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statement is somebody who spent at least half a century in the conservative constitutionalist movement. The three great conservative constitutionalist presidents in the last century, Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump. And Donald Trump has the potential to be the greatest of the three. And I want to give you a little bit of my background for those of you who don't know, I don't just come on here because I have a TV show. I come on here because I have decades of experience in the conservative movement, in the constitutionalist movement, in the liberty movement. And I want you to know that with my background, that when I say that Donald Trump has the potential of being the greatest conservative president in the last century, I mean it. 1976 and '80, I worked in the Reagan primaries. 1980, I worked in the Reagan general campaign. I spent eight years in top executive positions in the Reagan administration, including Chief of Staff of the Department of Justice and Deputy Solicitor of the Department of Interior, as well as a stint at the White House. And from the Reagan Revolution to the Tea Party movement in 2010, I was involved in the Tea Party movement, one of the outspoken leaders of the Tea Party movement. I wrote the most widely read conservative book since Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, Milton Friedman's Free to Choose. This one here, Liberty and Tyranny. Millions and millions of you read this book, a primer on conservatism and liberalism. I've been involved as one of the leaders in the Convention of States movement with our friend Mark Meckler, over 5 million members. I have one of the largest syndicated radio shows that I've had for nearly 25 years on the planet, with millions and millions of listeners on AM and FM terrestrial radio, through podcasts, through YouTube, through Sirius satellite and so forth and so on. That's thanks to you. And of course on Fox, when we're not dealing with football like tonight, and this will be the end of it. We have the number one prime time evening weekend program. We're very proud of it. We're very proud to be here. And I was president of Landmark Legal Foundation. It's the most consequential constitutional conservative legal foundation in half a century and thanks to our litigation and the help of others, school choice is now a possibility and you're thinking, well, Mark, aren't you lovely? Good man, pat yourself in the head. That's not what I'm doing. I'm trying to provide you with some of my credentials. So when I tell you that Donald Trump is one of the most conservative and is the potential to be the most conservative president this entire century, I know what I'm talking about. He's consequential. He's historic. He's iconic, the things he did in his first term and the things he's doing now right out of the shoot. We've never seen anything like this. Now, some of you might be saying, well, what about all these tariffs? I'm a free market conservative. Well, I'm as free market as you can get, but I went back and I looked, I looked at president Reagan, you see Lighthouser, who is the head basically of trade and tariffs for president Trump was the deputy under Ronald Reagan. And so as our friends at Cato in 1988 pointed out, and they were very angry about it, Reagan was more into say quotas. He was more into limitations on what other countries can ship into our country. Let me give you some examples. As Cato pointed out, he forced Japan to accept restraints on auto exports. The agreement said total Japanese auto exports of 1.68 million vehicles in 1981, 1982, 8% below 1980 exports, he tightened up considerably the quotas on imported sugar imports fell from an annual average of 4.85 million tons in 79 to 81 to an annual average of 2.86 million tons from 82 to 86. That's a massive drop. He negotiated did Reagan to increase restrictions of the multifiber arrangement and extended restrictions to previously unrestricted textiles. The administration unilaterally changed the rule of origin in order to restrict textile and apparel imports further and imposed a special ceiling of textiles from communist China. And finally, it pressured Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, the largest exporters of textiles and apparel to the United States into highly restricted bilateral agreements. Reagan required 18 countries, including Brazil, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Finland, and Australia, as well as the European community to accept what he called voluntary restraint agreements, which weren't voluntary, to reduce steel imports, guaranteeing domestic producers a share of the American market. When three countries not included in the 18, Canada, Sweden, and Taiwan increased steel exports to the U.S., the administration demanded talks to check the increase. The administration then slapped tariffs and quotas on so-called specialty steel. Reagan imposed a five-year duty beginning at 45% on Japanese motorcycles for the benefit of Harley Davidson. He raised tariffs on Canadian lumber and cedar shingles. He forced the Japanese into an agreement to control the price of computer memory chip exports and increase Japanese purchases of American made chips. When the agreement was allegedly broken, the administration slapped a 100% tariff on $300 million worth of Japanese electronics and goods. Reagan pressed Japan to force its automakers to buy more American made parts. He demanded that Taiwan, West Germany at the time, Japan and Switzerland, restrain their exports and machine tools, with some market shares rolled back to 1981 levels. Other countries were warned you better not increase their shares in our American market. He accused the Japanese of dumping roller bearings because the price did not rise to cover a fall in the value of the yen. The U.S. Customs Service was ordered to collect duties equal to the so-called dumping margins. He accused the Japanese of dumping forklift trucks and colored picture tombs in the United States. He redefined dumping in order to make it easier to bring charges of unfair trade practices against certain competitors. I had not known all this until I started to really dig in. Coolidge was a big tariff guy. Reagan, more quotas than tariffs. And of course, Trump is a big tariff guy. Everybody knows McKinley was a tariff guy. You know who else was? Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln. I'm not saying you should support them or oppose them. I'm saying that this is actually rather typical until really after World War II of the positions of many Republicans and many of our founders took and really more Reagan than we may have realized. Japan agreed to suspend its 28% tariff on cigarette imports. Taiwan agreed to open its markets to beer, wine and cigarettes. The president threatened retaliation. Japan agreed to buy American semiconductors. The European community agreed to give US citrus producers easier access. Japan eliminated tariffs on 137 leather items and reduced tariffs on aluminum products. South Korea reduced its barriers to US motion pictures and television programs and so on and so on and so on. Mr. Conservative, Ronald Reagan. What else has Donald Trump done? Look at this. He's taken the most extensive steps right out of the box to deal with the border, as he did in his first term, the establishment of a physical wall and other barriers at the US borders. He's going to complete it, deterring and preventing the entry of undocumented individuals into the United States. This is what he's announced and implementing within literally 24 hours of taking the oath, detaining aliens apprehended on suspension of violating federal or state law, that is undocumented migrants and removing them promptly, pursuing criminal charges against undocumented migrants of those who facilitated their unlawful presence in the US, notably ending the practice of catch and release, enacting federal state partnerships to enforce these immigration policies, obtaining complete operational control of the borders of the United States. This is what he's directed the United States government to do. That includes deploying sufficient personnel to the borders. He's just ordered active duty military to the border, terminating parole programs for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. Why? Well, communist and terrorists and revolutions. That's why utilizing advanced vetting techniques to determine familiar relationships and biometric scanning for all individuals encountered or apprehended by the US Department of Homeland Security, he's declared a national emergency at the southern border of the United States in order to put military personnel there. Now, what else has he done? He's involved in the biggest deportation of illegal aliens since Dwight Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower. Oh yes, the great Dwight Eisenhower, who everybody praises. They praise him as sort of a moderate centrist Republican president. The left points to him all the time. Can't we have an Eisenhower type such a, you know, a uniter? Okay. Not so much in the 1950s, as many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond rates, the Christian Science Monitor. Well, Ike was obsessed with removing them. He said the rise in illegal border crossings by Mexican, his word, wetbacks, not my word, to a current rate of more than 1 million cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation and ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the federal government. Years later, the late Herbert Bernal Jr., who was Eisenhower's first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer, the writer of this piece that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigrants when he took office, America quote, was faced with a breakdown of law enforcement on very large scale, said the former attorney general, when I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico every year without restraint. The orders came straight from the top from Eisenhower, the new president. He had put a former West Point classmate, General Joseph Swing, in charge of immigration enforcement, General Swings, fast moving campaign, soon secured America's borders and accomplishment. No other president has equaled illegal migration had dropped 95% by the light 1950s. So what Trump is proposing is not radical. It's common sense, as he puts it. And when he says common sense, for many of us, it means conservative because conservative is common sense. What about the federal bureaucracy? Trump is doing things now. No president has ever done right out of the box. This is the Hill. The president signed orders mostly aimed at the federal government workforce, targeting some of former President Biden's executive orders in an effort to undo them. He signed an order to implement a regulatory freeze that aims to prevent bureaucrats from issuing any more regulations until the Trump administration has full control of the government. He then signed a federal government hiring freeze with an exception for military hiring until full control of the government is achieved. Trump signed a separate order directing federal workers to get back into their damn offices and leave their basements. He also signed an order withdrawing immediately from the Paris agreement, you know, where the communist Chinese can build 100 coal power plants every week or every month, which stymies us. In other words, he's not going to export sovereignty and our governmental decision making to some international bunch of leftists and Marxists. Additionally, he signed orders to address the cost of living, prevent government censorship of free speech. He's actually one of the great civil libertarians. He signed an order to prevent government censorship of speech, which has been on the rise in a very aggressive way, not just since Woodrow Wilson, but in modern times since Barack Obama and certainly Joe Biden. He said enough of that. He's a free speech Bill of Rights president. This is very, very important to understand. What else makes him one of the great conservative presidents right now? Taxes. President Trump in the past, he tax cuts his tax cuts, the biggest gross tax cuts in American history, over $5.5 trillion over 10 years. He cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21%, the largest percentage point reduction of the top marginal rate in history. And now he wants to cut 21 to 15% for companies in America and locating in America. Why? To massively increase economic growth, prosperity, jobs, jobs. The child tax credit was increased by 573.4 billion over 10 years, larger than any previous change to credit specifically targeting families. Trump's tax cuts included some of the most substantial reforms to the tax code in American history. For example, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act nearly doubles the standard deduction to simplify state filing. And now, of course, in a new Trump presidency, he's got several policies, including extending the expiring 2017 Tax Cuts and Job Cuts Act changes. He needs Democrats to do this. If he doesn't get them, you're going to have a 45% tax increase. Bring back the deduction for state and local taxes. Salt. He wants to increase that. Reducing the corporate tax rate for domestic production, as I explained. Exempting various types of income from income tax, like overtime, tips, other things that he had mentioned. Repealing the green energy tax credits, which, of course, are a big sum of money given to left wing groups primarily. Look at energy. Have we ever had a president like this? Ronald Reagan came into the presidency. The first two things he did is he eliminated the regulations on the production of natural gas and then oil. So what did Trump do? Ending Biden's policies of climate extremism, streamlizing permitting, reviewing for rescission all regulations that impose undue burns on any production in use, including mining and processing of nonfuel materials, energy actions and power consumer choice in vehicles. He pointed out shower heads, toilets, washing machines, light bulbs and dish washers, no more of the government meddling in your bathroom, your bedroom, your home and your cars. He declared an emergency, use all necessary resources to build critical infrastructure, whether it's the electrical grid, whether it's pipelines, whatever it is, and leasing to massive wind farms that degrade our national landscapes and fail to serve American energy consumers. These are

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Back here on Sitting Friends in the Morning and here he is, boy I love this guy, the 45th and soon to be 47th President of the United States, my friend, President Donald Trump. Mr. President, how are you today? I'm good, I'm good, we just had some very good poll numbers come out, as you see, against this crazy person that we're running against, how she's running is just so bad. With her protection of our border, she was the border czar, and millions of people coming in and she's running for president, it's crazy, but that's what it is, welcome to the world of politics. It is crazy. You know, I want to rewind the tape just a couple of weeks, Mr. President, and I arrived in Milwaukee the day you were in Butler, Pennsylvania, and I went to my hotel room and I went to put away my clothing, next news on in the background, and I thought I heard gunshots, and I sat at the edge of the bed, I remember, I was born in 1967, Kennedy was assassinated in '63, I said to my father, I said, "Daddy, why were grown men crying when the president was shot?" I said, "What is something, Mr. President?" I sat at the edge of my bed in Milwaukee and I cried, and when you pumped your fist and told me and the rest of America, "You're okay," you made me and millions of people feel good again and come to the quick realization once again you're the toughest guy we know. Well, thank you very much. It was a terrible day, it was a bad moment for our country, it was incredible that that could happen, but it did, it did, it was a bad thing. It was, and now it turns out, I guess, we know the FBI and the Secret Service both screwed up major, both of them, and is it true, Mr. President, you've agreed now to become a victim witness for the FBI in this investigation? Yeah, whatever I can do, I'll do, I think we have sort of an obligation to do that. I'm very disappointed with the FBI, not the people in the FBI but the way it's being run, and it's obviously very disappointing, and Secret Service, they were very brave. Look, they jumped on that stage but they had some real holes when you look at nobody on that roof, and no coordination with the police, it seems to be coming out that there was absolutely no coordination, and that's a pretty bad thing when you think of it. Horrible, and I'm glad... A lot of bad facts are coming in. Yes, and I'm glad Kimberly Cheetle resigned, Mr. President, but we need Christopher Ray to step down too, no? Well, he's been disappointing, certainly, he's been a lot of things, I mean, he seems to be focused on putting everybody on J-6 in prison, he was a Christie recommendation, Chris Christie, can you believe it? And what can I tell you, you know, you take recommendations, and so, hey, we hope for the best, that's all I can tell you, he raided Mar-a-Lago, and that turned out to be a very bad thing for him to do, we won that case, you know that, right? We won the poll documents case, and Biden should be guilty, Biden should be guilty in that case, he should be a convicted felon, because they ruled that, you know, he can't, he's not competent to go to court, but he's supposed to be competent to be president, think of that. Think of that one, he can't go to court, but he can be president. It is crazy, but you win all the cases, thank God, because they're all a joke, but I want to talk to you about being nice, you made a comment last week, it was great, you go, you know they shot me, I was being nice, now I'm not gonna be so nice, I gotta tell you, Mr. President, I'm sick and tired of people telling me about you being nice, you know what I want Trump to be? I want Trump to be Trump, the authentic Trump is the guy that's won three consecutive primaries, is gonna win three consecutive elections, when he has to be nice, he's nice, when he doesn't have to be, he's not in up with this nice nonsense, no? Well you really, that was a great description, do you mind if I just plagiarize from you, do you mind if I can use those same words? Thank you. Because I'll tell you what, that was a very good description, look, I want to be nice, and I'm a person that is nice, I have a lot of friends like you, but I want to be a nice person, they're trying to put me in prison, these are people, these are animals we're dealing with, these are horrible people, they're letting millions and millions of people come into our country and kill people, it's happening every day, millions of people, every day it's happening where there's tremendous migrant crime, they come in from all over the world, they're coming in from prisons and they're, I mean you know what's happening, they're coming in from, directly from prisons, saving these countries are fortunate by the way, but think of it, mental institutions and terrorists are coming in and they're pouring into the country and then they say I'm not democratic, I'm not democratic, I'm a threat to democracy, it's just a sound bite, you know, it means nothing to them to say it, maybe it's a reason I was shot, who knows, you know, it's rhetorically a terrible thing to say about somebody like me, but they say it all the time and actually they're the threat, Joe Biden's incompetent and then they took his 14 million votes and they gave it to somebody else instead of going to a primary system that you're supposed to do and she's more incompetent than he is in my opinion and she's far more radical. Yeah, no it's not even close, she's a heck of a lot worse, yes, they try to put you in prison and they try to kill you and take it from me, I know President Trump, he's on the phone right now, great sense of humor, nicest guy in the world, great father, great grandfather, great family man, but we need to win this, bottom line is we need to win, look at the great job you do with the Supreme Court, now these two people, they want to overhaul it, they want to get rid of the immunity decision, they don't know what to do first, leave the Supreme Court alone, but they're going to try to change it aren't they? But they don't really want to get away with the, you know, end immunity decision because if they didn't have immunity, Biden would be in tremendous trouble with all the criminal acts that he's committed, he would be in tremendous trouble, so he doesn't really, it's typical, this is all they are, misinformation, disinformation, the last thing that crooked Joe Biden wants to do is get rid of immunity because if he got rid of immunity, he would be spending the rest of his life fighting it out, I mean you know that, it's pretty amazing, so it's just talk, it's just sound bites, now the rest of it he wants to, they want to pack the court, he doesn't want to get rid of presidential immunity because then he wouldn't have immunity, he'd be tired and anybody would be able to go after him, so he doesn't want to do that, but they put it out there, he'll give that up, you watch, he'll give that up, but what he does want to do is hurt the judges and what he does want to do is pack the court, there's no question about that, they want to have, I mean I've heard numbers like 29, judges, I've heard all different numbers, they want to pack the court, it's unbelievable. That's crazy, I do want to talk about Israel too because you know how staunch I am President Trump, you know, and I got to tell you, you're in St. Cloud Minnesota, it's hours, not days, not months, hours after 12 little kids were blown to smithereens and you find it in your heart to make a point, do you know that two days later, this Harris who went to a sorority party in Indiana instead of going to watch BB speak, this Harris who gave BB an ultramatum the day before he met you, hasn't said a word about these little kids, how disgraceful is that? And by the way, there was just another very bad attack in the UK, now I don't know that this has anything to do with anything that we're talking about right now, but there was a vicious violent attack that just took place just now in the UK and terrible, terrible, what's going on is, it's terrible. Well Israel's going to be a huge point to contention, I must say when BB met with you, when BB met with you on Friday and the photo op of you and BB, Mr. President and then that room you made look so beautiful with the Israeli flags at Mar-a-Lago, that's what two leaders look like, you and BB, not the nonsense on Thursday, do you know they didn't even take a photo op, not Biden, not Harris, not anybody? And she stood up with him, she wanted to get out of there so fast, you could see the disdain. Number one, she doesn't like Israel, number two, she doesn't like Jewish people. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it and nobody wants to say it. And any, and I mean this sincerely, I'm running in New York, any, and I think we have a good shot in New York by the way, Lee Zeldin setting it up and the whole thing, and you're going to sort of head it up as much as you're allowed to do that stuff, but I'm running in New York, any Jewish person that votes for Biden or a Democrat, but votes for Biden, any Democrat or votes for, and now we have Kamala, because you know you don't really have this yet because you still have to have a convention, but anybody that votes for that group of people, those two people, but now it looks like it's going to be her, because she dislikes Jewish people and Israel more than Biden did, and Biden never did anything and neither did Obama, it never did, and you know the amazing thing is that the Palestinians hate him also, which is sort of interesting. I mean, they pulled off like this massive thing where everybody hates him, but frankly, any Jewish person that voted for her or him or whoever it's going to be, I assume it's going to be her, anybody that did that is, should have their head examined, if you love Israel or if you're Jewish, because a lot of Jewish people do not like Israel and they happen to be in New York, you know that, but if you are Jewish, regardless of Israel, if you're Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you're a fool, an absolute fool. They have let Jewish people down since Obama at a level that nobody could believe possible. You know, 15 years ago, the strongest lobby in all of Washington was Israel, it was by Father Strong as I, nobody would say anything bad about Israel today, it's like nobody says anything good, except Republicans, by the way, nobody says anything good about it. So it's a hell of a, it's a hell of a change. I assume you know exactly what I'm saying, 15 years ago, you couldn't say a bad thing. No, it'd be out of office. And today it's almost like, I mean, Schumer has become a Palestinian, Chuck Schumer is officially now a Palestinian. It's funny, but it's true, it's sad, he is, he is, and they tell me that this, this Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, Mr. President, is Jewish, he's Jewish like Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Are you kidding me? He's a crappy Jew. He's a horrible Jew. So on the way out, we covered a lot here, okay? And look, you got a good couple of months ahead of you here, you're going to win again, trust me. And the economy, every bit of this economy that went to hell since you left office, she's been a part of all of it, from inflation to the strangling interest rates to all the bad deals around the world. She can't escape all of that, right? Her complexion and her gender, she can't escape all of that, right? She's worse than him and she's more radical. And look, defund the police, that's all you have to hear, defund the police. She wanted to defund the police. She was the leader of that movement. Now she tries to pretend she was the head of the border. She was in charge of the border, right? She was the border czar. Now if you look, you can't find that term anywhere. You know, they've deleted, the fake news has deleted it largely. But she was the border czar, if there's enough, we have plenty. She was the border czar. She presided over the worst border in the history of the world. There's never been a border like this. There's never been a border like this for any country. And she was the border czar. Now she tries to take it away, but she can't do that. She is far worse than Biden. Remember that. I agree. Far worse. And that's hard to believe. Mr. President, I just thank God you're okay. We all love you. And you're going to win again and keep doing what you're doing. Keep being President Trump because that's good enough to win every time. And thank you so much for hopping on with me again today. I love you, pal. And Sid, make sure we win New York, please, okay? You have a lot of people listening to this crazy show. You have a lot of people, I don't even think you know it, but you have a lot of people. Will you please make sure that we win New York, okay? I'll put you in charge indirectly, all right? You have my word, Mr. President, we're going to win New York for you, okay, pal? Thank you, man. God bless you. So long, Sid.

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