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Sept. 2, 2024 - The Lindell Report - Mike Lindell
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The Lindell Report | 2 SEPTEMBER 2024
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My pillow guy, Mike Lindau.
He is the greatest.
My pillow guy, Mike Lindau.
And he's been with us right from the beginning.
My name is Dr. Cornel Darden Jr.
I'm the head of the Illinois Black Republican Caucus.
I want to thank you all for coming out today.
We have Mr. Tyrone Muhammad here with us.
I know a lot of you guys know him as well.
Mr. Charles William, our sixth war committeeman, and a lot of you guys came with the ninth war committeeman,
Mr. Waylon Johnson.
We really appreciate you all guys being here.
And, you know, I know a lot of you guys voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and I'm with Team Trump.
So we're here to support Trump today.
We want to save our country.
We want to get investment in our communities, and we want to make sure that America is great.
And what we're doing, the purpose of it, I wanted to have this event, just the whole country watching, because I was just at the DNC yesterday.
I went in, I tricked them, I went and shaved my mustache.
Y'all have seen that, right?
So they didn't know it was me, but they knew the voice, okay?
So, but I got in there and it's like, The brainwashing that's went on for a long time, and then I wanted the country to see, you know, you guys have all been in one place, and now you're in another place.
And that's what they, everybody needs to hear that.
I know, you know, for myself, you can do this in anything.
Back when I was a crack cocaine addict, my friends and everything, we were in the middle of the streets of Minneapolis, and when a couple of us quit, We were able to bring the others over.
We were going to be questioning you all today.
You know, you voted for Biden, and now why would you be switching to Donald Trump?
What made you switch, or what made you think in your head, you know, things will be better?
Because I guess you did have, you got it up to December of 2019, and things were a lot better, the decisions that were made by what I'd say is our real president.
So what we're going to do, we're going to bring one person up here and they'll be interviewing you all and asking you the questions.
And then I'll be going around and if you have questions for the audience or you want to comment on what they're saying, we'll do that too.
Well, let's get in it.
Tell us who you are.
Well, my name is Tyrone Muhammad.
I'm the Executive Director for an organization called ECCSC, that's Ex Cons for Community and Social Change.
And I'm here today because With the systemic disinvestment in Chicago that we've been dealing with, with the migrant crisis, as well as the violence that has plagued our communities, we have come to a realization that we have to do something different.
And, you know, with over 80 million, I want the people to really understand this, over 80 million or so returning citizens and justice-involved individuals throughout America.
We have been, for 60 years, our people have, black people in particular, have voted hook, line, and sinker for the Democratic Party.
Our mothers, grandmamas, aunties, friends, loved ones, and even here in Chicago, while they talk about Trump on a national level, Illinois is not a, and Chicago is not a Republican-led city.
So all the disinvestment and us watching, our communities watching, billions get poured into non-citizens, into migrants.
We're watching all of the lack of, the unemployment rate is constantly increasing.
Ages 18 to 24 year old young men, over 60% unemployed in Chicago, led by Democrats.
As a returning citizen, as a person who deals with the violence prevention in this city, and the public safety aspect, and we've been able to put over 400 ex-felons to work, we're saying that, you know what, it's clear that the Democrats don't have an answer to fix this systemic disinvestment that has plagued our communities.
So ex-cons, For Trump, that's who, so we decided that's what we gonna do.
With all the returning citizens, looking for opportunity.
See, in Chicago, it seems to be graveyards and prisons.
That's the only lot for black men and boys in this city.
And black women are the fastest growing population of prison now, in Illinois.
And we seek to do something about it, and we think that with Trump passing the First Step Act, That released and released a lot of the prisons from overcrowdedness as well as the tax burden on our communities because of the Clinton 94 crime bill.
So yesterday I saw you down at the DNC.
Yes, sir.
I see the shirt.
How is your message being received?
Maybe there's some good-hearted Democrats that are receptive to what you're saying.
What's the temperature out there?
Well, you know, some of our people are still in a slave state of mind, a comatose state of mind as it relates to the Democratic Party.
They find it uneasy.
But once you explain away and begin to break the surface of what it is, especially for a returning citizen, most guys that's been to prison, they're more conservative in their notions of survival and everything.
We're not looking for white men.
We're not looking for passive politicians and Democrats to save us.
We're saying to our president, we believe that President Trump Can I ask something?
more capable and able to give us what we need, the resources in our community, so
we as black men can can provide for our communities, our families. Yes.
Believe me everybody, this goes on in every every city in the country, most of
the Democrat controlled ones.
But I want to ask you, if everybody can rewind their head to December of 2019, before the virus, okay?
Did you see what Donald Trump had done, had manifested to help you at that time?
Absolutely.
Okay, that's what I want to hear about.
Absolutely.
We can, I mean, everybody that I know can attest that under the Trump administration, and I'm talking black men, because ultimately we have to take care of the black, the family.
Black men have to be put back in the households.
And the terroristic effect of gang drugs and violence on our women and children is just running rapid.
And oftentimes with an unemployment rate that low, you know, It's inevitable, right?
Survival, you know, dictates that.
And we're just saying that now that we've woken up, awakened, and out of our sleeping state, to say that, listen, it's not that we even know, a lot of us even know Trump.
We're asking Trump to come in our community and reveal himself, but he's been in the places that Kamala Harris has been.
You understand what I'm saying?
At least we know he's accessible, his surrogates are accessible.
Well, and you have proof of concept.
He's done it already.
He's already done it.
That's really important.
And I was just at the DNC yesterday, you know, all day in there.
But I felt it was almost like a sadness, like hopelessness, joylessness.
And I think, what do you say to anyone out there that's been where you were, that's been, you know, before Donald Trump came in and, you know, the brainwashing that went on.
Hey, we're going to do this for the community.
We're going to do this.
And they never did it.
I mean, why are people's eyes still so closed and shut?
See, and that's a great question.
Because you would think that... We talked about this at the RNC.
Right.
It's like an abuser, right?
Although it's domestic violence happening.
Sometimes those people caught up in a domestic violence situation don't have a place to go.
They're traumatized by their abuser and they feel entrapped in that relationship.
And then there's, and the problem with the Republican Party is that when you see all the disinvestment and dissatisfaction, they don't put enough resources to capture that so that the black voters who have, who think that by Turning to a different party, the resources, the housing vouchers, the link cards, the different, I call it, slave crumbs that they give us to keep us.
With our hands always bagging, never being enough to serve our community.
Once you deal with that, then the card is depleted.
You need more resources and money.
But then we send migrants with $7,000 to $10,000 on their link cards.
And while we're suffering and starving.
Do you all agree to that over here?
Here it is!
Let me ask you a question.
We talked about my life.
I come from an interracial family from the hood.
My brother was murdered by a police officer in 2017.
When we talk about what happens in the black community, you have leaders that are in the black community that are telling you what's wrong as the knife is being twisted inside of you.
So you're in pain.
There's a lot of people that feel invisible in the inner city.
There's no opportunity.
The schools don't...
Don't offer the same thing that they offer in urban environments or outside the city.
They're always talking about higher education, but they spend nearly 40 to 50 percent on administrators that are in a tall building when even the high schools don't have air conditioning.
That's right.
So the very thing that you're trying to achieve inside of the community, that school to prison pipeline, I think one of the things that we saw, I want to ask you about this specifically, is President Trump got the long stick of the judiciary.
He got the long stick of the justice system or the injustice system. Well that's
been, they tried it on the black community first. Yeah. He just happened to get a hold and
see how unjust and how corrupt and rotted the judiciary was to begin with. Right. Right. So we have
to start addressing the problem. Don't we have to start looking at this as not a black or white
problem, but as a problem that we have a leadership issue. And I want to comment on that. That's
why Donald Trump, you know, I first met him I mean, in August 15, 2006.
I had never voted in my life.
I was a crack cocaine addict, an addict in every way.
I didn't think politics even mattered, you know.
But when he came in, when I first met him, here's a businessman, and he would tell me, when him and I met for 45 minutes, he would say, we would talk to him, I said, I got an addiction network going, he goes, I'm going to shut down the board and stop the drugs pouring in.
Solve the problem.
was telling me was problem-solution but he has he's proved he knows what would
manifest to to help all people and that's why I want to say do you see him
is that is he's finally come along where you have a businessman there is a
business decision to help all people you know we elect people to help the people
they serve the people and I and I think that's a big a big thing that people
don't see And I think one of the biggest blockers for everyone to learn, which you guys all have come to the realization, which we're going to all go through today, is that people don't get the word out.
They don't, like I like what you said before, they become entrapped in their own, in that own, you know, bubble or whatever.
And they don't see another way, another way, because you know what?
Who's hiding it from?
The media is hiding from it.
Everybody is suppressing.
The hope and the answer is out there.
Do you agree?
Yeah, I agree.
So, violence anywhere is violence everywhere.
When you have more guns than jobs... See, we gotta be for real and actually keep it real.
It's gonna take us to save us.
We believe that President Trump present The right temperament and approach to allow black to give us the necessary resources so we can take care of our own children.
At the end of the day, everybody in here, those are our nephews, cousins, children that's perpetrating terroristic effect of violence in our community.
And we stand before you, not with our hands out, President Trump.
We're standing before the world and the show to say, hey, give us what we need and we'll fix the ills and the issue in our own neighborhood.
We're not looking for outsiders to do it.
So what changed?
Because for me, 2016, I believe what the media said about Trump.
I was a never Trumper in 2016.
And by the time we got to 2020, I'm like, I like this guy.
Why is it that everyone that I don't like, the fake news media, they despise him.
They treat him so terribly.
And I want to ask you this because there's a guy by the name of J.D.
Pritzker?
Yeah, J.D.
Oh, Lord.
J.D.
Pritzker.
I got him.
Okay, now this is why I want to ask, last night someone talked about resources.
Yes, sir.
But if you, and having resources that are available, and it seemed like everything that you're talking about, leading young men to invest in the community of Chicago, But you weren't the right kind of person for Mr. Pritzker, so can you talk about that?
So, my organization, ECCSC, we're probably responsible in the last two, three years of intervening in over 2,000 or 3,000 shootings.
You probably can't quantify that from you all's perspective because you all can't see the beef that we go through.
This year alone, I went to 17 funerals.
This year alone.
And no one, none of them was over 27.
So when you talk about the unemployment rate, so our organization was line items over three to five million dollars from the different elected officials that allow us as community partners doing intervention and reentry work to put money back into the community and hire and put brothers and sisters to work.
J.B.
Pritzker, because I'm not a Democrat, Because I don't play the games and the political correct games for this city or this state.
Took our money and gave our money and allocated our money to Northside organizations, white-led organizations.
And this is what we're saying.
There's no account that I would think Donald Trump would, after negotiating with him and saying, President, this is what our community needs.
Do not continue to throw our money away, our tax dollars, to these 501c3 pimps that take our money and they carve it up in these big administrative costs and the money never trickles down to the people you see in this room.
Never.
So when we stand before you and we're standing here, we're not standing as some bitter people and bitter individuals.
We're standing here as well-eyed, open human beings who care about America, who care about our communities, and we're saying that we cannot continue to follow in the path of this party.
Does everyone out here agree with him about Pritzker?
And we're going to switch it up.
The ones up front have to leave, so we're going to switch up for now.
I got one more question.
If given the opportunity, if given the resources, if the roadblocks were removed, How successful do you think the community would be, and do you think there's an appetite for the Democrats to actually solve the problem, or do you think they'll become an impediment to the results that you're able to have?
Nah, they would be more vindictive with their approach, because if you don't play in that game, in that system, our schools are already pipelines to prison.
Someone benefit off of violence.
Crime pays.
It just doesn't pay our community.
It don't pay us.
It pays somebody.
If given the opportunity and given the resources, we can fix our own problems.
And that's what we desire to do.
That's why black people and their notion of voting and republic are conservative in nature.
We believe in working.
In fact, we built this country.
No, we're not.
We're not lazy.
We're just not working for no file on the now.
We want the proper resource.
The migrants don't have to do it.
I ran for Republican committee back in, oh lord, it's been years.
It's been years.
I did lose by a few votes.
Just a few.
Then I switched to Democrat.
I did vote Democrat in the last election.
The atrocities that we have gone through recently have made me switch.
Like the young man said, we're tired of working for pennies.
We're tired of working for pennies.
It takes more than two.
To live in a household in our communities in order to survive, in order for us to make ends meet.
I'm going to ask you a question.
Yeah?
Do you think that the establishment, that the machine itself, is designed for institutional slavery?
Yes.
So, our black men have, for years, have been just It seems like if you have money, and I don't want to compare it, I don't want him to feel any kind of way, but you know what I say?
Privilege.
A person that has money compared to a person that doesn't have money.
So Trump has money and lawyers.
He did not have to go to jail.
I'd say even if he wasn't the president at that time, he had that.
Compared to a regular black man that has done something like at first weed was not legal, now it is legal.
So, these guys had to go through so much in order to stay out.
If they didn't have the money, you know, or they say, oh, you got drug money, so we know you got some money, but they really didn't.
They wound up in jail.
They lost their homes if they had it, if they had kids, because what they're doing selling drugs for?
It's to take care of their own families.
Weed is a regular, now it's everywhere.
You can smoke it, it's medicine, it's everything else.
But they're still nationwide, almost 2 million people that are locked up for less than an ounce of marijuana.
There you go.
And they have to fight from where?
Jail.
When you're fighting from jail, you do not get the same privilege that a person that is fighting from home gets.
So you're taking our black men out of the homes.
You're taking the husbands, the boyfriends, or whatever that's taking care of the women and the children.
So yeah, it's... So if you had... I mean, there's lots of issues.
Yes.
I mean, it sounds like you've thought about this a lot.
What was the breaking point?
What was the one thing where you know something, I can't do this Biden thing again?
To keep on seeing these Mexicans.
They showed a news report where they showed Chinese Mexicans All the other races and everything else in these wars going on, and we're steady pouring money into everybody else's country, but our own.
These are our people.
These people work every day.
I'm doing that.
I don't have... Do you know... Let me, because I am a little bit intimidated, but understand me.
Average black woman.
I'm not rich.
I'm not whatever So I take off for a couple of days because I don't feel good or whatever Maybe I have to do something for my child.
I don't make that much money.
I don't make that much money to have to see somebody get a cell phone and Food stamps.
Cash.
I'm looking at them.
I'm riding past the police station.
I'm riding past all these police stations and they're getting cars.
They're getting housing before.
I had a brother that needed a place to stay.
And he couldn't get nothing because the immigrants got everything first.
So he got knocked off the list.
And he is an elderly person.
And I felt sorry for him.
I tried my best to try to help him to find a place, but I could not.
And here I am, I'm struggling.
My refrigerator is empty.
I have a few things.
So my check hit, I went grocery shopping.
So now I have no money to pay a car note.
So now I have no money until next pay period to pay something else.
Yes, that is hurtful.
I am a woman.
I have a child.
My daughter's school, I want her to be in an after school program.
There is so much they get up north.
There's so much they get in all these other communities for everybody else, but I can't even put my own daughter in a nice program.
For her to learn something new.
That's heartbroken.
It will be better.
Hey, he's done more.
That's right, that's right.
He's done more.
I'm tired of this.
He will stop them.
He has a little bit more.
Yep, absolutely.
Stop.
So that's why you're switching to Donald Trump.
Amen.
If you're tuning in, everybody, what we have here, we have an audience of Democrats, they voted Democrat, they're tired of it, and now they're going to be voting for Donald Trump.
And we're going through and we're finding out why.
We want to show everyone, I think it's the biggest thing, is to get the word out that there is a better answer.
Instead of the same old, same old, same old.
So, what's your name?
Ryan.
Okay, I'm going to ask you, so did you used to vote Democrat?
Yeah, I've been a Democrat most of all my life.
When did you decide?
Is it this year?
This year.
This year you decided to switch?
Yeah, switch over.
And why?
Well, the reason why is because what we got now is not working.
Okay?
all this violence and crime that's going around the world, all over the city, it's not safe for anybody to be out here.
OK?
And especially blacks, you know, not trying to isolate anybody.
Right.
It's just that more blacks are going to jail.
They're getting killed.
Our neighborhoods are falling off.
So you're saying the same input, if you get the same input, and you're always getting the same output, you've got to change the input, right?
Yeah, the same results.
If you're getting the same result, quit digging.
Over and over again.
Over and over and over again.
People are saying there's supposed to be a change, and now they get on TV.
Do you feel like you were lied to?
Over to you.
disappointed. Disappointed, disappointed. Well that's and what would you say to
people that are out there that still aren't where you got to, you know, where
you finally got to and you say did it take this administration which is to me
is so far out there that they they don't even like we're coming up to election
they're not even lowering the price of gas and make it make it lies to the
people.
They're not even saying, hey, we're going to do this for you.
We're going to do this for you.
I've said it before, I believe what's going on now.
You know, we all had December of 2019 where it manifested.
It was, wow, there is a different way that, you know, things can help.
But then now, the last three and a half years, I've told people, and see if you agree, do you agree that the bad things, I mean, the things, you know, the illegals coming up, all this stuff going on, the high price of gas, it's like, do you think that's opening people's eyes more than ever?
Yeah, because we're being brainwashed.
We've been let down through these crooked politicians that try to sell us a bill of goods.
In other words, they're just making campaign promises.
They're not delivering on anything.
And it hurts me to see that our youth of this country is falling in trap, being entrapped into this society which is no good for anybody.
Do you know what I see?
You bring up a good point, our youth.
You know, you have brainwashed and brainwashed and brainwashed.
You know, this goes back a long time, but if the youth coming up now, if they don't know any different, it's going to be very hard to change their, out of their, um, when we had the first, the first guest, when he was saying, you know, you get, you get used to their environment that can abuse her, you know, over and over again.
I think that was real, real important when he said, but, but, um, I think, um, Do you think, now you've seen what Donald Trump did to build up that, did you see improvement during his time?
Did you see anything, or how did you even hear about it?
Because the news tried to keep it down.
Yeah, back in 2016, things were much better.
Much, much better.
I was in the working class then, I'm retired now, and I felt it.
Yeah, all the way through his administration up to December of 2019.
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You guys, everyone, I don't care where you started from.
I've been in the streets.
And when you got to December of 2019, and if you're in the streets or you're eating with four forks, everybody's lives had been lifted, at least with the economy, the highest consumer confidence in history.
And I think people remember that because then the door just got slammed.
Like, here's a glimpse of hope.
And that's what they're trying to destroy right now.
They're trying to destroy the American dream.
I've lived the American dream.
It is real, everybody.
I was a crack cocaine addict in the streets, and here to come out of that by the grace of almighty God, and to come out of that, you still couldn't do it anywhere else in the world, probably other than here, from where I came from.
But we can't lose that dream, and I believe we get one shot at this.
To get, you know, I'm all about securing our elections.
And I'll tell you one thing, I want to ask you that.
If you, with the elections, you know, people, you know, people say, well, these guys, these politicians, these are doing all a terrible job.
These, you know, the Democrats, whatever.
But if you don't secure our election platforms and secure them, then you've got a bigger problem.
Right.
And they, so, you know, we're going to, we're fixed.
We're here to fix two things.
But today I want to, I want to really concentrate on hearing from you all.
why you're so everybody can hear just like you. I'm sure you have. I want to ask you
this. Do you have family members or friends that are still stuck in that thing that now
they're saying to you, what are you thinking?
Yeah, my wife.
Well, that's what's good. We got here.
Come on over.
She's working for Republicans.
But I mean, well, that's good.
But I mean, as you all do, all of you, I'm going to ask you too, as we get up here, you know, for me, it was like Um, you know, when I went all in for Donald Trump, you know, I never voted in my life.
I never think politics are important.
And now all of a sudden, you know, I had come up, I was all doing stuff around the country for addiction, speaking in churches and everything and had the MyPillow company going on.
And as soon as I met him, I met him.
I had the opportunity to meet him.
And when I met him, it was for 45 minutes alone.
I'm going, wow, I never met a president before.
I didn't think I could get in the White House with my record, right?
And I meet him, and we talked for 45 minutes, and it was such an amazing problem solution.
But I went and talked to his employees.
From a janitor all the way up, I talked to like maybe 30, 40 of them and asked them about him.
Is this real?
Is this who he is?
And he goes, oh yeah, he's a great boss, great man.
And he said each one of them had a story how he had helped him out individually.
Well, I get back to Minnesota and I did a press release.
And I was the media's darling.
I could walk across the street, they'd say, how many more people are you hiring?
And I gave people second chances, right?
I would hire them.
And they'd wait, how many more employees?
You know, made in the USA and hiring people from the inner city and everything and ex-addicts and here.
I did this press release saying I just met Donald Trump, and the media attacked me.
They called me the biggest drug dealer in the Twin Cities, and my drug dealer was sticking up for me.
He didn't sell any drugs.
He tried to free Minneapolis of drugs by doing them all.
And they, but it was a surprise to me.
It's like, well, you know, I couldn't believe that the pushback, you know, that I have from my own.
And to this day, my own family, I have family members.
I have family members that, you know, I said, Hey, I met the man.
I met them on my board.
Then I met the man.
I know what, you know, let's give it a chance, see what he can do.
Then when he did what he could do, There were still a lot of me, my own company, my own family that would not come over to the Common Sense Party.
I don't call it the Republican Party.
Believe me, I've had more pushback for Uniparty Republican.
This new party, this new leader that we could have.
And you still couldn't convince them, but over the last three and a half years, the destruction has convinced them.
Well, what I like about you, you weren't in denial.
In other words, you just being yourself.
You came out and said, here I am, this is who I am, this is what I was.
I'm a different person now.
So a lot of people look at Trump like, they don't even know who to trust.
Yeah, they don't know who to trust.
Especially Donald Trump.
They say, no, I like this guy, but I don't know, I won't trust him or not.
But he did come through, you know, he's got proof of concept now.
So I want to, you know, I want to say the, um, you know, what you're saying there, they, like you say, they don't know who to trust.
And you came out and just, I think for all of you to just being here today, to be just transparent and say, this is why I'm switching.
Because people need to hear that out there.
I thank you for that.
I don't know if I can trust this other guy either.
He hasn't done nothing.
Especially for the minorities.
For people, the little guys.
You ready to go to the audience and hear from someone out here?
Go ahead and stand up, sir.
Well, it's been a pleasure.
You say you're from Minnesota?
Yeah, Minnesota.
Yeah, I'm from St.
Paul.
So while we get someone up on cue here, introduce yourself.
I'm Bradley.
How are you?
So Bradley, tell us why you're making the change from the Democrat ticket to President Trump.
See, for me, it's been, I'm going to.
This is what I want to do.
And when they get there, nothing is done.
Mr. Trump stated, I'm going to go in here and this is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to build a wall.
Because I want the people that live here to eat first.
I don't need to bring all these immigrants in.
And since this new administration has come to the table, my children are lacking.
My community is lacking.
I see abandoned properties, folks laying on the street, and forgive me, Why do we feed folk when we have folks who went overseas, hung, bled, and died in the service for this country, and they're laying on the streets?
That's unacceptable.
If you can house an immigrant, with all due respect, house my children first.
These are the people that fought for us.
They're laying on the street.
They can't get medical assistance because you've given it to someone else.
They came here illegally.
They closed down schools.
They opened the schools to put migrants in.
You can open a school and put my veterans in there.
You can open a school and put my homeless children in there.
But yet you refuse to feed those that state that they are here.
They've been here.
You've overlooked us.
And I'm not even going to deal with the crime in the city of Chicago.
They can go to Michigan Avenue and find an individual taking a coat out of a store.
But you cannot use those cameras and find that individual that shot that child down there in the alley.
Let's make sense of this!
Make it make sense!
If you got all of this technology, why don't you feed my children and save them?
Amen.
I want to ask you, so did you, when did you switch, when did you stop trusting the Democrats then on that?
Oh, it's been about, it's, it's, it's, I've been, it's not about, and again, it's not about the trust, it's about the leadership that takes command.
Right, right.
When they stand on their word.
Right.
Mr. Trump has said, I'm going.
Amen.
This administration says, I'm going to try.
I don't need you to try to feed my children.
I need you to feed them.
And I want to tell everyone, when you do something, when you see politicians, and thank you, that was awesome, when you see politicians making decisions that don't make sense, like we just talked about the illegals there, what sense does that make?
And it doesn't help any of the people that live here.
And if it doesn't help any people, there's a very evil agenda behind it, and it's a hidden agenda.
And I believe that's what's going on, because it doesn't make sense.
You can't help the people that came here legally, and all the resources are going to the people that came here illegally.
So, you got another question?
My name is Evelyn.
Well, my main reason for the switch would be also the migrant crisis, I would say.
I feel like what they're doing is basically, like, irresponsible, dangerous.
Like, we don't know anything about these people.
They don't have a background, like, in the system or anything.
They just roam in the streets, driving around, very dangerous.
Like, getting things that people who have been here for their whole life, and like, you know, just homeless people on the streets, and they're in apartments, and cars, have leased cars, have aid, and like, it's like, basically a slap in the face.
Right, right.
I feel like it's, I don't know.
So that's why you're saying that it's a better way to go with Donald Trump because when did you switch over when it was because of all the things that went on the last... Yeah, it's like over time you're just watching this literally unfold like over the months it's like getting worse.
Like they're starting getting like all this aid and basically, you know, just disregarding the people who have already been here and already in line for the aid.
You mean Americans?
Yes, yes.
Do you see your friends, family, people you know, are they like you that they're starting to see the light too?
Oh yeah, everybody is complaining about it.
Everybody talks about it.
Wow, that's amazing.
So that, you know, that would be one that we're going to try and get the word out because this is, when I came to Chicago two months ago and I did five events, I went to talk to the Democrats at the Capitol, I went right down the inner city and And that was the thing I heard.
And I told our real president, Donald Trump, that I said, you know what I'm hearing?
I said, they're giving all the illegals are getting all the resources, you know, even for helping with addiction and everything else and driving around getting stuff that we're not helping the people that live here illegally.
And how old are you?
I'm 25.
And what is your hope for Chicago?
What do you want to see if Trump takes office?
What do you want to see happen in your community?
Well, in my community, I believe I want to see investments, like investments in, I want to say programs for our youth, investments in, I don't know, I just feel like there should be other programs besides.
In some cities, they have a program where you call another number of the police in certain situations, and they aid in, like, you know, just, what is the word?
Yeah, they intervene in certain situations and then avoid, you know, just bad situations between CPD and the people in our community.
So, I'm going to ask you, and this is for all of you too, but I'm going to ask you specifically.
We are pretty young, 25, but a lot of you here, you want to know this part too.
I believe it probably didn't take you, you know, even though Donald Trump did real good and our lives improved, I'll bet you it's more of what's going on now.
The bad things have been like here in your face.
Is that more?
I think that's probably may turn more people.
You get a taste of what it could be.
Did you feel that things would improve by December of 2019 with our, with Donald Trump?
Um, December of 2019.
Oh, you weren't paying attention.
Yeah, I just know I didn't have to work like a few months later.
But I would say I do agree with the first part.
I do agree with the first part.
It's basically the good outweighs the bad.
You're just basically weighing which side can really benefit the community the most at this point.
Right on, right on.
Thank you.
Alright, thanks.
Alright.
How you doing?
How you doing?
I'm doing good.
And what's your name?
My name is T.O.
Hardeman.
Right on.
So T.O., you voted for Biden in 2020.
I'm not going to say who I voted for.
I did pull a Democratic ballot in 2020.
I did.
And who are you going to vote for this year?
I'm voting for Donald Trump this year.
So I want to ask a question that I'm going to ask you, but I'm also going to ask the audience.
How many of you have lost a loved one to gun violence?
Wow.
Wow.
How many of you for years have been holding on to hope that something will change with the new, even on the local elections, that some of you bring this new person in that's gonna somehow change and what they're promising you is actually gonna... How many of you have been holding on to that for years?
Wow!
How many of you are under the age of 25?
25 or below?
25, 25 or below.
All right.
So the reason why I'm asking that question is because over and over and over again,
but how many of you guys don't even trust being in this room with us?
What?
I'm sorry, what?
Oh, I mean, the, the, the.
Be honest.
Be honest.
How many of you don't trust the fact that we asked you to come into this room?
Like what's the motive, right?
Well, you're going to be up here, so you'll be able to tell me.
What's really going on?
Why are we really here?
I can hear him.
But the people can't hear you watching.
There's tens of thousands of people watching.
Dave, I know why I'm here.
I'm here to get you all here because I know there's a better way.
I lived in the streets.
I know there's a better way.
I never voted in my life until 2016.
And I knew there was a better way.
I'm from the streets of Minneapolis.
I'm from the streets of Minneapolis.
I was a crack cocaine addict and I seen stuff.
My friends, we bettered our lives.
We all got set free from drugs by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And my drug dealers, they changed their life.
Downtown Minneapolis, we had all their businesses built and it was burned down.
By government there, a Democrat government, let the buildings, let our buildings burn to the ground.
And it was disgusting.
There was things that I could go on and on about leadership I get in Minnesota versus what I've seen.
And I met Donald Trump personally.
I've seen what he could do to help people, all people, not just a party.
This is what I got fed up by going, I want people, I want politicians that do, they're for the people.
They're elected for the people and they lie to us to get in there.
That's crazy.
They tell the lies, promises broken.
And I see, I see.
You know, when I met one person in politics, and that was Donald Trump, first politician I ever met in my life!
But I met him before he was president, that month before, and it was like talking to a businessman.
And I said, man, if he does this, it was solutions to problems.
And one of my biggest things was, I have a network to help people get off drugs and find Jesus Christ.
And that's what I was doing in 16, going around the country, talking to churches, talking in inner cities everywhere, including Chicago.
I've been here many times on the radio here.
And then all of a sudden I'm going, wow, politics control us so much.
I've got to get into this part and get people, we've got to get people in that will have our back as a people.
Because it's business decisions.
Politics is one big business.
And that's what it is.
And we need decisions made that help all people, not just a party or not just them as an individual.
A secret agenda.
That's why I'm here.
Yeah, so Dave, I want to hear from you, actually.
I want to hear from you, but I want to address something that we're not talking about, the elephant in the room, as we try to be as authentic as possible, right?
Because some of you, how many of you are angry?
No, everybody's angry.
Right on.
But you're angry and you're disappointed and you're always waiting for the shoe to drop.
Is that right?
The shoe already dropped.
Do you feel invisible?
Like, we're very serious.
Yeah.
This is a serious matter.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
So, T.O., you're going to vote.
Go ahead.
No, I just want to tell my story for those who don't know.
I ran for governor twice in the state of Illinois as a Democrat.
In 2014, I secured close to 30% of the state vote.
I ran again against J.B.
Pritzker.
The Democrats still did not invite me to the table after being a lifelong Democrat.
That's why I'm here.
I just want to be clear about that.
When you talk about the illegal immigrants that have come to Chicago, you had 66,000 homeless people in Chicago already.
And the homeless people in Chicago were just like disregarded, overlooked on every level, right?
And you got illegal immigrants in Chicago right now receiving anywhere from $5,000 a month, combined with food stamps and cash.
They're paying their rent up.
My people have been struggling for decades.
Nobody wants to talk about reparations.
So my thing is, I'm sitting here to just let you know the reason why I turned Republican.
Because I did my best as a Democrat.
I didn't just make the decision overnight.
I paid my dues.
I was raised as a Democrat.
I grew up in the heart of the ghetto.
I grew up in the projects myself.
I've been clean 30 years, like my man right here, myself.
So I understand the inner city struggle, right?
So what I'm saying to everybody here today, that's the reason that I... But I don't put no man on no pedestal.
I'm pretty much my own man, right?
But the thing is this here.
I'm Republican now.
That's it.
That's what's going on.
I did my best.
Trust me.
I attended meetings.
Tyrone was with me.
We attended meetings.
We tried to meet with everybody to see what was going to go on.
So I wanted to become the governor of the United States and let it go.
I wanted to become the first black governor of the state of Illinois at that time.
Only one term.
So I can spend about five million dollars on the south and west side of Chicago.
You hear me?
I'm dead serious, you know.
That's what I want.
Now, you know what I'm talking about.
I was going to look out for East St.
Louis, Peoria, other cities.
I didn't just run for black folks.
Don't get me wrong.
I ran for governor.
I wanted to look out for some of the poor white people, some of the Hispanics that are naturally here, you know.
But my priority was my people.
Because for all these decades, nobody has really stepped up to the plate when it comes to our people.
If you look at 7th and Damon on the south side to 7th and South Shore, I counted over 1,000 abandoned storefronts, right?
1,000.
That's just right there.
Now you go to the west side, you got Madison and Pulaski.
Used to be a pretty much flourishing type of area.
A lot of stores and stuff.
Abandoned buildings everywhere.
So that's what I'm talking about.
That's my country.
That's why I became a Republican.
So once Donald Trump wins, You need to get us a meeting with him.
Absolutely.
Get us a meeting.
And you know what?
He will meet.
He will meet.
This is one thing.
He cares about our country and he will meet.
He's a problem solution.
You guys know what he did.
Nobody even knows this in California.
We went there, I was friends with Ben Carson, and we went to California, they went to California to try and clean up L.A.
They worked with the, actually with the mayor there, and they went there, nobody knew we went there, and they were gonna take this off the streets and set up whole camps to set up separate, complete cities almost, like 10 cities, and sort through the people that had problems with addiction, problems with mental health, and get them off there and get them, help pull them right, just like, You'll clean up.
It was an amazing program, of course, then 2020 and never got to fruition, but it was all in the works and it got stopped in the sand by the next administration that came in.
They just stopped it cold.
And this could have been an example for every city in the country.
This this what they had set up and it was just sad because all the things that were making progress that we're doing that were I believe as a businessman we're doing great because I watched my friends I watched people that were that that I help in addiction things right in the middle of Minneapolis especially and I watched all these things making progress and then they stopped them as soon as they got in office they stopped all the programs immediately that were going to work I've seen it with my own eyes, so that's good.
Mike, we got another person that wants to be heard.
Cynthia, age 23.
She says she's got about two things she wants to let the people know about.
I switched because of the immigrant crisis and my student loan debts.
That's the reason.
Right on.
Okay, what is it about the student loan debt?
Because, you know, Biden, they're promising that they're going to go ahead and just forgive everyone's debt.
Yeah, he didn't forgive my debt.
He never did it!
He lied?
Come on!
He lied.
He lied!
White hood!
What's going on?
You know, isn't that something?
That's what the thing is that I think you're all tired of being lied to.
I was.
I was tired of being lied to.
I'm from Minnesota, and they lie, lie, lie.
The guy that right now that they took for vice president, I went head-to-head with him.
You know, during the virus, this is an example.
They asked for masks before I knew things about them.
You know, I was producing them and stuff.
I offered them free to the state of Minnesota when they needed them, and he said, we won't take them from Mike Lindell.
We won't take him from my pillow until after the election.
I wasn't doing it for any election.
I was doing it to help people.
And I was just like giving out pillows to the state of Minnesota.
When all those riots came, I was giving pillows to the inner city, to all the people that were helping, the National Guard and stuff.
And he tried to stop that.
This guy said, it's disgusting what they're trying to stop for helping people.
You know, so I'm glad she made that comment.
Alright, so, Tia, I've got to ask you another question, because, again, we've got to get to the problem, right, work the problem, and we seem to be doing this thing where we are sustaining the same behavior over and over and over again.
You ran as a Democrat, you got 30% of the vote, and the Democrat party literally did not even know your name.
Well, they know my name, they just didn't invite me to the table because I wasn't part of the, like, the good ol' boy crew, that type of thing.
I think for myself, pretty much, you know what I mean?
Hold on a second, hold on a second.
When he said the good ol' boy crew, that's the unit party we all work with, by the way.
Go ahead, Joe.
Yeah, so my issue is that President Trump is going to be a catalyst that will allow for funding to get to Chicago.
But we have to change the behavior and who's in control, who's the leadership in Chicago.
Because ultimately, you just, you gotta have different leaders.
And frankly, I'm going to tell you this, Theo.
You gotta, if you can't make the governor's seat, take the senate seat.
Can't take the senate seat, take the house seat.
Can't take the house seat, take the district seat.
Do something to make sure that you change.
Who is actually in charge at the local level?
I want to say something right there.
You got 30% and the Democrat didn't even know your name, right?
They blocked you basically, right?
No, what I'm saying, they knew my name.
But they blocked you.
You're not the good old boy.
I wasn't part of the good old boy group.
That's right.
And then don't get me wrong, my thing is this here.
My views may just be a little different than their views.
I was championing the cause for my people for real.
Some people pump faking out there.
They playing games with the people.
That's why I want to become the governor, to spend $5 billion.
I want to interject something here that I want to say another thing.
I want to bring something else in, because I'm all about the lower tickets.
I'm always about the lower tickets, the stuff right down to precinct level, everybody.
This is where I'm at.
I want to secure our elections.
I'm going to tell everybody watching right now, I have that plan.
I've lived it for three and a half years.
I've been blocked by uniparty Republicans, you know, nonsensical things they've done to block me.
I thought it'd be easy going to a Republican state.
I get blocked in Alabama, Arkansas, South Dakota, Texas, all these places where there are blockers.
Georgia, blocking.
What I'm telling everyone right now, the plan to secure our elections, I want you all, even in this room, and tell all your friends, you get your mail-in vote, you get that vote, you get that ballot, I mean, you get it, and when you go to vote, if they don't open it, and when they say you've already voted, you bring it out, you say, no, I have not.
We lay it out on LyndalePlan.com what you can do.
This is really important that we have this information in this election.
It's identity theft.
That's why I was here in Chicago two months ago.
This is so important.
You ever want to get the right people in, we've got to secure our elections.
We need this data for this next election.
I've told Democrat, Republican, just all of us as a people, it went on in 2020, 2022, all the elections.
You go there and you go, well, you've already voted.
I'm sure you've all heard of people that went there to vote and they said, well, you already voted.
That's why we have to secure elections, so everybody watching, spread the word, get your mail-in vote, or your ballot, get it, don't open it, and when you go there on game day, and you say, here it is, and they say, no, you've already voted, you say, no, I haven't.
We lay it all out, what you can do then, and it's very powerful, and it's going to help save our country, with the lower tickets all the way up to the highest ticket in the nation, the President.
Alright, Mike, we've got another young man by the name of Calvin.
But before I ask Calvin his question, and let's make sure we got the camera on Calvin because it's his turn to be heard.
How many here, just by way of a poll, trust the voting machines?
None?
Okay, can we get a look?
Is there anyone here that's raising their hand that's going to... How many trust computers in your elections and voting machines?
How many of you heard me say we need to melt them down and turn them into prison bars?
How many people here have been offered money or some sort of, for your vote, for your ballot?
Anybody?
See, that just tells me right there, they're done with computers, everybody.
And I don't want to ever, anybody watching, don't get discouraged that we haven't gotten rid of them.
I've been working three and a half years on this.
132 countries have banned electronic voting devices and computers in their election.
You ever see this guy with the pillows on Fox?
My pillow guy, Mike Lindell, he is the greatest.
The Mike Pillow guy.
Mike Lindau.
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