Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) spoke at the RNC on Wednesday about the US military under President Biden.
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00:00I am so honored.
00:28Hello, Patriots.
00:32I am so honored to stand before you as a 27-year Army veteran
00:38and the first Green Beret ever elected to Congress.
00:45And I'm joined tonight by my beautiful wife, Julia,
00:49who, oh, by the way, has more combat tours than I do.
00:54Folks, we have deployed all over the Middle East,
00:58all over Africa, all over Afghanistan,
01:01and I have never in my lifetime seen the world falling apart
01:06like it is under Joe Biden.
01:08And that's because under President Trump,
01:11we had a president who defeated ISIS, broke Iran,
01:17stood with Israel, always stood with our allies,
01:22made China pay.
01:24You didn't see any spy balloons under President Trump, did you?
01:30He deterred Russia.
01:32You know what he told Putin?
01:35You try anything, and I'll take the tops off the Kremlin.
01:39And he didn't dare, did he?
01:41He did under Obama.
01:42He did under Biden, but not under Donald J. Trump.
01:46He defused North Korea.
01:49And importantly, he got our hostages home
01:54and didn't pay billions of dollars
01:57to get our Americans back.
02:02And here's my favorite part about Donald Trump,
02:05the commander-in-chief.
02:07He sat across the table from the bureaucrats and the generals
02:12and said, if you don't give our troops what they need,
02:17you know what he told the generals?
02:19You're fired.
02:21You're out of here.
02:22We're cleaning house.
02:24Everything takes too long, costs twice as much,
02:27and delivers half of what our troops need.
02:30And what do we have today?
02:32What do we have today with President Biden?
02:35What's he focused on?
02:38He's focused on pronouns.
02:41He's focused on renaming bases.
02:44He's focused on DEI.
02:46And here's my favorite.
02:48He's focused on building electric tanks.
02:51Has anybody seen any charging stations in the Middle East
02:54for Biden's electric tanks?
02:59And here's what I can tell you straight up in combat.
03:04Our enemy's bullets, listen to me, folks,
03:08our enemy's bullets could give a damn about black, white,
03:13or brown, or about religion, or about gender,
03:16or about anything else.
03:18The only colors that matter in the foxhole are the red,
03:21white, and blue, baby.
03:23That's the only thing that matters.
03:25That's the only thing our military should care about.
03:27And that's the only thing our fellow soldiers care about.
03:30And that's the only thing President Trump cares about.
03:36Now, I want to seriously, I want to tell you a story
03:41about the man, the leader, the commander-in-chief
03:45that is Donald J. Trump.
03:49We all remember Biden's disgraceful withdrawal
03:53from Afghanistan, the debacle and the stain
03:57on our national conscience that that was.
04:00The 13 Gold Star families have to relive it every day,
04:05the ones that lost their sons and daughters
04:07that disgraceful day.
04:09Biden won't even take their calls.
04:11He calls it an outstanding success.
04:14He won't even take a meeting with them.
04:16Well, I called President Trump, we talked about it,
04:21and he said, Michael, I would love to meet them.
04:25Get them up here.
04:26Get them up here to Bedminster.
04:28He was scheduled, folks, he was scheduled, hear me on this,
04:32he was scheduled to spend an hour with them.
04:36You know how long he spent?
04:38He spent six hours with them.
04:41He met each one.
04:45He listened.
04:47He cared.
04:49One of the moms kind of leaned over to me and she said,
04:53do you think he'll sign a picture of my son?
04:56I said, oh, hell yeah, he will.
04:59Please ask, he will be happy to.
05:01And he spent hours more.
05:03And if that wasn't enough, he then has them up to dinner
05:08and at the start of the dinner, he promised them this.
05:12When he gets back in the White House,
05:15he will release all the tapes, all the videos,
05:19all the records, all the emails,
05:22and give these families the accountability
05:25and the transparency that they deserve
05:28and that they will never get from Joe Biden.
05:32And then God bless this man.
05:34This is why I love this man so much.
05:37He had them laughing.
05:40He had these moms that have been through so much crying.
05:44He had them, I love this, we saw DJ Trump in action
05:48playing Sugar Daddy.
05:50He had them laughing.
05:52He had these moms that have been through so much crying.
05:55He had them, I love this, we saw DJ Trump in action
06:00playing Sinatra, playing Phantom of the Opera.
06:03He had these moms dancing with their husbands.
06:06Two of them came up to me afterwards and said
06:10this was the best thing that had happened to them
06:14since they had lost their sons.
06:17That night with President Trump.
06:20Mr. President.
06:23Mr. President, you help them heal.
06:27And I will forever, and they will be forever,
06:30and America will forever be grateful to you for that.
06:34And I will forever, and they will be forever,
06:37and America will forever be grateful to you for that.
06:52Patriots, that's the Donald Trump that I've come to know.
06:57That's the Donald Trump and the Commander-in-Chief we all know.
07:01That's the Donald Trump the media never wants you to see.
07:06That is the Donald Trump we must have as Commander-in-Chief back in the White House this November.
07:13We need it.
07:14The country needs it.
07:15The world needs it because we will once again have peace through America's strength.
07:21God bless you.
07:24I salute you.
07:26Let's go fight, fight, fight, and let's win.