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President Trump talks mail-in voting, 2020 race, COVID-19 response on 'Fox & Friends'

2020-08-05 | 🔗
President Trump calls into 'Fox & Friends' for a wide-ranging interview on the upcoming 2020 election, coronavirus pandemic and more.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Have the President Steve? Why dont you ask the him the first question Steve, Mr President, good morning, good morning, Steve, hey, listen! I know a young couple who got married this weekend. What is your advice for a young couple, looking forward to a bright America, given the restrictions of covid and everything thats going on right now, Brian related to you? First of all, congratulations. You finally got that done despite everything, its, not easy, but, as you know, I have met your daughter. She is lovely its going to be a great combination. They dont dont, listen to my advice, you just let them lead their life. They are going to be very good. They are going to be just fine, its a great couple and its an incredible family. She starts off with excellent genes, thats very important, Steve. Well, thank you very much thats all. I was curious about im still on vacation. Talk to you later have a good time. Thank you, Steve, Steve, so long Brian all right! Mr President,
thanks so much for doing in this morning, can we talk about probably the thing that everybody is talking about today and thats mail in voting? What seems to bother you most and stop me if I am wrong, is if the state, like Nevada or another state, just blankets, the state with ballots, unrequested and thats different from requesting an absentee ballot, because you are concerned about your health or the pandemic, would you make that? Am I accurate in that dissemination? No absentee is okay, because you have to go through a process. Brian and you go through a process and you make a request and they send it to you and you get it and you fill it out. Then its a process and its a smaller number. What they are going to do is blanket the state. Anybody that ever walked frankly will get one. The governor is a clubhouse politician. He is somebody that frankly, was shocking and shocking what he did more shocking, what he did without town halls, without meetings without the public
they went out and approved this ridiculous system and the post office will never be equipped to handle it, and you see it in New York in a much smaller scale. We have a congressional race, Carolyn Maloney, a congresswoman, its been six and a half weeks. Now they have no idea what happened. They are thousands of votes off, they are missing votes, they are fraudulent votes, they have to do the election over. There is no way that she can take that election, because I mean its between two Democrats, but I guess he is probably, as the expression goes more progressive, but she is in trouble and frankly, they have to do the election over. There is no way you can. Brian, you are suing Nevada, its the same thing: mail in voting, Patterson, New Jersey, twenty percent of the votes were either fixed or messed up or missing, or fraudulent and people are in big trouble. The town council, the mail men, a lot of people are in big trouble. Thats Patterson, twenty percent of the votes
you cant do a mail in vote. Florida is different in a sense that they have been doing it and they have had two very good governors frankly and infrastructure thats taken years to build Nevada. They start voting very soon and he just threw it out there and the other thing is the votes. Dont have to be counted or tabulated until seven days after November. Third, so that means, if were waiting for one state and its a very great important state, big state. If were waiting for that state, you dont know what the answer is going to be until, after maybe seven days and but its not going to be seven days its going to be months or years, they will never be able to tabulate their votes because they are not set up for it. Pete. Mr President, thank you for joining us. You mentioned the postal service, women. Your former opponent, is out of woods or tweeting from the woods. This is what she said about the postal service and your treatment of it. Hillary Clinton tweeting this. I fear Republicans sabotage of the: U Dot S postal service, including slowing mail delivery,
a trump strategy to make voting by mail more difficult. This fall request your ballots and return them as early as you can. Your response to Hillary Clinton, accusing you of sabotaging the post office. First of all, remember the famous question when she asked me whether or not I would accept the results of the election, she felt pretty confident until the end of that debate and, frankly, she was very strong. Would you accept the results of the election? Well, she didnt accept the results she still hasnt. She is living in a cacoon and I guess people dont like her or somebody doesnt like her, but she was she didnt do the job she didnt do the job she was supposed to do and she should accept that now she continues to go on and she is talking now about the postal service. Well, as you know, the postal service for forty years has had big problems and they are not equipped to handle a governor where they say millions of ballots by the way will be posted in a couple of weeks gear up, you cant do that it doesnt work that way its a very complex process,
so Nevada were in court. We will see how it works out if it doesnt work out. You are not going to know the November third election results im im talking for the country, it could be for months. Actually it could be for years they sent and they planned to send these ballots to anybody. Thats ever walked in the state of Nevada. It will be a disaster Ainsley. What about the debates? Joe Biden was interviewed yesterday by Dana Perino, and she said that Joe Biden will be debating you in those three debates he has already committed to that. But then you have people with the New York Times Joe Lockhart, suggesting that Biden not debate you. You have others saying that all of a sudden, its, not an accurate forum, and they are not in favor of these debates. Why do you think that is well? They are trying to get out. My people are telling me that they are playing very cute. They are trying to get out there. No question about that, but you know we should have the debates. One problem I have the debate is very late. Its at the end of September and a lot of ballots will already be
cast by that time. They want to make the debates as late as possible, and you know this commission. They have already apologized to me for what they did. They were as late my mic during one debate they apologized. I actually had it in writing. They were doing it. This is a commission that is a very left, leaning, commission, I frankly wouldnt even have used it and I could have done that except its been used for years. This is a Clinton, observe type commission and you know they call it a beautiful name, but im not happy with it, but why are they putting the first debate so late in the first debate should be before the first, at least before the first ballots go out, and they have it. A month later, almost a month later, its ridiculous Ainsley September, 29th in Ohio, im ready to get out. In all fairness, he has not said that Ainsley. Would you prefer more debates? I wouldnt mind more whats. More important to me is the first debate be moved up, so
when people are putting in their first ballot, theyre going to know a vast difference, never been two candidates or two philosophies. Lets say that are more different than what we have. We want law and order. We want strong police, we are not defunding the police, we probably could say doing the opposite of defunding the police. You look at Portland, thats, all radical left Democrat. They want every city to be like a Portland. If we didnt go out to Portland, they have done a great job, just a very small group. If we didnt go out to Portland, they would have knocked down and burned down the post office, which is a five hundred dollars million, the federal building the court house and the Post office and anything else federal. We didnt go just for the courthouse. We went for every federal building there because they werent protecting it. They were unable to protect it, but we got it to a point where its reasonable and if we have to do something more, we will do more. We have to straighten out that city its been a mess for years run by radical liberal Democrats, Brian, Mr President, and they
did not want to use their state police until you brought in the federal agents and then they agreed to use the state police. That seems to be a victory. I dont want to spend too much time on the election, but looking at the pandemic seniors and those with underlying conditions are most concerned about voting, they could be the most patriotic person in the world, but even your age bracket. Mr President, they are concerned about going out in a crowded area and its legitimate. So having said that, what does the administration plan on doing to make it easier more poll sites, clean teams, making demanding more places in more areas, providing the financing to do that? So if we admit there is a pandemic and a hurdle, what do you plan on doing about it if mail in voting makes you unsettled? Brian? All of those things and more, but all of those things and remember November third is a long way thats a long way. The numbers are coming down very rapidly in Florida they are coming down in California, they are coming down in Texas, they are coming down those three places shot up and those numbers are coming down. So by the time we get there, we
will probably be in very good shape, but all of those things cleanliness, they will wear the mask and they will do whatever they have to do, but they want to vote. We have people that really want to get out and vote its going to be very safe, but by November 3rd time, wise thats eternity frankly as far as im concerned for Trump thats, Eattorneys and November third is a long ways off. A lot of things are going to happen, Brian, but we could have a second wave. The virus has got a mind of its own. You could have a second wave. Other countries have had a second wave. What nobody talks about countries. Examples second wave look whats happening with Vawl and look at what is happening at France and Spain. Is it a big big? Second wave? Italy has a wave going, a lot of countries are having, but nobody ever talks about that. We have done an incredible job in this country, an incredible job and our testing is the best ever
the best in the world and everybody talks about it other than some of the fake news they dont like talking about it PETE. Mr President, your latest campaign ads portray Joe Biden as a vessel, an empty vessel for the radical left thats. The argument your campaign is making, and certainly he has made an alliance with a lot of folks in the Bernie camp. Well, the Joe Bidens Chief surrogate, his wife, Dr Jill Biden, was our network yesterday. She made a different here is what she said. You know Joe is a moderate. That doesnt mean that his ideas, arent progressive and bold and forward thinking, but hes hes, not someone who is left hes, not someone who is right, hes, a moderate and thats who he has always been. I think Joe has a really strong vision of where he wants to take this country and he has a strategy and a plan and whether its on climate change or education or the
economy, Joe knows where he is going and what he wants to do. Pete, Mr President, is Joe Biden, a moderate is that what voters will believe Joe Biden is whatever they tell him to be, and I think its good, that a wife I would expect a wife to say that thats, the appropriate thing to say, but Joe is being taken so far, left. Look at the manifesto that he and Bernie agreed to say thats further left than Bernie ever was no borders. You know think of it. Open open up the walls lets open up the walls and let everybody we are up to two hundred and seventy six miles of wall now. Thank goodness. We have it because Mexico is heavily infected and we would have a surge. I mean Mexico is having tremendous covid problems we built. We will have the wall completed almost completed by the end of the year. Shortly thereafter, it will be completed five hundred and thirty seven miles of beautiful, very, very powerful wall and wherever we put it, nobody is getting through. Nobody is getting through,
but the fact is that Joe has agreed already. How can they say he is a moderate? He has agreed to all these things. Take a look what he wants to do to police forces in Florida Texas. They just gave me all of the law enforcement gave me their endorsement, but they have no choice. I told them when we were together. I say im very happy to have it, but you have no choice because you take a look at what theyre doing with the funding, whether its defund or reducing the funds very substantially, but Joe is totally involved with every one of those horrible things, whether its sanctuary, cities and the whole concept of open borders is so bad, and then they are going to raise your taxes by two three four times people are going to hey look. Our stock market is very close to hitting a new record. Nasdaq has already hit a new record, Joe will drive the market into a depression and the biggest thing holding back our stock market is the
possibility that Biden gets elected because if he gets elected, our stock market will crash. If we didnt have an election right now, two things would happen: number one. Our stock market would be even higher and its already setting some records and the other thing is IRAN. China, everybody will be at the table the first day within twenty four hours, wanting to make a deal, including North Korea, by the way, if Hillary Clinton got in, you would have been in a war right now, a long time. Maybe it would be over, maybe it wouldnt, but you would be in a war with North Korea. North Korea were doing final. We are doing fine with everything they are all waiting now to see and they dont want Trump China. The last person I have taken in tens of billions of dollars from China. Nobody took in ten cents from China. China was having the worst year. They have had Brian in sixty seven years PETE you and I talked about it once before the worst year they have had in sixty seven years. We had the greatest year we have ever had last year and now were going to do it again.
Next year is going to be a very strong year, very, very strong, maybe competitive. What we just had prior to the China virus come in prior to the plague come in so were set up to have phenomenal numbers. You saw the numbers coming out yesterday. They were incredible having to do with automobile production having to do with manufacturing. I mean the numbers that are coming out are shocking and startling to people. The biggest hang in the market is the possibility that if Biden gets in and raises Everybodys taxes, including on corporations, but he wants to raise individual taxes by doubling and tripling and thats their agenda, and then they want to go with the crazy green new deal, which will put everybody out of business. Ainsley whats your plan for businesses when it comes to the payroll tax cuts. Well, I may do it myself. We are negotiating right now. I have the right to suspend it about, and I may do it myself. I have the absolute right to suspend the payroll. You know to do the payroll tax and we call it a payroll tax
suspension, thats, an incentive for people, small businesses and businesses generally to hire back their workers and were doing very well in that regard. But I will tell you this: the blue states, the Democrat states dont, want to open up anything. They dont want their schools open, they dont want their businesses open, they want to keep it shut. You cant do that. You are hurting people by doing that, there is a cost. We did the right thing we closed and then we opened if we didnt close at that time with that terrible virus that should have never been here. China should have stopped it. If we didnt close, we would have millions of people dead. We have done it right now. It looks like a strong v based on all the numbers we are getting. You will have a big number on Friday. I dont know what its going to be. You will have another jobs numbers last two months we set a record on the job numbers. Now we will have another big job number on Friday, so it will be interesting to see what that is, but we are heading definitely a v, but the Democrats are standing in our way. They dont want their states open, even if the state isnt in good shape,
because you know much of the country- is in really good shape. We see the red spots and we have them in red. You know the covid areas, but the country is in very good shape and were set to rock and roll, but the big problem we have is Democrats dont want to open their schools. They dont want to because they think its going to hurt the election for the Republicans and they shouldnt play that game. They shut should put the people first, Brian Coronavirus, roughly sixty thousand new cases days. Eighteen states increasing cases as they try to get ahold of this thing. Going back to the testing for a second. While we have the testing we dont have the reagents and swabs im wondering whats going on with the Abbott test. If you got that 15 minute test that the White House has all around the country, you dont make the Abbott test. Why cant they flood the country with the Abbott TEST, thats what we are doing: Brian schools and businesses? Where is this test?
We are fifty percent on the test, Abbott TEST or its equivalent, where its a 5 minute test and goes up to fifteen minutes its a greatest by the way that test didnt even exist until we came up with that test, Brian its, like they stopped making it. I dont know anybody that gets it. They are all going to these labs thats taking forever. Fifty percent of the country is short term testing were going to more, but you have to remember. We did sixty one million tests. The next country is like Germany is at three India with one point: five million people eleven we are sixty one. Nobody is even close to us in testing its another talking point by the way. When you do a lot of testing, you have more cases, so they say we have more cases thats, because we test and we find people that need help and we take care of them. This country has done a great job on the corona and, I will say, has not the people that have worked on. It have been amazing what we have done from ventilators, where we
had nothing to making them now for the world. We are supplying the world now with ventilators, and you go back four months. We didnt have any its a complicated peels of machinery, its big its expensive. The job we have done has been an amazing job when you say that eighteen states, but what you dont say Brian, is testimony that states most states are coming down way down and now Florida Texas, as I said California and others, are coming down, but most states are coming down. You look at a map and white means good. Most of the most of the map is in the white color. The red color is the corona or potential and its a very, relatively small portion, but its coming down. Some states are going up a little bit, but they will very shortly. They are under control, they will be coming down. This is a terrible thing that China sent us. This is not easy is a terrible thing. All you have to do is look at every other country in the world.
One hundred and eighty eight countries are suffering with this plague PETE. Mr President, at this moment around kitchen tables, one of the biggest question marks for families and parents of kids is: will my children actually be going back to school? Could the plan that exists now change later teachers unions out there making demands like take the cops out of the school? We need Medicare for all and crazy political demands that feel like extortion, yet to a parent. They want to know. Will it be in person? Will it be virtual if im in a private school, do they put the same parameters the governor did on the government schools? What is the latest on your view of you who these schools should reopen? My view? Is the schools should open? This thing is going away. It will go away like things go away. My view is, schools should be open. If you look at children, children are almost and I would almost say definitely but almost immune from this disease. So few they have got stronger
hard to believe. I dont know how you feel about it, but they have much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this. They do it. They dont have a problem. They just dont have a problem. I mean literally in New Jersey, where you had thousands many thousands of deaths. The governor Phil Murphy, told me good guy too, by the way he told me thousands and thousands of deaths that was hard hit. There was only one person under the age of eighteen, eighteen who died of Thi, and I think that person also had diabetes a young person and especially when you get younger than that, it doesnt have an impact on them, and I have watched some doctors say they are totally immune. I dont know I hate to use the word totally because the news will say: oh he made the word totally and he shouldnt have used that word. The fact is, they are virtually immune from this problem and we have to open our schools. Remember this, and I think you believe this PETE its very bad for our country to
be locked into a house, an apartment whats, going on with suicide whats, going on with drugs whats, going on with depression, whats going on with so many other things, people lose their jobs, they never get it back. They have a great job, all of a sudden, that little business or that big business is forced. To close, this is a very bad thing. This isnt, like, oh, we have a choice of one or the other. One is good. One is bad, no staying locked up the lockdown, we did the right thing. We closed it down. We saved millions of lives instead of the number that you are looking at, you could be at two million multiply the number that you have now times, ten fifteen or twenty thats. What you would be, we did the right thing. We closed it down. Now we are opening up now we understand the disease. We understand that the elderly, especially the elderly, with the problem with diabetes or heart. If they have a problem, they are very, very vulnerable, very, very susceptible to this disease, and we have to be very, very careful and vigilant with them and were Ainsley well on that note.
What about the elderly teachers, the teachers that are susceptible or have underlying conditions? Are you worried at all? Is that a concern that maybe one of the moms or dads who drops their child off might have covid and not know it and pass it on to one of these teachers? I think the teachers are a different story and if a teacher is in a certain age group, I think they shouldnt be going in and probably they are going to have to waited until the thing goes by. They will have to wait. It will go by by the way with vaccines and therapeutics are coming along incredibly well. I have stream lined the process. This would have taken three or four years to be where we are right now we will have one, I believe, long before the end ever the year, and we have many that are already in stage two and stage three trials, which is ending the lap and its been incredible. Nobody can believe what the FDA has been able to do. This would have been a process of two others yoorks three years or four years, and we are ready just about we think I mean we have such great candidates,
candidates, vaccines and therapeutics, where you walk in a Trans, fusion or a shot, and the people get better thats the one I really like Brian President Todays, the Washington Post, written by four experts, one of which is Scott Gottlieb, who I know you like he says blood plasma might be the Covid 19 treatment we need if we can get people who have recovered from the virus, get the plasma and get it widespread. That might be the therapeutic you are in the meetings with the leading doctors. Do you believe this? And if so, what are you doing to spread this plasma? I havent heard much about this in months, yeah its a big thing. In fact, I had the meeting the other day at the Red Cross building. You probably saw that it was a big meeting, mostly on plasma, and it was also a meeting for people that have recovered people that have recovered if they would go to their blood bank, give the Red Cross or wherever they can find and give a donation, because I will tell you what that would be a tremendous thing.
Scott is one hundred percent right, its a tremendous thing. What we have done with the plasma- and it makes better- you know it- makes people better its fought them off once and it will fight them off again, but thats, a new thing thats another thats, another way of doing it and its something that we have very very much. We are taking tremendous amounts of blood, we are getting tremendous donations from people. These are people that have had the disease, the Covid and they have recovered their blood, the plasma so valuable so important to us, so they are doing it. We would like to have a lot more and you are right. It is a fantastic answer, its not the whole answer, but its a fantastic part of the puzzle. Pete. Mr President, the debate is ongoing on Capitol Hill about another stimulus bill. The Democrats say they want three point. Four trillion Republicans rightly balk at that.
A big part of the discussion is how much supplemental unemployment should be given at the federal level, and I noticed a tweet from representative Lance Gooden, a Republican from Texas, pointing out what he has heard from businesses in his district Democrats say it has to be six hundred Republicans feel like. If you are being paid more to be on unemployment, it may be a disincentive to go back to work Heres the tweet he said with six hundred expected unemployment expired business owners in my district. Tell me this week is the first week they have had all their employees show up. Do you believe that if unemployment is more than people are making its a disincentive for people to go back to work right now? Well, thats what the Democrats want to do? They wanted to do that. I have to say this: what they really want is bail out money for their states that have done very poorly for years, a bad manager not because of covid- you can add covid to it, but basically for years of bad management. They want bail out money. They want a trillion dollars to bail out states that you know the states. I dont have to go over them im, not going to embarrass anybody.
There are states that have done very, very poorly and they want bail out. They want to use covid to get them bailed out, and we cant do that. With all of that being said, we want to get funds to people, so they can live, but we dont want to disincent at this. Advise people from going back to work. Ainsley is your second term agenda. What are your priorities I want to take where we left. We had the greatest economy in the history of the world. We were better than any other country. We were better than we were ever. We never had anything like this. This country, one hundred and sixty million people working. We have never had that before. We have never even come close to that best. Employment numbers best unemployment, numbers for african american asian american women, hispanic everybody, the best numbers we have ever had the best stock market we have ever had. Although we are coming very close right now, in fact, NASDAQ is already higher than that number. So a lot of good things are happening needs to be jobs. What I want to do is take it from that point and build it
even better. We are becoming a great manufacturer again, im taking business and im taking trade back from these other countries that have ripped us off for years. Our allies also have been ripping us off for years. They dont pay their bills, delinquent allies, everybody says theyre, wonderful, allies, yeah, but they got to pay their bills. We protect them militarily, and then they take advantage of us on trade and the military because they dont pay their bills on military. In some cases I mean Germany was very delinquent. They owed us billions of dollars, billions of dollars to NATO. They should be paying their bills, they are a rich country. They should be paying their bills. Why should we defend countries and not be reimbursed? I mean, if somebody thinks differently, they can do whatever they want, but Germany was totally delinquent. You know its very interesting were supposed to protect Germany from Russia. Thats fine, but Germany is paying Russia billions of dollars for energy, so were protecting Germany from Russia. Germany is paying Russia
whats that all about. So there is a whole thing that for years and years I dont know why presidents didnt solve these problems, but they are problems that are that im getting done im getting done like nobody has ever gotten them done before Brian. We are just starting the top of the hour lucky enough to be talking to the President of the United States about the things that affect your life and affect the country. As you hear around the world, the president, just to build on what you just said. You are moving troops out of Germany. We can provide that natural gas to Germany. They chose Russia as a supplier which is pretty insulting, but youre moving troops out of Germany to two countries, ITALY and Belgium, who also dont pay what they should to NATO, the two percent. Why move them, but they will be paying, and I told them Brian ive raised at NATO when I went in it was a disaster. Seven countries were paying what they were supposed to be paying
now ive raised and Secretary General Stoltenberg is trumps biggest fan. President Obama would go, make a speech and nobody would pay, but he wouldnt talk about it. I went and said you have to pay. I, like you all very much, but you have to pay. We are protecting you and spending a lot of money. The United States was paying for everybody. I said you have to pay bottom line. After one meeting we got one hundred and thirty dollars billion a year more going to four hundred dollars billion, and then it makes sense by the way when they say about Russia, that money is largely to protect Europe from Russia, so when they say Trump and Russia, Russia believe me theyd, love to see me lose this election that I can tell you one hundred and thirty dollars billion more paid by those countries that were delinquent. They were all delinquent and its going to four hundred billion, but Germany has to pay.
Germany is a wealthy country and have to pay, and we will not have fifty thousand troops in Germany. They built cities around our troops. We will let ourselves get rich, so Germany took advantage and thats what happens. Pete well. Mr President, as someone who took in NATO mission, I cant not agree more that we dont get much back in return. We get nothing back. They take advantage on us on trade. We get nothing back on top of it, they make it impossible to do business, they put barriers up and charge us tariff. They are dreaming about Joe Biden. They dream about it every night, please Joe, let Joe win, we will so be rich and all im doing is bringing fairness back, but it got out of control long time ago, long before Obama Biden did absolutely nothing made it worse, but it was long before them in all fairness, PETE. They dont feel the need
to defend themselves if youll do it for them. I want to come across the pond. There are reports that youre, considering possibly giving convention acceptance speech from the White House lawn whats, the latest on what youll be doing with the convention. We are thinking about it. They move with a lot of people expensive operationally and the secret service is fantastic, but you know its a big deal and we are thinking about doing it from the White House, because theres no movement its easy, I think its a beautiful setting- and we are thinking about that. Its certainly one of the alternatives, its the easiest, alternative, beautiful alternative. I love the building im there right now. I spend a lot of time here. A lot of people didnt spend as much time. I, like it a great place and representative of our nation, so it would be by far the least expensive from the country standpoint, because it really is
its a big deal when you get up and move all of this apparatus Ainsley. So what is the status of the Rnc now, because at first it was Charlotte, as you know, and then moved to Jacksonville, but contractually you had to do part of it in Charlotte, and now we are talking about the White House. How are you going to make sure its, not chaotic? How do you make sure delegate votes are heard? Well, we are going to have the very first night will be in Charlotte, but that locked down the governor, I dont, know what hes doing they locked North Carolina down. We were really wanting to go to North Carolina, and so what we are doing is we are doing one night there and itll be a nomination night and itll go very well. We are going to let the press go and watch it, but socially distanced and lots of things are happening. The state is in a lockdown. We have no choice. We went to Jacksonville a place
that we are very good, but after we announced Florida got hit and now Florida is recovering, but what we are going to do is we are going to do virtual and we are going to do some live speeches from different locations and im going to do mine on Thursday night and thatll be a lot first. Lady is making a speech. Numerous people are making speeches senators a lot of very terrific people. We have terrific speakers list, Jim Jordan, so many others Matt Gaetz. These guys are warriors fighting against horrible force that hopefully, hopefully we will get their act together. Great great people making speeches, I will probably do mine live from the White House. Brian looks like live from the White House. Would you say youre locked in on that? No Brian? Okay! If for some reason somebody had difficulty with it, I could go some place else.
The easiest least expensive would be live from the White House. Brian youre, home there and bills are paid for. Mr President, for were taken aback when President Obama used eulogy speech to go after you and talking about politics and not about Congressman Lewis Gerrymandering, an getting rid of the filibuster it made me think who is having harder time getting over the two thousand and sixteen election Clinton or President Obama, or do you agree more of a campaign speech and less than a eulogy? It showed anger there that people dont see he lost control and hes been really hit very hard by both sides. For that speech, that speech was ridiculous. I think the answer is they both are just in a state. You know its just one of those things: weve redone, eighty two percent or something of
the Obama things look at the environment and air and water now is cleaner than its ever been, and you look prior to plague coming in and we will have the numbers plus next year you watch you look at the numbers that we were doing and, despite that our air and water, environmental numbers are better than they ever were. No, I thought the speech was totally inappropriate. Very bad. A lot of people dont realize that I said it the other day he fought just as hard or harder than Hillary, so that Hillary won. I didnt know him. He was somebody who wanted me not to win. He wanted Brian. He mocked at you, Washington, correspondents, dinner and Jimmy Kimmel show that you will never become president. Do you think, to a degree hes not over that? Well, you know I was at the dinner and the Washington a lot of people say I ran because of the dinner thats, absolutely not true.
Actually he joked but supposed to be joking and he joked, and you know I actually thought he did a very good job at the dinner. I thought the dinner was a very good job. I thought the speech the other day at the funeral was a terrible, terrible representation of what our country is all about. I thought it was absolutely terrible, but he fought very hard for Hillary Clinton. He fought, I think he fought harder than she did remember. I used to complain all of that hes going all over the place and you know it actually inspired our voters and we have more enthusiasm right now with our voters, Brian than they ever had than we ever had in two thousand and sixteen, and we had great nobody ever saw enthusiasm like two thousand and sixteen they came from the lakes, the rivers they came from everywhere. They came from places that the Democrats never heard about and they voted and they lined up, and I dont know if it was ballots or not, not too many ballots, they loved standing there waiting to vote, they came days early
theyve, never seen anything like it. We have more. Today. I just got back from Texas and Florida. We had lines miles long along the highway and roadways with the flag and the american flag and the Trump fragranced flag and the one thing I noticed they never fly the american flag. I can always tell our crowds, but there was virtually no. I didnt see any anybody, thousands tens of thousands of people they were all for Trump and Trump pence. Mike Pence had done a great job by the way hes been solid, incredible vice president hes done a fantastic job. People love him, but they had to trump pence signs all up and down the highway, and it was an incredible thing to see in Texas and I got the full endorsement of law enforcement, and you know I told them. You dont have a choice in fairness, whats the choice you dont have a choice. I have full endorsement of law enforcement, almost everywhere PETE. Mr President, theres a
group on the left that carries the american flag because they want to burn it and its Antifa and we have seen the violence to cities. Across America. There was a hearing on Capitol Hill, where TED Cruz tried to lay out where the funding is coming from and what the group is all about. But it seems Democrats are hell bent on denying that Antifa exists. We had representative Jim Clyburn over the weekend and he didnt know federal buildings were under threat and nadler. Well, he said this listen. Mr President, theres violence around the country thats happening in Portland thats, a myth, thats being spread. Only in Washington D, DOT C Pete, how can Democrats get away with calling Antifa a myth and saying federal buildings are not under seem? They wouldnt condemn it. Yesterday, at the hearing with Senator Cruz. Why cant they
well Senator Cruz is right. You know, look this isnt being naive. This is being untruthful. These are lying people. These are untruthful people, they know it exists. They are Antifa. Is a horrible group, its a far left group and they used to try and blame the right on all of this stuff and now, finally, at least they are not doing that so much anymore. They are not doing that anymore. Almost never Antifa is a far left group. Anarchists agitators is a nice word Brian who beens them. The Democrats know they exist. You have Democrats funding them, they say Soros and other people who knows, but they are funded. You see them standing there with weapons that are expensive, that that, with signs that were made, I mean literally, they have signs. Some of March signs were made in high class printing shop. I like the signs that were made
in a basement. They mean a lot more Antifa is well known by the Democrats and when they say gee, we dont know who they are, who could be? They be theyre a bad group when I signed my bill the other day, the act, and it was very important, ten years in jail for ripping down monuments or statutes, it stopped that was two months ago. It totally stopped at least on a federal basis, even on state basis, because when they heard they go to jail. For ten years I took an old law and reinstituted, which everyone said its too tough. Let me tell you ten years for ripping down a statute or ripping down a monument, and they were going to March on Washington. They were going to the March totally stopped. Once I signed the bill, I gave a news conference. I signed the bill, you can come, but anybody we now have hundreds of people in court that are being prosecuted all over the country. So its hey weve done a good job. Weve done a great job.
The fact is that Seattle would be burned down now. If we didnt threaten to go in, we were going in and when they heard that we were going in, they sent the cops and, by the way, Antifa Radical left. They gave up immediately because basically, they are cowards. Basically, they are cowards. They just keep pushing as far as they can when I watch police standing there, and these radical anarchists are spitting on the police and doing much worse than that. They are throwing things that you dont want to know about, and police arent allowed to defend themselves and stand there its a disgrace, but weve done a great job, weve saved Portland, and we can. We did it nice and soft, but we did a very good job in Portland if we werent in Portland right now, the federal courthouse would have been ripped down and burned down and wouldnt exist a long with, along with lots of federal buildings, its one of those things that if you want the country like that,
if the whole country will be another Portland that can happen. All you have to do is elect radical group of people, and Joe Biden is totally taken in by them by the way totally taken in he cant say its nice that his wife tries to defend him. Hes, not a moderate. Take a look at the manifesto that he agreed to with Bernie its further left than Bernie ever was Ainsley pledged to spend billions on Aocs green new deal whats the latest on Tiktok, because young people are worried that you will ban it. The adults dont want the Chinese to be stealing information about their kids, so China has done big number on us for many years. Ive taken billions billions of dollars from China. Nobody else has before done it, and one of the things weve done has been very strong. We are not allowing hauwei big phone company and we got a lot of our allies. I said if you do it thats okay, but we are not going to be able to share any information with you.
So weve literally talked many of our allies that were ready to get free phone system or very inexpensive. You know 5g system they going to get the system and, and it would have been a disaster from the security standpoint, so ITALY and many other countries, weve talked out of it. There are still some considering it, and if they do it, we will not be able to do any security business with, because we we dont, want them going back to holes of Beijing so with so. If you look attic to at Tikto its okay, if its bought by secured american company and they can buy at thirty percent, which is the american component, if you buy it, the United States, which is making it possible to buy without us they cant do anything should be compensated with very big payment. That money would go into the Treasury of the United States and by the way, Microsoft, which is looking at it and others.
They all agree to that. Ainsley is China. Stealing our data, absolutely theyve been stealing for years, theyve been stealing everything we come up with new computers, all of a sudden they are being made. We have fighter jet one of the greatest jets they copied our planes. I saw it. I said, let me ask you whats thats, all about thatS, the F22 China copied the F22 one of the greatest fighter. Jets ever made its a disgrace. Brian yeah Morris probe, looks exactly like ours lets, keep it with China for a second, you have Australia who changed. Defense strategy and UK walked away from Hauwei Vietnam extremely worried, Japan extremely concerned. They are reconfiguring reanalyzing their relationship, India, they had a scrimmage and lost people. You have an opportunity to lace together our allies against this rising China Tide. What specifically have you done
being that we seem to be on the same page, but we we are not sing from the same hymn sheet. Mr President, what have you done to change that? Antichina coalition? Brian? All of the things that you just said with the UK. They were okay to buy hauwei system, Australia. All of the things you just said. Ive done. I had a big talk with Boris. If you look at the system, you can forget about Scotland Yard. Frankly, we cant do business with you. Italy was set to sign the hauwei system and they terminated. Australia has been great right from the beginning. I will tell you what they are: a great ally Brian, Mr President, are you waiting? Are you going to call a summit together? We are already together. These countries are almost as angry as I am at the plague being released in their country. China stopped the plague from going into China, but they didnt
stop the plague from leaving China and going to Europe and the United States and all over the world. One hundred and eighty eight countries and those countries have suffered more than we have in many ways hard to believe more than we have Brian. On the same note, they right, Mr President, but we condemn sanction, but we did nothing what if they move on Taiwan next, what are we prepared to do? Hong Kong? We are with them its attached and with Hong Kong theyve taken tremendous amounts of business from us just from a practical standard, Hong Kong Stock Exchange. They take massive amounts. We gave them because of freedom for freedom. We gave them tremendous incentives and I wouldnt say its wrong, but they took massive amount of business away from the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ all of our exchanges- and that was okay. We did that for free. We have not taken all that back.
Hong Kong would not be successful exchange, it wont be. We gave them incentives that it was easy to do. Well, we will make more money. Now. China has grilled them down. They lost a lot of their fight. Brian theyve been arresting everybody ive looked at it for years. Why is Hong Kong getting so much business thats, not good. We gave Hong Kong tremendous incentives to get business. That was business that would normally come into New York and business that would come to the United States, the New York Stock Exchange. They are going to do very well. They will pick up a lot of business, thats very cold, to be saying that right, thats, very cold. But the fact is, Hong Kong is there and they didnt honor their agreement twenty five years ago, with their agreement with UK, they have an agreement that should have been honored and UK has looked at it very strongly, but weve taken everything back and we are doing a lot more business.
We will be doing a lot more business, Hong Kong, unfortunately, their exchanges and all of that business will now dry up and fail because they cant do it without the incentives that we gave. We gave them so much in order to be successful. Pete. Mr President, real quick on business, I want to talk about the business of sports reopening in our country a couple of years ago, you very vocal about kneeling for the national anthem. Now it seems that standing is the new kneeling in that only three players: Jonathan Isaac and Leonard and Gregg Popovich standing for the anthem, your take for the league, I think its disgraceful. We worked with them, worked hard to get open. I was pushing to get open and I see everybody kneeling during the anthem. We are not its not acceptable to be. When I see them kneeling, I just turn off the game. I have no interest in the game. Let me tell you plenty of other people too
black lives matter. Nobody has done better for our black community than me. Nobody and that is with possible exception of Abraham, Lincoln, its true criminal justice reform, opportunity zones, best employment numbers in history, every single. What ive done, funding the black colleges and universities? Historically, they say historically black, but the colleges and universities funded it for a long time. They had no funding, they had to keep coming back to Washington. I took care of them for long term. They are all set. Nobody has done for the black community african american community. What ive done- and I will tell you they had black lives matter. Where did it start marching down streets screaming pigs in a blanket fry them like bacon? They were talking about policemen
all of a sudden, its taken on air of great respectability. Well, how does it start there? Its a marxist group, its a marxist group? That is not looking for good things for our country, and now I see the leagues all kneeling down and again nobody has done more for the black community. By far, I always say nobody other than I will give the one exception Abraham Lincoln, but even that to be honest with you, but nobody has done more than I have, but when I see people kneeling during the playing and disrespecting our flag and disrespecting our national anthem, what I do personally is turn off the game and the ratings for the basketball are way down. If you know- and I hear some others are way down too, including baseball, because all of a sudden baseball is in the act, we need to stand up for our flag. We need to stand up for our country and stand up for our anthem and a lot of people agree with me. Hey if im wrong, I will lose an election and thats okay with me.
I will always stand for our country and flag thats. What we are all about our country is now respected. Again, our country was disrespected, and now our country is respected and other countries, including allies, I say sometimes So- called allies, because theyve ripped us up more than enemies. The allies are respecting us again Ainsley. Mr President, this would be the last question. Is there something you can say to help the country with the race, division and inequalities, because most of your supporters at least are going to say? I dont support black lives matter when they are chanting pigs in a blanket fry them, like bacon, most people support law enforcement that support you and men, and women and hard workers out in the front line, but there needs to be the conversation of black lives matter in the sense that Condoleezza Rice was asked one of her pet peeves. I hate it when people look at me because im Black and they come up with preconceived notions, how I will vote or what my
background is like or my education is like. How can we heal as a nation so that we can look at everyone as Americans? As Maya Angelo says, we are more similar than different. We had the highest employment, the best employment numbers ever ever, for the black community for African American, the best numbers hispanic asian everybody, but we had the best numbers for everybody. We were there. I was seeing believe it or not. With Congress we were doing things. The election was a walk. The election was going to be a walk, walk in the park now im working, but we are doing well. We have poll numbers now where im leading- and you know we got hit like everybody else and everybody in the same position, all the other countries, but we got hit, but we are doing really well and we are building it again and people see that we are building it again.
Biden cant build anything. We were close Ainsley to being there. We had tremendous success going and I could see things changing and they were changing rapidly and then we got hit with the plague from China. Now we are doing it again. The best answer, Ainsley S, great success, great jobs, great income homes, home ownership, was at the highest rate. Now we had great homeowners, you saw yesterday the home ownership numbers were announced yesterday and home sales are through the roof. I think it was one of the highest ever so we are doing it again, but we got interrupted by the virus by the plague and it was a terrible thing, but the answer just in word success. Success will bring us together, theres no other way that can top it. It will bring people together. Brian all right. Mr President, thanks for the quality time which we really appreciate on behalf of the audience thanks so much best of luck.
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