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Aug. 16, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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President Trump 2nd Hour - August 15th, Hour 3
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But what happened was uh a number of my democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in the racists.
What do you say to these efforts to to attack his military record?
Well, first of all, it's a sign of the bankruptcy of their ideas.
They don't have anything to say, so they make up things.
We've talked so little about that.
We've talked a lot more about a sarcastic remark I made three years ago.
I think we should talk about the issues that most Americans care about.
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And uh let's go pick it up where we left off at the end of the last half hour.
Went away from my policy.
They quickly went back to it, but by that time it was too late.
They lost control.
But they've gone back to it.
And uh if they win the day after the victory, they'll stop with all the drilling.
But they went back to it because prices were going through the roof.
They were going really bad, and that's what caused our inflation, and that's what destroyed the lives of many Americans.
Better reduce energy and electricity prices, I will, by at least half within a 12-month period.
We'll be able to reduce prices between regulation and having a tremendous supply, which we have.
I always say we have more liquid gold under our feet.
More than any other nation anywhere in the world, including Saudi Arabia and including Russia.
We're gonna terminate the Green News Scam.
It's called the Green New Deal, it's a scam, and rescind all unspent funds.
We're gonna rescind that and pay off debt, and uh we're gonna reduce debt.
We took almost $10 trillion for nonsense for absolute nonsense.
We'll do bridges, we'll do roads, we'll do things that we need, but we're not gonna be spending it or wasting it stupidly and have China laugh at us.
I remember when just a short while ago, uh Kerry goes, you know, hops in his private plane, flies to China to talk about the energy prices and the energy situation in China with President Xi, who I know very well.
Had a very good relationship until COVID came in, but that was uh that was a fence too far.
But we had a great relationship, and uh Kerry would go up there and he'd leave so happy.
But they didn't they don't do anything, they just talk.
They said, Oh, yeah, we're gonna do that.
Oh, as soon as we get to it.
In the meantime, they're building a coal plant every week, but now I hear it's two coal plants a week, and we're dying for energy.
We don't have energy, and they're getting set for the AI because they're gonna create so much electricity, and we're not gonna be able to do it.
But you'll get to do it if if I have it, because that's an emergency.
We have to be able to compete with China and other countries that are able to create new energy if they want to, and they're going to want to, and they do want to.
But they're building at least one coal plant a week.
Germany, as you know, went a little bit like us, and that was the end of Angola because their whole uh economy crashed, and their new government is building coal plants all over the place.
They're building brand new coal plants, nuclear plants, and other things because Germany was going to fail.
So why are we following these countries that tried it and failed?
And they're smart countries.
They tried it, they failed.
Why are we doing this?
Why aren't we creating great energy plants, great sources of energy instead of playing this game with wind that is ruining everything, killing all your birds, destroying the fields, all these gorgeous fields, you got windmills all over the place, and you have birds, you want to see a bird cemetery just go under a windmill.
You see thousands of birds dead.
The bald eagle, if you kill an eagle, they put you in jail for years.
And yet these windmills knock them out like nothing, and nothing happens to the people.
Now, it's a green scam.
It's uh it's a shame.
Look, I'm all for clean energy.
I want clean water, I want clean air, but you can't destroy your country over it.
You just can't do that.
We want to stop wasteful spending and big government special interest giveaways.
You have giveaways, you have some of these people that are giving look, they're not giving millions and millions of dollars to politicians because they like their policy.
They're giving it because they made deals.
They're gonna take over lots of different things in our country.
They're gonna build windmills as an exam as an example.
They're gonna build uh big solar fields that take up half the desert, massive solar fields, and I'm a big fan of solar, but it's it can't fire our plants.
It's not gonna fire our plants.
Fire up those plants.
We got to get them going.
And the only thing that can do that is fossil fuel right now.
And the only thing that can make electricity, which we all want, is right now fossil fuel and nuclear, and nuclear has its place, a very big place in our country, very big place.
Uh China's going with nuclear.
France has been going with nuclear for many years.
We want to end the Biden Harris electrical vehicle mandate.
We have to get rid of the electric vehicle mandate.
And look, uh, Elon endorsed me strongly, most powerful endorsement.
He said it three or four times the other night during our little chat.
But a chat that was very well listened to and attended, we know that, right?
Broke every single record, I think, in history.
And he's a great guy.
But I told him, I said, you know, I have one problem.
I'm all for the electric car, but it's a very small percentage.
I'm I think the electric car is incredible.
I think what you've done is incredible.
But people are gonna want some people are gonna want gasoline propelled cars, they're gonna want hybrids, they're gonna want other types of cars, and Elon, you know, they're gonna have to do that, and he understands that fully.
And I think he was amazed by this electric vehicle mandate.
They want it for trucks too.
If you do it for trucks, you're not gonna have any.
You talk about a supply chain problem.
A truck going from New York to Los Angeles, if it's electric, will have to stop six times for long periods of time.
If you have diesel fuel, it goes all the way, and you can even come a piece of the way back before you have to reload.
And with diesel, the truck gets lighter because you're using up the fuel with the electric, it stays at a heavyweight.
An electric truck is two and a half times heavier than what we would call our traditional trucks.
And a man from a company said to me, you know, sir, I've been buying trucks for 50 years I've been buying them, and every single year they got better and bigger and stronger and more powerful and more efficient, more fuel more fuel efficient, and now we build apartments in the truck, sir, and you would be proud to stay in those apartments.
And then I say, I don't know if I would.
But he I know exactly what he meant.
Those big, he said it's incredible the trucks.
I said, Who builds the best truck?
He didn't tell me.
He said they all do.
You have four companies, five companies, they all do, sir.
They build great ones.
He said, but for fifty years they got better.
Every year, I started off with one truck.
I said, How many trucks do you have now?
Twenty seven thousand.
I said, 'Twenty seven thousand, and all big ones.' He's the biggest, this is the biggest.
He said for fifty years I've been buying, and every single year they got better, more efficient, stronger.
He said, if they make us buy electric trucks, we will go back 70 years because the truck is worse than the one we had 50 years ago.
And he said, I won't be, I won't partake in it.
They want people, they want the truckers, the trucking industry to do that.
One other thing, the truck is heavier, and the battery is much larger than the tanks.
And the battery would take up about half of the payload.
Think of that.
But just as importantly, the battery and and all that goes into electric is much heavier.
The truck is, it weighs two and a half times more than a normal truck fired up by diesel.
And he said, if that's the case, sir, you would have to rebuild every single bridge and road in America because the weight is so enormous.
It wouldn't be able to go on the bridges and all of the different weight-bearing roads in America.
I said, Did you explain this to the people?
I mean, you know, a five-year-old child, if he was hearing these things, it doesn't go far.
It takes too much room.
You don't have any room left for anything.
It's almost the whole thing would be carrying a battery.
Does anybody explain this to these people?
We do explain it.
They know it very well.
At the end of the meeting, they say, we don't care.
Just start making your electric truck.
We're not going to do it.
We're not going to do it, he said.
So we're going to repeal all that.
We're going to repeal Kamala's regulatory onslaught saving households, an estimated $5,000 a year at a minimum.
The massive tax cuts and no tax on tips.
We're going to make sure it gets done.
She's not going to get it done.
She didn't hear about it until I said it.
And then she went out and she went and did it.
And the other thing, no tax on social security.
We're not going to have seniors who have been decimated by inflation.
Pay tax on social security, and we'll get through it through growth.
We have tremendous growth potential in this country, but not with these people running it because all they're going to do is take away, and they want to take away your your growth and your growth potential.
We're again, I say it all the time.
We're a nation in decline.
We're a failing nation.
Right now we're a failing nation.
And we're going to soon be a great nation again.
That's going to happen.
Another thing we're going to do, having to do with a lot of reasons, a lot of things, and the economy in particular.
We're going to seal the border.
We're going to stop the invasion.
We're going to send the illegal aliens back home.
We're going to bring down the cost of health care and housing.
We're going to make sure that Social Security is not going to be increased in terms of years where people have to wait much longer.
I mean, they have uh we have an obligation to take care of these people.
And just so you know, I didn't do it in four years.
I never even thought about doing it in four years.
And they probably don't want to do it, but they're going to have no chance.
They're going to have no choice because a lot of the people that are coming in are being signed into Medicare.
They're being signed into Social Security.
And it's just going to explode.
And it's going to happen very fast, and it's going to be very ugly.
We're not going to happen with us.
We're going to open up tracks of federal land for housing construction.
We desperately need housing for people who can't afford what's going on now.
And when we open it up and we take off some of the restrictions and regulations.
You know, in California, 50% of the cost of a house is regulations.
They have to adhere to regulations that bring the cost of the house up by 50 percent.
We're going to bring back our supply chains to stop costly supply chain disruptions.
We have tremendous disruptions.
I have it all the time, and I think you do too.
We order things, and I keep saying, Well, when's it getting it?
Sir, there's a supply chain disruption.
And I mean, you end up getting stuff like three months late now.
Every I don't know, all these geniuses over here, I think we can say that.
I'm not sure that you're necessarily as much into it, but they are.
And I will say that often, very often we have uh problems with supply chains where I'm waiting for things for weeks and weeks, and I say, by the way, whatever happened to it, supply chain, sir, it's not coming in.
And uh it's a terrible thing.
Nobody, nobody ever thought a thing like that would happen to our country.
We're gonna restore peace and stability all throughout the world.
And you all know uh Victor Orban.
He's the prime minister of Hungary and a very tough man.
He's a good man, but he's a tough man.
And they asked him, what do we need to stop all of the wars with Israel?
What do we need to stop the wars and Russia and Ukraine and all the other wars that are starting?
He said, when President Trump was here, we had no wars.
We didn't have Russia lining up at the borders to go and attack Ukraine.
We would have never had Hamas because Hamas had no money because Iran had no money.
I said to China and everybody else, if you buy from Iran, you can't do business in the United States.
And I'm not looking to be bad to Iran.
We're going to be friendly, I hope, with Iran.
Maybe.
But maybe not.
But we're going to be friendly, I hope.
We're going to be friendly, but they can't have a nuclear weapon.
They can't have a nuclear weapon.
And we were all set to make sure that they don't have a nuclear weapon, because once they do, it's a whole different world.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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They were afraid of Trump.
They didn't know where he was coming from, and they were really afraid of him.
They're not afraid of these people.
And being afraid isn't so bad, but I would say more importantly, they respected me.
But he didn't use that word.
He said they were afraid of Trump.
And we would have not had any problems with China and Taiwan.
We wouldn't have had any problems with Ukraine and Russia.
We wouldn't have any problems with anything.
But we will stop inflation.
We will make America affordable again, and we're going to bring back the American dream.
We have all these young people that are coming out of schools, colleges, everything else, and they they're not going to have the American dream.
They don't even think about the American dream.
Right now, they just think about survival.
And I just want to end by saying we have tremendous potential in this country.
We can do amazing things and we can do them fast.
We have to get the criminals out.
We have to get them out immediately and fast and tough.
We're going to rely on our local police, our local police law enforcement has been so incredible.
And they know somebody said, How will you get them out?
How will you know?
The local police know the name and serial number and middle name and last name and where they come from of every single bad guy that's come into our country.
And we're going to rely on local police and we're going to make sure that they have immunity from prosecution because frankly, our police are treated horribly.
They're not allowed to do their job.
You know that better than anybody.
They're not allowed to do their job.
If they were allowed to do their job, we wouldn't have cities that have crime rates.
You look at Chicago on the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago.
Think of this.
117 people were shot and 17 died.
Afghanistan isn't anything like that.
And speaking of Afghanistan, the single most embarrassing day in the history of our country.
And yesterday I saw the, you know, they gave $85 billion worth of brand new military equipment.
Equipment that I I rebuilt the military, so this was equipment that to a large extent I bought.
But brand new, and they had a parade yesterday, a beautiful parade.
We were going to get out with dignity and strength.
We were there for 21 years.
And we were going to keep Bagram because it's one hour away.
Bagram is this massive Air Force base that I visited.
It's a massive base.
And we're going to keep it because it's one hour, not because of Afghanistan, but because it's one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.
And they were showing it off yesterday, but the fact is that China now controls Bagram.
China, can you imagine that?
And we left.
We were going to stay there.
We were going to keep it.
We were going to get out with dignity, strength.
We're going to take our soldiers out last, not first.
We took our soldiers out first.
I dealt with Abdul, and he's still the leader.
Strong man, smart man.
But he understood that if he did anything, because we were losing a lot of people to the snipers, and under Obama, it was terrible, it was brutal.
They'd be walking around and just get shot, and that was the end of them.
Our people and other people too, civilians.
And I let him know that if you do that, if you do that, we're gonna hit you so hard, like you've never been hit before.
But why but why?
He said, Do you send me a picture of my home?
Why?
Why do you send me a picture of my home?
I said, you'll have to figure that one out later.
But I said, we're gonna have to hit you people so hard like we've never hit anybody.
And he understood, and he said, Yes, Your Excellency, I understand.
He called me Your Excellency.
I wonder if he calls that to Biden I doubt it, right?
But he understood that and he respected us.
And for 18 months, not one American soldier was killed.
Not one.
And then I uh left because of uh an election where I got millions of more votes than we did in 2016.
We got millions of more from 10 to 12, 10 to 12 million votes more.
Think of that.
No president has ever gone with that kind of an election uptick.
Usually a president will get less.
President Obama got less, much less his second time, but he won.
But he got much less.
We got 10 to 12 million votes more, and that's not including other votes that we could talk about in another day.
But this is their votes, 10 to 12 million more.
And uh we left, and that's when all the problems started.
We didn't have these problems.
We would have never had a problem with Abdul.
We would have never had a problem with anybody, frankly.
And uh I'd have to say, you're looking at things behind me, and they did a nice job.
Well, I haven't gotten to see that's good.
I don't like I don't like the the uh tags very much.
Look at that, up 46 percent eggs, wow.
Up sixty-five percent.
Wow, school lunches up sixty-five percent.
How can a family afford that?
But look at this over here.
What a nice job.
I think I'm gonna take some of them back to my cottage and have a lot of fun.
Like the Cheerios, I haven't seen Cheerios in a long time.
I'm gonna take them back with me.
Bacon is through the roof.
They're all through the roof.
The milk, everything is bad, and we're gonna straighten it out, we're gonna bring prices way down, and we'll get it to get it done fast.
And with her, it's just talk.
She's a radical left San Francisco person who destroyed the place.
And I don't know, it's hard to believe that she can even be uh in the discussion.
Uh They had a uh group of twelve people that she was considering, and they put her name in there and they marked them who were the best and who were the worst.
And she was actually rated the worst of the twelve.
They had twelve plus her, thirteen people, and they rated her the worst.
Now, six weeks ago, she was considered to be a failed vice president and a failed administration, a disaster.
And now all of these people are talking about her like she's uh Margaret Thatcher liberal version.
Uh she's not she's not smart.
I don't believe she loves our country, and we cannot have our country destroyed because once that happens, it'll never be able to come back.
Okay.
Uh if you'd like, we can ask a few.
It's been reported that you recently spoke with Prime Minister Nanyahu, maybe as recently as yesterday.
Can you clarify when the last time was you talked to him?
And what advice, if any, you're giving him about a ceasefire, about ending the war.
The last time I saw him was at Mar-a-Lago, and he came with his wife and uh a large group of people, and uh we had a very good relationship with him and with Israel.
Again, this would never have happened.
October 7th would have never happened, would have never ever happened.
And uh he asked for the meeting, we had the meeting, it was about two hours, two and a half hours long.
And uh I expect I might be talking to him, but I haven't since then.
Uh did you encourage him not to take a ceasefire deal?
Did you give him any advice about ending the war?
He knows what he's doing.
I did encourage him to get this over with.
You want to get it over with, it has to get over with fast.
But uh have victory, get your victory, and get it over with.
It has to stop.
The killing has to stop.
Yes, please be able to do it.
Thank you, President Trump.
You've spoken very passionately about how God saved your life.
And I'm wondering, have you put much thought into why God saved your life?
As in for what purpose has he been shielding and protecting you.
So I don't know if you heard the question.
You've spoken about God saving your life, that I've spoken passionately about it, and something happened because that was a miracle.
I never looked that way.
The audience was massive and it was in front of me.
I never have the that particular graph.
That was a graph on, as you all know now that it's very uh I think everyone knows it very well, but it showed the great numbers on illegal immigration.
It was the lowest point we've ever had.
And it was one that I use less than twenty percent of the time.
It's always at the end of the speech, not at the beginning of the speech, and it's always on the left side, not the right side.
And yet, for some reason I called it I it's not on a teleprompter.
I do things largely without a teleprompter, frankly, because it's hard to hold an audience if you're gonna go for an hour and a half or two hours reading reading a script.
And I just talked about it and I moved to my right, turned sharply to my right, ping.
And if I didn't do that, I'm not here with you.
So, yeah, uh, God has something to do with it.
It's it's a miracle, and God had something to do with it, and maybe it's uh we want to save the world.
This world is going down.
This world is going down.
So it could be.
But I believe that.
I believe that my sons are very good shooters.
They're they're like uh scratch golfers better, relatively speaking, we're shooters, great shooters.
And Eric and Don both told me I from a hundred and thirty yards.
I said, Well, that's pretty far away, isn't it?
They said, No, that's like a one-foot putt with you know weapons like the one being used.
Plus he was a good shooter.
This guy was a good shooter.
He went to the range and shot a lot, and he was supposed to be a pretty good shooter.
They said a bad shooter would hit the target almost a hundred percent of the time.
So uh something happened.
And I have to say the uh Secret Service sniper uh did an amazing job.
He had five seconds to find the target and hit the target, and he hit the target.
All right, we're carrying the press conference, Donald Trump at Bedminster.
I'll tell you what we're gonna do.
We're gonna pause it here.
Uh we've got to take a hard break.
We'll come back on the other side and simply just pick it up right where we left off, and you won't miss a thing.
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And uh we'll have full coverage of this and all the other news of the day.
And of course, Kamala Harris is flipping, flopping, flailing.
It is a fraud.
Here's back to Donald Trump of Bedminster.
And hit the target, and he hit the target within think of this five seconds, and he was much further away because he was over here, and this other person was over there.
So you have to give credit.
And I have to also say about the Secret Service.
When I was hit, I knew it because when I touched, there was blood pouring all over my hand.
I said, I guess I know what that is.
And I would I was going down for protection.
And they were screaming, get down, get down.
There was bullets.
And uh those Secret Service guys were and person Kate, they were on top of me in a matter of, I think three seconds it was time to and bullets were coming out.
I would hear the bullet.
I didn't realize you could hear it, but now I know very well.
Uh those bullets were going right over my head.
They were there and very brave.
There was nobody that said, I'm not gonna be going there.
They just uh they were there very quickly and they were very brave.
They were and there were mistakes made, obviously.
Shouldn't have been up there, the roof should have been uh taken care of, and uh there were mistakes made, there's no question about it.
But uh there was a lot of bravery also, we have to remember that.
Okay, thank you very much.
Uh uh thank you.
We're talking about credit card debt for just a second.
You've got all these records 48% up.
Uh and many families using going into debt just to pay for groceries.
Yeah, what's your message to Americans right now that you can't.
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Donald Trump at Bedminster's press conference.
And through the break.
Watch your what's your message to uh America, how we're gonna solve that and what will they do?
You know what I think they should do?
They should on November 5th or sooner, if it's early voting, which largely it is, which is ridiculous.
We should have one-day voting, paper ballots, we should have voter ID, and we should have proof of citizenship, because people are voting and people are going on now without citizenship.
But we should do it, and maybe we'll be able to get that done too.
It's one of the things I want to do.
But my message to them would be very simple vote for Trump, and we're gonna fix the problem.
We're gonna get it fixed.
We'll get it fixed.
Follow-up question is good.
Kamala's been promising on day one, I'll do this.
And for basically four years, she's promised this day one.
What will you do on day one to turn this country around?
So she is saying when she gets in, she's in now.
And especially with Biden, because I mean he's not in the best of shape.
But you know what?
She's in there now.
She can do anything she wants.
And she's still saying, if you elect me, I'll do this, I'll do why didn't she do it?
Here's my one question, or it's the easiest question.
Because she complains about everything, everything, everything.
Why didn't she do it?
That's the all I ask.
On day one, we're gonna drill baby drill, and we're gonna close the border, and we're gonna let people come in, but they're gonna come in legal legally.
They're gonna come into our country legally.
But on day one, we're gonna do many things.
You know, I can do a lot of things at one time.
But the question is often is what's the first thing you're gonna do?
I would say we have a tie.
We're gonna close the border, we're not gonna let we're gonna stop the millions of people coming in, and we're gonna take all of the criminals that have come in, and we know every one of them, I know, and the local police know better than anybody else.
They're gonna work with us.
I've spoken to a lot of the sheriffs, the incredible every every police, virtually every law enforcement group in America has endorsed Trump.
I don't think anybody's endorsed Kamala.
Not one.
I don't think anybody's endorsed them.
And you know that better than anybody in Florida, in all over California, they've endorsed me.
We have the relationship I have with law enforcement, and these are great people, and people that we have to really cherish and respect and let them do their job and protect them.
And you'll always have a bad apple in everything.
You have bad apples as reporters.
That I can tell you many.
I'd say about uh eighty percent.
But you're always gonna have bad apples, but you're gonna have very you have very, very few when you look at it.
Very, very few.
You have to let them do their job, you have to protect them.
But basically, we're gonna drill baby drill, we're gonna get the energy prices down almost immediately, and we're gonna close the border, and we're gonna get the crooked ones out, the bad ones out, and we're gonna let a lot of people come in, because we need more people, especially with AI coming and all of the different things, and the farmers need everybody needs, but we're gonna make sure that they're not murderers, killers, uh, drug dealers, and the kind of people that we have largely coming in right now.
Okay?
Mr. President, Mr. President, Many of your allies who want you to win in November say your current strategy isn't working, that you need to stop with the personal attacks on Kamala Harris and deliver a more disciplined message.
Do you agree?
And also, you added more people to your campaign today.
Is that a sign of a shifting strategy?
No, I think it's a sign of we want to close it out.
We had we have great people.
Susie is fantastic, as you know, and Chris is fantastic.
They're leading it.
Uh Corey Lewandowski's coming in.
Uh he'll be, you know, uh personal envoy, or he'll be at some at some level.
Uh, they're gonna be, you know, they're uh they're doing a great job.
Look, we've taken with all of the abuse we've taken from the fake news media, all of this horrific abuse we take, and all I want to do is make the country get all I want to do is have strong borders and good education.
We want to have choice for education, so important, so many different things.
You would think it would be the other way.
We rebuilt the military, we did so many great things, but that's the way it's been for Republicans, and I guess more so for me than anybody in history, and that's okay.
Because we're leading in the polls for the most part, we're leading in the polls.
We were leading Biden by a lot.
We're leading now, but I think when she's exposed, I think we're gonna beat her by a lot more than we would have beaten Biden by because he had a little group of people that have been voting for him for a long time.
She doesn't have that.
People don't know who she is.
Uh as far as the personal attacks her because of what she's done to the country.
I'm very angry at her that she'd weaponized the justice system against me and other people.
Very angry at her.
Uh I think I'm entitled to personal attacks.
I don't have a lot of respect for her.
I don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence, and I think she'll be a terrible president.
And I think it's very important that we win.
And whether the personal attacks are good, bad, I mean, she certainly attacks me personally.
She actually called me weird.
He's weird.
It was just a sound bite.
And she called J. D. and I weird.
He's not weird.
He was a great student at Yale.
He went to Ohio State, graduated in two years at the top of his class, and all of these different things.
And we have this guy that's running a failed, really a very failed state, who's ha had a terrible career.
I mean, you have him saying they're weird.
No, he's a weird guy.
And she's weird in her policy.
Who wouldn't want to have strong borders?
Who doesn't want to have lower taxes?
You know, all my life I've watched as politicians campaigned, and I've always been on, you know, for the most part on the other side, on the side that these people are on.
And they always talked about we're going to reduce taxes.
This is the only campaign I've ever heard where they're saying, we're going to increase your taxes.
And then people say they're going to vote for him.
I don't know.
So I don't think so.
I don't think people know who she is yet.
When people, because really people didn't know.
You can ask the man on the street.
I saw it on one of the shows today.
They asked the ministry, what's the last name of Kamala?
Nobody knew.
It's Harris.
Nobody knew the last name.
I don't even use it because nobody knows who I'm talking about.
People don't know who she is.
She's a radical left socialist.
But beyond that, I mean, she's way beyond socialism.
Who's going to destroy our country?
And when they find out, I think you're going to see something.
But right now, even not knowing her, and with all of the like the cover of Time magazine, they didn't put a picture.
They got a great artist to do with it.
What was that all about?
You know?
What was that all about?
The whole thing is crazy.
I just want to win for the country.
Uh some people say, oh, why don't you be nice?
But they're not nice to me.
They want to put me in prison.
You know, just so you understand.
You know, they tell me I should be nice.
They want to put me in prison.
It's never happened before in the history of our country.
I did nothing wrong.
I have crooked judges, I have crooked prosecutors, and they're all Democrats, all Democrat areas, other than in Florida, where you had a brilliant judge who ruled in my favor.
I won the case, the documents case, won it in its entirety, and Jack Smith, deranged Jack Smith suffered a defeat.
But in New York City, everything's clubhouse, everything I know it very well.
I grew up there, I know it very well.
And we have a very crooked system, and it's one of the reasons that New York is dying.
Nobody wants to come in, no Companies want to come in because the courtroom system is so corrupt, both at a federal level and at a state level and a city level.
And they put you into an area where you have three percent Republican vote.
It's all a rigged, just like Fonnie, F-A-N-I, Fonny, uh with her boyfriend, and I think that's been discredited too.
They've been discredited.
But think of it.
They don't want me to be a little bit nasty.
They want to put me in prison, me.
They want to put it's never happened before in the history of our country.
It's happened in third world countries, but it's never happened here.
And they're in danger because you create a precedent for doing that.
And once that happens, that's a that's a really bad thing.
You know, when in the years before, and I've said this a few times, not too much, but uh with Hillary, she was subpoenaed by Congress to give everything she's got, and she burned it, she asked it, watched it, bleach bit, they call it.
She totally scrubbed it, and then they broke everything with hammers, with uh fire, they burned it.
And then she said, I don't have anything.
Well, it turned out that she had a lot to give.
And everybody said, Lock her up, lock her up, and I used to go easy, just easy, easy.
Then we won.
And I said, wouldn't it be terrible?
And and you know, I lose some people are upset when I did this, but you have to look at it maybe differently now.
I say, wouldn't it be terrible to put the wife of the president, former president of the United States into a prison?
Now think of that.
Hillary Clinton, she was Secretary of State, she was the wife of a president of the United States who used to be a friend of mine before I ran for you know for politics.
He was a friend of mine, used to play my golf course all the time, have a great golf course right next to their home in Westchester, used to be there all the time, it was his favorite course.
But you know what?
I could have done that very easily.
She was so guilty.
And I said to my people, wouldn't it be terrible to put I don't know, wouldn't it be terrible to take and we won the election?
Wouldn't it be terrible to take a former Secretary of State who was the wife of the President of the United States and put her into a prison?
But that's what they want to do with me.
And I did nothing wrong.
It's all crooked politics and really crooked judges.
You know I have a gag order.
Do you know I can't even talk about it right now?
Do you know that I have a judge who has a gag order?
He doesn't want me to talk.
And the reason he doesn't want me to talk is because what I say is so devastating and so horrible for him.
And but think of it, I have a gag order.
There's never been a politician in history.
I mean, probably for any politician for a city council office.
I'm the leading candidate to be president.
I won virtually unanimously, you know, I beat everybody.
The quickest, it was the quickest primary in history.
There's never been one that was done so early.
I had people that were very talented people, and I I beat them by 45, 50, 60, 70, 80 points.
There was never a close race.
Nobody was even close.
Good talent, they weren't close.
And I'm running against the Democrats, so it's a two-party system, whether we like it or not.
Republican, I'm the Republican, and I'm leading.
But let's say I'm tied, but I'm leading.
I believe I'm leading by a lot more than people think, and I believe we'll be leading by a lot more.
And I have a judge who put a gag order in me.
So when you ask me a question, or when you ask me a question, I can't give you an answer because if I give the answer, they want to put you in jail.
He said, we'll put him in jail if he talks beyond the gag order.
And this is in a state where the unfortunately the laws have been very bad and they haven't been upheld by the appellate divisions generally, although I have one case where we uh judge uh a certain judge,
I won't use names, but the attorney general case, where we won five appeals on the same case, the most ever trial, it was a ridiculous horrible decision, where you have a very, very biased voting population, and a judge that whose hatred of Donald Trump was beyond belief.
And we won the case, but he ruled a ridiculous amount of money, civil case, ruled ridiculous.
Now, this is a what they're doing is uh interference with an election.
They want to interfere.
Look at the one thing they want to sentence right before the election takes place.
Let's sentence him.
Because who's going to vote for him if we sent let's sentence him right before no.
This is interference with a presidential election at a state level, and it's a state that always goes Democrat.
It's interference.
And as you know, the Supreme Court ruled recently on immunity, and I'm immune from all of this stuff that they charge me with.
But isn't it a terrible thing?
And yet Hillary Clinton, when it came time to make a decision, I said, I don't want to put the wife of the President of the United States in prison.
I want the country to come together and to be unified.
And here it is a few years later, and these people say, let's put him why, because I'm I challenge an election, because I want to challenge an election or some other reason.
Uh it's a really disgraceful thing.
It's a shame.
And it's a very dangerous thing for both parties because once they start that ball rolling, once they start it rolling, that's uh that's a nasty ball.
Yes, please.
Please.
Two quick questions here.
Uh Nikki Haley told our Brett Bear that Republicans need to stop whining about Kamala Harris, focus on courting those independents, those suburban women, the moderates out there.
What do you think about strategy and would you consider having Nikki Haley on the campaign trail with you?
Sure.
Uh I think that we've done very well.
I think that we're hitting a nerve.
I think this is a different kind of a race.
All we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or a socialist or somebody that's gonna destroy our country.
Uh you know, I I fought Nikki very hard.
I beat her in her own state by legendary numbers.
Uh and I get along with her fine.
I appreciate that she endorsed me and all of that.
Uh no, I think that uh I think relatively to what they're doing and how radical they are and how in many ways how sick they are.
I think I'm doing a very calm campaign.
I mean, we're here, there's no shouting.
Now you'll say he ranted and raved.
Not you, but some of you will say he ranted and river.
I didn't rant in rave.
I'm a very calm person, believe it or not.
If I wasn't, uh probably wouldn't be around anymore, you know.
Probably wouldn't be around.
But no, I think uh I appreciate her advice.
Uh I have to do it my way.
You know, I ran against her, and I did it my way.
People said I should maybe do it a different way, but I won in South Carolina by numbers that nobody's ever seen before, you know, it wasn't even close.
And and I think she's a good woman.
I'd love to have her support.
Yeah.
She give me she gave me support, but I'd love to have her go around and campaign.
Quick follow-up on the economy.
You mentioned this in your remarks, Vice President Kamala Harris wants to put a ban on price scouging.
Do you think that the Federal Government is should be responsible for determining food prices?
Well, not only responsible, they probably can't do it legally, and that will drive up prices.
Uh she wants no fracking.
Now she may go and change that.
I think she's already changed it, but she wants to have no fracking.
I want no fracking.
But for her whole life, she said that.
No fracking.
Then about I don't know when, a couple of months ago, all of a sudden when she started looking at polls.
Remember this, she all of a sudden says fracking.
I don't think any the I I won Pennsylvania and I did much better the second time.
I won it in 2016, did much better the second time.
I know Pennsylvania very well.
I don't think there's any way in hell that somebody that's intelligent living in Pennsylvania is gonna vote for somebody that basically will eventually end fracking, end fossil fuel.
So whether it's Oklahoma or Texas or Pennsylvania, a big energy state, people don't realize that 350,000 people work in that industry.
But maybe more importantly, they don't want to pay $9 a gallon for gasoline.
So uh no, I think that uh she's made statements.
I I don't know how you get out of it.
I don't know how you can say for ten years there'll be no fracking.
I mean, we have tapes of her laughing at the stupidity of the question.
Of course I'm not gonna allow fracking.
Then all of a sudden, a Few months ago she comes out in favor of oh yes, I'd allow fracking.
Uh I don't think anybody in Pennsylvania will be I think she's gonna do very badly in Pennsylvania.
Uh you have to frack.
We need the energy, and Pennsylvania needs the jobs, but Pennsylvania needs the energy also.
That energy is gonna support our new system for AI and all of the other modern things that that need massive amounts of electricity and energy.
Massive.
So it's a very good question, actually.
But uh we have to we have to unify as a country.
We have to come together.
And I think we can.
You know, I get that question oftentimes, and I used to think maybe there's no way, because you know, some people want to border, some people don't want to border.
Most people do want to border.
But there's such a difference in people.
But just before COVID coming out, so three years we went a long period of time, and we had an economy going, the likes of which no country had ever seen before.
I think you would agree.
All right, that's Donald Trump, his press conference at Bedminster.
Uh, we're gonna have a lot of coverage tonight, nine Eastern, saying DBR, Monday through Friday on the Fox News channel.
Also the vetting of Tim Walls and Harris.
Uh Kamala Harris continues.
News that you'll never get from the media mob and state-run media.
I mean, that's how corrupt and abusively biased that they are.
Anyway, that's gonna wrap things up today.
Wish we had more time.
We'll see you tonight at nine, back here tomorrow.
Thank you for making this show possible.
See you tonight.
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