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00:00:00Thank you very much.
00:00:03Thank you, Pam, very much.
00:00:04What a job you're doing.
00:00:06And it's a true honor to be with you today.
00:00:09This is a storied hall, if there ever was one.
00:00:14And based on the crowd, I think we broke the all-time record.
00:00:18But as we begin a proud new chapter in the
00:00:20chronicles of American justice, this really is
00:00:24something.
00:00:25We're turning the page on four long years of
00:00:28corruption, weaponization, and surrender to violent
00:00:31criminals.
00:00:31And we're restoring fair, equal, and impartial
00:00:35justice under the constitutional rule of law.
00:00:40And you're the people that are doing it.
00:00:42I'm very, very proud of all of you.
00:00:44Under the Trump administration, the DOJ
00:00:47and the FBI will once again become the premier
00:00:50crime-fighting agencies on the face of the Earth.
00:00:54People ask me, what am I going to do about law
00:00:57enforcement all the time?
00:00:58The fake news back there, they're asking me that all
00:01:01the time.
00:01:01What am I going to do?
00:01:03And when are you going to do it?
00:01:04And I answer them by saying, I've already done
00:01:07most of it by appointing the people that I've
00:01:11appointed.
00:01:12They're sitting right here.
00:01:13They've done most of it.
00:01:15I don't do it.
00:01:15They do it.
00:01:16Right, Pam?
00:01:17I think.
00:01:18Oh, you are so tough.
00:01:19They just don't know yet.
00:01:22Let me begin by congratulating the
00:01:24incredible people who will lead these historic
00:01:27reforms.
00:01:28And we start with somebody that you just saw,
00:01:31Pam Bondi.
00:01:32She's extraordinary.
00:01:33And I've known her very well for a long time.
00:01:36I watched her for a long time in Florida, for years
00:01:45in Florida, and highly experienced.
00:01:47She seems so young, but she's highly experienced
00:01:49that I can tell you.
00:01:50She was a phenomenal Attorney General in
00:01:52Florida.
00:01:53And she's going to do a really amazing job.
00:01:56Also, our new Director of the FBI, Kash Patel.
00:02:00Kash, great.
00:02:01A man that I'm very proud of.
00:02:08I've known him and Emil for a long time, under
00:02:11tremendous pressure.
00:02:12I saw these guys under some of the most corrupt
00:02:15judges I've — it's not even imaginable how
00:02:18corrupt they were.
00:02:20And these guys never wilted.
00:02:21They never — they were not shy.
00:02:24They fought.
00:02:25They weren't afraid.
00:02:26And they were brilliant.
00:02:28Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal
00:02:32Associate Deputy Attorney Emil Beauvais.
00:02:35And thank you both very much.
00:02:38They're great people.
00:02:41They're great people.
00:02:46The Chief of Staff, who is so highly respected,
00:02:50Chad Mizell.
00:02:52Thank you, Chad.
00:02:52Chad?
00:02:53Thank you, Chad.
00:02:55Thank you, Chad.
00:02:58Our next Administrator of the DEA, Terry Cole.
00:03:03Terry?
00:03:04Thank you, Terry.
00:03:06Good luck.
00:03:07You're going to do great.
00:03:09Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General
00:03:12for Civil Rights.
00:03:13Boy, I've been watching him on television last
00:03:15couple of weeks.
00:03:16He is really a tough one, and he's a great one.
00:03:19Leo Terrell.
00:03:20You watch how good he's going to be.
00:03:22He's going to be so good.
00:03:25Thank you, Leo.
00:03:27Great guy.
00:03:28Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust
00:03:31Division, who's got an incredible reputation.
00:03:33She'll do very, very well.
00:03:36Gail Slater.
00:03:37Thank you, Gail.
00:03:38Good luck.
00:03:39Great job.
00:03:40And we're joined by many, many great friends and
00:03:45terrific friends.
00:03:46And I won't be able to — too many to name, but
00:03:49some that I just see very quickly.
00:03:51General Flynn, thank you for being here.
00:03:53There's a man who went through hell, by the way,
00:03:59and he shouldn't have.
00:04:00It was — he's a patriot.
00:04:01He went through hell.
00:04:03We're also pleased to be joined by Senator Chuck
00:04:06Grassley and House Majority Whip.
00:04:08Hi.
00:04:09Wait a sec.
00:04:10Hi, Chuck.
00:04:12House Majority Whip, Tom Emmer.
00:04:15Tom, great job you're doing.
00:04:17Representative Guy Reschenthaler — one of
00:04:22the toughest names to say, but I got it.
00:04:25I got it perfectly, I think.
00:04:28And State Attorney General Ken Paxton, thank you
00:04:31very much.
00:04:31Thank you very much.
00:04:33Somebody who was with us early on, and she's
00:04:40really become a big star and very popular.
00:04:42Brenna Bird.
00:04:43Thank you, Brenna.
00:04:43Thank you very much.
00:04:46Thank you very much.
00:04:48Steve Marshall, Alan Wilson, James Othermeyer,
00:04:54Chris Carr, Dave Sunday, Marty Jackley, as well as
00:04:59White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
00:05:01Stephen Miller.
00:05:02What a man Stephen is.
00:05:04Become a big star.
00:05:05Right, Abel?
00:05:06Steve Miller.
00:05:07Steve has been something very special.
00:05:12For generations, the Federal Department of
00:05:14Justice was one of America's most revered
00:05:17institutions.
00:05:18The men and women of the DOJ brought down the
00:05:21mafia, hunted down the killers, kingpins, and
00:05:24spies, tracked down terrorists and traitors,
00:05:27and tore down corrupt political machines all
00:05:30across America.
00:05:32This department commanded the respect and
00:05:34admiration of the entire world.
00:05:37And with Pam and Cash and all of the people I
00:05:39introduced, and far more — big numbers and all of
00:05:42you sitting back there, I recognize so many of you.
00:05:46But with you leading the way, it'll soon be the
00:05:49most admired and most respected of all.
00:05:51You're going to be more respected.
00:05:52And I really believe that there's also a lot of
00:05:55things to solve, a lot of problems to solve.
00:05:58But that's going to put you in the upper tier and
00:06:01maybe the top tier.
00:06:02And I believe that's going to happen.
00:06:04I'm so proud of the people in this room.
00:06:07But first, we must be honest about the lies and
00:06:10abuses that have occurred within these walls.
00:06:13Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of
00:06:16hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American
00:06:19government obliterated the trust and goodwill built
00:06:23up over generations.
00:06:25They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence
00:06:29and law enforcement agencies to try and
00:06:31thwart the will of the American people.
00:06:34You remember the 51 intelligence agents that
00:06:37said, as an example, that Hunter Biden's laptop from
00:06:40hell came from Russia when they knew it came
00:06:44right from his bedroom.
00:06:45They knew that.
00:06:46It was a big lie, and they knew it so well.
00:06:49They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax
00:06:53and disinformation operation after another,
00:06:56broke the law on a colossal scale, persecuted
00:07:00my family, staff, and supporters, raided my home,
00:07:03Mar-a-Lago, and did everything within their
00:07:07power to prevent me from becoming the President of
00:07:10the United States with the help of radicals like
00:07:15Mark Elias, Mark Pomerantz.
00:07:18And these are people that nobody has ever seen
00:07:20anything like it.
00:07:22So many others.
00:07:24But these are people that are bad people,
00:07:27really bad people.
00:07:28They tried to turn America into a corrupt
00:07:32communist and third-world country.
00:07:35But in the end, the thugs failed, and the truth won.
00:07:38Freedom won, justice won, democracy won, and, above
00:07:41all, the American people won.
00:07:45There could be no more heinous betrayal of
00:07:47American values than to use the law to terrorize
00:07:51the innocent and reward the wicked.
00:07:53And that's what they were doing at a level that's
00:07:55never been seen before.
00:07:58And it's exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick
00:08:03Garland, and their cronies to do the building of the
00:08:07last four years.
00:08:08They ripped what they've ripped down is
00:08:12incalculable.
00:08:13But what you're going to build up is, likewise,
00:08:15something that will be breaking all sorts of
00:08:18records.
00:08:19They set loose violent criminals while targeting
00:08:22patriotic parents at school board meetings.
00:08:24They dropped charges against Antifa and Hamas
00:08:28supporters while labeling traditional Catholics as
00:08:32domestic terrorists.
00:08:33The Catholics.
00:08:35We did very well with the Catholic vote, so I want to
00:08:37thank them for that.
00:08:38They imported.
00:08:39They really did.
00:08:41Record numbers.
00:08:42I would say, what's with the Catholics?
00:08:47They're really after the Catholics.
00:08:48So, I don't know.
00:08:50They were after a lot of people.
00:08:52Maybe they didn't even know why.
00:08:54They imported illegal alien murderers, drug
00:08:56dealers, and child predators from all over
00:08:59the world to come into our country while putting
00:09:01elderly Christians and pro-life activists on
00:09:03trial for singing hymns and for saying prayers.
00:09:07They went to jail for that.
00:09:09Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice
00:09:12into the Department of Injustice.
00:09:15But I stand before you today to declare that
00:09:17those days are over and they are never going to
00:09:20come back.
00:09:21They're never coming back.
00:09:22They're never coming back.
00:09:31So, now, as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in our
00:09:34country, I will insist upon and demand full and
00:09:38complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses
00:09:41that have occurred.
00:09:42The American people have given us a mandate, a
00:09:45mandate like few people thought possible.
00:09:48We won every single swing state.
00:09:50We won the popular vote by millions and millions of
00:09:54people.
00:09:56We won districts 2,750.
00:10:01Think of that.
00:10:01Two thousand seven hundred and fifty
00:10:03district compared to five hundred and five.
00:10:08So, we won it at levels that have, I don't believe,
00:10:11ever seen before.
00:10:12That's the one where you see the map of the United
00:10:15States and it's all red.
00:10:17Red for Republican, not for communist.
00:10:19Red for Republican.
00:10:21They would like it to turn red for communist, but
00:10:24it didn't work out that way.
00:10:26The American people have given us a mandate and
00:10:29really a far, just a far reaching investigation is
00:10:34what they are demanding into the corruption of our
00:10:36system.
00:10:37And that's exactly, I'm sure, what Pam and Cash
00:10:40and everyone else mentioned here and not
00:10:43mentioned is going to be doing.
00:10:45We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces
00:10:48from our government.
00:10:49We will expose and very much expose their egregious
00:10:54crimes and severe misconduct, of which was
00:10:57levels you've never seen anything like it.
00:11:00It's going to be legendary.
00:11:02It's going to also be legendary for the people
00:11:04that are able to seek it out and bring justice.
00:11:08We will restore the scales of justice in America and
00:11:11we will ensure that such abuses never happen again
00:11:15in our country.
00:11:16And that's why, on day one, I signed an executive
00:11:19order banning all government censorship and
00:11:21directing the removal of every bureaucrat who
00:11:25conspired to attack free speech and many other
00:11:27things and values in America.
00:11:31My administration stripped the security
00:11:33clearances of the disgraced intelligence
00:11:35agents who lied about Hunter Biden's laptop from
00:11:38hell.
00:11:39We revoked the clearances of deranged Jack Smith,
00:11:44Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and the crooked
00:11:47law firms that aided their partisan persecutions.
00:11:50And I went through it.
00:11:51These are state and city courts.
00:11:57And the corruption is unbelievable.
00:12:01We also terminated the clearances of the Biden
00:12:04crime family and Joe Biden himself.
00:12:06He didn't deserve it.
00:12:07In fact, he was essentially found guilty,
00:12:10but they said he was incompetent.
00:12:12And therefore, let's not find him guilty, I guess.
00:12:15Nobody knows what that ruling was, but I didn't
00:12:18want any part of it.
00:12:19I think I would have rather been found guilty
00:12:21than what they found with him.
00:12:24They said he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
00:12:27And therefore, he's let him go.
00:12:29I said, you know, I'd rather be convicted, Pam.
00:12:32I think that that was not.
00:12:34I said, please convict me.
00:12:35Don't say that.
00:12:36I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who
00:12:39had been grossly mistreated.
00:12:41We removed the senior FBI officials who
00:12:44misdirected resources to send SWAT teams after
00:12:48grandmothers and J6 hostages.
00:12:51And it was a great honor for me to fire.
00:12:53I will tell you this, a great honor to fire
00:12:56James Comey.
00:12:58A great, great honor.
00:12:59That was nothing.
00:13:00There was no better day.
00:13:01A lot of people said, oh, that's too bad you did
00:13:04that.
00:13:05And they said that's going to be.
00:13:06And you know what?
00:13:07They a year later, they said that actually saved
00:13:10the administration because a level of corrupt
00:13:13things that we learned after that turned out to
00:13:15be that they were doing, in fact, really bad things.
00:13:18He was a terrible person, did terrible things and
00:13:21persecuted people and all in the guise of being an
00:13:26angel.
00:13:27But he wasn't an angel.
00:13:28We created a brand new DOJ task force and
00:13:31anti-Christian bias.
00:13:33And under Director Patel, we're getting the FBI
00:13:36agents out of the headquarters in Washington,
00:13:39D.C. and back on the streets in pursuit of
00:13:41dangerous criminals where they belong and where they
00:13:44want to be.
00:13:45And, you know, you have that big FBI building and
00:13:49it's a very big building.
00:13:50And they were going to build an FBI headquarters
00:13:53three hours away in Maryland, a liberal state.
00:13:56But that has no bearing on what I'm about to say.
00:13:59But we're going to stop it.
00:14:01I can let that happen.
00:14:02We're going to build another big FBI building
00:14:04right where it is, which would have been the right
00:14:06place because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near
00:14:08each other.
00:14:10That's one thing I did learn from this
00:14:11persecution.
00:14:12The FBI and the DOJ work together.
00:14:15Now, in my case, they work together for bad purposes.
00:14:17But they do.
00:14:18They were always together.
00:14:19So how can you have one that's three hours away?
00:14:21But one thing I said to Cash, well, we're going to
00:14:25get a great building built.
00:14:26It's going to be a magnificent building.
00:14:28He said, sir, we don't need that kind of room.
00:14:30I said, what do you mean?
00:14:31He said, I'm just going to take a old Department of
00:14:34Commerce building that's about 25 percent the size.
00:14:38And that's what I need.
00:14:38We're going to have the best staff that you've
00:14:40ever seen.
00:14:40And that's what I need.
00:14:41It's in a nice location.
00:14:43But I don't need that big building.
00:14:45Why don't you just sell the site to somebody?
00:14:47And we're going to be very happy.
00:14:49And they want to have far fewer people.
00:14:52But we also want to have them in D.C.
00:14:55And if for no other reason, we like having law
00:14:57enforcement walking the streets of our capital,
00:15:01because when the bad guys are out there and they see
00:15:04there's an FBI agent, that's the ultimate in
00:15:06law enforcement.
00:15:08And they're not going to be acting so bad.
00:15:10We're cleaning up our city.
00:15:11We're cleaning up this great capital.
00:15:13And we're not going to have crime and we're not
00:15:15going to stand for crime.
00:15:17And we're going to take the graffiti down.
00:15:19And we're already taking the tents down.
00:15:21And we're working with the administration.
00:15:24And if the administration can't do the job, we're
00:15:26going to take we're going to have to take it back
00:15:28and run it through the federal government.
00:15:30But we hope the administration is going to
00:15:32be able.
00:15:32So far, they've been doing very well.
00:15:34The mayor has been doing a good job.
00:15:36We've said there are tents galore right opposite the
00:15:40State Department.
00:15:41They have to come down and they took them down
00:15:42right away.
00:15:44And so, so far, so good.
00:15:46But we want to have a capital that can be the
00:15:49talk of the world.
00:15:50When Prime Minister Modi of India, when the
00:15:54President of France and all of these people, the
00:15:57head of Prime Minister of United Kingdom, they all
00:16:00came to see me over the last week and a half.
00:16:04And when they come in, I like to I had I had the
00:16:08route run.
00:16:09I didn't want to have them see tents.
00:16:10I didn't want to have them see graffiti.
00:16:12I didn't want to have them see broken barriers and
00:16:15potholes in the roads.
00:16:16And we had it looking beautiful.
00:16:18And we're going to do that for the city.
00:16:21And we're going to have a crime free capital.
00:16:23When people come here, they're not going to be
00:16:24mugged or shot or raped.
00:16:27They're going to have a crime free capital again.
00:16:29It's going to be cleaner and better and safer than
00:16:31it ever was.
00:16:32And it's not going to take us too long.
00:16:35There's a new phenomena that is taking place with
00:16:38these violent, vicious lawyers that we have all
00:16:41over.
00:16:41They play the ref.
00:16:42You know what?
00:16:43Playing the ref is like the great Bobby Knight
00:16:45basketball coach.
00:16:46He'd scream and scream at the ref.
00:16:48He'd scream.
00:16:49I watched him.
00:16:50By the way, I love Bobby Knight because he endorsed
00:16:52me.
00:16:53And having having Bobby Knight's endorsement in
00:16:56Indiana was an extremely good thing.
00:16:58A friend of mine said I was running in Indiana at
00:17:00the time.
00:17:01This was early on 2016.
00:17:04And I was doing great.
00:17:06But a friend came up and said, You know, Bobby
00:17:08Knight?
00:17:09I said, No, I don't.
00:17:10But I hear he was a tough cookie.
00:17:12He said he not only tough, he was beyond tough.
00:17:15But he's the most popular guy you can imagine.
00:17:18It turned out he wanted to endorse me.
00:17:20He called me about two years before.
00:17:22He said, Sir, I'd like to endorse you.
00:17:24I said, Is this really Bobby Knight?
00:17:25Said, It's me.
00:17:26I could tell it was Bobby Knight.
00:17:28He had been known for throwing the chair across
00:17:30the court and slapping a player can't do things
00:17:33like that.
00:17:34Right.
00:17:35And the man that came in fired him.
00:17:37He was a new administrator for the
00:17:38couch that he that guy didn't last very long.
00:17:41They were like 14 and 0, and they fired Coach
00:17:44Knight.
00:17:45That was not good, but he had a little chip in his
00:17:48shoulder.
00:17:48But he loved Trump.
00:17:49And he came in and he he said, I'd love to endorse
00:17:52you.
00:17:52He said, If you ever run, please call me.
00:17:53So he said, You know, Bobby Knight?
00:17:55I said, Well, I don't know.
00:17:56But he called me a couple of years ago.
00:17:58It was an amazing phenomenon.
00:18:00I took his number.
00:18:01And on each side of my desk in New York, I had
00:18:05stacks of paper like nice and neat, but about two
00:18:09feet high each.
00:18:10And I said, You know, I wrote his number down and
00:18:12I put it here two years ago.
00:18:14I said, Let me see if I can find it was almost
00:18:16like a miracle.
00:18:17And other miracles that happened to my ear is
00:18:19still throbbing.
00:18:20That was a miracle.
00:18:24That was a miracle.
00:18:25Also, wasn't it?
00:18:29Thank you, Leo.
00:18:33That was a miracle.
00:18:38Anyway, OK, that's it.
00:18:46That's very nice.
00:18:48But so he said, Bobby Knight.
00:18:50So I said, You know, I put his name down and I
00:18:52wrote it down.
00:18:53It's in one of these stacks.
00:18:54Let me I lifted up.
00:18:56There would have to be 2,000, 3,000 pages in each stack.
00:19:00I lifted it up, the first one.
00:19:02Had no idea.
00:19:03And there was his name on the little card, Bobby
00:19:05Knight, with his number.
00:19:06It was, like, incredible.
00:19:08I tell that story all the time.
00:19:10And I called him and dialed the number.
00:19:13He said, I've been waiting for you to call.
00:19:15And he went out and he made a speech for me in a
00:19:20packed arena in Indiana, and it was over.
00:19:23It was over.
00:19:23He was a tough guy.
00:19:26He actually went a little far, you know, if you
00:19:30remember.
00:19:31He made a great speech, because he was actually a
00:19:33motivational type guy, to put it mildly.
00:19:36But he left the stage, and then I was talking, and
00:19:39he walks back onto the stage.
00:19:40I said, uh-oh, this is trouble.
00:19:42Why is he coming back?
00:19:43He was a big guy, too.
00:19:44I, why is he coming back?
00:19:45He said, may I say a few more words?
00:19:47I said, yeah, go ahead, Bobby.
00:19:48Say a few more words.
00:19:49A little different.
00:19:51And he said, let me tell you something about this
00:19:52guy, Trump.
00:19:54This guy, if he has to, will use the nuclear
00:19:57weapons that we have.
00:19:58He will use the, he has no fear.
00:20:00He's going to use, and that's the kind of guy.
00:20:02And he walked off the stage.
00:20:03I said, I think I'm, I think I'm in big trouble,
00:20:06Pam.
00:20:07That was not good, but it worked out okay.
00:20:09In the meantime, in the meantime, we won the state
00:20:13in a landslide, and it was great.
00:20:15And it was just an amazing period of time.
00:20:18But, but this is the most amazing period of time.
00:20:20I think this is more amazing.
00:20:22What's, what's taken place is more amazing.
00:20:25I think it's more consequential.
00:20:27And if we do the job, you know, one of the big media
00:20:31outlets said what we did was the most consequential
00:20:34election in the last 129 years.
00:20:37Well, if we do the job that we're all capable of
00:20:39doing, I think it's going to be, it's going to prove
00:20:42to be that and, and then some, and that's what we
00:20:45want to do.
00:20:45We have a real big shot at making this country so
00:20:49great, so great.
00:20:51What happened to our country was so sad.
00:20:54What they've done in four years to our country with
00:20:56the borders, with Afghanistan, the
00:20:59embarrassing, most embarrassing period of
00:21:02time, allowing the Russian situation, who is
00:21:05never going to happen with Ukraine, allowing
00:21:08October 7th to happen, would have never happened
00:21:10because under me, Iran was totally broke.
00:21:12They had no money.
00:21:13They weren't given any money to Hamas or Hezbollah.
00:21:16It was totally broke.
00:21:18But allowing inflation, look at what inflation has
00:21:21done to people, been so devastating.
00:21:22And now you see that, by the way, price of eggs is
00:21:24down 35 percent in the last week and a half.
00:21:28We're doing a good job.
00:21:29Brooke is doing a good job, Brooke Rollins and
00:21:31everybody.
00:21:32And inflation is down.
00:21:36Interest rates are down.
00:21:37Gasoline has come down, down to a level that we
00:21:41haven't seen in a long time.
00:21:42And all things that we wanted to do because then
00:21:44everything else is going to be coming down.
00:21:46We want it to come down.
00:21:47We want bacon to come down and groceries.
00:21:50A term I used to use, it's sort of an old-fashioned
00:21:53term, but I used to use it on the campaign trail
00:21:57those last 90 perfect, beautiful days.
00:21:59We just hit it.
00:22:00And I want to thank Susie.
00:22:01You have done a great job.
00:22:03Susie Wells.
00:22:03Great job, Susie.
00:22:06A big magazine just named her the most powerful woman
00:22:13in the world, and that's okay with me.
00:22:14She is the most powerful woman.
00:22:16You think about it, John, right?
00:22:19The most powerful woman in the world.
00:22:20But she's great.
00:22:22And we had a great 90 days.
00:22:23It was a perfect 90 days, and it was a great result.
00:22:27But we want to put that result to good use by
00:22:30doing a phenomenal job.
00:22:31And I want to tell you that Todd and Emil know
00:22:36this very well.
00:22:37We had an amazing judge in Florida, and her name
00:22:43is Eileen Cannon.
00:22:45And I didn't know her.
00:22:47I still don't know her.
00:22:48I don't believe I ever spoke to her, even during
00:22:50the trial.
00:22:52But I did appoint her federal judge.
00:22:56And these fake lawyers, these horrible human
00:22:59beings, were hitting her so hard, public relations
00:23:02wise.
00:23:02They were playing the ref.
00:23:04I don't think it's legal.
00:23:06I don't think it's legal.
00:23:07They might as well go out and just shout it in a
00:23:10courthouse.
00:23:12They were saying she was slow.
00:23:14She wasn't smart.
00:23:16She was totally biased.
00:23:19She loved Trump.
00:23:21I didn't know her, other than I saw her the couple
00:23:25of days that I was in court, and I thought her
00:23:27decorum was amazing.
00:23:30Anything bad they could say, though, they were
00:23:32saying about her.
00:23:32It was whatever they could say bad about a human
00:23:36being.
00:23:37All made up.
00:23:38Because, actually, she was brilliant.
00:23:39She moved quickly.
00:23:41She was the absolute model of what a judge should
00:23:45be.
00:23:46And she was strong and tough.
00:23:50And how do you get them to stop?
00:23:51If you're a judge, how do you get them to stop with
00:23:53the playing the ref?
00:23:55Bobby Knight would play the ref.
00:23:57That's why I brought up the Bobby Knight story.
00:23:59He would play the ref.
00:24:00He'd scream at the ref.
00:24:01He'd scream so hard.
00:24:02Oh, boy, it was terrible, actually.
00:24:05And the people would come up.
00:24:07His assistant coaches would come up to play.
00:24:09And he'd say, Coach, Coach, don't do that.
00:24:11Don't do it.
00:24:13He said, He's not going to change his tune, Coach.
00:24:16He called it.
00:24:16He's not changing it.
00:24:17I don't care.
00:24:19And he'd scream.
00:24:19That's when he threw the chair.
00:24:21He starts going crazy.
00:24:22And he said, No, he's not going to change this time,
00:24:24but he's going to change for the next play.
00:24:26And sure as hell he did.
00:24:27You know, Bobby, by the way, had the last
00:24:29undefeated team in basketball.
00:24:31And, relatively speaking, you know, he had a team.
00:24:34He always had a team.
00:24:35He never had that.
00:24:36He had a couple of great players, obviously.
00:24:38Some top NBA players, but very few.
00:24:41Relatively, he had a team.
00:24:42But he had he won the national championship
00:24:45three times.
00:24:45But he had the last undefeated team in
00:24:47basketball.
00:24:49And he would play the rough and he would scream
00:24:51at him.
00:24:52He knew exactly what he was doing.
00:24:53They're doing the same thing.
00:24:55He said, No, he's not going to change now, but
00:24:56he's going to change for the next one.
00:24:57That's what he wanted to do.
00:24:58He wanted to scare the hell.
00:25:00They wanted to scare the hell out of the judges.
00:25:02And they do it.
00:25:05And how do you stop it if you're a judge?
00:25:07Because you want to go home.
00:25:08You have a family.
00:25:09You have children.
00:25:09And the New York Times will write whatever these
00:25:11people say, and the Washington Post, the
00:25:15Wall Street Journal, and MSDNC, and the fake news
00:25:18CNN, and ABC, CBS, and NBC.
00:25:23And they'll write whatever they say.
00:25:25And what do you do to get rid of it?
00:25:27You convict Trump.
00:25:29All you have to do is be really tough on him and
00:25:32ultimately convict him.
00:25:34And they leave you alone.
00:25:35It's totally illegal what they do.
00:25:37I just hope you can all watch for it, but it's
00:25:39totally illegal.
00:25:40And it was so unfair what they were doing to her.
00:25:43But they do it all the time with judges.
00:25:45But in her case, she was very courageous, and it
00:25:50only made her angry.
00:25:52Wouldn't you say?
00:25:52It just made her angry.
00:25:54She didn't like it.
00:25:56A lot of them say, Oh, please don't say that
00:25:58about me, my family.
00:26:00What's my husband going to say?
00:26:01What's my wife going to say?
00:26:02Or my kids?
00:26:04Please don't say that.
00:26:06And it had absolutely no impact on her and the case
00:26:10against me, which was a case.
00:26:13I will not use a bad word.
00:26:15I promised.
00:26:16I promised my wife I would never use a bad word.
00:26:19So just a little bad.
00:26:20The case against me was bullshit, and she
00:26:25correctly dismissed it.
00:26:26She correctly.
00:26:30She correctly.
00:26:33Look at him.
00:26:33He's looking.
00:26:34That's interesting.
00:26:36But these two guys were warriors.
00:26:38You got a warrior here.
00:26:39You got two warriors.
00:26:40I can tell you that.
00:26:41You got a whole bunch of them.
00:26:43But and they wouldn't quit.
00:26:47They wouldn't take no for an answer.
00:26:48They just wouldn't quit.
00:26:49These two people right up here and some others that
00:26:52are involved with it indirectly.
00:26:55And what the lawyers do is they're doing it to the
00:26:58Supreme Court.
00:26:59Justice is hoping that they'll be overcome by the
00:27:04horrible things they say about it.
00:27:05They say things about Supreme Court justices and
00:27:08judges that are just horrible.
00:27:09They're playing the referee.
00:27:10Remember the way they treated Justice Thomas and
00:27:14Justice Alito and Justice Kavanaugh, Justice
00:27:16Gorsuch, Chief Justice Roberts get treated
00:27:20unbelievably badly.
00:27:23And they're hoping that they can sway them to go
00:27:26along.
00:27:27Because, again, what do they do?
00:27:29They're humans.
00:27:29You know, like any it would be wonderful if
00:27:31everybody was just a perfect computer machine.
00:27:35But they're not.
00:27:36They're humans.
00:27:37And they don't want to be accused of many, many
00:27:40things, including gross incompetence.
00:27:42They don't like it and they don't want it.
00:27:44There's not much they can do about it.
00:27:46You know, they're in a position they can't
00:27:47really fight back really very well.
00:27:50And so what they do is sometimes they get weak.
00:27:54I would say a majority, maybe, of the times.
00:27:56That's why I'm so impressed with Judge
00:27:59Cannon in Florida, how strong she was, how she
00:28:01held up.
00:28:02It actually made her more resolute than anything
00:28:06I've seen.
00:28:06I mean, it was amazing because they were hitting
00:28:08her so hard.
00:28:09It was so sad to watch this.
00:28:11But it's sad what they do to other judges.
00:28:13It's very sad what they do to the Supreme Court.
00:28:16And all of a lot of the judges that I had, if you
00:28:21look at them, they take tremendous abuse in the
00:28:23New York Times and the Washington Post, all of
00:28:26the different networks.
00:28:27They take such abuse.
00:28:29And honestly, they're very simply, they're afraid
00:28:33of bad publicity.
00:28:34They don't want bad publicity.
00:28:36And it's truly interference, in my opinion.
00:28:40And it should be illegal and it probably is illegal
00:28:42in some form.
00:28:44There's no difference than speaking to a judge or
00:28:48shouting to a judge or doing whatever you have to
00:28:51do in a courthouse.
00:28:52They're doing it behind the back.
00:28:53They're usually doing it anonymously.
00:28:55They're saying, and honestly, off the record,
00:28:57the judge is no good.
00:28:58But everybody knows where it's coming from.
00:29:01And it's totally coordinated.
00:29:02It's a campaign.
00:29:03And it's by the same scum that you have been dealing
00:29:07with for years, like guys like Andrew Weissman,
00:29:09Derange Jack Smith.
00:29:11There's a guy named Norm Eisen.
00:29:13I don't even know what he looks like.
00:29:14His name is Norm Eisen of Crew.
00:29:16He's been after me for nine years.
00:29:19Now, Crew is a charitable organization.
00:29:22And the reason I'm saying this, Todd, is I'm only
00:29:25going to get one chance to say this.
00:29:27But these are bad people.
00:29:29I don't know who he is.
00:29:30I don't know what he looks like.
00:29:32But everything I read is Norm Eisen of Crew.
00:29:35And Crew is a charitable organization.
00:29:38And that's a political thing.
00:29:41His sole life is to get Donald Trump.
00:29:44And he's been vicious and violent.
00:29:48And he's trying.
00:29:49And he probably had pretty good success over the years.
00:29:52But with me, how did he do?
00:29:54I think I'm President.
00:29:55Am I here because I'm President?
00:29:57But we had to take all of that abuse.
00:29:59Even during the trials, we had to take tremendous
00:30:01abuse, like, you know, these wonderful guys.
00:30:03They're not legitimate people.
00:30:05They're horrible people.
00:30:06They're scum.
00:30:08And you have to know that.
00:30:11And you're going to have these cases where you
00:30:14can't allow yourselves to be deflected.
00:30:18You just can't let it happen.
00:30:19You have so many.
00:30:20You have such a higher calling.
00:30:22And I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally
00:30:27write 97.6 percent bad about me, are political
00:30:31arms of the Democrat Party.
00:30:33And in my opinion, they're really corrupt
00:30:36and they're illegal.
00:30:38What they do is illegal.
00:30:40It makes no difference how big a victory I had.
00:30:42I can have the biggest victory in history.
00:30:45It makes no difference what kind of a failure
00:30:48the other side has.
00:30:50These people are going to go after me.
00:30:52And I said it during the other night, during the
00:30:55big speech on Tuesday night.
00:30:57I said about Democrats, and I don't like that.
00:31:00I have great respect, by the way, for what Schumer
00:31:02did today.
00:31:03He went out and he said that they have to vote
00:31:05with the Republicans because it's the right
00:31:07thing to do.
00:31:07I couldn't believe what I heard.
00:31:09But, you know, I think he's going to get some
00:31:11credit for it, I think.
00:31:12Let's see what happens tonight with the big vote
00:31:14as it comes.
00:31:15But these networks and these newspapers are
00:31:20really no different than a highly paid political
00:31:23operative.
00:31:24And it has to stop.
00:31:26It has to be illegal.
00:31:27It's influencing judges and it's really changing
00:31:33law, and it just cannot be legal.
00:31:36I don't believe it's legal.
00:31:38And they do it in total coordination with each
00:31:41other.
00:31:42And everything we do, we're restoring law,
00:31:44restoring order, and restoring public safety
00:31:47in America.
00:31:47That's what we want to do.
00:31:49And we're bringing honor and integrity and
00:31:51accountability back to the highest levels of the
00:31:54FBI, DOJ, and throughout our government.
00:31:58We're bringing our country back faster than
00:32:00anyone ever thought possible.
00:32:02We're working so hard at doing it.
00:32:03And we want fairness in the courts.
00:32:06The courts are a big factor.
00:32:07The elections, which were totally rigged, are a big
00:32:11factor.
00:32:11We have to have honest elections.
00:32:13We have to have borders.
00:32:14And we have to have courts and law that's fair.
00:32:18Well, we're not going to have a country.
00:32:20Crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with
00:32:23Russia and everything else he did, frankly, but
00:32:26he didn't know about it.
00:32:27And he, generally speaking, signed it with
00:32:29Autopen.
00:32:30So how would he know?
00:32:31That Autopen is a big deal.
00:32:33I don't know.
00:32:33You know, they're having — who's doing this?
00:32:36So when my people come up — Will and all of the
00:32:39people, Steve — they come up and say, sir, this
00:32:42is an executive order.
00:32:43They explain it to me.
00:32:44And, you know, 90 percent of the time, I sign it.
00:32:46Ninety-nine percent of the time, I say do it.
00:32:49But they come up and I sign it.
00:32:51But you don't use Autopen.
00:32:53It's — number one, it's disrespectful to the
00:32:56office.
00:32:57Number two, maybe it's not even valid because, you
00:32:59know, who's getting him to sign?
00:33:01He had no idea what the hell he was doing.
00:33:03If he did, all of these bad things wouldn't be
00:33:05happening right now.
00:33:07But we're going to get you back into a great
00:33:10position.
00:33:11We've already started.
00:33:12They say that we had the most successful first
00:33:16month of President.
00:33:17It's not a long time, but it's still a lot.
00:33:19It's like if you're a golfer.
00:33:20Sinking a three-foot putt on the first hole gives
00:33:23you confidence to sink something on the second
00:33:25hole.
00:33:26But if you miss that first putt, you don't like to
00:33:29have the putt on the second hole and the third
00:33:31hole.
00:33:32It could be a very bad experience.
00:33:33It's nice to get that first month.
00:33:35And now we have more than a month.
00:33:36Now we have a month and a half.
00:33:39And it's going really, really well.
00:33:40I can tell you it's a little secret, although
00:33:43the cameras are blazing back there.
00:33:44So it's not that much.
00:33:45But I think we're doing well, as you have been
00:33:48hearing about Ukraine.
00:33:49I think we're doing now well with Russia.
00:33:53We're speaking with President Putin.
00:33:55We want to get the war over.
00:33:58Not only have we spent maybe $350 billion to
00:34:01Europe's thing of that $350 billion to $100
00:34:05billion, and yet we're across the ocean far away.
00:34:08So it shouldn't have been that way.
00:34:09But Biden let that happen, too.
00:34:11And we're getting a deal where we're going to get
00:34:14that back, but much more importantly, are the
00:34:16lives that we're talking about.
00:34:19On average, 2,000 young people are being killed
00:34:22every single day.
00:34:23Now, they're not from here.
00:34:25They're from nowhere close to here.
00:34:26But they're young people.
00:34:28They're human beings.
00:34:30And they have parents.
00:34:32They have sisters and brothers, the mothers and
00:34:34fathers, the friends and the families and the
00:34:37towns where they grew up.
00:34:40And they're losing, on average, 2,000, even
00:34:442,500 a week.
00:34:48And I want to get it stopped.
00:34:49And we've had some very good calls today with
00:34:53Russia and with Ukraine.
00:34:56They've agreed for a ceasefire, if we can get
00:34:58it with Russia.
00:34:59And it's not easy.
00:35:01It's a tough one.
00:35:04But I think we're doing it.
00:35:05And as the Secretary General said yesterday of
00:35:09NATO, a terrific guy, he said, without Trump,
00:35:11we wouldn't be talking about it.
00:35:12It would just go on for years, and millions more
00:35:15people — millions of people have been killed,
00:35:17but millions more people would be killed.
00:35:19And he said it was a great honor.
00:35:21Without me, it would just keep going on.
00:35:24We're looking for the ceasefire now with Russia,
00:35:28and we've had some very good talks about it.
00:35:30We've had some very good responses.
00:35:33And I can tell you that there was a case where
00:35:37there would have been no war if I were President,
00:35:40and it's just 100 percent would not have happened.
00:35:43Would never have happened.
00:35:44I used to speak to President Putin a lot about it.
00:35:47I said, Don't do it.
00:35:48Don't do it.
00:35:49I won't tell you what the consequence was.
00:35:51I won't tell you what he said.
00:35:52But if he believed even 5 percent of what I said,
00:35:54then he would say, I'm not going to do it.
00:35:56And I think he did.
00:35:58But we had a good relationship, and we had a
00:36:00professional relationship.
00:36:01And his respect for this country.
00:36:05And I think we had — I think we've had some very
00:36:09good results.
00:36:09So, you know, I haven't been able to say that to
00:36:11anybody else.
00:36:12I haven't wanted to say it until just before I came
00:36:14here.
00:36:15I got some pretty good news.
00:36:16So — but we have to see what happens.
00:36:18It's still a long way to go.
00:36:19The fighting is unbelievable.
00:36:22Russia has a large group of Ukrainian soldiers, as
00:36:27we speak, surrounded and in grave danger.
00:36:30They've been able to surround them.
00:36:32They're in grave danger.
00:36:33Biden should have never let this war happen.
00:36:36First of all, you don't want to pick on somebody
00:36:39that's a lot larger than you, even with the money.
00:36:43There's a lot of money that we gave them and a
00:36:44lot of equipment.
00:36:45We make the best military equipment in the world.
00:36:48But even with all of that, it's unbelievable.
00:36:52Right now, you have a lot of Ukrainian soldiers that
00:36:54are encircled and in grave danger.
00:36:56And I've asked them not to kill those soldiers,
00:36:58please.
00:36:59Not to kill those soldiers.
00:37:01We don't want them killed.
00:37:03It's such a shame to see what's happened.
00:37:06A thing like that would have never happened.
00:37:08Inflation would have never happened.
00:37:10October 7th would have never happened.
00:37:13Israel — Iran had no money.
00:37:16They were totally broke.
00:37:17Think of it.
00:37:18They had no money to give to anybody.
00:37:20They were totally broke.
00:37:22And within a short period of time, as soon as Biden
00:37:24came in, he took out all the sanctions.
00:37:27And China and everybody else that wasn't buying
00:37:29oil from Iran was buying it at levels that they
00:37:31never spent before.
00:37:33And it was — it was a sad thing.
00:37:37And if you look at Afghanistan, that was
00:37:40probably what got Putin started.
00:37:42Because when he looked at how horribly it —
00:37:44horribly we looked, I think the most embarrassing
00:37:47day — not that we got out, because we were
00:37:49getting out.
00:37:49I would have been out faster than them.
00:37:50I was the one that got it down to the right level.
00:37:53But we would have kept Bagram, the big Air Force
00:37:55base.
00:37:56We would have kept it.
00:37:57Right now, China occupies Bagram.
00:37:58And the reason we would have kept it is because
00:38:00they were one hour away from where China has and
00:38:04builds its nuclear missiles and weapons.
00:38:07And they gave that up.
00:38:09At the dark of night, they left the lights on.
00:38:12And they left the dogs behind, by the way.
00:38:14A lot of people say, what about all the dogs?
00:38:16They had a lot of dogs.
00:38:17And they left the dogs behind.
00:38:19And what a shame.
00:38:21What a shame, the way we got out.
00:38:23I think it was the most humiliating time in the
00:38:25history of our country.
00:38:26The way it happened — not that we were getting
00:38:28out, because we wanted to get out, but we would
00:38:31have gotten out with dignity and strength.
00:38:34And what a difference a rigged and crooked
00:38:36election had on our country, when you think
00:38:38about it.
00:38:39And the people who did this to us should go to
00:38:42jail.
00:38:43They should go to jail.
00:38:45So I just want to say, God bless America, because
00:38:49we have to say, God bless.
00:38:51We're lucky we're still here, frankly.
00:38:53And this whole thing could lead — I think we have
00:38:57it.
00:38:57I think we have it.
00:38:59But this could lead to World War III.
00:39:03Very easily — could very easily lead to World War
00:39:06III.
00:39:07But I think we're in pretty good shape.
00:39:09A lot better than we were before we got involved.
00:39:13That, I can tell you.
00:39:13It was going — that was heading into World War
00:39:16III territory, and that would have been a war
00:39:18like no other because of nuclear weapons and other
00:39:20types of weapons that — hey, people, you don't
00:39:23even want to know about.
00:39:25But as many of you do know, well, we're focused
00:39:27on persecuting.
00:39:30And these people were really focused on
00:39:33persecuting Republicans.
00:39:35The last administration presided over the worst
00:39:38increase in violent crime in our country in many,
00:39:41many decades.
00:39:42We had levels of violence and crime, and a lot of it
00:39:46had to do with the illegal immigrants that came in.
00:39:48Remember when I used to complain about it?
00:39:50Because I knew how tough they were, how mean they
00:39:52were.
00:39:53And they said, No, no, people that come into our
00:39:55country are all wonderful people.
00:39:57No, they're not wonderful.
00:39:58These are stone-cold killers.
00:40:00These are killers like — they make our killers look
00:40:04nice, by comparison.
00:40:06They make our killers look nice.
00:40:07These are rough, tough people with the tattoos
00:40:10all over their face.
00:40:11Historically speaking — I don't want to
00:40:13discriminate against anybody, but historically
00:40:15speaking, they're not going to be the head of any
00:40:17major bank that we know of.
00:40:19These are rough people.
00:40:20These are rough, rough killer people.
00:40:23And they allowed them in by the millions.
00:40:25In major cities like New York, Chicago, and
00:40:28Washington, mothers can't walk their children to the
00:40:30park without fear of being shot or killed or raped
00:40:36or anything.
00:40:37Women can't ride the subway without worrying
00:40:39that a hoodlum will shove them onto the train tracks
00:40:44in New York.
00:40:45It's happened twice in the last couple of weeks.
00:40:47They're standing there — a perfect Wall Street
00:40:50gentleman, in one case, and another person who was
00:40:52a worker — good worker, electrician — gets pushed
00:40:57into a train going 45 miles an hour just prior
00:41:01to the train.
00:41:02Not stopping.
00:41:02Going to go through that.
00:41:03I know the stations very well.
00:41:04I used to take the subway.
00:41:06I used to feel safe.
00:41:07When I was young, I'd go to the — my parents would
00:41:09drop me off at the subway.
00:41:10I'd take the subway to my school.
00:41:12Can you believe it?
00:41:13Today, they wouldn't be doing that.
00:41:15And we want to back — we want to get a country
00:41:17back maybe where you can do that again, Pam.
00:41:20But it's so sad to see what's taking place.
00:41:23Under the Biden regime, average monthly homicides
00:41:26increased by 14 percent.
00:41:29Property crime rose tremendously.
00:41:31Violent crime went up at least 37 percent,
00:41:34that they know of.
00:41:34Rape soared by 42 percent.
00:41:36Car theft rose by 48 percent.
00:41:39And robberies surged to 63 to 100 percent.
00:41:43They don't even know what the number is.
00:41:46And I have no higher mission as President of
00:41:49the United States than to end this killing and stop
00:41:52this lawbreaking and to making America safe again.
00:41:55And that's what you're all about in this room.
00:41:58We want to protect Americans, and we protect
00:42:00everybody that's in our country, American or not
00:42:03American.
00:42:04We want to have a safe and proud country.
00:42:06We're joined today by dozens of police officers,
00:42:08sheriffs, and sheriff's deputies from all across
00:42:12the country.
00:42:13My message to these law enforcement heroes is
00:42:15simple.
00:42:16With me in the White House, you once again have
00:42:18a President who will always have your back.
00:42:20Will always have your back.
00:42:22Thank you, fellas.
00:42:36That's a lot of good-looking people, I
00:42:38will tell you.
00:42:39I feel safe.
00:42:40I'm glad you're in the room.
00:42:41I feel even safer.
00:42:42It's a lot of great people.
00:42:44On day one, I signed an executive order directing
00:42:47Attorney General to ensure that anyone who
00:42:49murders a police officer immediately, with as fast
00:42:53a trial as we can have, gets the death penalty.
00:42:57And last month, I fired all the radical-left,
00:43:09pro-crime U.S.
00:43:10attorneys appointed by Joe Biden.
00:43:12There were so many that were bad.
00:43:13And I know there were some that were probably
00:43:15very good, but there were so many that were so bad
00:43:18and so evil, so corrupt.
00:43:21Instead of having Marxist prosecutors who want to
00:43:24put police officers in handcuffs and go after a
00:43:27police officer rather than a criminal, I
00:43:30appointed patriotic, tough-on-crime warriors
00:43:32who will partner with police to put dangerous
00:43:35offenders behind bars, put them in jail.
00:43:38We're fully reviving 1033 program to provide state
00:43:42and local law enforcement with surplus military
00:43:45equipment, though we have so much of it.
00:43:47I did it in my last administration, and I
00:43:50remember Obama wouldn't do it.
00:43:51He wouldn't do it before me.
00:43:53Would not do it because he thought it made them
00:43:56look too strong, too military.
00:43:57I said, no, that's what I want them to look like.
00:43:59I want them to look strong.
00:44:01And it was protective, defensive equipment.
00:44:04We had billions of dollars.
00:44:05I gave it out, and now I'm going to have a chance
00:44:07to give it out again.
00:44:08They didn't want to do it with Biden.
00:44:10And Biden didn't know why.
00:44:11I didn't.
00:44:12You know, if they would have asked him, he
00:44:13wouldn't have been able to answer the question.
00:44:15He could never answer a question.
00:44:16They said my press conference yesterday was
00:44:18longer than all of Biden's press conferences put
00:44:21together for the last four years.
00:44:23And I don't know if that's true, but it was
00:44:24close.
00:44:25And perhaps most importantly, we're
00:44:30securing our border and repelling the invasion of
00:44:32America.
00:44:33We have you see the numbers have come down.
00:44:37So and Tom Holman and Christie were have been
00:44:40incredible.
00:44:41Christie, no secretary.
00:44:43She's done great.
00:44:44And Tom Holman is I don't know if Tom Holman is
00:44:46here, but wherever he may be, I think he's chasing
00:44:49people out of our country.
00:44:52If he was here, I'd almost be disappointed.
00:44:53What are you doing, Tom?
00:44:55But he's a fantastic guy.
00:44:56And he's a brave guy.
00:44:57Over the past four years, other countries emptied
00:45:00out their prisons and jails, mental institutions
00:45:03and insane asylums and sent the killers, drug
00:45:07smugglers and bloodthirsty inmates from the
00:45:10filthiest dungeons of the world straight into the
00:45:13USA and open border.
00:45:14We had an open border policy.
00:45:16Anybody could come in no matter what you were, no
00:45:18matter where you came from, no matter what you
00:45:20looked like, no matter what you were doing, no
00:45:23matter what you did, no matter how many people
00:45:25you murdered.
00:45:26You could come right into our country.
00:45:27We have murderers right now walking the streets.
00:45:31We're joined today by Tammy Nobles, whose 20
00:45:33year old daughter Kayla was attacked in her home
00:45:37three years ago, horrifically assaulted
00:45:39and strangled to death by an illegal alien MS-13
00:45:43monster set loose into our country under the open
00:45:47border Biden regime.
00:45:49Kayla was one of countless American victims
00:45:51ripped away from their families by the open
00:45:54border policies of that administration.
00:45:56And we're also joined by Kayla's stepfather,
00:46:00Jeremiah, and several other courageous angel
00:46:02families here today.
00:46:04And I'd love you to all just stand up and take a
00:46:07bow because you are incredible people.
00:46:09Please.
00:46:20Thank you very much.
00:46:32But I want you to know that we are working every
00:46:34day to expel these savages from our country
00:46:37and ensure that what happened to your loved
00:46:39ones will never happen again.
00:46:41So, their legacy is going to be a great one.
00:46:43Thank you all very much.
00:46:44We appreciate it.
00:46:46On day one of my administration, I declared
00:46:48a national emergency on our southern border.
00:46:51In our first full month in office, we achieved the
00:46:53lowest level of illegal border crossings ever
00:46:56recorded.
00:46:57Okay?
00:46:57Even lower than four years ago.
00:47:00For years, Democrats and the media kept saying that
00:47:07we needed new legislation.
00:47:09We had to have new legislation.
00:47:11We needed it immediately.
00:47:12And I'd never had legislation.
00:47:14I had the best border in the history of our country
00:47:16for almost four years.
00:47:19And by the time I got out, we had the lowest
00:47:21numbers ever.
00:47:22My favorite chart of all time was brought down that
00:47:24day, and on that chart, it said we had the lowest
00:47:27numbers ever.
00:47:28But it turned out that we really didn't need new
00:47:32legislation.
00:47:33All you needed was a new President.
00:47:35And I said that.
00:47:43I said that the other night.
00:47:45That's all you needed was a new President saying,
00:47:48close the borders because the Border Patrol is
00:47:50unbelievable.
00:47:51ICE is unbelievable.
00:47:52And all of our law enforcement is just
00:47:54incredible.
00:47:55All of you guys are amazing.
00:47:57And the people of our country respect you and
00:48:00they love you.
00:48:00And a lot of times, you don't hear that because
00:48:02you have to listen to the fake news back there.
00:48:04But they have great respect for you.
00:48:07So I just want you to know that.
00:48:08And, you know, that includes our fire
00:48:10departments, too.
00:48:11They don't get spoken about enough.
00:48:13You know, they go into some of the areas I read
00:48:16where they're shooting them off ladders.
00:48:17Can you believe it?
00:48:18They go up to put out a fire, Leo.
00:48:20And they go and they shoot them off a ladder.
00:48:24It's just unbelievable.
00:48:25These firemen and women are incredible.
00:48:27So I want to put them in the same category because
00:48:29they're just incredible.
00:48:30I also like that the fact they voted for me, like,
00:48:33at 94 percent.
00:48:34So I have to mention them.
00:48:35I have no choice, right?
00:48:37But the truth is, they're phenomenal people.
00:48:39The law enforcement, fire, everybody, they're
00:48:42phenomenal.
00:48:43Basically, first responders because that's
00:48:45what they are.
00:48:45They're first responders.
00:48:47And we're ending the migrant occupation of
00:48:49America.
00:48:50And what we're doing now is we're liberating our
00:48:52cities and our suburbs and our towns.
00:48:55And you see a big difference.
00:48:56I'm getting calls all the time from even leaders of
00:48:58other countries saying, sir, the whole world feels
00:49:01liberated now.
00:49:03It feels like there's a light over America, but
00:49:05there's a light over the whole world.
00:49:07I hear that so much.
00:49:08It's so nice to hear, too.
00:49:09And I feel it.
00:49:10I mean, I feel it.
00:49:11I look at I see the polls.
00:49:12I don't know if the polls are right, but they're
00:49:14certainly very good.
00:49:15I'll take them right now.
00:49:17It's amazing.
00:49:18Amazing what's what's taken place in such a
00:49:21short period of time, really six weeks.
00:49:23But it's longer than that.
00:49:24It's really November 5th.
00:49:25I think that hopefully will go down.
00:49:27If you do your job great, it'll go down as the most
00:49:30important day, one of them, at least in the
00:49:32history of our country.
00:49:33You know, July 4th was pretty 1776.
00:49:37It was pretty important, too.
00:49:38But let's see if we can top it.
00:49:40Can we top it?
00:49:40I don't know.
00:49:41That's a tough one, but we're going to try.
00:49:42But it will be one of the most important days in the
00:49:46history of our country.
00:49:47So I think and I think everybody in this room
00:49:50wants that to happen.
00:49:51Last month, we officially designated MS-13
00:49:54and Tren de Aragua.
00:49:56That's the Venezuelan gang, the toughest gang,
00:49:59they say, in the world.
00:50:00And the Mexican drug cartels as foreign
00:50:02terrorist organizations.
00:50:04That's a big deal.
00:50:05Nobody wanted to do that in the past.
00:50:07And by the way, we've caught hundreds of them,
00:50:17the Venezuelan gang, which is as bad as it gets.
00:50:20And you'll be reading a lot of stories tomorrow
00:50:22about what we've done with them.
00:50:24And you'll be very impressed.
00:50:25And you'll feel a lot safer, too, because they
00:50:27are a vicious group.
00:50:28They went into Colorado.
00:50:30They took over areas of Colorado.
00:50:33They sort of were like me.
00:50:34They were in the real estate business, but they
00:50:36didn't go out and get financing.
00:50:37They just took over a building and kept it.
00:50:41And they said to the tenants, Get the hell out
00:50:43of here.
00:50:43One man called the police and they cut off his
00:50:46fingers.
00:50:47And they say, You call again, your other fingers
00:50:49and you call a third time and you're dead.
00:50:51These are tough people and bad people, and we're
00:50:53getting them out of our country.
00:50:55And some are so bad, we don't want to get them
00:50:56out.
00:50:57We have to put them in jail because we don't want
00:50:59to even take a chance that they can come back.
00:51:01Thanks to our efforts, Mexico recently handed
00:51:04over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders, including
00:51:07the depraved Kingpin charge with the 1985
00:51:11murder of DE agent Kiki Camerana.
00:51:15And that was a big deal.
00:51:16If you know, they've been looking for this person
00:51:18for years.
00:51:19Many years.
00:51:20And we got him.
00:51:21This evil killer will be now prosecuted to the
00:51:24fullest extent of the law.
00:51:26And we know that.
00:51:28Well, it's let's put it this way.
00:51:31I have to be nice.
00:51:32It's a very strong case.
00:51:33We're stopping the criminals pouring across
00:51:36our borders at record levels.
00:51:38And we're also stopping the massive quantities of
00:51:41deadly drugs.
00:51:42In 2023 alone, drug overdoses killed more
00:51:45Americans in 12 months than they did during the
00:51:48entire decade between 1980 and 1990.
00:51:51So 10 times more, but it's much higher than that.
00:51:54More Americans died from fentanyl last year than
00:51:57died in the Korean War, the Iraq War, the
00:52:00Afghanistan War.
00:52:01All of them combined.
00:52:03That's why I place large tariffs on Mexico, Canada
00:52:06and China, and they will remain in place until
00:52:09these deadly poisons stop pouring into our country.
00:52:11And I will tell you, as soon as I put on the
00:52:13tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China,
00:52:17unbelievable results have been seen in the last few weeks.
00:52:21Unbelievable results.
00:52:23They weren't happy about it.
00:52:24You probably read they weren't happy, but they
00:52:26are working like hell to end it.
00:52:28They weren't working very hard before I did that.
00:52:31With us today is a brave mother and advocate, Ann
00:52:34Fundner, who lost her beautiful 15-year-old son,
00:52:38Weston, to fentanyl.
00:52:40And, Ann, if you would, I'd like to ask you to
00:52:43come up and say a few words, please.
00:52:47Thank you very much.
00:52:52Thank you, darling.
00:52:53You're going to be great.
00:52:56Let me put that down.
00:53:00Well, first, I want to say thank you.
00:53:03I think this is the biggest I've ever had, and I'm
00:53:06You're going to be great.
00:53:08Let me put that down there.
00:53:12Well, first, I want to say thank you.
00:53:14I think this is the biggest honor of my entire life,
00:53:17being on stage with President Trump.
00:53:19But I want to tell you a little bit about my son, Weston,
00:53:23who absolutely loved President Trump.
00:53:26He had a beautiful Trump 2020 flag hanging in his bedroom.
00:53:32And he had it on the beach one day, and we took a picture,
00:53:35and it became our 2020 Christmas card
00:53:38with the most perfect slogan for President Trump,
00:53:41peace on Earth.
00:53:43What would happen in the next four years
00:53:45would be devastational to our country
00:53:48and our safety of our children.
00:53:50And in 2022, Weston lost his life,
00:53:54a freshman in high school at the age of 15,
00:53:57from a single pill that took his life.
00:54:02The cartels were allowed to operate on American soil
00:54:06and took hundreds of thousands of American lives.
00:54:10And so we knew there was only one person
00:54:14that could save us from the devastation
00:54:17on our American soil, and that was President Trump.
00:54:22And so in 2024, we did the best thing
00:54:25that we could do to keep America safe again,
00:54:28and we elected President Donald J. Trump.
00:54:38And he's done everything that he has promised.
00:54:47We have a 98% decrease in border crossings,
00:54:52and he has labeled the terrorist cartels terrorist organizations.
00:54:59And he has instilled tariffs
00:55:02because there is no price on human life.
00:55:05And so I feel like I can speak
00:55:07for the entire fentanyl-fighting community
00:55:10when I say thank you to President Trump
00:55:13and thank you to Pam Bondi
00:55:15and everyone out here who is fighting this fight.
00:55:18God bless you.
00:55:19God bless you, President Trump.
00:55:20God bless America.
00:55:43Thank you, Anne, very much.
00:55:44And Weston is — as you said to Anne,
00:55:48Weston is up in Heaven watching his mom,
00:55:50and he's so proud of you.
00:55:52He's so proud of you.
00:55:54We're also joined today by a number of other American families
00:55:58who have lost loved ones to fentanyl.
00:56:00And I'd love you to just stand up for a second,
00:56:03and we want to acknowledge you.
00:56:04And also, your daughters, your sons,
00:56:08they're looking down on you,
00:56:10and they're loving you like crazy.
00:56:13So, thank you very much.
00:56:26This department will not rest
00:56:27until we have ended the fentanyl epidemic
00:56:30in America once and for all.
00:56:31In less than two months, since I took office,
00:56:34the DEA and FBI have seized
00:56:36nearly 1 million deadly doses of fentanyl,
00:56:39and that's just the beginning.
00:56:45At my direction and working with Pam and everybody else,
00:56:48we've launched an all-out war on fentanyl traffickers,
00:56:52and it's a war that we're going to win.
00:56:54We're going to win this war.
00:56:55I spoke with the President of Mexico.
00:56:58Very nice woman, very fine woman.
00:57:00And I said, let me ask you,
00:57:02you're sending a lot of drugs into our country.
00:57:04We're not liking it at all.
00:57:06We can't do that.
00:57:07But I said, is Mexico, does it have much of a drug?
00:57:10She said, no, we're not a consuming nation.
00:57:12I thought it was an interesting term.
00:57:15And I said, why?
00:57:17And which I've heard also, by the way,
00:57:19they're not a consuming nation.
00:57:21They distribute, but they don't consume.
00:57:24But I said, why are you not a consumer?
00:57:25Well, we're very close with family.
00:57:27I said, so we're very close with family, too.
00:57:29I mean, our families are being devastated,
00:57:31and we're just as close.
00:57:32Why else?
00:57:34She said, well, we spend a lot of money on advertising
00:57:36saying how bad drugs are.
00:57:38They're very roughheads.
00:57:39They show the skin falling off and the teeth falling out
00:57:42and going blind and losing hair
00:57:46and everything that these things do that you look like.
00:57:50You just came out of a horrible concentration camp
00:57:53and she said it was, they're roughheads.
00:57:57And it's not often that I feel I've learned something
00:58:01from a phone call,
00:58:02because I've had a lot of phone calls all of my life.
00:58:05But I realized right then and there,
00:58:07what a great idea that is.
00:58:09And we have hired Susie, a great person,
00:58:14who did a lot of our campaign work.
00:58:16And we've come up with an advertising campaign
00:58:18that's, I think, really incredible.
00:58:21More than anything else, it's terrible to watch.
00:58:25Terrible to watch.
00:58:26It's the only way it's gonna work.
00:58:28And I would be, because we got the numbers down,
00:58:3118% would have a blue-ribbon committee
00:58:33headed by the First Lady of the United States,
00:58:36who everyone loves, and some of her friends.
00:58:40They work so hard, but it's a tough deal.
00:58:44They're dealing with very smart and very vicious people.
00:58:48Some of those businesses, those cartels,
00:58:50are run better than any business in America.
00:58:52They say they're run incredibly.
00:58:54Not just here, all over the world.
00:58:56They're run like a major business,
00:58:58but in many cases, better.
00:59:00And I said, we got it 18% down.
00:59:03Well, 18% is incredible.
00:59:04It's like a record.
00:59:05But when you think of it, it's not very much.
00:59:09And the way you get it down,
00:59:10if you wanna get it down to close to 100%,
00:59:12is with a death penalty.
00:59:13But I think maybe America is not ready for that.
00:59:16China has a death penalty.
00:59:17Singapore has a death penalty.
00:59:19Various places have the death penalty.
00:59:21Wherever you have the death penalty, you don't have drugs.
00:59:23But I just don't know if this country is ready for it.
00:59:26So I tell people, and it's always an option,
00:59:28but I don't know.
00:59:30I just don't know if you're ready for it, and that's okay.
00:59:32It's nothing you can do.
00:59:34But what we're gonna do is we're doing this campaign,
00:59:38and I think we can get it down 50, 50% with this campaign.
00:59:41Because when people see all the horrible things
00:59:43that these drugs do to you,
00:59:46we're especially focused on fentanyl.
00:59:48When they see all of the horrible things
00:59:50that happen when you take drugs,
00:59:52how you look, you lose your look.
00:59:54Everyone's vain.
00:59:55They don't wanna lose their look.
00:59:57The look is so important.
00:59:58And I think when they see these things,
01:00:01they may say, you know what, I'm gonna take a pass.
01:00:04But there is big danger.
01:00:05Pam and I were talking about it before.
01:00:07A lot of people are taking fentanyl and not even knowing.
01:00:09They think they're doing something else
01:00:11or maybe taking another drug, but at a much lower level.
01:00:15And they die.
01:00:17You can put on the pin, think of this,
01:00:19the head of a pin, fentanyl, and it's too much
01:00:23and it will kill the strongest person in the room.
01:00:26And it's amazing.
01:00:28But we're gonna do this campaign.
01:00:30It's gonna be launched fairly soon, Susie.
01:00:33And I think it's gonna have a big impact.
01:00:36I think if we got it down by another 30, 35 points,
01:00:40and I really believe we can,
01:00:41I think that's an incredible idea.
01:00:43So I thank the President of Mexico, actually.
01:00:46It was a call on tariffs and we talked about drugs.
01:00:49And she gave me an idea that I think will be very successful
01:00:53and based on what I saw, it's gonna be amazing.
01:00:56Under our leadership, this department is once again
01:00:59laser-focused on protecting the American people.
01:01:02We're defending our borders, our streets, our children,
01:01:05and our good, really God-given,
01:01:07this is God-given rights and liberties once and for all.
01:01:11We're gonna defend our country
01:01:13and we're gonna defend our rights.
01:01:15Etched onto the walls of this building
01:01:17are the words English philosopher John Locke said,
01:01:21where law ends, tyranny begins.
01:01:24And I see that and I saw it over the last four years
01:01:28when somebody was allowed to attack viciously
01:01:30with this department and the FBI.
01:01:33His political opponent, how did that work out?
01:01:35Didn't work out too well, but it wasn't pleasant.
01:01:38Wasn't pleasant.
01:01:39I was attacked by a political opponent
01:01:42and probably it helped that I was attacked
01:01:45more than anybody in the history of our country.
01:01:47Alphonse Capone, the great Alphonse Capone,
01:01:50legendary, Scarface, was attacked only a tiny fraction
01:01:55of what Trump was attacked.
01:01:56And maybe it worked out well, I don't know.
01:01:58If I had to give it up, I probably wouldn't,
01:02:00but only because I've gone through it.
01:02:03But I wonder what the difference would be.
01:02:05Maybe they helped get me elected by those margins,
01:02:07the big margins, the big mandate that we received.
01:02:10But you can't go after your political opponent.
01:02:13Nobody's ever seen anything like it, actually.
01:02:16And hopefully, they won't see anything like it.
01:02:18But now, with the return of law and order,
01:02:20the entire world is witnessing the triumph
01:02:23of American justice and American freedom.
01:02:25That's why we're here today,
01:02:27gathered with people that have love for our country.
01:02:30In the coming years, we will revive the storied legacy
01:02:34of this department.
01:02:35It's happening right now, you can feel it.
01:02:38And rekindle the spirit of the great lawmen
01:02:40and legal lions of the past,
01:02:43Americans like Wyatt Earp, Eliot Ness, Frank Hammer,
01:02:47Rudy Giuliani.
01:02:48Rudy Giuliani had to suffer greatly, greatly.
01:02:52He's the greatest mayor in the history of our country.
01:02:54He had to suffer greatly.
01:02:56Ed Meese, Antonin Scalia, Robert Jackson,
01:02:59and Robert F. Kennedy.
01:03:02We will rebuild pride in our institutions.
01:03:05We will restore the prestige of this great department.
01:03:08And we will bring back faith in our justice system
01:03:11for the citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.
01:03:16And I want to just tell you that this has been a great honor.
01:03:19I was asked to do it.
01:03:21And I said, is it appropriate that I do it?
01:03:25And then I realized it's not only appropriate,
01:03:28I think it's really important.
01:03:30And I may never do it again.
01:03:32I may never have another chance to do it again
01:03:35because this is something that I'm leaving
01:03:37to the greatest people I know, the best people,
01:03:39the smartest people, the toughest people I know.
01:03:43And they're going to do an incredible job.
01:03:44And it's an honor for me to have won this election
01:03:47so that I can appoint these people to do their job.
01:03:49And they're going to do it like you have never seen.
01:03:52So I just want to wish all of you good luck.
01:03:56It's going to be an interesting journey.
01:03:58It's not going to be easy, but you're going to win.
01:03:59You're going to win, win, win, and fight, fight, fight.
01:04:01And it's going to end up being a tremendous result
01:04:04for this country.
01:04:05So thank you all very much.
01:04:06God bless America. God bless you all.