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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.
About justice and mercy, sin and grace.
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.
It's so obvious.
It's articulated in Scripture.
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.
But it is perverse for our political elite constantly to prioritize the whims and desires of foreigners over the needs of citizens.
A nation without a proper concern for its own well-being can never in the long run be good to anyone else anyway.
This is why when we're on the airplane, they say, put your own mask on before you help others.
You need...
To have things in order.
For decades, our uniparty elite have told us we have two options when it comes to charity and the common good.
We can either erase our national borders, or we can try and fail to build democracies in the Middle East.
Or we could do both, I guess.
Those were our options.
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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.
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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.