were at the forefront of sort of putting ESG and BlackRock on notice?
Well, yeah, and I'll tell you, I got a lot of calls when I first divested from BlackRock, which is three years ago now, and most of it was, Riley, you're an idiot.
Why are you doing this?
Why are you even messing with this?
And ESG is such an existential threat, I mean, to our We've seen this time and time again where we will have America first policies that go and die in the United States Senate.
That happens all the time.
You know, clearly I'm in for the one big, beautiful bill in reconciliation, and so is President Donald Trump, because that's the way we're going to accomplish his agenda.
But, you know, perhaps it looks like the Senate might be moving a piece of their legislation forward.
We've got to be unified under the President and execute on his 77 million vote mandate that he has.
So that's how Washington works and you know as a member of the national media and hearing the stories of rural Americans some of them really did feel left behind I mean you're you're you have cell service you look at the people ravaged by hurricanes And FEMA wouldn't even help people with Trump signs.
You know, we have an elected member of Congress, two entrepreneurs and CEOs.
When I brought you out, I said you're patriots.
But we also, I think your stories are so important because other people in this audience are looking and saying, how can I do this?
How can I involve?
And there is...
Obviously, tremendous opportunity for American exceptionalism again under this president now.
You're thinking about possibly getting into the race, but we know that you've built companies.
What do you just say to folks?
We're on a live stream here.
You have, you know, thousands of people watching.
You know, they want to know how I get a credit card loan and start a company and be like you and do that in today's climate where we have the winds of change at our back.
Yeah, so we dealt with this on the state level in West Virginia.
It's called a merchant category code.
Maybe some of you have heard of this, but the credit card companies have put this in place to be able to track the purchase of your guns and ammunition in the United States of America.
Now, we had put in a...
An ability and a right to sue cause of action in West Virginia if they shared your data.
But I have a bill right now, and I do believe we're going to get action on it, in the United States House of Representatives to ban the merchant category code on guns and ammunition.
This is a little bit off the ESG topic, but I just wrote an op-ed about this, and I'd encourage you to take a look at it because it's a huge national security issue, and I am looking at legislation on this.
There are currently, in the United States, there are 300,000 Chinese nationals on student visas in our country, and I'm looking to ban all student visas from China moving forward.
And this goes back to, we've got to elect America first, patriots, that are not beholden and on a bended knee to Mitch McConnell or anyone else, that they're going to fight with President Trump and to keep this nonsense out of our politics, period.
Yeah, well, and to your previous question, I'm sure there's somebody sitting out here right now, and I want this to be kind of hopefully a core memory at some point.
Each and every one of you should consider running for office.
All of you should think about doing this.
I'm serious, because this is not, the seat I'm sitting in is not my seat.
It belongs to the people of West Virginia, and they've hired me for two years to do it.
Any of you can do these jobs.
You can stand up, go run.
State-level politics is awesome.
You can get a lot more done there than you can, sometimes at the federal level.
Please, I encourage everybody to take a look at office.
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I love being at CPAC. It is always a pleasure to be at CPAC. I felt like an old man when I was thinking about this trip, because I first came to CPAC in 2011. And it was fun then, it's been fun ever since, but something feels different this year.
Most voters in this country voted for Donald Trump.
Huge swaths of every demographic, including groups that Democrats have had a lockdown on for decades.
We're talking about an historic proportion of black male voters.
Almost half of Hispanic voters.
Something like 50% of women over 45. Even, this one really shocked me, 40% of women under the age of 30. That was the most Kamala-y demographic, and we still got that.
So many of them voted for Trump and for Republicans in the House and the Senate.
It was a clean sweep.
It was a clear mandate.
And it was a mandate...
For common sense.
That's the only way to explain this broad coalition of people who usually argue with each other.
Republicans, disaffected Democrats, conservatives, liberals, people across both sexes and all ages and all races.
The Democrats lost the common sense.
And their loss is our gain, not only at the ballot box, but also...
In expanding the political imagination, in opening up the discourse that we can have in our politics.
For too long, uniparty elites have limited political discourse to exclude the common sense policies that people actually want.
Just look at immigration.
For decades, we have been told that we have two choices when it comes to immigration.
More illegal immigration or more legal immigration.
And sometimes the left and the right, they compromise and they give us both.
But it turns out that most Americans do not want more immigration of any kind.
Most Americans want drastically less immigration, legal and illegal.
Gallup polling last July found 55% of Americans want overall immigration reduced.
This backs up another poll from 2018. Harvard Harris found that most Americans want annual legal immigration capped at about half a million.
That is about 60% less than the current levels.
That is about 85% less than overall immigration levels.
That is what most Americans repeatedly have indicated that they want.
And it's perfectly reasonable.
Today, we have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population that we have ever had in our nation's history.
It is not possible for a nation to maintain social cohesion and its own way of life while taking in unlimited numbers of foreigners.
There's nothing bigoted about that observation.
And yet, until recently, that view, the preference of most Americans, Was totally unrepresented by either major political party.
Look at the LGBT ideology.
In recent years, uniparty elites have told us that we have two options.
Either we trans the kids in kindergarten, or we wait until they turn eight.
Maybe, maybe if we're lucky, we can wait until the kids are out of elementary school before the indoctrination begins.
What kind of a choice is that?
Within the past decade, Transgenderism did not exist in public life at all.
Not in schools, not in sports leagues, not in bathrooms, not in the military, not anywhere.
And things worked a lot better then, and probably we should return to that.
To put in perspective just how rapidly this gender-bending LGBT ideology has been forced upon us, consider that Barack Obama, in the final year of his first term as president, held that marriage Hillary Clinton believed that, too.
Basically, everybody believed that.
Everyone, everywhere, for statistically all of human history, has understood that fact.
That is the only definition of marriage that distinguishes it from other kinds of relationships.
Even in our relentlessly secular political order, 81% of Americans believe in God.
And you know, that is actually the lowest number ever recorded.
Historically, the number is north of 95%.
And still, that means that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God.
And that is because the existence of God can be known with certainty from human reason.
But these days, you would not know that, judging by our public institutions.
In recent decades, uniparty elites have offered us two options when it comes to religion.
Keep it private or don't keep your religion at all.
In public, federal agents spy on our churches.
They sue members of religious orders.
They imprison parents for praying peaceably outside of abortion mills.
Maybe, just maybe, we're permitted to entertain religious thoughts silently in our own minds.
But the moment that we start talking about or acting on those ideas in public, we're in trouble.
But religion is not just some private privilege.
Religion is a public right.
Our very country is predicated on the idea that God exists and that we are made in His image.
God is in the Declaration of Independence.
He's in our national anthem.
He's even on our money.
The fact that in recent decades...
our political class has largely removed God from public life, is an aberration and a national scandal and it needs to be reversed.
Now, of course, it's not really possible to remove religion from politics because lawmaking entails moral judgments, whether we're talking about abortion or whether we're talking about parking tickets.
Politics requires us to come to certain conclusions about human nature.
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Politics always and everywhere involves rituals and veneration, reward and punishment.
These things are inescapable.
So when the ideologues remove traditional and true religion from our politics, they can only replace it with their own novel and false religions.
They replace Christmas displays with pride parades, sturdy virtues with modern values, faith, hope, and charity with diversity, equity, and inclusion.
They ban the Bible from schools, and then they assign genderqueer.
That is to say, they remove the most important book ever written, the book without which it is not possible to be an educated person, and they replace it with their own neo-gnostic nonsense.
Is it any wonder that our rulers got so stupid?
You saw the consequences of taking the Bible out of schools a couple weeks ago, when our Vice President invoked a basic Christian concept.
And our political establishment started alternately drooling and shrieking.
When he was asked about mass migration, J.D. Vance brought up the order of charity, which is the idea that we owe more to the people closer to us than to people who are further away.
This is an observation.
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It's written about by the great Christian thinkers.
But it's also just common sense.
It does not take a PhD in philosophy or theology to know that we owe more to our kids than we do to face-tattooed Mexican gangsters.
Now, of course, this means that our political leaders owe more to American citizens than they do to foreigners.
That's the point J.D. was making.
That is the meaning of the phrase, America first.
It's not that we don't wish to help people around the world.
We certainly do.
We're the most charitable nation in history.
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You need...
To have things in order.
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For all 10 of them.
All ten of them.
A little inside joke while we were backstage.
Before we get started, though, we want to just thank all the pro-life, pro-family patriots that are here.
Please give yourselves applause for being here and making the travel out to Washington, D.C. during this cold winter.
Great Role Models Needed00:13:44
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We thank you.
You know, the name of this panel talks about truces, and CPAC has never called a truce on being pro-life.
We've never called a truce on being pro-family.
And we've got two of our great allies here today, and Terry and Penny, they're going to talk about some of the progress that's being made since we've got a great pro-life, pro-family president of the White House again.
So to kind of start with that, Penny, we're a month into the presidency.
The president's been pretty active.
What are a few of the things that he's done that get you excited in the pro-life movement?
Well, first off, thank God President Trump won, right?
And Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization, and we are unapologetically pro-life women.
And we are not afraid to lead with that.
And what a great month it's been, from everything from pro-life people who use their First Amendment rights to, I don't know, sing and pray outside an abortion clinic.
Being pardoned by our president, as they well should have been, to signing the Mexico City policy executive order, to the Haidt Amendment coming back, and several many important things.
Mexico City policy, of course, is about abortions in other countries.
And why are we funding all of this?
Why are we spending $700 million a year for Planned Parenthood, who's the nation's largest Yes, that's right.
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Terry, same question.
I know you guys watch these two great heroes for the pro-life, pro-family movement.
Both have been leaders on making sure that girls play girls sports, that we use.
The right pronouns when we're describing ourselves and our kids.
But, Terry, same question to you.
Where has President Trump made you proud this first month?
Look, he's done a full blitzkrieg to protect our children and families.
Out of the gate, he signed this executive order to protect our children, not just their bodies, but their hearts and minds, from this nefarious and evil transgender industry.
Which, by the way, this transgender industry that's giving our kids cross-sex hormones, blocking their puberties, chopping up their body parts and sterilizing them, it's worth $4.5 billion.
In this country.
And we just allow it to go unchecked.
And we wonder why we're always talking about it.
Well, it's because they're taking that money and they're piling it back into PR campaigns and public relations and pushing it on our kids in schools.
But President Trump, out of the gate, signs this amazing executive order to protect our children from this.
And it bans the funding of these surgeries.
It bans them at any hospitals that accept Medicaid.
But also, what was very fascinating to me was it instructed the Department of Justice to investigate any doctors or clinics or companies, pharmaceutical companies, that are pushing transgender surgeries and hormone treatments on minors.
And then, by the way, President Trump has been leading on the women's sports fight.
But in the background of President Trump signing this were all these little girls from all across the country with their jerseys on, their medals, and you could just see how much his work on this fight meant to those girls.
And so I'm going to be forever grateful, eternally grateful to President Trump for everything he's done.
And I don't want to tell you how many other Republicans we had to beg and plead with to get to do it, because he got it at his gut.
He looked at, my husband was in the room, he's like, can you believe I have to sign a pledge that says that there are only two genders and only women can be mothers?
Like, you know, like, but he gets it at his gut, and we're so deeply grateful because trans audiology has hurt a lot of kids, and we've talked to...
I've seen Chloe Cole around the event, around CPAC, many others.
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Yeah.
So, we've had a busy first month.
You know, the Vice President talked about some things this morning.
Where do we go next?
Obviously, we got some early victories.
He followed through on his promises.
Where do we need to go next, whether it's with the president, whether it's working with Congress?
You know, what is a great preview, something that our activists that are here can take back home to start working on as kind of like part two here?
Let's talk about the idea that at this point in our nation, we're not at replacement rate for our children, for our families.
We have less people getting married, young people getting married.
We have a whole group of young men that are following the evil pathway of Andrew Tate.
Who's openly in favor of pornography, creating pornography, it is the way of destruction.
And I just want to, here on the CPAC stage, repudiate all of that, suggest that although not everybody can get married, not everybody can have children, but it's okay to realize and to state that it's the ideal for a family.
And it's healthy.
For a nation, and it's healthy for people.
And about 81% of young people in this country want to be married.
But we're down in those numbers, and I would suggest there's some real systemic causes of that that we have to deal with.
Well, Penny, I think that one of the major problems in this country with family is that We've allowed all these losers in the media, losers in Hollywood, to tell us what masculinity is, to redefine masculinity.
And what they've done is they've defined all masculinity is toxic.
So young men have never been more under attack.
That's true.
I'm sure there will be headlines about, oh, CPAC's saying that men are under attack.
They just don't get it.
But if you look at being a young man today...
You are inundated with pornography.
You're inundated with sports betting.
You're inundated with all these distractions like weed.
And they're things that are distracting you and deceiving you from...
The really important things, like getting married, finding that special partner that you can spend the rest of your life with.
And then even from there, if you get married, now you have hurdles for these young men that don't even want to have kids.
We're called to be fathers.
I've got seven kids, right?
And I might have taken President Trump's...
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Thank you.
He had four the first time he met President Trump.
And, you know, and I would say those great role models are not the men who monetize women, but it are the men who are faithful husbands.
My husband and I have been married 30 years almost.
He's been a faithful husband and father to our children.
I've been a lifelong friend and supported my career.
That's what you want, young ladies.
And don't sell yourself short and settle for anything less.
Any man that doesn't respect you and is not willing to commit to you, don't settle for it.
But at the same time, the young men have been undermined, and I think we need to support them and give them the great role models that they deserve, because they'll be happier, is the truth.
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And we're talking about...
We're changing our culture, and we won an election, but as one of our colleagues in the movement once said to me about 20 years ago, he said, the fight only begins.
You win an election, and then the fight, that's when the real fight begins, because that's when you have to start getting things done.
What, as kind of in our last few minutes here, though, from a construct, we're talking about these Concepts and and I have a 15 year old son and I spend a lot of time with him That's one of my biggest responsibilities is make sure he comes out right and I know you feel the same way about yours and your kids and You know what what can we do?
What can we send these folks home with that they can do though to help?
Get this broader culture shift that we're talking about I'm just add on to that because you touched on something very important And that's parents being good parents.
It is your top responsibility.
It's the most important job I have.
And so, you know, in parents, it's a difficult world we live in.
Utah just passed a bill saying that parents have the right, should be the people that allow children to download apps.
Right now, kids can download anything without parental notification.
We need to actually help parents have the tools to be better parents, to be able to protect their kids from bad media, from pornography, from all the things that are toxic, that hurt them, and be able to give them a loving, faithful home and recognizing that, you know, we as a nation...
Are people of faith and we need to return to that.
Yeah, look, I think that there are some easy things that we can quickly clean up.
And there are already movements that are out there that have been growing.
So we're up to 26 states that are protecting girls' sports.
We're up to 27 states now that have banned these gender procedures.
But we're up to 19 states that require age verification to access adult content online.
If we can get our young people, Matt, off of porn and get them to 18 where they're dating girls, they're interested in girls, not computer screens and fake...
I think we're going to have a much brighter future.
But again, I think we've got to reach our young men, inspire them.
You know, JFK would have been a Republican today, right?
I think it's obvious.
But in his inaugural address, he said, we do these things as Americans not because they're easy, but because they are hard.
Nothing worth doing is ever easy.
And we have to inspire young men that's ripe, they want the challenge, and there's no better challenge than being a good husband and a good father.
And by the way, spend time with your kids.
Guys, we're dads.
We get to have fun.
We get to buy the candy that mom won't want.
We get to buy the donuts.
We get to throw the kids up in the air way too high, but they're having a blast.
So spend time with your kids, even if it's five minutes a week or five minutes a day, but just make time for it.
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Not only those, but I think it's the relationships that you build with your fellow students, most of whom are working professionals, working in the field of politics, whether that's here in D.C. or in their home state as an online student.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome President of Patriots Party, Santiago Abascal.
Hace un año estaba en esta misma tribuna compartiendo con vosotros las mismas preocupaciones y recibiendo también los mismos desprecios de quienes nos daban por derrotados.
Ahora nos toca sonreír porque ese desprecio de quienes se creían todopoderosos e intocables se está convirtiendo en rabia.
Rabian porque el mundo ya es distinto.
Yeah, it's more similar to what we dreamed about ago.
It's already in retroceso that misery and woquism that they wanted to impose.
It's already shown that the future is not written.
It's shown that that that future can be hope and luminous, and that only had to be valent governors, capaces to listen to their peoples and capaces to fulfill their promises.
Thank you very much for allowing me to be again to your side, to say essentially the same thing, but to do it with much more hope.
I would like to use this intervening to respond, as a Spanish and European, to the speech last week of the vice-president Vance in Munich.
I would like to do it to give a firm and contundent answer.
And the first word of that answer should be...
Thank you.
Simply, thank you.
Thank you because Europe needed to hear that speech and its leaders needed to hear those truths, the same things they try to silence and manipulate when we say it.
Thank you, Vice President Vance, because they can't continue to hide and hide the reality.
But, especially because everything that was said in Munich is true.
It's true that we face a serious democratic crisis.
It's true that the oligarchies, which no one has voted in Europe, are dedicated to taking decisions very prejudiciales for our peoples, without ever asking our peoples.
It's true that the mass immigration promoted by those same oligarchies is destroying the community, the public services and the identity of our peoples.
It's true that from the hands of that immigration comes the terrorist islamist.
And not like an isolated phenomenon, but like a repetitious cruelty in Europe.
This is precisely for those who want an Islamized Europe, for those who promote or tolerate Islamic tribunals in our own cities, for those who have abandoned the women of Europe, who see how now the sexual agressions are multiplied.
It's true, too, that a mixture of pacifism, of egoism, of suicide and of submissive With that combination, the Europeans have seen how the oligarchs have left indefense to Europe.
Insegure their streets, ruin their borders and insufficient their resources.
And it's true, and in this is the democratic crisis, that the citizens steal the capacity to choose all these issues and at the same time steal the money from their pockets to pay all that disparate.
Esas verdades ya dibujan un escenario muy grave en nuestro continente.
Pero hay algo aún más importante.
Es verdad que en Europa se está persiguiendo la libertad.
En Europa hoy pretenden que todas esas verdades no se puedan denunciar y, por lo tanto, no se puedan remediar los problemas.
Las oligarquías europeas están destruyendo todo lo que hizo a Europa grande alguna vez.
And for that they want to liquidate our freedom, which is the vertebral column of our shared civilization.
Because Europe is the Greek philosophy, the Roman law and the Christian spirituality.
Europe is not the Islamist submission, the woke ideologies or the cancelation culture.
The answer to the truth of the vice president Vance was not expected by a commissioner of the censure.
The vice president Vance came to say that Europe already no accept the freedom of expression.
And the answer to a socialist socialist man was that the speech of Vance is unacceptable.
We applauded it and we thank the thanks because it is true that we have a shared civilization.
And it is not the woke, nor the communist manifest.
Although we've suffered too many times those totalitaries so similar in their forms.
Our civilization is the freedom of expression, the freedom of creation, the freedom of economic and the roots of christianity, because the future is also in those roots.
And it's true that if we want to preserve that civilization, we must change the route.
Alguns we have a lot of time exige it.
And some nations are already getting it with great electoral results.
Because it's true, too, that were politicians who took those decisions.
Politicians with names and names.
And it's enough to change those politicians to change the tenebrous future to which they directed us.
Those politicians, who are now rabies, are working on saying President Trump as enemy of Europe because he puts the interests of the estadounidenses in first place.
Esa acusación es algo que solo se le puede ocurrir a quienes han puesto los intereses de sus ciudadanos en el último lugar.
Son esos políticos los que ahora pretenden llevarnos al conflicto masivo porque no se atreven a reconocer sus errores.
Son esos políticos los que han impuesto a Europa las verdaderas cargas a nuestra economía.
No son los aranceles anunciados por Estados Unidos, que ojalá no lleguen.
The real arancels to the European Union are the Green Pact, the abusive taxes and the woke regulation.
That's our ruin.
And no one has imposed nobody from outside.
They have imposed politicians in Brussels in contra of the will of the European people.
They are the same who were cried when the President Trump has already eight years ago adverted to Europe that Russia was putting on the hands of renunciating to the fossil fuel energy.
The same ones who now cried while hearing the speech of Van.
Literally, the same ones.
And literally, they cried.
And still they cried.
But they don't cry for the dead in Ukraine, whom they have used and whom they have betrayed.
They don't cry for the dead during the pandemic, whose origin they also censured.
They don't cry for the continuous victims of the yihad attacks.
No lloran tampoco por todas las oportunidades que han robado a los jóvenes europeos ni por la inseguridad a la que han condenado a las mujeres europeas.
No lloran por la destrucción de las iglesias ni por los ataques terroristas en los mercadillos navideños.
No, no lloran por nada de eso.
Lloran y patalean porque su incapacidad, su necedad y su traición ya está a la vista de todo el mundo.
They were crying, and still they were crying, because their business, which is not another than the of enriching the world, it has reached its end.
And other things, because the administration Biden, which was filled with the cartels, has ended.
And with that, they were ended the millions of dollars that they repented to spread their policies and ideologies absolutely nefast.
They also because their time has ended.
We can not feel the most limited compassion for those who have been strong with the poor and now they are in the right and true arguments.
But we have to be careful.
Like Sánchez in Spain, the bureaucrats of Brussels are going to be aferring to their in the middle of the country, perhaps because they know that when they don't feel there, they will have to sit down in a bank in front of a judge.
Now they are trying to take us to the total war, the same ones that have left Europe in defense, destroying their industry and their capacity to generate energy.
The same ones that gave Russia the possibility of invading Ukraine.
The same ones that facilitated Putin's aggression, condemning our energy dependence.
Now, the president of my country, Pedro Sánchez, is traveling to Kiev, to Ukraine.
But he won't do it to tell the ucranians that Russia's bombs will pay He himself, yes.
He pays Sánchez, who buys Russia the double of gas that he bought before the war.
And with that money that the populists and the socialists europeans have also financed the war to Putin.
Therefore, we have to leave those Napoleons of Salón, who only know how to provoke wars, whose consequences always pay others, both in terms of economic and in terms of materials.
Europa necesita que se vayan esos napoleones para tener ejércitos fuertes, fronteras inviolables y una industria de defensa.
Necesitamos todo eso.
Hemos visto precisamente en Israel cuál es la verdadera amenaza que enfrentamos.
Y hemos visto también que solo la firme voluntad de Israel para existir le está permitiendo ganar una guerra que no comenzaron ellos.
Europa necesita...
Defenderse.
Necesita defenderse de los planes de quienes llevan el terror a nuestras calles y de quienes empujan esos planes.
Tiene que defenderse de esas oligarquías disfrazadas o de esos oligarcas disfrazados de filántropos como Soros.
Porque hace nueve años ese enemigo de nuestra civilización dijo que la Unión Europea debería recibir un millón de inmigrantes al año.
Nine years later, the European Union received 9 million immigrants.
To achieve it, not only has invested its money through its own own NGOs and bought by bureaucrats, politicians and judges, but also has invested the of your, the of the American and the European contributions.
I think it is a unique case in the history where the people are forced to pay from their own pocket the invasion that the people own.
They now say that Elon Musk is now Because he seeks freedom in social networks and because he has the courage and the right to express his opinions.
The reality is that they're saying, because they don't want to know that they've been to Soros and to the administration of Biden's administration.
Just one last thing about my country.
The first person who visited the corrupt president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, was George Soros, in the Palacio de la Moncloa.
That was published and never been denied by the Gobierno.
However, they never had any problems with the injerencias until now.
These are many the truths that the vice president Vance said in Munich.
We have to start to confront them from the beginning, from the more basic.
We must conquer, before nothing, the liberties that have been taken.
Reconquist the freedom of expression, the freedom of expression, the freedom of expression, the freedom of expression for our industry and for our camp, our capacity to produce energy.
We must also conquer our borders, our identity and the lost security in our streets.
We must conquer the democracy for all citizens and we must conquer the sovereignty of the nations.
And that we are safe.
We're going to do it.
Pese a quien pese y cueste lo que cueste, vamos a reconquistar nuestro futuro.
La época de las tinieblas está llegando a su fin.
Estamos dejando atrás una de las etapas más oscuras del mundo libre.
Sonreamos y sigamos luchando, luchando y luchando.
Muchas gracias.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a conversation with the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Anti-Semitism, Amihai Shikli, and host of The Josh Hammer Show, and author of Israel and Civilization,
Josh Hammer. - So Josh Hammer. - So good afternoon, CPAC.
I'm not sure how many of you saw the images this morning, but we do have to start on a somewhat somber note.
There were these terrible images of babies being returned in coffins from Gaza to Israel this morning there.
And I want to toss it to the Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, who is going to lead us in a moment of silence for these deceased hostages.
So we have experienced one of the most toughest days since the beginning of the war.
It is an extremely difficult day in Israel with the returning of the bodies of Shiri, Kfir, Ariel, Bibas, two little children and their mothers, along with Oded Lifshitz from Kibbutz Niroz.
And I think if we can take a moment of silence before we begin.
Tragically, these images this morning really do set the scene for our broader conversation here.
And first of all, let me just make a brief point.
You guys all heard from Vice President J.D. Vance this morning.
Vice President J.D. Vance said it very well about a month and a half, two months ago, where he said the message should not be bring them home for the hostages.
You know, for decades we've heard this sentence, Israel has the right to defend itself.
But this is obvious, and no other state needs to mention that they have the right to defend itself.
And this administration is coming with a different message, that Israel has the right and it's obliged to eliminate its enemies, to eradicate evil, as Marco Rubio said.
Well, in many ways, Amichai, I think Israel is teaching the West how to win a war, which the West has not really done, frankly, since World War II. But I want to briefly talk about the broader war, which is the war for Western civilization actually itself.
What is Western civilization?
We talk about it here.
To me, Western civilization is basically synonymous with the Bible.
It all ultimately goes back, as we two Jews know all too well, to God's revelation to Moses at Mount Sinai.
When we talk about defending the West, guys, Jews and Christians alike, we're talking about defending those very values and that very way of life.
And Israel is not just the canary in the coal mine for all of these fights, but anti-Semitism itself.
As you know, in your role, it is a direct attack, not just on the Jews, but on all of this, on all of Western civilization.
I think that, you know, President Reagan ended the Cold War.
And we thought that this war ended, but it never ended.
It just wore a different face.
And we saw it in universities all across Europe.
We saw it in universities here in America.
And the woke progressive movement is just another face of the Marxist movement.
And in its truth, this is a godless philosophy that denies the idea of truth.
And when you denies the idea, the concept of truth, there is no good and bad.
There is no right and wrong.
There is no option for moral clarity.
And this is how you can defeat the West.
From within.
That is the effort that's made by the woke progressive movement.
And this is a threat not just for the state of Israel.
This is a threat for America.
And this is a threat for Western civilization.
And I think that we need to restore those very basic values.
And as President Trump says, we want to put God back on the stage.
Because without God...
What is truth?
What is right and wrong and good and bad?
And it all comes from our common values and our common tradition.
And that is, I think, a new era.
And I'm very optimistic that with moral clarity we can achieve amazing things together, Israel and the United States, and lead the free world into a better future.
I think that, you know, it's frightening to expose our kids to the fact that, yes, the monster beneath the bed...
There is evil in this world.
And we want to push away our children and the younger generation to believe that evil does not exist.
We in Israel, unfortunately, even those of us who thought that there is no evil, met evil on its worst option on October 7. We saw evil today in Gaza with the Horrors of how the Hamas celebrated this moment of bringing the Bibas family and Odette Lipschitz.
And I think that we have failed in the recent decades on educating our kids that evil exists and we need to confront and we need to fight and we need to sacrifice.
Something which I think that is also changing, and I'm also optimistic regarding to it, although it costs at a very high price.
Now, with the Iranian regime, in Iran, Khomeini, who started the Iranian revolution, he set America as the great Satan, and Israel as the small Satan.
Iran was, and Iran is an enemy of America.
An enemy of the state of Israel.
And they are very determined in their efforts with their proxies.
And one thing which is amazing that I would like to share with you, we have made a research and we found out that this entire campaign that tries to connect between Israel and genocide in Gaza, which is a ridiculous claim, because what we have in Gaza is A terror regime that seeks to commit genocide on our villages, on our communities.
And what we found out, that this entire campaign started with the Revolutionary Guards posting again and again and again the message, until it got received in the Western Hemisphere in Britain, with also Persian accounts, and then it got spread out, and we can see...
In the research that any time that the trend of the genocide in Gaza is going down, they are pushing more and more tweets from fake accounts, and this is an entire campaign that was led by Iran, and this is the first time that we can share it publicly with you here in SIPAC. So this is a very, very big deal.
I mean, this is an old tactic of the enemies of Western civilization.
The Soviets did it once upon a time, trying to foment civic discord here in the United States, and now we see the face of evil yet again in the face of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
So, Amihai, the good news right now is that we have an administration here, the Trump-Vance administration, that is wholly committed, that is wholly dedicated.
Not just to allowing Israel to fight our mutual enemies, but to actually combating antisemitism as well.
And it's just a timely reminder that we are so blessed, truly.
So blessed to be here at CPAC with good guys in charge, unlike the last four years, to be here at CPAC with guys who understand what the West is and what we stand for.
So I know that you've had some meetings in your time in Washington.
Why don't you just talk a little bit about what it looks like from your perspective, what the administration is currently doing.
So in the past few weeks, this administration has done more to combat anti-Semitism than in the entire past four years.
And I'm speaking about...
First, putting the task force laid by Leon Torrel, which is an amazing individual, an amazing leader, totally committed to combat anti-Semitism.
And I really, we met him this morning, and he's an amazing individual.
I think we're going to see a shift in everything that regards combating anti-Semitism.
Also, the defunding on universities who failed to combat anti-Semitism on universities.
And many more decisions by this administration, and I think that this administration fully gets it.
And it's also worth telling that with the previous administration, not just that almost nothing happened, but the message was so ambiguous, and we saw the IRA definition being undermined.
And I think it was very, very weak.
And you know, actions speak louder than words.
And I think that this administration speaks with actions and not with big words.
And I really love it.
And I think it is also a blessing for the Jewish community, for minorities, and for American people.
And, you know, I wouldn't say Fox has been exactly perfect.
Fox has been a big difference of Fox between now and what it was four years ago, as you know.
But we have others that come along and they're doing well and Newsmax has been really good and, you know, others are coming along and people are seeing that they're watching these conservative networks.
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We had 30-year global life expectancy at birth throughout all of human history.
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From 30 to 73. Two things catalyze that change.
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Bottom-up social organization, what we're all passionate about, and the explosion in available energy from hydrocarbons.
These two things just transformed the human condition.
Not everyone in the world has access to the liberty and energy we have.
But in our own country, both of those concepts have been under great threat in the last four years.
Maybe that's why my political career started.
Liberty under threat, energy resources under threat.
President Trump was elected partially on this very issue.
And he was elected to get rid of the nonsense and bring back common sense.
What do I mean by nonsense?
Look at the last four years.
What have we seen?
Every possible new barrier implemented to make it harder to produce oil and gas.
No, that doesn't change the demand for oil and gas.
You just make it harder to produce.
What do you get?
You get less supply and higher prices.
We've seen 30% rise in electricity prices just in the previous administration.
During President Trump's first term, almost no change.
In national average electricity prices, all of a sudden, a huge rise in electricity prices, rising gasoline, rising energy across the board.
So what was the response to that?
Well, the United States is the dominant producer of natural gas, and we have a booming industry exporting natural gas to our allies around the world.
Well, let's stop that.
Let's ban new permitting of LNG export terminals.
And then to add insult to injury, a whole bunch of Regulations were rolled out to limit your ability to buy the appliances you want.
You may want to buy that appliance, but the new appliance you're allowed to buy costs more and works worse.
My dishwasher has to run for two hours now, and at the end, I've got to clean the dishes.
My clothes dryer works at half the power.
In theory, this is saving energy.
It just takes twice as long to dry our clothes.
These are just nonsensical things that have hurt people's lives and driven prices up.
President Trump came in, and he is strong, and he is bold, and he gets energy.
His goal was, we're going to bring back common sense.
So what's the plan?
Drill baby, drill, and build baby, build.
To produce more energy, you need the infrastructure to move that energy to customers.
Think of the consumers in New England.
They don't have enough access for natural gas there, and they have sky-high electricity prices.
And you don't get industries placed in those states.
Every state that's driven up the price of energy...
It not only impoverishes their citizens, but it makes it so businesses don't want to locate there.
Those businesses are going to locate in another state, and frankly, over the last four years, a lot of those businesses are going to locate in another country.
We don't want that.
We want things built in America.
We want those jobs in America, which means we need that energy produced and consumed in America.
We're on the cusp of a brand new industry, an energy-intensive manufacturing industry called artificial intelligence.
This is an industry we want to lead in.
This is American technology.
It matters not just for the efficiency of our economy, it matters from the enormous benefits that'll come in drug discovery, in product manufacturing, and frankly in driving costs down, and it also matters for national security.
Do we want China to lead the way in AI? I would feel naked.
If their AI was better than ours, what does that say about the balance of power and the security of our country?
We need to lead and win the competition in AI. And the only way to do that is to have tremendous energy production that we can both grow our electricity production, which is what AI runs on, but stop the price rises.
They had almost no demand growth and they raised prices.
This administration needs to do the opposite.
We need to have demand growth and supply growth and not raising prices, everything we can do to push prices down.
That's how we can better human lives.
Better opportunities for Americans, lower cost of living, more industries that want to invest and build things here in the United States.
That is this President's agenda.
And as I dig into my job and my colleagues and other cabinet positions, there is an immense amount of barriers to making things happen.
Our country, it's become a place where it's very hard to build something, and unfortunately, it's very easy to stop something.
One regulation, one protest, our government is littered with inefficiency and traps.
That can be exploited to prevent people from building things.
So the task before us is big.
It's not modest.
It's not simple.
But we have a committed team who are working every day to get these barriers out of the way, let America grow our energy production, build our energy infrastructure, bring jobs and investment back to our country, raise American wages and lower American raise American wages and lower American prices.
And back to those appliances.
Who here is in favor of more expensive, lower-performing appliances?
President Trump, so under this administration, in my department, and actually in many other departments in the Trump administration, we are working feverishly to remove these regulations, to free American producers, to build the appliances people want to buy.
We have a factory in the southeastern part of the United States that employs hundreds of people to build a particularly popular product these days.
It is a tankless water heater powered by natural gas.
It's among the cheapest ways to heat your water, takes the least space, lower cost, burns natural gas, our lowest cost thermal energy we can have in our houses.
It's a win on every box.
That's why they've been selling like hotcakes and are an emerging product.
So what did the Biden administration do?
They see a hot product, all Americans are voting yes.
They passed a regulation that would make that product illegal.
And that company would be dead.
In fact, that company is very fearful for the jobs and opportunity of those workers.
Now, that's hundreds of American jobs.
I care personally about that.
But it's much bigger than that.
It's all Americans would not have available to them a low-cost, efficient option to have hot water for their showers and their washing machines and everything else we use it for.
That's just completely nuts.
But again, President Trump...
Fix that problem.
Fix that problem.
We found a fix, and we are fixing that problem.
That factory staying open, those products are going to be built in mass, and they're going to be shipped all across the country for the American consumers that want to buy them.
We're not going to tell you what to buy.
We want to enable you to buy what you want to buy.
That's that crazy freedom idea.
I'll end with saying, America's back.
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I just left the floor of the United States Senate where I cast my vote to confirm Kash Patel to be our next FBI Director.
It's great to be among so many patriots on this historic day.
Today marks the one-month point exactly that Donald Trump became our president once again, kicking off the Golden Age of America.
Within a short time, we've gotten just a glimpse of the greatness that will define this new era.
President Trump has already rooted out massive waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal bureaucracy, crippling the corruption of the deep state.
He's directed the largest mass deportation operation in American history, making our communities much safer.
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While America is heading toward this golden age at warp speed, we also face a troubling reality.
There are those within our borders who hate America and are working against our own people.
They hate America and everything that she stands for.
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While the left has found a multitude of ways to sabotage our institutions, wokeness has become their primary weapon.
It's a nuke.
meant to obliterate our culture and erode American society.
Wokeness takes fundamental truths, truths that our civilization is founded upon, and perverts them into ungodly anti-American lies.
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Faith in God and historical and biological truths.
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Steamrolling their best interest.
The old Republican Party bowed down to liberal corporate interests and an America-last foreign policy while ignoring the working class.
And ladies and gentlemen, let me declare to you today, that Republican Party is dead.
This is no time for wimpy Republicans.
The new right merges true conservatism with the interest of the people.
President Trump and his administration boldly embody this new Republican Party.
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Speaking on this very stage two years ago, President Trump said, quote, On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden's crazy executive order installing Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion czars in every federal agency.
I will immediately terminate all staffers hired to implement this horrible agenda, end quote.
quote, "I'd say that President Trump has followed through on that promise and a whole lot more." Despite how extensively DEI polluted our institutions, President Trump, with the swipe of a pen, dismantled this Marxist ideology from the halls of our government.
The Education Department under President Trump has been given 14 days to end any practice that treats students differently because of their race or lose federal funding.
That is a huge blow to DEI and a massive win for our kids.
DEI has been uprooted from our military because of Secretary Hegseth and President Trump.
Under Joe Biden, our armed forces were wasting precious time and taxpayer resources running social experiments.
Do you think that China's military is worried about filling diversity quotas and making sure everybody's pronouns and delusions are respected?
Of course not.
And as a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, I can tell you that diversity in and of itself provides no strategic advantage.
In fact, holding up diversity as some kind of moral virtue is a deadly distraction.
Under President Trump, we're rightfully refocusing our military on lethality.
Because that's what keeps Americans safe.
But it's not just the public sector that's purged radical wokeness.
Corporate America is also following suit, bending their knee to common sense.
Google, Ford, Meta, Walmart, and so many other companies, all those companies are decimating their DEI programs.
The culture has shifted away from insanity and back toward objective truth and success based on merit.
It's encouraging to know that our young people are a big part of this corporate shift.
They've grown up being indoctrinated by all of this woke garbage.
But they're the ones who are pushing back the hardest.
They understand that DEI is a fundamental attack on the American dream.
Let me tell you, as a son of a factory worker who grew up in a trailer park, now serving in the United States Senate, that American dream is very personal to me.
It's something that's worth fighting for.
I have three young daughters, and I want them to inherit an America that values their hard work, not one that prejudges them or bases their value off of identity politics.
DEI is the biggest threat to the American dream, but the golden age of America means the death of DEI. Right now, President Trump has his foot on the neck of wokeism and driven a stake through the heart of those who hate America.
But let me tell you, Congress needs to do its job.
We have to reinforce the successes that President Trump and his administration have accomplished.
We need legislation to codify and extend his transformative executive orders.
Leaders in both the House and the Senate must partner with President Trump to help get these wins across the finish line and make them permanent.
The Anti-Woke Caucus is and has been one of those partners.
I'm proud to be the founder of the Anti-Woke Caucus during my time in the House.
I've handed off the role to Congresswoman Harriet Hageman from the great state of Wyoming, who now leads that caucus.
The Anti-Woke Caucus works to expose the cultural rot Introduced by the woke movement and helps to lay the groundwork for much of what the Trump administration is accomplishing today.
It stands against the tide and fights for legislation focused on restoring a merit-based society.
A society that prioritizes free speech, fiscal responsibility, and the rule of law.
And I'd like to mention that a lot of outside organizations, especially the Claremont Institute, have been essential partners in the momentum that we've had.
In 2023, the caucus endorsed the Fairness, Anti-Discrimination, Individual Rights, or the FAIR Act, that prohibited federal government from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin.
And that same year, the caucus supported an amendment that I provided to the Department of Defense that would have prevented federal funds from being used to hire or pay employees who work on DEI at the Pentagon.
That amendment passed the House, but it failed in the Senate.
But now that there are new faces in the Senate, I say it's time that we try again.
Let me close by saying that this recent election in November was a referendum on the status quo.
President Trump has led this country and this town into a new age.
This isn't business as usual in Washington.
We're entering a time of American prosperity and peace that we have never seen before.
It's felt all across the heartland of America.
Working people aren't used to their leaders being honest with them or prioritizing their needs.
But that's what President Trump and the MAGA movement, the new right, the new Republican Party, have achieved.
The cancer of wokeness tried to undermine our national unity and destroy our country, but thank God it failed.
We the people know what makes this country great.
This is the greatest country in the history of the world.
It's always worth fighting for, and I look forward to fighting alongside you to keep this country great.
The yeas are 51. The nays are 49. The confirmation is confirmed.
Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome President of the European Conservative Reformist Party, Mateusz Kulabiecki.
I stand here in front of you as a representative of Europe, a continent which once shaped the world, a great continent, a continent of great explorers and inventors, industrial revolutions, Columbus and Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci and Nikola Tesla.
It was really a great continent and I want this continent to be great again.
Because now this continent is in decline and we stand on the shoulders of those giants, our herds, and we owe this to them and to our children, as J.D. Vance, vice president, said it a couple of hours ago from this place.
We owe this to our children to repair the...
European continent as well.
And we have a great past and we have to fight for a great future.
And it is possible.
We have to fight for a great future as well.
And now, a couple of numbers, figures, they don't lie.
Europe, just 25 years ago, and Europe's GDP. It was bigger than that one of the United States.
Fast forward 25 years later, it's by 50% smaller than that one of the United States.
Industrial production in Germany is 90% of this from 2015. By the way, the industrial production of Poland...
It's on the level of 155% of that one from 2017. So today, Europe stands at a crossroads.
It can rise again or fade into irrelevance.
And we have to rise because we cannot be the weaker partner of the United States.
The challenges all around us...
Are really great and grave and we have to cope with them hard and glove with the United States.
But to do so we must abandon the outdated EU development model.
The Franco-German engine has stalled.
And Brussels' bureaucracy cannot replace real economy.
And climate and migration policy, instead of delivering solutions, have created chaos.
If we fail to change course, Europe is becoming a museum, an open-air museum, you can say.
Or worse, a colony...
of Asian powers.
That's a real threat.
And Europe faces many threats.
Among them, not only a very stupid Green Deal policy.
Illegal migration policy, which actually is an open-door policy for everybody, from Africa, from the Middle East, the Willkommenskultur of Germany.
Totally wrong.
But also It suffocates the free speech and it also fights with very poor defence system.
If we do not fix these internal failures, we will have even bigger challenges to deal with because Russia, the illegal migration, China and Islamic terror is just next door, behind the corner.
Right now, bureaucracy is killing Europe.
I tell you, Europe used to award ambition once upon a time.
Now it awards compliance.
We need a renaissance of the European industry.
We need a program designed and crafted in Europe 2040. Exactly like the made in America, made in China as well.
But we don't have it.
The EU was built on economic cooperation and freedom.
And today, every entrepreneur, every innovator, every visionary faces an army of regulators.
That's Europe.
They don't build.
They don't support.
They punish.
They restrict.
They require ESG or DEI. Or another acronyms.
This is what is happening across Europe.
So we see this weakness of the European Union in the AI. We have the thickest AI rule books and we have the strictest AI regulations, but meanwhile we don't have AI in Europe, unfortunately.
We also, we can see...
This very weakness of the European Union in our industry.
Energy prices are soaring.
Vice President J.D. Vance was dead right saying that we have to lower the prices of energy.
I envy so much your program Drill Baby Drill.
We'll look for one in Europe.
Because factories are shutting down, carbon leakage everywhere, mass layoffs.
In Europe, yet European elites push towards unrealistic climate policies instead of securing the economic strength and economic growth.
We also see this European weakness in the area of freedom.
The European Commission speaks of democracy while silencing dissent.
They manipulate elections.
You've heard about what's happened in Romania.
My friend George Simeon from Romania is here with us.
And they fight with all the Republican movements, including my political camp.
You might have heard about the Hudson Institute report, quite recently published.
What red lines were crossed?
What rubicons were crossed?
Attack on democracy.
Attack on free speech.
Attack on opposition.
Putting opposition members in jail.
Exactly what Vice President J.D. Van said in Munich is happening in my homeland.
What is this?
Is this democracy?
The liberal leftist...
Government and liberal-left organizations receiving money from the European Commission, receiving money from USAID, NED, the Soros Foundation.
They were furnished, they were supported from all over the place.
So how our presidential candidate, and we have the presidential election three months from today.
How he can fight on level playing field with all the propaganda coming from outside, with the Russian disinformation and manipulation coming from the East, and all the leftist money coming from the West.
That's really difficult.
And I tell you, in three months from today, the presidential elections will be after the first round.
It is a very critical moment for Poland.
Depending on who is going to win, our beloved country will go towards the Republican values or leftist liberal values or anti-values, I should have said.
My government was punished for standing up to Brussels.
EU recovery funds were blocked.
And this was...
Against all the rule of law in Poland.
And it weakened also, the European Union weakened its own economy through overregulation and demanding even more Green Deal, even more illegal migration, even more woke and wokeness.
And it left itself defenseless by cutting military expenditures.
While demanding more strategic autonomy.
How they connect the dots on the picture, I don't know.
European elites live in a fantasy.
They speak of strategic autonomy while dismantling their own defence industries.
You know what's the biggest stupidity in the European Union?
The one which is going to be described in the future history books.
The European Union created Four new major industries, but not in Europe, in China.
Wind turbines, solar panels, 98% of solar panels produced in China.
Electric vehicles, 60% of electric vehicles produced in China.
And electric batteries, all furnished and supported with the European money.
Stupid thing.
And Poland shows there is another way.
So, dear friends, come to Poland.
We have a very strong GDP growth, around 40% for over the decade.
Come to Poland.
No illegal migration.
At least until I was Prime Minister.
Because my successor, He opens the door.
He is not even reacting when the German police is pushing the illegal migrants who got to Germany and pushing them back to Poland.
So right now you can feel very secure in Poland.
But what will happen in a couple of years time if they continue their mad policy?
I don't know.
So come to Poland if you want to see a country ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with your great country, with the United States.
But why is Poland safe and strong?
Because we have rejected the European self-destruction policy.
And this is why I'm so much concerned these days.
My successor as Prime Minister is a very pro-German, pro-Brazilian politician.
He doesn't understand geopolitical challenges around us.
And he can destroy this very Poland, which we love.
We cannot allow him to do this.
I refuse to accept Europe's decline.
While I was Prime Minister, Poland grew On average, around four percentage points.
And we had a period of time when we were catching up with Germany and the other Western European countries as the fastest pace in our history.
Thank you.
And history is unforgiving to those who remain passive.
So we have to really fight.
Shoulder to shoulder to regain free Poland.
We have to fend off all those leftist and liberal ideological tendencies.
We have to unleash our economies.
Deregulation means not chaos.
It means unleashing our potential.
And this is what has to be done.
Regulation red tape all over the place in Brussels.
This is mad policy of Brussels.
The greatest technological revolutions happened not because government allowed those to happen, but because government stepped back.
Second, we have to defend our sovereignty.
So no more blackmail from the European Commission.
No more juristocracy.
Do you have juristocracy here in the States?
We have it all over the place in Europe.
And in Poland, it's crazy.
Third, we have to rebuild our defense.
And Poland is dedicating more than four percentage points on defense.
It's the country where...
While I was able to repair the public finances and the Polish budget, I have left the Polish budget in a very good state.
And my successors are trying to take credit for this.
And we are spending 4.5%, 4.7% on defense because we know how important this is.
Europe created The first universities.
The first modern economies.
The strategies that shaped history.
Now we must awaken that spirit again.
The spirit of inventors.
The spirit of ambition.
The spirit of courage and determination.
On top of the already existing difficulties, problems, we have this huge war in Ukraine.
Well, I'm glad he did it, and I want to tip my hat to Leader Thune and the Senate Republicans.
They're getting the job done.
The Trump cabinet is being confirmed.
We need that.
President Trump needs his team in place, and I'm really grateful that they're moving as quickly as they are, and they're setting a good pace, and so far, so far, so good.
There's more than 20 districts that President Trump came within five points of winning.
So we've got a great landscape to go out and play offense, not defense, but offense, to flip those seats into our column.
And on top of that, we had an historic demographic shift in the election cycle.
We all saw it happening.
We had a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters, black and African-American voters, Jewish voters, union workers, all these groups that had not traditionally been in the Republican Party.
But on the sheer force of Donald Trump's persona, they came into the party, and they're going to be with us for quite some time, because now we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity, Rob, to demonstrate for these people that it truly is our conservative policies that are better for them, that leads to human flourishing.
It's better for individuals, families, communities, states, and the nation as a whole.
They're exposing this massive fraud, waste, and abuse that we have not been able to uncover because the deep state has hidden it from us.
This is a revolutionary kind of moment.
It really is.
And I told Elon in his office Monday before last, I said, you think of this like a scientist and a data analyst, and I think of it like a constitutional law attorney and a historian.
Elon, what we're going to do here is bring back the founder's original intent for the federal government, right?
The founders wanted a lean, small federal government.
They wanted most of the power pushed down to the states, as you know, and they wanted the federal government to be closely monitored by the duly elected representatives of the people in Congress.
The problem is, Congress has not been able to do that job because they've been hiding the evidence, hiding the ball.
Elon's on the inside, and that's why the Democrats are so nervous.
It's been remarkable to see the Department of Government Efficiency.
That's what DOGE stands for.
Department of Government Efficiency, and Democrats are almost in this un-American position right now of being against their primary mission, which is to save the American taxpayer money, which to me doesn't make any sense.
And what I've explained, I've done two panels at two different events this morning.
I started the Republican Governors Association.
They asked me about this.
And I went to the big business leaders, Fortune 500 executives there.
They all want to know the same thing.
What is President Trump doing there?
I said, you've got to give him room to operate and do what he does.
He's doing a level set, right?
You've got to get both parties to come.
And bring about an end to this conflict, which will serve America's interest and everybody's interest around the world.
But I think of it very much like a mediation or arbitration.
If you're a lawyer, you know, I'm a recovering lawyer.
Forgive me if I think of those terms.
But when you start a mediation, you start an arbitration between two parties, you don't bring them into the room for that first meeting.
You do it separately.
So I think Zelensky complaining that he wasn't invited to the first meeting with Saudi Arabia and Russia is misplaced.
I mean, what Trump's trying to do is do a level set, put the conditions in place for that real negotiation to happen, and we've got to allow him to do what he does.
So the beauty of reconciliation, and I don't want to get too deep in the weeds on the procedure, but normally you need a 60-vote threshold in the Senate to do anything of substance, but budget reconciliation is the one exception to the process where you only need 51 votes in the Senate, a bare majority.
So we're going to use this reconciliation process to achieve...
Most of the priorities that we ran on in the election cycle and that President Trump, that's right, committed to.
So I could be here a long time listing all those things, but clearly it's the most important interest of the country.
We're going to secure that border once and for all.
We're going to do that.
We're going to get the economy going again, American economy going.
Make sure that we don't have the largest tax increase in U.S. history, which is what would happen by default at the end of this year if we fail in this mission, because the TCJA, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act extensions expire, the cuts expire.
We're going to get the economy going.
We're going to get back to American energy dominance in this bill.
And we're going to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state.
Get the bureaucracy back in check.
Lots of details, lots of subcategories under all that, but it's going to be a big, beautiful bill, and it has to be by necessity, because that gives us the highest probability of success, remembering that I have a small margin in the House.
What is your working dynamic like with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who for the first time in a long time, the Senate's got a bigger majority than the House right now.
Mr. Speaker, there was some reporting this week that the Democrats are planning what they're calling a super ticket in 2028, Kamala Harris and AOC. Are you prepared for that?
Well, he wasn't the leader for the last four years.
They really are in a real bind.
They don't have a leader.
They don't have a vision.
They don't have a platform they can run on.
They have to do a whole-cloth reinvention of the party.
But they're very divided right now because they're in the blame game as they do the autopsy of what happened in the election cycle.
So it's an interesting time.
Look, our party's in great shape right now.
We are very unified.
We have a broadened coalition.
That's exactly right.
And we have the principles and the policies that truly are better for the American people.
I think they've recognized that.
You know what happened in the last four years, Rob, is that the woke progressive left tried so hard, they moved so aggressively, so quickly, to swing that pendulum to the left, and it went all the way to the left, and it clicked.
And now it's coming back, right?
We are a center-right country.
We always have been.
We always will be.
And I think President Trump is seen as a force helping us to push that pendulum back in place.
So we're going to seize that historic moment.
And I believe we can bring about a much better outcome for the people and for the country.
Elon Musk tweeted yesterday, quote, the real reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements is that they're using taxpayer money to attract and retain illegal immigrants, their future voters.
Is that what you think the last four years at both our borders has been all about?
He's working with great leaders like Elon Musk to bring efficiency back to Washington.
And the Democrats are complaining like crazy, but he's changing Washington in record time.
He's bringing the voice of the American people back to Washington.
President Trump is making America great again.
Now, what's he deserve here?
He deserves our thanks and our respect.
But what's he get instead?
He gets lies and obstruction for the Democrats, the mainstream media, and even some establishment Washington Republicans desperately clinging to relevance.
Mitch McConnell supports Merrick Garland's nomination for Attorney General.
He's already voted against three of President Trump's Cabinet nominees.
AOC, she's yelling about fascism.
CNN is blaring that the Trump administration is a threat to democracy and ushering a constitutional crisis.
President Trump and an army of supporters like you all across this great country started a movement.
One that changed the country and reset our future for a golden era.
The future is about you and your hopes and your dreams.
It's about us.
It's about amplifying the voices of the American people.
And finally...
Finally, finally, given the government they're paying for and that they deserve.
Now, a couple years ago, in the midst of Joe Biden's disastrous presidency, or whoever was in charge, I put out a plan with some ideas to rescue this country from the radical Democrats who are trying to destroy our values and bankrupt us in the process.
Now, the way the Democrats And establishment Republicans responded, you would have thought I broke the law.
The craziest part of it, I couldn't tell who hated it more, Joe Biden or Mitch McConnell.
Now think about it.
I proposed some really crazy ideas, so just think about these.
Teach your students about the U.S. Constitution.
That's a hard one.
The Bill of Rights, our founding fathers.
Have their kids recite the pledge of allegiance and salute the flag.
Eliminating the Department of Education.
Banning the federal government from asking American citizens to disclose their race or skin color on government forums.
Funding our police and enforcing all of our laws.
Securing the border, build the wall, name the wall after Donald Trump.
Start growing the American economy, not the Washington economy.
Enacting term limits for member of Congress and federal bureaucrats.
Protecting the integrity of the American election.
defending, promoting the American family at all cost.
Believing in science, Guess what?
Men are men.
Women are women.
Unborn babies, they're babies.
Sorry, Democrats.
I was tarred and feathered for proposing such crazy ideas.
But it was worth it, because it was time for Republicans, at least the true, honest, conservative Republicans, to stand up and fight the hell back.
Now, here in Washington, we're seeing what truly fighting back gets us.
The bureaucrats are scared that their lives are being exposed.
The muddy spigot is being turned off.
NGOs across the world and liberal think tanks around the world are scrambling because their golden goose has finally laid its last egg.
Corporate America is tripping over itself to reverse racist DEI programs that seek to divide us by race, gender, and creed.
Now, fighting back gets us a government that's listening, an administration that's focused on a stronger future, a president that really cares.
Who truly fights for us and who will not accept the status quo any longer.
Now, let me say what I said a few years ago when I introduced my plan to rescue our country.
Failure is not an option.
The future of this country depends on each and every one of us and the actions we take today, tomorrow, and the months to come.
Now, I've got grandkids.
Many of you in this room and watching on TV, you've got kids and grandkids as well.
In America, we used to believe we had a duty, a sacred duty, to leave things better for our children and our grandchildren than we found them.
$2 trillion deficits.
$36 trillion in debt.
Medicare and Social Security going bankrupt.
Failing schools.
High crime rates.
It means that hasn't happened.
Instead, our political and cultural rot has made things harder for our kids and our grandkids than they were for each of us.
It's harder to get a good education now than it was when I was growing up.
It's harder to buy a home.
It's harder to start a business.
It's harder to get a good, full-paying job.
It's harder to live the American dream.
That's wrong.
That cannot be our legacy.
Those of us fighting side by side in the conservative movement have faced significant obstacles, even, unfortunately, inside our own party.
But you and we have kept fighting.
We have to fight harder now.
We have the opportunity, but it takes our fight.
Now, we all watched what happened in Butler.
We all saw President Trump stand up and raise his fists at what he did.
God bless the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
And God bless this great country.
Have a great day.
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Bye-bye.
AARP really watching out for these days.
They've made billions partnering with big health insurance corporations while opposing reforms seniors want, like applying big discounts to medicines directly at the pharmacy counter.
Instead, AARP supports liberal price-setting schemes, giving politicians, not seniors, control over any so-called Medicare savings.
With no guarantees, funds won't be spent on unrelated...
On February 3rd, 2025, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Besant signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund committing to monetizing the assets of the United States balance sheet.
Meanwhile, the Bank of England is running out of gold.
So desperate, they're paying 16% a month just to borrow it.
And where is all of that gold going?
Right here to the United States, with a drastic increase in metal shipments to CME COMEX vaults.
Is President Trump preparing to repatriate and monetize America's gold?
Elon Musk and former Congressman Ron Pohl through Doge are planning an audit of the gold in Fort Knox.
And on March 1st, President Trump's 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico will take effect, which is major news for the silver market since 80% of all refinery-bound silver comes from Mexico.
With American silver refineries already facing a three-month backlog, this could send prices soaring overnight.
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Laws get dusted off, and we ended Big Tech's antitrust amnesty, where we want to use antitrust, which is law enforcement.
to go after these trillion dollar big tech monopolists who they have too much power and they use that power for bad things and they're anti-competitive.
And we saw that the Trump 45 Justice Department started this.
I always said that the only thing that the Biden administration did right was they continued President Trump's antitrust enforcement under the Biden Antitrust Division.
And we're seeing with President Trump that he is fully committed to finishing the job with antitrust.
You see this with his appointment of Andrew Ferguson to chair the Federal Trade Commission.
And we're seeing this with President Trump's pick of Gail Slater to lead the antitrust division.
And it's critically important because these trillion-dollar big tech monopolists, they crush competition.
They shutter small businesses and they cancel conservatives and others with whom they disagree.
And I'll tell you, the tip of the spear in this fight has been Senator Schmidt from Missouri.
He has been a warrior against big tech.
And so I'm very pleased to talk to him today about these issues.
And I just want to start this off, Senator, to just get your thoughts on antitrust and big tech generally and what you think needs to happen.
Well, I think, great to be with you, and great to be back at CPAC. What a great crowd.
And this feels a lot different now that we won in November than it did just a couple years ago, doesn't it?
There's a new sheriff in town.
So, yeah, I think that for most people, especially people in this room and conservatives, they have seen, Mike, over the last four years in particular, what happens when you have these massive concentrations of power.
And you see that sort of collide with this fundamental belief that we have as conservatives that when we're born, we're born with certain rights.
And those rights come from God.
And the first one that's mentioned in our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, is the right to speak your mind.
This idea of fundamental human expression, right?
And government's only role is to make sure it protects those rights.
Like, the foundation of the country.
And we believe that.
So when you have these massive companies, then, that infringe upon that right, and sometimes with the behest, at the behest of the federal government, it's a scary situation.
In my previous job, before this one, I was Attorney General for the Free State of Missouri.
It was a great gig.
I loved it.
And we launched the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit, which turned into Murphy versus Missouri.
But you've got to remember, so I think it's important to sort of go back in time.
In 2021, 2022, really before Elon Musk had bought Twitter, before Jim Jordan was holding hearings, we filed this lawsuit.
And it's interesting.
Jen Psaki, you've got to go back.
This is COVID, forced masking, forced vaccinations.
The real raw power of the federal government was on display.
And Jen Psaki was standing there up at the podium saying, yeah, we're flagging this for Facebook.
They need to take this down.
They wanted to start a disinformation governance board.
Remember Mary Poppins who was singing, what was her name?
But she's singing about how great it is and this disinformation must be taken down by the government.
So you saw this, when we filed the lawsuit, we got discovery before the temporary restraining order.
That ultimately went to the Supreme Court.
And what we found was shocking.
We had an idea of what was happening, but could have never been prepared for what we found, which was high-level government officials working directly through a secret portal with the big tech companies at Facebook, at Twitter, saying, take this down.
This is misinformation.
You need to take this down.
And them saying, okay, what else can we do?
They were also threatening.
Threatening to take away Section 230 protections if they didn't do more censorship.
So as this unfolded, it really, I think, showed to the world and to this country the real risk of these concentrations of power, with the federal government working directly with big tech giants to censor speech.
And I think this is the fight.
This is the fight long-term for us.
The Democrats, the liberals even, have ceded this ground, the high ground of defending your right to speak your mind.
And so as conservatives, I think we should own this issue.
It's the right thing to do.
And clearly, American people, I think, watched all this the last four years, and they sent back President Trump to fix it.
I think people need to understand the whole point of antitrust is to protect the free market, right?
When you have these trillion-dollar monopolists using their market power to crush competition, you no longer have a functioning market.
You no longer have a free market, and that's why antitrust laws that have been on the books are so critically important to break up this power, because if you're a free market conservative like we both are, you should strongly support antitrust law enforcement.
You are targeting the anti-competitive tumors on the free market, so you don't need industry-wide regulation.
Facebook is calling for regulation.
Of course they are, because they're a big company.
And they can afford to pay for the lawyers and the lobbyists and the PR people to navigate those regulations.
Those are entry barriers to startup competitors.
And I would say this, remember this about Google and YouTube.
If Google competed against YouTube instead of acquired YouTube...
There's no chance that Google would be censoring half of America based upon their political viewpoints.
Google would be competing with YouTube for conservative users, not trying to censor them.
I think in Google in particular, there's been a lot of attention.
I mean, thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter and X, and it really is a platform.
It really is a platform.
But Google is really the ultimate black box.
That algorithm, like if you're a business or whatever, or you're a political candidate, there's a huge difference between you being on page one of the search and page 12 of the search, right?
And nobody gets to see the wizard right now.
Nobody gets to see it.
So I think some of these, the litigation as it relates to Google is really important to sort of bust that up so you have real competition.
When you go on Google and look for things online, that's their search monopoly.
The bigger problem is Google has an online advertising monopoly.
They use the money they make with their online advertising monopoly to fund their censorship.
All their woke nonsense that they do is because they have this online Advertising monopoly.
And you're seeing lawsuits right now, again, started under Trump, to Biden's credit, continued under Biden.
We need to finish the job with Trump's antitrust law enforcers, like Gail Slater at the Antitrust Division.
Another problem you're seeing with these big tech platforms is something like NewsGuard, right, where they rate news services in schools, like libraries and classrooms, and of course, they give conservative...
News organizations like Newsmax or Fox News or Breitbart, they give them lower grades, and so kids don't have access to conservative news sites.
They get the liberal news sites like CNN and MSNBC, and that needs to end as well because, again, they're trying to control information and commerce in this country, and we just cannot let this happen.
Well, I think the other thing that's happening, too, and we saw it, Which is why, you know, it's such a great opportunity for us now with having President Trump in the White House, having a Republican House, having a Republican Senate, because we can actually put some structural safeguards in place, too.
For example, you know, Section 230 protections, what is that?
Back in the 90s, when the Internet was sort of becoming a thing, what Congress said was, okay, you're going to be sort of immune from liability because you're a platform.
People can go on there.
As long as it's an open platform, you can't be sued for what somebody else says.
And the idea was to have this democratization of information.
What it didn't ever contemplate was that they would then be themselves sort of the censors.
And so I think, by way of legislation, you've got to pick.
You're either going to be an open platform, or you're going to be a publisher who can get sued like 60 Minutes ought to get sued for the nonsense that they did to President Trump in the interviews.
So, they've got to pick a team.
And also, if you're a bureaucrat and you work to censor Americans, you ought to be able to be sued individually by a citizen, so it doesn't take an attorney general to have to go do that.
You as an army of Americans can sue the censors.
That would change, I think that would really change the incentive structure, which would be really important.
And I can't miss the opportunity to point out, Just how exciting, as Mike and I and all of you believe, you know, the founders believed in this system of checks and balances where we have, you know, power is spread out among the branches, you have federalism.
The whole intent was so that no one branch or no one person could ever get so powerful to take your liberty away, right?
That's the whole idea.
The whole point is to protect individual liberty.
They could have never contemplated the administrative state as it currently is right now.
This army of bureaucrats in buildings, by the way, they don't even show up to work anymore.
About 6% of people are actually in the offices here in Washington, D.C. on any given day.
But they have immense power over your lives, right?
Over your lives.
They can take away your liberty in some cases.
They can take away your livelihood.
And so, what President Trump is embarking on, and you see just the histrionics every day, the Democrats are losing their minds because of Doge and these efforts to strip away that power.
And they should.
They should because the people of this country elected one person to run the executive branch.
And he gets to make decisions on personnel and on policy.
And you don't get to send millions of dollars to Guatemala for sex changes and think you're immune from having that money stripped away.
I think Mark Zuckerberg donated a million dollars.
We appreciate that.
It was a fun party.
But Mark Zuckerberg spent, what, 400 million dollars chasing President Trump out of office in 2020. So, 400 million dollars versus a million dollars.
I think he has a lot of catching up to do, and I don't think that he's going to buy antitrust amnesty from the Trump 47 Justice Department or the Trump 47 Federal Trade Commission.
We've had these antitrust lulls on the books for 100 years, and to these trillion-dollar big tech platforms.
Yeah, and I think one other, with the time we have left, I just mentioned one other thing to kind of look out for.
On the Judiciary Committee, I was telling Mike, I chair the Constitution Subcommittee.
So we have jurisdiction over the First Amendment, the Second Amendment.
So get ready.
We're going to have some fun hearings and bring people in and hold people to account for trying to take away your right to speak your mind.
So whoever's watching this, who engaged in that activity, Stay tuned.
But also, what's happening with Doge right now, and it was so smart to start with USAID, where you had all of this money flowing to DEI programming in Burma and LGBTQIA plays in Europe and LGBTQ Sesame Street in Iraq.
I mean, this is totally insane, but that's where this money was going.
But it was funneled effectively through these NGOs.
The Biden administration was also using these NGOs to bring mass migration into this country, to break up our sovereignty as a country, and they were also using it to help flag things for their vast censorship enterprise.
And so I think we're going to do some investigating on who these NGOs are.
And if you want to know why the Democrats...
If you want to know why they're objecting so much to this, there is a lot of corruption that's going to be exposed.
Senator Schmidt has been a warrior in the Senate for President Trump's cabinet picks and others, and Cash Patel was just confirmed today as our next FBI director.
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The whole of the British establishment wanted us to be members of the globalist European Union.
All the parties, all the big businesses, all the trade unions.
And it was almost me alone.
Saying, this is a crazy idea.
We want control of our sovereignty, our borders, and our identity back with the British people.
And for daring to say that, they made my life hell.
But the tough times I went through are as nothing compared to what they put Donald J. Trump through.
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Endless court cases, mainstream media abuse, harassment of his family, debanking from some of the worst financial institutions, assassination attempts.
And yet this man has come through it braver, stronger, wiser than at any point.
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It rather reminded me of my times in the European Parliament.
A decade ago, getting up saying the bloke had the charisma of a damp rag, and that rather upset them.
But JD was right to have allowed millions of undocumented young males to come into Europe, many from war zones in which they took an active part, to allow those people who come in, and in many cases come from cultures and countries, Where women are not even treated as second-class citizens.
To have seen the massive increases in crime, gang crime, dramatic increases in sexual crime against women.
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He called them out in this speech.
And he was right.
He was right.
He also mentioned free speech.
And I think he's a third figure in American public life now.
Well, I think he's a hero.
Because if you remember 2020, in November, you couldn't say anything about the conduct of the election in this country.
You then couldn't say anything about vaccines.
Or about lockdowns, without social media closing you down.
And then along came the hero of free speech, Elon Musk.
Fantastic.
And he's fighting for free speech.
And boy, if we don't have free speech, we're not living in a free, open, democratic society.
It matters that much.
And I believe That the talents of the world's most successful businessman going into this amazing Doge project, I wish him all the luck in the world and Godspeed.
But in 2016, we delivered a political thunderbolt across the whole world, and it was called Brexit.
And I believe that a wave crossed the Atlantic and helped Donald Trump win the presidency in November 2016. Well, this time,
the Trump win has the ability not just to save your country, not just to make you freer and more prosperous than America has ever been, because undoubtedly that is what What is going to happen?
But it's also producing a wave that is now coming the other way, across the Atlantic.
I had been retired from politics for nearly four years, but I decided last June I'd get back into politics because I couldn't bear what was happening in my country.
And I am now leading, and in historical terms this is incredible, I am now leading Reform UK and we are now topping every opinion poll in Britain.
And we are going to win the next general election and save our country.
And what you guys have done, what CPAC, what the activists have done in helping President Trump win 85% of the counties in this great country of yours, to win the House, the Senate, the majority vote, all those things you've done, the confidence of this man surrounded by a great, great team, this is all going to blow back and help us in our endeavours.
And across the rest of Europe, too.
And I really believe that, like you, British taxpayers have had enough of sending £100,000 to Bangladesh to study shrimp behaviour.
But we've had enough of free speech being cracked down upon.
We've had enough of two-tier policing, two-tier justice, different groups of people being treated differently by the law.
We've had enough of being told, you can't say that.
The hell with it.
Within the limits of what free speech gives us, we should be allowed to say whatever the hell we want.
And we will.
And we will.
We will deport those.
Who come into Britain by dinghy illegally.
We will make sure that those to come to Britain legally subscribe to our shared values.
In fact, in many ways, what we're fighting for is a very similar agenda to the one that you've just fought for and the one that you have just succeeded with.
I want to finish by saying, as a regular at CPAC and as somebody who was publicly Supported President Trump and been a friend of his for a decade.
This is a remarkable CPAC coming together.
This is something to celebrate in style, to be proud of.
You're going to make America great again and we in turn will make Britain great again.
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