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Now, unlike Tim Walls, unlike Kamala Harris, the anointed uh Democratic nominee for president and radical leftist socialist statist.
Uh, just like a running mate.
Um Donald Trump and JD Vance keep doing press conferences.
Yeah, very interesting.
Trump did a very long press conference earlier today.
And I think it's worth hearing what a presidential candidate ought to be doing.
And let us play a big chunk of this right here.
People want safety, they want security, they want respect all around the world for our country.
They don't want this this horrible uh culture that is developing.
A culture of no common sense.
It's really a culture of no common sense, and it's not what anyone wants.
We want to have a safe country.
We want to have a strong military, we want low interest rates, and we want to be able to have the American dream.
We want to be able to have our youth be able to buy homes, housing, get good jobs.
And we're really just at the opposite right now.
It's so it's so sad to see.
But as a border czar, she's been the worst border in history in the world history.
Uh, I think the number is 20 million, but whether it's 15 or 20, it's numbers that nobody's ever heard before.
Twenty million people came over the border in the last during the Biden Harris administration.
Twenty million people.
And it could be very much higher than that.
Nobody really knows what the number is.
Nobody knows.
Nobody has a clue.
And uh the gataways, they call them the gataways, the gataways are at numbers.
Somebody was uh quizzing me on it the other day.
No, no, I don't think so, sir.
I don't think so.
Uh they have no idea what those numbers are, but they're much higher than you would think.
Just like far more people were killed in the Ukraine-Russia war than you ever report.
Just like the uh October 7th would have never happened, Russia would have never hit Ukraine had the election result been called differently.
Uh it was a very bad call, but Russia would not have attacked Ukraine.
October 7th in Israel would have never happened, you wouldn't have inflation, a lot of great things would have happened, but now you have millions and millions of dead people, and you have people dying financially because they can't buy bacon, they can't buy food, they can't buy groceries, they can't do anything, and uh they're living horribly in our country right now.
With all of that being said, I think it's very important to have debates, and we've agreed with Fox on a date of September fourth.
We've agreed with NBC, fairly full agreement, subject to them, on September 10th, and we've agreed with ABC on September 25th.
So we have those three dates and uh those networks uh they're very anxiously awaiting that date and those dates.
Uh so we have September 4th, September 10th, and September 25th.
Uh we have spoken to the heads of the network and it's all been confirmed, uh, other than uh some fairly minor details, audience, uh some location, which which city would we put it into, but all things that will be settled very easily, very I think it'll be very easy.
Uh the other side has to agree to the terms.
They may or may not agree.
I don't know if they're gonna agree.
They she hasn't done an interview.
She can't do an interview, she's barely competent, and she can't do an interview.
But I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight.
Why is it that millions of people were allowed to come into our country from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, insane asylums, even insane aside.
That's a uh it's a mental institution on steroids.
That's what it is.
When you see the people that are coming into our these are institutions that are being emptied out, not in South America, all over the world, including South America, all over the world.
Prisons are being emptied out into our country because we have a president that's the worst president in the history of our country.
We have a vice president who is the least admired, least respected, and the worst vice president in the history of our country, the most unpopular vice president, and because of political reasons or because of uh being politically correct, even though she never received a vote.
Don't forget she was the first one defeated, as I remember it, because I watched it very closely, but she was the first one.
She never made it to Iowa, the first state, she never made it to Iowa.
She was the first one that was defeated.
She was the nastiest to him.
She was nasty with the calling him a racist and the school bus and all of the different things.
She was very nasty to Biden.
And shockingly, he appointed her, asked her to serve as vice president.
Well, uh, I don't know if he's happy about that decision right now.
This was taken away.
The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden.
And I'm no Biden fan, but I'll tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away.
And people are saying he lost after the debate.
He couldn't win.
Well, I don't know that that's true necessarily.
But whether he could win or he couldn't win, he had the right to run, and they took it away.
They said they're going to use the 25th amendment, they're gonna hit you hard.
Either we can do it the nice.
I heard I know exactly because I know a lot of people on the other side, believe it or not.
And uh they said we'll do it the nice way, but we'll do it the hard way.
And he said, All right.
So that I mean they've really taken what they've done is pretty incredible.
Uh and now I'm running against somebody else, and we're leading.
We're leading.
So I'm not complaining.
I'm saying it's a for a country with a constitution that we cherish.
We cherish this constitution to have done it this way is pretty severe, pretty horrible.
Uh you would have thought they would have gone out to a vote, they would have had a primary system, they would have done something, but to just take it away from them, uh like he was a child, and he's a very angry man right now, I can tell you that.
He's not happy with Obama, and he's not happy with Nancy Pelosi, crazy Nancy, she is crazy too.
She's not happy with uh any of the people that told him that you've got to leave.
He's very unhappy, very angry, and I think he also blames her.
He's trying to put up a good face, but it's a very bad thing in terms of a country when you do that.
I'm not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed.
And he had a rough debate, but that doesn't mean that you just take it away like that.
You or you go out to a vote, you do something.
He had 14 million votes.
She had no votes, she got no votes.
And uh I think she's crashing.
I think when people find out, and I think people are starting to find out what a bad job she did, what a bad job she did on the border.
She's trying to say she had nothing to do with the border.
She had everything.
She was appointed to head the border, and then they said borders are, oh, she loved that name, she loved that name, but she never went there.
She went to a location once along the border, but that was a location that you would love to go and have dinner with your husband or whoever.
That was a uh location that was not part of the problem.
That was not really going to the border.
So I essentially she never went to the border.
And if you listen to Tom Holman, if you listen to the great border people, Brandon Judd from Border Patrol, if you listen to Paul, I mean so many different people.
I speak to him all the time.
And I did when I was president.
We had the best border in the history of our country, and now we have the worst border in the history of the world, millions of people coming in, and our country cannot sustain it.
Our country is going down because of this, because of incompetent people.
So I just look forward to these debates.
I think it's very important that we have them.
I hope she agrees to them September 4th, September 10th, September 25th.
And uh I think they'll be very revealing.
I think they'll be very revealing.
Do you have any questions, please?
I haven't recalibrated strategy at all.
Uh it's the same policies, uh, open borders, weak on crime.
Uh she's I think she's worse than Biden because he got forced into the position.
She was there long before.
She destroyed San Francisco.
She destroyed California as the A.G., but as the DA, she destroyed San Francisco.
She San Francisco, a friend of mine, Bob Tish, you know all know the Trist Tisch family.
He was in many cities with companies.
He said the greatest city in the country is San Francisco.
That was about 20 years ago.
And he passed away a while ago, and he would be looking down, said, What happened?
He thought it was the best city in the country.
He had divisions there, Lowe's.
And uh he would be looking down in horror now when he sees she destroyed no cash bail, weak on crime, uh she's terrible.
And yet they weaponized the system against me.
Yeah, please.
No, how about you?
Well, I don't know.
I know Josh Shapiro.
He's a terrible guy, and he's not very popular with anybody.
I think that this uh this election maybe is better than Josh Shapiro would have been, but I think other than Josh Shapiro, I think she had some good choices, but Josh Shapiro is not one of them.
He's uh caused a lot of damage with a lot of people.
And uh I don't think he would have been better.
I think he would have been maybe the equivalent, maybe not as good, but they had some people that they were looking at that were good, far superior to her.
They actually had a uh story where they had everybody including, they had like ten people that she was looking at and her, and they said she was the worst of all.
In other words, she was the worst out of the ten people and her.
I don't know how that's gonna work out.
Uh we'd like to do three debates.
We think we should do three debates.
We think uh Fox and ABC and we also have CBS who's gonna do the vice presidential debate.
So CBS will do vice presidential, and uh and I have to tell you J. D. Vance has really stepped up.
He's doing a fantastic job.
Oh, give me a break.
Listen, I had a hundred and seven thousand people in New Jersey.
You didn't report it.
I'm so glad you asked.
What does she have yesterday?
Two thousand people?
If I ever had two thousand people, you'd say my campaign is finished.
It's so dishonest the press.
And and here's a great example.
I had in Michigan recently, twenty-five thousand people, and twenty-five thousand people were just we just couldn't get them in.
We had in Harrisburg 20, 25,000 people, and 20,000 people couldn't get in.
We had so many nobody ever mentions that.
When she gets fifteen hundred people, and I saw it yesterday on ABC, which they said, Oh, the crowd was so big.
I have ten times twenty times thirty times the crowd size.
And no, they never say the crowd was big.
That's why I'm always saying turn around the cameras.
I'm so glad you asked that.
I think it's so terrible when you say, well, she has 1,500 people, a thousand people, and they talk about oh, the enthusiasm.
Let me tell you, we have the enthusiasm.
The Republican Party and me as a candidate, but the Republican Party has the enthusiasm.
Because people want to see crime stopped.
They want to see a country that's respected.
Think of it.
If I were president, you wouldn't have Russia and Ukraine, where it never happened.
Zero chance.
You wouldn't have had October 7th of Israel.
You wouldn't have the horrible withdrawal.
And I don't mean the withdrawal because the withdrawal was fine.
I was ready to withdraw from Afghanistan, and we were going to do it with dignity and strength.
And we were gonna we were keeping our equipment.
We weren't leaving 85 billion dollars worth of equipment behind.
We wouldn't have had 13 great soldiers.
I know the families of those soldiers.
Well, we wouldn't have had these soldiers killed, and we wouldn't have had 45 thousand 45 soldiers obliterated, no legs, no arms, the face.
None of that would have happened, and you wouldn't have had inflation.
You wouldn't have had any inflation because inflation was caused by their bad energy problems.
Now they've gone back to the Trump thing because they need the votes.
They you know they I don't know if you know they're drilling now because they had to go back because uh gasoline was going up to seven, eight, nine dollars a barrel.
So they said we better do what Trump.
But the day after the election, if they won, you're gonna have fuel prices go through the roof.
The upcoming what?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, the Elon Musk.
So, yeah, sure.
So Elon called me.
As you know, he endorsed me full throated.
Great endorsement.
I respect Elon a lot.
He respects me.
And not easy for him to endorse, to be honest with you.
You know, it takes courage to endorse uh people.
Uh many people have courage, and many people don't.
He does have courage.
And Elon endorsed me, and he asked me whether or not I do a show on Monday, and I think it's going to be Monday night.
And I believe he's the host of the show, so it'll be very interesting.
A lot of people are talking about I look forward to it.
That'll be done on Monday night.
Yeah, sure.
We have a constitution, it's a very important document, and we live by it.
She has no votes, and I'm very happy to run against her.
I I'm not complaining from that standpoint.
And I hate to be defending him, but he did not want to leave.
He wanted to see if he could win.
They said you're not going to win after the debate.
They said you're not going to win, you can't win, you're out.
And at first they said it nicely, and he wasn't leaving, and then you you know that you know it better than anybody.
Well, anyway, so uh when you think about it, they said at first they were going to go out to another vote, they were gonna go through a primary system, a quick primary system, which it would have to be, and then it all disappeared, and they just picked a person that was the first out.
She was the first loser.
Okay, so we call her the first loser.
She was the first loser when during the Democrat primary system, she was the first one to quit.
She had no votes, no support, and she was a bad debater, by the way, very bad debater.
That's not the thing I'm looking forward to, but she was a bad debater.
She did it obviously a bad job.
She never made it to Iowa.
But the fact that you can be get no votes, lose in the primary system.
In other words, you had 14 or 15 people, she was the first one out, and that you can then be picked to run for a president.
It seems seems to me actually unconstitutional.
Perhaps it's not.
All right, we'll come back more with President Trump and his presser from earlier today, got very interesting.
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It appears, and the media is perfectly fine with it, but Donald Trump and JD Vans continue to do what every candidate for high office should do.
And that's talk to the media, hold press conferences, make press avails, and do interviews.
Daily press briefing?
Why would I do that?
I would give you all the press briefings you want.
Look what I'm doing here.
But why would I do a daily daily press?
You'd get tired of me very fast.
No, but I I will give you total access and you'll have a lot of press briefings and you'll have uh from me.
Now are you talking about from me or from a press secretary?
Well, yeah, probably they'll do something.
If it's not daily, it's gonna be a lot.
You'll have more than you want.
Yeah, please.
Are there any ways that you see her as a more challenging opponent than those other two?
So I've run against Hillary and uh I've run against various other people.
Uh I would say that uh in terms of intelligence, Hillary was far superior, I would say that.
Hillary was smart.
Uh she was her own worst enemy in many ways, but she was smart, very smart.
Okay.
If you ask me to compare, please.
Non-abortion.
That was probably more popular with general election voters than many of your Republican rivals in the primary day.
You said leave it to the states.
Given that Florida is a state voting on that as home.
How how do you plan to vote?
Do you plan to support the I think the abortion issue is written very much tempered down, and I've answered I think very well in the debate, and it seems to be much less of an issue, especially for those where they have the exceptions, as you know.
And uh I think it's when I look for fifty-two years, they wanted to bring abortion back to the States.
They wanted to get rid of Roe v.
Wade, and that's Democrats, Republicans, and independents and everybody.
Liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted it back in the States, and I did that.
Now the States are voting.
And frankly, some of the votes are much more, if you could say liberal than you would think.
Ohio turned out to be they had a big vote and it turned out to be a much more liberal standing than people would have thought.
Uh Kansas, the same thing, and then you have Texas and you have other places where it may be different.
But the issue has been brought back to the States now, and like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the exceptions for rape incest and life of the mother.
Uh I believe, you know, I believe strongly.
I think that uh that's a very important thing.
I think when you don't you have to follow your heart, but when you don't believe in the exceptions, I think it's much tougher.
It's a much tougher issue.
But about eighty-two percent of Republicans do believe in exceptions.
I think the uh and a lot of them are changing their mind and coming even even further.
I think that abortion has become much less of an issue.
It's a very small I think it's actually going to be a very small issue.
What I've done is I've done what every Democrat and every every Republican wanted to have done, and we brought that issue back to the States, and now the states are uh voting on it, and frankly, uh some of the votes are a lot different than people would have thought.
But it's the vote of the people is taking care of it.
And you know, when you think about the radical, uh the Democrats are really the radical ones in this because they're allowed to do abor abortion on the eighth and ninth month and even after birth.
If you look at your new uh governor from Minnesota, he's talking about he's like the governor previous, the former governor.
I don't want to get him mixed up because Glenn is doing a good job, and he's leading our he's leading our whole campaign in Virginia, Glenn Youncan.
But previous to Glenn, the governor, he said the baby will be born, we will put the baby aside, and we will decide with the mother what we're going to do.
In other words, whether or not we're gonna kill the baby.
The Minnesota gentleman, he this guy agrees with that.
He is the most liberal.
Look, uh between her and him, there's never been anything like this.
There's never been a combination so I'll use the word progressive.
You know, they want to go progress.
They don't like the word liberal.
I like liberal better.
I think it's more appropriate, because nobody knows what progressive means.
But they now like to use the word progressive, but there's certainly never been anybody so liberal like these two, or even close.
I think the abortion issue has been uh taken down many notches.
I don't think it's of uh I don't think it's a big factor anymore, really.
And when people hear what I said in the debate, and I think I said it very well during the debate, we've brought it back to the States, everybody wanted it in the States, and uh very importantly, and and you think about this, uh, assuming you have exceptions, if you don't have exceptions, it's a more difficult thing.
At the same time, there are people that strongly feel that way, and you have to follow your heart, and you should follow your heart.
But that issue has is very much subdued.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Would you consider granting clemency or a pardon?
I don't think it's appropriate for me to talk about it.
I think it's a tragic story.
You want to know the truth.
And I felt that with Hillary Clinton too.
You know, with uh Hillary Clinton, I could have done things to her that would have made your head spin.
I thought it was a very bad thing.
Take the wife of a president of the United States and put her in jail.
And then I see the way they treat me.
That's the way it goes.
But uh I was very protective of her.
Nobody would understand that, but I was.
I think my people understand it.
They used to say lock her up, lock her up, and I'd say, just relax, please.
We won the election.
I think it would be very I th I think it would have been horrible for our country if I and we had her between uh the hammering of all of the files and don't forget, she got a subpoena from the United States Congress, and then after getting the subpoena, she destroyed everything that she was supposed to get.
I thought it was so bad to take her and put her in jail, the wife of a president of the United States, and then when it's my turn, nobody thinks that way.
I thought it was a very terrible thing.
And she did a lot of very bad things.
I'll tell you what, she was she was pretty evil.
One mile economy.
What message I like this guy.
What message what message do you have to Americans, sir who are struggling to pay for everyday lives, just groceries, rent?
The polls have suggested there's some polls that say we're gonna win in a landslide.
People are voting with their stomachs, meaning they're going to the grocery store, they're paying 50, 60, 70 percent more for food than they did just a couple of years ago.
Look at what's happened to energy.
Look at what's happened not only to their cars where gasoline's gone from 187 to $1.87, and we we had moments when it was below that, but it's gone from a dollar eighty-seven to five, six and seven dollars.
And they take the strategic national reserves and they take it out, even though it's peanuts compared, it doesn't last long.
But they they're virtually empty now.
We've never had it this low.
And he's using that to keep the gasoline prices as low as possible.
He's sucked all of the oil out, essentially the gasoline, to keep the to keep the price down a little bit, and it's had very little impact.
But you know what?
We have no strategic national reserves now.
He's emptied it.
It's almost empty.
It's never been this low.
And I had it at a good level, and I would have had it more if the Democrats would have approved the deal.
You know, I had a deal to buy it at twenty-two dollars a barrel, and now it's getting it's gonna be close to a hundred pretty soon, my opinion.
And uh the Democrats didn't want to do that, but we bought a lot anyway, and we had it pretty good, and what they've done to the National Reserves, the strategic national reserves, is as you know very well, because you cover it.
But what they've done is incredible.
They've they've just for the sake of getting some votes, for the sake of having gasoline, you know, that's meant for wars.
It's meant for like tragedy.
It's not meant to keep a gasoline price down so that somebody can vote for Biden, or in this case, Kamala, who by the way is worse than Biden, and she's actually not as smart.
Okay, she's actually not as smart.
That's hard to believe, isn't it?
Yeah, please.
So there are some of the most brilliant people on Wall Street that are saying that um if President Trump doesn't win, you're gonna have a depression.
I happen to agree, I think that's true.
Because I know how bad these people are.
You know, they like to say that they did this and that.
You saw the seven trillion that they said it was me for seven trillion.
It wasn't me.
It was them.
They said that I had inflation, they took over nine percent inflation.
No, no, I had one percent inflation.
I had actually no inflation because if you look at the categories, we had just about no inflation, but I had a very minor I I actually had a positive inflation, it was a perfect number.
Because you don't want zero.
I mean, I'm not gonna give you a whole course on economics, but you don't want zero.
One percent, one point four percent is great.
You want a little bit because you don't want to have deflation.
Deflation is in many ways even worse.
I had a perfect number right around the one percent number.
It was perfect.
And to show you, it stayed there for two years.
And then he did all of the different borrowings that he did.
And then he did so many things wrong.
Every time he would do it, I'd say big mistake.
And don't forget they sell hats and they sell stories.
Trump was right about everything.
I have been right about a lot.
Yes, Maggie.
Not this.
You're you're saying that you're not going to change our campaign strategy.
You're gonna keep going with the issues.
Well, what if this so-called honeymoon period doesn't end in the middle of the street?
Oh, it's gonna be that right away.
The honeymoon period's gonna look.
She's got a little period, she's got a convention coming up.
It's about policy.
It's not about her.
I think she's incompetent.
Because I've watched her.
She destroyed California, she destroyed San Francisco.
Everything she's touched has turned to bad things.
I want to use, I'm not gonna use foul language, but everything she's touched is turned bad.
She's incompetent.
The reason she's not doing what I do, and she's not doing what she should be doing, she won't even do interviews with friendly people.
Because she can't do better than Biden.
Now he had a reason for not doing well.
And he was never 25 years ago the sharpest or brightest bulb in the ceiling, that I can tell you.
Okay, he wasn't.
But he could do interviews at least.
Not lately, he couldn't, perhaps.
But she's she should be doing interviews.
She doesn't want to do interviews.
And the reason she doesn't is number one, her policies are so bad.
Uh just to answer your question, I think that it's not going to change because it's really ultimately not about her as much as about her policies.
She wants open borders, she wants to defund the police, she wants to defund the police.
She wants to take away your guns.
Go ahead, one more.
Make it a good one, please.
Um regarding social security taxes for seniors, we talked about a while.
Experts say that the policy could increase the deficit by 1.6 trillion.
So how would it work in your vehicle?
We have so many ways of making money in this country.
We're not going to affect our Social Security.
We're not changing it.
And I proved that over four years.
And we're going to do it.
It's very unfair to people.
Very they they spend their life and they're great citizens and they pay in.
We're not going to charge tax to our tocial security of the seniors.
We're not going to do it.
We're not going to charge.
And also tax.
I say the two things.
We're going to have no tax on seniors, social security, and we're going to have no tax on tips.
Very simple.
And we are a country that has so many different ways to make money.
We have so we have under our feet more liquid gold, I call it oil and gas, than any country in the world, much more than Saudi Arabia, much more than Russia.
We have so many different ways we can make money.
We're not going to hurt our seniors with Social Security, and we're not going to charge them tax.
Okay.
If uh sanctuary cities or municipalities are unwilling to cooperate, how do you plan to enforce that and use a we should not have sanctuary cities?
Sanctuary cities is a way of protecting criminals, and we should not have sanctuary cities.
And if you go to California, and I know it well, I have property out there, great property.
If you go to California and you ask the people of California, do they like the idea of sanctuary cities?
They don't like it.
They're tired of it.
They're tired of crime.
They're tired of what's happened to our country.
Our country's become a crime-ridden mess.
And we're going to stop it on November 5th.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, that was uh President Trump from his long presser at Mar-a-Lago from earlier today.
Uh pretty amazing.
Where's Kamala?
Where's Tim Wals?
Where are their interviews?
Where's their press conferences?
One of tough questions ever gonna be asked them.
We're 40 days away from early voting.
And they they haven't done a single interview.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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