Episode Transcript
Welcome to Check with Chip, broughtto you by retire Smart. I'm Chip
Maxwell. This is the second ina series of podcasts answering the question Why
Trump. It's an excerpt from mybook Fix It Now, Rediscover the Constitution
and get America out of its fiscaldeath spiral. Ready, here we go.
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How can you support someone who saidwhite supremacists at Charlottesville were fine people?
Trump did not call white supremacists atCharlottesville fine people. He strongly condemned
them. The audio with his exactwords is included as part of my Charlottesville
podcast at Anchor dot FM slash Checkwith Chip on April thirtieth, twenty nineteen.
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Trump did say there were fine peopleon both sides of the dispute over
removing a statue of Robert E.Lee. He said there were fine people
who were not racist, but believedremoving the statue was an unwarranted attack on
a hallowed symbol of duty, valor, and honor in Southern culture. On
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the other side were fine people whobelieved Lee was too closely connected to slavery
and had to go. Trump alsosaid there were bad people on both sides.
White supremacists on the pro lee sideand leftist militants on the other side
who showed up looking for a fight. It was an excellent analysis of a
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complex situation. Charlottesville was one ofmany fake news leftist lies about Trump.
You've heard leftists shriek that Trump putchildren in cages. Fake news. The
Obama administration housed in fenced enclosures childrenof illegal immigrants detained at the border.
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The Trump administration did that policy.The left also told you that Trump encouraged
people to drink bleach and inhale disinfectantsto kill the pandemic virus. He never
said either. More fake news.On a related racial note, the left
claims Trump said all Mexicans are rapistsand drug dealers. Still more fake news.
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Trump said when the border is notsecure and immigrants are not properly screened,
criminals from Mexico come into the USA, which is true. He did
not make a blanket statement denouncing allMexicans as criminals. If you look at
Trump's history in business and in communitydevelopment projects, you will see that minorities
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have fared well and often have salutedTrump for his support. How can you
support a traitor who used Russia's helpto steal the twenty sixteen election. Speaking
of fake news, this allegation wasinvestigated by several government bodies and exposed as
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baseless. The only presidential candidate tryingto use Russian help to swing the twenty
sixteen election was Hillary Clinton. Hercampaign hired a firm that hired a British
x spy to reach out to Russianspies for intelligence that would damage Trump.
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The Russians fed the British dupe witha dossier that was spectacularly false. The
dossier was delivered to the Clinton campaign, the Clinton campaign shared it with the
media. The media ran fake newsstories about it. Those stories were used
by federal investigators to justify warrants tospy on the Trump campaign and presidential administration
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and pursue impeachment. Leftists, angryat Trump for challenging the twenty twenty election
result, shouted not my President asthey rejected the twenty sixteen election result and
tried to oust Trump from the presidency. Their ongoing resistance was based on fake
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intel in a fake dossier leaked tofake news to justify a fake warrant to
fuel a fake investigation of a fakeallegation. The left's fallback position was the
investigation failed to find collusion because ofobstruction of justice by President Trump. That
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pathetic argument went nowhere. How canyou support a thug who was impeached for
bullying Ukraine to produce dirt on JoeBiden? That was preposterous. When first
asked about the phone call during whichthe President allegedly pressured Ukraine, the US
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ambassador on the call said there wasno quid pro quo, something for something
demanded by the President. The ambassadorsaid he asked the President what he wanted
out of the situation. He said, the President became agitated and said,
I don't want anything. Just tellthem to do the right thing if there
was anything corrupt going on. Afew weeks later, that ambassador did a
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one eighty in testimony to a Houseimpeachment committee and basically said, now that
I've had more time to think aboutit, the President did pressure Ukraine for
dirt on Biden. Pardon my skepticism, but Trump was impeached for something that
did not happen and in any event, was not a high crime or misdemeanor
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worthy of impeachment. Quid pro JoeBiden was the one shaking down Ukraine,
as Vice President Biden ordered Ukrainian officialsto fire the prosecutor investigating the corrupt Ukrainian
energy business that had his son Hunteron its board. Otherwise, Biden threatened
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Ukraine would not get one billion dollarsin aid promised by the US. Search
YouTube for Biden Bragg's Ukrainian fired tosee video of Biden bragging about getting the
prosecutor fired, or have big techoverlords removed that video in their effort to
protect quid pro joe? How canyou support a non stop wire? Have
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you heard the one about Donald Trumptelling eighteen thousand lies? It popped up
during the twenty twenty campaign in ourlocal newspaper and other places. If you
ask for specifics, you are dismissedas blindly loyal to Trump for asking.
Dig into these alleged lies and youfind that truthful statements are called lies,
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and every repetition is counted as anotherlie. When Trump repeatedly tweeted that the
allegation of trees in this collusion withRussia was a hoax, each tweet was
counted as another Trump lie. Tolie is to say something you know is
false. A person may say somethingfalse but believe it to be true.
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Trump says things that turn out tobe false, wrong, mistaken. So
do I so? Do you?So do all the people criticizing Trump.
In September twenty nineteen, Trump wasaccused of lying to and irresponsibly scaring Alabamians
by saying Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama. It turned out to be mistaken,
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but Trump was reacting to a projectionby the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
a federal agency of weather experts.The experts said Alabama was in play,
so the president alerted Alabamians, butcritics cited it as an example of how
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you can't trust anything that comes outof the mouth or Twitter feed of Donald
Trump. The Washington Post criticized Trumpfor claiming at rallies in March and April
of twenty twenty to have generated thebest job numbers and economy in fifty years.
His presidential term is not completed,the Post said, and the twenty
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twenty numbers may rival the Great Depression. The truth righteous Post left out a
little detail called a pandemic. Trump'sreduction of tax and regulatory burdens ignited a
burst of economic growth not seen indecades. Benefiting Americans in all economic classes.
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That is rock solid. At thepandemic virus broke up the game.
That does not change the reality thatTrump delivered on the promise to make America's
economy great again for everyone. Yetthe post said Trump misrepresented the success of
his economic policies. It's contemptible,it's insidious, it's unworthy of serious attention,
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and yet it worries me. Peoplehear, relatives, friends, colleagues,
and major public figures repeat such thingsand conclude there must be some truth
to it. So I will keeplaunching truth mortars and shelling with facts those
who lie about lying. That isan excerpt from my book Fix It Now,
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Rediscover the Constitution and get America outof its fiscal death Spiral. If
you like what you heard and wantto read the whole chapter on the Trump
phenomenon, go to fix It Now, Chip, Fix It Now chip dot
com and get your copy of fixIt Now, Rediscover the Constitution and get
America out of its fiscal death Spiral. That's check with Chip. I'm Chip
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Maxwell. Thank you for listening.
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