President joins Sean Hannity to discuss his health, the latest on the presidential debates and more.
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Liberty and live in nationally
syndicated radio host
joining us now live from
White House
President Donald Trump.
Mr President, thank you for
being with us.
First, an obvious question: how
are you feeling?
How is the first lady feeling-
and I want to get into your
comments- that you would make
regeneron and therapeutics free
for the american people, but
first, how are you doing
really good and the first
lady is doing really good and I
thought Mark was fantastic and I
love your show.
Okay,
if have you been tested, since
your campaign and your doctor,
Sean Connolly, put out that you
will be medically safe and
cleared for safe return to
public engagements by Saturday.
Five full days
have you been tested recently
yeah, I
just saw the doctors today,
they think im in great shape.
Did you test
negative?
I will
tell you. I took this regeneron.
Its phenomenal
Eli Lilly has something very
comparable and its a whole new
day,
and if you go back a few months,
nobody ever even thought about
this stuff.
We came up with it, but im going
to have it delivered to every
hospital. We have six sick people
with the covid for the China
virus, as we call it and we are
going to make people better.
I went in could have left a day
later, im telling you Sean
its incredible
thats regeneron, but again,
Eli Lilly has something similar.
The kind of things we are coming
up with now are incredible:
remdesivir, but thats a little
bit different works much
differently actually,
but these things are absolutely
incredible.
I think im going to try doing a
rally on Saturday night if we
have enough time to put it
together, but we want to do a
rally, probably in Florida on
Saturday night.
It might come back and do one in
Pennsylvania, the following night
and its incredible whats going
on,
I feel so good.
Have you had a test
since her diagnosis a week ago?
Well, what
were doing is probably the test
will be tomorrow, the actual
test, because theres no reason
to test all the time, but they
found very little infection or
virus. If any,
I dont know if they found any,
I didnt go into it greatly with
the doctors.
We have these great doctors at
Walter Reed, but you do rely on
them. They are really fantastic
talents and they came in from
Johns Hopkins, also and other
places.
I saw so many doctors looking
over me. I think im the most
analyzed human being in the
world right now,
but we have the head people at
not only Walter Reed, which is
incredible the job they do, but
also Johns Hopkins and other
hospitals.
I think theyre amazed at how
quickly this point. Frankly,
let me ask you: the
Debate Commission said earlier
tonight that their decision is
not going to be reversed. Even if
you get a full healthy, go ahead
from all of your doctors and
follow the CDC guidelines,
how did they get to unilaterally
decide that without consulting
with you or former
vice president Bidens campaign,
even
I didnt
even want to use them.
Last time I had a big problem,
my mikes, when I had three debates with Hillary,
and I think the first debate
and I think the first debate
they excuse me on the first
debate. They oscillated the mic,
oscillated it very, very
seriously
and actually apologized to me.
I said whats this all about
they were Quentin people, and I
said we ought to just do the
debates ourselves. We ought to
just do it ourselves and I
pick you know: im the
if the guy was choking like a
dog, he couldnt answer the
questions and he was choking
like a dog and Chris kept
saying it.
Now we have another one. I
didnt know this, but the other
one is from C span and he is
a never trumper and I think he
said he worked for Biden at
one point is of the people we
get and thats okay, because
ive had some bad ones over the
years and ive got an
unblemished record. I think in
the debating world, according to
the polls. If you look at fifteen
debates last time- and they say I
won them all against very
talented people in some cases,
but I will say this that it
is its a very sad thing
now you have this debate.
Commission is a joke.
Take a look at the letter. They
wrote four years ago. They were
isolating my MIKE. They were
turning it up and down. When I
was speaking to Hillary Croke
and Hillary,
who turns out to be very
crooked,
look at all the stuff we found
out on Obama and Biden entered,
so we will see what happens. Im
not interested in doing im.
Not going to do a virtual
debate sit behind a computer
screen that gives him the
answers because they will be
handing him the answers,
his news conference. He does
them and they give him the
answer and they give him the
he does it all the time
he was choking like a dog, but
Chris Wallace bailed him in
he bailed him in or bailed him
out.
Let me ask you this:
you have an opportunity to
challenge Joe Biden directly.
His campaign can make the
decision to go forward with a
debate, get any health check
that they want and follow
through and have two debates, and
you could agree upon the roles
if you dont need a debate
commission to do that,
I guess you have the ability to
challenge Joe Biden to such a
debate. Are you doing that
tonight?
Well, I
might
I will do it read three or show
weve got a lot of them.
Tucker
youre, going to get
me killed all the crosstalk
listen.
This is a disgrace. Whats going
on
now I find out the guy thats.
Doing it from C span is a
never trumper, but I dont mind
that
look at the people ive had in
the past mile was was won. The
debate
I had Martha her hatred was so
incredible. I couldnt believe
it, but I beat Hillary in that
debate easily.
I dont mind that
its, not even that but im not
going to sit behind a computer
and have somebody feed him
answers, because he has no idea
because he wont be president
for three months before the
wonderful Kamala takes over with
her shes, the most liberal
person shes, not a socialist.
She is a step beyond socialism,
as you know,
wanted to think of
the vice. What did you think
of last night? Its debate, sir?
I thought
MIKE was great.
I dont mean because he is with
me and is my friend. I thought
it was great
hes, a calm person.
We are really a good
combination. A lot of people
have said that for a long time,
hes a calm person hes a good
person, and he was just he
couldnt believe some of the
things she was saying and he
really didnt. He couldnt
believe it. What she was saying
they live. They lie so much
like fracking
him and her for a year. Whatever
the democrat debate we are
against, Fracking
Biden says we will never ever
see fracking and you know
Et Cetera, Et Cetera right,
so he gets the nomination he
has to center over a little bit.
We want to go fracking, we will
be fracking and her too,
even her
shes a super, but then they
get beat up by AOC Bus three.
You never said that before
now, the press gives them a pass.
The reason they give him a pass
because its fate, the news, is
fate. The enemy of the people
and the press gives them a pass.
If I ever did that, I would be
excoriated.
Let me ask you about
the issue that Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris refused to answer.
That is packing. The
United States Supreme Court,
which would be a change that
hasnt happened in one hundred and fifty years.
Terrible
thing
and Joe Biden
literally said today, and I
was I honestly thought last
night, Kamala Harris would have a
different answer.
I thought when MIKE Pence
challenged her, but she was going
to say no that they would not
support it.
There are nonanswers revealing
that Joe Biden, one further today
and said youll know my position
on court packing the day after
the election
whats your reaction to that.
I think it
was a terrible thing to say I
think its so disrespectful to
the people and who should have
said something- and you know
say to the best of my knowledge.
This is probably what I would
do.
I think its. I think what he
said was so disrespectful to the
process and to the people
it. What he said then was just
disgraceful, but what that
means really is that theyre
going to do it, because,
obviously that means one hundred percent thats.
What theyre going to do.
They are going to end the
filibuster and theyre going to
do things that you wouldnt have
thought
ive been fighting the
filibuster with Mitch for a long
time, because I said Mitch,
theyre going to do it if
they ever got in Schumer would
do that on day one.
I agree that what they did was
right. You know you take a look
at what Mitch and some very good
republican senators, because
its good for the country- but I
said, Heres the problem if they
ever got in if they won, this
would be the first move they
make and the filibuster the
nuclear option as they call
it
not a week, will go by probably
not a day will go by, but again
Harry Reid. Did it thats why we
have so many judges?
I want to thank you very much
Harry Reid, because Harry Reid,
he ended the filibuster and im
going to have three hundred judges by the
time I finished three hundred
its a record
by the end of the first term.
Think of that,
its a record
by the end of the first term, I
will have three hundred judges just
about give or take a few,
a couple
and its all, because think of
it, its all because of
Harry Reid and a lot of good
work by a lot of good
Republicans, including Mitch
dont, you think, or do
you think that the people of
this country need to know
whether Joe Biden, if he
were elected president, if you
attack the courts, whether or
not he would support statehood
for places like d dot c, whether or
not he would support ending the
filibuster, whether or not even
maybe pursue a constitutional
amendment to abolish the
electoral college?
To me, these are fundamental
questions that he is refusing to
answer.
What is you are? What is your
answer to his nonanswer
and the media? I think hes
answered less than one hundred questions,
since this whole campaign has
started, which I think makes
these two debates that are
forthcoming even more important
than any average presidential
election year.
Hes got a
lot of nonanswers.
I mean look, look at the
second amendment.
You never talk about.
Second amendments:
he wants to take away your guns,
one hundred percent,
he put Beto, you know he turned
out to be. He was exposed by
TED Cruz and me. I think I
helped a lot too, but he was
exposed as a clown is much
worse than that. But I want to be
nice because its a nice, you
know evening show, but he was
exposed as a clown. He wants to
take away your guns
hes, going to take away your
second amendment.
What he asks him about. The
second amendment anymore.
Do you notice that
the second amendment is very
important,
its a big thing?
We campaigned on it I
protected. If I want
president, you wouldnt have a
second amendment right now
and Biden. Nobody talks about
life anymore, pro life. Is he
pro life?
No hes, not pro life.
You know. What is he?
Why dont? You ask him a
question.
He doesnt want to talk about
it,
but he endorsed a governor of
Virginia who not only executed a
baby, late term abortion but
executed a baby because the baby
can be born, and then you can
kill the baby
and hes totally in favor of
that- and I can tell you your
pro life groups are they are
in mass?
This is this: is there one
shot bebecause whats going on
so bad, its so evil?
The governor of Virginia is that
we will execute the baby after
the baby is born.
You talk about late term
abortion. This is early term
execution and its a very, very
bad thing, but you dont ever
hear anybody talking about
pro life. Pro choice with Biden.
Did you ever hear it?
I havent heard it very rarely.
Do you hear it?
I dont think you would know how
to discuss it,
but very importantly,
second amendment they just
dont discuss the
second amendment
hes going to take your guns
away. So everybody with a gun.
You cant vote for him because
youre not going to have your
guns.
At the same time they want to
defund the police. So youre not
going to police protection and
by the way you cant have a gun.
So when one of these maniacs
breaks into your house at night,
because there are no cops
around you, dont have a gun to
protect yourself.
Thats, a great combination and
the suburbs are going to fall.
A lot of people talk about the
women of the suburbs right
women of the suburbs.
They do or dont like Trump I
dont know, but what ive done
is incredible for the suburbs
the suburbs are over. As you
know,
the suburbs will become more
unsafe than the cities run by
the Democrats, and so I think I
should do very well with
suburban women because im the
one thats protecting them, both
in terms of law and order and in
terms of zoning.
They want to build low income
housing right next to your house,
as the american dream is
destroyed destroyed,
but they dont talk to Biden
about this.
They dont talk to him about law
and order.
I said to him the other night
mention the words law and order.
He wouldnt do it.
He wouldnt do it.
I said mention the word law and
order go ahead.
He wouldnt do it and then, of
course, Chris Wallace came in to
protect him.
Let me ask you this,
Mr President, if I may
I played at the beginning of a
show, we dont have a lot of
time left. I wont play it
again,
Joe Biden twice in the debate
that he had with you said he
will eliminate the trumps tax
cuts
now hes saying only on people,
four hundred thousand dollars or more. But I will let
you explain it.
He says hes, not against
fracking, but I have him saying
he will illuminate fracking
twice and we played that tape.
He has repeatedly said and
Kamala Harris last night, falsely
have claimed that you have yet
to once condemned its a promise.
Yet I showed multiple instances
when you have done just that: th
NEO Nazis, David, Duke White
Nationalism, disavowing David DU
to spread that falsehood
your reaction
because they dont seem to get
called out on the media on the
fact that what they are saying
is false
and I
condemn the people on the left
like Antifa, that are burning
down your cities all summer long
long
without any control whatsoever.
Theyre all Biden, people,
meaning not Biden Biden- is not
smart enough to know what it
even is, but they are of that
philosophy
and I condemn them very
strongly very, very strongly
its not just the right, its
the right, its the left,
but the left has been a problem
for the long time.
Antifa has been a big big
problem and I see Witmer today
shes complain, but it was our
Justice Department that arrested
the people she was complaining
about.
It was my justice department
that arrested them, but instead
she goes and does her political
act and she keeps her state
closed. Although we just won the
big case, as you know, to open
up Michigan, because what shes
doing is a horrible thing to the
people,
the churches are closed. The
schools are closed and the whole
state is closed and the people
are being hurt very badly in the
form of drinking and suicide and
depression.
Its very sad thing,
but no Joe Biden, wants to raise
taxes and very sadly, if you
take a look, he wants to raise
taxes, but he says is going to
end our tax cut.
People are getting actually much
more MIKE handled the great
two thousand. It was actually much more
than two thousand and child tax
credits, which is the thousand
dollars a child, but he wants to
take all that away. So, therefore,
if you do nothing else, youre
raising taxes by the largest
percentage in the history of our
country,
if he terminated my tax cuts,
which is one of the reasons that
our economy has done so great
even now in this pandemic, which
hopefully we around and return-
and we have incredible cures and
a lot of therapeutics and the
vaccines are going to be coming
very soon but ill. Tell you
what I took it its
incredible
to me. I viewed it as a cure,
its incredible and we are going
to get it to everybody free of
charge,
its going to hospitals its
starting very soon. The military
is going to be delivering it,
but hes looking to do big, big
tax cuts. Big big tax increases,
like at a level thats, never
been seen
Nobodys ever gotten the cuts
that I got.
I got the biggest tax cuts ever
given, as you know, Sean better
than probably most but hes
going to end those tax cuts and
reverse them, and now people are
going to pay. Two thousand must child
tax credits,
its going to be a disaster for
our country.
Its going to put our country
into a depression in your
401ks are going to go down
the tubes and your jobs are
going to go away and are going
to have a depression, the likes
of which our country has never
seen before, and that possibly
includes one thousand nine hundred and twenty nine.
Mr President, there
has been articles out and I
would assume that Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris not giving their
position on court packing would
be a national ad.
I assume them both on record
saying they would ban. Fracking
would be an ad that would run
and a lot of cycles in Ohio and
Pennsylvania,
their website
and Texas.
The green new deal
and Joe Biden saying he would
spend trillions of dollars on it
and pledging that
what with the new green deal,
look like in your view, if
implemented as promised by both
Joe Biden and as a Cosponsor
Kamala Harris in the U Dot S
Senate
its a
deal that was conceived of by
not smart people, AOC, plus
three and others.
I dont even think they had any
experience in the environment.
This was a deal conceived of and
the real price is one hundred dollars trillion
thats more money than this
country could make in a hundred
years. If things went well, okay,
I mean they literally want to
take buildings down and rebuild
them with tiny little windows.
Okay,
little windows, so you cant, see
out cant, see the light and the
whole thing is so crazy.
Its such a crazy thing and take
a look
and Biden agreed to this with
crazy burning, because you know
they have the manifesto
theyve agreed to most of these
things and its going to cost
more money.
Our country will be a ninth
world country, not a federal to
world country. A ninth world
country
look at whats happening with
the rolling blackouts in
California,
look at where California is
going to have to ration water.
You know why,
because they send billions of
gallons of water out to sea
out of the Pacific,
because they want to take care
of certain little tiny fish that
arent doing very well without
water. To be honest with you,
but its a very sad thing: thats
happening no common sense, even
the fires in California.
I talk about you need. I
was with Governor Newsom I get
along with him very well.
We disagree on a lot of things,
but I get along with him
number one. You should let water
come down from the north and
accept it instead of throwing it
out to the Pacific, but you also
have to have forest management.
We send them so much money I
dont have to, but I want to
help California, but they have
the biggest forest fires because
they dont manage their land.
They dont have separators.
They have trees that have been
laying on the ground that are
stone, cold, dead dry like
matchstick, and you throw
cigarette butt on them between
the leaves in the trees,
everything catches on fire, and
you lose two hundred thousand acres in a
short period of time.
They got to manage their forests
and if they manage their
forests, youre going to not see
the forest fires.
Mr President, the
Heritage Foundation identified
nearly a thousand convictions on
voting fraud.
There have been. You have
expressed many times your
concern about some of the
changing laws and rules and have
spoken negatively about these
changes. But with that said, a
lot of states have now begun
early voting.
Some will be starting in a week
or two.
Will you encourage your
supporters to get out and vote
early?
Well, I
want them to vote, but I will
say this absenteeism, okay,
because absentee ballots.
Excuse me absentee ballots
are fine
because absentee ballots, you
request, you ask for a ballot
and you request, and that said
absentee ballots are absolutely
fine.
You request them, you fill them
in. You send them back in, but
these unsolicited ballots
universal, unsolicited ballots,
Sean its going to be a
disaster, the likes of which
weve never seen.
We will never have seen an
election like whats going to
take place.
Thousands of ballots all over
the country are being reported,
some thrown in garbage cans. My
name on them,
some thrown in trays in a river
at whats, going on, is absolutely
crazy.
We have people watching, we have:
u DOT S attorneys watching. We have
sheriffs watching.
We have? U dot S marshals watching
youre talking about millions of
ballots are being sent out
with that said,
its going
to be a big tremendous fraud.
Excuse me:
would you prefer that
your supporters, if thats the
system and thats what the law
is, would you prefer that they
get out early also so that
theres not a big deficit
heading into election day
yeah?
Well, my supporters are going to
be mostly people that vote.
They go to the vote. You know
the old fashioned way go to the
voting, booth and vote.
First of all, we should have
voter, I dot d, all over the country.
When you buy something you have
voter, I dot d
to get into the Democratic
national convention. You had to
have voter, I dot d.
I had to have it four
years ago,
but to get
into vote you dont need voter
idea. In many places,
Indiana has a great system.
You have many places where you
do have it, but we should have
voter. I dot d, universal voter, I dot d.
When you go to votee, they should
see who you are make sure that
its not fraudulent, but this
will be one of the greatest
Roger went and most fraudulent
elections ever because of this
whole thing,
theyre sending out millions and
millions and millions of
ballots.
Where are they sending them?
Who is sending them
where they going
where they coming back from?
How many are fraudulent?
Are they being thrown away?
Are they being sold?
Are they being harvested
its a terrible thing Sean?
Despite that, I think we are
going to have a tremendous
victory.
I saw some polls just now and
some real polls, not the fake
polls where they put out numbers
like at CNN and ABC
Washington, Post
Wall Street Journal NBC
its the same stuff as I had
its not nearly as bad as it
used to be.
It used to be much worse,
believe it or not hard to
believe when you think of it,
but im. Looking at polls, we are
doing great in Ohio, doing great
in Iowa doing great in many
many places
many places,
then you come home. You turn on
the television. You say
im four down, I cant believe it,
but they are fake polls
last question and I
only have about a minute for you
to answer that. Is we now
discovered that the CIA have
briefed? Then, President Obama, on
a plan, that Hillary Clinton
concocted to distract from her
email, server scandal and concoct
this Russia hoax.
We also learned that she paid.
We already knew she paid for the
dirty russian misinformation
dossier and at the source for
steals dossier, was a known Russi
operative for over ten
years
and they still went forward with
it.
In the forty seconds, we have left
your reaction to this new news.
We caught
them spying on our campaign.
This is treason.
We caught them trying to take
down a duly elected
administration, Slash president, and we
have all the evidence. Now
we have to see what the
law enforcement is going to do
with it, but we caught them
spying as sure as you are
sitting there. I assume youre
sitting, but as sure as youre
sitting there we caught them
spying on our campaign. You know
that almost better than anybody
and its something when you see
the New York Times
Washington Post, get full of
surprises. They got everything
wrong right.
We caught them spying on our
campaign.
We caught them trying to take
down a duly elected, and then
they talk about. We want to
peaceful transition of power.
Peaceful MIKE Pences. Best
answer was that answer last
night
they spent three and a half
years trying to terminate a
presidency.
Mr President, we
wish you and the first lady and
every American that has
contracted Covid a very speedy
recovery, very positive news on
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