And we're going to, we're going to, I'm actually going to change the show up.
I just did a few minutes before.
I don't need that.
A few minutes ago, I have a very long show for you that we're going to get into what happened on Friday with Smart Matic.
The judge in Minnesota ruled against my preliminary ruled against my pillow and myself.
And we have 30 days now to appeal that.
And what it is, is he ruled that I did defame them.
And then this can go to jury trial now a year or two from now.
And the jury would decide on how much or if I did it with malice, if I was intentionally meant to defame these companies.
So what I'm going to do is there's been a lot of confusion and we're going to be having the president coming on here, I guess, this hour.
So I don't want to cut what I'm going to be telling you short.
Allison, are you there?
Hi, Mike.
Maybe you can bring a little structure to my show here.
We have, I was going to do a whole show today, everybody, on basically the with the SmartMatic lawsuit and what and why maybe we could start that.
But I think what I'm going to do instead is bring people back to the timeline of how all these lawsuits, because everyone's going, well, Mike, I thought you won your lawsuit.
Mike, I thought you lost your lawsuit.
Mike, I thought we, you know, we donated.
We helped out the offense fund.
What's going on?
So I think I'm going to, I think that's what I'm going to do, everybody.
I'm going to bring you through a timeline.
And by that time, the president, do you know what time the president's coming on, Allison?
Well, the president is currently with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
They were supposed to start their press conference at 1:15 p.m. Eastern.
That still has not begun yet.
So it's my understanding we'll go over to that live whenever it kicks off.
It should be taking place any minute now since they are running very behind schedule.
But yeah, it should be happening very soon.
So what I think I'm going to do, Allison, I could probably, if you want to stay on, you can and listen to this, but I'm going to give people a timeline.
I'm going to go through a timeline that we're actually going to post on Lindell TV this week very much in depth of how I ended up getting involved with all this and where, you know, kind of me from start to finish and why are they attacking Mike Lindell and my pillow and where we went from there.
So it's up to you if you want to stay on.
I know you've got it, you're trying to get a big interview over there.
You're at the Capitol right now.
Yes, I'm at the Capitol and there is a forum that's being held at 3 p.m. Eastern with Democrat Senators Blumenthal and Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren.
They're trying to, it's actually, I think you'd find this interesting, Mike.
About they're talking about how they are, you know, arbiters of free speech and how what the Trump administration has done with the FCC is a huge infringement on our First Amendment rights.
So, I'm trying to catch them ahead of this forum to see if I can interrogate them about free speech specifically and ask, well, if they're all for it, then why we know have they not been in favor of supporting that for Republicans who have been vocal about their thoughts about COVID and the stolen election and so forth and so on.
So, we'll see if I can get that question in today.
Well, wow, I guess I wonder whether you should ask him.
Why don't you, if you get a chance when you ask him, say, why Mike Lindell has been using his First Amendment right of free speech since for the past eight years, and all I've been doing is got billions of dollars in lawsuits against me by voting machine companies that run our government and run our elections.
You should ask them that and say, you know, and if they're so worried about it, where's the relief here?
I know I was asked this, everybody, on Steve Bannon's show today.
I came on there and he, if you're just tuning in, everybody, like I say, just on Friday, a judge ruled in Minnesota in one of our cases that my pillow and Mike Lindell, yes, they did.
He did defame them.
And Bannon asked me, well, Mike, why don't you just do a walk away like everybody else is doing?
They're walking away.
You've just seen Rudy Giuliani, Mary Giuliani.
They came to a deal on Friday.
Well, when you just walk away and say, and Bannon asked me, Mike, if you just were willing to say, hey, the machines are great.
The voting machines are really good, everybody.
I was wrong.
And he goes, Are you going to, would you do that, Mike?
I said, that's the dumbest question I've ever heard in my life.
Of course I won't do it.
He goes, well, you're willing to bankrupt everything you have.
And I said, I think I've shown that.
We have to save our country.
We've got to get rid of these voting machines.
And that's my, you know, that is my right of free speech, you know, to go out and speak out to help secure our elections.
And I don't care if these, I think in Colorado, they said they're my lawyer said to the jury in that case, he said, Mike, what he goes, let it be known my client is an equal opportunity voting machine basher.
He will bash any voting machine company, which should be ES and asking Omaha, Nebraska, Hart, Smart Manic, Dominion.
I don't care if you sue me or don't sue me.
I'm still saying we need to melt down these machines and turn them into prison bars.
The other thing is, I don't care what these machine companies do.
Go make blenders.
Do anything you want to do, but stay out of our elections.
Stay out of our elections.
And that's where that's at.
So, well, I'm just going to give everybody a timeline because everybody's confused of where, you know, is Mike winning, losing, where are we at?
And so I'm going to just go into this, everybody.
And Alison, if you want to stand by, you can.
Or if you want to get to your meeting, you can.
It's up to you.
So anyway, everybody.
So this started this for me.
I didn't know anything about elections.
I didn't know, I mean, not elections.
I didn't know anything about politics.
Okay.
I was a crack cocaine addict.
I was a gambler, an alcoholic.
You name it.
I had it, but cigarettes were so far down, they were like my fifth worst bice.
So you had all these things going on.
Well, God freed me of that on January 16, 2009.
You can read all about it in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO?
And By the way, we're going to post this whole timeline up now because you all keep asking, you know, what lawsuit is this?
When did this?
Why did my, you know, what's this?
And it all came out this last weekend, too, when it's all over the news that I'm considering running for Minnesota governor.
So you had that going on.
They're bringing up stuff from the past.
Yes, he can still run even though he doesn't have any money and all these things.
But so on January 16th, 2009, I prayed and that God would take away the desire for all my addictions the following day.
I said, you know what?
I said, I knew God has a big calling and we all have callings.
And so my prayer was, I want to be freed of the desire for the addictions.
And I woke up in the morning and it was gone.
The desire was gone and it was a miracle.
I thought that day, by the way, I thought that was the day I was saved that I was a born-again Christian.
But it wasn't.
That wasn't that day.
That comes much later on February 18, 2017.
But at that time, it was such a drastic change in, you know, my way of life and everything.
But now we'll fast forward up to, and I was the media's darling.
From then on, we did an infomercial in 2011 with My Pillow and just exploded.
It was like the American dream on steroids where you could be this, you know, in the streets, be an addict in the streets, be whatever, and then change your life and employ thousands of people and create, you know, it's just that's you couldn't do in any other country.
I don't believe that with our freedoms that we have here.
And anyway, so as a year went by, we just exploded in 2011.
But on August 15th, 2016 is the day I met Donald Trump in a private meeting.
He wanted to know about maybe the USA, Mike, you know, my pillow and everything.
And it was just, I was very humbled that the president or president candidate would even, I didn't know Donald Trump.
I never met him.
I never watched The Apprentice.
And we met about 45 minutes and we talked about different things.
I said, my, you know, I have a, I wanted to set up the Lindale Recovery Network and help addicts get out of addiction.
I told him I used to be a crack cocaine addict.
And he said, I'm going to shut down the border and we're going to stop them drugs pouring in.
And just, it was just great.
And I get out of there and I, and I went back to Minnesota and did a press release.
And that was the first time ever where all of a sudden the media just attacked me.
And the media attacked me.
You guys all know that part of the story.
The Better Business Bureau took me from an A plus to an F, did a press release on January 2nd, 2017, and just attacked my pillow and myself.
And they, for what?
Because I was bad back.
This guy that became president that I believed in, that I met personally and did my due diligence.
That's what it was.
And they say, oh, come on, Mike, there had to be more than that.
No, I was up for the Better Business Bureau's Torch Award.
My pillow was the highest award the Better Business Bureau, the crooked Better Business Bureau gets out.
The Pay-Per play Better Business Bureau gives out.
So this organization, by the way, they're not a, just because they have Bureau in their name, they're not any government agency.
Well, so we did, I did that.
They come out with this, do a press release.
Remember, I was up with their torch award.
And at the same time, they did a class action lawsuit against my pillow saying that I ran my buy one, get one free ads too long.
Going, really?
That's under your bylaws there, better business bureau.
And then, in the and then, apparently, this came out of California.
Apparently, in one of the commercials, someone says, Sleep expert, Mike Lindell, sleep expert.
Well, apparently, in California, you got to go to college or something to be a sleep expert.
You know, I joke about it.
I said, you know, I couldn't sleep when I was on drugs all the time.
You know, did that make me a sleep expert?
Well, when I did sleep, I wanted it to be good sleep when I embedded my pillow.
And, you know, and it's, but it, um, I don't know what they quantify making a sleep expert, but apparently, you couldn't say you're a sleep expert in California.
So there were things like that that they put in this class action lawsuit and attacked.
And of course, that was put out everywhere.
They tried to destroy me then.
But not, head, I not went all into you know, all in after I met Donald Trump.
I believed that nothing would have happened there.
Now, do I regret going all in?
100%.
No, we'd have lost our country forever.
I would, it wouldn't have matter.
I did my, I did my due diligence.
I met him, and I thought that I wouldn't, I wouldn't have changed anything back then.
And, but then we're going to fast forward now up to the lawsuit.
So y'all get the timeline on them.
Um, they, um, um, so in January of 21, as you know, the, uh, in January 21, there were threatening letters sent out by dominion to, um, all these people and other.
you know, over 200 letters that I know of, threatening letters saying, hey, you hold all your stuff from the election.
These were poll watchers, you name it, all kinds of people all across our country.
And of course, I got one or two of these letters.
I'm going, it looks like an old mafia letter when I didn't, we owed money for football bets back when I was in my 20s.
Said, you better, you better quit talking about the election or else and save all of your save all everything you have on your phones and your and your things for because in case we come after you.
And well, these people, a lot of them went and had got home security systems.
They were very afraid and they went just when it was done to silence us.
And then as we all know, on February 4th, 2021, SmartMatic sued Fox News, which is the day that started lawfare in our country that hadn't been done since the 1700s, according to Alan Derschwitz, which I wish I would have never hired, by the way.
That's a whole nother story.
But anyway, a little plug for him who still owes money to a lot of things, but that's another story.
Don't want to get sidetracked there.
I'm good old Alan.
So anyway, then in February of 2021, everybody, that's when Dominion sued my pillow and Mike Lindell for, here's what the lawsuit was, for using promo codes.
It was an elaborate scheme of Mike Lindell, their CEO, to make money off bashing electronic voting machines.
So as if I wasn't busy, I'd already been on TV over 3 million times and we had sold, I don't know, 70 million by pillows there.
We had thousands of employees, but I got to bash, you know, it was such a frivolous, crazy lawsuit.
I'm going, okay, this is great.
I'm the one that says, sue me, Dominion, sue me, because we had all the evidence to show.
I thought it'd be over.
We saved the country.
Here's the evidence.
Boom, it's done.
And At that same time, I sued, then we sued Dominion back and we sued SmartMatic.
Sued SmartMatic and Dominion with all the stuff we had on it by then.
It was just, it should have been a thing.
You know, here's the evidence.
The country saved.
Now, I'm glad it didn't come out back then because we'd have lost our country forever.
You guys can check that out on Lindell TV.
It's how we got here.
It's under the movie section now, how we got here.
So you guys can check that out.
And it's the miracles.
All the miracles are in there.
And I encourage you all to watch that.
So let me see here.
So then let's go up to, and you could even backtrack.
We could backtrack a year or two when you talk about these lawsuits and stuff and the attacks back when I had a cure to the Cerativir for the, when I spoke at the Rose Garden in March of 2020, when my pillow went to Make Mask and before I knew they didn't work, before we found out, but Make Mask.
And we also had, was brought to me this cure to the China virus, which was like a, like a nivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, but it was called Ceratovir.
And if y'all check that out, when I went on Anderson Cooper on CNN, I'd never been on there before with Anderson Cooper, and he did a 22-minute attack.
I'm going, what did I do?
So, don't you want to get this out there?
It's a supplement.
It's already here in the U.S.
And it was a complete six-month attack before, even before the 2020 election.
It was all through that, trying to get to save the country or save people's lives.
But I look back now, and even though it cost me $10 million at that time, it did save some lives, even if it was one life.
But I know there was more than that that it saved.
And we're still in the longest running, I believe, one of the biggest IRS attacks in history that my pillow, Mike Lindell, is under because of still back because of that cure and those supplements because they became outdated in 2020.
And the government's going, the government said, oh, no, you can't deduct them here.
You got to do it in 2023 after they literally destroyed my company and myself.
And so that's still ongoing, everybody.
That's just another ongoing attack.
So anyway, we get to the spring of after Dominion sues, and we sued Dominion SmartMatic in February of 2021.
Now, everybody, the cyber symposium comes along in August of 2021.
And in 2021, we did the cyber symposium.
And I'm sure you've all heard about that.
I'm going to pull up here.
When we did the cyber symposium, I had ran ads about the $5 million challenge.
Okay.
This is another lawsuit that comes to be.
So I did ads.
I put ads on every single TV channel, ABC, NBC, CBS, Newsmax, OAN, CNN, MSMEC.
The only one that wouldn't run the ads was Fox News.
So I get into it with Fox News before the symposium, and I pull all my pillow ads down because I wanted to save the country.
I didn't care if it cost every dime I had.
And anyway, so, but everyone else ran these ads.
Okay.
On the first day of the cyber symposium, which was August 10th of 2021, only two TV stations were sued for running those ads by Dominion.
Newsmax and OAN.
ABC didn't get sued.
CBS didn't get sued.
NBC didn't get sued.
CNN didn't get sued.
MSNBC didn't get sued.
None of these guys got sued, except for these two.
So it was, you know what?
If you're going to run these, you know what that was?
Told Newsmax and OAN, you better not run the three-day cyber symposium.
We're already suing you even for putting an ad up.
So think about this, everybody, the timing on that.
You ready?
It gets better.
On the next day of the cyber symposium, Judge Nichols out of DC, where all the lawsuits where I was suing back Dominion and suing SmartMatic, the judge says, these are frivolous lawsuits for Mike Lindell.
They're frivolous.
We're not going to look into them.
He dismisses them.
You can't make that up.
You cannot make that up, the timing.
First day cyber symposium, everybody, you better not show what Mike Lindell's going to show to the world.
Number two, the second day is Mike Lindell, by the way, he's suing them for nothing.
They're frivolous lawsuits.
But yet mine stay on that they sued me.
You can't make it up.
It's the most bizarre things in history, what we've lived over the last four and five years now.
Now, then we get up to, so now I'm going to take these lawsuits as they move forward.
So then you get to the spring of 2022 and or you get to January of 2022.
And SmartMatic puts a whole new lawsuit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow for $1.5 billion.
Okay, this is January 22, everybody.
One year after all the cancellations of all the box stores, the shopping channels, after MyPillow had already lost $120 million in revenue for that year for all the box stores being gone.
And all the money I had already been pouring into this election stuff, I don't know, $2, $3 million a month with different things, just pouring it out there to try and save the country, get rid of these machines.
By then, I knew we had to get rid of all voting machines.
So SmartMatic sues in January of 22, everybody.
And they sue me for, they sue my pillow too.
So they sue my pillow that once again, this is an elaborate scheme, elaborate marketing plan by Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow.
You know, our employee-owned company, by the way, there's, I don't know, 67 stockholders, 60 to 70, maybe even more.
It's an employee-owned company back in the day where everybody got for their performance stuff was getting stock.
But it's very sad that they get sued.
So they get sued because their CEO, his exercise, right of free speech, number one, had nothing to do with MyPillow.
But SmartMatic sued it saying that this was a marketing scheme by not just Mike Lindell, but also MyPillow to make money bashing electronic voting machines companies like SmartMatic.
Remember, SmartMatic only has one county in the United States, LA County.
Now, why would I bother with that?
Well, you're going to see all that stuff pouring out as it already has been.
We'll tell you all about that.
But anyway, so they sue after my pillow to frame this after we've lost, you know, we're going downhill like this.
You lost $200 million.
Hey, let's sue them.
But boy, we'll be able to prove easy that they're making money by bashing us.
No, SmartMatic.
I don't care if you make blenders or what you do, but you can't get part of our elections making electronic voting machines that steal elections.
And anyway, so they do that on January of 22.
Then, in March of April of 22, an employee, an employee by Dominion, their exec, this is Eric Coomer.
He sues myself as I'm doing a speech on the Colorado Capitol.
He sues my pillow and Mike Lindell, right on the Capitol steps, he sues us and he sued frank speech of this network I had built here at Lindale TV.
That was prior to Lindell TV here that you see now, the publicly traded company.
By the way, you can all get involved.
MLMC, we're publicly traded.
Lindell TV, be part of the biggest voice ever.
And we're going to keep expanding, expanding, expanding.
That's what we're going to do.
And they're not going to suppress our voice of free speech.
Well, so he sues then.
And now we get to the spring of 2023 when you all see me on TV in the deposition for this Eric Coomer with their lawyers because the judge didn't rule on a dismissal that the following or the previous summer.
And I'm going to put this, we're going to frame this all and put this all in so you can all understand and click on it, learn about each lawsuit and each timeline of here, what went on, these attacks.
And I'm only counting the lawsuits, the ones we're playing defense.
I'm not talking about all the aggressive, proactive stuff that we've been doing.
300,000 people on the ground in all 50 states, the great things we've gotten done to help save our country.
I'm talking about just the defense stuff that we've had to deal with.
And, well, so Eric Coomer sues, and then we got to go, we go during the next year or during that spring, in one week, in the same week, Fox News settles with Dominion for $787 million.
For what?
Very suspicious, right?
It's a joke.
Fox never came and talked.
Okay, you guys, we're going to continue this tomorrow.
We are going to be going live to our president here, and I'm going to have, I'll bring the whole story tomorrow.
We'll have it posted on Lindell TV, and we'll continue on where I'm leaving off.
So enjoy the president, the greatest president ever.
Potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.
Things that have been going on for hundreds of years and thousands of years, we're going to, at least we're at a minimum, very, very close, and I think we're beyond very close.
And I want to thank Bibi for really getting in there and doing a job.
We've worked well together, as we have with many other countries, both of us, with many other countries, which is the only way this whole situation gets solved.
And I'm not just talking about Gaza.
Gaza is one thing, but we're talking about much beyond Gaza.
The whole deal.
everything getting solved.
It's called peace in the Middle East.
So today is a historic day for peace and Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have just concluded an important meeting on many vital issues including Iran, trade,
the expansion of the Abraham Accords and most importantly we discussed how to end the war in Gaza but it's just a part of the bigger picture which is peace in the Middle East and let's call it eternal peace in the Middle East.
So this is far more than anybody expected but the level of support that I've had from the nations in the Middle East and surrounding Israel and neighbors of Israel has been incredible, incredible, every single one of them.
This afternoon, after extensive consultation with our friends and partners throughout the region, I'm formally releasing our principles for peace, which people have really liked, I must say, and these are done not just routinely done.
These are done with total and total consideration and working with the nations that we're talking about.
All the these nations have made contributions to those suggestions.
I want to thank the leaders of many Arab and Muslim nations for their tremendous support in developing the proposal, along with many of our allies in Europe.
Europe has been very much involved and, as I was called by many of the European leaders, most of them saying, is this true?
Are you really doing peace in the Middle East?
This is the most incredible thing we've heard.
Some think it's the biggest thing they've ever heard.
They called just to find out, was it just a rumor or is it actually done?
And then they said, have you spoken to the Arab leaders?
Have you spoken to the all of the other leaders?
That we have to get a lot of people involved in this one?
I also want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for agreeing to the plan and for trusting that, if we work together, we can bring an end to the death and destruction that we've seen for so many years decades, even centuries, and begin a new chapter of security, peace and prosperity for the entire region.
And I want to just say that my meetings and dialogue that we had with so many countries Saudi Arabia as an example the king is a phenomenal person the emir of Qatar, who's these are incredible people UAE, and that's MBZ and ABZ, we've totally involved.
These are the people that we've been dealing with and who've been actually very much involved in this negotiation, giving us ideas, things they can live with, things they can't live with pretty complex, I mean, after 2,000, 3,000 years, whatever it is, I guess it's got to be a little complex or it would have been done a long time ago.
The king of Jordan was with us.
As you know, in the United Nations, The president of Turkey, President Erdogan, is a friend of mine, strong man, but a good man.
President of Indonesia, somebody who's an amazing leader.
Prabowo, he is an amazing leader and respected by everybody.
He was in the room with us.
We were together with most of these people that I'm mentioning.
Others were by phone or the next day.
The prime minister and the field marshal of Pakistan, they were with us right from the beginning, incredible.
In fact, they just put out a statement that they fully believe in this pact.
It just came out just as I was walking around.
They said, sir, you have a big notice from the Prime Minister of Pakistan and from the Field Marshal that they back this 100%.
President El-Cisi of Egypt, who's terrific.
And these are people I've gotten to know over the years.
I mean, I would say it started around 2015 and then went into 2016 when the presidency began, officially began.
But I've known them actually for a long time.
And there are many cases, really great men.
I can't say in all cases, but I will tell you, in many cases, they're great men and some great women too.
They tend to be mostly men, however, I will say that.
But if accepted by Hamas, this proposal calls for the release of all remaining hostages immediately, but in no case more than 72 hours.
So the hostages are coming back.
And I hate even saying this from the standpoint doesn't sound right, but it is so important to the parents.
The bodies of the young men, I believe in almost all cases, the young men are coming back immediately.
I met with parents.
The parents felt as strongly about getting the body of their dead boy back as they did as though the boy were alive and well.
It's so important to them.
And it means the immediate end to the war itself, not just Gaza.
It's the war itself.
Under the plan, Arab and Muslim countries have committed, and in writing in many cases, but I actually would take their word for it, the people I mentioned, I take their word for it, to demilitarize Gaza, and that's quickly.
Decommission the military capabilities of Hamas and all other terror organizations.
Do that immediately.
And we're relying on the countries that I named and others to deal with Hamas.
And I'm hearing that Hamas wants to get this done too.
And that's a good thing.
And destroy all terror infrastructure, including the tunnels, weapons of production facilities.
They have a lot of production facilities that we're destroying.
They'll also help train local police forces in the areas that we're discussing right now, in particular in and around Gaza.
Working with the new transitional authority in Gaza, all parties will agree on a timeline for Israeli forces to withdraw.
In phases, they'll be withdrawing in phases.
No more shooting, hopefully, as progress is made toward achieving these goals.
Arab and Muslim nations need to be allowed the chance to fulfill these commitments of dealing with Hamas.
They have to deal with them because they were the one group that we have not dealt with.
I haven't dealt with them.
But the Arab countries are going to, and Muslim countries are going to be dealing with Hamas.
And I believe they've already been there.
I think they probably have an understanding.
And they haven't maybe mentioned that, but I would imagine they do.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have gone as far as they've gone.
If they were unable to do so, then Israel would have the absolute right and actually our full backing, the U.S. full banking back in Marcos here.
A lot of our leaders are here, our great vice president, Susie Wiles, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner.
They've been so involved in this process.
I don't think anybody else could have done it or even come close.
But we're right there.
We're right there.
First time in thousands of years, I think you can probably say, if you really look into it, if you study back, if you're a scholar, you would say thousands of years.
Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.
But I hope that we're going to have a deal for peace.
And if Hamas rejects the deal, which is always possible, they're the only one left.
Everyone else has accepted it.
But I have a feeling that we're going to have a positive answer.
But if not, as you know, Bibi, you'd have our full backing to do what you would have to do.
Everyone understands that the ultimate result must be the elimination of any danger posed in the region and that danger is caused by Hamas.
The tyranny of terror has to end.
And this is, again, something that we're looking for.
This is eternity.
This is for forever.
To ensure the success of this effort, my plan calls for the creation of a new international oversight body, the Board of Peace, we call it the Board of Peace, sort of a beautiful name, the Board of Peace, which will be headed not at my request, believe me, I'm very busy, but we have to make sure this works.
The leaders of the Arab world and Israel and everybody involved asked me to do this, so it would be headed by a gentleman known as President Donald J. Trump of the United States.
That's what I want some extra work to do, but it's so important that I'm willing to do it and we'll do it right.
And we're going to put leaders from other countries on and leaders that are very distinguished leaders.
And we'll have a board.
And one of the people that wants to be on the board is the UK former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, good man, very good man, and some others.
And they'll be named over the next few days.
And it'll be quite the board.
Everybody wants to be on it now.
I don't know if that had anything to do.
They named me and everybody else wanted to be on it.
I guess they figure, well, he's a soft touch.
He'll be easy to deal with.
Working with the World Bank and others, it will be responsible for recruiting and training a new government that will be made up of Palestinians along with highly qualified experts from all around the world.
Hamas and other terrorist factions will play no role in the board, but they'll play no role in the governance of Gaza at all, directly or indirectly.
As you know, thousands of Hamas leaders have been killed and soldiers have been killed.
And we can never forget October 7th, but thousands have paid the price for that.
And now it's time to get our hostages back and get back to trying to build something that's really great and very important.
In our meeting today, Prime Minister Netanyahu was very clear about his opposition to a Palestinian state.
And he continuously mentions October 7th, and I understand that.
Most people do.
And I understand and respect his position on many things, but what he's doing today is so good for Israel.
I notice that they have large crowds gathering in Israel all the time, and they have my name up.
They like me for whatever reason, Bibi, I don't know, but they do like me.
But they say two things.
Please get the hostages back and please end the war.
They've had it.
It's had it.
So I think it's a very popular thing you do, because he's a warrior.
He doesn't know about getting back to a normal way of life.
But he is a warrior, and Israel is lucky to have him.
But now the people want to get back to peace.
They want to get back to normalization in a true sense.
Several countries have foolishly recognized the Palestinian state.
As you know, some of our European friends, allies, good people.
But they're really, I think, doing that because they're very tired of what's going on for so many decades.
They've been presidents and prime ministers for years.
And during this time, having to do with the Middle East, all they're doing is talking about the same thing over and over.
They want to see it get back.
And nobody wants that more than me, or I believe Bibi, too.
But the people of Israel want it.
They really want it.
They want the hostages back.
That includes the probably 32 bodies that we're talking about, 20 people that are living, 32 or so people that are dead.
And they want to have peace.
So let us not forget how we got here.
Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people.
Israel withdrew from Gaza thinking they would live in peace.
Remember that a long time ago?
They withdrew.
They said, you take it.
This is our contribution to peace.
But that didn't work out.
That didn't work out.
It was the opposite of peace.
They pulled away.
They let them have it.
And I never forgot that because I said, that doesn't sound like a good deal to me.
As a real estate person, I mean, they gave up the ocean, right?
Ron, they gave up the ocean.
They said, who would do this deal?
And it still didn't work out.
They were very generous, actually.
And they gave up the most magnificent piece of land in many ways in the Middle East.
And they said, all we want to do now is have peace.
And that request was not honored.
Instead of building a better life for the Palestinians, Hamas diverted resources to build over 400 miles of tunnels and terror infrastructure, rocket production facilities, and hid their military command posts and launch sites in hospitals, schools, and mosques.
So if you went after them, you'd be after them, and you wouldn't even realize you ended up knocking out a hospital or school or a mosque.
That terrible thing.
Terrible, terrible way to have to fight.
No fight is good, but that's a real bad one.
So there are many Palestinians who wish to live in peace, many, many, many.
I've seen so many of them.
And they have support.
And I challenge the Palestinians to take responsibility for their destiny because that's what we're giving them.
We're giving them responsibility for their destiny, fully condemn and prohibit terrorism and earn their way to a brighter future.
They don't want the life that they've had.
They've had a rough life with Hamas.
If the Palestinian Authority does not complete the reforms that I laid out, my vision for peace in 2020, they'll have only themselves to blame.
We're giving them an amazing footprint, and they have amazing support from the leaders of the Arab world and the Muslim world, the great, great leaders.
These are great leaders.
These are unbelievable leaders that have built great countries and very wealthy countries.
What the future holds for the Palestinians, no one really knows, but the plan that we put forward today is focused on ending the war immediately, getting all of our hostages back, getting everything back.
Hard to believe when you even say it, and creating conditions for durable Israeli security and Palestinian success.
Israeli security is going to be involved.
We're going to help you.
We'll be there with you in terms of helping with security.
We want to make sure it works.
We just want to make sure it works.
There shouldn't be a shot fired now.
There will be, I guess, because that's the way it seems to be, but there shouldn't have to be within a few days.
There shouldn't have to be a shot fired.
It may be for eternity.
Wouldn't that be nice?
I hope it's true.
I can tell you the leadership of that region feels that there's a good chance of it being true.
So this will lead to this agreement that we're talking about will lead to a sustainable long-term peace.
No president in history has been a greater friend of the state of Israel than I have in addition to negotiating the Abraham Accords.
I like to say it that way because the real people, that's what they call Abraham.
I would say Abraham, but it's so much nicer when you say Abraham.
So much more elegant.
But the Abraham Accords, they're amazing.
Jared, you did that along with your group of geniuses, and nobody thought that could be done.
We have four countries, and sleepy Joe Biden didn't do a thing.
He didn't even know what the hell they were.
He should have had them fold up.
But I think this will also lead to packing them.
And who knows, maybe even Iran can get in there.
I hope we expect, we hope we're going to be able to get along with Iran.
I think they're going to be open to it.
I really believe that.
But they could be a member.
I long ago said, I'll bet you at some point Iran will be a member of the Accords, and little did I realize it was going to take this turn.
That was some turn we did with the B-2s.
But I think they might very well be there because it's a great thing for them economically.
I recognize the eternal capital of Israel.
I opened the American Embassy in Jerusalem.
That was something that everyone said would never be done, could never be done.
Virtually every president for many, many years, for decades, would campaign on making Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
They campaigned.
They campaigned on it over and over.
Is that right, Steve?
Is that right?
Everyone, and when they got to it, and I understand why now, because it was so when I got to office, I campaigned on it too.
I said, we're going to make it.
And then I'd get calls from the leaders of various countries saying, please don't do it.
Please don't do it.
It'll end the whole world.
Please don't do it.
And finally, I just didn't say anything, and I did it.
People were calling me before I did it because they heard I was going to do it.
And leaders of countries were calling me.
And I think it was on a Thursday that I did it.
And they call me Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, three, four times a day.
And I said, tell them I'll call them back on Friday.
And I announced it on Thursday.
And I called them back, the biggest people in the world, and they said, you've done it.
I said, done what?
You've made the capital of Israel Jerusalem.
And we wanted to talk out.
Oh, I wish you called me a little sooner.
Maybe I could have done something about it.
So that was a lot easier than getting into an argument because I knew what they were calling about.
And you know what?
It turned out to be amazing.
Everybody thought it was going to lead to the end of the world, right?
The end of the world, Ron.
That's what they said.
It didn't lead to anything.
It just led to something that I promised and something that was very popular for Jewish people and a lot of other people too.
I recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and I cut taxpayer funding to the corrupt United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the United Nations was interesting because, as you know, a few days ago they introduced me, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, I'm looking at my teleprompter and the thing was dead, stone cold, dead.
The things up here, I have a long, beautiful speech to make.
I'm back 30 feet back, and I'm saying, they're introducing me, there's nothing on my teleprompter.
But I made a speech.
I actually got good marks.
You think Biden could have done that?
I don't think so.
I don't think he could have done that.
I don't think too many people could have done it.
But actually, it was actually more of a speech from my heart, if you want to know the truth.
I think it was maybe better in certain ways because it was from the heart.
It has to be from the heart, otherwise, you're in big trouble.
But I cut taxpayer payer funding for that very corrupt United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and nobody thought that would be done and withdrew from the horrible Iran nuclear deal that was imposed upon Israel by Barack Hussein Obama and Biden.
And I don't think Biden knew anything about it, though.
I don't think he knows anything about it now, actually, if you ask him.
He'd say, what is that?
And we obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity, making it impossible for them to have a nuclear weapon, which they would have had probably in about two months from then.
But I've never asked Israel to compromise its security.
But we had big, strong talk.
Nobody's been better to Israel.
No president's been better to Israel than Donald Trump.
But we had a long, strong talk, Bibi and I, and he understands it's time.
It's time.
History has shown.
And the people of Israel want it.
And the people of the Middle East want it.
The people of enemies of Israel want it.
But they don't have really too many enemies right now.
And you know what?
Many countries have gained great respect for Israel for the way they fight, for the job they do, including me.
I had respect anyway, but they gained respect.
History has shown us that those who have relations with Israel have thrived, while those who have devoted resources and attention toward the destruction and even annihilation of Israel have languished.
They haven't done well.
Israel is not going anywhere.
They're going to coexist with other people and countries in the region, from Syria to Lebanon to Saudi Arabia.
The promise of a new Middle East is so clearly within our reach.
This is the closest we've ever come to real peace, not fake peace, not political fool's peace.
If we can get this difficult problem solved, the opportunities for all within that vast region of this world, it's a vast region.
It's unlimited.
The Abraham Accords show that all countries are better off when they communicate and work together and embrace new opportunities.
I hope Jared and Steve and Susie and Marco and JD, we are great people.
I hope you guys are going to work very hard to get these other countries in because now they have no excuse.
There's no longer an excuse.
They were somewhere hesitant.
And I tell you, the four countries that went in, I give them tremendous credit, and it's worked out incredibly well for them.
In the same spirit, I'm pleased to report that earlier today we took another important step toward greater understanding of the region.
A short time ago, we had a historic phone call in the Oval Office with Prime Minister Tani, who's really a great, great person.
So we had a great talk, and I was on the phone, and Bibi was talking.
Prime Minister Al-Tani was of Qatar.
They really had a heart-to-heart conversation.
It was a great conversation, I thought.
It was productive.
It was everything that you need to have something turn out to be successful.
And I want to thank Bibi, and I want to thank the Prime Minister.
It was fantastic.
We agreed to launch a formal trilateral mechanism between Israel, Qatar, and the United States to begin a dialogue to enhance mutual security, correct misperceptions, and avoid future misgivings.
And I want to thank Qatar, its leadership, and the Emir.
He's a fantastic person.
I think, you know, I'm going to be his public relations man because I know him differently than a lot of people know him.
But he wants peace.
He wants to see peace.
And his people, and they really acknowledge the critical role that they've played as mediator.
And again, we're not quite finished.
We have to get Hamas, but I think they're going to be able to do that.
So now it's time for Hamas to accept the terms of the plan that we've put forward today.
And again, this is a different Hamas than we were dealing with because I guess over 20,000 have been killed.
Their leadership has been killed three times over.
So you're really dealing with different people than we've been dealing with over the last four years, five years.
Everyone has done their part and come to the table in good faith.
Our Arab and Muslim partners are fully prepared to step up and fulfill their commitments for the benefit of the people of Gaza and the entire region.
They're willing to step up and do a lot.
They really are.
There are a lot of good people involved.
Everyone wants to see, everybody who wants to see an end to the violence and destruction should be united in calling for Hamas to accept the extremely fair proposal so that we can end the war and get us back our hostages right now and have everlasting peace.
And I look forward to having relationships with everyone.
As the chairman of the board, I'll be involved in meetings with some very smart people that will be working over there to make sure that we haven't just been wasting time with an agreement that doesn't get done.
The task of building peace will not be easy.
There are some of the hardest problems in the world to solve, and that's why it's been going on for so many centuries.
But too many lives are at stake not to try.
And this was more than a try.
I mean, I think this is something that gets done when you have every virtually every country.
And these are powerful, powerful countries that have a lot of money, and the money can make things happen.
A lot of countries try and they don't have any money.
These are very rich countries that can make things happen.
So together we'll forge a much safer and more hopeful future for everybody, including Israel.
And I want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for his partnership.
And I want to thank all of the leaders, the kings and the emirs and the presidents and prime ministers, people I mentioned.
And they've been absolutely fantastic to work with.
And it's just happened very quickly.
It's happened from a couple of weeks before the I had a meeting, a couple of meetings, but a couple of weeks before we went to the United Nations and we had some incredible meetings.
It all came to place, it all took place, and everybody wanted to be a part of it.
I don't have anybody that's saying we don't want anything to do with it, it's just the opposite.
And I'll tell you, a couple of years ago, a year ago, I don't think we would have had this kind of participation, Mr. VP, right?
I don't think we would have had.
It's been amazing.
The participation was 100%.
Everybody wants to be a part of it.
And everybody, those very strong countries, everybody wants it to work.
So, Bibi, congratulations on this.
I think this will be your crowning achievement, frankly.
If this all works out, we think it will.
It's going to be your crowning achievement.
And I want to thank you very much for being here.
Thank you, please.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Mr. President, first I want to thank you for graciously hosting me once again in the White House.
And second, I want to thank you for your friendship and for your leadership.
From Jerusalem to Tehran, from the Golan Heights to Gaza, you've proven time and again what I've said many times.
You are the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.
And Mr. President, you and I both know it's not even close.
While you focus at home on making America great again, your leadership abroad is changing the world for the better, ending wars and advancing peace.
I believe that today we're taking a critical step towards both ending the war in Gaza and setting the stage for dramatically advancing peace in the Middle East and I think beyond the Middle East and very important Muslim countries.
I support your plan to end the war in Gaza, which achieves our war aims.
It will bring back to Israel all our hostages, dismantle Hamas's military capabilities, end its political rule, and ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.
We would not have achieved this turning point without the courage and sacrifice of our incredibly brave soldiers.
They fight like lions to defend the people of Israel, and they serve on the front line in the war between civilization and barbarism.
Mr. President, when our two countries stand shoulder to shoulder, we achieve the impossible.
Just a few months ago, in Operation Rising Line and Operation Midnight Hammer, we struck a decisive blow against Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program.
Your bold decision to send those B-2s made the region safer and the world safer.
Now, under your leadership, we're taking the next step to win the war and expand the peace.
Your plan is consistent with the five principles my government set for the end of the war and the day after Hamas.
Everybody asks, what is your plan for the day after Hamas?
Here's our plan: pass it in the cabinet.
All our hostages, both those who are alive and those who died, all of them will return home immediately.
Hamas will be disarmed.
Gaza will be demilitarized.
Israel will retain security responsibility, including a security perimeter for the foreseeable future.
And lastly, Gaza will have a peaceful civilian administration that is run neither by Hamas nor by the Palestinian Authority.
If Hamas agrees to your plan, Mr. President, the first step will be a modest withdrawal, followed by the release of all our hostages within 72 hours.
The next step will be the establishment of an international body charged with fully disarming Hamas and demilitarizing Gaza.
I appreciate your willingness to lead the body, Mr. President.
I really appreciate it because you have a lot of things to do, and this is important.
And it reflects the confidence that this will give everyone that things will be followed up on all the commitments made.
The fact that you're taking this on, I think, helps a lot to make sure that everything flows in the direction that we want.
Now, if this international body succeeds, we will have permanently ended the war.
Israel will conduct further withdrawals linked to the extent of disarmament and demilitarization, but will remain in the security perimeter for the foreseeable future.
I think we should understand that we're giving everybody a chance to have this done peacefully, something that will achieve all our war objectives without any further bloodshed.
But if Hamas rejects your plan, Mr. President, or if they supposedly accept it and then basically do everything to counter it, then Israel will finish the job by itself.
This can be done the easy way, or it can be done the hard way.
But it will be done.
We prefer the easy way, but it has to be done.
All these goals must be achieved because we didn't fight this horrible fight, sacrificed the finest of our young men to have Hamas stay in Gaza and threaten us again and again and again with these horrific massacres.
Mr. President, I was encouraged by your clear statement at the UN against the recognition of a Palestinian state.
That would be an outcome that, after October 7th, would reward terrorism, undermine security, and endanger Israel's very existence.
As for the Palestinian Authority, I appreciate your firm position that the PA could have no role whatsoever in Gaza without undergoing a radical and genuine transformation.
In your 2020 peace plan, which you mentioned just now, you made clear what that transformation requires.
It's not lip service.
It's not checking a box.
It's a fundamental, genuine, and enduring transformation.
And that means ending pay to slay, changing the poisonous textbooks that teach hatred to Jews, to Palestinian children, stopping incitement in the media, ending lawfare against Israel at the ICC, the ICJ, recognizing the Jewish state, and many, many other reforms.
It won't come as a surprise to you that the vast majority of Israelis have no faith that the PA leopard will change its spots.
But rather than wait for this miraculous transformation, your plan provides a practical and realistic path forward for Gaza in the coming years, in which Gaza will be administered neither by Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority, but by those committed to a genuine peace with Israel.
I think this can be not only a new beginning for Gaza, I think it can be a new beginning for the entire region.
Under your leadership, we can re-energize, I've got to contribute my own, we can re-energize the Avraham Accords.
That's what it's called in the original Hebrew.
Avraham.
Abraham is fine.
Abraham, however you want to call it.
Under your leadership, Mr. President, we can re-energize the Abraham Accords that we forged five years ago.
We can expand them to many more Arab and Muslim nations that choose moderation over extremism.
I think there's an opportunity here.
It's not going to be easy.
It's tough going.
But I think if we succeed, you're absolutely right.
We're going to open possibilities that nobody even dreamed of.
But I think we dream of them.
As you've told me, Mr. President, and you've told the world many, many times, you said, remember October 7th.
Remember October 7th.
And we do.
We will never forget the horrors of October 7th, and we will do whatever is necessary to make sure they don't happen again.
Since October 7th, Israel's enemies have learned a hard truth.
Those who attack us pay a heavy price.
But those who partner with us advance progress and security for their peoples.
President Trump just said it.
It's also in the Bible.
It says, those who will bless you will be blessed, and those who will curse you will be cursed.
And that's actually what is happening.
We want the blessings.
I think we've done a lot in the past two years to end the curse.
We're not finished, but we've done a lot.
And we've done a lot together to end the curse.
I want to thank your entire team for their efforts to get to this point.
I especially want to thank Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for their indefatigable work to bring Israel and Arab states in the region closer together.
I am deeply grateful to both of them for their work.
We had a phone call today just to make it clear.
I said to the Prime Minister of Qatar, Israel was targeting terrorists.
It wasn't targeting Qatar.
And of course, we regretted the loss of the Qatari citizen.
It wasn't our target.
And I very much appreciate President Trump's proposal to have a trilateral body, the United States, Israel, and Qatar, to work out respective grievances.
There are quite a few.
But if we could try to mitigate them or put it on a different footing, I think that'll be good for everyone.
Above all, all the people, the fine team, and many helpers who've done this, I want to thank you, Mr. President.
History has already shown that under your leadership, Israel and America can change the face of the Middle East.
And today I'm hopeful that your plan to end the war in Gaza will do so again and do so soon.
It will free our hostages, end Hamas' tyranny in Gaza, and enable a more secure and prosperous future for the peoples of our region.
Thank you, Mr. President.
May God bless America.
May God bless Israel.
May God bless the indispensable alliance between our countries.
And may I add in Hebrew, may we all be inscribed in the book of life.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Bibi.
So I think while we wait for these documents to be signed and get everybody in line, I think it maybe is not really appropriate to take questions.
I'm meeting with, as you know, a couple of Democrats in a little while about the country, about keeping our country open.
They're going to have to do some things because their ideas are not very good ones.
They're very bad for our country.
So we'll see how that works out.
But this is something that was really historic today.
This was something that was amazing.
I think, Bibi, I mean, depending on you, I think while we're waiting for signatures and waiting for approvals from a lot of different countries that are involved in this, we probably shouldn't take questions.
Or would you like to take a question or two from perhaps a friendly Israeli reporter if there's such a thing?
That's a very, very tough proposition.
But I would think, Mr. President, that I would go by your instinct that this is we'll have enough time for questions.
Let's settle the issue first, I think.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you.
How long have I lost our boss leaders in Qatar all sides now?