Donald Trump (54:52):
A lot of it you can do with a phone call. I mean, I can tell people in a phone… I can say, “You can’t do that. You can’t do that.” I told it to a very nice good friend of mine, the head of France. They make nice champagne and wine. They were going to tax our companies, or companies were going to be taxed very substantially in France. They were putting a big tax on American companies. I had my people call up and say, “We’re not going to allow that to happen.” And they didn’t care. My people spent two months, they’re capable people, but they couldn’t do it. And I said, “Let me do it.” And I spoke to Macron. Do you know Macron? He’s a nice man.
Speaker 4 (55:30):Yep.
Donald Trump (55:30):
He’s actually a nice man. But he’s for France. I’m for the USA, and he’s from France. And I said, “Emmanuel, how are you?” “Oh, doing well. I am fine. Thank you so much. It’s such an honor to talk to you.” “Thank you very much. You might not like me so much after this call, however. I understand, Emmanuel, that you’re going to be taxing American companies doing business in France.” “Oh, yes, yes, yes. That has passed. I’m so sorry to tell you, but that has passed.” I said, “Well, I don’t think it’s passed. I really don’t think it’s passed. Or if it has, you can un-pass it, because if you don’t take that tax off American…” I want to protect American companies. That means you and a lot of people. Why should they tax American companies?
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I said, “If you don’t take that tax off, I’m going to tax at 100%, I’m going to tax every bottle of champagne and every bottle of wine that comes into the United States from France.” And I know that’s a soft spot for them, right? That’s like a soft spot. And he goes, “No, no, no, you cannot do that. That is not fair.” I said, “That’s okay. You got five minutes to tell me yes. And after that, I’m sorry.” Calls me back in five minutes. “We have agreed to do that. We are taking off all of the…” I did that in about four minutes if you add it totally up. My guys we’re working on it for two and a half months and getting nowhere. But you can do a lot of things if you’re president, if you know-
Speaker 5 (56:45):Good job. Good job.
Donald Trump (56:47):
… how to do it. If you know how to do it. And I still remain friendly. I mean, you don’t have to burn the bridges. I mean, he respects it. They respect that more than some dope that doesn’t know what’s happening. They respect you more. They almost like you more. They came out, all these guys, they like me. Boris called-
Speaker 6 (57:06):Love you.
Donald Trump (57:06):
… he wants to come. They all want to come see me. They like me. And yet there’s nobody been tougher. Like Russia. They all say, “Oh, Russia, Russia, Russia.” I ended the Russian pipeline.
Speaker 7 (57:16):Thank you.
Donald Trump (57:17):
It was called Nord Stream 2. That was the biggest thing they’ve ever done, and I ended it. And Biden, his first day in office, approved it and let it be built. And I had it stopped. And Putin would say, “They say we’re friendly and that you’re nice to me. I’d hate like hell to see if you were not nice to me.” Because think of it, I ended that. I had tariffs and I had all sorts of things on Russian citizens. But I got along with Putin. That’s not a bad thing. But he would tell you, the historians will someday tell you, there’s nobody that’s been tougher on Russia.
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Russia would have never, as we said, would have never, ever in a million years gone into Ukraine. That only started when I left. Once I was out, all of a sudden they start forming. I thought he was doing it for negotiation purposes. And they could have had a deal, by the way. They could have had. That could have been a deal. That’s a deal that would have been easy to make, and instead of a deal it’s now all those millions, I think… I think the numbers are going to be much greater than you’re hearing. When you see that they knocked down nine buildings in a city in Ukraine and two people were hurt. No, no, no. Many people were killed. Many people were killed. I think when you see the real numbers, you’re going to see numbers that are shocking, how bad they are. And that’s something that would have been easy to have done.
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Even without a deal, he wouldn’t have done it, because part of the reason he did it is Biden let energy prices, barrels of oil go up so high that they made a fortune. So they did it for that, because he was making… It went over $100 a barrel, and at that he could prosecute a war and make a… He’s the only guy that ever had a war and made an absolute fortune. It shouldn’t have happened. This guy is always talking, “The Green New Deal,” and all this stuff, but in the meantime, he’s allowed a lot of these countries that, let’s say they’re not particularly friendly to us to make a fortune because the oil price went up so high. It’s a shame.
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The guy is grossly incompetent. What’s happened is horrible. Because I had it at $40 a barrel. At $40 a barrel, he didn’t have the money to go in and fight Ukraine. At $100 a barrel, the guy’s making a fortune. So with Biden, he keeps the oil price up, and it’s very high now, but now he’s got to do something artificial to get it down for the election. Watch. But as soon as the election’s over, it’s going to be over for you. He tapped into the strategic reserves that I had so much to do with bringing it up and then took it almost down to the lowest point.
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It was down to the lowest point they say in history because he wanted to keep gas prices low during… It wasn’t meant for that, but he wanted to keep gas prices low so that the election would go and you wouldn’t have had to pay $9 a gallon, you’d pay two and a half, $3 a gallon. It’s called artificial pricing. He did that, and as soon as it was over, it went way up. Now it’s still high, but it’s coming down because they’re making all sorts of moves on other countries. We’re getting oil now from Venezuela. We’re getting oil now from Iran. The people I wouldn’t let them buy from, Iran, they’re now sending us oil. Can you believe it? The whole thing is crazy.
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Nikki Haley would sell you out, and Ron DeSanctimonious would sell you out so quickly. They’re going to all grant amnesty to Biden’s illegal aliens when Biden comes in. Sadly, the establishment losers and sellouts lagging far behind us in the Republican primary cannot be trusted on taxes, on trade, or on anything else. You can’t trust them on taxes. They want to raise your taxes like crazy. They’re globalists and they always will be, and they always want to take care of global countries, and somewhere along the line they think that’s good for us. I think they probably believe it, or they’re crooked. Some are crooked. I really believe some are crooked, but I think some probably believe it. They can’t explain why because it doesn’t make sense.
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No. It’s about America. It’s about America first. We have to take care of our own country. We can help others, but we have to take care of our own country. There’s nothing you can do to change these people. They’ll betray you just like they betrayed me. I mean, I told you that DeSanctimonious, I got him elected. He went up like a rocket ship as soon as I pressed that little button. Now it’s truth. Truth is the best, right? But is everybody on truth? I hope. Truth is the one. That’s the one. But at that time, there was no truth. It was before. I tweeted a little statement and he went up like a rocket ship. He went from getting killed, he was dead, he was going to leave the race, to winning the race just with one little press of a button. It’s an amazing thing, isn’t it? But there’s never been anything like it from the standpoint of an endorsement, so he won. But Nikki said she would have a news conference. “This is a great president. I will never run against him.” Right? You’ve seen that. Have you seen our clips?
Speaker 8 (01:02:09):Yeah.
Donald Trump (01:02:09):
We have about nine of them. There are a lot more than that, but we don’t want to bore you. But, “No, I will never, ever even consider running against the president. He was a great president.” Then a year and a half later, “I’ve decided to run for the presidency.” Oh, great. I don’t know. There’s something about a lot of these… Because I don’t consider myself a politician. I consider myself like you. We’re workers.
Speaker 9 (01:02:31):Right.
Speaker 10 (01:02:31):Yeah.
Donald Trump (01:02:31):We know how to do things, make money.
Speaker 11 (01:02:34):Right.
Donald Trump (01:02:37):
And if she said she wanted to run, let her say it up front. Don’t let her just play you around like that for years, and, “I would never run against the president. He’s so good.” She actually said I was a great president, and I was a great president. Look at all the things we did-
Speaker 12 (01:02:50):Yeah, you are.
Speaker 13 (01:02:50):You are.
Speaker 14 (01:02:50):You are.
Donald Trump (01:02:51):
… against… Yeah, I love when they say… A lot of people say, “You are. You are.”
Speaker 12 (01:02:56):Yeah, you are.
Donald Trump (01:02:56):
That’s sort of cute. A lot of people don’t understand what they mean by that. But Iowa does not want politicians like Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley, who both support a 23% national sales tax, which is a disaster. You don’t want politicians like Ron and Nikki, who both want to gut social security and Medicare and hurt our seniors. And if you look at it, Ron voted three times to raise the retirement age on social security over 70, and Nikki would take the retirement age to way, way higher than even the number that Ron is talking about. I don’t know why they want to do that.
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We have so much wealth underground. We have so much liquid gold, I call it, underground. You don’t need to do this. You don’t have to destroy our senior citizens. When we drill, baby, drill, we’re going to make so much money. We’ll be supplying the world. Unlike DeSantis and Nikki Haley, we’ll always protect social security and Medicare for our seniors. Just remember that when you have to vote, although I think… Is there anybody in this room that’s not going to vote for Trump, just out of… No, don’t raise your hand. It could be dangerous. Don’t. They’re going to say, “He incited an insurrection,” these stupid bastards, “He incited an insurrection.” No, but is there? Quietly, raise your hand. Is there anybody here that’s not going to vote for Trump? That’s very nice.
Speaker 15 (01:04:22):Vote Trump.
Donald Trump (01:04:22):
Actually, they’re upset by even the question. They’re upset. They don’t even like that question. Well, I appreciate it, but on my first day back in the White House, I will terminate every open borders policy of the Biden administration. We’ll stop the invasion on our southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. We have no choice. We have no choice. Not like we have a choice. I will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement. And all of the people working on immigration, they’re not even allowed to work. They sign people up and they’re brought into the inner sanctums of the country and just leave the border open. They don’t even want the border.
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How about where the Governor of Texas, who endorsed me recently, Governor Abbott, which was a nice endorsement… He’s become much more popular since he endorsed me, actually, but he endorsed me. And they’re fighting because the federal government wants to cut the barbed wire. You know the barbed wire? They call it razor wire, but it’s pretty tough stuff. But they have it along the Texas border, because Texas is just being inundated. What they’re doing to Texas and Arizona is just horrible. And they’re in court now because they’re cutting. Did you ever see them there with splicers? They’re cutting. They’re cutting sections. They want people to come. They’re cutting it, and the people are waiting to be led into the country. The whole thing is crazy, and we’re not going to be doing that stuff. We’re going to be bringing our country back.
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People say, “You’re conservative.” I think everybody in this room is the same. We’re people of common sense, right? People of common sense. Liberal, conservative, we’re people of common sense. I mean, you’ve got to have borders and you have to have honest elections, and almost everything else is less important. But you have to have borders if you’re going to have a country, and you have to have free and fair elections, which we don’t have. We have these mail-in ballot things with thousands and hundreds of thousands in areas are sent out, and we have no idea where the hell they’re going and where they’re coming from. And many pay-
Speaker 16 (01:06:30):Garbage.
Donald Trump (01:06:30):
Yeah, some of them go into the garbage. Yeah, especially if they’re Republicans. They put them right into the garbage. No, it’s a shame. You’ll never have an honest election with a mail-in ballot. Remember that. You’ll never. Jimmy Carter said it. They formed the Carter Commission, and he was there with a couple of other respected senators, older senators. They came up, and the big point of their report was, “Never do mail-in ballots because you’ll never have an honest election.” He said that a long time ago.
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France just went to same-day voting, all paper ballots and voter ID, and they had 36 million people vote for Macron. They voted for Macron, just to bring him back, so he’s not going to be too upset. No, they voted for Macron. He won the election. And by 10 o’clock in the evening, everybody went home. They had a real election. They have watermarked paper now, which is very secure. They can’t reproduce it. You can’t copy it. It’s watermarked. Because they’ll try and cheat there too. But it’s the best system there is. It’s really the system that we started with when you get right down to it, but it’s better because the paper technology is incredible, what they can do.
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We’ll immediately restore and expand the Trump travel ban for those countries that are terror-plagued, and they want to come into our country and hurt our people. We’re not going to let them come into our country. They ended that. They want everybody to come in. “Come on in, everybody. Come on in. Yes, you killed nine people, but we think you’re going to be much better now.” Not one thing has gotten better, if you think about it, under crooked Joe Biden. The country’s a mess. We’re a laughingstock all over the world.
Speaker 17 (01:08:02):[inaudible 01:08:04].
Donald Trump (01:08:03):
Under the Trump administration, you were better off, your family was better off, your neighbors were better off, your communities were better off, and our country was better off. The whole country was better off. America was stronger, richer, safer, and more confident, and it’s not even close, when I was behind the beautiful Resolute desk at the Oval Office. And it is a beauty, I will say. It’s no wonder the same corrupt forces that have been fighting us every step of the way are now breaking every rule and shattering every norm in a lawless attempt to keep us from defeating them at the ballot box. Nobody’s ever seen what’s happened right now.
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And it’s a double-edged sword. It can happen the other way too. It’s never happened, the weaponization of justice like they’re doing right now. The DOJ is very corrupt. What they’re doing is very corrupt. People aren’t going to take it. Joe Biden is a threat to democracy. He’s weaponizing law enforcement for a high-level election interference. It’s all about election interference. And I don’t even know if it’s him because I think he’s grossly incompetent, but he’s surrounded by people that are fascists and communists and they’re vicious and they’re very smart. For example, as I was landing for this visit, I was informed that the corrupt New York State Attorney General Letitia James, she’s a corrupt person, is now… And New York is going so bad with the crime. It’s like you can’t even walk down to buy a loaf of bread.
Speaker 18 (01:09:24):[inaudible 01:09:25] a good job.
Donald Trump (01:09:25):
Letitia James, a real bad one, is now demanding that I pay $370 million in penalties where I did absolutely nothing wrong. My financial statements, you’ve been reading about it, are great. They’re great. The man who did the check of the financials said, “One of the best financial statements I’ve ever seen.” My financial statements are great, and they’re very conservative, just the exact opposite of what the highly political and totally corrupt New York State Attorney General was trying to say before she got to see my statements. She ran for office on a, ” I will get Trump.” Did you ever see her?
Audience (01:10:01):Yep.
Donald Trump (01:10:02):
“I will get Trump. I will get him. I’m going to get him. I’m going to kill him. I’m going to get Trump.” If a Republican ever said that, they’d have him put in jail for insurrection.
Speaker 19 (01:10:12):I know.
Donald Trump (01:10:13):
She and the judge fraudulently valued Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, which is probably the greatest home in America by far, at $18 million. Now, it sounds like a lot, but it’s not because it was good for their narrative doing that, and it was fraudulent for them to do that when in fact it’s worth 50 to 100 times that amount. We had people come in a billion dollars, a billion five, whatever, but it’s a very valuable property. But the judge said it was $18 million. I had people call up, “I’ll take five.”
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They never use the New York State statute. They have a statute that they use. It’s vicious. Vicious. They never used the statute for this before. I was not allowed a jury. I had no jury. It’s up to a judge who comes out of the clubhouses of New York. Think of that. How would you like to be in that position? There was no victim-
Speaker 20 (01:11:07):We are.
Donald Trump (01:11:08):
… because the banks made a lot of money. Good, great loans. The banks testified. In particular, one bank testified. Great, great. Everything was great. There was no default. There was no damages. There was no nothing. Only a very happy bank that got 100% of its money back and in addition to getting its money back made tremendous profits. This case should never have been brought. It should be in the commercial division.
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The rigged judge would not let it go. He wouldn’t allow it to leave his side. He took it, and usually it gets sent in because of its complexity, although it wasn’t complex because it turned out to be very simple. The statement is phenomenal. They said, “The best statement he’s ever seen,” and should have never been allowed to be presented to this judge. It should have gone into the commercial division like all other cases like this. But he kept it. And he’s a radical Trump hater, hates Trump with a passion. I don’t know what it is. He has a passion for hating Trump. I should have never been gagged. They had a gag order. They wouldn’t let me talk. I can’t talk about certain very important things, much more important than people understand.
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The judge ruled that I was guilty before he even started the case. In fact, I got a call, “Sir, you’ve been found guilty.” I said, “No, the case starts in two weeks.” “I know, but he found you guilty before the case starts.” Other than that, it was an extremely fair case. Now, the corrupt AG just announced a little while before I walked into the doors… So if you don’t mind, I was a little bit angry when I walked in. Did you notice the anger? Maybe not. But the corrupt AG wants 370 million as a fee for what I did. And I did nothing wrong. Nothing. 370 million, which is much more than any loan, much more. That was peanuts. This is weaponization at a level that nobody’s ever seen.
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So, violence is out of control. People are fleeing New York. Businesses are fleeing New York. Car thefts are up 191% in New York. 191%. They should pay me. But it’s prosecutorial misconduct and it’s a DOJ witch hunt because it’s in total coordination with Biden’s deal. So they’re charging me $370 million fine for making a very small loan that the bank wanted to make, because that’s what they do, they loan money. And they love my statement. They like me. But I borrowed the money for that reason. The bank wanted me to. But they are in the business of loaning money. That’s how they make money. And it was a great loan for them. They got all their money. They actually testified there was no default during the term of the loan. I actually paid the loan back early. It was a great loan. I’m very under-leveraged. We have great cash grade, everything. Built a great company. And these fascists, what they’re doing to our country is just unbelievable. So I did nothing wrong. In every way it was like a perfect… The bank was so happy. They testify, “No, everything was good.” Same thing with every other thing. They were looking at things. 370 million for doing nothing wrong. I took a loan. I paid the loan back and they charged me 370 million, which I guess is more than two times the loan, something like that.
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But as a very intelligent person just stated on truth, New York AG Letitia James has decided to increase the amount she wants from Donald Trump in civil trial. Initially, she requested $250 million. And he did nothing wrong, did nothing wrong. They only want to hurt us because they don’t want us running for office because we’re leading Biden, crooked Joe, by a lot. And this is all this is. This is a terrible intrusion into politics and into our way of life. But now she wants $370 million and she wants it fast, and it’s a disgrace. I’ve never seen anything like it. I hope everyone can see this for what it really is. This is the gentleman writing.
Speaker 21 (01:15:19):Big deal.
Donald Trump (01:15:19):
He goes, “This is nothing more than a shakedown of a leading candidate of her opposing political party.” She thinks she’s going to make hay with Washington. But this is a coordination with the DOJ. The DOJ is doing this case with them. In fact, they moved one of the top political operatives from the DOJ in Washington into the DA’s office and into also the Attorney General’s office. How would you like to be me? You think my life’s a lot of fun?
Speaker 22 (01:15:44):No.
Speaker 23 (01:15:44):Yeah.
Donald Trump (01:15:44):
Our founding fathers would be turning in their graves if they could see this. No American should be okay with a political party being weaponized against their enemies. This is not democracy, he says, this is not constitutional. This is wrong in every aspect, and the judge and the AG should be arrested and punished accordingly. How much longer can we allow this to happen in our country? And all of this is being done because we’re beating them so badly at the polls. In the new Morning Consult poll, we’re trouncing the Republican primary field with Trump at 66, DeSanctimonious at 11, and Haley at 11. That’s not bad.
Speaker 24 (01:16:25):[inaudible 01:16:28].
Donald Trump (01:16:29):
We’re beating DeSantis in Florida. Poll just came out. I’m at 88, he’s at like 11, because the people got wise to him. I think he screwed up his career pretty good, I’ll tell you, but he deserves it. We’re also leading big here in Iowa, but again, take nothing for granted. We had The Des Moines Register come out with a great poll recently. They’ve never been really nice to me. I’ve always been leading, but I’d end up doing better. But they were respectful. Actually, it’s a very professional pollster, The Des Moines Register. But it’s amazing. I mean, the numbers have just been amazing in Iowa.
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The numbers are amazing in New Hampshire. But polls, they’re a little bit like the media. They have polls that lie. They had one poll in New Hampshire where I was only leading by six or seven points. Normally, you’d be happy, but we’re leading by maybe 30 points or something. But that caused a big stir. Everybody said, “Oh, Nikki’s doing great,” but it’s a crooked poll. In the general election, we’re crushing crooked Joe Biden by historic margins in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, and every other swing state, if there are any.
Speaker 25 (01:17:41):[inaudible 01:17:43].
Donald Trump (01:17:44):
The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020, and we’re not going to allow them to rig the presidential election in 2024. Not going to allow that.
Speaker 27 (01:17:55):We love Trump. We love Trump.
Speaker 26 (01:17:55):We love you, Trump.
Donald Trump (01:18:04):
It’s a little hot. This room wasn’t designed exactly for this many people. I’m sitting up here, it’s 200 degrees in this damn… I’m trying to be cool, but if you don’t mind, I’m going to just do this a little bit.
Speaker 28 (01:18:16):You are cool.
Donald Trump (01:18:18):
Every time the radical-left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it a great badge of honor. And it’s true, it’s true. I’m being indicted for you. I’m being indicted for you. Never forget, our enemies want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. I’m not going to let it happen. They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you. And in the end, they’re not after me. They’re after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way.
Speaker 29 (01:18:51):That’s right. Yeah.
Speaker 30 (01:18:52):Yeah. Good job.
Donald Trump (01:18:54):
But this is big stuff. This is far more than a campaign. This is the greatest political movement in the history of our country. I look around, I see all the MAGA shirts and Trump, and Trump, and MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, like that beautiful woman back there with her Trump sweatshirt. I like that sweatshirt a lot. But together we ended the NAFTA disaster, the worst trade deal ever made, and replaced it with that great, greatest trade deal maybe ever made, USMCA, and all of you are beneficiaries. You were getting killed for decades with NAFTA.
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You know why I know it’s good? Because Mexico and Canada are calling every single day. They want to renegotiate the deal. They said, “Nope, the deal’s no good for them.” That makes me feel good.
Speaker 31 (01:19:34):We know.
Donald Trump (01:19:35):
Because I’m negotiating for you. Because with NAFTA, they wouldn’t let us negotiate anything. I took on communist China like no administration in history, bringing hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our treasury when no other president had gotten literally 10 cents from China. Not one president got a dime from China. I then gave the farmers of our country $28 billion straight out of the tariffs I took from China, a large part of which came to a particular state known as Iowa. Have you heard of it? Have you heard of it? And just as I promised, I also stood up for Iowa ethanol, and I stood up-
Speaker 32 (01:20:14):[inaudible 01:20:15].
Donald Trump (01:20:15):
… under a lot of great odds. And I did it myself. I didn’t have a lot of help, I have to tell you. From some of your people, I didn’t have a lot of help. I issued a historic rule declaring that E15 would be made available all year round instead of the eight months, and letting them use the existing pumps, which saved hundreds of millions of dollars and created a lot of jobs that otherwise wouldn’t have been created. I said, “What’s better, the older equipment or the new?” And I’m not surprised, I hear it all the time, “Well, the older pumps are much better. They’re much stronger. They’re made much better.” I said, “Let’s leave them, right? Let’s leave them.” They’re actually saying it’s better. Ron DeSantis spent his entire career as a raging opponent of ethanol. He will destroy ethanol. I will protect ethanol for four more years in the White House, and
Donald Trump (01:21:00):
I think for Iowa, that’s a big thing. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I win the presidency and we win the presidency ’cause we’re going to do it together, it’s we more than I, I’ll have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine, settled, absolutely settled, and we will restore peace through strength all over our planet. And I’m the only candidate who can make this promise and mean it. I will prevent World War III, you are very close to a World War. You don’t have to be into it too much to know, you just have to see what’s going on, you are very close to a world war and it would be most likely a nuclear war. And if it’s a nuclear war, it’s obliteration. It’s a level of power that nobody’s ever seen and that nobody can even express and that frankly shouldn’t even be talked about. We wouldn’t talk about it in my administration and nobody else did either outside in other countries, but we wouldn’t talk about it. Now, every day they’re talking about nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, nuclear.
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It’s so devastating. It just don’t talk about it. Don’t talk about it. I will end Biden’s inflation nightmare, save our nation from debt and economic despair, and we will, right from day one, we’re going to drill, drill, drill, drill, baby drill. An oilman told me, and he’s a great guy, a very successful guy, they say he looks at a piece of land, he takes a straw. Now it has to be a paper straw, so maybe it doesn’t work. The paper straws come wrapped in cellophane, do you ever see this? I mean, what’s going on? You got paper straws, they’re wrapped in cellophane. This country’s gone wild. But this man, he’s such a great oilman, a really amazing guy. He takes a straw and he puts it into the ground and oil comes out. The big companies go out, they spend billions looking for oil. This guy looks just like this, just a straw, and the oil comes out.
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Now, we kid when I say that, but he’s very good at finding oil, he’s a fantastic guy and we know so much about the industry and it’s knowing through common sense, knowing through intelligence, knowing that’s what’s going to fire up our factories. Wind is not… It’s intermittent. It’s extremely expensive, it’s 40 times more expensive, and we need stuff that’s not expensive. China, I see this guy, John Kerry flying in his private jet to China to talk to them about coal, please don’t do any… In the meantime, they’re building one coal plant a week and now, I understand it’s even two, but talk to them about energy, talk to them about coal, and then he leaves. I think he leaves, oh, we had great conversations. In the meantime, they’re building a plant a week.
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And remember this, the currents both sea and air, they fly right over our country. You know that the current water comes down the Pacific right out of China, so when they dump their garbage in the Pacific, it comes right down along our coast on the West Coast past Los Angeles, and much of it pours onto our land, but our waters are very dirty, because they dump their garbage in the ocean and it’s about a four or five day journey. The tides bring it by, nobody ever talks about that. But the same thing with the air. When the coal spews out of their plant, when the smokestacks are roaring, because they’re big industry and that’s what fires up big industry. We want clean coal, we want to take care of our miners. They have clean coal, they have natural gas, it’s fantastic. So much less expensive. They don’t want you to use it anymore. They want you to use things that don’t work and that won’t fire up.
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But when they fire up their plants and all of that pollution comes over the seas and it comes right over our land, and then they want us to have clean. They say, wait a minute, we are going to be clean, but it’s all flying… Just remember that. Does that make sense? In other words, it’s all coming through the currents, through the air, it all comes. They can name it, they can say exactly where it’s going to be and when. And here we are working to try and compete with them and they’re using fossil fuel and we’re supposed to use wind. Wind. And by the way, you know who makes the windmills? China makes the windmills. And they say that if you’re a big believer in this, that the pollution coming from the making of those massive steel structures is so great that you can never save on the environment because it’s so great, if you’re a believer in that. But they’re made all in Germany and they’re made mostly in China. We’re such fools, with such stupid fools.
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We had a very interesting time because in 2016 I used to talk about the border. ‘Cause the border was bad, but nothing like it is today. But I think I won maybe on the border to a certain extent, and I did such a good job that in 2020 I couldn’t talk about it, they wouldn’t let me talk about it. My people said… Well, I don’t want to say it like Biden. When he says, they wouldn’t let me, your president, you can do whatever you want. But my people said, “It’s not a good thing to talk about it because, sir, nobody cares about it.” Because I did such a good job with the border that they said, “Nobody wants to hear it, sir, they forgot.” I did such a good job that it was no longer an issue, and that’s okay, but now it’s so bad. The border’s a very big thing. I think the economy and the border and inflation, which is part of economy, but it’s something we have to talk about. And if we don’t straighten it out, we’re not going to have a country. We’re not going to have a country.
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So I think the number will be more than 15 million by the end of their crazy term. And if that’s the case that’s bigger than New York State and many of these people should not be in our country. On day one, I will also cancel crooked Joe Biden’s insane ethanol killing electric vehicle mandate. I mean, the problem is very simple, simple statement, they don’t go far. I’d like to make it much more complex. It sounds like science, they don’t go far, the batteries are too big. They’re very big, very heavy, dangerous. I just picked up a new point in cold weather, they’re really bad, dangerous in very cold weather, so you get pretty cold weather up here. I can tell you from my little 12-foot walk outside of the car, but in cold weather… And they’re very expensive drink and they’re all going to be made in China because they have the materials for that. They’re going to all be made in China. So the auto workers are going to be screwed by this guy.
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But now, you probably heard also, they want trucks to be all electric. And if you take like a Peternill, take the big 18 wheelers, whatever they are, you can go from one side, the East Coast to the West Coast on one big beautiful tank of diesel fuel without a stop, they can go 2000 miles and we can go… With electric, I think I heard you’ll go if you’re lucky, 300 miles, so that would mean they’d have to do seven stops, you talk about a supply chain problem. And I met with some of the big trucking companies and it took me about a minute to understand this, ’cause it was supposed to be fast studies, if you’re president. We have one that’s a very slow study, but it wouldn’t matter ’cause they must know this. And they explained, one man said to me, a big guy, one of the biggest guys in the business, he said, “For 50 years I’ve been in the business, and every year the trucks got better and better, faster, stronger, more beautiful. Every year, they made them better, even the quarters behind.”
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I said, “Tell me about what is it like in one of those suckers?” He said, “Sir, it’s like the most beautiful apartment you’ve ever…” Do you know what I’m talking about?
Meeting Attendees (01:28:51):
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Donald Trump (01:28:51):
They have a place where they literally live. They live in those trucks, those trucks are everything to them. But he said, “For 50 years, every single year, these trucks got better, more fuel efficient. Everything was better. It’s a beautiful thing. If they make us go to electric, we will go back 50 years, we’ll be starting all over. It’ll be primitive, we’ll be starting all over.” And that made a big impact on me, it’s a very sad thing what’s happening. And they don’t want to hear about it. They want our army tanks to be all electric so that we… Think of it. Now, the problem is there, they don’t go far again, but the battery is so big that they’d have to pull a truck behind them. It’s true. They actually have a design, the army tank, and it’s pulling like this because the batteries are massive. Like the trucking thing too in the truck, about half of its capacity would be devoted to a battery. Can you imagine? So can you imagine?
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And yet they explain this to the people in the administration. They don’t care. They don’t care. They really don’t care. But the army tank is the beauty, they want to be environmentally friendly as we go in and blast the crap out of some nation. We’re going to go in, we’re going to be environmentally friendly as we blast our way through their front lines, but we’re doing it in an environmentally friendly manner. How crazy are we? They have jets now, and I ended it, but I’m sure they picked it up. They said, “Sir, we have a fuel that is unbelievably good in terms of the environment.” These are fighter jets that I bought about. I rebuilt our entire military. The entire military is rebuilt. They had jets that were 55 years old. We had fighter jets that were 55 years old. China copied our most beautiful plane ever made, I think is the F22.,Check it out. China has a copy of it, I looked, that’s an F22, but why does that have the China flag on it? But it’s an F22. They copied it. Most beautiful plane you’ve ever seen.
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But now they want to go in a form, it’s a biofuel. But I said, “Give me the downside.” “Well, sir, the downside is it’s 15% less efficient.” That’s the difference between shooting down and being shut down, right? 15% less efficient. So why are you trying to protect as you fly into an area that you want to obliterate, you want to do it in a environmentally friendly way?These people are crazy and we’re not going to stand for it. And all of that stuff is going to be written out on day one. It’s all going out. You know the steps when you make your speech in front of millions of people and you’re making the beautiful speech, looking down to the white… That was one of the great scenes I’ve ever seen. By the way, I think J6 had an equal amount of people, it’s the biggest crowd I believe I ever spoke to. You never hear about that, do you? You have the hostages, the J6 hostages, I call them. Nobody’s been treated ever in history so badly as those people. Nobody’s ever been treated in our country…
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But I think that they always show whatever it was, 1000 people coming down. Remember the words march peacefully and patriotically? March peacefully. You ever hear Maxine Waters? You ever hear her say about what to do with Republicans? Kill them, go in there. If they’re having lunch, go in there. Can you imagine if I said that? No, I said peacefully and patriotically. The whole thing is just very unfair. But those J6 hostages going to jail for 20 years and 18 years and 12… Doctors, lawyers, carpenters, electricians, truck drivers. It’s one of the saddest things. It’ll go down as one of the saddest things in the history of our country. And they went there to protest a rigged election, and now when the facts are in, now they see it as a rigged election. You saw the numbers come out last week, it was a rigged election. And those people have to be many of them… I guess there’s some. By the way, there was Antifa and there was FBI, there were a lot of other people there too, leading the charge, leading the charge. You saw the same people that I did.
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But just as I did before, I’ll appoint strong, highly qualified pro constitution Supreme Court justices who will interpret the law as written, and I hope they do that. We have some big things going in there. I just saw the Supreme Court just before I came, I got some beauties today. I had the one and then I had the other. Supreme Court is taking the case from Colorado, and so they’ll make a decision. And you know what I do find? And maybe say it, maybe don’t, but I say it, a Democrat judge appointed by let’s say Obama, they’re down and dirty. They say, “We’re appointed, that’s the end.” When you are a Republican judge and you’re appointed by let’s say Trump, they go out of their way to hurt you so that they can show that they have been fair, honorable people. It’s an amazing difference. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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You appoint some of these radical left Democrats and they right from the beginning you say, we’re dead. And the Republican judges want to go out of their way to be fair and unbiased and even to a point where they hurt you. And I guess it’s a different wiring system or something, but all I want is fair. I fought really hard to get three very, very good people in there, and they’re great people, very smart people, and I just hope that they’re going to be fair because the other side plays the ref. Like Bobby Knight, the great Bobby Knight, he played the ref, he’d throw chairs, he’d smack people, he’d do everything and they’d say, “Bobby, stop it. Stop it, Bobby.” He was a great friend of mine. He endorsed me in Indiana. He just passed away. He was a tough guy, big tough guy.
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He was great, but he was a winner. He knew how to win. He had the last undefeated team in basketball, I guess he won three national championships, he was a… Without really the great, great player. He had teams and Bobby would scream at the refs, he’d scream and his people would say, “Bobby, stop it. Stop it, Bobby. You’re not going to win.” He said, “Yeah, but I’m going to win on the next one.”
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So what they do is I watch them on Deface the Nation this weekend, ladies and gentlemen, it’s Donald Trump on Deface the Nation. They hate it when I say that, but it’s sort of true. And they’re saying, “Oh, Trump owns the Supreme Court. He owns it. He owns it. If they make a decision for him, it will be terrible. It’ll ruin their reputations. He owns the Supreme Court, he put on three judges. He owns the Supreme Court. If they rule in his favor, it will be horrible for them and we’ll protest at their houses and we’ll do all of the things that you see.” And that puts pressure on people to do the wrong thing. What they’re doing is no different than Bobby and I, they’re playing the ref. I watched that. I said, “Man, they’re really good. They’re really good at it, and I just hope we get fair treatment because if we don’t, our country’s in big, big trouble.”
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Does everybody understand what I’m saying? I think so. Because they’ll cover that completely differently. They’ll cover that in a much different manner. But I’m just saying it’s a very unfair situation that takes place. So I will direct a completely overhaul DOJ to investigate every radical out of control prosecutor in America for their illegal racist enforcement of the law. And I’m also going to indemnify all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States to protect them from being destroyed by the radical left for taking strong actions on crime. We’re going to protect our police. They’re afraid to do anything. They’re told not to do anything. When they walk into a department store in Chicago and they walk out carrying television sets and everything else, and the police, they want to do something, but they’re told not to do it. And then if they do it, they get in trouble. We are going to indemnify them. They have to stop crime and they can stop it too, they’ll do a great job. We’re going to rebuild our cities into beacons of hope, safety and beauty better than ever before. We’re going to rebuild our cities. Our cities are in trouble, and we’ll work with Democrat mayors and governors if we have to, but we will. No, we will. Look, they are all run by Democrats and they are all just about in horrible shape. Safety will again be restored so that children can go outside and play in the park without being beat up, molested or shot. Is that okay? Even if you’re in Iowa, you like that one, right? Because what’s happened to our cities, you have to see, you wouldn’t even… They’re not even recognizable. San Francisco, I own a big building in San Francisco, and San Francisco was a magnificent city 10, 12, 15 years ago. And today you look at what’s happened to San Francisco, it’s so sad to see it. But all of them, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, all of them, they’re all run by Democrats.
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We’re also going to fight to give you much better healthcare. We want to give you much better healthcare than Obamacare. Now, look, they like to cover that. We’re going to give you… Obamacare is a disaster, it’s very expensive. For you, forget about for the country for a second. For you, it’s a horror show. There’ve been tremendous complaints over the last two years, especially recently. We’re going to get you much better healthcare at a lower price for you, and that will be either working on Obamacare or doing something new, but we’re going to give you much better ’cause you have lousy healthcare and it’s too expensive.
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On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity. And other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto our children. I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or mask mandate. And who believes I have to say this, but I do and I will keep men out of women’s sports. I will fully uphold the Second Amendment, we will protect innocent life and we will restore free speech and I will secure our elections. Our goal will be one day voting with paper ballots and voter ID, that’s how I goal. And every Republican governor should do that right now, there’s no reason to wait. These Republican governors that don’t do it, they’re not on our side, but until then, republicans have to win.
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If you took all of these things that I’m saying, there has never been anything like what’s happening to our country right now. Joe Biden has been a disaster, he’s the worst president we’ve ever had. He’s the most incompetent and he’s the most corrupt president. So if you want to save America from crooked Joe Biden, then get every patriot you know, make sure they’re registered Republicans, let’s have to be registered and then get them out to vote in their local precinct caucus at 7:00 PM on Monday, January 15th. Now I’m going to be there, I’m going to be there. I guess I should go, maybe Des Moines. I come here. I like you people, but maybe Des Moines, is that the best thing? But I’m going to be… She’s saying, no, come here. We have to get them out.
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So I’m going to be here and I’m going to be working it just like everybody else. We have tremendous numbers of precinct captains here, all these people with these gorgeous hats, I want one of those hats. It’s the only way I can get one of those hats is if I actually become a precinct captain. I don’t know if I’m qualified to be a precinct captain, but I’m going to try. But I thank you very much, by the way, I appreciate it. But I’ll be here and we’re going to be working the caucuses personally. The whole world is watching. So learn how to caucus and find your caucus location, which is often different than where you normally vote. It’s ia.donaldjtrump.com.
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So in conclusion, from Fort Dodge to Cedar Rapids, from Des Moines to Davenport, from Waterloo to Sioux Center, we stand on the shoulders of generations of Iowa Patriots who tamed the wilderness, braved the elements till the soil, worked the fields, built the factories, and poured out their blood, sweat, and tears to make this country into the greatest nation in the history of the world. And it’s not great any longer, but it will soon be greater than ever before, promise you that.
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But now we’re a nation in decline. We are a failing nation. We are a nation that has lost its confidence. It really has, hasn’t it? It’s lost its confidence. That’s a sad thing to say, think of it. A nation that’s lost its confidence, lost its willpower and lost its strength. We are a nation that has lost its way, but we are not going to allow this horror to continue. Three years ago, we were a great nation and we will soon be a great nation again.
Meeting Attendees (01:42:05):Yes we will.
Donald Trump (01:42:07):
It was hardworking patriots like you who built this country and it’s hardworking patriots like you who are going to save our country. We will fight for America like no other group of people has ever fought before, ever, ever, ever. 2024 is our final battle. It is our final battle. If we lose this battle, we lose our country. You have to get out there and you have to make sure they’re honest with their voting. What they did in 2020 was horrible. All of the problems that we have today, you wouldn’t have any of them, you’d have a lot more living people on our planet too.
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With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state, we will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communist Marxists and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country and they do hate our country. We will route the fake news media and we will evict crooked Joe Biden from the White House on election night 2024. The great silent majority is rising like never before. And under our leadership, the forgotten man and woman will be forgotten no longer. You’re going to be forgotten no longer. We will love our country. We’ll take care of our country. We will pray to God for our strength and for our liberty, and we will pray for God and we will be with God. We will pray for God and we will be with God. We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God, and together we will make America powerful again. We’re going to make it very powerful.
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We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We’re going to be proud. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Thank you. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you very much. Thank you. Go caucus. Thank you very much.
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