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Aug. 22, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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The Rudy Giuliani Show: Friday, August 22, 2025
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Good evening.
This is Rudy Giuliani.
This is the Rudy Giuliani Show.
And we will be with you tonight at a very, I think, important time because the president has laid out, I think, a very definitive schedule about how we're going to handle this.
It was done very low-key, but you have to understand how to interpret him, which I do.
So we'll get into that in a moment.
I think first, we should reflect on the fact that President Trump is going to go into this weekend having saved really more like $550 million.
The original fine judgment, whatever the heck you want to call it, from that moron, Angkor Moron, who's sitting there with the President of the United States, an entirely corrupt judge, but not unusual in the New York Democrat Party.
See that guy there?
That guy was elected, I think, two or three times as a judge.
The only thing is, it was similar to the elections in the Soviet Union or now in Venezuela, or possibly in China, if they have such things.
He had no opponent.
Of course, that is indicative of the fact that New York, particularly the four boroughs excluding Staten Island, are Democrat corrupt dictatorships and if you don't think they extend to the bench you haven't been reading opinions lately his trial was absurd it was ridiculous it was a disgrace the man should be disbarred not me he should be disbarred summarily he disgraced other judges when when we're
at a period of time when we want respect for the bench what we have is a political suckass sitting on the bench in New York.
And unfortunately, he tends to be a lot more prevalent on the New York Supreme Court than not.
three times elected without an opponent and this isn't a dictatorship give me a break selected selected I imagine the last time by the Democrat leader in Manhattan who is the son of let them loose Bruce who was the most notorious judge when Ed Conch was mayor for letting criminals out on the street so they didn't interrupt their rather extensive criminal career He's now in the state Senate,
which is probably a laughing stock, the state decision is a complicated one and it really hasn't been described fairly.
The major part of the decision, of course, was the massive, ridiculous, absurd judgment.
Since there were no losses, there could be no damages.
You can multiply zero by 100 and you still get zero.
Only Judge Friedman seemed to understand that.
And he was the only judge on that bench that was appointed by a Republican.
The other four are all Democrats.
Now, interestingly, only two of them voted to uphold the fraud finding and to uphold the sanctions on the Trump organization, the oversight of the Trump organization, and the bar of not doing business in New York for two years.
The decision encompassed several things, a fine of $445 million, which bore no relationship to anything.
a bar on the Trump defendants, that'd be the president and his two sons and several others, of participating in the Trump business for sure.
And I think business in New York for two years.
And then a monitor that would be put in place.
And a finding of fraud.
So five of the judges, even though they split two, two and one, five of the judges voted that the fine was If any fine was excessive, it would obviously be this one.
Except for that, there was no agreement by a majority on anything.
When they say that the court upheld the finding of fraud, not really.
They only had two judges who voted for that.
That was the But he makes me very, very proud that I was disbarred in New York when I read his politically absurd opinion, stretching every ounce and going way beyond logic to uphold a ridiculous fraud finding when nobody lost anything.
The judge obviously, I guess, is not aware of the fact that our law comes from English law and fraud from time immemorial is defined by loss.
There was no loss.
There also were findings by the judge that indicated if he isn't a political conniver and crook and liar, he's a delusional.
For example, valuing Mar-Lago at 18 million, which is absurd.
I mean, the day he did that, Ted and I went out and found homes that were one twentieth the size of Mar-Lago for 35 million.
and not in such good neighborhoods as good as that.
That piece of property is from water to water.
Very few of those exist on Palm Beach Island, in other words, on the Atlantic Ocean and the Intercoastal.
It has a massive 1,000 person ballroom.
It has a home that has a personal residence that's sumptuous, large, and then it can hold I don't know how many guests.
I stayed there numerous times.
I think 50 maybe, 60 rooms.
And that, not to mention the beach club.
which also has rooms that you can stay at.
And a beautiful, two beautiful, three beautiful., four beautiful dining areas, a pool.
That alone should have the case reversed.
And what they did to the statute of limitations, Judge Moulton, in his zeal to make the Democrat Party happy and to fulfill his obligation as a Democrat hack on the court, was absurd.
I mean, we might as well not have a statute of limitations.
Well, we probably do have one, unless you're Donald Trump or me or someone associated with Donald Trump or his family.
So Judge Moulton wrote that opinion, and it was joined in by one other judge, also a Democrat appointee.
Now, two other judges, Democrat appointees, did not join in that opinion.
They wrote their own opinion, and their own opinion was there should be a new trial because of all of the errors, and their opinion, I don't know, it's about 100 pages of errors.
I don't think if I've ever read a court opinion would have.
100 pages of errors.
It should have led them to throw the whole case out as being a disgrace to the American judicial system.
If you read it and you add up all the errors that they found, that's what it was, a disgrace to the legal system.
However, they voted to reverse the entire judgment, to definitely throw out the fine.
So that gives you four judges agreeing on throwing out the fine.
so that the fine goes.
And they didn't agree with the rest of Moulton's opinion, except they joined it for the purpose of moving the case along to the appellate division, to the court of appeals, I'm sorry.
The real dispute that they had, let me just make sure I have this right, the real dispute that they had was whether there should be a new trial or not.
Moulton felt that a new trial was impossible.
How do you try the president?
It couldn't be done.
Their point was, if we actually are saying that the president and everyone else is being treated the same, then we have to find a way to do it if a new trial is warranted there should be a new trial um i don't get it i don't see i i think when when when you find as as they did so many errors and i it's a very long opinion and you you got there's almost nothing done right in the case um when you find so
many errors you you have a case that is offensive to due process and you throw it out Justice Friedman, who was the fifth judge, voted to just, well, really to tear it up, throw it out, and burn it, and wrote a blistering opinion about how unconstitutional, unfair, and how dangerous to our republic the actions of Judge Ingham Moron were.
So that means when they go around saying they upheld the finding of fraud, uh-uh, two judges did, and three judges didn't agree on that.
So this is a complete victory for Donald Trump.
those left-wingers who are trying to eke something out of it, it's pathetic.
It's just pathetic.
And the damage they've done to the justice system is, well, it's the worst I've seen.
I think the four years and maybe the one or two preceding it when they had control of the courts and to some extent the judges, even during the election dispute, have to be the worst era for the American judiciary.
It acted disgracefully.
and politically.
And now the Democrats on the court, with very, very few exceptions, with very few exceptions are rendering opinions that fly in the face of decency common sense logic intelligence anything anything to uphold what what the Democrat majority wants to do,
the Democrat communists want to do, and anything to interfere with Donald Trump.
Letitia James, I mean, she's a criminal.
From the time that she ran saying that she was going to lynch Donald Trump, and that was the one reason she would be attorney general uh she's been a disaster she she should have been disbarred for running that way but they don't have time to disbar people like that because they disbar people who are involved with trump for for reasons well in my case a political letter from somebody that nothing to do with the case and then a uh a completely unfair uh lynching
by the prosecutor who brought who brought the case who ignored a doctored tape that has something like a 30 minute gap in it and a judge who's a retired one of these political hacks who gets paid by really the Democrat Party to sit and kind of act as a monitor.
So if she had found me not guilty or not liable or whatever, her career in New York would be over.
And she knew it and she sat there totally uninterested in the case.
I was paying more attention to her cell phone than than than the trial, nor does she make any mention or any explanation for the highly suspicious gap in the tape that was presented, which would be just the period of time when the alleged misconduct took place.
And that came from the Attorney General in Georgia.
So somebody took it off the tape by the Attorney General in Georgia or the prosecutor in New York who claimed he didn't see it.
Well, I'm actually throwing the whole case out.
And the rest of the case was very much like that.
Need I point out that the judge didn't find anything wrong with what I did it.
in court, even though he ruled against me.
And my adversaries on the other side didn't file any complaint against me.
It was a political operative who sent a letterter in it.
And then an absolutely absurd and unfair one of these guys who works for the bar association and goes after lawyers, Republican lawyers, who was completely unreasonable and completely unfair, and himself should be disbarred for ignoring and not finding out the reason.
for the gap in the tape.
I still have the tape.
Happy to show it to you anytime.
And we've played it on my podcast and we've played it on this show.
But that's the New York courts.
That's what you can expect from them.
I'm very, very surprised that even with this sort of decision where you need a chart.
I did a chart to figure all this out.
You have to do charts when you have a confused court that's not a good choice.
Two judges, that was Moulton and another judge, I think a presiding judge, who joined with him would say, would say, I mean, they joined in, two judges joined in just for the purpose of moving the case along.
They did not agree with the fine.
They didn't agree with the finding on fraud.
Two judges found fraud.
And of course, Judge Friedman found that the case was a disaster.
Now what's going to be done about it?
Is Leticia James going to be held accountable?
I don't know.
She is being investigated for violating Donald Trump civil rights.
And we'll find out what happens with that.
The mortgage fraud case, again, if the facts are true, is cut and dry.
If they're not, of course it isn't.
Particularly the fact that she claimed to be married to her father in order to get preferential treatment on her place in New York, where she also misstated the size of it in order to get better treatment.
And she declared two primary residences so she could get preferential treatment on her mortgages.
Now, why does this happen all the time?
Because banks charge you more.
For a mortgage on a second home.
considerably more so you can save money if you lie and cheat the cheat the bank and in terms of taxes, cheat the state out of appropriate taxes because primary residences often get a break.
But in any event, no big surprise that Leticia James is a criminal and a cheat.
She's part of the Democrat Party in New York.
You saw what happened to Adam's former, whatever she was, chief of staff or chief of something or chief of collecting money from the massive, over-priced, ridiculously, scandalously priced contracts for homeless and contracts for the aliens that he was encouraging to come to New York.
But why do you think he encouraged them to come to New York?
Because his pals were making a fortune on it and they were whacking it up or at least that's what the Manhattan DA's office says in their indictment of his five of his buddies.
So we're going to move on from that judgment and see what happens, you know, see what happens in terms of account of accountability.
The the Ukraine, the Ukraine situation is.
Has set is, I guess, number one, it's set back.
Right.
One would say that it's set back.
And also where where.
We had the president today say that he's going to it sounds like he's putting a limit of two weeks on Russia to make a decision about number what they reneged on was, number one, the security.
security uh guarantee which uh uh not only the president but steve whitcoff and the others say was very very clear uh putin agreed to um something akin to the guarantee that NATO gives, although not on the formal structure of NATO,
that if they were to violate, if Russia would have violated the treaty and invade again, then they could come to the defense of, they could have an agreement where they would join together, as they intend to, and come to the defense of Ukraine.
Now they say that he wants veto power.
Now, that, of course, Lavrov, the Russians don't bother to make sense because they are cruel, vicious dictators.
don't have to make sense.
They can make you do what they want by sending you to Siberia.
It makes no sense that you're going to have a security force to check Russia and you're going to let Russia have veto power up.
I mean, that's just silly.
If that had come up at the meeting, I know that my friend Donald Trump would have laughed his head off and then said, you've got to be crazy.
But why don't we let Moscow do the security?
Instead of it being France and England backed up by the United States, we'll have Russia do it.
Oh, and they want to get China involved.
That's going to work.
and never mentioned that at the meeting.
And then, of course, they were supposed to have a quick summit.
And Lavrov says they can't have a quick summit.
And that's also that they can continue to kill people, which they have been doing almost.
Some of these attacks, there are more casualties than in the past.
they're trying very, very hard to squeeze every ounce of blood out of the poor Ukrainian civilians.
So they lodged an attack yesterday in western Ukraine, which is really absurd.
I mean, they were so close to Poland in Lev.
They were so close to Poland that the Polish Air Force had to put up some of its defenses because Lev is right.
on the border of Ukraine and Poland.
I mean, most of their interest was the areas around the border of Russia, where there used to be more people favorable to Russia.
Aren't many now after they killed so many people.
A place like Kharkiv, which they keep hitting.
They used to be pro-Russian.
They are now the most anti-Russian probably in the country and held out against them.
And I don't see him going back there.
They did do a little movement in Donetsk yesterday.
We showed that to you, but it was very, very small.
And the major facilities in Donetsk that represent the defenses are still being held by Ukraine.
And they did an operation in the eastern part.
But these are small bits of territory they're taking.
These are not going to materially change the situation.
And also the attacks in Western.
in western Ukraine, a pure terrorism.
The attack in Lviv injured three people, damaged 26 homes, and it killed one person.
The other one yesterday, seriously injured, I think they survived.
We'll have to check.
Three children.
One was six months old, three and five.
This is who the Russians are making war against.
And we're sitting by, you know, two more weeks.
What more kids could get killed in that period of time?
I think from my point of view, Putin has run out of time.
Well, he really has run out of time.
But the attack on the west, which focused on Lviv, which is a city they're not going to take, was 474 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles.
I mean, that's a major, major attack.
There, there you see.
There you see Lviv on the, you can see where Poland is, right?
It's right at the Polish border.
That's as close to Poland as Kharkiv is to Russia.
And, you know, in the old days, that was the most anti-Russian part of Ukraine.
It makes sense, right?
The further you get away from Russia, the more you have much stronger feelings about Russia and the horrible things that Russia has done to Ukraine, including trying to eliminate them on the Stalin, trying to do a genocide, which is really what they're trying to do in taking the children and trying to brainwash them into becoming good little Russians.
That's another thing that isn't mentioned and it's a tragedy that it isn't.
The number is wildly different about the number of children they have taken, kidnapped.
But the fact that they have taken children is not in dispute.
So the minimum number is about 20,000 children kidnapped by the Russians in order to re-educate them.
and also in order to feed a very, very profitable trafficking operation that, well, it's being run by the government.
Probably they.
probably they have some shell operation doing it.
But it's time that we hit back.
I was glad to see that President Trump clarified that somebody was worried that Ukraine, I don't know if they've hit Russia or, but Trump made it clear that Ukraine has every right to strike back inside Russia given what's going on.
So we're going to take a short break.
And when we come back, we're going to have on a man who is really an extraordinary person you should get to know him you should get to know him it would really be very good for your soul if you do he's also very knowledgeable and involved in politics but what his real strength is he's a man of god and that's um that's his book that has just come out i've read i've read it read it last night it is inspirational and
um if you're a good reader it's a 200 page book you can read it in one night.
I just finished a brush up on a speed reading course and it's really working very, very well.
I'll give you some of the hints from it if you want, although they may be copyrighted or something.
But this is fabulous, fabulous book.
I'm going to have him describe it, Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer.
And he'll be on, I believe, when we come back.
And then we'll also talk about, you know, what happened to John Bolton.
I just don't remember seeing when Bolton's house was raided.
office raided like mine was.
But we have our correspondent, Cara Castronova, over there.
I think she got...
Did they have any stormtroopers like they had for our friend Roger Stone?
We're going to find out.
I mean, they had people with machine guns and stuff like that?
We are going to find out, so do not go anywhere, guys.
Okay, well, we'll be right back with Jackson Lane Meyer, Pastor Jackson Lane Meyer, and, of course, what happened with John.
I'll go to war with anybody.
Boom.
Thank you.
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Welcome back to the Rudy Giuliani Show on Lindell TV.
And we are very honored to have with us Reverend Jackson Lahmeyer, who is the lead pastor of the historic Sheridan Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, now known as the Sheridan Church.
I've been there and enormously impressed, including around Christmas time.
And your services are beautiful, Jackson.
They really are.
Thank you, sir.
And I will say, as a washed out seminary student and, I guess, amateur theologian, you are one very, very well-read and very brilliant man.
Well, I take that as a major compliment.
Yeah, and you reach people.
I mean, you have like an ecumenical appeal.
Yes, of course, you're a very, very dedicated and Christian, but your message reaches people.
The book is tremendous.
I read it last night.
I just I was gonna read like I was gonna skim it.
But then I then I started skimming it and then I decided to read it.
It's beautiful.
It's a beautiful book.
The idea of trying to the idea of the aim of our life is happiness, which is what God wants for us.
Once you're finished, it's so obvious.
But nobody thinks of it that way.
But please, please explain that to us.
And then we'll talk politics a little bit because, you know, I can't resist getting you on politics.
This man ran for office and I supported him.
Should have been elected.
Oh, I love it.
Thanks for having me on, Mayor.
It's always good to see you.
You look awesome.
I love the suit and the tie.
So the book, Chasing After the Wind, you know, a lot of people ask, what does the title mean?
What does that mean?
Well, there's one thing that all of us, regardless of our political affiliation, our cultural background, everyone wants to be happy because we're designed to be happy.
The problem is happiness is a lot like the wind.
It's elusive.
We chase it, but we never really catch it.
And so many things promise us happiness, right?
Well, if I just had this, then I would be happy.
And we get it.
And we come to find out we're not truly happy for the long term.
And so we chase the wind and sometimes we do things we know we shouldn't do because they promise us happiness as well.
Like, I'll give you a funny example.
But why do I eat Oreos late at night?
Is it because the Oreos are good for me?
No, no, no, I know they're bad for me.
The reason I eat Oreos is because they make me feel good.
That's why.
And so, yeah, we're we all want to be happy.
We're designed.
We're designed to be happy, but we chase it and we never really catch it.
And so this book is all about how do you actually catch the wind?
How do you find true happiness?
And Mayor, I know you're a big sports guy, Daryl Strawberry.
He's the one that wrote the Daryl Strawberry introduction is profound.
And I know I, Yeah.
Daryl, I admire Daryl very, very much.
And he's a friend of mine also.
But aside from that, it's a beautiful, succinct description of what he went through and how he came out of it.
Yeah.
I mean, Daryl's a very, very strong man now.
And he's got some beautiful things to pay a lot of attention to.
But he's got a beautiful story.
The whole book gives you a way of formulating it for yourself so that you can pursue something real.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I think it's Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
I think coach Lou Holt put it best.
We'll stay on the topic of sports.
Coach Holt said that, you know, if you want to be happy for an hour, go eat a steak.
You want to be happy for a day, play around the golf.
You want to be happy for a week, go on a cruise.
But if you want to be happy for a lifetime, you got to get to know Jesus because here's what the Bible tells us, that in the presence of God, there's the fullness of joy, that which we are all seeking, that which we desire, it's found in God's presence and that the joy of the Lord is our strength.
And so how do you have strength to withstand everything that life throws at you?
I mean, mayor, you've gone through so much.
People are probably curious, how in the world has mayor Rudy Giuliani endured everything that the left, life, and everything in between has thrown at him?
And mayor, I bet you would probably say that God gave you supernatural strength that there's no other way to describe it.
It's true, pastor, it's nobody around, I verbalize.
I say, Jesus, and I talk it out.
Sometimes I do it in my mind, and sometimes I do it verbally.
I consider it praying.
Praying is not just a formalistic prayer, which is beautiful sometimes because it organizes you.
But praying is talking to God and asking him for help and communicating with him.
trying to discern what he means.
So I would ask Jesus if I was doing the right thing.
And which allows him, which I think gives me grace so that my mind can be more open and more rational.
If I thought Jesus thought what I was doing was wrong, I wouldn't have done it, even though I love Donald Trump.
But the man was being tortured and the country was being destroyed.
I didn't have a choice.
If I didn't do what I did, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself.
Right.
And thank God you did what you did.
And of course it gave me a lot of stress and a lot of problems and a lot of Yeah.
And that's what this book is all about is how can you go through life with all the things that come at you and still have joy, still have peace, still have hope.
And so we're getting great reviews, Mayor, and I appreciate your feedback on the book.
And I would just, you know, I'd encourage people like if you don't want to chase the wind your entire life, this book I think will help you, help you catch true happiness and peace and contentment.
It will.
It will.
It'll also bring discipline into your life.
It'll bring some degree of discipline.
And the best, you know, I say to people who don't believe in God or doubt the existence of God, you're better off if we have God back in America.
Because you're going to live in a better society if most people believe in God.
It's even good for you.
Even if you can't bring yourself to believe in God, if we have a society that's built around God, There's no way to have an ethical system that really works for people unless there's some form of a higher being, higher authority.
And I think that've become an amoral, although it's changing now, I think we've become a completely amoral country.
I mean, the things that we talk about and the things that we do are like changing people's gender.
When did we ever, when, where did that come from, right?
It came from the beginning of throwing God out of America.
Throwing the Ten Commandments out.
Well, you know, that's why I'd always say, if we really want to make America great again, you first have to discover what made America great in the first place.
And we were a godly nation built upon Christian and Judeo values.
And so we're returning.
We're returning to those things.
And it's good to see, you know, I love it that we have a president that literally says, we don't just want God in America, but we need God in America.
I love that.
I love that because that is so true that if America is going to be great again, it's going to require God's grace and his blessing on this country.
And I think we're seeing that, Mayor.
I'm optimistic about all that is happening.
So many good things.
So many good things.
And so it's an answer to prayer.
Well, next time we're going to do politics, okay?
Okay, we got to get you back.
But on the other hand, you're so wonderful in saving souls.
Thank you, sir.
Love you, love your family.
Your wife is remarkable also.
She's your real partner.
Oh, yeah.
It's really amazing.
Five children, right?
Five.
Beautiful children.
Can you believe it?
And a beautiful church.
I really recommend.
People can get it online, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah, Sheridan.church.
Oh, yeah, Sheridan.church.
All of our services are live.
Yeah, this, this, be on on Sunday right every Sunday 10 o'clock central time you know get the book and and peek in on on his service you'll you're you're believe me you're gonna it's gonna be helpful I love this man thank you likewise thank you thank you Jackson God bless you wow I feel I feel better for having had him on you can see how happy I am right yes
there you know There are I know a lot of priests.
I know a lot of ministers.
I know a lot of rabbis.
I even know some imams.
And I know some that are really profound.
But he's really right near the top.
I'm thinking I'm going to have to read that book now.
Oh yeah, you got to read this book.
I'm telling you, it's not that it's both a quick read and then you got to read it again because there are things in here that the first time through you're not going to get.
So what I really suggest is you read it quickly.
And then over a period of time, you're going to find that when you have a little stress here, a little stress there, you're going to go back to parts of it.
And each one of them ties in beautifully to the Gospels.8, draw near to God and he will come near to you.
Doesn't that make sense?
Doesn't that make sense?
I mean, it doesn't that make sense if you have faith.
And there's a good deal of discussion of the book of Job, which is a great, great book to read if you're ever under stress and difficulties.
You see what that guy went through and you feel like, oh boy, this is okay.
I can handle it.
Well, let's.
go back for a second because We have the actual participants here.
A lot of this is watching them and thinking, how is this going to resolve itself?
We thought we were on the verge of a breakthrough with a security guarantee that would solve a lot of the problems of giving back some territory in Donetsk and solve a lot of the problems in general.
And we thought we were going to have a summit between Putin and Zelensky with or without Donald Trump up to them.
And now Lavrov comes into it.
I don't exactly, I'm not sure I understand.
I'm not sure I'm enough of an expert on Putin's maneuvers to tell you, is this good guy bad guy?
Did Putin overstep?
People ignore that.
They think, oh, this was all.
A lot of times things happen in these negotiations because people get carried away with themselves and they overstep.
You don't think Putin can do that?
Putin's human.
He's a human murderer, but he's human.
If you start to evaluate him, it's very complicated you have to accept the fact that he's a murderer you have to accept the fact that his intentions are usually very very bad you have to accept the fact he's only got to understand power then you also have to understand the fact that despite all that he's a human being now i'm sort of experienced with that because i dealt with a lot of murderers in my life and had to use them to put the
guys who were controlling the murder in jail And something different happens to you when you do murder.
It puts you in a different category and when you deal with putin you should not ignore that because he didn't just deal with a murder here and a murder there he was a professional murderer and and now you know when you see him just using up lives some of it for no reason he's by having attacked the western part of ukraine yesterday he didn't accomplish anything It's not going to terrorize Ukraine into agreeing with him.
It's not going to get him any more territory.
It may very well piss off Trump.
He did it because he's a murderer.
Now, what he's doing.
in the eastern part of Ukraine, which is wrong and terrible and also murder, has some tactical rationale to it.
That's a little bit of territory he can latch onto and grow with.
But the other is just pure unnecessary terrorism.
So let's listen to Lavrov and President Trump so you can get a sense of where the heck we are over this weekend.
President Trump suggested after Anchorage several points which we share and on some of them we agreed to be to show some flexibility.
Okay.
When President Trump brought those issues to the meeting in Washington with Zelensky present together with his European sponsors, he clearly indicated it was very clear to everybody that there are several principles which Washington believes must be accepted, including no NATO membership.
including the discussion of territorial issues.
And Zelensky said no to everything.
He even said no to, as I said, to canceling legislation prohibiting the Russian language.
How can we meet with a person who is pretending to be a leader?
In two weeks, you'll know whether you go to the end of the week.
I think I'll know the attitude of Russia and, frankly, of Ukraine.
It takes two.
What are the two ways you can go at the end of two weeks then?
Well, then I'm going to make a decision as to what we do.
And it's going to be a very important decision.
And that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both.
Or do we do nothing and say it's your fight?
Look, I would have never been in this war if I were president.
You know, when I hear him say about the Russian language, it says to me, this is a thousand year dispute that he and Putin are carrying into the 21st century.
You just got to come to terms with the fact that many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many of the Ukrainians do not want to speak Russian.
Whatever you believe, Vladimir and Fatso, that guy, Lavrov, they've quite made up their minds that that's what they want.
That's been true for at least 50 to 60 percent of Ukraine forever.
You have convinced a lot of the rest of the Ukraine.
to go with Ukraine instead of Russia, like my wonderful people in Kharkiv, who were pro-U and now they're pro-Ukrainian.
You've got some left.
So you have a division right now.
You took the parts of Ukraine that in the past voted for Ukrainian politicians who were pro-Russian.
Now that's different.
They didn't vote for Russia.
They voted for Ukrainian politicians that are pro-Russian.
I don't expect that you murdering dictators.
would understand the subtlety that whenever they were really polled and asked, did that mean they wanted to join you or stay with Ukraine, the Ukrainians.
who voted for the Ukrainian politicians who are partial to Russia want them to remain part of Ukraine by 70%, 80%.
You've been too horrible to them for too long.
They go back in their families to who you killed and who you tortured and what Stalin did when he starved 10 million of them or 8 million of them.
So, from your point of view, you're fortunate to have what you've carved out.
which is a land bridge to Crimea.
And I will say that Crimea was probably your most legitimate target before you started torturing people.
And I don't know how Crimea feels about it now, but that's the one place you could probably have legitimately won a vote.
And you want a land bridge to that.
Fine.
At the same time, if you want peace or endless war, You're going to have to let them be Ukrainian.
Let them go.
They want to speak Ukrainian.
They don't want to spe do that because they want to assert themselves.
Because after hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and more than that years of Russian torture, they really are afraid of you.
And they have every right to be after what you just did to them.
So I don't know if you want peace or you want constant war.
or you don't have a really good appreciation of just how you're viewed.
But President Trump, it's time to...
Maybe you should read it.
It's called Stand Up to Bullies.
It's what we should have done to Hitler.
It's a lot more serious than the cute stand up to bullies thing.
But the reality is when you know you're dealing with a pathological murderer, which is what he is, there's only one thing he respects.
There's only one thing he's going to respond to because there is a plus here that doesn't exist necessarily with the Ayatollah.
You have a rational criminal mind.
That means he doesn't want to destroy himself or his country.
So by standing up to him and pushing back on him really hard in ways that he hasn't felt before, you're going to prevail.
And this is not.
And this comes from somebody who probably knows.
how just how corrupt the leadership of ukraine is as well or better than the president does And I have no affection for Zelensky at all.
I see him as a tool of the Ukrainian oligarchs who conspired to elect Hillary Clinton, who conspired to elect Joe Biden, who conspired to destroy Donald Trump, and really so they could carry on their vast stealing of money from their own people.
People of Ukraine would be so much better off.
if these people weren't stealing their money from them.
And who knows how much of the money for this war they stole?
A lot.
Mr. Zelensky has the complete file on corruption at the highest levels of our government and his, including his former president, who took a bribe, the amount of which will stun you.
On the other hand, I know this is hard to understand.
He's not Putin.
And the Ukrainian people don't deserve this.
In many ways, of course, the Russian people don't either.
But this is what happens when you're dealing with these crooked oligarchs and maniacal dictators.
So I urge the president to quickly move toward unbelievably draconian sanctions, real support for a peacekeeping force there, as much as we can do, as much as we can get away with, let's go maximum on this rather than minimum.
And I know, I know, I know the isolationists will go crazy and the, but I don't know that ideology matters when children are being killed.
Courage matter.
Commitment and principle.
America is a country that stands for freedom all over the world.
We've lost enough of our people so that we're not going to give up on it now.
Well, have a wonderful weekend.
Read.
Go to Amazon, get this, or however else you get a book, get wind.
I'm sure you'll finish it by Monday and you can text me some questions about it.
I'm going to read it again this weekend to get ready for Sunday.
I mean, I'm not going to read the whole thing.
I'm going to read a couple of chapters that I had questions about.
In fact, maybe on Monday, I'll give you a couple, a little quiz, okay?
I always wanted to be a teacher.
Well, now you go over to Axe, nine o'clock, you come back here.
for Dr. Maria, who has a great show set up for you tonight.
It'd be a lot on Bolton.
And when we go over to X now, we'll touch on Bolton and then we'll leave a lot of it to her.
I'll give you my views.
I mean, I know John Bolton for a very long time.
I've been involved with him as a partner in things.
And in the last number of years, I don't understand what's happened to him.
But pray for the people of Ukraine.
Special prayers for them.
They need it now.
And the people of Russia and the people of Iran and the people of Israel and the people of the United States.
And most of all, play for us.
our president that he makes the right decisions for us he's been doing a remarkable job and thank you for guiding him.
And thank you, Mr. President, for listening.
So we'll be back.
Have a great weekend.
Anything happens, we're ready, willing, and able to come on.
Okay?
So you keep watching X. Something happens.
You'll see my stupid face there.
Okay?
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