Former President Trump praises Speaker Designate Mike Johnson before entering his NYC civil fraud trial.
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00:00 Mr. President, will you visit Capitol Hill to the Speaker of the House race to meet with
00:05 House members in person?
00:06 I may, but I think Mike Johnson is doing very well.
00:09 He's a tremendous congressman, respected by everybody.
00:13 I hear it looks like it's really good.
00:15 I haven't had one negative comment about him.
00:18 Everybody likes him.
00:20 He's respected by all, and that's something we need.
00:23 And it looks like that's going to happen.
00:26 So that'll be a wonderful thing.
00:28 We got a truth today on him, and they did one last night.
00:31 You saw that.
00:32 He's been somebody that's going to be really spectacular, and maybe for many years to come
00:37 he'll be very good.
00:39 So we're very happy about that.
00:41 On the trial here, it's going very well.
00:43 This is a Biden witch hunt deal.
00:45 It all comes out of the DOJ.
00:47 It's to interfere with the election.
00:49 Our company has turned out to be much stronger than anyone even thought.
00:53 The financial statements are much lower than the actual numbers.
00:57 The actual numbers are much higher.
00:59 We're in the process of proving that.
01:01 We already have proved it.
01:03 They had Mar-a-Lago valued at $18 million.
01:06 The attorney general, with the judge, and working in coordination with the judge,
01:10 had its worth approximately 50 to 100 times that amount.
01:15 This is a witch hunt.
01:16 It's just a bad trial, a very unfair trial.
01:19 The only time the statute's ever been used for this is this.
01:23 This is a statute that doesn't give you a jury, doesn't give you anything.
01:27 It's a pure political witch hunt, but we have the facts on our side.
01:31 So the company is much stronger than they anticipated,
01:34 much stronger than anyone really understood.
01:36 It was a private company, so nobody understood it.
01:39 The assets have very little debt.
01:41 We have a lot of cash.
01:42 It's a great company, and we're happy with the way it's going.
01:46 But it's a witch hunt. There's no question about it.
01:49 Getting back to Congress, we think Mike Johnson's going to do really well.
01:53 He's popular. He's smart. He's sharp.
01:56 He's going to be fantastic.
01:57 I think he's going to be a fantastic speaker.
02:00 I believe that will happen. We'll see what--
02:02 You'll let me know when I come out. I'll be out in a couple of hours.
02:05 [interposing voices]
02:08 Well, I don't believe that, because I've spoken to Mark Bennes many, many times over the years,
02:13 and he strongly believed the election was rigged.
02:17 Now, of course, you know, Durange, Jack Smith, and the prosecutors,
02:20 they go after somebody for years, and they say, "Look, here's the story.
02:24 We'll give you nothing. We'll erect a statue to you,
02:27 or you're going to go to jail for 10 years for having done nothing wrong."
02:31 So, you know, a lot of people have to make that decision.
02:34 Some people would never make that decision. Other people would.
02:37 But Mark Bennes always thought it was rigged.
02:40 The whole thing was rigged. It was rigged, and it was stolen.
02:44 And because it was rigged and stolen, our country's gone to hell.
02:47 You take a look at the border, you take a look at Israel, that would have never happened.
02:51 You take a look at Ukraine, that would have never happened.
02:53 Our country's going to hell.
02:55 Just look at energy. Energy independent we were, and now we're not energy independent.
03:00 We're not even close. We're buying energy from Venezuela and lots of other places.
03:05 And we have more liquid gold under our feet.
03:08 We're a crime-ridden nation. We're a nation in decline, all because of a rigged and stolen election.
03:13 Thank you very much.
03:15 (The executive order is signed.)