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DHS Launches ‘Operation Charlotte’s Web’ Amid Immigration Crackdown · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump continuing to expand immigration enforcement. The Department of
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security is now bringing immigration enforcement surge to Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. We're being told that's right. DHS has formally
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  Speaker 1: launched an immigration law enforcement operation in Charlotte, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to its ongoing work. They say that it's
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  Speaker 1: expanding in Chicago. Quote, Americans should be able to live
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  Speaker 1: without fear of violent criminal illegals hurting them, their families,
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  Speaker 1: or their neighbors. That is what the Department of Olnded
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  Speaker 1: Security Assistant Secretary church And McLaughlin said in a statement.
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  Speaker 1: We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Secretary Nome will step up to protect Americans when
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  Speaker 1: sanctuary politicians won't. There are plenty of videos circulating by
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  Speaker 1: the way of Border Patrol agents in Charlotte, but the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security is now officially confirmed that they
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  Speaker 1: are in the town and they are conducting operations. We
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  Speaker 1: also know that the mclennenburg County Sheriff McFadden has confirmed
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  Speaker 1: last week that the Department of Homeland Security has coordinated
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  Speaker 1: with him on coming operations, which is dubbed Operation Charlotte's
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  Speaker 1: Web that. According to The Washington Post, the sheriff there, McFadden,
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  Speaker 1: also noted that DHS did not ask that his department
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  Speaker 1: assist or participate in the operation. The crime infested city
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  Speaker 1: of Charlotte was thrust into the national spotlight in September
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  Speaker 1: after the Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered on the city's
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  Speaker 1: mass transit system, stabbed to death on video by a
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  Speaker 1: chronic criminal by the name of Brown Junior, who had
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  Speaker 1: been let out of jail time and time again despite
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  Speaker 1: having a violent record. The White House sang at the
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  Speaker 1: time they had seen the the horrific video of a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful young Ukrainian refugee who came to America and escaped
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  Speaker 1: the vicious war in Ukraine and was innocently riding the
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  Speaker 1: metro in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was brutally ambushed,
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  Speaker 1: bi amentally deranged, lunatic, the White House saying this must stop.
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  Speaker 1: Customs and Border Patrol chief has already been spotted in
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte as he leaves the Trump administration's latest law enforcement campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Border commander was not only spotted, but local Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: mad about it. The surge has arrived and has been
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  Speaker 1: explained to me. There's no slowing down. There's also video
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  Speaker 1: of federal officers taking illegal aliens into custody, and they're
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  Speaker 1: already making their way around the internet, making Democrats even
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  Speaker 1: more angry. You can watch his Dozens of border patrol
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  Speaker 1: trucks were spotted driving into the heart of Charlotte, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: as the DHS had launched another mass deportation campaign. In
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat a strong hold. We need to see this,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, in all of the blue cities. There
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  Speaker 1: needs to be no safe havens for illegal immigrants, and
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Own Security patrols have begun not only
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  Speaker 1: in Charlotte, but we're now saying that it's happening in
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  Speaker 1: other places with expanding efforts. Just like Chicago. The Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are already encouraging citizens, however, to harass Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Security agents, and that brings us to where we are now.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear you're either on the side of law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: or you're on the side of helping illegal immigrants. There
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  Speaker 1: is a new thing that is happening. I wish this
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  Speaker 1: was a joke.
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  Speaker 2: It is not.
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  Speaker 1: We are witnessing now in different cities where there are
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  Speaker 1: and This is again, not a joke. I want to
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  Speaker 1: make that very clear. What I'm about to tell you
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  Speaker 1: is not a joke. There are now men and women
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  Speaker 1: who are actually going around town where these ICE agents
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  Speaker 1: and DHS agents are, and they're blowing whistles to warn
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrant criminals, to warn them that they are coming.
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  Speaker 1: They're using the internet to quote expose them wherever they
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  Speaker 1: can expose them. This is the scary part about the
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  Speaker 1: radical left. Now, I'm going to play for you my
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  Speaker 1: comments about this exact issue that I had on Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Channel with Kaylee Mcananny the show Saturday in America,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to hear what she had to
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  Speaker 1: say about it.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, you are the perfect person to ask about this. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're looking at it. Guys, you're just torturing me. I'm
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  Speaker 3: torturing you know, Ben. When you protest ice is your
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  Speaker 3: preferred method whistling or dancing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, neither. What is scary though about this is if
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  Speaker 1: you actually look at what they're protesting. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: where I am right now.
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  Speaker 2: In Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred and fourteen child sexual predators were arrested in
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  Speaker 1: the first six months this year just in Houston. I've
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  Speaker 1: been told by ICE that number will be significantly higher
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  Speaker 1: for the second six months of the year. Now that's
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  Speaker 1: not just sexual predators of adults, that is only of miners,
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  Speaker 1: of children, of babies. You're whistling to what allow those
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  Speaker 1: people to get away.
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  Speaker 2: You look at Operation Dirtbag and numbers matter.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty illegal alien sex offenders that were
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  Speaker 1: arrested in that operation in Florida. So if you're out
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  Speaker 1: there dancing or you're whistling as a mom that says
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  Speaker 1: I just want to keep my kids safe, you're literally
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  Speaker 1: warning sexual offenders and predators, child molesters, and those trafficking
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  Speaker 1: children that they are like going to be caught by
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents.
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  Speaker 2: This is liberalism.
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  Speaker 1: It is Trump derangement syndrome on a whole other level.
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  Speaker 1: But I also think this is why you say the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party is truly dead. This is Marxism, socialism, and communism.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to protect Americans.
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  Speaker 2: They want to.
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  Speaker 1: Completely destroy this country, remake it in a new form
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  Speaker 1: where they have total control and they don't care who
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  Speaker 1: gets heart in the process.
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  Speaker 2: It's really sick.
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  Speaker 3: It is sick, and we covered those children at the
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  Speaker 3: top of the show. A one year old unaccompanied minor
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  Speaker 3: who came across the border lived eleven years in America
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  Speaker 3: being abused. Sponsor after sponsor she was placed with came
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  Speaker 3: unduring the Obama administration and the Biden administration renewed one
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  Speaker 3: of her sponsor's ability to stay here. It's tragic, it's heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 3: Those children matter, their stories matter, and we cover them.
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  Speaker 1: This is the part that is so shocking that should
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  Speaker 1: make so many of you listening right now so angry,
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  Speaker 1: is that Trump derangement syndrome has gotten to the point
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  Speaker 1: where they were I'd rather say no to what Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is trying to do, which is to fight back
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  Speaker 1: against criminal illegal aliens, sexual predators, for example. And they
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  Speaker 1: are having Democrats go out there and dance to protest
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  Speaker 1: ice wherever they are and to try to stop their
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  Speaker 1: operations or blow whistles to warrant illegal immigrants that they
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  Speaker 1: are coming. The Democratic Party has drifted so far left
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  Speaker 1: that Pelosi and Schumer are now literally after thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party because they hate this country, and they
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  Speaker 1: don't care if you're hurt. They don't care. If your
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  Speaker 1: kids are hurt, they don't care, if your grandkids are hurt,
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  Speaker 1: they don't care. If there is sex trafficking that's happening,
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  Speaker 1: they don't care. And there's only one reason why they
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  Speaker 1: don't care. It is because they fundamentally want to destroy
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  Speaker 1: a mayor and they want to reshape it and they
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  Speaker 1: want to remake it into something that you can't even recognize.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we are today.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump saying that we are going to continue to
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  Speaker 1: grow this crackdown. This is something that we're not gonna stop.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that we are gonna make clear is
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  Speaker 1: going to expand I want you to listen to how
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  Speaker 1: the media described this carefully.
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  Speaker 4: Our top story tonight. Federal agents have converged on the
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  Speaker 4: city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Federal agents have been seen
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  Speaker 4: today in and around the city making arrests. Assistant Secretary
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  Speaker 4: of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin released a statement saying, quote,
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  Speaker 4: Americans should be able to live without fear of violent, criminal,
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  Speaker 4: illegal aliens hurting them, their families, or their neighbors. We
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  Speaker 4: are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ens sure
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  Speaker 4: Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed. Charlotte
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  Speaker 4: Mayor Vy Lyles criticized the operation, saying it's causing unnecessary
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  Speaker 4: fear and uncertain Charlotte's population is roughly nine hundred thousand,
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  Speaker 4: including more than one hundred and fifty thousand foreign born people,
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  Speaker 4: according to local officials.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, there was an interesting conversation about this,
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  Speaker 1: and I just want to expand on it for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: because there was a Democrat over the weekend that got
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  Speaker 1: on TV and in essence lost their minds. And when
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  Speaker 1: I say like lost their minds, the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: say they lost their mind is because they were angry
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  Speaker 1: that ICE agents had stopped a crew that was putting
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  Speaker 1: up Christmas lights. They said that was inhumane, that that
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  Speaker 1: was an essence barbaric, that that was un American because
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  Speaker 1: it's just an illegal who was putting up Christmas lights.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's talk about a couple of the
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  Speaker 1: people that were arrested that were apparently on a crew
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  Speaker 1: doing exactly what I just described Christmas lights. One of
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  Speaker 1: them was wanted for sexual assault of a child, we're
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  Speaker 1: now being told, and another one was wanted for beating
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  Speaker 1: his wife.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think they'd want to tell you that whole story,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't you.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you would think they would be like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we should probably tell you the entire story. We should
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  Speaker 1: tell you that, hey, they may be doing a job
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  Speaker 1: that seems harmless, but it doesn't mean that the person
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  Speaker 1: that's doing the job.
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  Speaker 2: Is harmless.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the majority of Americans that get arrested.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's let's be very clear about this. The
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  Speaker 1: majority of Americans that get arrested are doing what you
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  Speaker 1: would describe as a harmless job. Some of them are lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: some of them are bankers, hell, some of them are
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  Speaker 1: pastors or priests. In fact, a lot of people that
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  Speaker 1: get arrested are doing just you know, normal everyday jobs.
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  Speaker 2: As they try to describe it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, harmless jobs. The job has no correlation. I want
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  Speaker 1: to make that clear. The job has zero coordination correlation.
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  Speaker 1: I should say zero correlation too. If the person is
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  Speaker 1: a good person or a bad person. They are bad
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  Speaker 1: and evil people in literally every job there is. They're
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  Speaker 1: bad and evil people. In the church, they're bad and
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  Speaker 1: evil people. In medicine, they are bad and evil people.
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  Speaker 1: In missions. They're bad and evil people. At your gery store.
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  Speaker 1: There are bad and evil people in every different profession.
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  Speaker 1: There is no profession, even the holiest of positions, where
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  Speaker 1: there aren't bad people among them. There are criminals. Literally
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  Speaker 1: in every single profession. There are criminals in law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: Just to be very clear about what I'm saying today,
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  Speaker 1: And when Democrats come out and they're like, oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: an American to just arrest somebody that's just trying to
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  Speaker 1: make a living. Well, virtually every criminal is just trying
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  Speaker 1: to make a living when they go to their day job.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean, okay, that if you commit a crime,
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't be treated like you are a criminal. And
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: what they're really saying is there's certain areas where they
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  Speaker 1: should just be like, oh, hands off, like it should
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  Speaker 1: never happen. I think that is also totally insane and
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  Speaker 1: completely absurd.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you think we arrest.
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  Speaker 1: The majority of people that have warrants, the majority of
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  Speaker 1: people we have that we arrest, they go to their
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  Speaker 1: place of business first, because most people, even after they've
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  Speaker 1: committed crimes, they still go to get a paycheck. So
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  Speaker 1: let's just think about that for a second. Okay, the
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  Speaker 1: majority of people I'm going to say it again that
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  Speaker 1: commit crimes, they go to work. And when they go
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  Speaker 1: to work, does that mean that they're an innocent person
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  Speaker 1: of the crimes have committed before after they got their No.
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  Speaker 1: So when you talk about illegal immigrants, one, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a legal imm you've actually broken the law, period full stop.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're an illegal immigrant, and ice roll is up,
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  Speaker 1: on a job site and you're in this country illegally,
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  Speaker 1: there is a reason that you should be arrested. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't you're not an innocent person. Now if you're an
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  Speaker 1: American citizen, Okay, that's a different conversation, right. And then
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  Speaker 1: they say, well, they're harassing them. If Democrats are angry
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  Speaker 1: as they've described with that there are people that are
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  Speaker 1: quote being harassed, then don't let twenty million illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: into the United States of America. We wouldn't be having
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  Speaker 1: to do what we're doing right now if it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: for the fact that the Democratic Party deliberately and purposely
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  Speaker 1: let twenty plus million illegal immigrants into the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America. These surges in Charlotte, if you're angry about them,
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  Speaker 1: would have never happened. Ever, they would have never happened
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for the Democrats that let countless illegal
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  Speaker 1: immigrants into this nation.
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  Speaker 2: So I will go back to the core here. Two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Child sexual predators in the first six months of this
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  Speaker 1: year were caught. Child molesters, shall rapists, people that are
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  Speaker 1: selling children for sex. Sex traffickers were arrested in Houston alone.
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  Speaker 1: I've been told by ICE agents that I know that
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  Speaker 1: they expect that number for the next half of the year,
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  Speaker 1: the second half of the year, to go even higher.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to think about that. They're expecting the
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  Speaker 1: number to go higher. Now, I didn't say that was
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  Speaker 1: total number of sexual offenders. I want to be clear
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  Speaker 1: about that. That's not what I said. I said that
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  Speaker 1: is only sexual offenders against children. There are countless other
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  Speaker 1: sexual offenders, countless others. Can I say that again, countless
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  Speaker 1: other sexual offenders of adults that are not in the
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  Speaker 1: stat that I just gave you. That is just among children.
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  Speaker 1: There were more than one hundred, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: was fourteen that were rounded up, for example, in last
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks alone in Florida, with an operation that's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Florida just against children. We're not counting those
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  Speaker 1: that were out there molesting or abusing adult women. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I go back to the basics here. Why is it
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  Speaker 1: that so many of these radicals are willing to allow
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  Speaker 1: child sexual predators to walk around freely among us? Answer
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  Speaker 1: me that question, all right. I want to bring you
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  Speaker 1: also something else real quick. And if you thought Democrats
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  Speaker 1: were learning from their mistakes at lecturing Americans about like
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• 17:55
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  Speaker 1: like start listening to you instead of yelling at you
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  Speaker 1: all the time about what you do that's wrong, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just got to tell you that ain't gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: I say this, Well, even the as I would describe them,
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• 18:20
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  Speaker 1: and you don't deserve a woman in the White House
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  Speaker 1: yet because you're so racist. Obama sided Kamala Harris's loss
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  Speaker 1: to Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. It couldn't be
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: that she was a terrible candidate. Couldn't believe that she
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  Speaker 1: never got above three percent when she was actually running
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  Speaker 1: for president on her own. Couldn't be that the American
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: people rejected her ideas because or the coronation of her No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's because you're a bunch of sexists. And so Michelle
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  Speaker 1: Obama sides Kama Harris has lost to Donald Trump as
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: her evidence of the country's sexism, saying Americans have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of growing up to do, as we saw in
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  Speaker 1: the past election. Sadly, we ain't ready, she says. We
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  Speaker 1: ain't ready, is what she told the audience at Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: Academy of Music while promoting her new book The Look.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm like, don't even look at me about running,
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  Speaker 1: because you all are lying. You're not ready for a woman.
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  Speaker 1: You are not. You know, We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: growing up to do, she continued, and there's still, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of men who do not feel like they
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  Speaker 1: can be led by a woman, and we saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Obama appeared to amplify previous complaints on her book tour
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  Speaker 1: that she was under a particularly white hot glare as
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  Speaker 1: a black first lady, saying even Democrats were trying to
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  Speaker 1: destroy her while she became effective when her husband was
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  Speaker 1: running in the primaries of the eight nomination. Let's be clear.
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  Speaker 1: She said, these were our people who were going after me.
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  Speaker 1: This started when we were running again Star Party, the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of turning me into an angry shrew who diminished
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  Speaker 1: her husband, who didn't love her country, who was unpatriotic.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: These people are lying, they're making stuff up because they're
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: trying to win. Michelle Obama said, when she got to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the White House, she had to quickly define herself. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't even feel like I had the support of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the campaign because they were white folks too. Man, it
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: almost sounds like a racist statement from the former First
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Lady Michelle Obama, doesn't it? Quote So I knew this immediately,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and I knew this coming in as First Lady, that
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I was in charge of my story, my narrative. I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: had to be smarter than them. I had to outsmart
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: everyone and came and that came to everything I did, including.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: What I wore.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Obama's book, By the Way, released earlier this month, explores
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: her experience with fashion and beauty, while also claiming that
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: women in politics are often judged based on their physical
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: appearance instead of leadership qualities. While the former First Lady
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: claims she faced heavy criticism during her time in the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: White House. She was actually, in reality celebrated in the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: legacy media. And she appeared on the cover of Vogue
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: magazine not once, not twice, but three different times as
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: first lady man. Doesn't it sound like she had a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: really hard life? Yeah, I mean a lot. By the way,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that's more times than the actual supermodel by the name
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: of Milania Trump has been on the cover of Vogue magazine.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: She's a former supermodel. Literally, she's been snubbed by the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: establishment media and leftist magazine despite her status as a
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: high fashion figure throughout her life. So just to put
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: it in perspective for you, Michelle Obama, think about this, Michelle, Okay,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: are you again?
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  Speaker 2: Three times in the cover of Vogue.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: A former supermodel, Melania Trump has never been on the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: cover of Vogue. And Michelle Obama says that you guys
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: hated her because she was a woman in black, And
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: she says that you don't deserve a woman president because
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you need to grow up first. I'm just gonna let
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that really sink in for a second. What is the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: takeaway from this? Let's let's let's just talk about that for.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: A moment, not number one.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I think the biggest part, the biggest aspect of this
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: takeaway is this, I think it's pretty obvious that the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party has learned nothing from losing. That's number one.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Number two. Every time they lose, they seem to go
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: back to the same thing, and that is that when
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: they lose, it is never their fault. It is always
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: someone else's fault. Every single time, it is always someone
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: else's fault. It is always somebody else. Is the reason
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: why they didn't succeed, right, because it couldn't be that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe just people rejected Kamala Harris. Maybe they rejector because
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: they thought she was a bad can it. Maybe the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: rejector because it was a coronation and no one voted
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: for in her primary. Maybe the rejector because the economy
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: was bad. Maybe the rejector because of the failures of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: her administration with Joe Biden. Maybe the rejector because of
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden's record that she was a part of.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Different reasons why she could have lost the last election,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: why she did lose the last election. I mean, there's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of reasons, but it doesn't just actually come
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: down to what she describes it as, Oh, this is
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: just because you guys need to grow up. Even the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: way that she talked about some of this was shocking.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I want you to listen to just again. This is
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: why she's trying to get you to buy her book.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Lee and I knew this coming in as first Lady,
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: that I was in charge of my story, my narrative.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: I had to be smarter than them. I had to
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: outsmart everyone, and that came to everything I did, including
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: what I.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Wanted, including what I wore. So everything was against her. Everything,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the system was against her, You were against her. Every
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: single person she says, was against her. So She's decided
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going to write a book, and in that book,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about fashion. And I'm going
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to tell you I've been snubbed when I was doing
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: my fashion and culture, even though I was on the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: cover of Vogue magazine three different times, and the Republican
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: First Lady, who was a little supermodel, has never graced
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the cover of Vogue magazine, not one single time. And
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you that it's racism. And I'm
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: going to tell you that the reason why you deserve
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to have bad leaders is because you need to grow
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: up and you haven't grown up yet. That is what
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: she is saying. You have not grown up yet, so
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: you deserve all the bad things until you grow up. Now,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: for me, that's truly astonishing. For me, that's truly incredible
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that that is how out of touch with reality she is.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I'll also say, I'm not surprised totally. Okay, I'm not.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not totally surprised by this, because I do think
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: this is the Democratic Party. When they don't get their way,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: they lose their mind, and this is how they act.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Don't forget.
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