March 6, 2023 • 34 mins
President Donald Trump is here to talk about his run for President in 2024. 45 gives us his take on the state of the nation from Zelensky to Xi and everything in between.
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All right, our two Sean Hannity Show toll free. It's
eight hundred and nine for one Sean. You want to
be a part of the program. Uh. Spack took place
this weekend in the Straw Pole. Donald Trump came away,
far and away the winner with sixty two percent of
the vote. The next closest candidate was Ronda Santis I
think at twenty percent, and then it goes downhill from
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there for everybody else. Uh. The President was extraordinarily passionate
about everything that he was saying, and what what what,
what is on the line this election that is coming up,
this presidential election. Uh. He pledged not to ever retreat.
He pledged that as president. Uh, he's never going to
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be intimidated. He's never gonna be bought off, He's never
gonna be blackmailed, He's never gonna be ripped his shreds.
He said that while he faces relentless attacks, he's not
the target. The real target are you, the American people
that he's standing up for. He talked about our enemies
are desperate to stop us because they know that if
we are the only ones that can stop them, and
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they know that we can defeat them, they know that
we will defeat them, but they're not going to be
coming after me. They're coming after you. And then he
went through a long litany about the stated of the
World War and peace and open borders and law and
order and homelessness and radical climate alarmist cultism, championing parental rights,
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promoting patriotic education, talking about protecting women's sports, protecting our kids,
protecting America First and free and fair trade, getting out
of globalism, and organizations like the WHO and the Paris Accords, etc.
Here's part of the speech. And I will implement a
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four year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of
essential goods and gain total independence from China. We have
to do it, We have to do I will hold
China financially accountable for unleashing the China virus upon the world.
And I will again withdraw from the WHL, which stands
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for we hide outbreaks, we hide our In twenty sixteen,
I declared I am your voice. Today I add I
am your warrior, I am your justice. And for those
who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
I am your retribution. I'm not gonna let this offer.
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I'm not gonna let it happen. I will totally obliterate
the deep state. I will fire, I will fire the
unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice
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system like it has never been and weaponized before. Sick.
These are sick people. I will put the people back
in charge of this country again. The people will be
back in charge of our country. And instead of spending
hundreds of billions of dollars to defend the borders of
distant foreign countries, under my leadership, we will defend our borders. First.
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Three years ago, we had the safest border in the
history of our country, and I will quickly do that again.
All right, joining us now, the forty fifth President of
the United States, Donald J. Trump is back with us. Sir,
How are you hi? John? Let me throw out a
general question, and then you can take it anywhere you
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want to take it. And this is how I see
the world right now, in two short years since you've
been out of office a little over two years. Now,
we see the territorial ambitions of both Russia on China
and China on full display. We're being told that Iran
may or ready be or is very close to becoming
a nuclear power. We had in two years over five
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plus million people under this country illegally aided and embedded
by Joe Biden not enforcing our laws. We went from
energy independence and being a net exporter of energy now
now I know we're importing three million barrels of oil
a day from Venezuela, and we are now energy dependent
like never before. I'm looking at everything from the economy.
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Two thirds of Americans now are living paycheck to paycheck.
You have more people now cashing in their four or
one ks their retirement's plans because the average American householder
is paying ten grand and Biden inflation tax. And it
all has gone to hell with record speed. I never
thought it would get this bad this fast. Well, Sean,
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it's a question. I could talk to you about it
all day. To be honest with you, I could tell
you what they're doing, what went wrong, how foolish it is.
With the safest border in history, now we have the
worst border in history. I think that includes other nations,
because no nations ever had a border like us. It's ridiculous.
And you know the number of five million, I think
it's going to be fifteen million by the end of
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this year, fifteen million people come in from prisons, from
insane asylums, from mental institutions. These are the people. We
have a lot of these people coming in, and the
jails are being emptied all over the world, not just
the three or four countries that I mentioned all the time,
but all over the world they're being emptied. That dumping
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people were like a dumping ground, that dumping people into
our country. This was nothing like this was happening. We
had the best We had the most secure border we've
ever had, and I built hundreds of miles of wall.
I was going to build more in areas that we
actually needed it, that people didn't assume we needed so much.
But you know, when you put it in one area,
they go to another, sort of like water. But it
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was We did a great job. Stay in Mexico, Remain
in Mexico was incredible. How it worked. Remain in Mexico
was just unbelievable. You think that was easy to get
a deal with Mexico, but they did it by saying, look,
if you don't do it, we're gonna put tariffs in
all your cars and everything you sell into the United States.
They said, sir, we would be honored to do it.
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We'd be honored to allow millions of people to stay
in Mexico. They were pouring into our country. We had
it done so well, including our medical reasons to staying out.
You know about that, and you reported earn it better
than anybody. So all of this happened, and then you know,
you look at what's going on with Ukraine. That would
have never happened. Inflation would have never happened. Let me
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ask you about Ukraine. You've said that before. Why would
it not have happened if you were president? Are you
talking about which one with Ukraine? Yeah? Yeah, because putting
understood that you can't do it. You can't do it,
don't forget. Under Bush, they take over Georgia. Under Obama,
they took over Crema, and under Biden to take it
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over everything. It looks like they're going to take over everything,
the whole thing. They're gonna go for the whole Enchilada,
they go for everything. That's what it looks like to me.
You know, that's not what you hear on the fake news,
but that's what it looks like to me. And under Trump,
you know what they took over. They took over nothing.
Russia first time, first president, at a long time they
took he understood he would have never done it. He
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would have never that's without even negotiating a deal. I
could have negotiated. At worst, I could have made a
deal to take over something. You know, there are certain
areas that are Russian speaking areas, frankly, but you could
have worked a deal. And now Ukraine is just being
blown to smitherines and people are dying. And these cities
that were so beautiful, old cities, the ancient cities, they're
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just being absolutely wiped off the face of the earth.
But so many people are dying, So many more people
are dying than has reported. And that's something would have
never happened in China. Could be next, you know, because
China no longer respects the United said, but they don't
respect us. And they're talking about Taiwan. They're looking at
what we do. They're looking at all of the stupidity.
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I'll tell you a terrible thing was what happened in
Afghanistan with the Taliban. What happened in Afghanistan, and that
the fact that we left early, we actually left early,
was supposed to leave late, We left early. The fact
that that happened. Sehan was so bad. I think that's
what gave putin the extra little boosts to go in
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and do it. But he would have never done it
with us. He wouldn't have done it for another reason too.
One number one, he wouldn't have done it. But he
also wouldn't have done it because I would have had
oiled down to forty dollars a bottle, and it was
actually up to one hundred and fifteen for a period
of time. We made a lot of money on it.
It haught to believe, right with all the war, but
they made a lot of money because that one hundred
and fifteen. That nation was really really rich and is
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now because it's still very high, and it wouldn't have
been at that kind of a level, So it wouldn't
have happened there. We were energy into pend you know
that better than anybody. We were energy independence, soon to
be energy dominant. We were going to be so dominant
that we would have started paying off our debt. We
would have been reducing taxes still further. I gave the
largest tax cuts in the history. I gave the largest
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the largest cuts think of as largest tax cuts and
largest regulation cuts in history. No president came close. And
that's why we created an engine the likes of which
nobody has ever seen until COVID. And then I did
it again. I rebuilt it and handed over a higher
stock market. Think of it, handed over a higher stock
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market than they had just prior to COVID coming in,
and just we did an amazing job. We rebuilt the military.
We came up with right to try, things like right
to try where people were going all over the world
if they had enough money to do so, trying to
find a cure for a terminal disease. We wouldn't allow
anyone to get near it. And I made it so
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that if somebody is very ill and give a lot
of our medicines prior to approval, and they're working thousands
and thousands of lives of being saved. It's amazing actually. So,
I mean, we did things that nobody ever even thought
of doing. But we were going to be energy dominant.
We would have been literally we were already bigger than
Saudi Arabia, and we were bigger than Russia. We would
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have been bigger substantially than both of them combined. In
a very short period of time, I got annwar approved
Ronald Reagan tried. He couldn't do it. Nobody could do it.
I got annwar was all approved practically in their first
week of office in office. They ended anwar that's the largest,
probably the largest oil site in the world, similar to
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Saudi Arabia. Could some people say it could be bigger.
They've been trying for it for decades. They couldn't get
it approved. I got it fully improved, fully approved, and
so we did a great job. And then I see
what's happening now to our country. Our country's laughing stock.
But a lot of bad things happened in Aghanistan in
terms of enthusiasm, in terms of respect. I don't think
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there's ever been a time in our country's history where
we were mocked like that. That was one of the
worst worst moments in time in our country's history. And
I think that emboldens a lot of other places when
you see that. One of the things I was able
to do. You knew this, you reported in it better
than anybody, frankly, is I was able to get the
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NATO nations to pay up. They weren't paying. They would delinquent,
they weren't paying, they were paying, they weren't paying their
fair share. And you also, by the way, were successful
in getting out of the Paris Climate Accords that recognized
both China and India is developing nations that we paid
the bulk of money in that deal, and the WHO,
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same thing there, same and the WA, the w EF.
I want out of all these globalist organizations myself. Yeah,
well generally they're no good. But the World's Health arguments Z.
We were paying almost five hundred million dollars a year.
China was paying thirty nine million. We have three hundred
and fifty million people. China has one point four billion people.
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They're paying thirty nine millionaire, we're paying almost five hundred million.
So I got out, not for that reason. I got
out because of how badly they handled a pandemic. I mean,
they didn't know what was happening. So I got out,
and they wanted to get They wanted me back in,
meaning this country back in so badly that I could
have gotten it for thirty nine million probably less, should
be less excellent, but I could have had that easily done.
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But I said no, maybe we'll talk about it at
a later date. No, no, no, And then they just
went in. They're paying the full almost five hundred million. Enough.
There's no reason too. They were willing to give us
a tremendous you know, you're talking about four hundred, four
hundred and fifty million dollars a year. When you talk trillions,
it doesn't sound like much, but I mean this is
for the sake of one sentence on a phone call.
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Give us the same Dad you would have given Trump.
So I was at thirty nine million, same as China,
and I could have gotten it, if you think about it, John,
I could have gotten it for last, I believe because again,
we have a you know, it's a smaller in terms
of people, it's a smaller country. So pretty amazing when
you see this stuff happened. They just signed a deal
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with the World Health Organization, and I guess they're paying
the original price, which is just so did they sign
that deal because if there was a future pandemic that
would result in us in the middle of the pandemic
before taking care of every American promising that we'd give
the World Health Organization twenty percent of everything that we
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had regarding you know, if we had a vaccine, if
we had any type of therapeutics, if we had any
type of testing we'd hand over supplies that I'm sure
at the time would be desperately needed by Americans. First, well,
the deal they're talking about is that it literally would
mean that they would handle the pandemic in the United States.
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And you so how they handled it generally, they didn't
really know what they were talking about. Wasn't doing it.
That's the real reason I get out, not just the
money it was. It was the fact that they gave
verd bit advice to the world. They didn't they didn't
know or they knew or they were giving it. The
China line inter China dominate the World Help Organization. So
for thirty nine million, they dominate. For five hundred million,
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we don't dominate. Do you explain that one? But no,
they want to take over the whole thing, and we
will be totally subject to whatever they want. Who negotiates
these deals? Where are the people that who are the
people that negotiate deals like this? I mean I could
say the same thing with NAFTA. I got rid of
NAFTA and we did the USMCA and you know, Mexico, Canada,
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and it's a great deal. We went from a horrible
deal to a great deal. Everyone said there's no way
I'd be able to get rid of NAPTA because if
you know, you have to go through the legislature. I
got it through, we got it through the Senate, we
got it through Congress, we got it through everything. And
it's such a good deal that Mexico and Canada now
trying to renegotiate the deal, and I suggest we don't
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do that because we lived with NAFTA for years. It
was so bad. It was the worst trade deal probably
that was one of the worst. Quick break will come
back more with the forty fifth President of the United States,
now officially a candidate running for president for twenty twenty four.
He gave this big speech at Seapack over the weekend.
We'll have more with President Trump on the other side.
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continue with the forty fifth President of the United States,
now officially a candidate for president for twenty twenty four.
If you really think about it, one year from now,
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I believe we'll be past the Iowa caucuses and the
New Hampshire primary and the South Carolina primary and probably
headed right into Super Tuesday and all those states that
are available. Winner take all, I believe is the system.
Mister President, thanks for sticking around with us. Let me
stay a little bit on foreign policy for a second,
and then I want to talk more about the economy,
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because Americans economically are suffering so badly right now. It
should break everybody's heart because I would argue that all
of this is preventable, all of it is unnecessary. I
mentioned Russia. We see their territorial ambitions on display. You
knew that as president You knew that Vladimir Putin wanted
to go back into Ukraine. He wanted more than Crimea.
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You knew the president she also similarly had territorial ambitions
for Taiwan. We see what's now going on with the
Communist Chinese, and that is they've been flying their fighter
jets over Taiwan airspace. They've been threatening the United States
to stay out of Taiwan, even though they're an ally
of ours. They're getting more hostile seemingly by the day.
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And there seems to be a new access of evil
and that is an alliance between China, Russia, Iran and
North Korea. How do you see it? Are they going
to go for Taiwan? Oh? We always said keep China
and keep Russia away. Now we have China, Russia, North Korea,
we have probably plenty of more. We have Iran all
teaming up now and before their natural enemies, it should
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be a natural enemy deal. But under this group they've
all gotten together. Nobody thought it was even possible. Nobody
thought it was absolutely even possible. And you know, it's
very sad when you look at what's going on, the
world has never been in more danger. In my opinion,
because of the clear weapons. But it is right now.
I had a Ran to a point where they would
have made a deal within one week after the election,
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they would have made a deal, and it would have
been a good deal. It would have been wonderful. They
wouldn't have had nuclear weapons, et cetera, et cetera. Now
I read in the papers. Now so much of it
is stake. But I read in the papers that they're
about seven days away from having a nuclear weapon a Ran.
I'm reading the same papers that you're reading. It's scary, yep.
That's going to be a tough group to negotiate with. Short.
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Let me tell you, I know from personal experience when
they have that, that we're allowing it to happen is
even crazier that we're allowing this to happen. We just
can't allow it to happen. But they were not going
to have nuclear weapons, and they would have been very
I stopped China. China wasn't buying oil from them. They
were at a point where they had to make a deal,
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and they wanted to make a deal. And now they're
getting rich. China is buying massive amounts, record setting amounts
of oil from them. Everybody is. The whole thing is
so sad. It was literally under doorstep of having that
done and properly because there was the worst deal. What
another horrible deal that was made so stupid. Let me
ask specifically on China. Do you believe in the next
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two years that China they call it reunification with Taiwan,
I would call it an invasion. Do you believe that
China will take over Taiwan? And if they do, what
do you think the reaction of Joe Biden would be
And what would your reaction be? Well, I think Joe
Biden is compromised. He did deals with China or they
paid a lot of money to the family, and I
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think he's compromised, I really do because his stance on China,
like with the blimp or the balloon flying off and
then they shoot it down after it does all of
us work. I mean, you know, the whole thing is crazy.
But but there's so many things, by the way, I
gotta start. In my entire lifetime, I don't think there's
been a more humiliating moment than allowing a Chinese spy
balloon to fly over Alaska air space down the west
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coast of Canada into Idaho, over in Montana, where our
ICBM missile sites are, than to Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, then
off the coast of the Carolinas. I can't believe it.
I think more humiliating, though, in terms of total humiliation,
was Afghanistan the way we left, the way we left,
not that we left. I had it down to two thousand,
five hundred soldiers. We were going to keep Bogram, you
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know that. We talked about it a long time ago
because not for Afghanistan, but it's one hour away from
where China makes its nuclear weapons, and we're going to
keep Bogram. We gave up Bogram, one of the one
of the biggest greatest military bases, air force bases in
the world, land the largest planes, yet the runways are
the biggest and the strongest. They can hold anything. But
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that would have given us a positioning place against our
number one geopolitical foe, and that is President Shew. You
met President She, You met Kim Jong un, You you
met Vladimir Putin? What were these people like? They're at
the top of their game. They are smart, cunning, they
want to do what's right for their country. They want
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to do they want to win. They want to win,
and they cannot right now believe what they're getting away with,
all of them. They can't believe what they're getting away with.
So I had Kim Jong un. You know, I got
along with them great. Nobody else got along with them.
They couldn't even deal with them. They couldn't make it.
They couldn't even meet, and they wanted to meet. They tried,
they couldn't meet with him. I got along with them
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very well. We had no problem, and we would have
had to deal with them too, by the way. We
would have absolutely had to deal with them. And now
he's going around making missiles all over the place, and
he's back, he's back to firing him a little rocketman's back.
He's firing them all over and you know, you look
at Iran. Iran wasn't doing anything with me. They were not.
There's no way they would have been doing And now
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they can't go fast enough. You know when you hear
these reports going on, they cannot go fast enough. It's
a very very dangerous president. I think that President She
of China. You never heard anything about Taiwan when I
was president. They weren't. And I told him, you can't
do that. I can't tell my exact conversation because some
people would be upset. They'd be upset if I told it,
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to be honest, but it was a very tough conversation.
He knew he wasn't going to do it. And when
this group came in, they immediately started flying bombers over Taiwan.
You know, twenty eight bombers over two days after I
was gone, they were flying over taking pictures of Taiwan.
I'm sure that made the Taiwanese feel very good, having
twenty eight bombers, Chinese bombers fly over the top. But no,
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and now you look at it, it's you have warships
all over the place. You have warships surrounding it. And
they made their intentions. No, you didn't hear that when
I was president, and he wouldn't have done that. I
got along with him really great. He liked them, and
like me, they'll criticize me for saying I liked them,
but I got along with him Gray and I got
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along with Putin. And that's a good thing, not a
bad thing. By the way, these are good things, not
bad things. I got along with You do you think
you got along with them? In part because they feared you. Well,
they knew there was going to be big retribution if
they did certain things, and therefore they wouldn't have done it.
I never had any doubt. For instance, I talked to
Putin about Ukraine a lot, but eventually we didn't talk
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at all. There was no way he was going to
do anything. He understood that, and we just, you know,
we just that's the way it was. There was no
chance of it happening. There was no chance for inflation.
Inflation was caused by oil prices, by energy prices. And
let me let me transition into the economy, because I
think this is just killing the average American or you're
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referred to them in twenty fifteen and sixteen as the
forgotten men and women in this country, but we now
have two thirds of the American people living paycheck to paycheck.
I've been there at points in my life, about a
decade of life. I didn't particularly like it. I'll be honest.
You have now Americans putting just for bare necessities. They're
using their credit card or they're tapping into their retirement accounts,
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and they're taking huge losses doing it. There was a
mile long line this weekend in Kentucky for a food
pantry in my local town, upper middle class. You see
people online every Saturday at the food pantry. And these
are people. They may still have their homes and they
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may even be driving a nice card. They're not They're
not taking advantage of the system. They didn't expect or
anticipate the average ten thousand dollars Biden inflation tax because
of his economic and energy policies. It's killing the American
you know, taxpayers, they're killing you know. He just raised
taxes on oil, gas, coal, on pensions, and on corporations,
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and corporations past that tax onto we the people, the consumer. Well,
the first thing he did was killed the Keystone pipeline,
which I had approved and they were starting work on it.
And all those workers, all those great workers, the pipeline
workers they all had. They really took it hard because
they had their whole lives set, you know, set back. Well,
he did give an approval for the Nordstream to pipeline.
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He gave that, and I took that away. So I
took Nobody ever heard of Nordstream too, maybe not even
you until I became president. I said, they're building a
pipeline that goes all throughout Europe and takes share of Germany,
and that is a really bad thing. And in fact,
I gave Angela Merko the white flag of surrender. I say,
as soon as you have your next war with them,
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and you know, if you look at history, they've had
the wars with Russia, you know that very well. But
as soon as you have your next war, here's a flag.
You can use that to surrender, because what you're doing
is you're putting your country in the hands of Russia
and whether or not they want to sell you energy.
I predicted that eighty percent of their energy was going
to come out of that pipeline, the out of Russia.
I said, you have to be crazy to be doing this. Now,
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you remember at the United Nations when the Russian delegate
should thought it was sort of amusing when I was
saying this, that what a terrible mistake it is. Now
they've very much apologized and everybody knows. I call that
one right too. I called a lot of things right,
maybe everything right. But yeah, let me ask you this.
You left this country energy independent. We were a net
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exporter of energy. Lately you've been using the term energy dominance.
I take that to mean we as a country have
been so blessed with natural resources gas, oil, coal, etc.
The ability to extract it with new technologies is phenomenal.
Would we be able to provide all of our Western
European allies all of their energy needs? And wouldn't that
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go a long way to creating I paying American jobs
while simultaneously making America rich as hell and hopefully even
eliminating all debt. Well that's what I was going to do,
and that's where we were headed, and we were going
to be dominant. We have more than anybody else. We
have more I called liquid gold under our feet than
anybody else. Texas is massive, Oklahoma, all these incredible places.
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We have more than anybody. And then I got anwar approved,
which nobody could have done. Nobody could have done. Reagan
couldn't have done. Reagan tried so hard he couldn't do it.
Nobody could do it. I got anwar probably bigger than
Saudi Arabia and war in Alaska. I got that done
by the way. They terminated it the first week that
he was in office. They terminated that took not easy
to do it. I got it all approved Reagan couldn't
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do it. Bush couldn't do it. Nobody could do it.
I got it done. Would have been like having Saudi
Arabia in Alaska in terms of energy, in terms of jobs,
in terms of money. We would have made so much money.
We were bigger than Saudi Arabia individually and Russia as
I left, we would have been double and triple their
size within a short period of time, literally a short
period of time. We would have been paying more for
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our debt. We would have had money, We would have
been reducing taxes. It was going to be a gold
mine and it was going to be helpful. We would
have supplied Europe with oil instead of Russia supplying one thing.
You would have been good for national security. Quick break
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we continue now with former President Trump, also officially a
candidate for twenty twenty four, is with us. I agree
with you. I think election day should be a national holiday.
I think we should have paper ballots. I think we
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should have partisan observers watch the voting in every presect
and in the country. When the polls closed, partisan observers
watch all the vote counting. You know you announced the winner.
Everybody goes home. We know who won the night of
the election. That's what I prefer. But that's not the
system we have. And the only way you're going to
get that system is to win elections. I've heard you
now for the first time, tell Republicans. There's been this reluctance,
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resistance to voting early mail in voting. And I think
these Democrats that hide in their basements like Joe did
in twenty twenty and Fetterman did and Katie Hobbs did
most of these states. Is only one state that mandates
you hand in your own ballot, that's Alabama. And most
of these states have legal ballot harvesting laws. Republicans have
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not matched Democratic efforts. Should they follow the law and
match it and make even make their system more superior.
So Republicans always liked voting on election day, but of
course election day doesn't exist anymore. Now we have election
periods where you have two months sometimes and it's very dangerous,
very bad. We should go to single day, you know,
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voting like we should have never gone away from it,
frankly because our elections have problems, like nobody could even believe.
But Republicans have always wanted to vote an election day,
and that's a good thing. The problem is bad things happen.
You look at what happened in Arizona with Garry Lake,
but you also look at the accumulation of ballots that
these opponents that the Democrats do. They get they have
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an accumulation of ballots that are really massive, and a
lot of things going to happen. Bad things can happen
if you wait till election day. So I think what
we're going to have to do. Ultimately we want to
go same day voting, voter ID all of the things
we talk about, paper ballots who have great election secure elections.
But until we get there and we have to get there.
You have to win to get there. Until we get there,
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we want to accumulate ballots at an early level, at
the earliest possible level, and do it that way. And
I think we're going to have to go that way,
and the Republican Party needs to build that system. Them
out yesterday. They can't wait till twenty twenty four. Of
my view, we could talk all day. I have a
million more questions I've prepared for you that I have
not gotten to. But we'll have you on again soon.
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We really appreciate your time. You've been very generous with it.
Former President Donald J. Trump with us now officially at
candidate for twenty twenty four. Sir, thanks for being with us.
We appreciate all your time. Thank you very much, John,
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be a part of the program. Uh. Spack took place
this weekend in the Straw Pole. Donald Trump came away,
far and away the winner with sixty two percent of
the vote. The next closest candidate was Ronda Santis I
think at twenty percent, and then it goes downhill from
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there for everybody else. Uh. The President was extraordinarily passionate
about everything that he was saying, and what what what,
what is on the line this election that is coming up,
this presidential election. Uh. He pledged not to ever retreat.
He pledged that as president. Uh, he's never going to
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be intimidated. He's never gonna be bought off, He's never
gonna be blackmailed, He's never gonna be ripped his shreds.
He said that while he faces relentless attacks, he's not
the target. The real target are you, the American people
that he's standing up for. He talked about our enemies
are desperate to stop us because they know that if
we are the only ones that can stop them, and
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they know that we can defeat them, they know that
we will defeat them, but they're not going to be
coming after me. They're coming after you. And then he
went through a long litany about the stated of the
World War and peace and open borders and law and
order and homelessness and radical climate alarmist cultism, championing parental rights,
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promoting patriotic education, talking about protecting women's sports, protecting our kids,
protecting America First and free and fair trade, getting out
of globalism, and organizations like the WHO and the Paris Accords, etc.
Here's part of the speech. And I will implement a
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four year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of
essential goods and gain total independence from China. We have
to do it, We have to do I will hold
China financially accountable for unleashing the China virus upon the world.
And I will again withdraw from the WHL, which stands
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for we hide outbreaks, we hide our In twenty sixteen,
I declared I am your voice. Today I add I
am your warrior, I am your justice. And for those
who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
I am your retribution. I'm not gonna let this offer.
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I'm not gonna let it happen. I will totally obliterate
the deep state. I will fire, I will fire the
unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice
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system like it has never been and weaponized before. Sick.
These are sick people. I will put the people back
in charge of this country again. The people will be
back in charge of our country. And instead of spending
hundreds of billions of dollars to defend the borders of
distant foreign countries, under my leadership, we will defend our borders. First.
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Three years ago, we had the safest border in the
history of our country, and I will quickly do that again.
All right, joining us now, the forty fifth President of
the United States, Donald J. Trump is back with us. Sir,
How are you hi? John? Let me throw out a
general question, and then you can take it anywhere you
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want to take it. And this is how I see
the world right now, in two short years since you've
been out of office a little over two years. Now,
we see the territorial ambitions of both Russia on China
and China on full display. We're being told that Iran
may or ready be or is very close to becoming
a nuclear power. We had in two years over five
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plus million people under this country illegally aided and embedded
by Joe Biden not enforcing our laws. We went from
energy independence and being a net exporter of energy now
now I know we're importing three million barrels of oil
a day from Venezuela, and we are now energy dependent
like never before. I'm looking at everything from the economy.
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Two thirds of Americans now are living paycheck to paycheck.
You have more people now cashing in their four or
one ks their retirement's plans because the average American householder
is paying ten grand and Biden inflation tax. And it
all has gone to hell with record speed. I never
thought it would get this bad this fast. Well, Sean,
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it's a question. I could talk to you about it
all day. To be honest with you, I could tell
you what they're doing, what went wrong, how foolish it is.
With the safest border in history, now we have the
worst border in history. I think that includes other nations,
because no nations ever had a border like us. It's ridiculous.
And you know the number of five million, I think
it's going to be fifteen million by the end of
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this year, fifteen million people come in from prisons, from
insane asylums, from mental institutions. These are the people. We
have a lot of these people coming in, and the
jails are being emptied all over the world, not just
the three or four countries that I mentioned all the time,
but all over the world they're being emptied. That dumping
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people were like a dumping ground, that dumping people into
our country. This was nothing like this was happening. We
had the best We had the most secure border we've
ever had, and I built hundreds of miles of wall.
I was going to build more in areas that we
actually needed it, that people didn't assume we needed so much.
But you know, when you put it in one area,
they go to another, sort of like water. But it
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was We did a great job. Stay in Mexico, Remain
in Mexico was incredible. How it worked. Remain in Mexico
was just unbelievable. You think that was easy to get
a deal with Mexico, but they did it by saying, look,
if you don't do it, we're gonna put tariffs in
all your cars and everything you sell into the United States.
They said, sir, we would be honored to do it.
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We'd be honored to allow millions of people to stay
in Mexico. They were pouring into our country. We had
it done so well, including our medical reasons to staying out.
You know about that, and you reported earn it better
than anybody. So all of this happened, and then you know,
you look at what's going on with Ukraine. That would
have never happened. Inflation would have never happened. Let me
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ask you about Ukraine. You've said that before. Why would
it not have happened if you were president? Are you
talking about which one with Ukraine? Yeah? Yeah, because putting
understood that you can't do it. You can't do it,
don't forget. Under Bush, they take over Georgia. Under Obama,
they took over Crema, and under Biden to take it
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over everything. It looks like they're going to take over everything,
the whole thing. They're gonna go for the whole Enchilada,
they go for everything. That's what it looks like to me.
You know, that's not what you hear on the fake news,
but that's what it looks like to me. And under Trump,
you know what they took over. They took over nothing.
Russia first time, first president, at a long time they
took he understood he would have never done it. He
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would have never that's without even negotiating a deal. I
could have negotiated. At worst, I could have made a
deal to take over something. You know, there are certain
areas that are Russian speaking areas, frankly, but you could
have worked a deal. And now Ukraine is just being
blown to smitherines and people are dying. And these cities
that were so beautiful, old cities, the ancient cities, they're
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just being absolutely wiped off the face of the earth.
But so many people are dying, So many more people
are dying than has reported. And that's something would have
never happened in China. Could be next, you know, because
China no longer respects the United said, but they don't
respect us. And they're talking about Taiwan. They're looking at
what we do. They're looking at all of the stupidity.
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I'll tell you a terrible thing was what happened in
Afghanistan with the Taliban. What happened in Afghanistan, and that
the fact that we left early, we actually left early,
was supposed to leave late, We left early. The fact
that that happened. Sehan was so bad. I think that's
what gave putin the extra little boosts to go in
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and do it. But he would have never done it
with us. He wouldn't have done it for another reason too.
One number one, he wouldn't have done it. But he
also wouldn't have done it because I would have had
oiled down to forty dollars a bottle, and it was
actually up to one hundred and fifteen for a period
of time. We made a lot of money on it.
It haught to believe, right with all the war, but
they made a lot of money because that one hundred
and fifteen. That nation was really really rich and is
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now because it's still very high, and it wouldn't have
been at that kind of a level, So it wouldn't
have happened there. We were energy into pend you know
that better than anybody. We were energy independence, soon to
be energy dominant. We were going to be so dominant
that we would have started paying off our debt. We
would have been reducing taxes still further. I gave the
largest tax cuts in the history. I gave the largest
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the largest cuts think of as largest tax cuts and
largest regulation cuts in history. No president came close. And
that's why we created an engine the likes of which
nobody has ever seen until COVID. And then I did
it again. I rebuilt it and handed over a higher
stock market. Think of it, handed over a higher stock
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market than they had just prior to COVID coming in,
and just we did an amazing job. We rebuilt the military.
We came up with right to try, things like right
to try where people were going all over the world
if they had enough money to do so, trying to
find a cure for a terminal disease. We wouldn't allow
anyone to get near it. And I made it so
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that if somebody is very ill and give a lot
of our medicines prior to approval, and they're working thousands
and thousands of lives of being saved. It's amazing actually. So,
I mean, we did things that nobody ever even thought
of doing. But we were going to be energy dominant.
We would have been literally we were already bigger than
Saudi Arabia, and we were bigger than Russia. We would
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have been bigger substantially than both of them combined. In
a very short period of time, I got annwar approved
Ronald Reagan tried. He couldn't do it. Nobody could do it.
I got annwar was all approved practically in their first
week of office in office. They ended anwar that's the largest,
probably the largest oil site in the world, similar to
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Saudi Arabia. Could some people say it could be bigger.
They've been trying for it for decades. They couldn't get
it approved. I got it fully improved, fully approved, and
so we did a great job. And then I see
what's happening now to our country. Our country's laughing stock.
But a lot of bad things happened in Aghanistan in
terms of enthusiasm, in terms of respect. I don't think
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there's ever been a time in our country's history where
we were mocked like that. That was one of the
worst worst moments in time in our country's history. And
I think that emboldens a lot of other places when
you see that. One of the things I was able
to do. You knew this, you reported in it better
than anybody, frankly, is I was able to get the
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NATO nations to pay up. They weren't paying. They would delinquent,
they weren't paying, they were paying, they weren't paying their
fair share. And you also, by the way, were successful
in getting out of the Paris Climate Accords that recognized
both China and India is developing nations that we paid
the bulk of money in that deal, and the WHO,
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same thing there, same and the WA, the w EF.
I want out of all these globalist organizations myself. Yeah,
well generally they're no good. But the World's Health arguments Z.
We were paying almost five hundred million dollars a year.
China was paying thirty nine million. We have three hundred
and fifty million people. China has one point four billion people.
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They're paying thirty nine millionaire, we're paying almost five hundred million.
So I got out, not for that reason. I got
out because of how badly they handled a pandemic. I mean,
they didn't know what was happening. So I got out,
and they wanted to get They wanted me back in,
meaning this country back in so badly that I could
have gotten it for thirty nine million probably less, should
be less excellent, but I could have had that easily done.
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But I said no, maybe we'll talk about it at
a later date. No, no, no, And then they just
went in. They're paying the full almost five hundred million. Enough.
There's no reason too. They were willing to give us
a tremendous you know, you're talking about four hundred, four
hundred and fifty million dollars a year. When you talk trillions,
it doesn't sound like much, but I mean this is
for the sake of one sentence on a phone call.
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Give us the same Dad you would have given Trump.
So I was at thirty nine million, same as China,
and I could have gotten it, if you think about it, John,
I could have gotten it for last, I believe because again,
we have a you know, it's a smaller in terms
of people, it's a smaller country. So pretty amazing when
you see this stuff happened. They just signed a deal
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with the World Health Organization, and I guess they're paying
the original price, which is just so did they sign
that deal because if there was a future pandemic that
would result in us in the middle of the pandemic
before taking care of every American promising that we'd give
the World Health Organization twenty percent of everything that we
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had regarding you know, if we had a vaccine, if
we had any type of therapeutics, if we had any
type of testing we'd hand over supplies that I'm sure
at the time would be desperately needed by Americans. First, well,
the deal they're talking about is that it literally would
mean that they would handle the pandemic in the United States.
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And you so how they handled it generally, they didn't
really know what they were talking about. Wasn't doing it.
That's the real reason I get out, not just the
money it was. It was the fact that they gave
verd bit advice to the world. They didn't they didn't
know or they knew or they were giving it. The
China line inter China dominate the World Help Organization. So
for thirty nine million, they dominate. For five hundred million,
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we don't dominate. Do you explain that one? But no,
they want to take over the whole thing, and we
will be totally subject to whatever they want. Who negotiates
these deals? Where are the people that who are the
people that negotiate deals like this? I mean I could
say the same thing with NAFTA. I got rid of
NAFTA and we did the USMCA and you know, Mexico, Canada,
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and it's a great deal. We went from a horrible
deal to a great deal. Everyone said there's no way
I'd be able to get rid of NAPTA because if
you know, you have to go through the legislature. I
got it through, we got it through the Senate, we
got it through Congress, we got it through everything. And
it's such a good deal that Mexico and Canada now
trying to renegotiate the deal, and I suggest we don't
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do that because we lived with NAFTA for years. It
was so bad. It was the worst trade deal probably
that was one of the worst. Quick break will come
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now officially a candidate running for president for twenty twenty four.
He gave this big speech at Seapack over the weekend.
We'll have more with President Trump on the other side.
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continue with the forty fifth President of the United States,
now officially a candidate for president for twenty twenty four.
If you really think about it, one year from now,
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I believe we'll be past the Iowa caucuses and the
New Hampshire primary and the South Carolina primary and probably
headed right into Super Tuesday and all those states that
are available. Winner take all, I believe is the system.
Mister President, thanks for sticking around with us. Let me
stay a little bit on foreign policy for a second,
and then I want to talk more about the economy,
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because Americans economically are suffering so badly right now. It
should break everybody's heart because I would argue that all
of this is preventable, all of it is unnecessary. I
mentioned Russia. We see their territorial ambitions on display. You
knew that as president You knew that Vladimir Putin wanted
to go back into Ukraine. He wanted more than Crimea.
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You knew the president she also similarly had territorial ambitions
for Taiwan. We see what's now going on with the
Communist Chinese, and that is they've been flying their fighter
jets over Taiwan airspace. They've been threatening the United States
to stay out of Taiwan, even though they're an ally
of ours. They're getting more hostile seemingly by the day.
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And there seems to be a new access of evil
and that is an alliance between China, Russia, Iran and
North Korea. How do you see it? Are they going
to go for Taiwan? Oh? We always said keep China
and keep Russia away. Now we have China, Russia, North Korea,
we have probably plenty of more. We have Iran all
teaming up now and before their natural enemies, it should
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be a natural enemy deal. But under this group they've
all gotten together. Nobody thought it was even possible. Nobody
thought it was absolutely even possible. And you know, it's
very sad when you look at what's going on, the
world has never been in more danger. In my opinion,
because of the clear weapons. But it is right now.
I had a Ran to a point where they would
have made a deal within one week after the election,
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they would have made a deal, and it would have
been a good deal. It would have been wonderful. They
wouldn't have had nuclear weapons, et cetera, et cetera. Now
I read in the papers. Now so much of it
is stake. But I read in the papers that they're
about seven days away from having a nuclear weapon a Ran.
I'm reading the same papers that you're reading. It's scary, yep.
That's going to be a tough group to negotiate with. Short.
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Let me tell you, I know from personal experience when
they have that, that we're allowing it to happen is
even crazier that we're allowing this to happen. We just
can't allow it to happen. But they were not going
to have nuclear weapons, and they would have been very
I stopped China. China wasn't buying oil from them. They
were at a point where they had to make a deal,
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and they wanted to make a deal. And now they're
getting rich. China is buying massive amounts, record setting amounts
of oil from them. Everybody is. The whole thing is
so sad. It was literally under doorstep of having that
done and properly because there was the worst deal. What
another horrible deal that was made so stupid. Let me
ask specifically on China. Do you believe in the next
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two years that China they call it reunification with Taiwan,
I would call it an invasion. Do you believe that
China will take over Taiwan? And if they do, what
do you think the reaction of Joe Biden would be
And what would your reaction be? Well, I think Joe
Biden is compromised. He did deals with China or they
paid a lot of money to the family, and I
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think he's compromised, I really do because his stance on China,
like with the blimp or the balloon flying off and
then they shoot it down after it does all of
us work. I mean, you know, the whole thing is crazy.
But but there's so many things, by the way, I
gotta start. In my entire lifetime, I don't think there's
been a more humiliating moment than allowing a Chinese spy
balloon to fly over Alaska air space down the west
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coast of Canada into Idaho, over in Montana, where our
ICBM missile sites are, than to Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, then
off the coast of the Carolinas. I can't believe it.
I think more humiliating, though, in terms of total humiliation,
was Afghanistan the way we left, the way we left,
not that we left. I had it down to two thousand,
five hundred soldiers. We were going to keep Bogram, you
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know that. We talked about it a long time ago
because not for Afghanistan, but it's one hour away from
where China makes its nuclear weapons, and we're going to
keep Bogram. We gave up Bogram, one of the one
of the biggest greatest military bases, air force bases in
the world, land the largest planes, yet the runways are
the biggest and the strongest. They can hold anything. But
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that would have given us a positioning place against our
number one geopolitical foe, and that is President Shew. You
met President She, You met Kim Jong un, You you
met Vladimir Putin? What were these people like? They're at
the top of their game. They are smart, cunning, they
want to do what's right for their country. They want
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to do they want to win. They want to win,
and they cannot right now believe what they're getting away with,
all of them. They can't believe what they're getting away with.
So I had Kim Jong un. You know, I got
along with them great. Nobody else got along with them.
They couldn't even deal with them. They couldn't make it.
They couldn't even meet, and they wanted to meet. They tried,
they couldn't meet with him. I got along with them
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very well. We had no problem, and we would have
had to deal with them too, by the way. We
would have absolutely had to deal with them. And now
he's going around making missiles all over the place, and
he's back, he's back to firing him a little rocketman's back.
He's firing them all over and you know, you look
at Iran. Iran wasn't doing anything with me. They were not.
There's no way they would have been doing And now
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they can't go fast enough. You know when you hear
these reports going on, they cannot go fast enough. It's
a very very dangerous president. I think that President She
of China. You never heard anything about Taiwan when I
was president. They weren't. And I told him, you can't
do that. I can't tell my exact conversation because some
people would be upset. They'd be upset if I told it,
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to be honest, but it was a very tough conversation.
He knew he wasn't going to do it. And when
this group came in, they immediately started flying bombers over Taiwan.
You know, twenty eight bombers over two days after I
was gone, they were flying over taking pictures of Taiwan.
I'm sure that made the Taiwanese feel very good, having
twenty eight bombers, Chinese bombers fly over the top. But no,
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and now you look at it, it's you have warships
all over the place. You have warships surrounding it. And
they made their intentions. No, you didn't hear that when
I was president, and he wouldn't have done that. I
got along with him really great. He liked them, and
like me, they'll criticize me for saying I liked them,
but I got along with him Gray and I got
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along with Putin. And that's a good thing, not a
bad thing. By the way, these are good things, not
bad things. I got along with You do you think
you got along with them? In part because they feared you. Well,
they knew there was going to be big retribution if
they did certain things, and therefore they wouldn't have done it.
I never had any doubt. For instance, I talked to
Putin about Ukraine a lot, but eventually we didn't talk
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at all. There was no way he was going to
do anything. He understood that, and we just, you know,
we just that's the way it was. There was no
chance of it happening. There was no chance for inflation.
Inflation was caused by oil prices, by energy prices. And
let me let me transition into the economy, because I
think this is just killing the average American or you're
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referred to them in twenty fifteen and sixteen as the
forgotten men and women in this country, but we now
have two thirds of the American people living paycheck to paycheck.
I've been there at points in my life, about a
decade of life. I didn't particularly like it. I'll be honest.
You have now Americans putting just for bare necessities. They're
using their credit card or they're tapping into their retirement accounts,
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and they're taking huge losses doing it. There was a
mile long line this weekend in Kentucky for a food
pantry in my local town, upper middle class. You see
people online every Saturday at the food pantry. And these
are people. They may still have their homes and they
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may even be driving a nice card. They're not They're
not taking advantage of the system. They didn't expect or
anticipate the average ten thousand dollars Biden inflation tax because
of his economic and energy policies. It's killing the American
you know, taxpayers, they're killing you know. He just raised
taxes on oil, gas, coal, on pensions, and on corporations,
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and corporations past that tax onto we the people, the consumer. Well,
the first thing he did was killed the Keystone pipeline,
which I had approved and they were starting work on it.
And all those workers, all those great workers, the pipeline
workers they all had. They really took it hard because
they had their whole lives set, you know, set back. Well,
he did give an approval for the Nordstream to pipeline.
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He gave that, and I took that away. So I
took Nobody ever heard of Nordstream too, maybe not even
you until I became president. I said, they're building a
pipeline that goes all throughout Europe and takes share of Germany,
and that is a really bad thing. And in fact,
I gave Angela Merko the white flag of surrender. I say,
as soon as you have your next war with them,
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and you know, if you look at history, they've had
the wars with Russia, you know that very well. But
as soon as you have your next war, here's a flag.
You can use that to surrender, because what you're doing
is you're putting your country in the hands of Russia
and whether or not they want to sell you energy.
I predicted that eighty percent of their energy was going
to come out of that pipeline, the out of Russia.
I said, you have to be crazy to be doing this. Now,
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you remember at the United Nations when the Russian delegate
should thought it was sort of amusing when I was
saying this, that what a terrible mistake it is. Now
they've very much apologized and everybody knows. I call that
one right too. I called a lot of things right,
maybe everything right. But yeah, let me ask you this.
You left this country energy independent. We were a net
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exporter of energy. Lately you've been using the term energy dominance.
I take that to mean we as a country have
been so blessed with natural resources gas, oil, coal, etc.
The ability to extract it with new technologies is phenomenal.
Would we be able to provide all of our Western
European allies all of their energy needs? And wouldn't that
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go a long way to creating I paying American jobs
while simultaneously making America rich as hell and hopefully even
eliminating all debt. Well that's what I was going to do,
and that's where we were headed, and we were going
to be dominant. We have more than anybody else. We
have more I called liquid gold under our feet than
anybody else. Texas is massive, Oklahoma, all these incredible places.
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We have more than anybody. And then I got anwar approved,
which nobody could have done. Nobody could have done. Reagan
couldn't have done. Reagan tried so hard he couldn't do it.
Nobody could do it. I got anwar probably bigger than
Saudi Arabia and war in Alaska. I got that done
by the way. They terminated it the first week that
he was in office. They terminated that took not easy
to do it. I got it all approved Reagan couldn't
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do it. Bush couldn't do it. Nobody could do it.
I got it done. Would have been like having Saudi
Arabia in Alaska in terms of energy, in terms of jobs,
in terms of money. We would have made so much money.
We were bigger than Saudi Arabia individually and Russia as
I left, we would have been double and triple their
size within a short period of time, literally a short
period of time. We would have been paying more for
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our debt. We would have had money, We would have
been reducing taxes. It was going to be a gold
mine and it was going to be helpful. We would
have supplied Europe with oil instead of Russia supplying one thing.
You would have been good for national security. Quick break
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with you. I think election day should be a national holiday.
I think we should have paper ballots. I think we
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should have partisan observers watch the voting in every presect
and in the country. When the polls closed, partisan observers
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Everybody goes home. We know who won the night of
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resistance to voting early mail in voting. And I think
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not matched Democratic efforts. Should they follow the law and
match it and make even make their system more superior.
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periods where you have two months sometimes and it's very dangerous,
very bad. We should go to single day, you know,
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voting like we should have never gone away from it,
frankly because our elections have problems, like nobody could even believe.
But Republicans have always wanted to vote an election day,
and that's a good thing. The problem is bad things happen.
You look at what happened in Arizona with Garry Lake,
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an accumulation of ballots that are really massive, and a
lot of things going to happen. Bad things can happen
if you wait till election day. So I think what
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But until we get there and we have to get there.
You have to win to get there. Until we get there,
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we want to accumulate ballots at an early level, at
the earliest possible level, and do it that way. And
I think we're going to have to go that way,
and the Republican Party needs to build that system. Them
out yesterday. They can't wait till twenty twenty four. Of
my view, we could talk all day. I have a
million more questions I've prepared for you that I have
not gotten to. But we'll have you on again soon.
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We really appreciate your time. You've been very generous with it.
Former President Donald J. Trump with us now officially at
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