June 27, 2024 - America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| The End | ||
| The End | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
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Because it's the outsiders who change the world. | |
| and who make a real and lasting difference. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever came easy. | ||
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Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | |
| The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say. | ||
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We must always remember that we share one home And one glorious destiny. | |
| We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. | ||
| We all salute the same great American flag. | ||
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Our best days are yet to come. | |
| I am officially running for president of the United States. | ||
| We need a leader. | ||
| I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. | ||
| It can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid. | ||
| The American dream is dead. | ||
| But if I get elected president, I will bring it back. | ||
| Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. | ||
| The American dream. | ||
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And we will make America great again. | |
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
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We will make America great again. | |
| Great again. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| But as soon as people start playing games, I stop. | ||
| I stop playing games. | ||
| And at any moment, I can check that yay button. | ||
| I said trust, no man. | ||
| I'm a son of a fool. | ||
| I'll give you a day, cause I'm a girl. | ||
| I'm a bitch, I'm a girl. | ||
| I'm a girl in the corner. | ||
| My mama said trust, no ho. | ||
| There's no problem. | ||
| I'm a man. | ||
| One, two, stop the track. | ||
| I think the first action. | ||
| See, Ricky said, I'm a little buddy. | ||
| I'm a woman on the phone, yeah. | ||
| I'm a woman on the phone, yeah. | ||
| I'm a woman on the phone. | ||
| He's a guy. | ||
| Not my words, not my rules. | ||
| I just can force them, all right? | ||
| I just can force them, all right? all right? | ||
| Warming up. | ||
| Everybody dare to vote. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| This is from your biggest Protestant fan. | ||
| May you one day see the light. | ||
| Well, hey, thanks, love you too, but I'm sorry, I believe in a religion that makes sense, so... Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump were all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large. | ||
| It's not too big, is it? | ||
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It's wrong, isn't it? | |
| It feels so right. | ||
| It's a deal. | ||
| It's wrong, isn't it? | ||
| It feels so right. | ||
| It's a deal. | ||
| I put together some real recipes. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Go dig or go home. | ||
| Go dig or go home. | ||
| Hey, Douglas. - Oh, this is great. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I'm doing this. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| Just a minute. | ||
| Are you begging him? | ||
| Are you? | ||
| No. | ||
| You speak just back. | ||
| I'm going to get this. | ||
| No. | ||
| Look at this right here on the street. | ||
| It's Donald Trump. | ||
| Are you what? | ||
| It's Donald Trump. | ||
| It's here. | ||
| It's hard. | ||
| I'm coming out of it. | ||
| Everything's separate tonight, Mr. Trump. | ||
| I wonder what Trump's game is this time. | ||
| Trump's got a new day. | ||
| Trump's got a new deal. | ||
| What's your game, though? | ||
| Heard about Trump's new deal? | ||
| What? | ||
| It's Donald Trump. | ||
| Trump has a new game. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Trump has a new game. | ||
| I'm going to get it. | ||
| My new game is Trump. | ||
| The game. | ||
| Trump. | ||
| The game. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This sounds like political presidential talk. | ||
| You said, though, that if you did run for president, you believe you'd win. | ||
| I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning. | ||
| I'd never go on to lose. | ||
| I've never gone on to lose in my life. | ||
| I don't know how your audience feels, but I think people are tired of seeing the United States whipped off. | ||
| Who's the guy on fire right now? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I wouldn't help you. | ||
| Okay, kids, make it fast. | ||
| I've got a plane. | ||
| We create a magazine. | ||
| Mr. Trump, we're thinking of it. | ||
| Scam. | ||
| Scam. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Listen. | ||
| Down the wall. | ||
| Your male modeling would be what it is today. | ||
| I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I'm going to go back to the past. | ||
| That's what people always say, isn't it? | ||
| They say, can we really go back? | ||
| And the answer is, whether you're conservative or liberal, right when you're left-wing, the answer is no. | ||
| We're never going back. | ||
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It's done. | |
| It's gone. | ||
| All of that is gone. | ||
| But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead. | ||
| Because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived. | ||
| Jesus Christ is our present now, and Jesus Christ is our future after we die on Earth. | ||
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We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet Earth. | |
| All right. | ||
| We love everybody. | ||
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And we want people that can burn, really, more than anybody. | |
| But this country can no longer be held hostage by a small minority that doesn't believe in the Nobel Prize. | ||
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The mission of our movement is to make this country a Christian country. | |
| The mission is to create a Christian, The only way we're going to do it is not by infiltrating, not by subverting, not by lying, which is what a lot of people do. | ||
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The only way that we're going to make this happen is with the fullness of a real question. | |
| The only way. | ||
| We have to want it more than they do. | ||
| Because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny. | ||
| And nothing can stop us. | ||
| And nothing will. | ||
| And they've been put on notice. | ||
| If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before. | ||
| Don't sit yet, get it like this. | ||
| Socialists, globalists, Marxists, communists who are attacking our civilization have no idea of the sleeping giant they have awoken. | ||
| They cannot even begin to imagine the brave and righteous spirit they've unleashed in men and women, but they're going to This nation belongs to you, belongs to me. | ||
| It was patriots like you that built this country, and it's patriots like you that are going to save our country. | ||
| To all of those who think that they can coerce and subjugate the citizens of this land, hear these words. | ||
| For me tonight, the people of America will not surrender our borders. | ||
| We will not surrender our culture. | ||
| We will not surrender our faith. | ||
| We will not surrender our values. | ||
| We will not surrender our history. | ||
| We will not surrender our liberty. | ||
| And above all, we will not surrender our children. | ||
| We are done with their distorted visions for America. | ||
| It's time to start talking about greatness for our country again. | ||
| We want our country to be great again. | ||
| We want our country to be respected. | ||
| The time for action has come. | ||
| As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that we deserve. then we can be assured that other nations will not | ||
| Years from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice. | ||
| Whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given. | ||
| Together, we have the same mission. | ||
| Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair. | ||
| You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted. | ||
| But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight. | ||
| Never, ever, ever give up. | ||
| Don't give in, don't back down, and never stop doing what you know is right. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. | ||
| And the more righteous your fight, the more opposition that you will face. | ||
| In your hearts are inscribed the values of service, sacrifice, and devotion. | ||
| Now you must go forth into the world and turn your hopes and dreams into action. | ||
| America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers. | ||
| When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, they prayed. | ||
| When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our creator four times. | ||
| Because in America, we don't worship government, we worship God. | ||
| It is why our currency proudly declares, in God we trust. | ||
| And it's why we proudly proclaim that we are one nation under God. | ||
| The story of America is the story of an adventure That began with deep faith, big dreams, and humble beginnings. | ||
| The next generation of American leaders never, ever give up. | ||
| There'll be times in your life you'll want to quit. | ||
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Never quit. | |
| Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you. | ||
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Carry yourself with dignity and pride. | |
| Demand the best from yourself. | ||
| The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. | ||
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Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | |
| Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
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You must keep pushing forward. | |
| And always have the courage to be yourself. | ||
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America is better when people put their faith into action. | |
| Pray to God and follow his teachings. | ||
| Today, each of you begins a new chapter as well. | ||
| When your story goes from here, it will be defined by your vision, your perseverance, and your grit. | ||
| You will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say. | ||
| You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls. | ||
| As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, Then you will not fail. | ||
| As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| May God bless the United States of America. | ||
| And I just want to let you know that God blesses you. | ||
| And I want to just say, you are special in every way. | ||
| God bless you and God bless America. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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We are going to make our country great again. | |
| We are going to make our country great again. | ||
| We are going to make our country great again. | ||
| We are going to make our country great again. | ||
| I'm a mistress, hair always whipped around So higher, young I'm cleaner I don't care if I ever come down I don't care if I ever come down | ||
| I don't care if I ever come down | ||
| 69 I Now it's time for new believable people. | ||
| And we must do it. | ||
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If we don't control insiders, this will be over and over. | |
| To lead by an A. Big, fat, love, find common ground. | ||
| To halt the spread of lies. | ||
| And we must do it. | ||
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Big, fat, love, find common ground. | |
| To hold the spread of lies. | ||
| And a. | ||
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America first. | |
| America first. | ||
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Non-fatal. | |
| We want to build a much better. | ||
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Believable. | |
| People. | ||
| Time to stop. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| More of. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| Time to stop. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| More of insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| Time to stop insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| America first. | ||
| Love the flow. | ||
| 69. | ||
| Now it's time for new believable people. | ||
| And we must do it. | ||
| If we don't control insiders, this will be over and over. | ||
| To lead by an A big fat love. | ||
| Find common ground to hold the spread of lies. | ||
| And we must do it big fat love. | ||
| Find common ground to hold the spread of lies. | ||
| And A. | ||
| America first. | ||
| America first. | ||
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Non-fatal. | |
| We want to build a much better believable people. | ||
| And we must do it non-fatal. | ||
| Communication very much higher. | ||
| America first! | ||
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To lead it by an A. Insiders fighting for insiders. | |
| Time to stop. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| More of. | ||
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Insiders fighting for insiders. | |
| Time to stop. | ||
| Insiders fighting for insiders. | ||
| America first. | ||
| Love the flow. | ||
| President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States. - Yes. | ||
| At real Donald Trump. | ||
| At real Donald Trump. | ||
| At least I will go down as a president. | ||
| Now America is once again. | ||
| Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people. | ||
| Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| I love this country. | ||
| It's payback night. | ||
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We're gonna take our country back from these people! | |
| He will never be president. | ||
| I will win. | ||
| For Spain. | ||
| or someone. | ||
| We're going to win in so many levels. | ||
| We're going to win, win, win. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| I love you! | ||
| Miss President-elect. Miss President-elect. | ||
| Miss President-elect. | ||
| The End | ||
| The End | ||
| The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. | ||
|
unidentified
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Because it's the outsiders who change the world. | |
| And it'll make a real and lasting difference. | ||
| Nothing worth doing ever came easy. | ||
|
unidentified
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Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. | |
| The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say. | ||
|
unidentified
|
We must always remember that we share one home, And one glorious destiny. | |
| We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. | ||
| We all salute the same great American flag. | ||
|
unidentified
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Our best days are yet to come. | |
| I am officially running for president of the United States. | ||
| We need a leader. | ||
| I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. | ||
| It can be wonderful if you have smart people. | ||
| But we have people that are stupid. | ||
| The American dream is dead. | ||
| But if I get elected president, I will bring it back. | ||
| Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. | ||
| The American dream. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
|
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We will make America great again. | |
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| We will make America great again. | ||
| And we will make America great again. | ||
| I stop playing games. | ||
| And at any moment, I can hit that yay button. | ||
| Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo! | ||
| It's going to be only America first. | ||
| America first. | ||
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The American people will come first once again. | |
| With respect, the respect that we deserve. | ||
| From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. | ||
| America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! America First! you | ||
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you you you you you you you you | |
| You are watching America First. | ||
| We're locking in for our coverage of the first 2024 presidential debate. | ||
| It's gonna be a big night. | ||
| Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Thursday. | ||
| And our coverage of the debate, well it's starting now, but the debate doesn't start for another 40 minutes. | ||
| So we're going to be hanging out. | ||
| We're going to do a little bit of live pre-debate analysis. | ||
| And we're going to hang out and chat pre-game a little bit. | ||
| We have our live coverage here. | ||
| I think this is CBS here on YouTube. | ||
| So we'll be watching this. | ||
| We'll be looking at a couple of other things. | ||
| We'll be on Twitter. | ||
| And we'll be looking at some of the polls, forecasts, betting market, and other predictions. | ||
| So it's gonna be a fun night tonight. | ||
| Everybody get comfortable. | ||
| This is why we play the game. | ||
| This is what we love. | ||
| So strap yourselves in. | ||
| I got my coffee ready to go. | ||
| Coffee's hot. | ||
| Coffee pot is on. | ||
| Awfully hot. | ||
| Coffee pot is on. | ||
| We're back. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| But fuck it. | ||
| We ball. | ||
| So, we're back! | ||
| So welcome in, everybody. | ||
| We're live exclusively on Rumble. | ||
| If you are... If you're here, say hello in the Rumble live chat, but only if you're cool. | ||
| We're gonna see who's here. | ||
| Who... Let's do a little Groyper roll call. | ||
| Hey, Groyper Roll Call, if you're here watching the Rumble stream, lock in! | ||
| Tell me if you're locked in right now, and let's see who we have in the live chat. | ||
| We have... Let's see, we got TopGroyper, we got KyotoZoomer, we got RapeCaviar, frequent viewer of the show, RealNippa, we got... | ||
| It's moving a little fast. | ||
| Let me slow it down. | ||
| We got Dinkelberg. | ||
| We got Groyper3. | ||
| FireRises. | ||
| GruntGroyper. | ||
| BasedAmericaFirst. | ||
| ZerkaFan. | ||
| FloridaKid. | ||
| Shoutout John Zerka if you're watching this. | ||
| We love you, man. | ||
| We got... We have Diamond Dave. | ||
| CozyBiker. | ||
| BlueLondon. | ||
| A lot of new people here. | ||
| Tonight, 10,000 viewers. | ||
| We're just starting the stream. | ||
| We already have 10,000 live viewers. | ||
| Welcome to the stream. | ||
| This is gonna be hot. | ||
| This is gonna be hot stuff. | ||
| And you can get this at a number of places. | ||
| This is gonna be locked in. | ||
| You and me are locked in tonight to watch this debate. | ||
| We got Nomad Groyper. | ||
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We've got Kebab remover. | |
| Hey, can we get a little remove kebab in the live chat? | ||
| I've had a little bit of enough with some of these uppity kebabs. | ||
| Time to pack it up! | ||
| You know? | ||
| And anyway, so hey, welcome everybody! | ||
| Any e-celebs? | ||
| Are there any e-celebs watching tonight? | ||
| If you are an e-celeb, give us a shout in the live chat. | ||
| And we'll see who we got here. | ||
| If you're just joining us, we're only just beginning our coverage. | ||
| We're gonna lock in in just a minute. | ||
| We're just doing a little roll call. | ||
| The chat is moving so fast. | ||
| The viewership is blowing up. | ||
| 12,000 live viewers. | ||
| Let's get it up there. | ||
| Let's get it up to 20,000. | ||
| Call it. | ||
| Over, under. | ||
| And by the way... So we're getting ready for this. | ||
| I guess we're gonna strap in right now. | ||
| We're gonna get it going, okay? | ||
| So... | ||
| First presidential debate. | ||
| Let's take a quick poll of the live chat. | ||
| We'll revisit this at the end. | ||
| Let's get a 1 in the chat if you think that Donald Trump will win the debate. | ||
| 1 in the chat if you think Trump is gonna win. | ||
| Let's get a 2 in the chat if you think President Joe Biden will win tonight. | ||
| Let's take a quick poll. | ||
| Not a scientific poll, but an informal Internet poll. | ||
| One for Trump, two for Biden. | ||
| Let's see what people think. | ||
| It's almost all ones. | ||
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Some twos, but almost all ones. | |
| And the important detail... Yeah, so it's all ones. | ||
| No, it's actually about 50-50. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Well, I am getting all my money from Qatar, Hamas, and the Democrat Party, so it only makes perfect... It only makes perfect sense. | ||
| This show is brought to you by... No, this is a joke! | ||
| Want to make that very clear to Chris at Rumble and everybody. | ||
| This is a joke, because nobody can take a joke these days. | ||
| The only joke you're allowed to make is like a two-gender joke. | ||
| Anything more than that, everybody loses their minds, you know? | ||
| You can make countless cartoons about a white boomer and a black guy who make fun of like a trans-liberal But then you start to make other jokes, people freak out. | ||
| This show's brought to you by Hamas, the state of Qatar, the House of Thani, and the Democrat Party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, super PAC, generous contributor to the show. | ||
| No, that's jokes, but... So, it looks like it's about 50-50, maybe a little bit more in favor of Trump. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| We're getting ready for the debate and everyone is wondering who's going to win. | ||
| But the victory conditions, as everybody has pointed out, are very, very different. | ||
| In order for Joe Biden to win the debate, as everybody has said, he merely needs to be mentally competent. | ||
| That's the win condition. | ||
| It's not the same. | ||
| For both candidates. | ||
| For Joe Biden to win, he just needs to survive. | ||
| Mission log updated. | ||
| Survive! | ||
| Like, the hordes are coming, waves of NPC attackers. | ||
| Survive! | ||
| That's all he has to do. | ||
| Joe Biden has to make it to the end of the debate without a major gaffe, without literally forgetting where he is, pooing his pants, all that stuff. | ||
| So it's a much lower bar for Joe Biden. | ||
| I think that if he just gets to the end, he's in good shape. | ||
| Because as we all know, that is the biggest, among the biggest problems with Joe Biden is that he's obviously not really in control of the White House. | ||
| He is not in control of his mental faculties. | ||
| And everybody, I think, has noticed this at this point. | ||
| And the cognitive decline is very severe. | ||
| I want to temper that a little bit, and my belief is that I think the situation is not as bad as people say. | ||
| I think it probably is, in reality, as bad as people say. | ||
| But I have been doing this show for seven years, and I remember covering the 2020 debates, the primary debates, the general debates. | ||
| And I remember in 2020, Joe Biden was demented then. | ||
| He was senile back then. | ||
| And he was struggling. | ||
| And they were hiding him, if you recall, during the pandemic. | ||
| And yet, every single time that he was called upon, he locked in. | ||
| He took the drugs, and he locked in, and he performed. | ||
| And I remember back then, everyone made these predictions. | ||
| They said, he won't make it to November. | ||
| Well, here we are four years later. | ||
| He made it. | ||
| People said he's gonna get killed at the debate, or the State of the Union, or the Inaugural. | ||
| They said he is not competent to even give a speech. | ||
| But of course, he's given speeches. | ||
| I was surprised. | ||
| The State of the Union this year, it was a little rough, but it was, all things considered, it was fine. | ||
| There were some issues, but nothing crazy. | ||
| And so I feel like every time it's overstated almost every time it is is very much Overstated the extent to which he'll be impacted because of course he's on performance enhancing drugs. | ||
| I think that's very clear because there's such a stark difference between your regular everyday appearance where he doesn't know where he is and then these major public appearances when he seems to be a totally different person and So, it's clearly performance enhancing drugs. | ||
| I don't know what it is. | ||
| I don't mess with drugs, so I don't even know, you know, what you take for something like that, but every time he seems to be able to pull it together. | ||
| With that being said, so I'm, you know, I'm trying to be a little even on both sides here. | ||
| At the same time, it seems that the cognitive decline has gotten far worse very recently. | ||
| And I don't mean like in the last couple years, I mean in the past few months. | ||
| So, on the one hand, the victory condition is survive. | ||
| On the other hand, he's been able to survive up until this point. | ||
| He's done debates, he's done the inaugural, the State of the Union, he's done other major public appearances, and he's been able to coast. | ||
| But then again, it has gotten far worse in just the past few months. | ||
| It's visible. | ||
| His face looks worse. | ||
| His gait, the way that he walks, looks worse. | ||
| The confusion seems to be getting worse. | ||
| So, although it's never been a catastrophic problem in the past, it seems like it may be going forward. | ||
| And it may be tonight. | ||
| And if not tonight, maybe in the future. | ||
| Likelihood only goes up as time goes on. | ||
| So that is what is on everybody's mind, and it's pretty unbelievable This election is so consequential for so many reasons. | ||
| You've got the dilemma abroad, which is basically the beginning of the end of American unipolarity. | ||
| Or, what do they call it? | ||
| America as a hyper-power with true global hegemony. | ||
| That is over. | ||
| That is over as we see these Flashpoints all across the globe for great power conflict, regional conflict. | ||
| Of course, we're talking about Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan. | ||
| We're also talking about West Africa, and Guyana, and Azerbaijan, and Kosovo. | ||
| Everywhere across the globe, on every continent, there are flashpoints for major conflict. | ||
| There is a new Cold War with China. | ||
| There is a new Monroe Doctrine being implemented. | ||
| There was just a coup attempt in Bolivia yesterday, another Western-backed coup. | ||
| So, the world is in peril. | ||
| The economy is in peril. | ||
| Inflation is high. | ||
| Growth is slow. | ||
| The energy crisis is rearing its head again. | ||
| We're reaching peak shale production. | ||
| Global peak oil production seems to be on the horizon. | ||
| Energy transition, critical minerals and supply chain in the hands of adversaries. | ||
| The border is worse than ever. | ||
| Crime is surging and increasing at a faster rate than any time in American history. | ||
| So we have all these problems. | ||
| This is what the election should be about, is about. | ||
| But what is on everybody's mind during the debate is not Israel. | ||
| It's not Ukraine. | ||
| It's not the border. | ||
| It's not inflation. | ||
| What's on everybody's mind is the fact that Joe Biden is retarded. | ||
| Which is pretty... | ||
| Ridiculous. | ||
| And I usually don't lean into this kind of stuff so much, but that is what we're doing tonight. | ||
| You know, it's, hey, when in Rome, this is what we do. | ||
| So we're doing the partisan politics thing. | ||
| But it is really unbelievable that he is that messed up. | ||
| It has consumed, I think, everybody's attention on this. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure you guys know, if you're doing your own watch party and people you know, that is the talk of the town. | ||
| How retarded is this guy gonna be tonight? | ||
| Our President! | ||
| Commander-in-Chief, highest, most powerful office. | ||
| secular office in the world and We're wondering if he's even gonna be able to show up and put on a 90-minute debate performance without having a diaper change Without having a stinky diaper. | ||
| That's pretty unbelievable. | ||
| So of course, that's what we're looking out for but that that is my estimation of the situation is I think that it always tends to be overstated how bad he really is and It's like with everything. | ||
| We have been waiting and waiting. | ||
| When is there going to be this moment when Biden embarrasses himself so badly that he doesn't even think of running for re-election? | ||
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It just hasn't arrived. | |
| But, that's what we're waiting for tonight. | ||
| So, that's what we'll be looking for. | ||
| But we're going to get into some other stuff. | ||
| We've got our CBS coverage. | ||
| I don't know if we're really going to lean too much on this. | ||
| I want to get into... This is 538. | ||
| These are the, and it's actually interesting, FiveThirtyEight, for those that don't know, this is Nate Silver. | ||
| Nate Silver came up with this brilliant election predicting model back in 2012. | ||
| He was like the Wonder Kid. | ||
| And he started this website called FiveThirtyEight. | ||
| But then in 2016, he totally got it wrong, and it ruined his career. | ||
| And now 538 was bought by CBS. | ||
| Just a little fun fact for you guys if you're keeping score with this stuff. | ||
| And anyway, they actually do a pretty interesting analysis of the polls. | ||
| They take all the polls that come in... | ||
| They give the polls a score based on how reliable it is, because obviously the polls give such disparate information. | ||
| The methodology is seriously flawed in some of them. | ||
| You know, like there was a Rasmussen poll that came out today that Trump published on True Social. | ||
| It said he's leading by 10 points nationally. | ||
| Does anybody believe... I know there are some people that say, like, Trump is gonna win California! | ||
| You know, so, like, maybe I shouldn't even ask. | ||
| But does anybody really believe that Trump is up 10 points? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Black Swan event. | ||
| But Rasmussen, as we know, is very favorable to Republicans. | ||
| It was in 2020. | ||
| It was in 2016. | ||
| So they'll evaluate a poll like that and they add it to an aggregate score after they have filtered it based on which polls have the best methodology. | ||
| And so this is their current forecast on 538. | ||
| It says it's basically a dead heat. | ||
| 50-50. | ||
| They say that out of 100 simulations of the presidential election, Joe Biden wins 50. | ||
| And they say that Trump wins 49. | ||
| And in 1 out of 100 chances, there is no Electoral College winner, meaning it's 269 to 269, which is possible. | ||
| And so, the most interesting part of the graph to me is this. | ||
| This is my favorite graphic here on 538. | ||
| And if you zoom in, I don't know if you guys can see this, but if you zoom in, it shows It shows very clearly which states in this tug of war are leaning the most right and the most left. | ||
| And so right now the map has it that Joe Biden gets 270 electoral college votes by barely winning Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. | ||
| It says that Trump is likely to take Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia. | ||
| And this is the race In a nutshell, the state of the race right now is that it seems that Trump is the favorite to win Georgia. | ||
| He's the favorite to win Arizona. | ||
| And they are more deeper red states. | ||
| It's a little bit of a surprise. | ||
| It also shows that he's likely to win Nevada, which he lost in 2016 and 2020. | ||
| And so the real question is he needs to win one of the three. | ||
| He needs to win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan. | ||
| One of those three, in addition to Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Trump wins. | ||
| And the odds are, even though this forecast says that Biden is the likely favorite, I actually think it's more likely that Trump wins one of the three. | ||
| Because Joe Biden has to run the table in the Midwest. | ||
| These are three states that Trump won in 2016. | ||
| There are three states that Trump came within 1% of winning in 2020. | ||
| In states like Michigan and Wisconsin, it was a razor-thin margin. | ||
| And so the odds that Biden runs the table and maintains all three of them I think is unlikely. | ||
| I think that Trump is likely to pull one of them. | ||
| They also say, though, that Trump may have a chance in Virginia. | ||
| Trump is going to be doing a rally in Virginia this week. | ||
| Many people say that adds to speculation that perhaps his vice president will be Glenn Youngkin, the governor of Virginia. | ||
| Very big, upset victory when he won years ago. | ||
| But so this is really the state of the race, it's a tug of war, and it all comes down to the Midwest. | ||
| Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. | ||
| Can he win one of them? | ||
| And the big thing about Michigan, which is kind of unbelievable how it works out this way, it could be the case that Michigan decides the whole election. | ||
| If Trump wins Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, All he needs is Michigan, let's say hypothetically. | ||
| The reason that I'm focusing on Michigan, why I say that's so unbelievable, is because Michigan, as you know, just so happens to have one of the largest Muslim populations outside the Muslim world. | ||
| There are millions of Muslims, maybe it's just over a million, in Michigan, just south of Detroit in Dearborn. | ||
| And of course, what is going on right now? | ||
| This major genocide, this brutal military campaign by Israel in Gaza, which has been totally supported by the Biden administration. | ||
| And so during the Democratic primary, which is not really formal, or rather it's the opposite, it is truly a formality, There was a Democrat primary even though Biden as the incumbent president is the presumptive nominee. | ||
| I believe there were some minor challengers but nothing serious. | ||
| In the Democratic primary in Michigan there were nearly a hundred thousand Democrat voters that voted in the primary as uncommitted and it was a significant percentage of the vote and The premise is basically that so long as Biden continues to support Israel in their campaign in Gaza, these Muslims and other liberals that are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause are going to withhold their vote from Joe Biden. | ||
| Consider that the margin in the state of Michigan in 2020 was less than 100,000. | ||
| So if there are 100,000 uncommitted Democrats, but there were fewer than 100,000 voters that flipped the state in 2020, then that could theoretically pose a big problem for Joe Biden, even though he was a big problem. | ||
| He's got a Muslim problem. | ||
| He's got a young person's problem. | ||
| He's got a progressive problem. | ||
| If they believe that he is too supportive of Israel and not doing enough to support the Palestinians with humanitarian aid, It's conceivable that by staying home, not even voting for Trump necessarily, but merely by staying home, they could flip Michigan and win the whole thing for Trump. | ||
| So that's why a lot of people are talking about the state of Michigan. | ||
| Then again, and let's talk about some other things that are going on. | ||
| In Arizona, there's a big problem for Republicans on the flip side. | ||
| Trump is the favorite to win Arizona, but there is a major referendum in Arizona On abortion. | ||
| And since the Dobbs decision, I always forget if it's Hobbs or Dobbs, since the Dobbs decision a couple of years ago, which overturned Roe vs. Wade, unfortunately, and I don't say this with any kind of satisfaction because I am a pro-life Catholic, I'm pro-life as it gets, and I would never vote for somebody that's pro-choice, But with that being said, it does pose a major electoral problem for Republicans. | ||
| For the simple fact that women in America love abortion. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| I think most Christians don't. | ||
| Probably the vast majority of Christians don't. | ||
| But a lot of these more even secular conservative women, they will turn out to vote against Anti-abortion referendums at the state level. | ||
| And we've seen that over and over again. | ||
| It had a negative impact in 2022 in the midterms. | ||
| It has had a negative impact in special elections. | ||
| And there is data that supports the idea that in states with a referendum on abortion, Republicans have been underperforming. | ||
| And that's because any time there is a referendum that is going to take abortion rights, which is how they frame it, it activates women. | ||
| It activates women as a constituency. | ||
| They go out and vote really hard. | ||
| Liberal progressive women turn out in droves. | ||
| And I think even a lot of secular conservative women, I think they also vote the wrong way. | ||
| And so in a state like Arizona, where there's going to be a referendum, it could have the potential to activate Democrat voters that may not have, under normal circumstances, gone out to vote. | ||
| Maybe they wouldn't vote for Joe Biden, but they would turn out to vote against one of these referendums. | ||
| So those are some of the dynamics of things that are going on in the various states. | ||
| It's a little bit of a mixed bag. | ||
| And so we'll see what happens. | ||
| As FiveThirtyEight predicts, it's basically a toss-up. | ||
| We'll look at the polling though. | ||
| This is from RealClearPolitics. | ||
| And they take the average of all the polls. | ||
| This is the national polling average for a five-way race between Trump, Biden, RFK, Cornel West, and Jill Stein. | ||
| It shows that Trump is up on average by 2.6%. | ||
| That is the average. | ||
| And Trump has been in the lead in this five-way average since at least November. | ||
| We'll look at the two-way average, the two-man average, the two men being Joe Biden and Trump. | ||
| And he's up by slightly less, 1.5% in the average. | ||
| And he's been in the lead. | ||
| You can see that they decoupled magically right around October 7th. | ||
| Sort of interesting how that works. | ||
| But so this is the polling. | ||
| We'll take a look at some of the swing states though. | ||
| I think that's interesting as well. | ||
| Let's see if we can get our battleground states. | ||
| So these are our top battleground elections, our battleground states. | ||
| And Trump is in the lead in basically every single one. | ||
| In Arizona, Trump is up by nearly 6% on average. | ||
| In Nevada, he's up by almost 3%. | ||
| Wisconsin is a tie. | ||
| It's a perfect tie. | ||
| Michigan, Trump is barely up 0.5% on the average. | ||
| In Pennsylvania, he's up almost 3%. | ||
| North Carolina, he's up 6.7%. | ||
| Not really a swing state. | ||
| He'll probably take that easily. | ||
| And in Georgia, he's up by 4%. | ||
| What's interesting, I don't know if it shows it here, But if you take a look and see where Trump was in 2016, because I believe it shows that data. | ||
| Let's see if it does. | ||
| I think it did at one point. | ||
| Yeah, so if you take a look at a state like Arizona, here's an interesting figure for you. | ||
| So for example, right now in 2024, Trump is up by 5.6% in the average. | ||
| Trump is up by 5.6% in the average but on this day in 2016 eight years ago Clinton was up by two on the On this day in 2020, 4 years ago, Biden was up by 5. | ||
| So that gives you an idea, as a control variable, of how much better Trump is performing in 2024. | ||
| Throughout 2016 and 2020, Trump did not sustain a high polling average lead in almost any of the key battleground states. | ||
| But he has this year. | ||
| In 2020, it was flipped. | ||
| On this day, 4 years ago, Biden was up by 5. | ||
| Today, Trump is up by 5. | ||
| And this is the average, not just any one poll. | ||
| And 8 years ago, Clinton was up by 2. | ||
| And Trump won Arizona in 2016. | ||
| So that gives you a little comparative idea of what we might be looking at in 2024. | ||
| So that's where we are with the polling. | ||
| That's where we are with the forecast. | ||
| And I will say, however, of course this is all about the election. | ||
| I think it's dubious how much the debate will have an impact. | ||
| I think that in 2020 the general election debate had virtually no impact. | ||
| And of course, 2020 was a bit of a strange year because of the pandemic. | ||
| And actually, there were only two debates in 2020. | ||
| Normally, there's three. | ||
| But in 2020, because they could not come to an agreement on the venue for the second debate, they cancelled that. | ||
| But I think that, if you'll recall, in 2020, it was a basically forgettable series of debates. | ||
| I think they had no impact. | ||
| And then again, everybody, I think, was far more concerned about George Floyd, COVID, the recession. | ||
| But nevertheless, it was not fireworks in 2020. | ||
| 2016, it was a different story. | ||
| 2016, I think the second presidential debate, I think that flipped it. | ||
| That came on the heels of the Billy Bush tape, which was leaked in October. | ||
| And then Trump came back a few days later in the debate and told Hillary Clinton she was going to go to jail. | ||
| And it permanently, I think, changed the outcome of the race. | ||
| I rushed to my laptop. | ||
| I put $700 or $300 down on Trump winning the election when he said that. | ||
| I was like, that's the moment. | ||
| So, it'll be interesting to see if tonight is more like 2016 or more like 2020. | ||
| And I'm curious how aggressive Trump is going to play it. | ||
| The one memorable thing about 2020 is that he was extremely... Trump, I'm talking about, was extremely aggressive in the first debate. | ||
| To the point where I think it actually turned a lot of people off. | ||
| I don't know that it made people vote against him, but I think a lot of people didn't like that. | ||
| And so now that Biden is in a much more weakened condition, will Trump attempt to push the envelope again or will he let Joe Biden have enough rope to hang himself, so to speak? | ||
| I think that's kind of what people are going to be looking for. | ||
| So that's a little preview of the debate. | ||
| I have to tell you tonight, I'm gonna be cheering for Trump, but, as I've said, and I'll spend a little bit of time on this, if you're just joining us here, we're doing our pre-coverage. | ||
| The debate is in just about 10 minutes. | ||
| So we're getting very close to the edge here, 10 minutes away. | ||
| We're gonna talk about two more things, and then I think we'll be ready for the debate here. | ||
| But the first thing I wanna say is this. | ||
| I'm gonna be rooting for Trump tonight. | ||
| Because I love him. | ||
| I love him as a guy. | ||
| I think he's a great American. | ||
| I think he's an American legend. | ||
| I think he's one of the finest presidents. | ||
| But with that being said, right now, I remain an uncommitted voter. | ||
| And I want to explain my position briefly, just for people that haven't heard from me in a minute, if you're tuning in to watch the debate coverage. | ||
| I'm not an anti-Trumper. | ||
| I'm not a never-Trumper. | ||
| I don't support Joe Biden. | ||
| I'm not a Democrat. | ||
| I would never vote for Joe Biden. | ||
| But I think that if you're honest, and I think if you're being objective, Donald Trump did not achieve everything that he set out to achieve in his first term. | ||
| And I think there's a lot of legitimate excuses for that. | ||
| I think the Republicans in Congress stonewalled him, and then the Democrats did when they won the House in 2018. | ||
| I think that he was sabotaged by his own personnel, some of whom he appointed and some of whom he didn't. | ||
| And they bragged about it openly. | ||
| They took out a front page op-ed in the New York Times. | ||
| And they said, I am the deep state and I'm sabotaging Trump. | ||
| And the guy was unmasked later on, but they were bragging about it. | ||
| Trump was screwed with the pandemic, the election was stolen, and then they even conspired to shut down the attempt to repair the election. | ||
| There's a big-time magazine article about that in January 2021. | ||
| So, there's a lot of excuses for why it didn't work out, but the main reason it didn't work out in 2016 is that he chose all the wrong personnel. | ||
| He didn't take it seriously. | ||
| He let the RNC and guys like Reince Priebus do all the hiring. | ||
| He appointed really bad cabinet members like Betsy DeVos and Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo and Rex Tillerson and a lot of people that he's no longer friends with anymore. | ||
| So he had a lot of lousy personnel in the cabinet and a lot of lousy personnel that filled up the whole administration. | ||
| And he delegated far too much to Jared Kushner. | ||
| He delegated Middle East peace, negotiations with Congress over the border wall, the USMCA, which was the revised NAFTA agreement. | ||
| And so, there were a lot of problems back then, and I would say that the other disappointment from the first term is that Trump fundamentally changed. | ||
| The proposition in 2016, or even earlier in 2015, was that Trump was a true outsider, who was rich enough that he didn't need donor money, And as such, would not be controlled by special interests and donors. | ||
| As a political outsider, he would not owe anybody any favors. | ||
| He didn't come with the Republican Party, it was just Trump. | ||
| And he, speaking for the people, really rallied everybody on three issues. | ||
| was trade restriction or trade protectionism, immigration restriction, specifically building a wall, deporting illegals, even potentially lowering legal immigration, and ending foreign wars, like the Iraq war, winding down the involvement in Syria. | ||
| And so that was the Trump in 2015. | ||
| But what we got in 2020, and I think what we're getting now is something totally different. | ||
| It's a completely different animal. | ||
| We're getting somebody that is going to support the status quo on Israel's wars in the Middle East. | ||
| We're getting somebody that, as of last week, said he supports stapling green cards to diplomas, which is basically like unlimited legal immigration. | ||
| That's what that is. | ||
| If you give American corporations a license to print green cards by going through the universities, they will. | ||
| They will set up fake degree programs and they will import as much foreign labor, skilled, unskilled, whatever, as possible because it's cheap and they can. | ||
| And this is what's being promised now to the donors in Silicon Valley. | ||
| He made that promise at a fundraiser with donors from Silicon Valley. | ||
| And so you look across the board at things like this and this is just a fundamentally different, it's a different guy. | ||
| It's a different proposition. | ||
| This is not a billionaire self-funding with no special interests and no Republican Party and bringing an end to immigration and foreign wars. | ||
| This is somebody who's now bringing into the White House Nikki Haley, who he promised a spot in the cabinet. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy, Rick Grinnell. | ||
| He's being funded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by major donors in Silicon Valley, Zionists like Miriam Adelson. | ||
| And the promises have changed. | ||
| He's now promising mass legal immigration and probably will commit to supporting the current regional war that Israel's perpetrating in Gaza and potentially in the future Lebanon and Iran. | ||
| This is where we are. | ||
| This is the state of things. | ||
| What's more, it doesn't seem that the personnel problems have been remedied. | ||
| All the same terrible people are running the Trump campaign that were running the Trump administration. | ||
| And all the same terrible people that were brought in then are being brought in now. | ||
| So, as of right now, I cannot in good conscience vote for this. | ||
| I think it's probably better that Trump wins. | ||
| I will not be disappointed if or when he does. | ||
| I think that we'll have to labor to do whatever we can to steer the ship if Trump wins. | ||
| But I have to exert my leverage before the election right now, and I think other America First voters should too, by saying we are not okay with Nikki Haley in the White House. | ||
| We're not okay. | ||
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Fuckin' dammit, hang on. | |
| Are we still live? | ||
| Somebody told me Rumble went down. | ||
| I think the whole website might be crashing, so if you are in the stream, don't refresh. | ||
| You got to keep alive But I'm getting reports that the rumble website is down not not Not just my stream, but it seems the whole website is down. | ||
| So if you're in here, stay in here. | ||
| Yeah, okay, we're having a problem. | ||
| All right, well, let's just stay put here. | ||
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So... | |
| Someone's saying it's laggy. | ||
| I guess they're having problems at Rumble. | ||
| So bear with us here. | ||
| Okay, yeah, I'm getting mixed messages. | ||
| Some people are saying it's working, some people are saying it's not working. | ||
| I guess I'll just keep going. | ||
| I'll keep you guys apprised of the situation. | ||
| It seems that the website is down, site-wide. | ||
| No communication yet from Chris Pavlovsky or Rumble itself. | ||
| So, hang tight! | ||
| If the website is laggy, just don't leave the page. | ||
| Don't refresh, because it is going to get shut down. | ||
| And we're going to keep going. | ||
| If it doesn't work, we'll just re-upload the full recording for everybody later, okay? | ||
| But all right. | ||
| Okay, well it looks like we're getting into it, so I apologize. | ||
| My monologue there was kind of cut short, but that is really the basis. | ||
| I think that we must remain, at least for now, uncommitted. | ||
| I'm gonna give Trump time to earn my vote over the next six months or five months. | ||
| We'll see what happens at the convention. | ||
| We'll see what happens tonight. | ||
| We'll see what happens as the race begins to narrow. | ||
| But as of right now, I have to be honest, it almost seems like Trump has capitulated, excuse me, almost entirely to the Republican establishment. | ||
| And I am not a Republican. | ||
| I'm not a Republican establishment guy. | ||
| I'm not a party guy. | ||
| I don't support the team. | ||
| I think the team sucks. | ||
| I'm not welcome in it. | ||
| I think real patriots are not welcome in it. | ||
| I think they screw us over every time. | ||
| And so if Trump is only an instrument to get people to buy back into that scam, Then I can in good conscience support it. | ||
| I'm not going to support the other side. | ||
| I'm not going to be upset if they prevail. | ||
| But I just can't lean into it. | ||
| I can't force it. | ||
| But the other thing I want to get into very briefly, it looks like we're just minutes away from the debate premiere here. | ||
| But the one last thing I want to touch on, the other major, major question here, and I'm also going to keep you updated on Rumble. | ||
| We'll see if it gets better for people. | ||
| I think they're probably just overwhelmed with all the traffic. | ||
| But I'm sure it'll come back over time. | ||
| I bet they're scrambling. | ||
| But the other big question is this Vice President pick. | ||
| And the rumor is that the Vice President is in attendance at the debate tonight, although that doesn't give us a ton of clues because I think they're all going to be there. | ||
| Tim Scott, JD Vance, Doug Burgum, Vivek, they're all going to be at the debate. | ||
| Okay, so I don't know what's going on with Rumble, if we're still live or not. | ||
| We have a lot of people freaking out, saying it's totally down. | ||
| Some people are saying it's not. | ||
| But in any case, we might have to switch over to Cozy. | ||
| I guess we'll have to wait and see. | ||
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Have to wait and see how it goes. | |
| They picked a really good night for the whole thing to shut down and literally right before the debate. | ||
| I guess it's just the traffic. | ||
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But... Alright. | |
| Well, we're getting started anyway, so I guess we'll just turn on the coverage. | ||
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We'll wait for it to come back Okay, we're good we're good | |
| All right. | ||
| Okay, so some people I guess are saying it's still live. | ||
| So I guess very few people are able to watch it. | ||
| We're gonna keep going. | ||
| Okay, so we're gonna keep going of course. | ||
| Just don't touch that refresh button. | ||
| I can't even get the stream on my end. | ||
| That's why I thought it was down. | ||
| So bear with us. | ||
| Technical difficulties. | ||
| It's not me. | ||
| It's the website. | ||
| I think people understand that though. | ||
| But we're just gonna stick with it. | ||
| I'm sure it'll get better as the night goes on. | ||
| It's probably a traffic issue. | ||
| It's probably the biggest night they've ever had. | ||
| Everybody tuning in to watch the debate live. | ||
| Especially if it's on CNN, you know, these Trump supporters would rather be dead than watch CNN I'm gonna watch on rumble, you know, so they're all gonna be you got a hundred million Trump supporters are all tuning in on rumble Because they don't want that fake news, you know, so it's probably crashed the entire site just because of the volume But that's okay. | ||
| You know, if you're able to get it, stay tuned. | ||
| If not, well, you can't hear me anyway. | ||
| So, I guess, you know, it doesn't really matter. | ||
| But alright. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, here we are. | ||
| It's 8 o'clock. | ||
| It's 8 o'clock. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Let's lock in. | ||
| Let me get the audio here. | ||
| And here we go! | ||
| Mistakes in this election couldn't be higher. | ||
| November 5th will be the most important day in the history of our country. | ||
| Let's do this. | ||
| This is a CBS News special. | ||
| America decides. | ||
| The first presidential debate. | ||
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Now reporting, Norah O'Donnell. | |
| Good evening. | ||
| We are just moments away from one of the most consequential events of this presidential campaign. | ||
| President Biden and former President Trump face off in the first debate of the general election. | ||
| The two meeting for the first time since 2020. | ||
| They will outline their contrasting visions for America. | ||
| This is also a chance for you, the voters, to judge the candidates in one of the only face-to-face confrontations before the election. | ||
| Our CBS News team will be back after the debate for analysis and fact-checking. | ||
| Now to Atlanta for the first presidential debate hosted by CNN. | ||
| Both of the moderators are Jewish, by the way. | ||
| Just thought I'd remind everybody. | ||
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But that's perfectly normal. | |
| Good evening, I'm Dana Bash, anchor of CNN's Inside Politics and co-anchor of State of the Union. | ||
| I'm Jake Tapper, anchor of CNN's The Lead and co-anchor of State of the Union. | ||
| Dana and I will co-moderate this evening. | ||
| Our job is to facilitate a debate between the two candidates tonight. | ||
| Before we introduce them, we want to share the rules of the debate with the audience at home. | ||
| No. | ||
| Can I just say... Muting the mic is so gay. | ||
| of the screen president biden will be appearing on the right a coin toss determined their positions each candidate will have two minutes to answer a question and one minute each for responses and rebuttals an additional minute for follow-up clarification or response can i just say that the moderators muting the mic is so gay they they made this big show of like and you can see and now They made this big show. | ||
| I don't know if you saw the video, but they said, we have a new system this year. | ||
| We're gonna mute the mics if the other guy interrupts. | ||
| That's just like the gayest thing ever. | ||
| Like, everybody knows that in a debate, there does need to be, like, yelling over the other guy. | ||
| And it's like, the guy that's like, can you mute his mic? | ||
| That guy sucks. | ||
| Like, that guy's the loser. | ||
| He's clearly losing. | ||
| So, this whole, like, mute him. | ||
| Mods, can we get a moderator to mute this guy? | ||
| Like, you know. | ||
| So, if you can't alpha in a two-person debate, you shouldn't be president. | ||
| Alright, here we go. | ||
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The president's gonna say, Hey man, can you mute his mic? | |
| Alright, here we go. | ||
| He looks like shit. | ||
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Dude, listen to him! | |
| And please welcome the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. | ||
| Alright, let's go. | ||
| Pants pulled up high. | ||
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Look at this absolute eunuch. | |
| This is the man! | ||
| Gentlemen, thanks so much for being here. | ||
| Let's begin the debate, and let's start with the issue that voters consistently say is their top concern, the economy. | ||
| President Biden, inflation has slowed, but prices remain high. | ||
| Since you took office, the price of essentials has increased. | ||
| For example, a basket of groceries that cost $100 then now costs more than $120. | ||
| then now costs more than $120. | ||
| And typical home prices have jumped more than 30%. | ||
| What do you say to voters who feel they are worse off under your presidency than they were under President Trump? | ||
| Take a look at what I was left when I became president and what Mr. Trump left me. | ||
| We had an economy that was in freefall. | ||
| The pandemic was so badly handled. | ||
| Many people were dying. | ||
| All he said was it's not that serious. | ||
| Just inject a little bleach in your arm. | ||
| You'll be alright. | ||
| The economy collapsed. | ||
| This is unbelievable. | ||
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Wow! | |
| - This is unbelievable. - It was terrible. | ||
| And so what we had to do was try to put things back together again. | ||
| That's exactly what we began to do. | ||
| We created 15,000 new jobs. | ||
| We brought out another position where we have 800,000 manufacturing jobs. | ||
| - Wow. - There's more to be done. | ||
| Working class people are still in trouble. | ||
| I come from Scranton, Pennsylvania. | ||
| I come from a household where the kitchen table, if things weren't able to be met during the month, there was a problem. | ||
| The price of eggs, the price of gas, the price of housing, the price of a whole range of things. | ||
| That's why I'm working so hard to make sure I deal with those problems. | ||
| And we're going to make sure that we reduce the price of housing. | ||
| We're going to make sure we build two million new units. | ||
| This is nuts. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| We brought down the price of prescription drugs, which is a major issue for many people. | ||
| It's $15 for an insulin shot as opposed to $400. | ||
| No senior has to pay more than $200 for any drug, all the drugs they can include beginning next year. | ||
| And the situation is making, and we're going to make that available to everybody, to all Americans. | ||
| So we're working to bring down the price around the kitchen table, and that's what we're going to get done. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| President Trump? | ||
| We're the greatest economy in the history of our country. | ||
| We have never done so well. | ||
| Everybody was amazed by it. | ||
| Other countries were copying us. | ||
| We got hit with COVID. | ||
| And when we did, we spent the money necessary so we wouldn't end up in a Great Depression, the likes of which we had in 1929. | ||
| By the time we finished, we did a great job. | ||
| We got a lot of credit for the economy, a lot of credit for the military and no wars and so many other things. | ||
| Everything was rocking good. | ||
| But the thing we never got the credit for and we should have is getting us out of that COVID mess. | ||
| He created mandates. | ||
| That was a disaster for our country. | ||
| But other than that, we had we had given them back a country where the stock market actually was higher than pre-COVID. | ||
| And nobody thought that was even possible. | ||
| The only jobs he created are for illegal immigrants and bounce back jobs, a bounce back from the COVID. | ||
| He has not done a good job. | ||
| He's done a poor job. | ||
| And inflation is killing our country. | ||
| It is absolutely killing us. | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| Well, look, the greatest economy in the world. | ||
| He's the only one who thinks that, I think. | ||
| I don't know anybody else who thinks that we have the greatest economy in the world. | ||
| You know, the fact of the matter is that we found ourselves in a situation where his economy, he rewarded the wealthy. | ||
| He had the largest tax cut in American history. | ||
| We're two minutes in! | ||
| He raised a deficit larger than any president has in any one term. | ||
| He's the only president other than Herbert Hoover who's lost more jobs than he had when he began, since Herbert Hoover. | ||
| The idea that he did something that was significant in the military, you know, when he was president there was stuff killing people in Afghanistan. | ||
| He didn't do anything about that. | ||
| When he was president, we still find ourselves in a position where you had a notion that we were this safe country. | ||
| Truth is, I'm the only president this century that doesn't have any, this decade, that doesn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did. | ||
| President Trump, I want to follow up if I can. | ||
| Am I allowed to respond to him? | ||
| Well, I'm going to ask you a follow-up. | ||
| You can do whatever you want with the minute that we give you. | ||
| I want to follow up. | ||
| You want to impose a 10% tariff on all goods coming into the U.S. | ||
| How will you ensure that that doesn't drive prices even higher? | ||
| Not going to drive them higher. | ||
| It's just going to cost countries that have been ripping us off for years, like China, and many others, in all fairness to China. | ||
| It's going to just force them to pay us a lot of money, reduce our deficit tremendously, and give us a lot of power for other things. | ||
| But he made a statement. | ||
| The only thing he was right about is I gave you the largest tax cut in history. | ||
| I also gave you the largest regulation cut in history. | ||
| That's why we had all the jobs. | ||
| And the jobs went down, and then they bounced back. | ||
| And he's taking credit for bounce-back jobs. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| He also said he inherited 9% inflation. | ||
| No, he inherited almost no inflation, and it stayed that way for 14 months. | ||
| And then it blew up under his leadership because they spent money like a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doing. | ||
| And they don't know what they were doing. | ||
| It was probably the worst administration in history. | ||
| There's never been. | ||
| And as far as Afghanistan is concerned, I was getting out of Afghanistan. | ||
| We were getting out with dignity, with strength, with power. | ||
| He got out. | ||
| It was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country's life. | ||
| President Trump, over the last eight years, under both of your administrations, the national debt soared to record highs. | ||
| And according to a new nonpartisan analysis, President Trump, your administration approved $8.4 trillion in new debt, while so far, President Biden, you've approved $4.3 trillion in new debt. | ||
| Look at him, man. | ||
| President Trump, many of the tax cuts that you signed into law are set to expire next year. | ||
| You want to extend them and go even further, you say. | ||
| With the U.S. facing trillion-dollar deficits and record debt, why should top earners and corporations pay even less in taxes than they do now? | ||
| Because the tax cuts spurred the greatest economy that we've ever seen just prior to COVID. | ||
| And even after COVID, it was so strong that we were able to get through COVID much better than just about any other country. | ||
| But we spurred, that tax spurred. | ||
| Now, when we cut the taxes, as an example, the corporate tax was cut down to 21% from 39%, plus beyond that. | ||
| We took in more revenue with much less tax, and companies were bringing back trillions of dollars back into our country. | ||
| The country was going like never before. | ||
| And we were ready to start paying down debt. | ||
| We were ready to start using the liquid gold right under our feet, the oil and gas right under our feet. | ||
| We were going to have something that nobody else has had. | ||
| We got hit with COVID. | ||
| We did a lot to fix it. | ||
| I gave him an unbelievable situation. | ||
| With all of the therapeutics and all of the things that we came up with, we gave him something great. | ||
| Remember, more people died under his administration, even though we had largely fixed it. | ||
| More people died under his administration than our administration, and we were right in the middle of it. | ||
| Something which a lot of people don't like to talk about. | ||
| But he had far more people dying in his administration. | ||
| He did the mandate, which is a disaster, mandating it. | ||
| The vaccine went out. | ||
| He did a mandate on the vaccine, which is the thing that people most objected to about the vaccine. | ||
| And he did a very poor job, just a very poor job. | ||
| And I will tell you, not only poor there, but throughout the entire world, we're no longer respected as a country. | ||
| They don't respect our leadership. | ||
| They don't respect the United States anymore. | ||
| We're like a third world nation between weaponization of his election, trying to go after his political opponents. | ||
| opponent. | ||
| All of the things he's done, we've become like a third world nation. | ||
| And it's a shame. | ||
| The damage he's done to our country, and I'd love to ask him and will why he allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country. | ||
| President Trump, we will get to immigration later in this block. | ||
| President Biden, I want to give you an opportunity to respond to this question about the national debt. | ||
| He had the largest national debt of any president for your period. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Number two, he got a $2 trillion tax cut and benefited the very wealthy. | ||
| What I'm going to do is fix the taxes. | ||
| For example, we have a thousand billionaires in America. | ||
| And what's happening? | ||
| They're in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2% in taxes. | ||
| If they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they'd raise $500 million, billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period. | ||
| We'd be able to wipe out his debt. | ||
| We'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the uh with the COVID excuse me with um dealing with everything we have to do with uh look if we finally beat Medicare | ||
| Thank you President Biden, President Trump. | ||
| Well, he's right. | ||
| He did beat Medicare. | ||
| He beat it to death. | ||
| And he's destroying Medicare. | ||
| Because all of these people are coming in. | ||
| They're putting them on Medicare. | ||
| They're putting them on Social Security. | ||
| They're going to destroy Social Security. | ||
| This man is going to single-handedly destroy Social Security. | ||
| These millions and millions of people coming in, they're trying to put them on Social Security. | ||
| He will wipe out Social Security. | ||
| He will wipe out Medicare. | ||
| So he was right in the way he finished that sentence. | ||
| And it's a shame. | ||
| What's happened to our country in the last four years is not to be believed. | ||
| Foreign countries, I'm friends with a lot of people, they cannot believe what happened to the United States of America. | ||
| We're no longer respected. | ||
| They don't like us. | ||
| We give them everything they want, and they think we're stupid. | ||
| They think we're very stupid people. | ||
| What we're doing for other countries, and they do nothing for us, what this man has done is absolutely criminal. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| Dana? | ||
| This is the first presidential election. | ||
| since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. | ||
| This morning, the Court ruled on yet another abortion case, temporarily allowing emergency abortions to continue in Idaho despite that state's restrictive ban. | ||
| Former President Trump You take credit for the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which returned the issue of abortion to the states. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| However, the federal government still plays a role in whether or not women have access to abortion pills. | ||
| They're used in about two-thirds of all abortions. | ||
| As president, would you block abortion medication? | ||
| First of all, the Supreme Court just approved the abortion bill, and I agree with their decision to have done that, and I will not block it. | ||
| And if you look at this whole question that you're asking, a complex, but not really complex. | ||
| 51 years ago, you had Roe v. Wade, and everybody wanted to get it back to the states. | ||
| Everybody, without exception. | ||
| Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives. | ||
| Everybody wanted it back. | ||
| Religious leaders. | ||
| And what I did is I put three great Supreme Court justices on the court, and they happened to vote in favor of killing Roe v. Wade and moving it back to the states. | ||
| This is something that everybody wanted. | ||
| Now, ten years ago or so, they started talking about how many weeks and how many of this, and getting into other things. | ||
| But every legal scholar throughout the world, the most respected, wanted it brought back to the states. | ||
| I did that. | ||
| Now the states are working it out. | ||
| If you look at Ohio, it was a decision that was an end result. | ||
| It was a little bit more liberal than you would have thought. | ||
| Kansas, I would say the same thing. | ||
| Texas is different. | ||
| Florida is different. | ||
| But they're all making their own decisions right now. | ||
| And right now, the states control it. | ||
| That's the vote of the people. | ||
| Like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the exceptions. | ||
| I am a person that believes. | ||
| And frankly, I think it's important to believe in the exceptions. | ||
| Some people, you have to follow your heart. | ||
| Some people don't believe in that. | ||
| But I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. | ||
| I think it's very important. | ||
| Some people don't. | ||
| Follow your heart. | ||
| But, you have to get elected also. | ||
| And, because that has to do with other things. | ||
| You gotta get elected. | ||
| The problem they have is they're radicals because they will... I love that. | ||
| Take the life of a child in the 8th month, the 9th month, and even after birth. | ||
| After birth, if you look at the former governor of Virginia, he was willing to do this. | ||
| He said, we'll put the baby aside and we'll determine what we do with the baby, meaning we'll kill the baby. | ||
| What happened is we brought it back to the states and the country is now coming together on this issue. | ||
| It's been a great thing. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| It's been a terrible thing, what you've done. | ||
| The fact is that the vast majority of constitutional scholars supported Roe when it was decided. | ||
| Supported Roe. | ||
| And that's this idea that they were all against him. | ||
| It's just ridiculous. | ||
| And this is the guy who says the state should be able to have it. | ||
| We're in a state where in six weeks, you don't even know whether you're pregnant or not, but you cannot see a doctor and have him decide on what your circumstances are. | ||
| The idea that states are able to do this is a little like saying we're going to turn civil rights back to the states, that each state have a different rule. | ||
| Look, there's so many young women who have been, including a young woman who just was murdered. | ||
| And he went to the funeral. | ||
| And the idea that she was murdered by an immigrant coming in to talk about that. | ||
| But here's the deal. | ||
| There's a lot of young women to be raped by their in-laws, by their spouses, brothers and sisters. | ||
| It's just ridiculous. | ||
| And they can do nothing about it. | ||
| And they try to arrest them and they cross state lines. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| There have been many young women murdered by the same people he allows to come across our border. | ||
| We have a border that's the most dangerous place anywhere in the world. | ||
| Consider, the most dangerous place anywhere in the world. | ||
| And he opened it up, and these killers are coming into our country. | ||
| And they are raping and killing women. | ||
| And it's a terrible thing. | ||
| As far as the abortion is concerned, it is now back with the states. | ||
| The states are voting. | ||
| In many cases, it's frankly a very liberal decision. | ||
| In many cases, it's the opposite. | ||
| But they're voting, and it's bringing it back to the vote of the people, which is what everybody wanted, including the founders, if they knew about this issue, which, frankly, they didn't. | ||
| But they would have—everybody wanted it brought back. | ||
| Ronald Reagan wanted it brought back. | ||
| He wasn't able to get it. | ||
| Everybody wanted it brought back. | ||
| And many presidents have tried to get it back. | ||
| I was the one to do it. | ||
| And again, this gives it the vote of the people, and that's where they wanted it. | ||
| Every legal scholar wanted it that way. | ||
| Staying on the topic of abortion, President Biden, seven states, I'll let you do that, this is the same topic, seven states have no legal restrictions on how far into a pregnancy a woman can obtain an abortion. | ||
| Do you support any legal limits on how late a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy? | ||
| I support it, Roe v. Wade. | ||
| It said three trimesters. | ||
| First time is between the woman and the doctor. | ||
| Second time is between the doctor and an extreme situation. | ||
| The third time is between the doctor, I mean between the woman and the state. | ||
| The idea that the politicians, that the founders wanted the politicians to be the ones making decisions about women's health is ridiculous. | ||
| That's the last. | ||
| No politician should be making that decision. | ||
| A doctor should be making those decisions. | ||
| That's how it should be run. | ||
| That's what you're going to do. | ||
| And if I'm elected, I'm going to restore Roe v. Wade. | ||
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| Look at him! | ||
| He can take the life of the baby in the ninth month and even after birth, because some states, Democrat run, take it after birth. | ||
| Again, the governor, former governor of Virginia, put the baby down, then we decide what to do with it. | ||
| So he's willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill the baby. | ||
| Nobody wants that to happen, Democrat or Republican. | ||
| Nobody wants it to happen. | ||
| That is simply not true. | ||
| The Roe v. Wade does not provide for that. | ||
| That's not the circumstance. | ||
| Only if a woman's life is in danger, she's going to die. | ||
| That's the only circumstance in which that can happen. | ||
| But we are not for late-term abortion. | ||
| Period. | ||
| Under Roe v. Wade, you have late-term abortion. | ||
| You can do whatever you want, depending on the state. | ||
| You can do whatever you want. | ||
| We don't think that's a good thing. | ||
| We think it's a radical thing. | ||
| We think the Democrats are the radicals, not the Republicans. | ||
| For 51 years, that was the law. | ||
| Fifty-one years, Constance's scholarship said it was the right way to go. | ||
| Fifty-one years, and it was taken away because this guy put very conservative members on the Supreme Court. | ||
| He takes credit for taking it away. | ||
| What's he going to do? | ||
| What's he going to do, in fact, if the MAGA Republicans, he gets elected, and the MAGA Republicans control the Congress, and they pass a universal ban on abortion, period, across the board, at six weeks or seven or eight or ten weeks? | ||
| Something very, very conservative. | ||
| But you're going to sign that bill? | ||
| I'll veto it. | ||
| He'll sign it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Let's turn now to the issue of immigration and border security. | ||
| President Biden, a record number of migrants have illegally crossed the southern border on your watch. | ||
| Overwhelming border states and overburdening cities such as New York and Chicago, and in some cases causing real safety and security concerns. | ||
| Given that, why should voters trust you to solve this crisis? | ||
| Because we worked very hard to get a bipartisan agreement that not only changed all of that, it made sure that we are in a situation where you had no circumstance where they can come across the border with the number of border police there are now. | ||
| We significantly increased the number of asylum officers. | ||
| Significantly, by the way, the Border Patrol endorsed me, endorsed my position. | ||
| In addition to that, we find ourselves in a situation where when he was president, he was separating babies from their mothers, putting them in cages, making sure the families were separated. | ||
| That's not the right way to go. | ||
| What I've done since I've changed the law, what's happened? | ||
| I've changed it in a way that now you're in a situation where there are 40% fewer people coming across the border illegally. | ||
| That's better than when he left office. | ||
| And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban. | ||
| I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. | ||
| to what we're going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers. | ||
| President Trump? | ||
| I really don't know what he said at the end of this. | ||
| I don't think he knows what he said either. | ||
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Look, we had the safest border in the history of our country. | |
| All he had to do was leave it. | ||
| All he had to do was leave it. | ||
| He decided to open up our border, open up our country to people that are from prisons. | ||
| People that are from mental institutions, insane asylum. | ||
| Terrorists. | ||
| We have the largest number of terrorists coming into our country right now. | ||
| All terrorists. | ||
| All over the world. | ||
| Not just in South America. | ||
| All over the world they come. | ||
| From the Middle East. | ||
| Everywhere. | ||
| All over the world they're pouring in. | ||
| And this guy just left it open. | ||
| And he didn't need legislation, because I didn't have legislation. | ||
| I said, close the border. | ||
| We had the safest border in history. | ||
| In that final couple of months of my presidency, we had, according to Border Patrol, who is great, and by the way, who endorsed me for president, but I won't say that, but they endorsed me for president. | ||
| Brandon, just speak to him. | ||
| But we had the safest border in history. | ||
| No, we had the worst border in history. | ||
| There's never been anything like it. | ||
| And people are dying all over the place, including the people that are coming up in caravans. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| No terrorist has done anything across the border. | ||
| There's one who came along and killed three in his administration. | ||
| Killed an al-Qaeda person who came in in his administration. | ||
| Kill three American soldiers. | ||
| Kill three American soldiers. | ||
| That's the only terrorist that's there. | ||
| I'm not saying no terrorist ever got through with the idea. | ||
| They're emptying their prisons. | ||
| We're welcoming these people. | ||
| That's simply not true. | ||
| There's no data to support what he said. | ||
| Once again, he's exaggerating. | ||
| He's lying. | ||
| President Trump, staying on the topic of immigration, you've said that you're going to carry out, quote, the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, unquote. | ||
| Does that mean that you will deport every undocumented immigrant in America, including those who have jobs, including those whose spouses are citizens, and including those who have lived here for decades? | ||
| And if so, how will you do it? | ||
| Just one second. | ||
| He said we kill three people. | ||
| The people we killed are al-Baghdadi and Soleimani, the two greatest terrorists, biggest terrorists anywhere in the world, and it had a huge impact on everything, not just border, on everything. | ||
| He's the one that killed people with the bad water, including hundreds of thousands of people dying, and also killing our citizens when they come in. | ||
| We are living right now in a rat's nest. | ||
| They're killing our people in New York, in California, in every... | ||
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| state in the union because we don't have borders anymore every state is now a border and because of his ridiculous insane and very stupid policies people are coming in and they're killing our citizens at a level that we've never seen we call it migrant crime i call it biden migrant crime they're killing our citizens at a level that we've never seen before and you're reading it like these three incredible young girls over the last few days | ||
| one of them i just spoke to the mother and he just had the funeral for this girl, 12 years old. | ||
| This is horrible what's taken place, what's taken place in our country. | ||
| We're literally an uncivilized country now. | ||
| He doesn't want it to be, he just doesn't know. | ||
| He opened the borders, nobody's ever seen anything like it. | ||
| And we have to get a lot of these people out, or we have to get them out fast, because they're going to destroy our country. | ||
| Just take a look at where they're living. | ||
| They're living in luxury hotels in New York City and other places. | ||
| Our veterans are on the street. | ||
| They're dying because he doesn't care about our veterans. | ||
| He doesn't care. | ||
| He doesn't like the military at all. | ||
| And he doesn't care about our veterans. | ||
| Nobody been worse. | ||
| I had the highest approval rating for veterans taking care of the VA. | ||
| He has the worst. | ||
| He's gotten rid of all the things that I approved. | ||
| Choice, that I got through Congress. | ||
| All of the different things I approved, they abandoned. | ||
| We had by far the highest, and now it's down in less than half, because he's done all these great things that we did, and I think he did it just because I approved it, which is crazy. | ||
| But he has killed so many people at our border by allowing all of these people to come in. | ||
| And it's a very sad day in America. | ||
| President Biden, you have the mic. | ||
| Every single thing he said is a lie. | ||
| Every single one. | ||
| For example, veterans are a hell of a lot better off since I passed the PACT Act. | ||
| One million of them now have insurance and their families have it. | ||
| Their families have it because what happened, whether it was Agent Orange or burn pits, they're all being covered now. | ||
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| And his group opposed that. | ||
| We're also in a situation where we have great respect for veterans. | ||
| My son spent a year in Iraq. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| and went to the next one of those burn pits, came back with stage four glioblastoma. | ||
| I was recently in France for D-Day, and I spoke to all about those heroes that died. | ||
| I went to the World War II cemetery, World War I cemetery he refused to go to. | ||
| He was standing with his four-star general, and he told me, he said, I don't want to go in there because they're a bunch of losers and suckers. | ||
| My son was not a loser, was not a sucker. | ||
| You're the sucker. | ||
| You're the loser. | ||
| President Trump? | ||
| First of all, that was a made-up quote. | ||
| Suckers and losers. | ||
| They made it up. | ||
| It was in a third-rate magazine that's failing, like many of these magazines. | ||
| He made that up. | ||
| He put it in commercials. | ||
| We've notified him. | ||
| We had 19 people that said I didn't say it. | ||
| And think of this. | ||
| Who would say, I'm at a cemetery, or I'm talking about our veterans? | ||
| Because nobody's taking better care. | ||
| I'm so glad this came up. | ||
| And he brought it up. | ||
| There's nobody that's taken better care of our soldiers than I have. | ||
| To think that I would, in front of generals and others, say, suckers and losers. | ||
| We have 19 people that said, it was never said by me. | ||
| It was made up by him. | ||
| Just like Russia, Russia, Russia was made up. | ||
| Just like the 51 intelligence agents are made up. | ||
| Just like the new thing with the 16 economists are talking, it's the same thing. | ||
| 51 intelligence agents said that the laptop was Russia disinformation. | ||
| It wasn't. | ||
| That came from his son, Hunter. | ||
| It wasn't Russia disinformation. | ||
| He made up the suckers and losers, so he should apologize to me right now. | ||
| Four-star general standing at your side who was on your staff who said you said it. | ||
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| That's number one. | ||
| And number two, the idea, the idea that I have to apologize to you for anything along the line. | ||
| We've done more for veterans than any president has in American history. | ||
| American history. | ||
| Trump did not handle that well. | ||
| The only sacred obligation we have as a country is to care for our veterans when they come home and their families and equip them when they go to war. | ||
| That's what we're doing. | ||
| That's what the VA is doing now. | ||
| They're doing more for veterans than ever before in our history. | ||
| All right, thank you so much. | ||
| Let's move to the topic of foreign policy. | ||
| I want to begin with Russia's war against Ukraine, which is now in its third year. | ||
| Former President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he'll only end this war if Russia keeps the Ukrainian territory it has already claimed and Ukraine abandons its bid to join NATO. | ||
| Are Putin's terms acceptable to you? | ||
| First of all, Our veterans and our soldiers can't stand this guy. | ||
| They can't stand him. | ||
| They think he's the worst commander-in-chief, if that's what you call him, that we've ever had. | ||
| They can't stand him. | ||
| So let's get that straight. | ||
| And they like me more than just about any of them. | ||
| And that's based on every single bit of information. | ||
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Come on, man. | |
| As far as Russia and Ukraine, if we had a real president, the president that knew, that was respected by Putin, he would have never invaded Ukraine. | ||
| A lot of people are dead right now, much more than people know. | ||
| You know, they talk about numbers. | ||
| You can double those numbers, maybe triple those numbers. | ||
| He did nothing to stop it. | ||
| In fact, I think he encouraged Russia from going in. | ||
| I'll tell you what happened. | ||
| He was so bad with Afghanistan, it was such a horrible embarrassment, most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, that when Putin watched that, and he saw the incompetence, that he should have fired those generals, like I fired the one that you mentioned, and so he's got no love lost. | ||
| But he should have fired those generals. | ||
| No general got fired for the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan. | ||
| Well, we left billions of dollars of equipment behind. | ||
| We lost 13 beautiful soldiers. | ||
| And 38 soldiers were obliterated. | ||
| And, by the way, we left people behind, too. | ||
| We left American citizens behind. | ||
| When Putin saw that, he said, you know what? | ||
| I think we're going to go in and maybe take my — this was his dream. | ||
| I talked to him about it, his dream. | ||
| The difference is, he never would have invaded Ukraine. | ||
| Never. | ||
| Just like Israel would have never been invaded. | ||
| in a million years by Hamas. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because Iran was broke with me. | ||
| I wouldn't let anybody do business with them. | ||
| They ran out of money. | ||
| They were broke. | ||
| They had no money for Hamas. | ||
| They had no money for anything. | ||
| No money for terror. | ||
| That's why you had no terror at all during my administration. | ||
| This place, the whole world is blowing up under him. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| It's all over the place, man! | ||
| I've never had so much malarkey in my whole life. | ||
| Look, the fact of the matter is that we're in a situation where, let's take the last point first. | ||
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Biden's, like, retarded and he's still, like, it's kind of even. | |
| It's caused brain damage for a number of these troops, and he did nothing about it. | ||
| When he was president, here they attacked. | ||
| He said, they're just having headaches. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| But he didn't do a thing when the attack took place, number one. | ||
| Number two, We got over 100,000 Americans and others out of Afghanistan during that airlift. | ||
| Number three, we found ourselves in a situation where, if you take a look at what Trump did in Ukraine, this guy told Trump, do whatever you want, and do whatever you want. | ||
| And that's exactly what Trump did. | ||
| to Putin, encourage him, do whatever you want. | ||
| And he went in. | ||
| And listen to what he said when he went in. | ||
| He was going to take Kiev in five days, remember? | ||
| Because it's part of the old Soviet Union. | ||
| That's what he wanted to reestablish, Kiev. | ||
| And he, in fact, didn't do it at all. | ||
| He didn't, wasn't able to get it done. | ||
| And they've lost over, they've lost thousands and thousands of troops, 500,000 troops. | ||
| President Trump, if I come back to you for one minute, I just want to go back to my original question, which is, are Putin's terms acceptable to you? | ||
| Keeping the territory in Ukraine. | ||
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No, they're not acceptable. | |
| No. | ||
| No, they're not acceptable. | ||
| But look, this is a war that never should have started. | ||
| If we had a leader in this war, he led everybody along. | ||
| He's given $200 billion now or more to Ukraine. | ||
| He's given $200 billion. | ||
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| I don't think there's ever been anything like it. | ||
| Zelensky comes to this country, walks away with $60 billion. | ||
| He's the greatest salesman ever. | ||
| And I'm not knocking him, I'm not knocking anything. | ||
| I'm only saying, the money that we're spending on this war, and we shouldn't be spending, it should have never happened. | ||
| I will have that war settled between Putin and Zelensky as President-elect before I take office on January 20th. | ||
| I'll have that war settled. | ||
| People being killed so needlessly, so stupidly, And I will get it settled, and I'll get it settled fast before I take office. | ||
| The fact is that Putin is a war criminal. | ||
| He's killed thousands and thousands of people. | ||
| And he has made one thing clear. | ||
| He wants to re-establish what was part of the Soviet empire. | ||
| Not just a peace. | ||
| He wants all of Ukraine. | ||
| That's what he wants. | ||
| And then you think he'll stop there? | ||
| You think he'll stop if he takes Ukraine? | ||
| What do you think happens to Poland? | ||
| What do you think happens to Belarus? | ||
| What do you think happens to those NATO countries? | ||
| And so if you want a war, you ought to find out what he's going to do. | ||
| Because if, in fact, he does what he says and walks away... By the way, all that money we give Ukraine, the weapons we make here in the United States, we give them the weapons, not the money at this point. | ||
| And our NATO allies have produced as much funding for Ukraine as we have. | ||
| That's why we're strong. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Moving on to the Middle East. | ||
| In October, Hamas attacked Israel, killing more than a thousand people and taking hundreds of hostages. | ||
| Among those held and thought to still be alive are five Americans. | ||
| Israel's response has killed thousands of Palestinians and created a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. | ||
| President Biden You've put forward a proposal to resolve this conflict, but so far Hamas has not released the remaining hostages and Israel is continuing its military offensive in Gaza. | ||
| That's the craving of this crazy. | ||
| So what additional leverage will you use to get Hamas and Israel... It's like a genocide. | ||
| Hamas will not give up the hostages. | ||
| Everyone from the United Nations Security Council, straight through the G7, to the Israelis and Netanyahu himself have endorsed the plan I put forward. | ||
| Endorsed the plan I put forward. | ||
| Which has three stages to it. | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| The first stage is treat the hostages for a ceasefire. | ||
| Second phase is a ceasefire with additional conditions. | ||
| The third phase is the end of the war. | ||
| The only one who wants the war to continue is Hamas. | ||
| Not true! | ||
| Not true. | ||
| Opposite. | ||
| And by the way, I'm the guy that organized the world against Iran when they had a full-blown intercontinental ballistic missile attack on Israel. | ||
| No one was hurt. | ||
| No one Israeli was accidentally killed. | ||
| And it stopped. | ||
| We saved Israel. | ||
| We are the biggest producer of support for Israel of anyone in the world. | ||
| And so there are two different things. | ||
| Hamas cannot be allowed to be continued. | ||
| We continue to send our experts and our own people to the heartland of Hamas like we did Ben Laden. | ||
| You don't have to do it. | ||
| And by the way, they're greatly weakened, Hamas. | ||
| Greatly weakened, and they should be. | ||
| They should be eliminated. | ||
| But you've got to be careful for using certain weapons among population centers. | ||
| Just going back to Ukraine for one second. | ||
| We have an ocean separating us. | ||
| The European nations, together, have spent $100 billion, or maybe more than that, less than us. | ||
| Why doesn't he call them and say, you've got to put up your money like I did with NATO? | ||
| I got them to put up hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| The Secretary General of NATO said Trump did the most incredible job I've ever seen. | ||
| They wouldn't have any. | ||
| They were going out of business. | ||
| We were spending almost 100% of the money that was paid by us. | ||
| He didn't do that. | ||
| He's getting all... You gotta ask these people to put up the money. | ||
| We're over a hundred billion dollars more spent and it has a bigger impact on them because of location, because we have an ocean in between. | ||
| You gotta ask them. | ||
| As far as Israel... | ||
| And Hamas, Israel's the one that wants to go. | ||
| He said the only one that wants to keep going is Hamas. | ||
| Actually, Israel is the one. | ||
| And you should let him go and let him finish the job. | ||
| He doesn't want to do it. | ||
| He's become like a Palestinian. | ||
| But they don't like him because he's a very bad Palestinian. | ||
| He's a weak one. | ||
| President Biden, do you have a minute? | ||
| I've never heard someone's foolishness. | ||
| This is a guy who wants to get out of NATO. | ||
| Are you going to stay in NATO? | ||
| Are you going to pull out of NATO? | ||
| The idea that we have our strengths and our alliances as well. | ||
| It may be a big ocean. | ||
| You're right there. | ||
| Are you able to avoid a war in Europe, a major war in Europe? | ||
| What happens if, in fact, you have Putin continue to go into NATO? | ||
| We have an Article 5 agreement. | ||
| Attack on one is attack on all. | ||
| You want to start the nuclear war he keeps talking about. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Let Putin go in and control Ukraine and then move on to Poland and other places. | ||
| She's... | ||
| That is so fake. | ||
| He has no idea what the hell he's talking about. | ||
| And by the way, I've got 50 other nations around the world to support Ukraine, including Japan and South Korea, because they understand that this kind of dislocation has a serious threat to the whole world peace. | ||
| No major war in Europe has ever been able to be contained just to Europe. | ||
| President Trump, just to follow up, would you support the creation of an independent Palestinian state in order to achieve peace in the region? | ||
| I'd have to see, but before we do that, the problem we have is that we spend all the money. | ||
| So they kill us on trade. | ||
| I made great trade deals with the European nations. | ||
| Because if you add them up, they're about the same size economically, their economy is about the same size as the United States, and they were written, no cars, no, they don't want anything that we have, but we're supposed to take their cars, their food, their everything, their agriculture. | ||
| I changed that. | ||
| But the big thing I changed is they don't want to pay. | ||
| And the only reason that he can play games with NATO is because I got them to put up hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| I said, and he's right about this, I said, no, I'm not going to support NATO if you don't pay. | ||
| They asked me that question, would you guard us against Russia at a very secret meeting of the 28 states at that time, nations at that time? | ||
| And they said, no, if you don't pay, I won't do that. | ||
| And you know what happened? | ||
| Billions and billions of dollars came flowing in the next day and the next month. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| He really avoided Israel. | ||
| Because I think he knows that it's not smart to touch that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| No. | ||
| Let's turn to the issue of democracy. | ||
| Former President Trump, I want to ask you about January 6th, 2021. | ||
| After you rallied your supporters that day, some of them stormed the Capitol to stop the constitutionally mandated counting of electoral votes. | ||
| As president, you swore an oath to, quote, "preserve, protect, and defend," unquote, the Constitution. | ||
| What do you say to voters who believe that you violated that oath through your actions and inaction on January 6 and worry that you'll do it again? | ||
| Well, I don't think too many believe that, and let me tell you about January 6. | ||
| On January 6th, we had a great border. | ||
| Nobody coming through. | ||
| Very few. | ||
| On January 6th, we were energy independent. | ||
| On January 6th, we had the lowest taxes ever. | ||
| We had the lowest regulations ever. | ||
| On January 6th, we were respected all over the world. | ||
| All over the world, we were respected. | ||
| And then he comes in, and we're now left at. | ||
| We're like a bunch of stupid people. | ||
| What happened to the United States' reputation under this man's leadership is horrible, including weaponization, which I'm sure at some point you'll be talking about, where he goes after his political opponent because he can't beat him fair and square. | ||
| You have 80 seconds left. | ||
| My question was, what do you say to those voters who believe that you violated your constitutional oath through your actions in an action on January 6, 2021, and worry that you'll do it again? | ||
| Well, I didn't say that to anybody. | ||
| I said, peacefully and patriotically. | ||
| And Nancy Pelosi, if you just watched the news from two days ago, on tape to her daughter, who's a documentary filmmaker, they say, But she's saying, oh no, it's my responsibility, I was responsible for this. | ||
| Because I offered her 10,000 soldiers or National Guard, and she turned them down. | ||
| And the mayor of, in writing by the way, the mayor, in writing turned it down, the mayor of D.C. | ||
| They turned it down. | ||
| I offered 10,000 because I could see. | ||
| I had virtually nothing to do. | ||
| They asked me to go make a speech. | ||
| I could see what was happening. | ||
| Everybody was saying they're going to be there on January 6th. | ||
| They're going to be there. | ||
| And I said, you know what? | ||
| There's a lot of people coming. | ||
| You could feel it. | ||
| You could feel it, too. | ||
| And you could feel it. | ||
| And I said, they ought to have some National Guard or whatever. | ||
| And I offered it to her and she now admits that she turned it down and it was the same day she was, I don't know, he can't be very happy with her daughter because it made her into a liar. | ||
| She said, I take full responsibility for January 6th. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| Look, he encouraged those folks to go up on Capitol Hill, number one. | ||
| I sat in the dining room off the Oval Office. | ||
| He sat there for three hours, three hours watching, begging, being begged by his vice president and a number of his colleagues on the Republican side as well to do something, to call for a stop. | ||
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Please stop. | |
| Instead, they've talked about these people being patriots. | ||
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And he's fighting with the Secret Service in the car. | |
| Give me the wheel! | ||
| We're going to the Capitol! | ||
| So awesome. | ||
| Please! | ||
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Make them stop! | |
| Call them off! | ||
| Call them off! | ||
| They're taking the lectern! | ||
| I don't think I will! | ||
| Take me there now, in fact! | ||
| Do it! | ||
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Or I'll grab the wheel! | |
| I'll grab your hair! | ||
| This guy is responsible for doing what was done. | ||
| He did do a damn thing. | ||
| And these people should be in jail. | ||
| And they should be the ones who are being held accountable. | ||
| And he wants to lift them all out, and now he says that he loses it again, such a whiner that he is. | ||
| I think it would be a bloodbath. | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| President Trump? | ||
| What they've done to some people that are so innocent, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. | ||
| What you have done, how you've destroyed the lives of so many people. | ||
| When they ripped down Portland, when they ripped down many other cities. | ||
| You go to Minnesota, Minneapolis, what they've done there with the fires all over the city. | ||
| If I didn't bring in the National Guard, that city would have been destroyed. | ||
| When you look at all of the They took over big chunks of Seattle. | ||
| I was all set to bring in the National Guard. | ||
| They heard that. | ||
| They saw them coming and they left immediately. | ||
| What he said about this whole subject is so off. | ||
| Peacefully patriotic. | ||
| One other thing. | ||
| The unselect committee, which is basically two horrible Republicans that are all gone now and out of office, and Democrats, all Democrats, they destroyed and deleted all of the information they found, because they found out we were right. | ||
| We were right. | ||
| And they deleted and destroyed all of the information. | ||
| They should go to jail for that. | ||
| If a Republican did that, they'd go to jail. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| President Biden, I want to give you a minute. | ||
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Go to jail. | |
| We need more of that. | ||
| More go to jail. | ||
| You're pushing the stages of convicted felonies, man, I'm looking at right now. | ||
| What he's telling you is simply not true. | ||
| The fact is that there was no effort on his part to stop what was going on up in Capitol Hill. | ||
| Stop what? | ||
| Being awesome? | ||
| The idea that they didn't kill somebody, just went in and broke down doors, broke the windows, occupied offices, turned over desks, turned them over statues. | ||
| The idea that those people are patriots Come on, Jack. | ||
| Stand back and stand by! | ||
| First of all, the debates we had the first time around, I said, will you denounce the crowd boy? | ||
| He said, no, I'll tell them to stand by. | ||
| Stand back and stand by. | ||
| Will you denounce these guys? | ||
| Will you denounce the people we're talking about now? | ||
| No, we're not this year. | ||
| Will you denounce the people who attacked that Capitol? | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| I'm going to give you a minute, President Trump, for a follow-up question I have. | ||
| Look at his aura. | ||
| His aura is incredible. | ||
| After a jury convicted you of 34 felonies last month, you said if re-elected you would, quote, have every right to go after, unquote, your political opponents. | ||
| You just talked about members of the Select Committee on January 6th going to jail. | ||
| Your main political opponent is standing on stage with you tonight. | ||
| Can you clarify exactly what it means about you feeling you have every right to go after your political opponents? | ||
| Well, I said my retribution is going to be success. | ||
| We're going to make this country successful again because right now it's a failing nation. | ||
| No, we want real retribution, not some gay evasion. | ||
| But when he talks about a convicted felon, his son is a convicted felon at a very high level. | ||
| His son is convicted, going to be convicted probably numerous other times. | ||
| should have been convicted before, but his Justice Department let the statute of limitations lapse on the most important things. | ||
| But he could be a convicted felon as soon as he gets out of office. | ||
| Joe could be a convicted felon with all of the things that he's done. | ||
| He's done horrible things. | ||
| All of the death caused at the border. | ||
| Lock him up. | ||
| Telling the Ukrainian people that we're going to want a billion dollars or you change the prosecutor. | ||
| Otherwise, you're not getting a billion dollars. | ||
| If I ever said that, that's quid pro quo. | ||
| That we're not going to do anything... | ||
| We're not going to give you a billion dollars unless you change your prosecutor having to do with his son. | ||
| This man is a criminal. | ||
| This man... You're lucky. | ||
| You're lucky. | ||
| I did nothing wrong. | ||
| We'd have a system that was rigged and disgusting. | ||
| I did nothing wrong. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| President Biden, you have said... I'm coming right to you, sir. | ||
| You... Well, you want to respond? | ||
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| I'll give you a minute to respond. | ||
| The idea that I did anything wrong relative to what you're talking about is outrageous. | ||
| It's simply a lie, number one. | ||
| Number two, the idea that you have a right to seek retribution against any American just because you're president is wrong. | ||
| Look at him. | ||
| He's so regal. | ||
| I love his face. | ||
| Look at that face. | ||
| So regal and powerful. | ||
| Russian smile. | ||
| W. Fucking face. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Number three, the crimes that you are still charged with. | ||
| Think of all the civil penalties you have. | ||
| How many billions of dollars do you owe in civil penalties for molesting a woman in public, for doing a whole range of things, of having sex with a porn star while your wife was pregnant? | ||
| What would you say? | ||
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I'm looking at me like... | |
| Maybe not. | ||
| Maybe not, sir. | ||
| I didn't have sex with a porn star, number one. | ||
| Number two, that was a case that was started and moved. | ||
| They moved a high-ranking official, a DOJ, into the Manhattan DA's office to start that case. | ||
| That case is going to be appealed and won. | ||
| We had a very terrible judge, a horrible judge, Democrat. | ||
| The prosecutor, we're all high-ranking Democrats, appointed people, and both the civil and the criminal. | ||
| He basically went after his political opponent because he thought it was going to damage me. | ||
| But when the public found out about these cases, because they understand it better than he does, he has no idea what these cases are. | ||
| But when they found out about these cases, you know what they did? | ||
| My poll numbers went up way up. | ||
| You know that because you're reporting it. | ||
| And we took in more money in the last two weeks than we've ever taken in in the history of any campaign. | ||
| I don't think any campaign has ever taken hundreds of millions of dollars came pouring in because the public knows it's a scam and it's a guy that's after his political opponent because he can't win fair and square. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| President Biden, you have said, quote, Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy. | ||
| Do you believe that the tens of millions of Americans who are likely to vote for President Trump will be voting against American democracy? | ||
| The more they know about what he's done, yes. | ||
| The more they know about what he's done. | ||
| And there's a lot more coming. | ||
| He's got a lot of cases down the road coming around. | ||
| He's got a whole range of issues he has to face. | ||
| I don't know what the juries will do, but I do know he has a real problem. | ||
| And so the fact that, could you ever think you heard any president say that I'm going to seek retribution? | ||
| Do you ever hear any president say that I thought Hitler had some good ideas? | ||
| What got me involved to run the first place after my son had died, I decided in Iraq, because of Iraq, I said I wasn't going to run again. | ||
| Until I saw what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia. | ||
| People coming out of the woods carrying swastikas on torches, torches, and singing the same anti-Semitic bio they sang back in Germany. | ||
| And the young woman got killed. | ||
| I spoke to the mother, and they asked him, they said, what do you think of those people? | ||
| The people who, the ones who got killed, the ones who tried to stop him, and the ones, he said, I think they're fine people on both sides. | ||
| What American president would ever say, Nazis coming out of fields, carrying torches, singing the same anti-Semitic ballad, carrying swastikas, were fine people? | ||
| This is the guy who says Hitler's done some good things. | ||
| I'd like to know what they are. | ||
| Good things Hitler's done, that's what he said. | ||
| This guy has no sense for American democracy. | ||
| President Trump. | ||
| Jake, both of you know that, sir, has been totally wiped out. | ||
| Because when you see the sentence, it said 100% exoneration on that, sir. | ||
| He just keeps it going. | ||
| He says he ran because of Charlottesville. | ||
| He didn't run because of Charlottesville. | ||
| He ran because it was his last chance. | ||
| He's not equipped to be president. | ||
| You know it and I know it. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| We have a debate. | ||
| We're trying to justify his presidency. | ||
| His presidency... | ||
| Without question, the worst president, the worst presidency in the history of our country. | ||
| We shouldn't be having a debate about it. | ||
| There's nothing to debate. | ||
| He made up the Charlottesville story. | ||
| And you'll see it's debunked all over the place. | ||
| Every anchor, every reasonable anchor has debunked it. | ||
| And just the other day it came out where it was fully debunked. | ||
| It's a nonsense story. | ||
| He knows that. | ||
| And he didn't run because of Charlottesville. | ||
| He used that as an excuse to run. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| And debunk. | ||
| It happened. | ||
| All you have to do is listen to what was said at the time. | ||
| And the idea that somehow that's the only reason I ran. | ||
| I ran because I was worried a guy like this guy could get elected. | ||
| If he thought they were good people coming out of that forest, carrying those woods, carrying those torches, then he didn't deserve to be president. | ||
| Didn't deserve to be president at all. | ||
| And the idea that he's talking about, all this being fabricated, we saw it with our own eyes. | ||
| We saw it happen on January 6th. | ||
| We saw the people breaking through the windows. | ||
| We saw people occupying their... His own vice president... Look, there's a reason why 40 of his 44 top cabinet officers refused to endorse him this time. | ||
| His vice president hasn't endorsed him this time. | ||
| So why? | ||
| Why? | ||
| They know him well. | ||
| They serve with him. | ||
| Why are they not endorsing him? | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| We're going to be right back with more from the CNN presidential debate. | ||
| All right. - Okay. | ||
| Halfway point. | ||
| Thoughts? | ||
| What does everybody think about how it's going so far? | ||
| Press 1 if you think Trump is winning. | ||
| Press 2 if you think Biden is winning. | ||
| We'll do a little update on our poll from earlier. | ||
| Well hey, if you're just joining us, welcome back. | ||
| We had a little bit of a rough start here. | ||
| Rumble crashed for like the first 10 actually it crashed at like 7 50 about an hour ago was down for about 15 minutes but we're back now we got huge viewership almost 25 000 live viewers thank you for tuning in and welcome in we're going to take a look at our informal poll it's all ones It's very clear that Trump is winning. | ||
| I have to say, Biden, I am surprised how bad he is. | ||
| When he came out there initially, I know probably a lot of you guys missed it because Rumpel was down, I was absolutely shocked at how bad he sounds. | ||
| This man is not going to be alive by the end of this thing. | ||
| He's not well. | ||
| And you can hear it in his voice. | ||
| Like there's no force behind the voice. | ||
| There's no life force in the guy's body. | ||
| He looks... and he looks worse than he sounds. | ||
| It seems that whatever they've got him on, he still is able to get out some sentences, but he's having a much harder time than I think I've ever seen him. | ||
| It's noticeably worse than the State of the Union, which was just a few months ago. | ||
| But the look... | ||
| His face is so drawn, his eyes, he looks confused. | ||
| So I'm absolutely shocked, and you know what? | ||
| I think that what all of a sudden done tonight, tomorrow, that's all anybody's going to talk about. | ||
| I don't even think anybody's going to be talking about the substance of the debate. | ||
| There hasn't really been a grand slam yet, which is actually unfortunate. | ||
| I'll get to that in a moment. | ||
| So far, 50 minutes in, I actually haven't seen anything where it was a really decisive blow. | ||
| Trump had some good moments there. | ||
| I think Trump has been doing a pretty good job defending himself. | ||
| I think the format's actually pretty solid. | ||
| I'm a little bit pleasantly surprised. | ||
| I think it's very controlled. | ||
| It's very orderly. | ||
| I know that was actually an issue the last time around and the time before that. | ||
| So this format's very orderly. | ||
| People are using their time. | ||
| There's no interruptions. | ||
| And I think in a format like that, I think that Trump is doing an adequate job. | ||
| But like I said, I don't think anything was... I haven't really seen a major memorable moment. | ||
| I think Trump did really well on the Ukraine topic. | ||
| I think he did very well on defending himself with January 6th. | ||
| I think very plausible, solid defense. | ||
| So I think Trump is doing He's doing okay. | ||
| I think he's doing fine. | ||
| Biden is holding up. | ||
| I mean, I think he was off to a very rough start. | ||
| He looks bad. | ||
| He sounds bad. | ||
| But under the circumstances, I mean, he's getting by. | ||
| I think he's going to make it through to the end of the night. | ||
| But it's clear that... | ||
| There could be a slippage. | ||
| You know, there could be a slip before the end of it. | ||
| So I guess we'll wait for that. | ||
| But like I said, I think all anybody's going to be talking about tomorrow is how bad Biden is. | ||
| And I think that in the minds of a lot of voters, this is going to be disqualifying. | ||
| And it's a long night, and it's going to be a long five months if there is this catastrophic cognitive decline in just four months. | ||
| Because he is so much worse than he was at the State of the Union. | ||
| We may go back and watch that after the debate. | ||
| It's so noticeably worse looking, sounding, all together. | ||
| What is it going to look like in five months? | ||
| The rate of deterioration is accelerating. | ||
| Five months from now, this guy won't even be here. | ||
| But Trump needs to dial it in. | ||
| I think his answers are repetitive. | ||
| I think he's leaning too much on Biden. | ||
| Like, suck it. | ||
| President Biden, while black unemployment dropped to a record low under your presidency, black families still earn far less than white families. | ||
| White families. | ||
| Black mothers are still three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. | ||
| And black Americans are imprisoned at five times the rate of white Americans. | ||
| Far too low. | ||
| What do you say to black voters who are disappointed that you haven't made more progress? | ||
| They acknowledge they made a lot of progress. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| The fact of the matter is there are more small black businesses that are more historic than any time in history. | ||
| Number two. | ||
| The wages of black unemployment is the lowest level it's been in a long, long time. | ||
| Number three. | ||
| We're finding housing for black Dude, this guy is just like... | ||
| ...and dealing with the segregation that exists among these corporate... These corporate relations that collude to keep people out of their houses. And in addition to that, we find that the impact of the choice that black families have to make relative to childcare is incredibly difficult. | ||
| When we did the first major piece of legislation in the past, I was able to reduce black child care costs. | ||
| I cut them in half. | ||
| In half. | ||
| We've got to make sure we provide for child care costs. | ||
| We've got to make sure, because when you provide those child care protections, you increase economic growth because more people can be in the job market. | ||
| So there's more to be done, considerably more to be done. | ||
| But we've done a great deal so far and I'm not letting up and they know it. | ||
| You have 49 seconds left. | ||
| What do you say to black voters who are disappointed with the progress so far? | ||
| I said I don't blame them for being disappointed. | ||
| Inflation is still hurting them badly. | ||
| For example, I provided for the idea that any black family first-time homebuyer should get a $10,000 tax credit to be able to buy their first home so they can get started. | ||
| I made sure that we're in a situation where all those black families and those black individuals who provided had to take out student loans that were ballooning that if they were engaged in nursing, doctor, and anything having to do with volunteerism, if they paid their bills for 10 years-- I'm on Twitter. --and student debt, all the rest was forgiven after 10 years. | ||
| Millions have benefited from that. | ||
| And we're going to do a whole lot more for black families. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| And he caused the inflation. | ||
| He's blaming inflation. | ||
| And he's right. | ||
| It's been very bad. | ||
| He caused the inflation. | ||
| And it's killing black families and Hispanic families and just about everybody. | ||
| It's killing people. | ||
| They can't buy groceries anymore. | ||
| They can't. | ||
| You look at the cost of food where it's doubled and tripled and quadrupled. | ||
| They can't live. | ||
| They're not living anymore. | ||
| He caused this inflation. | ||
| I gave him a country with no, essentially no inflation. | ||
| It was perfect. | ||
| It was so good. | ||
| All he had to do was leave it alone. | ||
| He destroyed it with his Green New Scam and all of the other, all this money that's been thrown out the window. | ||
| He caused inflation. | ||
| As sure as you're sitting there. | ||
| Nice! | ||
| Green New Deal? | ||
| Or like, Green New Scam? | ||
| The unselect committee. | ||
| is the millions of people that he's allowed to come in through the border. | ||
| They're taking black jobs now. | ||
| And it could be 18, it could be 19, and even 20 million people. | ||
| They're taking black jobs, and they're taking Hispanic jobs. | ||
| And you haven't seen it yet, but you're going to see something that's going to be the worst in our history. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| There was no inflation when I became president. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| The economy was flat on its back. | ||
| Fifteen percent unemployment. | ||
| He decimated the economy. | ||
| Absolutely decimated the economy. | ||
| That's why there was no inflation at the time. | ||
| There were no jobs. | ||
| We provided thousands of millions of jobs for individuals who are in all communities, including minority communities. | ||
| We made sure that they have health insurance. | ||
| We have covered, the ACA has increased, I made sure that they're $8,000 per person in a family to get written off from health care. | ||
| But this guy wants to eliminate that. | ||
| They tried 50 times. | ||
| He wants to get rid of the ACA again, and they're going to try again if they win. | ||
| We find ourselves in a position where the idea that we're not doing anything, we put more police on the street than any administration has. | ||
| He wants to cut the cops. | ||
| We're providing for equity, equity and making sure people have a shot to make it. | ||
| There's a lot going on. | ||
| But in inflation, he caused it by his tremendous amount of seasons and the way he handled the pandemic. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Another persistent challenge is the climate crisis. | ||
| 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history and communities across the country are confronting the devastating effects of extreme heat, intensifying wildfires, stronger hurricanes and rising sea levels. | ||
| Former President Trump, you've vowed to end your opponent's climate initiatives, but will you take any action as president to slow the climate crisis? | ||
| Let me just go back to what he said about the police. | ||
| How close the police are to him. | ||
| Almost every police group in the nation, from every state, is supporting Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Almost every police group. | ||
| And what he's done to the black population is horrible, including the fact that for 10 years he called them super predators. | ||
| We can't, in the 1990s, we can't forget that. | ||
| Super predators was his name, and he called it to them, and they've taken great offense at it, and now they see it happening. | ||
| But that's base. | ||
| They are. | ||
| That's what they are! | ||
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What happened to law and order? | |
| I call them something else. | ||
| That's better. | ||
| Super better. | ||
| That's better than what people are calling them. | ||
| They take offense to that? | ||
| With Tim, as you know, Tim Scott was incredible. | ||
| He did a great job. | ||
| Great senator from South Carolina. | ||
| He came to me with the idea. | ||
| It was a great idea. | ||
| It's one of the most successful economic development acts ever in the country, Opportunity Zones. | ||
| And the biggest beneficiary are blacks. | ||
| And that's why we have the best numbers with them in maybe ever. | ||
| They're saying ever. | ||
| I read this morning where ever. | ||
| The best numbers. | ||
| He's lost much of the black population because he's done a horrible job for black people. | ||
| He's also done a horrible job for Hispanics. | ||
| But wait till you see these millions of people pouring into our country, and they're going to take the jobs, and it's already started, and you haven't seen anything yet. | ||
| It's a disaster. | ||
| Thirty-eight seconds left, President Trump. | ||
| Will you take any action as president to slow the climate crisis? | ||
| So, I want absolutely immaculate, clean water, and I want absolutely clean air, and we had it. | ||
| We had H2O. | ||
| We had the best numbers ever. | ||
| And we did, we were using all forms of energy, all forms, everything. | ||
| And yet, during my four years, I had the best environmental numbers ever. | ||
| And my top environmental people gave me that statistic just before I walked on the stage, actually. | ||
| I don't know where the hell he's been. | ||
| The idea that anything he said is true. | ||
| I've passed the most extensive climate change legislation in history. | ||
| In history. | ||
| We find ourselves, and by the way, black colleges, I came up with $15 billion for HBCUs, Historic Black Universities and Colleges, because they don't have the kind of contributors that they have to build these laboratories and all the like. | ||
| Any black student is capable in college of doing what any white student can do. | ||
| They just don't have the money, but now they'll be able to get those jobs in high tech. | ||
| We're in a situation where the idea that he is claiming to have done something that had the cleanest water, the cleanest water, He hadn't done a damn thing for the environment. | ||
| He, out of the Paris Peace Accord, Climate Accord, I immediately joined him, because if we reach 1.5 degrees Celsius at any one point, there's no way back. | ||
| The only existential threat to humanity is climate change, and he didn't do a damn thing about it. | ||
| He must undo all that I've done. | ||
| The Paris Accord was going to cost us a trillion dollars, and China nothing, and Russia nothing, and India nothing. | ||
| It was a rip-off of the United States, and I ended it because I didn't want to waste that money because they treat us horribly. | ||
| We were the only ones. | ||
| It was costing us money. | ||
| Nobody else was paying into it, and it was a disaster. | ||
| But everything that he said just now—I'll give you an example. | ||
| I heard him say before, insolent. | ||
| I'm the one that got the insulin down for the seniors. | ||
| I took care of the seniors. | ||
| What he's doing is destroying all of our medical programs because the migrants coming in, they want everybody. | ||
| And look, I have the biggest heart on the stage, I guarantee you that. | ||
| And I want to take care of people. | ||
| But we're destroying our country. | ||
| They're taking over our schools, our hospitals, and they're going to be taking over Social Security. | ||
| He is destroying Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. | ||
| The idea is that we were the only ones with consequence who were not members of the Paris Accord. | ||
| How can we do anything if the United States can't get this pollution under control? | ||
| We're one of the largest polluters in the world, number one. | ||
| We're making significant progress. | ||
| By 2035, we will have cut pollution in half. | ||
| We have made significant progress, and we'll continue to make progress. | ||
| We set up a Climate Corps, where thousands of young people will learn how to deal with climate, just like the Peace Corps. | ||
| And we're moving in directions that are going to significantly change the elements of cause of pollution. | ||
| But the idea that he claims that he has the biggest heart up here, and he's really concerned about Totally took the bait. | ||
| about climate. | ||
| I've not seen any indication of that. | ||
| And by the way, with regard to prescription drugs, one company agreed that they would reduce the price to $35, which I was calling for one voluntarily. | ||
| I made sure every company in the world, every pharmaceutical company cannot have to pay. | ||
| And by the way... | ||
| So every day, millions of Americans struggle just to make ends meet For many older Americans, Social Security provides a critical lifeline. | ||
| President Biden, if nothing is done to Social Security, seniors will see their benefits cut in just over 10 years. | ||
| Will you name tonight one specific step that you're willing to take to keep Social Security solvent? | ||
| Yes, make the very wealthy begin to pay their fair share. | ||
| Right now, everybody making under $170,000 pays 6% of their income, of their paycheck, every single time they get a paycheck from the first one they get when they're 18 years old. | ||
| The idea that they're going to... I'm not proposing that. | ||
| Everybody, they pay, the millionaires pay 1%, 1%. | ||
| So no one after, I would not raise the cost of social security for anybody under $400,000. | ||
| After that, I began to make the wealthy begin to pay their fair share by increasing from 1% beyond to be able to guarantee the program for life. | ||
| So you still have 82 seconds left. | ||
| Are there any other measures that you think that would be able to help keep Social Security solvent, or is that one enough? | ||
| That one enough will keep it solvent, but the biggest thing will do it if we defeat this man, because he wants to get rid of Social Security. | ||
| He thinks there's plenty to cut in Social Security. | ||
| He's wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare, both times. | ||
| And if you look at the program put forward by the House Republican Caucus that he supports, is in fact want to cut it as well. | ||
| The idea that we don't need to protect our seniors is ridiculous. | ||
| And by the way, the American public has greater health care coverage today than ever before. | ||
| And on the ACA, as I said, we're in a circumstance where 400,000 people, I mean 40 million people, would not have insurance because they have a pre-existing condition. | ||
| The only thing that allows them to have that insurance is the fact that they, in fact, are part of the ACA. | ||
| And by the way, the other thing is, we're in a situation where we talk about education for black communities. | ||
| I've raised the amount of money for Pell Grants by another $8,000. | ||
| So anybody making under $70,000 a year is going to be able to get $15,000 towards their tuition. | ||
| He just doesn't know what he's talking about. | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| President Trump? | ||
| So I've dealt with politicians all my life. | ||
| I've been on this side of the equation for the last eight years. | ||
| I've never seen anybody lie like this guy. | ||
| He lies. | ||
| I've never seen if he could look you in the face. | ||
| About so many other things, too. | ||
| And we mentioned the laptop. | ||
| We mentioned Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. | ||
| Everything he does is a lie. | ||
| It's misinformation and disinformation. | ||
| The losers and suckers story that he made up is a total lie on the military. | ||
| It's a disgrace. | ||
| But Social Security He's destroying it, because millions of people are pouring into our country, and they're putting them onto Social Security, they're putting them onto Medicare, Medicaid, they're putting them in our hospitals, they're taking the place of our citizens. | ||
| What they're doing to the VA, to our veterans, is unbelievable. | ||
| Our veterans are living in the street, and these people are living in luxury hotels. | ||
| He doesn't know what he's doing, and it's really coming back. | ||
| I've never seen such anger in our country before. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| The idea that veterans are not being taken care of. | ||
| I told you before. | ||
| By the way, when I said suckers and losers, he said he acknowledged after that he fired that general. | ||
| That general got fired. | ||
| Because he's the one that acknowledged that that's what he said. | ||
| He was the one standing with Trump when he said it. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Number two, the idea that we're going to be in a situation where all these millions and millions of people he talks about, illegal aliens are coming into our country and taking away our jobs. | ||
| I wish all the stories were true. | ||
| We have the fastest growing economy in the world. | ||
| The reason why we have the most successful economy in the world. | ||
| We're doing better than any other nation in the world. | ||
| And by the way, those 15 Nobel laureates he talked about being phony, those 15 Nobel laureates, economists, they all said that if Trump is reelected, we're elected to have a recession and inflation is going to increase and go up. | ||
| And by the way, worst president in history? | ||
| 159 presidential scholars voted him the worst president in the history of the United States of America. | ||
| President Biden, thank you so much. | ||
| Let's turn to the cost of child care, which many American families struggle to afford. | ||
| President Trump, both you and President Biden have tried to address this issue, but the average cost of child care in this country has risen to more than $11,000 a year per child. | ||
| For many families, the cost of child care for two children is more than their rent. | ||
| In your second term, what would you do to make child care more affordable? | ||
| Just to go back, the general got fired because he was no good. | ||
| And if he said that, that's why he made it up. | ||
| But we have 19 people that said I didn't say it, and they're very highly respected, much more so than him. | ||
| The other thing is... Highly respected. | ||
| Scott Greer showed up. | ||
| He doesn't fire people. | ||
| He never fired people. | ||
| I've never seen him fire anybody. | ||
| I did fire a lot. | ||
| I fired Comey because he was no good. | ||
| I fired a lot of the top people at the FBI, drained the swamp. | ||
| They were no good. | ||
| Not easy to fire people. | ||
| You'd pay a price for it, but they were no good. | ||
| I inherited these people. | ||
| I didn't put Comey there. | ||
| He was no good. | ||
| I fired him. | ||
| This guy hasn't fired anybody. | ||
| He never fires. | ||
| He should have fired every military man that was involved with that Afghan, the Afghanistan horror show, the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. | ||
| He didn't fire. | ||
| Did you fire anybody? | ||
| Did you fire anybody that's on the border, that's allowed us to have the worst border in the history of the world? | ||
| Did anybody get fired for allowing 18 million people, many from prisons, many from mental institutions? | ||
| Did you fire anybody that allowed our country to be destroyed? | ||
| Joe, our country is being destroyed as you and I sit up here and waste a lot of time on this debate. | ||
| This shouldn't be a debate. | ||
| He is the worst president. | ||
| He just said it about me because I said it. | ||
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He's the worst president in the history of our country. | |
| He's destroyed our country. | ||
| Now all of a sudden he's trying to get a little tough on the border. | ||
| He came out with a nothing deal and it reduced it a little bit. | ||
| A little bit. | ||
| Like this much. | ||
| It's insignificant. | ||
| He wants open borders. | ||
| He wants our country. | ||
| country to either be destroyed or he wants to pick up those people as voters. | ||
| And I don't think we just can't let it happen. | ||
| If he wins this election, our country doesn't have a chance, not even a chance of coming out of this rut. | ||
| We probably won't have a country left anymore. | ||
| That's how bad it is. | ||
| He is the worst in history by far. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| We're the most admired country in the world. | ||
| We're the United States of America. | ||
| There's nothing beyond our capacity. | ||
| We have the finest military in the history of the world. | ||
| The finest in the history of the world. | ||
| No one thinks we're weak. | ||
| No one wants to screw around with us. | ||
| Nobody. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Number two, the idea that we're talking about worst presidents. | ||
| I wasn't joking. | ||
| Look it up or go online. | ||
| 159 or 158, don't hold me to the exact number, presidential historians. | ||
| They've had meetings and they voted. | ||
| Who's the worst president in American history? | ||
| Best to worst. | ||
| They said he was the worst in all of American history. | ||
| That's a fact. | ||
| That's not conjecture. | ||
| You could argue they're wrong, but that's what they voted. | ||
| The idea that he is doing anything to deal with child care He did virtually nothing to childcare. | ||
| We should significantly increase the childcare tax credit. | ||
| We should significantly increase the availability of women and men, of single parents, to be able to go back to work. | ||
| And we should encourage businesses to hold, to have... Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| President Trump, the question was about what would you do to make childcare more affordable, if you want to take your minute. | ||
| Yes, you understand. | ||
| We have polling. | ||
| We have other things that they rate him the worst because what he's done is so bad. | ||
| And they rate me. | ||
| I'll show you. | ||
| I will show you. | ||
| And they rate me one of the best. | ||
| OK. | ||
| And if I'm given another four years, I will be the best. | ||
| I think I'll be the best. | ||
| Nobody's ever created an economy like us. | ||
| Nobody ever cut taxes like us. | ||
| He's the only one I know. | ||
| He wants to raise your taxes by four times. | ||
| He wants to raise everybody's taxes by four times. | ||
| He wants the Trump tax cuts to expire. | ||
| So everybody, including the two of you, are going to pay four to five times. | ||
| Nobody ever heard of this before. | ||
| All my life I grow up and I see politicians talking about cutting taxes. | ||
| When we cut taxes, as I said, we did more business. | ||
| Apple and all these companies, they were bringing money back into our country. | ||
| The worst president in history by far, and everybody knows it. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| Look, the fact of the matter is that he's dead wrong about... He's increased the... He's increased... He will increase the taxes on middle class people. | ||
| I said I'd never raise a tax on anybody making less than $400,000. | ||
| I didn't. | ||
| But this tariff, this 10% tariff, everything coming into the country, you know what the economists say? | ||
| That's going to cost the average American $2,500 a year or more because they're going to have to pay the difference in food and all the things that are important. | ||
| Number two, he's in a situation where he talks about how he has not raised, he somehow helped the middle class. | ||
| The middle class has been devastated by you. | ||
| Now you want a new tax cut of $5 trillion over the next 10 years, which is going to fundamentally bankrupt the country. | ||
| You have the largest deficit of any president in American history, number one. | ||
| Number two, you have not, in fact, made any contact, any progress with China. | ||
| We are the lowest trade deficit with China since 2008. | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| Let's discuss an epidemic impacting millions of Americans that both of you have made a top priority in your first term, the opioid crisis. | ||
| And for both of you, the number of overdose deaths in this country has gone up. | ||
| Under your term, it went up. | ||
| Under your term, it has gone up. | ||
| Former President Trump, despite the efforts that both of you have made, more than 100,000 Americans are dying from overdoses every year, primarily from fentanyl and other opioids. | ||
| What will you do to help Americans right now in the throes of addiction who are struggling to get the treatment they need? | ||
| To finish up, we now have the largest deficit in the history of our country under this guy. | ||
| We have the largest deficit with China. | ||
| He gets paid by China. | ||
| He's a Manchurian candidate. | ||
| He gets money from China. | ||
| So I think he's afraid to deal with it or something. | ||
| But do you notice he never took out my tariffs because we bring in so much money with the tariffs that I imposed on China. | ||
| He never took them away. | ||
| He can't because it's too much money. | ||
| It's tremendous. | ||
| And we saved our steel industry. | ||
| There was more to come, but he hasn't done that. | ||
| But he hasn't cut the tariffs because he can't, because it's too much money. | ||
| But he's got the largest deficit in the history of our country, and he's got the worst situation with China. | ||
| China's going to own us if you keep allowing them to do what they're doing to us as a country. | ||
| They are killing us as a country, Joe, and you can't let that happen. | ||
| You're destroying our country. | ||
| So President Trump, you have 67 seconds left. | ||
| The question was, what are you going to do to help Americans in the throes of addiction right now who are struggling to get the treatment they need? | ||
| Jake, we were doing very well in addiction until the COVID came along. | ||
| We had the two and a half, almost three years of like nobody's ever had before any country in every way. | ||
| And then we had to get tough. | ||
| And it was the drugs pouring across the border where it started to increase. | ||
| We got great equipment. | ||
| We bought the certain dog. | ||
| That's the most incredible thing that you've ever seen, the way they can spot it. | ||
| We did a lot. | ||
| And we had we were getting very low numbers, very, very low numbers. | ||
| Then he came along. | ||
| The numbers. | ||
| Have you seen the numbers now? | ||
| It's not only the 18 million people that I believe is even low because they gotaways. | ||
| They don't even talk about gotaways. | ||
| But the numbers of the amount of drugs and human trafficking in women coming across our border. | ||
| The worst thing I've ever seen. | ||
| At numbers that nobody's ever seen under him, because the border's so bad. | ||
| But the number of drugs coming across our border now is the largest we've ever had by far. | ||
| President Trump, thank you. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| Fentanyl and bipartisan fentanyl went down for a while. | ||
| And I wanted to make sure we use the machinery that can detect fentanyl. | ||
| These big machines that roll over everything that comes across the border. | ||
| And it costs a lot of money. | ||
| That was part of this deal we put together. | ||
| This bipartisan deal. | ||
| More fentanyl machines, more being able to detect drugs, more numbers of of agents, more numbers of all the people at the border. | ||
| And when we had that deal done, he went, he called his Republican colleagues and said, "Don't do it. | ||
| It's gonna hurt me politically." But he never argued it's not a good bill. | ||
| It's a really good bill. | ||
| We need those machines. | ||
| We need those machines. | ||
| And we're coming down very hard in every country in Asia in terms of precursors for fentanyl, and Mexico is working with us to make sure they don't have the technology to be able to put it together. | ||
| That's what we have to do. | ||
| We need those machines. | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| President Trump, and again, the question is about Americans in the throes of addiction right now, struggling to get the treatment they need. | ||
| Because this does pertain to it. | ||
| He ended Remain in Mexico. | ||
| He ended Catch and Release. | ||
| I made a Catch and Release in Mexico, not Catch and Release here. | ||
| We had so many things that we had done. | ||
| Hard negotiations with Mexico, and I got it all for nothing. | ||
| It's just like when you have a hostage. | ||
| We always pay $6 billion for a hostage. | ||
| Every time we say there's a hostage. | ||
| Now we have a hostage, a Wall Street Journal reporter. | ||
| I think a good guy, and he's over there because Putin is laughing at this guy, probably asking for billions of dollars for the reporter. | ||
| I will have him out very quickly. | ||
| As soon as I take office, before I take office, I said, by literally as soon as I win the election, I will have that reporter out. | ||
| He should have had him out a long time ago. | ||
| But Putin's probably asking for billions and billions of dollars because this guy pays it every time. | ||
| We had two cases. | ||
| We paid $6 billion for five people. | ||
| I got 58 people out, and I paid essentially nothing. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump. | ||
| Dana? | ||
| Let's turn to concerns that voters have about each of you. | ||
| President Biden, you would be 86 at the end of your second term. | ||
| How do you address concerns about your capability to handle the toughest job in the world well into your 80s? | ||
| Well, first of all, I spent half my career being criticized for being the youngest person in politics. | ||
| I was the second youngest person ever elected to the United States Senate, and now I'm the oldest. | ||
| This guy's three years younger and a lot less competent. | ||
| I think that just look at the record. | ||
| Look at what I've done. | ||
| Look how I've turned around the horrible situation he left me. | ||
| As I said, 50 million new jobs, 800,000 manufacturing jobs, more investment in America, over millions, billions of dollars in private investment in enterprises that we are growing. | ||
| By the way, we brought an awful lot of people, the whole idea of computer chips. | ||
| We still have 40% of the market. | ||
| We invented those chips, and we lost it because he was sending people to find the cheapest jobs overseas and to bring home a product. | ||
| So I went to South Korea. | ||
| I convinced Samsung to invest billions of dollars here in the United States. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Those fabs they call, to build these chips, those fabs pay over $100,000. | ||
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| And there's billions, about $40 billion already being invested and being built right now in the United States, creating significant jobs for Americans from all over the world. | ||
| President Biden, you have 40 seconds left. | ||
| Would you like to add anything? | ||
| Yeah, I would. | ||
| The idea that somehow we are this failing country. | ||
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I've never heard a president talk like this before. | |
| We were the envy of the world. | ||
| Maybe a single major country president wouldn't trade places with the United States of America for all our problems and all our opportunities. | ||
| We're the most progressive country in the world in getting things done. | ||
| We're the strongest country in the world. | ||
| We're a country in the world who keeps our word and everybody trusts us, all of our allies and our and our and our those who he calls up to from Kim Jong-un. | ||
| We sent love letters to Putin, et cetera. | ||
| They don't always have to be gay. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Former President Trump, to follow up, you would be 82 at the end of your second term. | ||
| What do you say to voters who have concerns about your capabilities to serve? | ||
| Well, I took two tests, cognitive tests. | ||
| I used them. | ||
| Both of them, as you know. | ||
| We made it public. | ||
| He took none. | ||
| I'd like to see him take one. | ||
| Just one. | ||
| A real easy one. | ||
| Like, go through the first five questions. | ||
| He couldn't do it. | ||
| But I took two cognitive tests. | ||
| I took physical exams every year. | ||
| And you know, we knock on wood, wherever we may have wood, that I'm in very good health. | ||
| I just won two club championships, not even senior. | ||
| Two regular club championships. | ||
| To do that, you have to be quite smart, and you have to be able to hit the ball a long way. | ||
| And I do it. | ||
| He doesn't do it. | ||
| He can't hit a ball 50 yards. | ||
| He challenged me to a golf match. | ||
| He can't hit a ball 50 yards. | ||
| I think I'm in very good shape. | ||
| I feel that I'm in as good a shape as I was 25, 30 years ago. | ||
| Actually, I'm probably a little bit lighter. | ||
| But I'm in as good a shape as I was years ago. | ||
| I feel very good. | ||
| I feel the same. | ||
| But I took, I was willing to take a cognitive test. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| If I didn't do well, I aced him. | ||
| Dr. Ronny Jackson, who's a great guy, when he was White House doctor. | ||
| And then I took another one, a similar one. | ||
| And both, one of them said they'd never seen anybody ace him. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| President Biden? | ||
| You can see he is 6'5 and only 223 pounds. | ||
| I'm 235 pounds. | ||
| Well, you said 6'4, 200. | ||
| Well, anyway, that's what you... Anyway, let's take a look at what he says he is and take a look at what he is. | ||
| Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him. | ||
| Remember, I got my handicap when I was vice president down to a 6. | ||
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And, by the way, I told you before I'm happy to play golf if you can carry your own bag. | |
| Think you can do it? | ||
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That's the biggest lie that is a six-handed cap, of all. | |
| I was a kid here in the capital. | ||
| Eight? | ||
| There's 11. | ||
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But I have 11. | |
| Let's see if you swing. | ||
| I know you swing. | ||
| Let's not act like children here. | ||
| Let's not act like children. | ||
| I know it's true. | ||
| That was so awesome. | ||
| - That's awesome, dude. | ||
| This is the best part. - Will you pledge tonight - That's the best part. - That once all legal challenges have been exhausted, that you will accept the results of this election, regardless of who wins. | ||
| And you will say right now that political violence in any form is unacceptable. - Well, I shouldn't have to say that, but of course I believe that. | ||
| It's totally unacceptable. | ||
| And if you would see my statements that I made on Twitter at the time, and also my statement that I made in the Rose Garden, you would say it's one of the strongest statements you've ever seen. | ||
| In addition to the speech I made, in front of, I believe, the largest crowd I've ever spoken to, and I will tell you, nobody ever talks about that. | ||
| They talk about a relatively small number of people that went to the Capitol and in many cases were ushered in by the police. | ||
| And as Nancy Pelosi said, it was her responsibility, not mine. | ||
| She said that loud and clear. | ||
| But the answer is if the election is fair, free, and I want that more than anybody. | ||
| And I'll tell you something. | ||
| I wish he was a great president, because I wouldn't be here right now. | ||
| I'd be at one of my many places enjoying myself. | ||
| I wouldn't be under indictment because I wouldn't have been his political appoint, you know, opponent. | ||
| Because he indicted me because I was his opponent. | ||
| I wish he was a great president. | ||
| I would rather have that. | ||
| I wouldn't be here. | ||
| I don't mind being here. | ||
| But the only reason I'm here is he's so bad as a president. | ||
| That I'm going to make America great again. | ||
| We're going to make America great again. | ||
| We're a failing nation right now. | ||
| We're a seriously failing nation. | ||
| And we're a failing nation because of him. | ||
| His policies are so bad. | ||
| His military policies are insane. | ||
| They're insane. | ||
| These are wars that will never end with him. | ||
| He will drive us into World War III. | ||
| And we're closer to World War III than anybody can imagine. | ||
| We are very, very close to World War III, and he's driving us there. | ||
| And Kim Jong-un and President Xi of China, Kim Jong-un of North Korea, all of these are Putin. | ||
| They don't respect him. | ||
| They don't fear him. | ||
| They have nothing going with this gentleman, and he's going to drive us into World War III. | ||
| You want a World War III, let him follow and win and let Putin say, do what you want, NATO. | ||
| Just do what you want. | ||
| There's a thing called Article 5. | ||
| An attack on one is an attack on all. | ||
| A required response. | ||
| The idea, the idea. | ||
| I can't think of a single major leader in the world who wouldn't trade places with the job I've done and what they've done. | ||
| Because we are a powerful nation. | ||
| We have wonderful people. | ||
| It's because of the people, not me. | ||
| It's because of the American people. | ||
| They're capable of anything. | ||
| They step up when they need it. | ||
| And right now, we need it. | ||
| We need it to protect the world because our own safety is at stake. | ||
| And again, we're going to have a war. | ||
| Just let Putin go ahead and take Kiev. | ||
| Make sure they move on. | ||
| See what happens in Poland, Hungary, and other places along that border. | ||
| Then you have a war. | ||
| President Trump, as I come back to you for a follow-up, the question was, will you accept the results of this election, regardless of who wins? | ||
| Just to finish what he said, if I might. | ||
| Russia, they took a lot of land from Bush. | ||
| They took a lot of land from Obama and Biden. | ||
| They took no land, nothing, from Trump. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| He knew not to do it. | ||
| You're not going to play games with me. | ||
| He knew that. | ||
| I got along with him very well, but he knew not to play games. | ||
| He took nothing from me. | ||
| But now he's going to take the whole thing from this man right here. | ||
| That's a war that should have never started. | ||
| It would have never started, ever, with me. | ||
| And he's going to take Ukraine. | ||
| And, you know, you asked me a question before. | ||
| Would you do this with — he's got us in such a bad position right now with Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| Because Ukraine's not winning that war. | ||
| He said, I will never settle until such time. | ||
| They're running out of people. | ||
| They're running out of soldiers. | ||
| They've lost so many people. | ||
| It's so sad. | ||
| They've lost so many people. | ||
| And they've lost those gorgeous cities with the golden domes that are a thousand years old, all because of him and stupid decisions. | ||
| Russia would have never attacked. | ||
| President Trump, the question was, will you accept the results of the election? | ||
| Regardless of who wins, yes or no. | ||
| The question was... | ||
| If it's a fair and legal and good election, absolutely. | ||
| I would have much rather accepted these, but the fraud and everything else was ridiculous. | ||
| And if you want, we'll have a news conference on it in a week. | ||
| Or we'll have another one of these on it in a week. | ||
| But I will absolutely... | ||
| There's nothing I'd rather do. | ||
| It would be much easier for me to do that than I'm running again. | ||
| I wasn't really going to run until I saw the horrible job he did. | ||
| He's destroying our country. | ||
| I would be very happy to be someplace else, in a nice location someplace. | ||
| And again, no indictments, no political opponent stuff, because it's the only way he thinks he can win. | ||
| But unfortunately, it's driven up my numbers and driven them up to a very high level, because the people understand it. | ||
| Let's see what your numbers are when this election is over. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| When you lost the first time, you continued, you appealed and appealed to courts all across the country. | ||
| Not one single court in America said any of your claims had any merit, state or local, none. | ||
| But you continue to provoke No response? | ||
| lie about somehow there's all this misrepresentation, all this stealing. | ||
| There is no evidence of that at all. | ||
| And I tell you what, I doubt whether you'll accept it because you're such a whiner. | ||
| The idea if you lose again, you accept anything, you can't stand the loss. | ||
| Something snapped in you when you lost the last time. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| No response. | ||
| From the CNN presidential debate. | ||
| Live from Georgia. | ||
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| Well, I think that's going to be closing statements at the end. | ||
| So it'll probably be a short break. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Good stuff! | ||
| I gotta say, the golf thing was really funny. | ||
| I really enjoyed that. | ||
| And Trump is really heating up on Ukraine. | ||
| I just wish that there were, it's just like the first term, there were so many missed opportunities and this debate's obviously winding down now. | ||
| It's 9.30, so I think they do the closing statements and then that's it. | ||
| This really should have been a home run, and I don't think it was. | ||
| I think that Biden was, like I said earlier, he's weak, he looks bad, he sounds bad. | ||
| That is what people will talk about. | ||
| But there was no knockout blow. | ||
| Where was the killing shot? | ||
| Wasn't there. | ||
| There were a number of opportunities, I think, when Trump could have really leaned in or stressed Biden out, put some kind of pressure on him, but the pressure wasn't there. | ||
| You know, in a situation like this, when Biden shows up weak, he could, and I think he did tonight, coast, and it's not pretty, and no one's gonna love it, but he's gonna get to the end. | ||
| In a situation like this, you need to bury the opponent. | ||
| When they come weak, you gotta finish them off. | ||
| You gotta bury them. | ||
| And Trump didn't do that. | ||
| If anything, Trump, it almost was like Trump was, uh, it was a conscious decision not to acknowledge the cognitive issues. | ||
| And I wonder who told him that was a good idea, because obviously that was intentional. | ||
| It was especially noticeable at the beginning. | ||
| I mean, Biden was really rough. | ||
| I think Trump acknowledged it once. | ||
| It's a 90-minute debate. | ||
| There were a lot of issues. | ||
| I think Trump acknowledged it one time. | ||
| How bad Biden looks and sounds, and it was passing and subtle. | ||
| And so that tells me that maybe, because of course they anticipated this, that there was a decision that was made not to lean into that. | ||
| And I think that was a mistake. | ||
| I think that in a situation like this, you need to maximize the pressure to make the opponent utterly collapse and get in a knockout blow. | ||
| You know, this was bad for Biden, but the elections in five months, yes, it is very bad. | ||
| This makes me seriously doubt whether he will be the nominee, and I don't think he can do this again, and I think it will be very damaging, but there was no knockout blow, and so I think a lot of people are going to be willing and able to forget about this. | ||
| If there was something really decisive, something really brutal, if he leaned in early and made it More challenging for Biden? | ||
| Because if he's struggling to just kind of keep up, and if Trump introduced even a little bit of pressure, and just switched up, did something unpredictable, or was super aggressive, or something, maybe that would have made Biden's performance worse. | ||
| Maybe could have caught him. | ||
| You know, there were, I feel like there was a lot more that could have been done. | ||
| There was so much left on the table here. | ||
| If anything, Trump was on the back foot at least once. | ||
| Like when Biden made the accusation about the World War II memorial, the sucker's comment, and Trump kept revisiting it and I think spent way too much time on that. | ||
| And the other thing is this debate was not biased. | ||
| I think the moderators were as fair as you can expect. | ||
| I think the format was very orderly and clean. | ||
| So if ever there was an opportunity, this was it. | ||
| And it didn't happen. | ||
| I think that's pretty representative of the whole thing. | ||
| We've made significant progress from the debacle that was left by President Trump in his last term. | ||
| We find ourselves in a situation where, number one, we have to make sure that we have a fair tax system. | ||
| I ask anyone out there in the audience, anyone out watching this debate, do you think the tax system is fair? | ||
| The fact is that, I said, nobody making under $400,000 had a single penny increasing their taxes, and if I'm reelected, that will be the case again. | ||
| But this guy has increased your taxes because of the deficit, number one. | ||
| He's increased inflation because of the debacle he left after the way he handled the pandemic. | ||
| And he finds himself in a position where he now wants to tax you more by putting a 10 percent tariff on everything that comes in the United States of America. | ||
| What I did, for example, he wants to get rid of the ability of Medicare, for the ability for us to be able to negotiate drug prices with the big pharma companies. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| We got it down to $35 for insulin instead of $400. | ||
| No more than $2,000 for every senior, no matter how much prescription they need. | ||
| You know what that did? | ||
| That reduced the federal debt by $160 billion over 10 years because the government doesn't have to pay the exorbitant prices. | ||
| I'm going to make that available to every senior. | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| longer is happening now and everybody in America. | ||
| He wants to get rid of that. | ||
| We have I'm going to make sure that we have child care. | ||
| We're going to significantly increase the credits people have for child care. | ||
| I'm going to make sure we do something about what we're doing on lead pipes and all the things that are causing health problems for people across the country. | ||
| We're going to continue to fight to bring down inflation and give people a break. | ||
| Thank you, President Biden. | ||
| President Trump, you now have two minutes for your closing statement. | ||
| Like so many politicians, This man is just a complainer. | ||
| He said, we want to do this, we want to do that, we want to get rid of this tax, that tax. | ||
| But he doesn't do anything. | ||
| All he does is make our country unsafe by allowing millions and millions of people to pour in. | ||
| Our military doesn't respect him. | ||
| We look like fools in Afghanistan. | ||
| We didn't stop Israel. | ||
| It was such a horrible thing that would have never happened. | ||
| It should have never happened. | ||
| Iran was broke. | ||
| Anybody that did business with Iran, including China, they couldn't do business with the United States. | ||
| They all passed. | ||
| Iran was broke. | ||
| They had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah. | ||
| For terror, no money whatsoever. | ||
| Again, Ukraine should have never happened. | ||
| He talks about all this stuff, but he didn't do it. | ||
| For three and a half years, we're living in hell. | ||
| We have the Palestinians, and we have everybody else rioting all over the place. | ||
| You talk about Charlottesville. | ||
| This is a hundred times Charlottesville, a thousand times Charlottesville. | ||
| The whole country is exploding because of you. | ||
| Because they don't respect you. | ||
| And they have to respect their president. | ||
| And they don't respect you throughout the world. | ||
| What we did was incredible. | ||
| We rebuilt the military. | ||
| We got the largest tax cut in history, the largest regulation cut in history. | ||
| The reason he's got jobs is because I cut the regulations that gave jobs. | ||
| But he's putting a lot of those regulations back on all of the things that we've done. | ||
| Nobody's ever never seen anything like that. | ||
| Even from a medical standpoint, right to try. | ||
| Well, we can try space-age materials instead of going to Asia or going to Europe and trying to get when you're terminally ill. | ||
| Now you can go and you can get something. | ||
| You sign a document. | ||
| They've been trying to get it for 42 years. | ||
| But you know what we did for the military was incredible choice for our soldiers, where our soldiers Instead of waiting for three months to see a doctor, can go out and get themselves fixed up and readied up and take care of themselves, and they're living. | ||
| And that's why I had the highest approval rating in the history of the VA. | ||
| So all of these things. | ||
| We're in a failing nation, but it's not going to be failing anymore. | ||
| We're going to make it great again. | ||
| Thank you, former President Trump, President Biden. | ||
| Stay with us because we have full analysis of this debate. | ||
| Anderson Cooper and Aaron Burnett starts now on CNN. | ||
| Weird ending. | ||
| What the heck? | ||
| Okay, very bizarre ending. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Well, there you have it. | ||
| That is our first presidential debate. | ||
| Of the 2024 election, maybe the first and last. | ||
| So I'll talk a little bit about my initial thoughts and immediate reaction to the debate and kind of give a recap of everything that happened. | ||
| Then we'll read the super chats and then I'm going to end the stream. | ||
| But first just want to say thank you for joining me tonight. | ||
| If you're just here for the debate coverage, I appreciate you watching the stream. | ||
| I think this is my biggest rumble stream yet. | ||
| I think we hit a peak of nearly 27,000 viewers. | ||
| And I'm the only one that's not verified. | ||
| Isn't that funny? | ||
| Top four. | ||
| Top four streamer on the biggest night behind, like, three of their paid people. | ||
| And I'm, like, not verified. | ||
| But I'm not complaining. | ||
| I'm not gonna complain about that. | ||
| I'm happy to have the platform. | ||
| It would be nice to have a checkmark. | ||
| But that's okay. | ||
| So anyway, thank you everybody for watching. | ||
| We're going to keep it rolling though, and I want to get into my analysis here of the debate. | ||
| And I'm going to kind of pick up where I left off a moment ago on that last break. | ||
| My overall opinion is this. | ||
| I think that tonight and tomorrow, the big takeaway is Biden's condition. | ||
| Because when we watch these debates, people tend to overthink. | ||
| It really doesn't matter what actually happens. | ||
| It actually doesn't matter. | ||
| It's sort of like any sports game. | ||
| People remember the big play. | ||
| They remember the buzzer beater. | ||
| I don't watch sports, but you know, they remember the big thing. | ||
| It's about the moments. | ||
| It's not about the overall flow of the game or the flow of the debate. | ||
| So, so much of these debates, it's really about just having a perfunctory answer to everything. | ||
| And then it's about, can you score one of those moments? | ||
| Can you get a memorable moment? | ||
| What is going to be the buzz the following day? | ||
| And I think the buzz is going to be simply Biden's condition. | ||
| I don't think anything else was memorable. | ||
| I don't think anything else in the entire debate stuck out. | ||
| And I think, and I'm going to get into this, I think that was a very big missed opportunity. | ||
| There were no sparks. | ||
| There was no, on either side, there was not a major gotcha, not a major point score. | ||
| It just didn't happen. | ||
| So what people will talk about, the most shocking condition of the debate, or the most shocking aspect of it, was Biden's cognitive state. | ||
| His look, his sound, the whole thing. | ||
| And I think that makes it a win for Trump. | ||
| I think that a lot of people are going to see this. | ||
| I think it brings attention to just how bad he is. | ||
| At this point it is unignorable. | ||
| It has become the elephant in the room. | ||
| That he's not well. | ||
| And what's more, people see clearly that it is not an exaggeration. | ||
| This is not like a Fox News talking point. | ||
| This is not the kind of typical partisan slander. | ||
| It's real. | ||
| He's not well. | ||
| And what's more, it's not even just about people's perception. | ||
| I seriously question what his condition will be in five months. | ||
| Because as I said at the very beginning, the decline has been very rapid and substantial just recently, just in the past few months. | ||
| He's been holding on so far for the past three and a half years. | ||
| He's been holding on pretty good considering that he was slipping in 2020. | ||
| But just in the past few months, he has really taken a considerable dive. | ||
| And so as I said earlier, the big question is, what's it going to be in five months? | ||
| Is he even going to be here? | ||
| Because this is what death looks like. | ||
| I mean, I hate to say that. | ||
| People that are living a normal life, that look and sound like that, don't have a long time left. | ||
| And this is a guy who's in the position of being the president during an election year. | ||
| So it's an unimaginable amount of stress on a very frail, very old, rapidly declining man. | ||
| And it makes me wonder, and I wasn't so sure of this before, I said this on Alex Jones just yesterday though, I think it is becoming very likely that he will not be the nominee. | ||
| And I was skeptical of that for a long time. | ||
| I know that there has been talk about a dark horse, no pun intended, like Michelle Obama, or like Hillary Clinton, or somebody else. | ||
| And I was very skeptical of that for the past few years because that's an idea that's been floated but after tonight I think it there's a significant chance that this is the case because And certainly if that's not going to happen, I don't think they'll do another debate. | ||
| I don't think they can subject him to exposure like this again. | ||
| I think this was an unmitigated optical disaster, public relations disaster, and certainly I think it's one they won't want to repeat. | ||
| So I think that's the big takeaway. | ||
| That is overall. | ||
| The only other memorable moment was the golf banter. | ||
| I think that was sufficiently funny and memetic and memorable. | ||
| I think those will be the two things that people remember a year from now and next week. | ||
| It's going to be the funny golf moment. | ||
| That'll be on the late shows and that'll be clipped. | ||
| And it will be the state of Biden overall. | ||
| The rest, not so much. | ||
| And to that point, and I'm going to move on to my second point here, I think that this was a major missed opportunity because when Biden is so degraded and so weak and actually in an environment which is more favorable, I think this debate, unlike the other debates, was more fair. | ||
| I don't think it was perfectly fair. | ||
| I don't think it was... | ||
| Objectively fair, but I think it was about as fair as you can expect. | ||
| I think that equal time was given. | ||
| I think that the questions were as unbiased as you can expect from CNN. | ||
| And unlike other debates, I think it was orderly and it was clean. | ||
| So the environment was optimal. | ||
| And Biden's condition was very bad. | ||
| So in a situation like this, you're supposed to come in with this kind of advantage, and like I said, in a favorable environment, and you're supposed to be able to dunk. | ||
| You're supposed to be able to score a lot of points. | ||
| And that just didn't happen. | ||
| And I'm hard-pressed to think of one moment that was on the level of anything that was said in the 2016 debates. | ||
| The primary debates, the general debates. | ||
| I mean, the one thing that you remember from Trump 2016 was all the funny debate moments. | ||
| It was funny, it was sharp, it was on point. | ||
| People still clip the first primary debate. | ||
| Maybe it was the first, maybe I think it was actually the second one, where Trump laid into Jeb Bush and then attacked the audience saying that it's all donors in the audience and that's why they're not applauding him. | ||
| And there were a lot of those. | ||
| There was the famous you'd be in jail in the second general election debate. | ||
| And it didn't happen in 2020 and it didn't happen this time. | ||
| And I really think there's just no good excuse for that. | ||
| I think that Trump is out of form. | ||
| I think he's unprepared. | ||
| He's golfing a lot. | ||
| And you know the funny thing about Trump in 2016? | ||
| He didn't golf once. | ||
| A lot of people don't know that. | ||
| And that's not an exaggeration. | ||
| In the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump did not go golfing one single solitary time. | ||
| Factual. | ||
| Literally true. | ||
| And this time, he's golfing all the time, and he's doing only softball interviews with people that are friendly to him. | ||
| And I think he's out of form. | ||
| And I think it showed. | ||
| I think it took him about 30 minutes to heat up. | ||
| I think that the first few answers were very sloppy and repetitive and suboptimal. | ||
| And I just think there's no excuse for that. | ||
| So it took him 30 minutes to warm up. | ||
| And then I think he found a groove. | ||
| And then I think he was doing an okay job. | ||
| And by the end of it, I think he really found his voice. | ||
| And I think he was being very strategic about how he answered the question. | ||
| He took a question about daycare and made it about something else. | ||
| He took the question about the election and made it about Ukraine and hammered the greatest hits. | ||
| Which is what you're supposed to do. | ||
| But it took him 75% of the debate to get to a point where he was doing good. | ||
| Not exceptional, not fantastic, but good. | ||
| And I think that that is just not acceptable. | ||
| I think that at this stage in the game, it's just not tolerable. | ||
| This is going to get the job done, but this is not running across the finish line. | ||
| It's not running through first base. | ||
| And like we said earlier, He's doing well in the polls. | ||
| The forecasts say that he's not as likely to win as the polls might suggest. | ||
| But you're going to be dealing with fraud. | ||
| There may be black swan events that happen in the future. | ||
| You've got to be firing at all cylinders. | ||
| You've got to be at 100% capacity. | ||
| And I think tonight he was at about 50% capacity. | ||
| I think he's gotten a little bit complacent and a little bit lazy and self-indulgent. | ||
| I think he was unprepared. | ||
| And I think the performance tonight was sloppy. | ||
| And as a result, there were no haymakers. | ||
| There was no moment when everybody said, wow, this is the guy. | ||
| And there was no shortage of those kinds of moments in 2016. | ||
| That's what got him to this point. | ||
| So I think that he won the debate, clearly. | ||
| I think that the memorable aspect of this debate is Biden's condition, but there's no excuse why there wasn't at least one Grand slam. | ||
| And there should have been multiple. | ||
| And if he came in prepared, if he came in practiced and rehearsed and on the ball, I think there would have been moments. | ||
| I think that he could have taken much... I think there could have been... I think he could have exploited Biden's condition much more than he did. | ||
| And at the minimum, acknowledged it and poked fun at it. | ||
| And like I said earlier, I think that that was probably an intentional decision not to do that. | ||
| Because it was very noticeable that Biden was not well at the beginning. | ||
| And it was written all over Trump's face that he knew it and he was aware of it. | ||
| It was obvious! | ||
| And yet, he completely refrained from even acknowledging it. | ||
| And that tells me that a decision was made in the campaign that, for whatever reason, that is bad strategy. | ||
| And I think that is wrong. | ||
| I think that was a mistake. | ||
| I think that he should have leaned into that. | ||
| I think he should have exploited that. | ||
| I think he should have went harder. | ||
| I think should have been more prepared and I think that, you know, this was not the performance of a lifetime. | ||
| This was not the 100% completion and that's just disappointing. | ||
| And I said earlier that that is representative of this whole operation, which is that we are kind of being served up on a silver platter. | ||
| The best opportunity that we may get to restore America And it's constantly being squandered by deliberately bad decisions on personnel, on policy, on a lot of this stuff. | ||
| And this was the perfect example of that. | ||
| He went in there. | ||
| He thought he was going to wing it. | ||
| I mean, like a high school student or something, like I would do. | ||
| And for that reason, I think that it was not as good as it could have been. | ||
| And I'm not being, I don't think I'm being picky either. | ||
| I think Biden was extremely weak and in spite of that, It wasn't like a blowout. | ||
| There was no... I think overall the trajectory of the debate is that Trump was dominant. | ||
| I think that he was winning, but only because Biden looked and sounded so bad. | ||
| And there's just no excuse that it should have been like that. | ||
| It should have been far more one-sided. | ||
| So that's my feelings on it, and those are the memorable things. | ||
| To get specific, one other thing I thought was interesting Is that when Trump was asked about Israel, he totally sidestepped it. | ||
| And I don't know if you noticed that, but Biden spent a lot of time talking about Israel and saying that he was going to give them whatever they need when they ask for it. | ||
| And he said that, regarding the Palestinians, he said that he was withholding some aid from Israel because it would cause civilian casualties. | ||
| I thought that was an interesting, you know, Like Trump, there was a decision made to pander to both sides, but definitely more to Israel. | ||
| So Biden had some rehearsed answers on Israel, and I think he spent the full two or three minutes talking about it. | ||
| Trump completely evaded the subject. | ||
| It was all about Ukraine. | ||
| Didn't touch Israel. | ||
| And I thought that was so remarkable because if it had been Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley, they would have taken 30 minutes to glaze Israel. | ||
| They would have taken 40... half the debate would be, and let me just get back to Israel's our closest ally and we got to give them what they want, when they want it. | ||
| Biden hates Israel. | ||
| Biden hates Jews. | ||
| Like that would have been the debate if it was Haley or DeSantis. | ||
| And it was so Trump that he just avoided it, and that was correct. | ||
| That was the corre- I mean, I would prefer that he would go hard on Israel. | ||
| But I think his position's actually the correct position, because there's no way to win. | ||
| If he goes hard on Palestine, he loses the support of the Zionists, which is propelling him to victory. | ||
| If he goes hard on Palestine? | ||
| Or did I say that right? | ||
| If he went hard on Israel and took the innovative, America first, Gruyper position, alienates his Zionist backers and, you know, like it or not, strategically, it would be bad for his campaign. | ||
| If he went hard on Israel, or rather on Palestine, then it would have forced a lot of the people that may consider staying home or voting for Trump over Biden because of his support for Israel, it might make them reconsider. | ||
| So he got in the middle by avoiding it and saying, look, I'm just not touching that. | ||
| I'm not going to alienate the Zionists. | ||
| I'm not going to alienate the Palestinians. | ||
| I'm not going to make it so that the Jews question whether they should back me and give me money. | ||
| I'm not going to upset the Palestinians by... | ||
| Totally supporting Israel and throwing a bone to my backers. | ||
| So I thought that was very clever. | ||
| I thought that was the right instinct and only Trump would do that. | ||
| Any other Republican nominee would be getting up there and they would probably literally like get on their knees and recite a loyalty pledge and say, I swear I'm gonna always support Israel. | ||
| You know, so for Trump to avoid that, Was really remarkable. | ||
| I think it would have been better. | ||
| I think it would have been more. | ||
| I would prefer I think it'd be more historic, although riskier, to take a bold approach and lean into Palestine. | ||
| But I think that this is classic Art of the Deal, classic Trump, which is to do the thing that's going to move him down the field. | ||
| It's not the thing that's the most principled. | ||
| It's not the thing that is the most conventional. | ||
| But it is the thing that is going to get the job done. | ||
| And so I thought that was brilliant. | ||
| And like I said, only Trump would do it. | ||
| And for that reason, you can't call Trump a Jewish shill completely. | ||
| I'm very critical of his position, but I'm not critical of his position in the same way as other people. | ||
| If you watch me, you know that. | ||
| And I had a debate with Michael Tracy about this a few months ago on Twitter. | ||
| Michael Tracy's like a fat, schlub leftist, and he just rails about how Trump is a sellout to Israel all the time. | ||
| And in some sense, I agree. | ||
| But I differ in the sense that Trump is distinct from other Jewish controlled Republicans. | ||
| And you know that because he never talks about Israel the way they do. | ||
| And if he does, he does it behind closed doors. | ||
| And he tells them what they want to hear. | ||
| And it is true that in the first term he gave them what they wanted, but he also did some things that they didn't want. | ||
| That's the art of the deal. | ||
| So you could see that Trump We'll take the Jewish money, and he'll dispense the patronage. | ||
| But that's all it is, is it's a deal. | ||
| He's not in their pocket, I don't think. | ||
| He's not ideologically a Zionist. | ||
| He's never called himself a Zionist. | ||
| But he has made a deal. | ||
| Whereas Nikki Haley and DeSantis, they will get out there and say, Oh, Israel's the greatest country ever, and we just gotta send them everything, and it's so important, and blah blah, because they... It's not a deal for them. | ||
| They're not saying what they need to say to get the money to get elected. | ||
| They're true believers. | ||
| And they're also completely sponsored by Israel, and without it, they would have no career. | ||
| And so there's a subtle distinction. | ||
| It's not to say, and don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying that Trump is not influenced. | ||
| He clearly is. | ||
| Miriam Adelson's writing him a hundred million dollar check and it will come with strings attached. | ||
| But I'm saying it's a subtle difference that he has made a deal versus selling out or being bought. | ||
| It may sound like the same thing but This is the difference. | ||
| The difference is that Trump, when he gets up there, I'm sure a lot of Jews were not happy. | ||
| I'm sure Miriam Adelson was not happy with what she saw. | ||
| Maybe she wasn't offended, maybe she wasn't pissed, but she wasn't happy. | ||
| Because Israel was not talked about. | ||
| He did not talk about it. | ||
| And he really didn't even say he supported them so much. | ||
| The only thing he said about Israel was, well, you know, if I was president, they wouldn't have gotten attacked, and, you know, they're unrelenting, and you gotta just let them finish it. | ||
| And that was all he said. | ||
| Not, they're our closest ally and blah blah. | ||
| And you know that that is what the Jews want to see. | ||
| After October 7th, they want a Republican who understands the Israeli consciousness and understands the psychological impact of the attack and the peril that the Jewish state is in. | ||
| They wanted to hear all that crap. | ||
| And they wanted to hear that he was going to give them a blank check and And they didn't get that. | ||
| And that's Trump's instinct. | ||
| And that's the deal-making mindset. | ||
| And it shows that Trump really has no loyalty. | ||
| Other than to the objective, which is in some ways a good thing, in some ways a bad thing. | ||
| But it is subtly different from what DeSantis and Haley represent. | ||
| And that's why their answers are so different, and the focus is different. | ||
| So, that was something that I don't know how many people really caught that. | ||
| Of course, someone like myself was really waiting to hear what the answer would be on that subject, and I was a little bit surprised, I'm gonna be honest. | ||
| I thought that Trump was gonna go out there and do the glazing, because he needs the check. | ||
| But he didn't. | ||
| So that was something. | ||
| So, you know, this, for me, the debate moved me closer to Trump. | ||
| And I'm not committed yet, I'm not all the way in, I'm suspicious about some of the things I'm hearing, but that did nudge me closer. | ||
| I'm not going to lie. | ||
| Immigration came up, and he said, they're killing us and we gotta deport them. | ||
| He said it's a rat's nest. | ||
| They're rats. | ||
| Epic stuff. | ||
| And then on Israel, he totally abstained, basically. | ||
| That nudged me closer to Trump. | ||
| And I know I represent a small constituency. | ||
| I know there are very few Americans in the grand scheme of things. | ||
| There's 150 million people that vote. | ||
| It's a very small constituency that that mattered at all to. | ||
| It's like me and you. | ||
| But that did nudge me closer because that was like, okay, so he didn't, he's not actually a full sellout. | ||
| It is kind of still the same proposition from before, at least for this particular deal. | ||
| So that was notable. | ||
| He was really, the thing that Trump, I think, found was working was the Ukraine angle. | ||
| That was the thing that he kept coming back to and hitting. | ||
| Ukraine, social security, veterans. | ||
| Those were like his three big picks. | ||
| He avoided abortion and Israel like the plague, and he really went in on Ukraine, on the veterans, and on social security. | ||
| And it's very clear why. | ||
| The idea that Biden is bankrupting Medicare and Social Security is pretty smart because that connects immigration to the domestic economic problems. | ||
| You know, a lot of people, like seniors, elderly, for example, all they care about is Social Security and Medicare. | ||
| And any candidate that even hints at compromising Social Security and Medicare, it's a big problem because the elderly vote and that's what they care about. | ||
| So connecting that to the migrant crisis and saying that, look, these resources are being drained because of immigration. | ||
| I thought that was really smart. | ||
| I wanted to hear more of that, but it did get out there and I thought that was good. | ||
| And the thing at the beginning, which was a disaster, was Biden said he beat Medicare, which was a gaffe. | ||
| And that's one of the things Trump seized on. | ||
| But I don't think it was aggressive enough, but it was good. | ||
| So he leaned in on Medicare, on Ukraine. | ||
| He said, you know, they would have never attacked. | ||
| And it's actually poignant. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| That Putin invaded Georgia under Bush and annexed Abkhazia and South Ossetia. | ||
| It's true that Putin invaded Crimea and initiated the civil war in Ukraine and Donbass under Obama. | ||
| And it's true that Putin invaded Ukraine and seized the four oblasts under Biden. | ||
| And I never thought of it that way, but it's absolutely true. | ||
| And when you think about it that way, you realize what a failure the Uniparty is. | ||
| That And, you know, this is another thing that's, like, nudging me back towards Trump. | ||
| It is true. | ||
| Putin took land under every president other than Trump. | ||
| Putin invaded Georgia under Bush, Crimea under Obama, Ukraine under Biden, not under Trump. | ||
| And it's also true, in a related way, that Trump did not initiate any new wars. | ||
| And I know people say that, but specifically regarding the Middle East, we know, of course, Bush initiated Iraq and Afghanistan and the global war on terror. | ||
| Obama expanded the operation and brought the troops to Niger and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the war against the Houthis and droning Pakistan and got us involved in Syria. | ||
| And under Trump, he actually initiated the Afghanistan withdrawal. | ||
| Did not expand any of the wars. | ||
| The war with the Houthis was brought to an end. | ||
| The occupation of Syria was drawn down. | ||
| The occupation of Iraq was drawn down. | ||
| And then under Biden, we're now re-engaged in Yemen. | ||
| The war against the Houthis has restarted. | ||
| There's potentially another war in Lebanon. | ||
| We're involved in Gaza. | ||
| We're shooting down Iranian drones. | ||
| So, You know, and I never thought of it that way specifically, but the Ukraine thing made me think of it. | ||
| It's like, the Trump foreign policy was the most successful, and that is kind of like my ideal foreign policy. | ||
| It's not, because I'm not a pacifist. | ||
| I'm not even, I wouldn't call myself a non-interventionist. | ||
| We're an empire. | ||
| We need to intervene. | ||
| And the only way to deter conflict is through strength. | ||
| So I believe in a big military. | ||
| And I believe in American domination of the globe. | ||
| I just don't believe in fighting Israel's wars. | ||
| And I don't believe in fighting great power wars. | ||
| I don't think it's in America's interest to go to war with Russia and China. | ||
| I don't think it's America's interest to occupy Iraq and try to make it a democracy. | ||
| But some of the actions that Trump undertook, which were symbolic, but demonstrated strength, and some of the moves that he made against Maduro and against Iran, and even against Russia, I think they were calculated and strategic. | ||
| And I'm not an ideological non-interventionist. | ||
| So, yes, I'm kind of getting nudged a little bit closer there. | ||
| I'm not a hundred percent, but the debate nudged me a little bit further in, reminding me of some of the good things about Trump, because there's been a lot of negative over the past few months. | ||
| So, the debate, you know, if anything, the debate pushed the Gropers closer to Trump, for sure, with the way that he abstained on Israel and, you know, reminding us that at the end of the day he is against illegal immigration and he is against war. | ||
| So, I'd just like to see more of that. | ||
| When Trump Is allowed to speak? | ||
| Instinctually, he is with us. | ||
| I think he's very close to us. | ||
| But the problem is, when he goes on these podcasts with donors, like he did on the All In podcast, he's going to say what they want to hear. | ||
| And when he goes and he has an audience with the Jews, he's going to tell them what they want to hear, that they're going to deport the Palestinians. | ||
| And he said that again tonight, compared them to J6, which I didn't like that. | ||
| So yeah, it once again reveals that Trump remains a mixed bag, but there still might be some opportunities with him. | ||
| Trump is not going to deliver the victory, but his salutary neglect is maybe going to afford us opportunities to do it ourselves, is how I would phrase it. | ||
| And by that I mean that Trump is kind of like a sleep at the wheel in some sense, like he's a deal maker, he's kind of keeping things in motion, he's not ideologically committed. | ||
| Bad people can get in and steer the ship, but good people can also get in and steer the ship. | ||
| So I'm kind of coming to terms with the fact that Trump will probably win. | ||
| It's just that we really need to fight like hell for the Trump administration. | ||
| If Trump wins, it doesn't mean we win automatically. | ||
| We are going to have to fight over the next four years within the Trump movement to exert our influence. | ||
| And that is the part that is frustrating. | ||
| And I want to do a lot of the fighting before the election because that's when we have more leverage. | ||
| When he's in, There's not a lot of leverage. | ||
| Before he wins, that's when maybe we can be heard more. | ||
| So that's kind of what I'm trying to do. | ||
| But anyway, so that's just my thinking on the whole thing. | ||
| Overall, it's a very boring debate. | ||
| And, you know, Joe Biden just sucks. | ||
| I don't know how anybody could support him. | ||
| Like, the left broadly is against Israel and for all the wrong reasons, but that's not enough for me to even consider Biden. | ||
| He's just a piece of shit liberal and just sucks and is gay. | ||
| And if you vote for him, you just kind of, you know, that's why I can never go all the way like, you know, I really respect Charles Johnson. | ||
| I really respect Richard Spencer. | ||
| I think they're smart guys. | ||
| And I read them because I think they're very intelligent. | ||
| I think they have much more to say and more ideas than your average Republican. | ||
| But when they vote for Biden, I'm like, I just don't know what you're thinking. | ||
| You know, I will never, I can never go that far because it's just so insane, especially with what we just saw. | ||
| And I think it speaks for itself. | ||
| I'm not even going to make an argument. | ||
| It just speaks for itself. | ||
| So, because I know some people have compared me to that. | ||
| I've been critical of Trump, but I want to make it very clear I'm not critical of Trump in the same way as those guys or as Michael Tracy or even the, like, some of the, like, anti-Israel people. | ||
| Because I, you know, I am against Israel and some of them, that has made them very anti-Trump. | ||
| I'm not anti-Trump. | ||
| I just, uniquely, I'm in a position where I understand how difficult it's going to be to make the Trump administration work for us. | ||
| I think it can be done. | ||
| I think it's unlikely. | ||
| And I just want Trump to hear us. | ||
| I want somebody to hear us so that we can get the right people and we have an easier time over the next four years. | ||
| So that we can make very radical change. | ||
| That's my concern. | ||
| It's got nothing to do with I don't like him or whatever. | ||
| So, because him and I have been inextricably connected for the last seven years. | ||
| I know that sounds like delusional or like schizophrenic or whatever, but it's true. | ||
| I mean, the intro to the show is Trump. | ||
| The name of the show came from his inaugural. | ||
| You know, when they asked me what I wanted to name the show, RSBN, I said America first because it's what Trump said. | ||
| Americanism, not globalism will be our credo. | ||
| It's going to be only America first. | ||
| And then I was at Charlottesville. | ||
| And then I was at January 6th. | ||
| Then I was at the dinner. | ||
| I met him. | ||
| And Trump also created me. | ||
| Trump red-pilled me. | ||
| Trump moved me from constitutionalist, libertarian, to a nationalist. | ||
| He woke me up on immigration, on trade, on foreign policy. | ||
| He started me on the path. | ||
| To enlightenment on all these issues and move me away from this loser ideological conservatism and towards something pragmatic and nationalistic. | ||
| So, you know, I am a product to someone that became an adult during the Trump revolution. | ||
| I'm that next wave. | ||
| I'm part of the Trump generation. | ||
| My destiny has been inextricably bound up with his. | ||
| His campaign is what energized me and, in a sense, propelled me and my own movement, although it's distinct from his in key ways, but deeply influenced by it. | ||
| So that's why I have a far more complicated approach and position towards him than most other than leftists who are just, I fucking hate leftists. | ||
| Like Fat Michael Tracy, I think he's just a scum sucking freak. | ||
| And the way he looks with his soy face, glasses, beard, obesity look that they all have. | ||
| This like low T face. | ||
| So it's not that and it's not the like, you know too clever for their own good Richard Spencer thing where you talk yourself into being a Democrat It's completely Different. | ||
| And honestly, my position is the position that other people have. | ||
| I'm not going to say who. | ||
| But a lot of the Trump loyalists, from the beginning, feel the exact same way that I do. | ||
| Or almost exactly the same way that I do. | ||
| It's a personal admiration for Trump, a recognition of his greatness and his impact, but also A disappointment with what has happened, moderated by an understanding of the difficulty and the reality of the situation, but also just wanting more out of this opportunity and pragmatically trying to get it. | ||
| That's kind of where I'm at. | ||
| So anyway, that's my personal statement. | ||
| That is my personal testimony on me and Donald Trump. | ||
| But I want to move on. | ||
| So that's my take on the whole thing. | ||
| That's my take on the debate. | ||
| It was good for Trump. | ||
| It was bad for Biden. | ||
| I don't think we'll get another one. | ||
| Seems more likely than ever Biden won't be the nominee. | ||
| And I think it was an optical disaster. | ||
| I think it may be over for him. | ||
| And I'm very curious to see what the shock poll will be. | ||
| You know what the immediate aftermath will be if they have a focus group or something. | ||
| Because I'm sure it's brutal. | ||
| You know. | ||
| I don't think there has ever been. | ||
| This is like on the level of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter. | ||
| It's even worse. | ||
| I don't think there's ever been somebody less charismatic. | ||
| I mean even Mitt Romney was like likable. | ||
| Even John McCain had this, okay he's like a veteran and a maverick, and George Bush was a cowboy, and John Kerry was a blue blood, and Al Gore was a, well he was a nerd, I mean I guess he fucking sucked, but Bill Clinton was charming. | ||
| There were some shitters in the 90s I guess, but like This is the worst ever. | ||
| In the history of televised presidential debates, you've had people that are weak, you've had bad moments, you've had people that come across worse. | ||
| I don't think it's a Trumpian exaggeration to say this was literally the worst performance in the history of televised debates. | ||
| And there haven't been a lot of them. | ||
| They've only been doing them since 1960. | ||
| And this is, and who would be the worst? | ||
| Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon in 60, and this is the worst. | ||
| People used to say that Hillary Clinton was sick. | ||
| I'm old enough to remember, as much as I hate to say it because I'm an old man now, but I'm old enough to remember when they would say that Hillary Clinton was too sick. | ||
| Remember when she was coughing all the time and And you go back and watch her and she looks like an all-star. | ||
| She looks like a beautiful mind. | ||
| She looks like Rain Man. | ||
| So, this was rough. | ||
| So I don't want to undersell that. | ||
| I think that it's very bad. | ||
| But I do think that Trump could have done better. | ||
| I don't want to be too picky, but I think it could have been better. | ||
| So that's my take, but I want to move on. | ||
| We're going to take a look at the super chats. | ||
| We'll see what you guys have to say about all this, but that's my take. | ||
| I hope that is a good take. | ||
| I'm trying to give you guys something that isn't just garbage. | ||
| I care very deeply that this is good analysis, or at least that it's thoughtful and novel. | ||
| It's not just like, Oh yeah, Biden's demented and Trump's just, you know, great and whatever. | ||
| Like, I'm trying to give you something that's a little bit more thoughtful than, you know, we're going out for the team today. | ||
| We're going out for the red party. | ||
| Because I'm not a Republican. | ||
| I hate Republicans. | ||
| And I hate Democrats. | ||
| I'm with the Trump movement. | ||
| I'm a nationalist. | ||
| But I'm just conflicted about some of the compromises that are being made. | ||
| And I'm deeply concerned about The execution of a future Trump administration, but with that we're gonna move on We're gonna take a look at the super chats. | ||
| We'll see what you guys have to say. | ||
| I'm sure we have quite a few So I'm probably just gonna read the big ones and then I'm gonna get out of here So let me take a look here. | ||
| We'll see we got I think I'm just gonna read the big ones and then dip because I I'm tired. | ||
| Also, I apologize. | ||
| I know the stream cut out at the beginning. | ||
| It wasn't my fault. | ||
| Rumble crashed the first, like, 20 minutes of the debate, which really sucked. | ||
| But, it is what it is. | ||
| I'm sure they just can't handle the traffic, which is a good problem to have, I suppose. | ||
| But, great viewing! | ||
| It was a great night all the way around. | ||
| I thought it was a great stream. | ||
| A lot of fun. | ||
| High energy. | ||
| Great viewership. | ||
| I think everyone had a good time. | ||
| So, Thanks for joining me. | ||
| We're going to take a look at our Super Chats and then I'm going to get out of here. | ||
| Let's see what we got. | ||
| Boomer1963 sent $100. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Hey, thank you so much man. | ||
| God bless you too. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Faradluco sent $100. | ||
| Totally mogging the whole website. | ||
| Not verified. | ||
| Shadow banned. | ||
| Not promoted on the front page. | ||
| You're beyond goaded. | ||
| Yeah, I think it really should be. | ||
| I think I deserve a lot of credit for that. | ||
| All these people on Rumble are promoted by Rumble, and they all have their checkmarks, and they all go on the front page. | ||
| Like, I am really just appreciative that they have me. | ||
| I am just glad and I'm happy to be here. | ||
| But I am at a disadvantage. | ||
| And I'm not saying that to complain, but in spite of that, I'm still one of the top streamers. | ||
| I'm still the top four streamer behind Dan Bungino, who is an investor on this platform, Steve Crowder, Andrew Tate, who's also, I think, involved in some way. | ||
| So, um, but I'm not sure about that. | ||
| I might be mistaken. | ||
| So, for me to be in the top four, in spite of everything that's happened, being deplatformed for years from everything, being banned from Twitter for years, Facebook, Instagram, from every major streaming platform, to have this comeback like this, just totally out of nowhere, being in the woods for three years to just arrive on Rumble and take over the platform, still being shadowbanned without a checkmark, It is pretty impressive. | ||
| I am pretty impressive. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| I do appreciate that and I'm glad you acknowledge that. | ||
| Thank you for the big super chat. | ||
| Who else? | ||
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True. | |
| That's so true. | ||
| People always ask me what they can do. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| Attack my enemies. | ||
| Send me money. | ||
| You wanna help? | ||
| Those are the two easiest things. | ||
| Make a Twitter account. | ||
| Retweet me. | ||
| Like my shit. | ||
| Race and religion. | ||
| You simply can't be touched. | ||
| Can't stop, won't stop. | ||
| Nick all day, every day. | ||
| If you people aren't sending money and attacking his enemies, what are you even doing with your worthless life? | ||
| That's so true. | ||
| People always ask me what they can do. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| Attack my enemies, send me money. | ||
| You want to help? | ||
| Those are the two easiest things. | ||
| Make a Twitter account, retweet me, like my shit, attack my enemies, and send me super chats. | ||
| No, but thanks for the big superchat. | ||
| It's true! | ||
| I feel like, you know, we really have an outsized impact within politics rather than... I obviously don't have like a mass audience like Fox News does, but within politics I'm deeply a part of the conversation because of my influence with the key demographic of young white men. | ||
| And also because my influence can't be ignored, this cult-like following. | ||
| And it's because, at the end of the day, I'm the only one independent. | ||
| Everybody else is a shill for somebody. | ||
| Everybody else is a shill for an advertiser, a sponsor, the party, whatever. | ||
| There's certain things they can't say. | ||
| And the value that I bring is I really am just like the only one in the space that is 100% independent, for better or for worse. | ||
| Like, I just get on here, I say what's on my mind, I don't care who I offend, I say literally whatever I want. | ||
| People say, oh, I'm not politically incorrect, I'll offend everybody. | ||
| And then their hottest take is like, there's two genders. | ||
| You know? | ||
| I believe there's only two genders. | ||
| Walk me away, officer! | ||
| It's like, yeah, that's actually not that offensive. | ||
| I'll go on the show and say 17? | ||
| What's the big deal? | ||
| I'll go on the show and just start dropping the n-word and say, hey man, Jews run the media and stuff like that. | ||
| And that's how you know. | ||
| Like yeah, I'm legitimately independent. | ||
| I legitimately have no one that I'm afraid of offending. | ||
| I just go out here and do my thing. | ||
| And I think there's just an immense value. | ||
| Also, I have ideas. | ||
| At the end of the day, I'm also... I'm just glazing myself. | ||
| This is just so... This is so offensive, the way I'm just totally breaking my arm, patting myself on the back here. | ||
| But I'm gonna be a cheerleader for me today. | ||
| I'll be a little bit of a cheerleader today. | ||
| BlackPill sent $88. | ||
| You said to Alex that you would prefer highly skilled migrants like doctors. | ||
| What do you think of Spencer's take that he would prefer only the lowest IQ migrants to come in? | ||
| Because they would not displace elite whites. | ||
| He clearly favors a brown underclass rather than a brown ruling class. | ||
| Well, I'm talking about... When I say that, I mean, if you bring in... This is a country of 300 million people. | ||
| Net zero migration would be like a couple hundred thousand per year, I believe. | ||
| And so I'm talking about if you brought in like 10,000 extremely specialized people, I wouldn't be against it. | ||
| That's what I mean. | ||
| I mean you bring in extremely specialized like scientists, doctors, in a very small number. | ||
| But that's not H-1Bs. | ||
| H-1Bs is like $85,000 a year and there's other work visas. | ||
| So I'm not even talking about hundreds of thousands. | ||
| I'm not talking about millions. | ||
| There's a million foreign students. | ||
| I don't want a million college graduates. | ||
| I said to be charitable to Alex, I said, look, If Trump meant the most highly skilled in very small quantities, maybe we wouldn't have a problem with that. | ||
| That's what I meant. | ||
| I said, but that's not even what he's saying. | ||
| I said, what he's saying is a staple green card to a two-year junior college degree, which is insane. | ||
| So I only meant to say that to show the contrast. | ||
| I said, even someone that is in favor of Some highly skilled immigration is still so much more of a restrictionist than what Trump is proposing. | ||
| Because what Trump said is permanent residency for everyone, even junior colleges. | ||
| No one is in favor of that. | ||
| That's so out there. | ||
| And so, all I meant to do was say, hey, you know, there's room for compromise. | ||
| But that's not it. | ||
| There's room to say, okay, you want to bring in Albert Einstein and You know, the Nazi that made the V2 rocket? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But that's very different than bringing in anybody with a junior college degree. | ||
| Which is what Trump said. | ||
| Yeah, even the white people are cooked. | ||
| at Walmart right now, Sue Blackbill. - Yeah, even the white people are cooked. | ||
| That's a sad thing. | ||
| Let's take a look at predicted. | ||
| - One cent, $35. | ||
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Wow! | |
| This is the only debate coverage that matters. | ||
| Thanks for an amazing show, Nick, and congratulations on the amazing viewership. | ||
| Also, Biden's odds of winning has just crashed on the betting markets on Predicted. | ||
| - Really? - He looked like he was dying on stage. - Let's take a look at Predicted. | ||
| Wow, look at that. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I can't look at it. | ||
| So let's see the 24-hour chart here. | ||
| Look at that! | ||
| So before, three hours ago, Biden was at 48. | ||
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He's at 35. | |
| He went down 13% on the betting markets. | ||
| And Newsom went up! | ||
| Newsom went up from 5 to 20. | ||
| Because they think, apparently, that he'll be replaced by Gavin Newsom. | ||
| I don't think that's a totally... I don't think that's completely off-base. | ||
| That's something. | ||
| So, yes, the betting markets are clearly... That reflects public sentiment, by the way. | ||
| I don't think it's actually predictive. | ||
| Let's see what Maxim Lotz says. | ||
| If it even adjusted. | ||
| In the last day? | ||
| Yeah, look at this! | ||
| In the last four hours, Trump is up 4%, Biden's down 14%, Newsom is up 7.5%. | ||
| Just in the last... I'll zoom in here so you can see it. | ||
| In the last four... This is in just the last four hours since the debate started. | ||
| Biden down 14%. | ||
| The betting... This is the aggregate betting markets. | ||
| They give him 22.5% to win. | ||
| 22.5% to win. | ||
| That's unbelievable. | ||
| Oh, it's pretty believable. | ||
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But still. | |
| So that just goes to show this was a catastrophe. | ||
| I think it is over. | ||
| And you want to know why? | ||
| Maybe they did this to sabotage him because the convention isn't until August for the Democrats. | ||
| They want to do a virtual convention because they need their candidate before August for the Ohio ticket. | ||
| Maybe they put it so far out because they were waiting to see how he is so they could swap him at the last minute. | ||
| I would not be surprised. | ||
| Pretty wild stuff. | ||
| Bobby Johnson sent $25. | ||
| Surprised he didn't drop the VP pick. | ||
| What's your prediction on the winner? | ||
| Of what? | ||
| Of the VP race? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Some people are saying it's gonna be... Glenn Youngkin. | ||
| Which would be the Dark Horse. | ||
| I think Doug Burgum's probably the favorite. | ||
| But I think it's gonna be a surprise. | ||
| I wonder what it is on Predictive. | ||
| Let's take a look and see if they have a market for that. | ||
| I'm sure they have to have a market for this. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Yeah, so Doug Burgum's at $37. | ||
| JD Vance is at $23. | ||
| Vivek is at $14. | ||
| Scott at $10. | ||
| So yeah, it looks like Burgum is the favorite as of right now, at least in the betting markets. | ||
| White Pilgrim sent $20 for our fearless leader. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Sam Fitzwater sent $20. | ||
| Hey Nick, I have a social media company, mumbleit.com. | ||
| Would you be an influencer for it? | ||
| You would be verified and you can monetize on the platform. | ||
| No, I'm not gonna get into your... Look, if your thing is good, then I will be on it, but I'm not gonna be, like, joining some person's tech company and being a first guy. | ||
| Unless it's really big and has backing. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I feel that way about myself, too. | ||
| I go out in the world and then I come home and I'm like, man, it's so good to be with me. | ||
| It's good to be me. | ||
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Thank you, man. | |
| and then I come home and I'm like, man, it's so good to be with me. | ||
| Richard Percival sent $15. | ||
| High viewership tonight. | ||
| Congrats, King. | ||
| Thank you, man. | ||
| Appreciate it. - Pragmatic I feel exactly the same way. | ||
| - $15, Biden is a mumbling senile freak, but I still haven't heard Trump articulate a strong stance on anything that would convince me he's gonna go as hard in office as he promised in 2015-16. - Exactly, I feel exactly the same way, well said. - Glenn Herman sent $12, you need an Albanian on your team, paying him minimum well said. - Glenn Herman sent $12, you need an Albanian on your team, paying him minimum wage to be your personal bodyguard, run Iran's, type That would be nice. | ||
| I kind of need somebody who just, like, is a no-lifer. | ||
| I need someone who just has no life who would get paid minimum wage to just kind of do anything. | ||
| Cause, uh, you know, we just have these... I need a bodyguard. | ||
| I need someone to, you know, type the shit up or whatever it is. | ||
| So, yeah, that would be cool. | ||
| But, uh, I don't know. | ||
| An Albanian. | ||
| Albanians are pretty solid. | ||
| I met a lot of them in New York. | ||
| Glenn Herman sent $12. | ||
| You need an Albanian. | ||
| That's a duplicate. | ||
| Terry Davis sent $10. | ||
| That literally looks like fat Hitler and it clearly bothers him. | ||
| Uh, well, yeah, because their whole thing is like, oh, we're vitalists and... Oh, yeah, we're like, uh... | ||
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We're all about bodybuilding and, you know, we're a group of Nazi bodybuilders are taking out the electrical grid. | |
| And they're all like fat Jews and nigs. | ||
| It's like, is one of them white? | ||
| Is one of them physically fit? | ||
| Because I think they're all like Jews and nigs, basically. | ||
| That's your vitalist. | ||
| Johnny Rebel sent $10. | ||
| I'm outside the studio where the debate is at protesting the Israeli influence in our democracy and Israel's genocide. | ||
| America first. | ||
| Epic protest. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| Grumio sent $10. | ||
| We love Nick. | ||
| Hey, I love you too, man. | ||
| Father Groyper sent $10. | ||
| I heard from a reliable source that Biden took Brain Force Plus before the debate. | ||
| I don't think it worked very well. | ||
| Alex Jones on suicide watch. | ||
| Hey, no, you cannot put this on Brain Force. | ||
| He did not take Brain... Brain Force is a 360 win. | ||
| Brain Force supports the show, and it's a 360 win. | ||
| So I think you're totally wrong on that. | ||
| W Brain Force. | ||
| I'm not being paid to say this, by the way. | ||
| I just support... I just support the network, okay? | ||
| I support the man. | ||
| But, yeah, no, you can't put that on Tumeric. | ||
| This is on Biden. | ||
| - That's not Biden. - $5.10. | ||
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Nice. | |
| At least Trump was consistent on dealing with the border again. | ||
| Put that coffee down. | ||
| Coffee's foreclosers. - Nice. | ||
| Goated reference. | ||
| It was through Louis Brandeis. | ||
| Louis Brandeis was the head of the World Zionist Organization. | ||
| Is it true that U.S. made Britain promise Palestine to Zionists in order to help Britain against Germany, as Britain was losing the war due to German submarines? | ||
| If this is true, at this point, only divine intervention or nuclear annihilation could solve this issue. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| It was through Louis Brandeis. | ||
| Louis Brandeis was the head of the World Zionist Organization. | ||
| He was a close personal friend of President Woodrow Wilson. | ||
| Wilson tapped him to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | ||
| He had to formally retire his role as head of the World Zionist Organization, but he retained it. | ||
| And he was running the Supreme Court like it was the World Zionist Organization. | ||
| And then, the British basically fought the war to a stalemate in World War I. They needed the United States to come in and break the stalemate, but they wouldn't do it. | ||
| So, the Jews in England and the Jews in America made a deal. | ||
| Where if the British Foreign Minister, Lord Balfour, wrote a letter to Rothschild expressing that there should be a Jewish state in Palestine, then Louis Brandeis would convince Woodrow Wilson to bring America into the war. | ||
| That was the deal. | ||
| So the Jews in England said, hey, we can get America to come in, but you gotta give us Israel. | ||
| And so it was. | ||
| That the British Foreign Ministry, even though Palestine was under the control of the Ottoman Empire at the time, said that there is a, what was the word they used? | ||
| I forget the exact wording, but they said that there should be a Jewish state in Palestine. | ||
| In exchange, the Jews picked up the phone and called their, because they're everywhere, everywhere and nowhere, they called Brandeis and said, alright, pull the trigger, and they say that Brandeis convinced Wilson to bring us into the war. | ||
| And then, after the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Secret agreement between Britain and France they carved up the Middle East between them and Britain controlled Palestine and Britain allowed the Jews to move into Palestine in an unlimited way and then they stopped them and then the Jews started committing acts of terrorism and Then that culminated in 1948 so I'm simplifying the rest, but... But yeah, I mean, that is one of the reasons why the United States went to war. | ||
| And it does show their influence. | ||
| And it shows how they influence. | ||
| Hey, thanks a lot, man. | ||
| Glad you had a good time. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I love you. | ||
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Had fun at a pack four beta. - Hey, thanks a lot, man. | |
| Glad you had a good time. - Hubsy Wubsy sent $10. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I love you. - Thank you. | ||
| I appreciate it. - John Dave Irving sent $109. | ||
| Nick, I'm starting a t-shirt company, doing big things, LLC. | ||
| Can you put the shirts on cozy and model? | ||
| I know it's a big ask but it would mean a lot. | ||
| I already have Keemstar on board. | ||
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With love, JDI Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. | |
| Thanks for the big super chat. | ||
| I sort of remember the last time somebody asked people to model on DLive, it was Victor Sharpe. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| Victor Sharpe was telling it, he was saying to me and my friend, he was saying, oh you guys should wear girls clothes and dance and do a TikTok and he turned out to be a gay pedophile and he funds all my enemies. | ||
| Pretty crazy how that works. | ||
| But I don't know. | ||
| Is this the real John Dave Irving or is this some sort of saboteur? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But I appreciate it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe I'll do the shirt. | ||
| If the shirt's cool, I'll do it. | ||
| You gotta buy me a coffee. | ||
| Yeah, that was awesome! | ||
| Follow that channel, by the way. | ||
| That's an official channel. | ||
| Follow FuentesUpdates on Twitter. | ||
| That is one of our official channels. | ||
| They gotta change the profile picture. | ||
| The profile picture, I look fat and oily. | ||
| Can we change that, please? | ||
| Can we change that to an actually good picture and not this fat, oily picture of my face, please? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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I think that's all of them. | |
| Let's just check in on some of the other streamers, then I'm gonna get out of here. | ||
| I'm just curious. | ||
| I just want to see what everybody else is saying. | ||
| About the debate. | ||
| I bet it's gonna be super high IQ. | ||
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Four years ago, when you debated him, you must... I mean, that's certainly true, is it not? | |
| Anderson, the point has to be performance in terms of what a president does. | ||
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Anderson, do it like we rehearsed. | |
| These are dumb people. | ||
| I feel bad for her. | ||
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I don't feel bad for her. | |
| It's indefensible. | ||
| His record is indefensible. | ||
| What he did tonight is indefensible. | ||
| She's in a horrible place. | ||
| She's in a worse position than under Willie Brown. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Really? | ||
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That's... | |
| I want to watch this. | ||
| What's this? | ||
| Where is that? | ||
| We gotta watch this Kamala Harris clip and react to it. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Alvin and the Chipmunks. | ||
| ALVIN! | ||
| What's the guy's name in the movie? | ||
| What's David Cross' character? | ||
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Look at this guy. | |
| From the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, tpaction.com. | ||
| Look at this guy. | ||
| Look at this chum. | ||
| Download the Apple. | ||
| Dude, this outfit is so cooked. | ||
| This is like their idea of counterculture. | ||
| Is this like ironic, patriotard shit? | ||
| It's so bad. | ||
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It's TP action, not TP... I'm not hating just to hate. | |
| I'm just saying, like, we need to move past being, like, tacky. | ||
| Like, you are tacky, but you're pretending that you're doing it ironically, but actually it just looks like shit anyway. | ||
| USA, that's... This whole, like, this whole getup is just painful and... | ||
| I mean, I'm being catty. | ||
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I'm being catty. | |
| It's true. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| No! | ||
| No! | ||
| Don't do it! | ||
| No, don't! | ||
| I'm being catty. | ||
| I'm being catty. | ||
| Left-hand corner, tap serious. | ||
| It doesn't matter how weak Joe Biden is. | ||
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That's the stronger that we have to be. | |
| And so we need you and need everybody out there to help us. | ||
| Download the Turning Point Action app right now. | ||
|
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No, don't do it. | |
| No, don't stop. | ||
| This night, by the way, I just want to say, Jack, we deserve, all of you in the audience right now that have been kicked and spit on, said that Joe Biden is fully mentally acute, It's a cheap fake. | ||
| By the way, we have the Chuck Todd clip that says all the things that the right wing were saying was correct. | ||
| Can we get that Chuck Todd clip? | ||
| You deserve tonight. | ||
| You deserve just to be able to say one for the good guys, and then we get back to work. | ||
| I just want to say that because it has been very difficult. | ||
| I got to sign a book right here for Brian, who just became a member. | ||
| Members.CharlieKirk.com. | ||
| STOP PROMOTING YOUR LINK! | ||
| STOP PROMOTING YOUR LINK TO MY FOLLOWERS! | ||
| Alright, we gotta get out of here, man, because this guy's gonna turn you all into turning point groipers. | ||
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And we can't have that. | |
| Okay, hate this. | ||
| I hate Robert Barnes. | ||
| Alright, let's see. | ||
| Can somebody send me the link? | ||
| UtahZoomer, send me the link to the Kamala Harris thing right now. | ||
| UtahZoomer, send me the link. | ||
| Send me the link. | ||
| Send me the link. | ||
| Verbal spam. | ||
| Uh, let's see. | ||
| I'm sure it's trending, probably, right? | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| People. | ||
| Yes, there was a slow start. | ||
| Does that matter? | ||
| Okay, is that a three-second clip? | ||
| What is the matter with you? | ||
| Somebody really thought it was a good idea to clip a three-second clip. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Can we get the full thing? | ||
| Listen, first of all, what we saw tonight is The president making a very clear contrast with Donald Trump on all of the issues that matter to the American people. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Buffering. | ||
| N-word. | ||
| I'm not calling her that. | ||
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I'm expressing frustration because this is buffering. | |
| Let's see. | ||
| Where can I get this clip? | ||
| Oh, Daily Wire's live. | ||
| Oh, this guy. | ||
| See, he's actually a sharp dresser. | ||
| I don't know what this key thing is. | ||
| It looks stupid. | ||
| before the Senate and said, we're going to break you up as a monopoly because Donald Trump won in 2016. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| And social media. | ||
| See, he's actually a sharp dresser. | ||
| I don't know what this key thing is. | ||
| It looks stupid, but he's actually a sharp dresser. | ||
| And Jeremy Boring came from, like, California or whatever. | ||
| He's like, uh, he's in the entertainment deal And so Jeremy boring this is actually as much as I hate to say it I kind of hate their whole like into woods aesthetic fake cheesy like folksy thing By wearing like a nice suit like this, looking rich, this is what we need. | ||
| The lesson is, fine, we're not going to... I don't want to be full of piss and vinegar. | ||
| Let that happen. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And for that reason, above all others, although there are others, we're so grateful to our Daily Wire Plus members. | ||
| It's crazy how like every stream I go to it's just like it's a fucking commercial. | ||
| You go to this show and I like forget to plug my stuff. | ||
| You go to these streams and you cannot go five seconds without blahblahblah.com. | ||
| I'm signing a book to one of our supporters, our daily wire supporters. | ||
| Go to VivaBarnes.com. | ||
| It's like... | ||
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| just can't stand all of that like i hate advertisements i hate shilling i hate sponsors i just hate that shit i'm not trying to say i'm such a self-righteous guy or whatever but i will never do it because i just hate that stuff um who who you had a couple of answers that were probably as good as trump's worst answers right Things that were saying, Trump did fine. | ||
| Trump had some answers that were really good, especially early. | ||
| In the middle, Trump was kind of not doing as well. | ||
| And in that same section, Biden was doing his best. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I think that the one area where Biden did his best is where Trump got defensive about his January 6th activity. | ||
| And that really had less to do with Biden doing amazingly well and more to do with Trump shooting himself in the foot on that sort of stuff. | ||
| But I thought Biden did OK there. | ||
| What about Israel? | ||
| What about Israel? | ||
| Why did he talk about Israel? | ||
| Why didn't Trump talk about Israel more? | ||
| Why didn't Trump talk about Israel more? | ||
| Israel's under attack. | ||
| It's the worst attack since the Holocaust. | ||
| And Trump didn't talk about Israel at all. | ||
| I mean, what's going on? | ||
| And why isn't there a war with Iran tomorrow? | ||
| Iran has to be eradicated. | ||
| The terrorists! | ||
| The terrorists! | ||
| And Joe Biden sent them billions of dollars, and the terrorists! | ||
| Who could vote for- I mean, who could vote for this guy? | ||
| He's like a Palestinian. | ||
| Most honest. | ||
| Like he actually says what he thinks. | ||
| He's literally holding one of his razors. | ||
| He is literally holding one of his razors that he sells. | ||
| You're on his show and he's like holding the razor in his hand. | ||
| He's literally holding one of his razors. | ||
| He is literally holding one of his razors that he sells. | ||
| This is great. | ||
| You're on his show and he's like holding the razor in his hand. | ||
| Do you know I sell razors? | ||
| Talk about product placement. | ||
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Hey, buy my razor. | |
| That's lit! | ||
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Like, what? | |
| This is crazy. | ||
| Most honest. | ||
| Like, he actually says what he thinks. | ||
| I only have a five blade razor that he sells. | ||
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That's Jeremy's razors. | |
| That's Jeremy boring if you don't know So they have a razor company Of course, black guy. | ||
| You know, why not? | ||
| Hey, by the way, we're not racist. | ||
| We're not racist. | ||
| Look at my nig buying my razors. | ||
| And he loves Israel. | ||
| They keep him in a cloud of Kool-Aid gas. | ||
| Look at this guy. | ||
| This guy's another one. | ||
| This guy's a dark wizard. | ||
| Shapiro's a goblin. | ||
| He's a dark wizard. | ||
| He's like the... He's the evil wizard Lord of the Rings. | ||
| Every now and again, he breaks free. | ||
| You know, because sometimes he says the stuff that comes out of his mouth, especially about race, is such nonsense. | ||
| And then the other day when that synagogue was attacked... This guy refuses to debate me, by the way. | ||
| Andrew Klavan constantly attacks me. | ||
| And I said, okay, we were trying to get a debate with him on the Tim Pool show. | ||
| He declined. | ||
| He said that guy literally said that guy loves Hitler. | ||
| I won't debate him. | ||
| He was right on point. | ||
| I just want to grab his head. | ||
| You know when they're like bald people and you just want to like grab their head? | ||
| And I know Van. | ||
| I'm friends with Van. | ||
| Van is like an actual – He and I disagree about everything. | ||
| I think he's misguided on some things. | ||
| I'm sure he thinks the same about me. | ||
| He's an actual good person. | ||
| You can see it. | ||
| He's having the same reaction on an emotional level that I am. | ||
| Obviously, listen, I want Trump to win. | ||
| But the longer we talk about this, the more I actually just feel really sad for the country. | ||
| Like, actually sad. | ||
| And a little sad for Joe Biden as a human. | ||
| As Matt was saying, I don't like him. | ||
| I think he's a corrupt, bad guy who believes bad things and does bad things. | ||
| He's very bad. | ||
| He's very bad. | ||
| He just got humiliated in front of 80 million people. | ||
| Which also means America got humiliated in front of a billion people. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| He's a nasty fellow. | ||
| I won't lose sleep over it. | ||
| But I do agree it's sad for the country. | ||
| Michael Knoll is such a fruit, dude. | ||
| I do not like Michael Knoll. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| Listen, don't get me started on Jimmy Carter. | ||
| Everybody's just, you know, crying crocodile tears over, but yeah. | ||
| He might be the nominee. | ||
| No, it's too mean to tweet. | ||
| No, you totally should have. | ||
| It was so good. | ||
| It was so good. | ||
| Okay, I'm just gonna say what he texted me. | ||
| So anyway, and humiliate him. | ||
| So he texted me a picture of Jimmy Carter at age 100. | ||
| He said, put me in the game, coach. | ||
| And they laughed and laughed. | ||
| In fairness, I don't want to take credit. | ||
| It was sent to me by a friend. | ||
| I won't name them in case they ever want to show their face in public again. | ||
| Were the polls similar going into the 2020 election? | ||
| If not, how were they different? | ||
| It seems like I remember Trump leading the polls. | ||
| No, Trump never led in the polls in 2020. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, wire to wire. | ||
| Biden was ahead in 2020. | ||
| That was why, yeah. | ||
| And he certainly never, I mean, right now he has a pretty even shot of winning the popular vote, like going into the election. | ||
| If he's within two points of winning the popular vote, he wins the election because it means he's going to outperform in the swing states. | ||
| How do you think the moderators have done? | ||
| Have they been pretty strict with the microphone? | ||
| I thought they were great. | ||
| I thought it was amazing. | ||
| I've never seen moderators like that. | ||
| I believe that moderators should be eliminated from debates. | ||
| I don't understand why the press should set the terms of the conversation. | ||
| I don't understand why their questions should govern the conversation. | ||
| These are the guys who want to run the country. | ||
| Let's say, you know, this is the international portion of the debate. | ||
| What do you want to say? | ||
| They should tell you what their priorities are. | ||
| They should tell you what their plans are. | ||
| Then they should shut up and let the guy respond like they do in Oxford at the debate. | ||
| I do not see why they should be there. | ||
| But if you have to have moderators, these guys ask good questions on point. | ||
| They were tough for everybody. | ||
| They were well done. | ||
| It was the first presidential debate. | ||
| I'm trying to remember the earliest ones that I saw in my life. | ||
| I think this was the most well-moderated presidential debate that I've seen in my life. | ||
| They did very well. | ||
| And again, if their question wasn't answered, they didn't feel the necessity to, like, hector the candidate. | ||
| They would just come back in and they would say, the original question was X. You have 47 seconds. | ||
| And they knew the answer or they don't. | ||
| They weren't trying to make themselves the star of the show. | ||
| But I think that they did well given the parameters of the debate, but I agree with you that Oh, he's not looking good. | ||
| He's looking kind of fat. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| And these rules work really well for Trump, so that's great. | ||
| What is going on? | ||
| His complexion's bad. | ||
| He's looking a little fat. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Are you okay, Matt? | ||
| He's tortured at night because he sold his soul to the Jews. | ||
| That's why. | ||
| He's just tortured. | ||
| He lies awake at night. | ||
| He said, I've sold my soul. | ||
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But, you know, objectively speaking... And he's not looking hot. | |
| ...presidential debate, giving someone two minutes to answer a question about some really dense, important world issue is ridiculous. | ||
| One minute to give a response is absurd. | ||
| Look at his tiny hands. | ||
| That's how you know he's low-T. | ||
| He's got these big hands. | ||
| ...presidential debates are done, and doing it that way, this was the best version of that. | ||
| And in fairness, I mean, I go back to her... Michael Knowles has big hands. | ||
| This guy has tiny hands. | ||
| I have big hands. | ||
| That's how you know I'm high tea. | ||
| Because I have huge hands. | ||
| There is a point at which the president represents the people. | ||
| He's the representative of one of the three branches, the spirited part of government. | ||
| And so, you know, the fact that Trump speaks publicly at a fifth grade level, and he's spoken on TV at higher levels in the past, but he speaks at a fifth grade level for the public because he wants to reach as many people as he can. | ||
| I actually don't mind the two minutes. | ||
| You know, if I won a university lecture on the politics of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan | ||
| Well, I don't think, I've said for a while, no one should be president who can't go through an entire episode of The Joe Rogan Show as the guest. | ||
| You just have to go sit there for three hours and be asked about the weirdest crap and Aliens and DMT. | ||
| Yeah, so that I actually know anything about you or what you actually think. | ||
| You know, everybody says this guy talks gay. | ||
| I actually like the way he talks. | ||
| I kind of like, there's something very genteel and high status about being a little bit flamboyant. | ||
| You know, being a little bit effete. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| I think you should have to talk about what you would do. | ||
| You know, like, Trump skates on these things. | ||
| You know, the Ukraine war would be over in 10 minutes. | ||
| But what would he do? | ||
| To be fair, I think that matters so much less in this election than any election in my lifetime. | ||
| And I'm, you know, I am captain, like, I want substance. | ||
| Give me more substance. | ||
| Read a book, right? | ||
| Like, this is my entire brand. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because we already have seen them be president. | ||
| There's almost nothing to say. | ||
| We've seen what Trump did. | ||
| We've seen what Biden does. | ||
| Biden sucks at it and he's senile. | ||
| That's the election. | ||
| Gang, I just saved you 90 minutes. | ||
| Well, fellas, raise your leftist tears, hot or cold tumblers, as we play this clip from CNN. | ||
| Look at her bald head, dude. | ||
| Why are they asking the acolyte? | ||
| Why are they asking the acolyte what her opinion is on this? | ||
| world people with Democrats, with people who are political operatives, with campaign operatives. | ||
| My phone really never stopped buzzing throughout. | ||
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Why are they asking the acolyte? | |
| Why are they asking the acolyte what her opinion is on this? | ||
| Shouldn't she be worried about the dark side? | ||
| Universal reaction was somewhere approaching panic. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| The people who were texting with me were very concerned about President Biden seeming extremely feeble, seeming extremely weak. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| You know what she was doing right there? | ||
| She was dropping. | ||
| A truth bomb. | ||
| A solid gold. | ||
| A solid gold truth bomb. | ||
| Now, we here at The Daily Wire, we've been dropping truth bombs for years. | ||
| Tonight, I'm very excited to reveal for the very first time our gold-plated truth bombs. | ||
| To be fair, Jeremy revealed it earlier, but I'm doing it. | ||
| Look at this thing. | ||
| It is absolutely magnificent. | ||
| It's extremely heavy. | ||
| So this is a testament to both. | ||
| Dude, conservative media is just like QVC. | ||
| It's literally QVC. | ||
| It's like, here's her commentary and yeah, you know, text Ben. | ||
| Dude, this stuff is so AIDS. | ||
| You know, I know that's what makes money. | ||
| I know that this makes them a boatload of money. | ||
| But there's such a value in just not doing it. | ||
| Text n-word to 42069. | ||
| You know, like, no, please no. | ||
| I will never, I will never do this. | ||
| I might have to if I ever, like, run for office or whatever, but the lower third, the text this, the, you know. | ||
| The quality of birth. | ||
| I hate that stuff so much. | ||
| She was containing- She's just having bacon now in Animal House. | ||
| Everything's on fire behind her. | ||
| Pay no attention! | ||
| Everything is totally fine! | ||
| No, all she's, all she's thinking is, I'm going to be the first woman, the first female president of the United States. | ||
| She's now doing the Monty Python parrot sketch. | ||
| That parrot is not dead. | ||
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Why does he shake his cup like that? | |
| She's now doing the Monty Python parrot sketch. | ||
| What was that? | ||
| Parrot is not dead. | ||
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| You know, we're laughing about it because that's funny. | ||
| So you don't cry? | ||
| So you don't cry. | ||
| The fact that she would even go that far, we're laughing because she's so downplaying it. | ||
| The fact that the Vice President of the United States would admit on television to the biggest lib sycophant Vanderbilt anchor of CNN to say, yeah, you know, you got Anderson Cooper saying, that was horrible. | ||
| And she goes, you know, yeah. | ||
| Anderson Cooper in that clip is one of the funniest things I've seen. | ||
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That's so funny. | |
| He's like, you can't honestly, but can you? | ||
| But you can't really. | ||
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Maybe you can. | |
| Because if he could, he would, you know? | ||
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Can you honestly say he's a liar? | |
| Shapiro's just like painfully unfunny, man. | ||
| He tries, but it's rough. | ||
| Alright, I'm gonna take a look at a couple of these other ones and then I'm gonna get out of here. | ||
| Where's Rumble? | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| I don't even know what Badlands is. | ||
| They've been around for a minute, though. | ||
| It was, when we had the Bush-Clinton, you know, divide. | ||
| Heads I win, tails you lose. | ||
| It's never going to go back that way again, ever. | ||
| They don't understand that. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Their system's over. | ||
| So, what comes next? | ||
| I still think they're going to be very desperate to try to take control of the narrative of the conversation, and they could do that through, I think, deliberate attempts to try to provoke people to be angry, to be violent. | ||
| I think they're going to keep pushing. | ||
| I think they're going to keep pressuring, and they're going to try to get the American people to overreact or to act violently. | ||
| I think there's larger possibilities of things like Operation Gladio kind of playing up. | ||
| As well as this administration, the Biden administration, ratcheting up tensions all over the world, especially when it comes to a lot of these foreign conflicts that are unfolding in Ukraine, potentially soon also in Lebanon. | ||
| We just got very troubling news from the U.S. | ||
| State Department that's trying to get American citizens out of Lebanon. | ||
| Just a couple hours ago, so that's right. | ||
| Look, you're right. | ||
| The answer when Terrence are in trouble is zero. | ||
| Salute. | ||
| They says they take you to war. | ||
| Let's speak to that. | ||
| So instead of as the wolf said, I said this five times. | ||
| We can't start celebrating yet because the enemy is going to come down with both feet. | ||
| Luke Rodowski. | ||
| Roger Stone. | ||
| What is the deep state do now? | ||
| Assassination or world war? | ||
| Probably in the other order. | ||
| So they have the demented idea that if we go to war that perhaps the in party, that they will rally around Biden. | ||
| I think Biden's cooked. | ||
| I think now what happens backstage here is Barack Obama goes to him. | ||
| He has a letter co-signed by a majority of the cabinet members. | ||
| He's got Kamala Harris. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I think I'm ready to go. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I think I'm ready to go. | ||
| Hang on, someone's tagging me. | ||
| This better be good. | ||
| Oh, it's this clip. | ||
| OK, we'll watch this clip and then I'm going to get out of here. | ||
| Let's see what we got. | ||
| First of all, what we saw tonight is the president making a very clear contrast with Donald Trump on all of the issues that matter to the American people. | ||
| Yes, there was a slow start, but it was a strong finish. | ||
| And what became very clear through the course of the night is that Joe Biden is fighting on behalf of the American people on substance, on policy, on performance. | ||
| Joe Biden is extraordinarily strong, and that cannot be debated. | ||
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But I'm sorry, on substance and policy and performance tonight, I mean, the President's performance tonight clearly was disappointing for his supporters. | |
| CNN is reporting Democratic lawmakers watching the debate were worried about the President's performance. | ||
| One said it was a disaster, another called it a train wreck. | ||
| Those are Democrats especially worried that Biden did not punch back on Trump's lies. | ||
| Style. | ||
| Showing up alive is style? | ||
| Yeah, maybe that's not your style. | ||
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Yeah, uh, alive. | |
| This election and... | ||
| Showing up alive is style. | ||
| Yeah, maybe that's not your style. | ||
| Yeah, alive, alive people. | ||
| I know, yeah. | ||
| It's really a matter of preference, I guess. | ||
| Who is the President of the United States has to be about substance. | ||
| And the contrast is clear. | ||
| Look at what happened during the course of the debate. | ||
| Donald Trump lied over and over and over again, as he is wont to do. | ||
| He would not disavow what happened on January 6th. | ||
| He would not give a clear answer on whether he would stand by the election results this November. | ||
| Or Hitler. | ||
| He went back and forth about where he stands on one of the most critical issues of freedom in America, which is the right of a woman to make decisions about their own body. | ||
| He has been completely ambiguous and all over the place about where he stands on that issue, despite the fact that he hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade, and that's exactly what they did. | ||
| Say what you will about Kamala. | ||
| She is hot. | ||
| She does have a serious MILF energetic. | ||
| I know this is a very Catholic thing to say but she does have this like crazy milf Energy, I love how devious she is. | ||
| I kind of like it. | ||
| I like and I'm Hillary Clinton's kind of growing on me, too I'm not in like a sexual way, but like Now that Hillary Clinton is disempowered. | ||
| She's just kind of funny. | ||
| She's just like this funny retard who shows up places and they treat her like she's God they treat her like she's a I don't even know, like, she's Mon Mothra. | ||
| Like, it's a Star Wars reference. | ||
| But, you know, like, she was at the Tony Awards, and she shows up in, like, this flowing dress, and everybody gets up, and they're like, the Senator Amidala, you know, Queen Amidala. | ||
| And it's like, she fucking lost. | ||
| She was the president's wife, and then she killed a bunch of people, and then she lost. | ||
| So, you know, but she shows up these it's just kind of funny to me how she just shows up and and I kind of like it. | ||
| It's like you can't get her down. | ||
| She suffered the most like brutal humiliating defeat. | ||
| Imagine you're that girl. | ||
| She really thought she was going to be the girl president. | ||
| She's like the perfect archetype of like the girl scout that got every badges. | ||
| She was the president of student council, she tried out for the football team to make a point, and she was headed for the pres- they were gonna coronate her as the president, and she got beat by a rapist. | ||
| She got beat! | ||
| Well, nah, that's what they say, you know, ostensibly. | ||
| She got beat by a molester TV guy who got up there and was like, yeah, I watch the shows. | ||
| I know what's going on. | ||
| I think I can handle it. | ||
| I've been around the block a few times. | ||
| Look, I'm really rich and I'm gonna fix the government. | ||
| This country sucks. | ||
| I'm gonna make it great again, I think. | ||
| And right before the election, he gets caught on tape saying, You just grab them by the pussy. | ||
| And when you're famous, they let you touch them. | ||
| And gee, we beat the shit out of everyone. | ||
| It's the greatest thing ever so many people forget and that's the greatest thing ever Like not only did she lose it'd be one thing if she lost to some like gay nerd like DeSantis Where it's like, well, you know America decided it was time for a change. | ||
| They wanted a pro-business president It's like no she got beat by the TV celebrity rapist the the TV racist Who ran on deporting all illegals and banning Muslims. | ||
| We're going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. | ||
| And then we're going to beat China because I win all the time. | ||
| I'm a winner and I win all the time. | ||
| And she lost. | ||
| And now she just goes places like, you know what, good for you. | ||
| Good for you, because if that was me, I'd just kill myself. | ||
| She just shows up everywhere and you can't get her down. | ||
| I kind of love that about her. | ||
| I kind of love that she's got that energy, even though she's a horrible human being and totally wicked. | ||
| There is something somewhat admirable about that. | ||
| But um okay all right I think that's it and uh on that note you know Kamala's pretty cute too. | ||
| And just three years ago we commemorated the two-year anniversary of Dobbs. | ||
| So I think let me see we might have a few more super chats then I'm gonna go let me just take a look real quick no yeah no people never super chat on these I think because they think I'm not gonna read them. | ||
| Esoteric Drifter sent $20. | ||
| Thanks for not doing ads and hawking promo codes. | ||
| Thank you for the super chat. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Glen Herman sent $12. | ||
| You need an Albanian on your team. | ||
| It's a duplicate. | ||
| Okay, all right, that's gonna do it for me. | ||
| Thanks for watching. | ||
| I hope you enjoyed. | ||
| Yeah, there it is. | ||
| There's your first presidential debate. | ||
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Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo! | |
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