Jeffrey Wright - Writer, The American Thinker Joins Houston Morning News, June 14th, 2024

Episode Transcript

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We're being joined now by Jeffrey Wright. He's a writer for The American Thinker
who did a piece. Jeffrey.It was very curious to me saying that
it's the people who are the passionateTrump supporters who now have a duty to
at least recognize the reluctant Trump concerns, the voters who have concerns about Donald

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Trump. And I thought it wasreally amazing when you said they don't like
his narcissism. And my first responseto that is, I don't know how
anybody can run for the presidency withoutbeing a narcissist. Well that's fair,
Sharah, good morning, that's fair. I think that back in the in

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the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen campaign,there was a lot unknown about Donald Trump,
but he had some personal quirks.He had a kind of a questionable
personal life. He was brusque andyou know, prone to insults and hyperbole
and that sort of thing, andthat personality did turn off some people.

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It just as a fact. Nowwe know that he was president for four
years, and we can judge hispresidency and and and overlook some of those
personal foibles. But the point ofthe article that I wrote earlier in the
week was that it's legitimate for peopleto have some reluctance about Trump, and

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part of it was personality, butalso part of it was was he conservative
enough. I know people myself included, who thought that he wasn't quite conservative
enough, that he didn't use hispower where he could in terms of quelling
riots, in terms of reigning inyou know, the military, and Mark

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Milly and his back channel backstabbing commentsthat there were several things that you know,
the way Hey got rolled by AnthonyFauci, I mean, there were
things that he was not as effectiveor as conservative enough. And then the
final point is that is he theright guy to go to battle with when
you've got forty to forty five percentof the country that won't vote for him

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under any circumstances, maybe irrationally,maybe Trump derangement syndrome, but we have
to win the election. And soit was legitimate to question if Trump was
the right guy to go to battlethis season. Now that he's the nominee,
he's the guy we're going with,and there's a duty to support him

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if you care about the country andyou are worried about what leftism is doing
to the country, So that waskind of the point of the article.
It's legitimate. I've written articles forAmerican Thinker where I questioned Donald Trump,
and I'll call them fanboys, theabsolute Always Trumpers are pretty nasty about people

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who had legitimate concerns, and sothat's why I wrote this latest art.
And I know people who are guiltyof it, maybe even sometimes I have
been as well. We've got Pelosicalling the g a cult now insecure voters.
But isn't it more about not somuch yes, what Trump did in
the past, because we know howwe lived under Donald Trump. All the

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things that they said that were sohorrible about him, Well, you know,
he's a guy who gave us agreat economy, and he ended wars,
and he brought us an awful lotof peace, and he made America
first an energy production we can Whyshouldn't we be talking about that to reluctant
voters. Why shouldn't we be talkingabout voter integrity and getting these reluctant voters
instead of wasting our time trying toconvince them to vote for Trump, getting

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them to go to the polls andobserve and make sure that we have good
votes. A totally legitimate. Iwouldn't disagree with anything you said. I
think that's absolutely right. My onlypoint was that passionate Trumpers, and I've
become that over time, especially nowthat we don't have a choice, right,

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UH should respect and UH not insultreluctant Trumpers. That was that was
my point. We should we levelheaded maybe in the way we discuss with
them, and just more down facts. Yeah. I get that. I
received vitriol for, you know,some questioning about whether Trump was the right

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candidate to cycle and and and there'sno doubt he is now. I mean,
there's just you know, I wasJeffrey, I I thank you,
I thank you. I'm sorry we'verun out of time. I'm not so
great at managing the clock, butI appreciate you coming on and pointing it
out for all of us.