The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte - - 10 - 26 - 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WR Now the WR Saturday
Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good morning, and welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show,
two Donald Trump hit pieces, one of the New York Times,
one in the Atlantic. We'll talk with Mary Rook from
The Daily Caller, who wrote an opinion piece on how
that may have backfired on Kamala Harris. And we'll talk
with Jim Path from the Conservative Caucus about the election

(00:30):
and where things stand right now. But first let's look
back at the week that was, and we start with
some great news. The New York Liberty win their first
NBA title, defeating the Minnesota Links at the Barclays Center
in overtime last Sunday night.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Congratulations for the lovely Liberty.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Donald Trump was in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of golfing
legend Arnold Palmer, and Trump talked about him admiringly.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
But Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that
at all due respect to women, and I love women.
But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that
was all man.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
This man was.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Strong and tough, and I refuse to say it, but
when he took showers with the other pros they came
out of there, they said, oh my god, that's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I had to say it. I had to say. The
left went crazy over that, saying Trump was unfit for office.
What they don't know is that this is how Donald
Trump connects. He's not a politician, never has been. He
talks like you and me. But the attacks will start

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really ramping up now, starting with that piece in the
New York Times with fired and disgruntled former chief of
staff John Kelly.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
She would be caught as it more than once that
you know, the Hitler did some good things too, And
of course, if you know history again, I think he's
lacking in that. But if you know what his you know,
Hitler was all about, you'd be pretty hard to make
an argument that she did anything good.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh I get it. He's Hitler again, and he's a fascist.
They really need to get a new playbook. What you
forget is that he was president once and wasn't like
that at all. I'll have much more on the Democrats
going crazy and grasping for something anything to keep power,
and the Republicans got some help from, of all people,

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President Joe Biden.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like I said
this five years ago. You'd locked me up. We gotta
lock him up, political vcuum out, lock him out.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's what we have to do. That was a big mistake.
We need to lock him up. Seem to confirm the
weaponization of the Justice Department to get Trump at all costs.
But I don't think Trump has much to worry about.
Kamala did another interview, this one with NBC's Hallie Jackson
New Network, same result.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
Of course, Joe Biden is an extremely accomplished, experienced and
capable in every way that anyone would want if they're president.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
And you never saw.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
Anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed
doors with him. It was a bad debate. People have
bad debates. He is absolutely that's the reason why you're here.
And he's not running for the top.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Of the ticket.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Well, you'd have to ask him if that's the only
reason why.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
She has never answered for being complicit in the cover up.
Good for Hallie Jackson for pressing her on that, and
then Kamala exhausted. I guess took a couple of days
off the campaign trail.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
She's lazy as hell and she's got that reputation. She's
a radical left lunatic.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
And you'll remember when Governor Kathy Hokeel said politics had
nothing to do with her stopping congestion pricing back in June.
That was after claims that she was doing it only
because of the upcoming election. Well guess what's coming after
the election.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
There is no turning our back on driving the MTA
into the future.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I am committed to that. We were all taken vote accordingly.
And the week concludes with a ticker tape parade for
the WNBA champion, New York Liberty.

Speaker 8 (04:54):
It means a lot to be able to bring the
first championship here. My first WBA game was a Liberty
game when we played it MSc. So to be able
to full circle moment, come here, come back, we bring
the championship here, I mean, I appreciate you guys so much.
This has been an incredible journey.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Congratulations to the Liberty and their star Brianna Stewart. And
that's the week that was coming up. Next, the hit
piece in the New York Times with Donald Trump's former
chief of staff John Kelly saying Trump praised Hitler may
have backfired and hurt Kamala Harris instead. At least that's

(05:29):
what Mary Rook from The Daily Caller thinks. We'll talk
with her when the Saturday Morning Show continues.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Back now to the WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minty.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Welcome back. It started. The Democrats in their media minions
will do anything to keep Donald Trump out of the
White House. So get ready for a series of hit
pieces on Trump, starting with the New York Times and
The Atlantic that had back to back hit pieces this
week to try to defeat Trump. But The Daily Caller

(06:03):
has an opinion piece up entitled media hits on Trump
accidentally confirms Harris has a major election problem brewing. It's
written by Mary Rook. Mary joins us. Now, So Mary,
thanks for talking to us. So explain. I was intrigued
by the title of your column. Explain how the Trump

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hit piece in the Times and The Atlantic confirmed that
Kamala has a major election problem.

Speaker 9 (06:32):
Okay, So you know, I'm looking at this and just
on its face, it feels definitely politically driven false. It's
the kind of the same story that we've been hearing
from corporate media for a while now, that Trump is
literally hitler. And I think that that was something they
were hoping their base would jump onto But then there
was this one line in there that really stuck out
to me. First, the entire piece is based on the

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woman that an Army private who was murdered in Texas
and so, but the crux of it is is that
she comes from a Mexican immigrant family, and they start
talking about the connection from her Hispanic heritage and all
of this stuff, and then they put in a line
that seems false on its face, where reportedly Trump says

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in private that he's not going to pay the bill
after he's promised for her funeral, and instead he asks
or says, it doesn't cost sixty thousand dollars to pay
to bury an effing Mexican. And one, if you know
anything about Trump, he revers our US military members. He

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has gone above and beyond to make sure that he's
there when the cats gets come home. He's promised to
have no new wars. He doesn't want to send our
military overseas if they don't have to go, And just
having that in the back of my mind, it stuck
out to me. And so then I started doing some digging,
and about three days before this piece came out in
the Atlantic, Harris got some pretty terrible pulling when it

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comes to Hispanics. What I found was that in twenty twenty,
Joe Biden managed to grab about sixty six of the
sixty six percent of the Hispanic vote and US. And
when you look at how Harris is pulling right now,
she's anywhere between fifty two percent and fifty six percent,
and recent pox of Fox pulling shows her down even

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more in Trump actually leading among Hispanic voters. And so
when you look at that and you see how they
put the death of the soldier at the top, they
connected her to her Hispanic family, I start connecting the
dots and I think to myself, I think that the
Harris campaign is trying to enrage Hispanic voters, try and

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portray Trump as this racist bigot in order to siphon
away as many votes as they possibly can from this
coalition that has traditionally been very Democratic and is now
going to the Republican Party. And I think that that
worries them. In twenty twenty, Joe Biden won partially because
of a coalition between Hispanic voters, Black voters, and Asian voters.

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And so if the Republican Party is able to siphon
enough votes away from these Hispanic voters, then that puts
any type of you know, victory path for her and
clear jeopardy, especially if you take it in to consideration
that she's doing worse among blue collar workers than Joe
Biden ever did. She's doing worse among college educated white males.

(09:34):
It's almost every demographic she's doing worse than what Joe
Biden did in twenty twenty. And so with Trump closing
the gap, and I don't know if you saw, but
just yesterday, I believe it was the Wall Street Journal
poll that just came out showing Trump leading nationally by
three points, I'm thinking this is definitely scaring her. And
then another point to add to this is the fact

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that on Monday, Kamala Harris and now that her campaign
would be going to Houston, Texas. So Monday she announces
she's going to Houston, Texas for a campaign event, which
doesn't make any sense because there's not a chance she's
going to win Texas. And then the very next day
you have the Atlantic hit piece out claiming that Trump
paids Mexicans and refusing to you know, bury a Hispanic

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and then all you know and then now her campaign
is running on that narrative. She comes out, you know,
yesterday with Trump is Hitler speech and how he's a fascist.
And I think that this is all connected, and it
exposes the Democratic Party's greatest weakness, which is these coalitions
that they have traditionally had, and I think that Trump

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is actually gaining in them.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
And we're it also exposes their connection to the mainstream media.
We're talking with Mary Rook, the great opinion columnist for
The Daily Caller, who has a column up online now
explaining how the Donald Trump hit pieces this week exposed
that Kamala Harris has a major election problems up right
now online at Dailycoller dot com. I know you didn't

(11:04):
deal with it specifically, but let's talk about the New
York Times piece too. By the way, in the in
the Atlantic piece, we should also point out that Mark Meadows,
who he allegedly said it to, denies that ever happened,
and the family says he treated him with nothing but respect.
So it goes to you and her.

Speaker 9 (11:22):
Sister came out and voted for him. That's the part
of this is the day that the Atlantic throws their
hit piece up, she comes out and says, well, I
actually voted for Trump today.

Speaker 8 (11:32):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Heard that. Let's let's talk about the New York Times
piece for a second as well, where John Kelly, the
chief of staff who was fired by Donald Trump for
talking too much by the way, when he was chief
of staff. It basically ended his career. But he came
out and said that Donald Trump showed an appreciation for Hitler.

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He has an axe grind, doesn't he.

Speaker 9 (11:58):
Oh yeah, I think so too. And none of this
is like a new revelation for anyone, Like the Democrats
have been trying to push this Trump as a Hitler
loves Hitler, aligned with Hitler type narrative since twenty sixteen,
So this isn't anything new. And I think the reality
is is that generals like Kelly could have gone off,

(12:20):
let their legacy speak for themselves and enjoyed the pension,
enjoyed the funds they get from the military industrial complex,
and live a great life. But the problem with people
like that is a lot of times, when you are
able to get this much power, you start believing your
own hype and you start believing that you are the
smartest person in the room. There's been plenty of vector

(12:40):
talks where you hear Kelly talking about how he wanted
to pace Trump in his you know, in his time
as president, and he wanted to try and make sure
that Trump didn't achieve his main goals or achieve his
his electives. And I think that whenever you have someone
like that spilling to the press and coming out and
claiming that Trump loves you know once generals like Hitler

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and all of these different types of narratives, it just
makes you look very petty, and it tarnishes what could
have been a great legacy for him because now he'll
only ever be known as someone who complained about his
boss after he was fired.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, you're right, is this going to stop? I mean,
we're getting closer and closer to the election. These hit
pieces are going to get are going to increase, aren't they.

Speaker 9 (13:24):
I would assume that there will be a new hit
piece out on Donald Trump every single day into the election.
And then I believe that Trump has the momentum right
now to win, and so should he win this year
and make it into the White House, it's only going
to get worse because when you look at these connections
of people that own these publications like The Atlantic, Lauren
Pawell Jobs, who is the widow of Steve Jobs, actually

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owns The Atlantic through her Immersive Collection collective. And you know,
Lauren Pewell Jobs was actually seated or stood next to
then Senator Kamala Harris when she was sworn in to
the Senate as a you know, extended family member. And
then you wonder why the Atlantic run ran the piece
on Trump claiming that you know, he hates Hispanics and

(14:09):
so all of this stuff is very contrived and they're
going to keep trying to throw as much paint at
the wall as possible until it's six. I don't think
that it will. I think that America is at this
place right now where one they don't trust corporate media
the way they did even four years ago, but definitely
not the way they did ten years ago. And then second,
I think that every time someone goes to the grocery

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store and they pay nine dollars for good Eggs, they
pay you know, five dollars for a gallon of milk,
and then you go to fill up and it's four
dollars a gallon for gas, I think that that speaks
more to them on whether or not Trump is better
than the Biden Harris administration because it wasn't like that
under him, and so I think that that's where people

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are voting. You know, it's not just with Hispanic voters.
You're seeing a large swift and male black voters going
towards Trump. When you hear them go through interviews and
all this stuff, one of the things that they talk
about is illegal immigration. It has really hit minority communities
very hard and they are tired of it, and they
won that border close. And also the economy. They felt

(15:15):
like they were wealthier under Trump and they want that
feeling back.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Mary Rook opinion columnists for The Daily Caller, As always,
thank you so much for your time.

Speaker 9 (15:24):
Absolutely, thank you so much for having me, Larry, and
you can.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Read Mary's column at Dailycaller dot com. Still to come
on Saturday morning, the Conservative Caucus is a grassroots organization
that is heavily involved in this election. We'll talk with
Jim Path, president of the Caucus, about the election and
how you can help. And coming up, I'll have some
final thoughts on the media trying to influence the election

(15:50):
to try to help Kamala win.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Now, more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show and Larry Minty.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Welcome back. We're just ten days away from election day,
and my next guest has been intrinsically involved in the
election and getting Donald Trump elected. Jim Path is the
President of the Conservative Caucus. Jim, thanks so much for
taking the time to talk with us today, and thanks
so much for the Conservative Caucus and all you do

(16:19):
before we get into this election. Can you just take
a minute to tell us about the Conservative Caucus and
how you've been involved with this election.

Speaker 10 (16:28):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Well.

Speaker 10 (16:29):
Conservative Caucus is the nation's oldest conservative grassroots organization. It
was founded in nineteen seventy four by Howard Phillips. We've
been involved in some big grassroots efforts to affect legislation
to get people registered to vote for fifty years. In fact,
we just celebrated our fifty year anniversary two Sundays ago,

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and we're really focused this year on rebuilding, reforming our
grassroots organization, where we have a present in thirty nine
states and we are spending millions of dollars on Trump
independent expenditures in support obviously of a Donald Trump's campaign,

(17:12):
doing it in key battleground states through television, radio, doing
some direct voter contact and in a lot of direct
mail because we really believe this is an important election
and our contributors are very, very concerned about the outcome.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah. Absolutely, I've seen your work and it's impressive. At
Conservative Caucus dot org. If if people listening want to
visit there, they can see it as well. Now let's
get to the election, and Jim, it seems like it
seems like Donald Trump is picking up momentum at just
the right time, I.

Speaker 10 (17:47):
Think, so. I really believe that he has had a
fantastic October compared to Kamala Harris. Not everything is bad
for Kamala Harris, even though it really looks like it
to be candid. But at the beginning of the month
was doing some events in states and had some decent
attendance and seemingly a little bit of momentum building in

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excitement on her base. But you had this incident where
some folks came in to heckle one of our events.
They were crying out pro Christian message Jesus's Lord and
response to her being supportive of abortion, and she said,
you're in the wrong, You're in the wrong meeting, And

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that's been taken by people of faith to be a
pretty big rebuke against them. That didn't help anything. But
when you go even further that she was determined to
press this point that she worked at McDonald's when she
was young, and talking about a middle class background. And
by the way, when you really look at her history,

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it wasn't all that middle classy a background. She had
some very elite to teachers, college professors as parents. But nonetheless,
I mean, there's some middle class to that, I'll be
fair about it. But the reality is she couldn't prove
she did that. Donald Trump took that and absolutely hit
a home run by just showing up at a McDonald's

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restaurant asking if he could work there.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
And what.

Speaker 10 (19:22):
We're looking at the very end of this month with
that McDonald's thing, and now to really horrible interviews she
did in recent days, you find out that Donald Trump,
though he's a billionaire, connects really with everybody. He seemed
humble and having fun and humorous at that McDonald's. He's
got a lot of energy at his eventsity always does.

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I think it's been a horrible month for Harrison. Donald
Trump's builds up a really big scheme of momentum going
into the last two weeks of the election.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
We're talking with Jim Path, president of the Conservative Caucus. So, Jim,
early voting has already started across the country, several of
the battleground states. What's the turnout telling you so far?

Speaker 10 (20:05):
I'll say this it for Donald Trump. It looks incredibly encouraging.
You are seeing a larger Republican early vote turnout now
than that any time since early voting became a thing
here in the United States somewhere in the early part
of the twenty first century, about two thousand and two
or four. What's really interesting is Arizona numbers and Nevada

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numbers for Donald Trump are huge. There have never been
anywhere near this many Republicans pulling early ballots in a
presidential election. In percentage terms. Georgia is very, very very
high too. In fact, Georgia may be the biggest one.
But when you look at Pennsylvania and Michigan, in Wisconsin,

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you're noting that overall early voting is up and Republicans,
although Democrats, have pulled a majority of early voting ballots
in those states. Well, in Michigan Pennsylvania you see independence
and Republicans have incredibly much higher numbers, although less than
fifty percent, very high numbers in all three of those states.

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That also indicates something big happening. Of course, there's a
massive get out the vote effort led by Scott Pressler
and Cliff Maloney in Pennsylvania that I think frankly is
going to win the state for Trump at least that's
my current prediction. But that's going to be a key
factor because it is these on the ground efforts to

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get your actual voters out to the polls that really
wins an election day. It's not just the television commercials
you run and the radio commercials run, all of which
are important because voters want to know what's going on.
Even though they complain about the ads, they still want
to know. And so those things are very very important.
But that on the ground activity added to it is

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significant and it seems to be paying off for the
Trump campaign.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
All Right, tell we're about a week and a half away.
What can we expect from the two campaigns going.

Speaker 10 (21:59):
For Well, I would expect more, uh things like that,
like like Tamala Harris is doing from her side, Uh yes,
this week, I mean she she called Donald Trump hitler
that fell in its face. There was a as the
Clinton campaign, and James Carville used to call them a

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bimbo eruption with Donald Trump that most of your listeners
probably haven't heard about because it popped up on Wednesday
night and immediately went away, a claim that he was
fondling some woman or something like that, and it just
went nowhere. And then uh, you know, you've got her
uh say saying that that Donald Trump wants, uh you know,

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to have generals like Hitler, that whole claim another kind
of intelligence community snap foo to try to make Donald
Trump out to be something that I think most Americans
don't think. On Donald Trump's side, he has a consistent
flow of campaign events taking place in the next week
and a half. In fact, Kamala Harris does not seem

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to have much lined up until the election. That's going
to continue to Donald Trump's benefit. And then obviously these
early voting numbers were going to keep our eyes out on.
If they keep going the way that we've been seeing
them just this last week, that pretends something very very
interesting for Donald Trump and a potential big win. My

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personal prediction is that he's going to get somewhere between
three hundred and eleven and three hundred and fifteen electoral votes.
But there's a whole lot out there we don't know
about what's going to happen with the vote's coming, the
absentee ballots coming in from overseas. We don't know. We've
got a few states as well that are saying it's
going to take forever to count the vote. Arizona in

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particular said it might be ten to thirteen days outrageously.
So we got to watch some of those issues to
see what happens. But I think everything seems to be
in Donald Trump's favor and Kamala Harris doesn't seem to
be finding a stride Jim, before.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
We go, Can people get involved with Conservative Caucus? What
can they do?

Speaker 10 (24:05):
Yeah? Absolutely they should go. As you gave the website
out earlier, the Conservative Caucus dot org at the top
right there. Well, of course check out what's on the
front page there, but at the top right there, people
can sign up. They can get information to help them
figure out how to be involved in elections at their
local levels, certainly how to be involved in this election.

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We've got a statement up there of sixteen reasons why
people need to vote for Donald Trump. They can look
at that. They'll give them things to tell their friends
and neighbors. But in the long run, we're going to
be working very hard to see that Donald Trump gets elected.
But after that we're going to be looking towards twenty
twenty six because win or loseer Trump or Harris, there's
a lot coming ahead, and we want to give people

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the best resources possible for them to learn how to
be effective in their local community and in their state.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Jim Path, President of the Conservative Caucus, Thanks so much
for your time.

Speaker 10 (24:59):
Jim, appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
My final thoughts are next here again is Larry Menty
with the wr Saturday Morning Show and now some final thoughts.
We are in the home stretch of the election and
polls show the election is slipping away from Kamala Harris.
Trump definitely has the momentum in the polls, to the

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point where many political analysts are already predicting victory.

Speaker 11 (25:28):
Donald Trump is in the driver's seat. It is his
race to lose. Kamala Harris is far behind, and with
just ten days ago until the election, it really doesn't
seem like she has enough time to catch up.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
There's no question that the momentum is with Trump right now.
It is one of the reasons that Kamala Harris suddenly
has been doing so many interviews. This week, she did
a town hall with CNN, and just like every other interview,
it didn't go well. Even Democratic campaign strategist David Axelrod

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got frustrated.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
When she doesn't want to answer a question. Her habit
is to kind of go to world word salad city,
and she did that on a couple of answers. One
was on Israel and just asked a direct question, would
you be stronger on Israel than Trump? And there was
a seven minute answer, but none of it related to
the question he was asking.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
In the entire media blitz with safe space media, like
the view in Colbert, she was bad, I mean really bad.
So the Democrats change strategy. Since they can't count on
Kamala's limited campaign skills, it's time to take out Trump
with media hit pieces.

Speaker 12 (26:47):
Shouldn't be authoritarian admires people who are dictators. If he
has said that, so, he certainly falls into the general
definition of fascist for sure.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
That's President Trump's former Secretary of State John Kelly, who
Trump fired because he couldn't be trusted. He certainly proved
that Trump was right I should point out that Kelly
is now a lobbyist for defense contractors, and since Trump
wants to end the war in Ukraine, another Trump presidency

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would be bad for business. But that was just hit
piece number one. Up next The Atlantic that claimed Trump
refused to pay the funeral cost for Vanessa Guyan, who
was murdered at Fort Hood. He refused after he found
out it would cost sixty thousand dollars. MSNBC ran with

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the story.

Speaker 7 (27:46):
Trump became angry and shouted, quote, it doesn't cost sixty
thousand bucks to bury an effing Mexican. He turned to
his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order,
don't pay.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Its horrible Only Mark Meadows, who was there, says it
never happened, and the family told The Atlantic that Trump
was wonderful, But the Atlantic printed the hit piece. Anyway.

Speaker 8 (28:13):
It was just a lie from the very beginning, and
it was very upsetting.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
That's Vanessa's sister Myra. This is going to continue until
election day. The Democrats and their minions in the media
are desperate. Ask political reporter Mark Halprin, who says Democrats
are pushing for him to run a story that he
says would end Trump's campaign for the presidency.

Speaker 12 (28:40):
If it were true, people who have a desire to
affect the race with an October surprise through some packaged
opposition research are putting stuff at the.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Thing that came to me.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
I don't think it's true.

Speaker 11 (28:52):
Pretty sure it's not, but I'm certainly not going to
put it out there unvetted.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
So Buckley in the race is about to get ugly.
They have tried many ways to destroy Trump, impeachment, criminal cases,
assassination attempts, and the media has once again joined the
ugly mob with smears and hit pieces. And the only
thing that has been consistent in almost a decade now,

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a decade long assault on his freedom, his reputation, and
his life, is that Trump always wins in the end.
That wraps up Saturday Morning for this week. As always,
thanks for listening, and as always thanks to producer Peter
Iorlano for putting the show together. I'll be back Monday
morning with Len Berman and Michael Rito in the morning

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from six to ten. Have a great rest of your weekend.
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