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00:00 (Applause.)
00:02 Thank you very much, everybody.
00:05 This is a case where, if they can do this to me,
00:10 they can do this to anyone.
00:13 These are bad people.
00:15 These are, in many cases, I believe, sick people.
00:18 When you look at our country, what's happening,
00:20 where millions and millions of people are
00:23 flowing in from all parts of the world, not just
00:25 South America -- from Africa, from Asia, from
00:28 the Middle East.
00:30 And they're coming in from jails and prisons, and
00:33 they're coming in from mental institutions and
00:37 insane asylums.
00:39 They're coming in from all over the world into our
00:41 country.
00:42 And we have a President and a group of fascists
00:46 that don't want to do anything about it, because
00:48 they could right now, today.
00:50 He could stop it.
00:51 But he's not.
00:52 They're destroying our country.
00:53 Our country is in very bad shape.
00:55 And they're very much against me saying these things.
00:59 They want to raise your taxes by four times.
01:04 They want to stop you from having cars with their
01:07 ridiculous mandates that make it impossible for you
01:09 to get a car or afford a car.
01:11 They make it very possible for China to build all of
01:15 our cars.
01:17 It's a very serious problem that we have.
01:20 We just went through one of many experiences where
01:25 we had a conflicted judge -- highly conflicted.
01:29 There's never been a more conflicted judge.
01:31 Now, I'm under a gag order, which nobody has
01:33 ever been under.
01:34 No presidential candidate has ever been under a gag
01:36 order before.
01:38 I'm under a gag order -- nasty gag order -- where
01:42 I've had to pay thousands of dollars in penalties
01:44 and fines, and was threatened with jail.
01:48 Think of it.
01:49 I'm the leading candidate.
01:51 I'm leading Biden by a lot, and I'm leading the
01:55 Republicans to the point where that's over.
01:59 So I'm the leading person for President, and I'm
02:01 under a gag order by a man that can't put two
02:05 sentences together, given by a court.
02:08 And they are in total conjunction with the White
02:10 House and the DOJ, just so you understand.
02:12 This is all done by Biden and his people.
02:15 Maybe his people more importantly.
02:16 I don't know if Biden knows too much about it,
02:19 because I don't know if he knows about anything.
02:21 But he's nevertheless the President, so we have to
02:24 use his name.
02:26 And this is done by Washington, and nobody has
02:30 ever seen anything like it.
02:32 So we have a judge who is highly conflicted.
02:34 You know what the confliction is.
02:36 Nobody wants to write about it, and I'm not
02:39 allowed to talk about it.
02:40 If I do, he said, "I get put in jail." So we'll
02:45 play that game a little bit longer.
02:46 We won't talk about it.
02:47 But you're allowed to talk about it.
02:49 I hope you do, because there's never been anybody
02:51 so conflicted as this.
02:54 As far as the trial itself, it was very unfair.
02:59 We weren't allowed to use our election expert under
03:04 any circumstances.
03:07 You saw what happened to some of the witnesses that
03:09 were on our side.
03:10 They were literally crucified by this man, who
03:15 looks like an angel, but he's really a devil.
03:18 He looks so nice and soft.
03:20 People say, "Oh, he seems like such a nice man."
03:22 No, unless you saw him in action.
03:24 And you saw that with a certain witness that went
03:28 through hell.
03:30 And when we wanted to do things, he wouldn't let
03:33 them -- he wouldn't let us do those things.
03:36 But when the government wanted something, they got
03:38 everything.
03:39 They got everything they wanted.
03:42 It's a rigged -- it was a rigged trial.
03:44 We wanted a venue change where we could have a fair
03:48 trial; we didn't get it.
03:50 We wanted a judge change.
03:51 We wanted a judge that wasn't conflicted.
03:54 And, obviously, he didn't do that.
03:58 Nobody has ever seen anything like it.
04:00 We had a DA who was a failed DA.
04:05 Crime is rampant in New York.
04:06 Violent crime.
04:07 That's what he's really supposed to be looking at.
04:10 Crime is rampant in New York.
04:12 Yesterday, in McDonald's, you had a man hitting him
04:16 up with machetes -- a machete.
04:21 Whoever can imagine even a machete being wielded in a
04:25 store, in a place where they're eating, and it's
04:28 going rampant.
04:29 And Bragg is down watching a trial on what they call
04:36 crimes -- crimes.
04:38 They're falsifying business records.
04:41 That sounds so bad.
04:42 To me, it sounds very bad.
04:43 You know, it's only a misdemeanor.
04:45 But to me, it sounds so bad.
04:46 When they say "falsifying business" -- that's a bad
04:49 thing for me.
04:49 I've never had that before.
04:51 I'm falsifying -- you know what falsifying
04:53 business records is?
04:54 In the first degree.
04:56 They say, "Falsifying business records."
04:58 Sounds so good, right?
05:00 It means that legal expense -- I paid a lawyer
05:05 -- totally legal.
05:06 I paid a lawyer a legal expense.
05:10 And a bookkeeper, without any knowledge from me,
05:13 correctly marked it down in the books.
05:15 A very professional woman, highly respected.
05:17 She testified.
05:19 Marked it down in the books as a legal expense.
05:21 So, a legal expense -- I paid a lawyer -- is a
05:25 legal expense in the books.
05:27 It's not sheetrock, construction, or any other
05:32 thing.
05:33 It's a legal expense.
05:35 Think of that.
05:36 This is what the falsification of business
05:38 records were.
05:39 And I said, "What else are you going to call it?
05:43 What else are you going to call it?"
05:44 Now, I would have testified.
05:46 I wanted to testify.
05:48 The theory is you never testify, because as soon
05:50 as you testify -- anybody.
05:51 If it were George Washington, don't testify,
05:53 because he'll get you on something that you said
05:55 slightly wrong, and then they sue you for perjury.
05:58 But I didn't care about that.
05:59 I wanted to.
06:00 But the judge allowed them to go into everything
06:02 that I was ever involved in -- not this case,
06:05 everything that I was ever involved in, which is a
06:08 first.
06:08 In other words, you could go into every single
06:11 thing that I ever did.
06:14 Was he a bad boy here?
06:15 Was he a bad boy there?
06:18 And my lawyer said, "What do you need to go
06:19 through?"
06:20 And all you wanted to do is testify simply on this
06:22 case, because I would have loved to have
06:24 testified.
06:25 To this day, I would have liked to have testified.
06:27 But you would have been -- you would have said
06:29 something out of whack, like, "It was a beautiful,
06:32 sunny day, and it was actually raining out."
06:34 And I very much appreciate the big crowd of people
06:37 outside.
06:38 It's incredible what's happening.
06:40 The level of support has been incredible.
06:43 So, the whole thing is -- legal expense was marked
06:48 down as legal expense.
06:49 Think of it.
06:50 This is my -- this is the crime that I committed,
06:54 that I'm supposed to go to jail for 187 years for,
06:58 when you have violent crime all over this city at
07:01 levels that nobody has ever seen before, where you
07:04 have businesses leaving.
07:05 And businesses are leaving because of this,
07:07 because heads of businesses say, "Man, we
07:10 don't want to get involved with that."
07:12 I could go through the books of any business
07:15 person in this city, and I could find things that,
07:19 in theory, I guess -- let's indict him, let's
07:21 destroy his life.
07:24 But I'm out there, and I don't mind being out there
07:27 because I'm doing something for this
07:28 country, and I'm doing something for our
07:30 Constitution.
07:31 It's very important -- far beyond me.
07:34 And this can't be allowed to happen to other
07:36 Presidents.
07:37 It should never be allowed to happen in the future.
07:41 But this is far beyond me.
07:42 This is bigger than Trump.
07:43 This is bigger than me.
07:44 This is bigger than my presidency.
07:47 And the people understand it because -- I just see a
07:50 poll just came out, the Daily Mail.
07:53 That was the first one.
07:54 Came out -- it was done last night, right after
07:57 the verdict -- where I'm up six points.
08:00 Six points from what we already were.
08:02 We were leading fairly substantially.
08:05 We're up six points in the Daily Mail poll.
08:07 Now, maybe other polls come out and it says
08:09 something differently.
08:11 But a lot of people have predicted it because the
08:13 public understands, and they understand what's
08:16 going on.
08:17 This is a scam.
08:19 This is a rigged trial.
08:21 It shouldn't have been in that venue.
08:22 We shouldn't have had that judge.
08:25 He should have allowed us to have an election expert.
08:27 We had the best expert, most respected expert,
08:31 head of the Federal Elections Commission.
08:34 He was all set to testify.
08:35 He was waiting for two days.
08:38 And when it was his turn, Bragg's people protested,
08:43 and the judge knocked him out, said, "You can't
08:45 testify."
08:46 He actually said, "You can't testify for
08:47 anything having to do with the trial.
08:49 You can say what the federal elections is."
08:52 Well, that doesn't help.
08:53 Everybody knows that.
08:55 But you can't testify.
08:56 So, essentially, he wasn't able to testify.
08:59 Other people weren't able to testify.
09:01 But with these people, they were able to use
09:06 people salacious.
09:08 By the way, and nothing ever happened.
09:11 There was no anything.
09:13 Nothing ever happened, and they know it.
09:15 But they were as salacious as they could be.
09:18 And it had nothing to do with the case, but it had
09:21 to do with politics.
09:23 And do you notice the timing?
09:24 The timing was perfect.
09:26 This case was dead.
09:27 It was dropped by every agency, every
09:30 governmental board.
09:33 It was dropped by the highly respected
09:34 Southern District.
09:36 They said, "No, there's no case here."
09:39 It was dropped by federal election.
09:41 And that's what it's about.
09:41 This is about a federal election, not a state
09:43 election.
09:44 You're not even allowed to look at it.
09:46 They took the state and the city, and they went
09:48 into a federal election.
09:50 They're not allowed.
09:51 The people from federal election, Southern
09:53 District, and Washington dropped the case.
09:56 Everybody dropped the case.
09:57 There was no case.
09:59 Cy Vance dropped the case.
10:01 And when Bragg came in, he said, "This is the most
10:03 ridiculous case I've ever seen."
10:05 And who would have a certain person -- again,
10:07 gag order -- who would have a certain person like
10:10 this ever testify?
10:12 He said, "This is essentially one of the
10:14 worst people I've ever seen ever to testify."
10:19 He said, "The craziest case I've ever seen.
10:21 This is Bragg."
10:23 Then, when they announced I was running for
10:24 President, a long time later, they decided to
10:28 revive this case.
10:31 And they got a judge -- Judge Marshan -- who was
10:36 responsible for another case that was also brought.
10:41 It destroyed the life of a very good man, by the way.
10:44 It destroyed the life of a very good man who went to
10:48 prison once, and then they just put him in prison
10:51 again because they said he lied.
10:54 He didn't lie.
10:54 I looked at the statements he made.
10:56 In fact, he didn't remember something, and
10:58 they put him in jail again.
11:00 They've destroyed him.
11:02 With me for many years, he was an honorable person.
11:05 He was an honest man.
11:08 And if you look at what he did, supposedly -- it
11:12 never happened.
11:12 There's never been anything like this -- over
11:15 the education of his grandchildren, over -- he
11:19 didn't report that he had a car or two cars on his
11:22 income.
11:23 I don't know.
11:24 I wonder how many people here have cars.
11:26 I wonder how many people said, "Oh, gee, I have a
11:27 car that's worth X dollars."
11:29 How do you even figure it?
11:30 And I guess you do have to report it, but I would say
11:33 probably almost nobody does.
11:35 Nobody even thinks about it.
11:37 They put this man -- they destroyed this man.
11:40 But they put him in jail again because they didn't
11:42 want him to testify.
11:44 They didn't want him to testify.
11:46 That's why he went to jail.
11:47 They put him in jail twice.
11:51 He's 77 years old.
11:53 Now, normally, I'd say that's an old guy, but I
11:58 don't feel 77.
12:00 Nobody ever says that about me.
12:01 I'd like them to say, "Gee, we have to have a
12:04 little sorrow for this man," because they don't
12:07 -- they just don't say that about me.
12:09 But maybe I'm better off that way.
12:10 I think I'm probably better off that way.
12:12 But they put him in jail twice.
12:15 And you have to see what they put him in jail.
12:17 And he was threatened by the judge.
12:20 This man was told, "You're going to get 15
12:22 years in jail if you don't give up Trump."
12:27 And he was told that.
12:29 "You're going to get 15 years in jail."
12:33 And he made a plea deal because he didn't want to
12:37 spend the rest of his life.
12:39 And he was told that viciously.
12:42 We're living in a fascist state.
12:44 He was told that viciously.
12:47 So, you can go to jail for four months, five months,
12:52 or you can get 15 years in jail.
12:55 So, do a plea.
12:57 Almost who wouldn't do that plea?
12:59 Everyone does those pleas.
13:00 It's a horrible thing.
13:03 There's a whole group of lawyers that fight that.
13:04 It's so unfair.
13:05 It's so unfair.
13:07 But they destroyed his life.
13:09 So many other things.
13:11 You look at -- Southern District didn't want to
13:13 bring the case.
13:15 Nobody wanted to bring the case.
13:19 And then, you know who didn't want to bring the
13:20 case most of all is Bragg.
13:24 Bragg didn't want to bring it.
13:25 But then he brought it, and they tried to make it a
13:28 different case.
13:28 They didn't say legal expense equal legal
13:30 expense.
13:31 Again, if I wrote down and paid a lawyer -- and, by
13:36 the way, this was a highly qualified lawyer.
13:38 Now, I'm not allowed to use his name because of the
13:40 gag order.
13:41 But, you know, he's a sleazebag.
13:42 Everybody knows that.
13:44 Took me a while to find out.
13:46 But he was effective.
13:48 He did work.
13:49 But he wasn't a fixer.
13:50 He was a lawyer.
13:51 You know, they like to use the word "fixer." He
13:53 wasn't a fixer.
13:53 He was a lawyer.
13:54 At the time, he was a fully accredited lawyer.
13:57 Now, he got into trouble not because of me.
13:59 He got into trouble because he made outside
14:01 deals, and he had something to do with
14:03 taxicabs and medallions, and he borrowed money.
14:07 And that's why he went.
14:08 And then he pled to three election violations.
14:13 And as soon as I saw that, I said, "I wonder why he
14:19 did that."
14:19 He pled.
14:20 He took a deal.
14:21 Now, he took a deal because he wanted to get
14:23 off.
14:23 In other words, I'll take a plea deal, and I want to
14:27 get off.
14:28 And he wanted to make a deal with the Southern
14:29 District.
14:30 And they wrote the worst report I think I've ever
14:34 seen on any human being, other than the report that
14:38 was written on James Comey by the Inspector General
14:42 -- a very great Inspector General, actually -- wrote
14:46 a report that was so bad.
14:47 This one was possibly worse.
14:51 The Southern District -- the judge didn't let us
14:53 use it.
14:54 He said, "It's hearsay."
14:54 I said, "It's not hearsay.
14:56 Wouldn't let us use it.
14:57 This is about the man."
14:59 But he got in trouble for a very simple reason --
15:03 because he was involved with borrowing a lot of
15:06 money, and he did something with the banks.
15:08 I don't know if it defrauded the banks, but
15:10 something happened.
15:12 You guys know what it is.
15:13 And then, in addition to that, he gave up on three
15:16 things where he wasn't guilty.
15:17 In fact, they were going to testify on that.
15:19 The head of the FEC, Brad Smith, the election
15:24 expert -- number one rated in the country -- was
15:27 going to testify.
15:29 He took a plea on three things.
15:30 He just added them in because that gave him more
15:32 bargaining power with respect to me.
15:34 But the three things that he pled on, having to do
15:37 with the election and having to do, essentially,
15:41 a little bit with me, they weren't crimes.
15:45 They weren't crimes.
15:47 Nor is paying money under an NDA.
15:51 So, we have an NDA -- Non-Disclosure Agreement.
15:55 It's a big deal, a non-disclosure agreement.
15:57 Totally honorable, totally good, totally accepted.
16:00 Everybody has them.
16:03 Every company has non-disclosure agreements.
16:06 But the press called it slush fund and all sorts
16:09 of other things.
16:11 Hush money?
16:11 Hush money.
16:12 It's not hush money.
16:13 It's called a non-disclosure agreement.
16:15 And most of the people in this room have a
16:18 non-disclosure agreement with their company.
16:21 It's a disgrace.
16:24 So, it's not hush money.
16:25 It's a non-disclosure agreement.
16:27 Totally legal.
16:28 Totally common.
16:30 Everyone has it.
16:32 And what happened is he signed a non-disclosure
16:38 agreement with this person -- I guess other people,
16:41 but it's totally honest.
16:43 You're allowed to make the payment.
16:45 You don't have to make it -- you can make it any way
16:47 you want.
16:47 It's a non-disclosure agreement.
16:49 And he signed that.
16:51 And there was nothing wrong with signing it.
16:54 And this should have been a non-case.
16:56 And everybody said it was a non-case, including Bragg.
16:59 Bragg said, "Until I ran for office."
17:01 And then they saw the polls.
17:03 I was leading the Republicans.
17:04 I was leading the Democrats.
17:05 I was leading everybody.
17:07 And all of a sudden, they brought it back.
17:11 It's a very sad thing that's happening in our country.
17:14 And it's a thing that I'm honored -- in a way,
17:18 I'm honored.
17:19 It's not that it's pleasant.
17:21 It's very bad for family.
17:23 It's very bad for friends and businesses.
17:27 But I'm honored to be involved in it because
17:28 somebody has to do it, and I might as well keep
17:31 going and be the one.
17:32 But I'm very honored to be involved because we're
17:34 fighting for our Constitution.
17:36 The money that was paid was paid legally.
17:43 There was nothing illegal.
17:45 In fact, the lawyer in creating the NDA -- because
17:47 at that time, he was a fully accredited lawyer.
17:50 He wasn't a fixer.
17:52 I never thought of him as a fixer.
17:54 The media called him a fixer, or the prosecutors
17:57 called him a fixer.
17:58 He was a lawyer.
18:00 And he was fairly good.
18:02 Later on, I didn't like what he did.
18:04 I didn't like -- for instance, I didn't like
18:06 that when I became President, he went around
18:09 and made deals with companies.
18:11 When I heard that, he was gone.
18:13 He was gone.
18:15 And he had payments coming to him, and a lot of this
18:20 involved things that are very simple.
18:22 There was nothing wrong.
18:23 These were standard -- this was standard stuff.
18:25 All standard stuff.
18:28 Everything involved was standard.
18:29 There was no crime here.
18:31 In fact, I just watched a couple of the reports.
18:34 You watched Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy,
18:37 Greg Jarrett.
18:39 You look at all of these people.
18:41 Mark Levin.
18:43 All very talented people.
18:45 Great people.
18:46 Many more.
18:48 Many more.
18:49 And they don't know me, essentially.
18:51 They don't know me.
18:52 They're legal scholars and experts.
18:56 But I looked at them.
18:56 I watched Turley this morning saying, "There's
19:00 no crime here."
19:02 Everybody says there's no crime here, except for
19:05 this DA that's got the city out of control with crime.
19:09 It's out of -- it's absolutely out of control.
19:11 So, we have an NDA that was signed.
19:14 We have legal expenses.
19:16 And here's the thing on legal expenses.
19:18 You have 100 where they say -- they do a charge.
19:23 I just recorded this out.
19:28 "Falsification of business records in the first
19:32 degree."
19:32 It sounds so bad.
19:34 I said, "Wow."
19:36 And even my own lawyers, I get very upset with them
19:39 because they don't say what it is.
19:42 They say, "Well, falsification of legal
19:47 records is only a felony."
19:48 Well, that's a lot.
19:49 It's only a -- they say, "a misdemeanor."
19:52 But they try and bring it up to a felony if there's
19:54 two crimes.
19:55 They have all these different things.
19:56 The other thing is they missed the statute of
19:58 limitations by a lot.
20:00 Because this was very old.
20:01 They could have brought this seven years ago
20:03 instead of bringing it right in the middle of the
20:04 election.
20:06 So, they missed the statute of limitations.
20:08 They did everything.
20:09 Now, let me give you the good news.
20:10 The good news is, last night -- we just got a
20:16 report this morning -- in the history of politics, I
20:20 believe -- maybe I'm wrong.
20:21 Somebody will find that I'm wrong, maybe.
20:23 But I don't think so.
20:25 They raised, with small-money donors --
20:28 meaning, like, $21, $42, $53, $38 -- a record
20:33 $39 million in about a 10-hour period.
20:41 (Applause.)
20:43 No, think of it.
20:48 I like those people.
20:54 Because so far, I guess it's backfired.
20:56 Now, I don't know.
20:57 I'd rather not have it happen.
20:58 I don't want to have it backfire.
20:59 I don't want to win this thing legitimately, not
21:02 because they were stupid and did things that they
21:04 shouldn't be doing.
21:05 They shouldn't have brought this case.
21:08 They were saying it this morning.
21:09 This is a case that should not have been brought.
21:12 I watched Andy McCarthy say, "This is a case that
21:16 should not have been brought."
21:18 And that was this morning.
21:20 But they all say that.
21:21 Every legal scholar has said it.
21:23 Every legal -- and these are great people.
21:26 They really understand the law.
21:28 The other thing, a poll just came out.
21:30 The first poll -- I don't know, maybe others will be
21:32 bad, but a poll just came out a little while ago.
21:36 The Daily Mail.
21:37 Does anybody read the Daily Mail?
21:39 It's very good.
21:40 They have a good poll.
21:41 At least I like it today.
21:43 And the Daily Mail just came out with a poll, and
21:47 it has Trump up six points in the last 12 hours.
21:52 Six points.
21:53 And it's been six points since this happened.
21:55 (Applause.)
21:56 Who thought this could happen?
21:58 Because the people of our country know it's a hoax.
22:03 They know it's a hoax.
22:04 They get it.
22:05 You know, they're really smart, and it's really something.
22:09 So we're going to be appealing this scam.
22:13 We're going to be appealing it on many
22:15 different things.
22:16 He wouldn't allow us to have witnesses.
22:18 He wouldn't allow us to talk.
22:19 He wouldn't allow us to do anything.
22:21 He wouldn't allow us to do anything.
22:23 He wouldn't allow us to do anything.
22:25 And he's a tyrant.
22:26 And you got to see that with Bob Costello, a fine man.
22:28 I've never seen anything like it.
22:30 And neither has anybody that was in that courthouse
22:32 where he demanded that the courthouse be cleared.
22:34 Now, the good news is, most of the people in the
22:37 courthouse were the media.
22:39 And anybody that was in the media of your fair,
22:42 you'll say, "Wow, that was anger.
22:45 That was crazed.
22:46 He was crazed."
22:48 And the reason that Bob Costello acted a little bit
22:53 upset -- which I think he has a right to -- was that
22:57 every question he was being asked was being
23:02 objected to by the other side and sustained
23:04 by the judge.
23:05 Sustained, sustained, sustained.
23:07 I think he did it many times.
23:09 I don't know what the number -- many times.
23:11 Even I was sitting there saying -- and these were
23:13 basic questions.
23:15 And I never saw anybody treated that way by a judge.
23:18 And I've been treated very badly by two other judges
23:20 also, because it's all the same thing.
23:22 And it all comes out of the White House.
23:25 Crooked Joe Biden, the worst President in the
23:27 history of our country.
23:28 He's the worst President in the history of our
23:31 country.
23:32 The most incompetent.
23:34 He's the dumbest President we've ever had.
23:37 He's the dumbest President, most
23:38 incompetent President, and he's the most dishonest
23:41 President we've ever had.
23:43 And so many of the -- he's a Manchurian candidate.
23:46 You take a look at the way he treats China, Russia,
23:51 so many others.
23:52 You know, I ended the Russian pipeline.
23:53 It was dead.
23:55 He comes in and he approves it.
23:57 And he gets $3.5 million -- meaning $3.5 million is
24:01 paid to the family, his family, from the mayor of
24:05 Moscow's wife.
24:07 And I said, "Where did that come from?"
24:09 Nobody wants to talk about it.
24:12 But he's a very big danger to our country.
24:15 And the only way they think they can win this
24:18 election is by doing exactly what they're doing
24:20 right now -- win it in the courts because they can't
24:22 win it at the ballot box.
24:25 So we're going to show them that -- oh, we're
24:29 going to fight.
24:30 It's actually -- I don't know.
24:32 It's something where I'm wired in such a way that a
24:36 lot of people would have gone away a long time ago.
24:38 They would have gone away after impeachment hoax
24:40 number one.
24:41 That was a total hoax.
24:42 I had great support from the Republican Party,
24:44 though.
24:45 Then you had impeachment hoax number two.
24:48 And then they formed the committee.
24:50 How about they formed the committee of thugs -- the
24:53 J6 Committee of Thugs.
24:57 And they took their records and they destroyed all of
25:00 the records after the committee was abandoned
25:04 because those records were great for us.
25:07 Now, can you imagine if Republicans did that?
25:09 Everybody would have been in jail by now.
25:13 The -- think of the -- the unselect -- I call it the
25:15 unselect.
25:16 They call it select committee.
25:16 I call it the unselect committee of thugs.
25:19 They meet.
25:20 It's 100 percent Democrat and two past Republicans
25:24 that are no longer Republicans, that are no
25:26 longer in business anymore.
25:27 Thank you.
25:29 But it was all Democrats and two wayward
25:32 Republicans.
25:34 Liz Cheney and crying Adam Kinzinger.
25:38 He cries every time he goes on television.
25:39 He's the most emotional human being I think I've
25:41 ever seen.
25:43 And that was our representatives.
25:46 These two people were our -- so they had all this
25:49 stuff that they're leaking.
25:51 And then when it came time to look at the records,
25:54 like where the police said and the Capitol Guard said
26:00 that I supplied -- think of it -- that I recommended
26:05 as many soldiers or National Guard as you want.
26:10 Ten thousand.
26:12 If you had 500, you wouldn't have had a
26:13 problem.
26:14 There wouldn't have been a J6.
26:15 But Nancy Pelosi and the group didn't want to --
26:16 anyway.
26:17 So they have testimony to all of that, that I did
26:20 not attack the Secret Service agent in the front
26:23 of a car.
26:24 You know, these are strong people.
26:26 And I supposedly went to the driver and I grabbed
26:31 him around the neck.
26:33 And he rebuffed me.
26:34 And then I went to the other guy, who I think is a
26:36 black belt in karate.
26:38 And he's slightly younger than me, maybe 35 years,
26:41 40 years, 50 years.
26:44 And I grabbed him around the neck and said, "He's a
26:46 black belt in karate.
26:47 They know how to get somebody from around their
26:49 neck." They would have gone like this, and that
26:52 would be the end of that.
26:53 I actually had a friend that said, "You shouldn't
26:57 dispute that.
26:58 That makes you look like the toughest cookie we've
27:00 ever seen.
27:01 You should have let that go on." But the fact is, it
27:04 never happened.
27:04 It was all made up.
27:06 And that was proven to be made up.
27:08 It proved to be a false story.
27:10 And they deleted and destroyed all of that
27:14 information, every ounce of it.
27:18 We're dealing with a corrupt government.
27:20 We have a corrupt country.
27:21 Our elections are corrupt.
27:23 Our borders are open.
27:24 Our borders are going to be closed very soon.
27:28 November 5th is going to be the most important day
27:33 in the history of our country.
27:35 Now, when I say that -- because my people are
27:37 always saying, "Do this, do this," because we're
27:39 fighting for America -- DonaldJTrump.com.
27:43 I hope everybody watching right now --
27:45 DonaldJTrump.com -- because it really makes a
27:49 difference.
27:50 They have a lot of money on the other side.
27:52 I don't know where they get it.
27:53 Nobody knows where they get it.
27:54 But for some reason, they get money.
27:57 But they're not on the side of our country.
28:00 In many ways, I think they hate our country.
28:03 Who on Earth can want open borders where people are
28:07 allowed to pour in from countries unknown, from
28:11 places unknown, from languages that we don't
28:15 even -- that we haven't even heard of?
28:17 We have people sitting in schools with languages
28:20 where very few people have ever even heard of these
28:22 languages.
28:23 It's not like Spanish or French or Russian.
28:27 Languages unknown.
28:30 We have people coming from corners of the globe, and
28:35 many of them are not good people.
28:38 Many terrorists -- record levels of terrorism.
28:42 Record levels of terrorists have come into
28:45 our country.
28:46 Record.
28:47 They've never seen anything like it.
28:48 You know, there was a report that in 2019 -- I
28:52 don't believe this, by the way.
28:53 The media gave it, and it was good for me, believe
28:55 it or not.
28:57 They said, "In 2019, there were no terrorists
29:01 recorded that came into our country." I don't
29:02 believe that.
29:03 I don't think that's possible.
29:04 But they actually -- 2019 was a Trump year.
29:07 I don't believe that that could be possible.
29:10 But they said, "No terrorists came into our
29:12 country." So, let's say it was close.
29:14 Let's say it was close.
29:16 But now, record levels of terrorists -- record
29:19 levels, the highest level we've ever seen of
29:22 terrorists -- are pouring into our country.
29:26 You have China, with just in the last few months,
29:28 29,000 people came in, and I looked at them on a
29:31 line, and they look like perfect soldiers.
29:35 They're almost all male, from 19 to 25.
29:38 It looks like a recruiting exercise.
29:40 They have beautiful tents.
29:41 They have propane stoves.
29:44 They have cell phones -- the best you can buy.
29:49 I said, "What's going on?
29:50 It looks like they're building an army right in
29:52 our country." Now, I don't think that would
29:55 happen, right?
29:57 We're losing our country.
30:00 And I really think that this is an event, what
30:03 took place yesterday with this judge.
30:05 Look, we have -- conflicted, but he's a
30:08 crooked judge, and you'll understand that.
30:11 And I say that knowing that it's very dangerous
30:15 for me to say that.
30:16 And I don't mind, because I'm willing to do whatever
30:19 I have to do to save our country and to save our
30:22 Constitution.
30:23 I don't mind.
30:24 (Applause.)
30:28 So -- thank you.
30:33 So, we will continue the fight.
30:42 We're going to make America great again.
30:44 Very simple.
30:45 When people fight MAGA, they say, "We're going to
30:48 fight -- I watch Biden.
30:48 We're going to fight MAGA.
30:49 We're going to stop MAGA."
30:51 It's "Make America Great Again."
30:53 That's all it is -- MAGA.
30:55 Make America Great Again.
30:57 Our country is in serious trouble.
31:00 We owe $36 trillion.
31:02 We were going to be -- we were energy independent
31:06 for the first time ever, and now we're begging
31:08 Venezuela for oil.
31:09 One statistic you have to hear.
31:12 Venezuela was crime-ridden.
31:14 Caracas, the cities -- crime-ridden.
31:18 Two years ago, three years ago.
31:20 They just reported a 72 percent drop in crime in
31:24 the last year because all of their criminals -- most
31:28 of them, and the rest are coming in now -- the ones
31:31 that didn't come in.
31:33 In Venezuela, their prisons have been emptied
31:37 into the United States.
31:39 Their criminals and drug dealers have been taken
31:42 out of the cities and brought into the United States.
31:46 And that's true with many other countries.
31:48 The Congo has just released a lot of people
31:51 from jail.
31:51 Congo, Africa just released a lot of people -- a lot
31:56 of people from their prisons and jails and
32:00 brought them into the United States of America.
32:04 This is what's happening to our country, and it's
32:07 not sustainable by anyone.
32:10 Little things like our kids can't have a Little
32:12 League game anymore because you have tents and
32:14 you have migrants living on the fields.
32:18 That's the least of it.
32:20 People are taking over our luxury hotels --
32:22 migrants.
32:23 And yet, our veterans -- our great veterans are
32:28 living on the streets like dogs.
32:31 They're living on the streets.
32:33 But migrants are living in luxury hotels in cities
32:38 all over our country, run by Democrats.
32:40 So, it's my honor to be doing this.
32:44 It really is.
32:44 It's a very unpleasant thing, to be honest.
32:48 But it's a great, great honor.
32:50 We're going to do what I have to do.
32:53 I'm going to do it.
32:54 And the support has been -- that's why I mentioned
32:56 the number of $39 million.
32:57 That's why I mentioned we're up six points.
33:01 And we went up a lot over the last month because
33:03 everybody said it was a rigged deal, it was a
33:04 rigged trial.
33:07 But we're going to make America great again.
33:09 We're going to make it better than ever before.
33:11 November 5th -- remember, November 5th is the most
33:15 important day in the history of our country.
33:19 Thank you very much, everybody.
33:20 (Applause.)
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