36 posts from Sunday, July 16, 2023

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I'm guessing that a lot of you out there are fans of President Donald J. Trump, right? He spoke yesterday. He spoke yesterday. I know it went very well. Of course, he's a friend of mine, and of course, I've endorsed him for president in 2024. I want to leave you with this thought, that there are a lot of things that I could say about President Trump's presidency. I could talk about tax reform. I could talk about the fact that we just for the first time during his four years started to push back against communist China. I could talk about the fact that he's the only presidential candidate speaking about the economic issues that matter, not just to the people in this room, but those all-important swing voters that we've got to win over. Those things are all true. But the strongest argument I can make for Donald Trump is where I started this speech, that when everybody else is telling lies about Ukraine, there is one man on the national stage telling the truth, and that's Donald J. Trump. You know, there was a really important moment during the presidential campaign, something that I would encourage you all, go home, go to Rumble or YouTube or whatever you watch your videos on, and go and find this clip. It was Donald Trump at the CNN town hall. You remember this a couple months ago? And whatever mainstream reporter they had asked them the question and said, "Well, whose side are you really on? Are you on the Russia side or are you on the Ukrainian side?" And of course that's a stupid answer. I'm on America's side. That should be our answer, right? We should always say we're on America's side. We can like the Ukrainians. We can not like the Russian aggression. We're on America's side. That's the only answer we should expect from our future president. Now every politician that I know, at least on a national stage, maybe even myself, would have taken the bait, right? They would have taken the reporter's bait, but Trump didn't. What he said was, "I want the killing to stop," right? I want the killing to stop. That ladies and gentlemen, that is the statesmanship that we need in this moment. That America comes first. And what is in the best interest of this country and what is in the best interest of all of us as human beings for the killing to stop? We send that country Ukraine $200 billion. The idea that we don't have the leverage to stop this conflict with the snap of our fingers is a joke. And anybody who tells you we can't stop this war is lying to you. $200 billion buys you a lot. And what buys us is leverage, and we ought to use it. But I want to encourage all of you, especially those young people who have not yet committed to a presidential candidate, I want to encourage you to get out there and support President Trump. And look, the reason is simple. There is a species of establishment Republican that if you told me this two years ago, I might not have believed you that this person exists, but they do. Now you all know them. They're the establishment hack in Washington, D.C. They put the Ukrainian flag in their Twitter bio or their Facebook profile. They care far more about the people who live 6,000 miles away than they do about the citizens of their own country. We all know these people. Of course, I've been exposed to them a lot in the last six months because I've been in Washington, D.C. all about six months. But you know what I find so interesting about those people is how they never have that compassion for the citizens of their own country. For the mom who's mourning a son who died of a fentanyl overdose. For the young man whose dad has lost years off their life. For the troop who fought and bled and maybe died in a foreign land because America's leaders made a mistake. They never have that same compassion for the citizens of their own country. Well, what I'd ask you to do is to have that compassion, to have that love. When I say America's not just a nation of ideas, what I mean is this whole American project doesn't work unless you feel it deep in your bones, that love of your fellow citizens of your countrymen. When you read about our great historical moments, you need to feel not just that they did heroic things, but that they were your people building something heroic that you and your children and your grandchildren deserve to inherit. I love you, ma'am. Thank you. And I will say there is no issue that these people with Ukrainian flags in their bio are more obsessed with. They call it entitlement reform, but of course what they're saying is that they want to cut Social Security for the people who paid into it for a generation so that we can send more money to Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine. Do we want to do that? No. Absolutely not. And the one person who's standing against it on the national stage right now is Donald Trump. So here's my message to all of you, and here is our message to everybody who's listening, whether you're in this room or on television, if you want to immiserate our grandmothers and grandfathers to send another yacht to Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration, No make America great again. Let's go and show them over the next two years. God bless

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-Did President Trump make his case? -Yeah, I think more than anybody I can imagine. He's knowledgeable. It's things he actually did. He's not talking from note cards. And the big difference is, in 2017, he was a businessman under tremendous assault from the FBI and the New York Times and the Washington Post, learning the trade. Now, he's had enough time to think it through. I think his first year will be astonishing, and I think people will be amazed how much he can get done, how big a team he can assemble. And, frankly, barring some enormous change, he is the most likely person to be the next president of the United States, something only Grover Cleveland ever achieved, being president, losing, and coming back. Right now, the numbers are so overwhelming, Republicans ought to start focusing on how to beat Biden because I think, at a practical level, they have a nominee, and his name is Donald Trump. Newt, great to see you. Thanks so much, Newt Gingrich. That'll do it for us on Sunday morning for you.

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And we have great, great generals and we brought our troops back home. We got them back home, but we defeated ISIS. And I was the first president in decades who didn't start a war. I didn't start a war. We had peace through strength.

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Just think of what we already accomplished in four incredible years. We delivered the largest tax cuts and regulatory cuts in history, and likewise we built the greatest economy ever in the history of the world. China was going to catch us for 20 years. 2018, China was going to overtake us. We were doubling up. We were so far ahead of them, they never had a chance. And if we had a smart president, they would never be able to take us. We achieved energy independence, and energy dominance was going to be there right around the corner for the first time in about 78 years. I think probably more than that. I don't think we were ever dominant. We created the most secure border in U.S. history, built nearly 500 miles of border wall. I hear this sloppy Chris Christie guy. He said, "Trump only built 47 miles of what I did before." Then they checked with the Border Patrol and the people that do that. Almost 500 miles of wall. And remember this. Remember this. I said, "Mexico is going to pay for it some way." They gave us 28,000 soldiers free of charge. That's more than any wall. And they did that for years because while I was building the wall, and Congress fought me tooth and nail, including some Republicans. They fought me like Mitch McConnell. They fought me tooth and nail. And I ended up taking the money out of the military. I took the money out of the military because I considered it an invasion of our country. And we built almost 500 miles of wall. And then I said, "We completed that job." And I said, "You know, we're going to need some more because people are coming around other areas." So we ordered 200 miles of additional wall. It was ready to be installed, could have been done in three weeks. It was all there. It was all built. The hard part is getting it there and building it, building it and getting it there. And they didn't want it to go up. And that's when I first, I guess, believe that they actually want to have an open border. It's so crazy. With people coming in, the likes of which you don't ever want in your country. But we got Mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers free of charge. And that was hard. I like the president of Mexico. He's great. He's a socialist, but you can't have everything, right? But he's a great guy. And they laughed at me when I said, "I want you to supply 28,000. That's what we need, soldiers, along the border while we're building the wall." And they said, "Why would we do that?" I said, "You just have to do it. Please do it. I would appreciate it. We will not do that." I said, "Well, are you sure?" Then they sent the representative to see me at the State Department with a woman that was very good. She worked on Mexico for 25 years. She said, "Sir, they'll never do that. She'll never do that. They'll never do remain in Mexico. They'll never do catch and release into Mexico. They'll never do any of these things." I said, "Yes, they will." "No, they won't, sir. They won't." I said, "Yes, they will. You watch." The guy comes in, the top representative comes into the office. I said, "We need you to give us 28,000 soldiers for our border, please." He laughed at me. He thought I was a fool. And I said, "No, no, no, don't. If you're going to give me those soldiers, no, no, no. We cannot do that, sir. We cannot. How foolish a request." I said, "No, no. You're going to do it. You're going to do it. And if you don't do it, on Monday morning, we're going to put a 25 percent tariff on every single product coming out of Mexico, including cars, 32 percent of which you stole from the United States. You know, they took 32 percent of our car manufacturing business by stupid presidents that allowed it to happen. We didn't allow it to happen. Now it's happening again, I hate to tell you, Michigan, and all the states that are so good, it's happening again. They're taking the car business. The electric cars, they're not going to be built here. They're going to be built in China mostly. But I said to them, I said, "I'm signing this, 28,000 soldiers, and what's the story?" "Sir, I'd like to be able to make a call. Do you mind if I come back?" So I told them about the 25 percent tax tariff, and it comes back about three minutes later. "Sir, we'd be delighted to supply you with 28,000. We would be delighted to give you all the soldiers you want. Please don't do that to us, sir. Please. Thank you." No, he said, "We'd be delighted. It would be my great honor to give you 28,000 on behalf of the Mexican government." And these were very good soldiers. They were not politically correct either. They were, said, "You cannot come in." And we had the greatest numbers anywhere. We deported also illegal alien criminals like MS-13 gang members that killed people for fun at a number nobody's ever seen before, thousands and thousands. I never got enough credit for that whole deal, but we had the safest border in the history of our country. Now we have the most unsafe border, I think, in the history of the world. No country would allow millions of people to just walk across the country. We have no idea who they are. I fully rebuilt the United States military, created Space Force, defeated ISIS, something which they all said you couldn't do. I did it in four weeks, because we have great generals. We have great generals. We have not the ones that you see on television, the real generals that we have. And we have great, great generals, and we brought our troops back home. We got them back home, but we defeated ISIS. And I was the first president in decades who didn't start a war. I didn't start a war. We had peace through strength. As I was building that military, we got more and more bravado going, but they respected us. We did a great job. But we do. We have great soldiers. You know, it's very important for you.

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Under my leadership, we will bring back free speech in America just last week. We've had some amazing rulings, you know that. Just last week in a historic ruling, a brilliant federal judge ordered the Biden administration to cease and desist from their illegal and unconstitutional censorship in collusion with social media. In other words, the election was rigged. That's just another way of saying it. (audience applauds)

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I never thought anything like this could happen in America. The only crime that I've committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you. They're not coming after me, they're coming after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way and I will never be moving. On November 5th, 2024, justice will be done. We will take back our country and we will make America great again. America will always rise to every challenge and overcome every danger. Donald Trump seems to always get stronger when challenged. These types of things, I think, give him strength. When I'm reelected, I will totally obliterate the deep state. As long as we have pride in our beliefs, courage in our convictions, and faith in our God, then we will not fail. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump! Because there ain't no doubt I love this land, God bless the USA!

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