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Is This The End for Graham Platner? | Episode 325 · V

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Vince. It's great to have you with me
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  Speaker 2: this morning on this Tuesday edition of the program. It's
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  Speaker 2: good to see you. These Democrats, I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 2: they are always, you know, they're always plotting, planning, and conspiring, including,
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  Speaker 2: if necessary, against one another. The Graham-Plattner saga may be
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  Speaker 2: coming to an end. We'll explain what is happening there
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that Democrats have decided to open that
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  Speaker 2: blackmail file even further. to destroy him. He deserves it,
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  Speaker 2: but man, this is the deal with the devil he
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  Speaker 2: made when he signed up with that party. Holy cow.
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  Speaker 2: is it telling you? Well, we just got an update
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  Speaker 2: much more all ahead on this edition of Vince. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So Graham Platner, is he donezo? It kind of
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  Speaker 2: looks like he's donezo. This guy, will this be the
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  Speaker 2: scandal that finally takes him out? It wasn't enough for
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  Speaker 2: him to be a complete whack job on the internet.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't enough for him to be mocking American war
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  Speaker 2: heroes being shot at, wounded or killed. It wasn't enough
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  Speaker 2: for him to be accused, credibly accused of jacking women up.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't enough for him to have a Nazi freaking
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  Speaker 2: tattoo on his chest. Those things weren't enough. So maybe
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  Speaker 2: now that he stands once again accused of assaulting a woman,
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  Speaker 2: this time raping a woman, maybe because she's a Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: It'll be enough. Take a look at the story here.
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  Speaker 2: This is from Politico. Exclusive woman who dated Graham Plattner
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  Speaker 2: says he sexually assaulted her. A woman who dated Maine U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate candidate Graham Plattner says he forced her to have
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  Speaker 2: sex with him nearly five years ago, despite her repeated objections,
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  Speaker 2: an allegation that Plattner denies. The woman is a 41-year-old
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  Speaker 2: Maine resident named Jenny Rasico. and she detailed the alleged
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  Speaker 2: incident to Politico in three interviews over the past two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Politico also spoke with a man Rassico dated and confided
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  Speaker 2: in the years after the alleged incident and reviewed documents,
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  Speaker 2: including emails between Rassico and her therapist and messages between
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  Speaker 2: Rassico and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved
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  Speaker 2: with Plattner years before he ran for office. She says
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  Speaker 2: of Plattner that he arrived at her rural Maine home
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  Speaker 2: uninvited one night, late 2021, deeply intoxicated. He forced himself
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  Speaker 2: on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She
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  Speaker 2: said she cut off contact with him after telling him
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  Speaker 2: the encounter was not consensual. Quote, I remember him grabbing
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  Speaker 2: my pelvis and being really forceful of me, she said.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like,
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  Speaker 2: this is no longer my choice. Plattner has denied the allegations.
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  Speaker 2: Further in the story, they describe what happened that night
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  Speaker 2: in 2021. She says, they say that night in late 2021,
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  Speaker 2: Brasico said she had exchanged text messages with him and
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  Speaker 2: told him not to come over, saying she wasn't in
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  Speaker 2: the mood for company. Later that evening, she said she
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  Speaker 2: realized when she heard a sound on the stairs, he
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  Speaker 2: had let himself into the house, which was unlocked. Plattner
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  Speaker 2: came up the stairs, she said, to where she was
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  Speaker 2: on the couch. He got on top of her. He
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  Speaker 2: kept grabbing her while she repeatedly told him to stop
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  Speaker 2: and she wasn't interested. Vasico said she smelled alcohol on
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  Speaker 2: his breath and believed he was almost blackout drunk because
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  Speaker 2: Plattner ignored her protests and continued to grab her after
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  Speaker 2: knocking over an antique sewing kit, spilling small needles everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I've been telling him these words like, no, don't, she recalled.
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  Speaker 2: And the look on his face and realizing what was happening,
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  Speaker 2: I just realized like I'm in a situation where there's
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  Speaker 2: no consent here, she said She tried to separate herself
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  Speaker 2: from Platner. She said she couldn't be in the room anymore,
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  Speaker 2: after which he followed her to her bedroom, had sex
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  Speaker 2: with her against her will. She also said he ejaculated
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  Speaker 2: inside of her, despite her telling him not to, as
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  Speaker 2: she was not using birth control at the time. She
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  Speaker 2: went to clean herself up, she said, and when she returned,
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  Speaker 2: Platner had fallen asleep. She contemplated waking him up to
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  Speaker 2: kick him out, but worried he could hurt someone driving
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  Speaker 2: in the state he was in. The following morning, she said,
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  Speaker 2: Platner tried to put his arm around her and she
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  Speaker 2: pushed him away. She said she asked him whether he
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  Speaker 2: remembered what had happened the previous night. According to Rasico,
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  Speaker 2: Plattner said he did not remember. Rasico said she told
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  Speaker 2: him to leave and never contact her again. She has
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  Speaker 2: some evidence in the form of various text messages that
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  Speaker 2: Politico's looked at. Obviously, a later boyfriend who recounted these details.
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  Speaker 2: This would have been well before Plattner was this candidate
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  Speaker 2: for office that that story would have been shared. So
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  Speaker 2: Politico has some corroborating evidence here to support the woman's
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  Speaker 2: claims against Graham Plattner. Now, why is it that we
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  Speaker 2: are just hearing this story now? Oh, you are asking
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  Speaker 2: the right question when you ask that. Why is it
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  Speaker 2: that we're just hearing this story now? Well, it would
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  Speaker 2: help if I take you back to the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: June for a moment. Beginning of June, the New York
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  Speaker 2: Times ran a piece about Graham Plattner's behavior towards women,
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  Speaker 2: including an allegation that by a woman called Lindsey Fifield,
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  Speaker 2: that Graham Platner had on multiple occasions physically manhandled her,
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  Speaker 2: had assaulted her, had grabbed her forcefully by the wrist,
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  Speaker 2: pulled her out of a car, grabbed her on one
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  Speaker 2: point by the shoulders, bruising her, spinning her around, forcing
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  Speaker 2: her into a room, closing the door behind her, locking
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  Speaker 2: her in, not letting her out until the next morning.
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  Speaker 2: These allegations were credible. They were on the record, and
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  Speaker 2: they were made by a woman who wanted the world
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  Speaker 2: to know them, who didn't want to see Graham Platner
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  Speaker 2: and his bad behavior rewarded. So Lindsey Fifield had come forward.
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  Speaker 2: But you'll remember at the time what had happened. The
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  Speaker 2: media had attacked Lindsey as being nothing more than some
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  Speaker 2: sort of right-wing operative, because Lindsey Fifield has worked in
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  Speaker 2: conservative politics. And therefore, this was, in the eyes of
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  Speaker 2: the media, and certainly in the spin of the media,
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  Speaker 2: just an invention. There's no way Graham Platner did this,
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  Speaker 2: or at least they were heavily suggesting that Lindsey Fifield
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  Speaker 2: was lying. on the record, staking her entire reputation on
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  Speaker 2: a claim that she was making up. It was a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: It was disgraceful, the way Lindsay Fifield was treated. But
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  Speaker 2: what you may not remember is that Lindsay Fifield was
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  Speaker 2: not the only woman who was cited in that story.
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  Speaker 2: Multiple women were cited in that New York Times piece,
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  Speaker 2: including Jenny Rasico. That's right. Rassico is in the New
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  Speaker 2: York Times piece, but the New York Times didn't tell
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  Speaker 2: us any of this. The New York Times downplayed the
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  Speaker 2: allegations from Lindsay Rassico. They made it seem like they
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  Speaker 2: just kind of had a weird, uncomfortable relationship. Rassico, this
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  Speaker 2: is what they say about her at the time. This
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  Speaker 2: is in the piece. Rassico, who said she agreed with
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  Speaker 2: many of Mr. Plattner's policies, said she had an on
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  Speaker 2: and off relationship with Mr. Plattner and had positive memories.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Positive memories. But she was not shocked, she said, when
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  Speaker 2: she saw the incendiary comments he had made about women
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  Speaker 2: that have surfaced during the campaign. Quote, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense, she said. This person does not respect women. Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Rassica also said that in 2021, he arrived at her
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  Speaker 2: house drunk after she had asked him not to come over.
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  Speaker 2: She declined to elaborate, but said she cut off contact
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  Speaker 2: soon after that episode and found his behavior reckless and unsettling.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So why now? Why is it all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: that this allegation is coming out specifically now? And what
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  Speaker 2: was the sequence of events here? Because it does seem
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  Speaker 2: like there were mounting scandals that were increasingly coming out
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  Speaker 2: over and over and over about Graham Plattener. And the
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  Speaker 2: chatter on these scandals was not coming from conservative circles,
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  Speaker 2: Republican circles, not by and large, although some of it
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  Speaker 2: was picked up, especially because of Lindsey Fifield's relationship with conservatives.
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  Speaker 2: One would assume that's why some of that conversation is
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  Speaker 2: taking place on the right. But on the left, the
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  Speaker 2: rumor mill was constantly buzzing. The next shoe's about to drop.
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  Speaker 2: The next shoe's about to drop. In fact, yesterday, the
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  Speaker 2: Banger Daily News out of Maine had a big story
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that the next shoe was about to
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  Speaker 2: drop in a national news outlet about Graham Platner, and
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  Speaker 2: Democrats in the state were buzzing about it to the
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  Speaker 2: point that they thought it could be the end of
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  Speaker 2: his campaign. And sure enough, by yesterday afternoon, we get
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  Speaker 2: the Politico report. involving Jenny Rasico's allegations. And Rasico tells
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  Speaker 2: Politico that one of the reasons why it took her
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  Speaker 2: a while to come forward, why she didn't rush forward
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  Speaker 2: in the first place, she said she was torn over
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she's a Democrat and she doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to hurt him. This is the allegation. She first of
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  Speaker 2: all said the New York Times story treated her like crap.
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  Speaker 2: She said, my part of the story was just a
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  Speaker 2: read over. The story was Lindsay and the accusations of
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  Speaker 2: her being politically motivated. She said she was torn over
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  Speaker 2: coming forward in part because she agrees with Plattner politically. Quote,
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons I didn't come forward sooner was
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  Speaker 2: the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics,
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  Speaker 2: but not supporting him as a person. she said. I
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  Speaker 2: just wanted the truth out there. I just want people
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  Speaker 2: to have a whole scope of who he is as
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  Speaker 2: a person, she says. Okay, so she said she's tortured
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  Speaker 2: by the fact. She's a Democrat. He's a Democrat. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's take her at face value for a moment on
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  Speaker 2: this subject. If the idea that you're going to let
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  Speaker 2: the rapist guy become a senator because you kind of
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  Speaker 2: like his politics, so you think that's more important. Sweetheart,
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  Speaker 2: you're going in the wrong direction. This is insane. This
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  Speaker 2: is totally insane. Free yourself of the Trump derangement syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: God bless her for coming forward and giving the details now.
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  Speaker 2: But this mindset, I think, is too dominant on the left.
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  Speaker 2: It is too much. It's like your politics are the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing. How about your well-being? How about the
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  Speaker 2: well-being of other women? How about the well-being of our country?
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  Speaker 2: You're going to let this maniac become a United States
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  Speaker 2: senator when you know this dark detail about his life?
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that. Trump derangement syndrome is a hell of
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  Speaker 2: a drug. Free yourself. Just tell the truth. That's all
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  Speaker 2: any of us should do. Just tell the truth. Live
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  Speaker 2: a life of integrity. When people on your side screw up,
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  Speaker 2: it's okay to say it out loud. If you want
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  Speaker 2: a better country, help us get there. But don't make
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  Speaker 2: excuses for rapists just because they're a part of your
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  Speaker 2: political party. Now, in the end, of course, she arrives
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  Speaker 2: at this thing where she says, I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 2: the truth. I'm going to tell the truth about what
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  Speaker 2: happened because I think that's the most important thing and
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  Speaker 2: good for her. But What fascinates me about this is
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  Speaker 2: that there's no way that this detail was unknown to
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  Speaker 2: the New York Times. There was no way. There was
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  Speaker 2: no way that this detail, that these details were unknown
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  Speaker 2: to Democrats. They knew that they had a mess on
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  Speaker 2: their hands. And what they were trying to do throughout
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  Speaker 2: all of this was to get Graham Platner to leave
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  Speaker 2: this race. You see, Democrats have this tremendous and bottomless
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  Speaker 2: capacity to rig elections. They do it over and over.
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  Speaker 2: Every presidential election over the last three cycles has been
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  Speaker 2: rigged by the Democrat Party when it comes especially to
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  Speaker 2: their nominees. Look, in 2016, Hillary Clinton wasn't going to
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  Speaker 2: become the nominee. That was going to be Bernie Sanders
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  Speaker 2: if Democrat primary voters got their way. The Democrats rigged
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  Speaker 2: the election. That led to Debbie Wasserman Schultz being fired.
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  Speaker 2: as the chairwoman of the DNC. And that's how Hillary
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  Speaker 2: Clinton ends up with the nomination and giving that big
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  Speaker 2: speech at the Democrat National Convention. In 2020, that race
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  Speaker 2: was not going to go to Joe Biden. The energy
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  Speaker 2: was in fact behind Bernie Sanders in that race. And
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  Speaker 2: what did the Democrat establishment do? They rigged the election.
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama called all of the candidates, told them to
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  Speaker 2: get out of the race. Jim Clyburn gave his endorsement
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  Speaker 2: to Joe Biden in South Carolina in an effort to
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  Speaker 2: try and rig the outcome of the race and what
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  Speaker 2: would come next in the rest of the primary. And
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  Speaker 2: by virtue of Obama and Clyburn clearing the field for Biden,
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  Speaker 2: they made him the nominee, thus, again, rigging the race.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course, it happened in theatrical fashion in 2024.
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  Speaker 2: Not a single primary voter supported Kamala Harris, and yet
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  Speaker 2: she became the Democrat nominee because the Democrat Party rigged
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  Speaker 2: the election to hand it to her. In fact, the
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  Speaker 2: Biden saga is kind of an excellent way to look
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  Speaker 2: at this, because remember, you and I both knew that
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  Speaker 2: Biden was non-compos mentis throughout his entire presidency. Democrats only
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  Speaker 2: admitted that detail the moment it was convenient to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of him so that they could replace him unceremoniously
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  Speaker 2: with Kamala Harris. That's the way these things work. The
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  Speaker 2: second you are inconvenient to the Democrat Party or you
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  Speaker 2: serve some sort of benefit to the Republicans, you're out
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  Speaker 2: and we will do what we can to destroy you.
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  Speaker 2: You remember what happened to Al Franken? Al Franken was
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  Speaker 2: destroyed in the midst of the Democrats trying to accuse
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  Speaker 2: Republicans of sexual allegations. And then when Al Franken's allegations emerged,
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  Speaker 2: they got rid of him. They dispensed with him in
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  Speaker 2: a second for political convenience. And, you know, and the
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  Speaker 2: same is true of Eric Swalwell. Eric Swalwell posed a
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  Speaker 2: meaningful threat to Democrats even making it to the general
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  Speaker 2: election ballot in the governor's race in California. You remember this?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't that long ago. It just happened. In the
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  Speaker 2: governor's race, there was a threat to the Democrats that
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: two Republicans could end up on the ballot for the
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  Speaker 2: race for governor in November because there were too many
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  Speaker 2: Democrats in the field and the vote was too diffuse.
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  Speaker 2: So they needed to clear the field. And how did
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  Speaker 2: they do it? They started opening the blackmail file on
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  Speaker 2: Eric Swalwell. So Swalwell, who is a Democrat lunatic in
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  Speaker 2: good standing, who was constantly raging about the president of
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  Speaker 2: the United States and accusing Trump supporters of the most
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  Speaker 2: awful things imaginable, The second he stood in their way,
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  Speaker 2: they said, well, we've got a good blackmail file on him.
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  Speaker 2: Let's open it up. Let's distribute it. And let's get
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  Speaker 2: him out of the race. And sure enough, they did.
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  Speaker 2: And now we've got this happening to Graham Platner. Platner
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  Speaker 2: is a scumbag. There's no question. You and I have
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  Speaker 2: known that for a while. But Democrats all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden are cracking open the blackmail file to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of him because they see Graham Platner as a net
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  Speaker 2: drag on their party's ability to win in the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as you and I have assessed, if you
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  Speaker 2: look at the Democrats who are sort of like the
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  Speaker 2: mascots for their destruction going into the midterms, one of them,
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  Speaker 2: of course, has been Graham Platner, the Nazi tattoo guy.
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  Speaker 2: We're not Nazis. The SPLC is paying for cross burnings
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  Speaker 2: and one of their leading candidates has a Nazi tattoo
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  Speaker 2: stamped on his chest. The other guy that I'm keeping
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  Speaker 2: my eye on that I think is a net drag
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  Speaker 2: for Democrats is James Talafrico down in Texas. Talofrico is
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  Speaker 2: a disaster. The guy says that God is non-binary and
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  Speaker 2: that God approves abortion and that God, you know, left
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  Speaker 2: abortion out of the Bible and therefore I got to
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  Speaker 2: write the parts where I say that abortion is good. Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: his theology is completely jacked up. Demonic. God is non-binary. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Josh. The point is, Talofrico is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a net drag on Democrats going into the midterms,
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  Speaker 2: just like This dude, Plattner. So they gave him the ax.
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  Speaker 2: They just gave him the ax. They're chasing him out
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  Speaker 2: of this race. Now, Plattner at this moment is denying
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  Speaker 2: the allegations against him. And he's taking the time to
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  Speaker 2: reflect on the best path forward. Take a look here.
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  Speaker 2: Cut three. This is Graham Plattner's statement on the subject.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false
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  Speaker 3: allegations against me. Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false.
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  Speaker 3: Over the last 10 months, I have been deeply humbled
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  Speaker 3: by the faith Mainers have put in me. You have
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  Speaker 3: welcomed me into your homes, into your places of work,
• 18:11
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• 18:14
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• 18:17
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• 19:02
  Speaker 2: So Mays Moore has noticed that, the great Mays Moore
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: has noticed that this sounds awfully familiar. Where have I
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: seen this before? In fact, I feel like I just
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: saw this recently. Where was that? Take a look.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: I thought it was important. that you see and hear
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: from me directly.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: allegations against me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: These allegations of sexual assault are flat false. They are
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: absolutely false.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: They also come on the eve of an election where
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I have been the front-runner candidate for governor in California.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the political reality.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: It will inflict, I do not suggest to you in
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: any way that I'm perfect or that I'm a saint.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I have been deeply humbled by the faith Mainers have
• 19:55
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• 19:55
  Speaker 4: I think you know who I am. For over 20 years,
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: I have served the public.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: You have welcomed me into your homes, into your places
• 20:03
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• 20:07
  Speaker 4: I also apologize to you if in any way You
• 20:10
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• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Throughout it all, you never turned your back on me.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: This weekend, I'm going to spend time with my family
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: and friends.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: We are taking the time to reflect on the best
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: path forward.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Swalwell. The only difference is that Platner had a better camera,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: a better lens. That's the only difference. Swalwell filmed it
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: on an iPhone, but they had the same script. It
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: was the same rigmarole. We're watching it happen again. So
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: it kind of at this point looks like Plattner is done,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: that she's done, that he's done rather. And I want
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: to get into this a little more in a moment
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: because the media has obviously played a massive role here
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: in the way that this story, just like, you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: covering up Joe Biden's lack of a brain. This is
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: that the media has also been very involved in covering
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: up for Graham Plattner's lack of any sort of moral
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: compass whatsoever. lack of decency, lack of virtue. But suddenly,
• 21:09
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• 22:19
  Speaker 2: so what's the media doing with the Graham Platner story? Well,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a couple of things. One, of course, the New York
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Times didn't tell us the truth at the time because
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: they were trying to mitigate the damage for Graham Platner.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: But clearly there were Democrats who were ahead of the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: New York Times on this subject who were trying to
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: throw him out of the race. Oh, no, he's going
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to hurt us. We won't be able to win in Maine.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: It's going to hurt us nationwide. Let's get rid of him.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: And so now they've done it. They've taken it to
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the next level. And then there's places like Ms.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: The left-wing lesbian cable network, where they are talking about
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: how they didn't believe Lindsey Fifield because she's right-wing, but
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: they believe the later person, Rassico, because she's a Democrat.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Cut one, watch this.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: To that comment about the sort of post-MeToo era and
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: the debate that sort of happened in the Democratic Party
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: after this series of allegations around Graham Plattner, part of,
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: I think, what made it complicated for some Democrats to
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: fully believe the woman who was at the center of
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: the last round was that she was associated with right-wing politics.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: But this woman, she— I want to read part of what's
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: out here. One of the reasons, she says to Politico,
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: I didn't come forward sooner was the huge moral conflict
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: that I had between supporting his politics. So she is saying,
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: I actually agree with Graham Plattner, his positions, his politics.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: She's clearly more on the left, but not supporting him
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: as a person. I just want the truth out there.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: I just want people to have a whole scope of
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: who he is as a person.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting how the left is handling this. It's,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: of course, like the most demented possible analysis, but You know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: whereas lefties are looking at this going, well, I think
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: she must be credible because she comes from our side.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: You can't believe anything that somebody on the right would say,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: but somebody on the left, they're everything. They always tell
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the truth. Yeah, sure. About things like what gender. About
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: what happens to a baby when you abort them. No,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: they don't tell the truth. The whole thing, it's like ridiculous.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: But oh, black, she's believable. Actually, I think the most
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: interesting thing about this is she's a Democrat who's wielding
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: this story now in the interest of getting him out
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: of the race at the most opportune possible moment, actually.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I think the timing here is super interesting because the
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: timing is really important. Here's what's going on right now.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Democrats at this moment, have a small but dwindling moment
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: in time to replace Graham Plattner. They do in Maine.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Here's how it works under Maine law. Graham Plattner can
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: be replaced as the Democrat nominee for Senate if he
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: withdraws from the race by next week, Monday. Next week, Monday.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: If he gets out by Monday, that's July 13th, then
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: state law allows the Democrat Party in Maine to replace
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: him by July 27th. So the allegation, the woman is
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: wielding her allegation, Jenny Rasico is wielding her allegation at
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: the last possible moment for Democrats to replace him in
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: the race. That's the timing of this. Now, she did
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: an interview with Jake Tapper yesterday. in addition to going
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: to Politico, she did an interview with Jake Tapper, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: that led to a very weird question from Jake Tapper.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: It's almost like Jake Tapper built some sort of weird
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: trap for himself, and by the end of it, listen
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: to how he asked the question. He's asking her why she, quote,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: let him rape you. One of the weirdest questions I've
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: ever heard asked in an interview. Cut to, watch this.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: You said that I just want to.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: Find out more about it. You said he was forcing
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: himself on you. It was getting violent. You were pushing
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: him off. You were kicking him off. Needles and sewing
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: equipment was falling all over. And walk us through the
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: process where you decided that the safest thing you could
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: do was just.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Let him rape you.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I had never been in that situation before. And
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: I realized, I remember it being an instant where I
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: had recognized that he wasn't listening to me. It wasn't
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: just that he wasn't hearing me or whatnot. And then
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: I recognized his level of intoxication and I knew in
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: that moment I wasn't safe. And I don't think I was,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: I don't think I was safe to physically fight back. Um,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: he's big, he's strong. Um, And I just had to
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: evaluate my safety and come up with the least worst
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: outcome to this situation. And so I felt like complying
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: for my safety was the least worst option.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: But that's not consenting.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: No, complying is not consenting.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Complying is letting him rape you.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Is getting it over with.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: So that he didn't hurt you even more? I don't.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: I don't know what this person is capable of. I
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: don't think anybody does. Even people you know for years
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: and trust, you don't know the depths of what they're
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: capable of.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: You were afraid for your safety.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was afraid for my safety.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Beyond.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Not that rape isn't a horrific thing, but beyond.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: I didn't want to find out how unsafe I could
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: get that night or how harmed I could be that night.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: You know, why did he do that? Why would you
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: even ask a question like that? Isn't that self-explanatory? Graham
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Plattner is bigger than her. He can hurt her. This— What?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Why would you even ask that? Like, can you explain
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: why it is that you allowed the rape to happen?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: And when I say that, I know that sounds awkward.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: It sounds like you consented to it. What are you doing?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Just stop. You don't have to do this. You don't
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: even do that. That's crazy to me. You could just
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: not ask that question. You could just not do that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: But he did. Anyways, what a crazy exchange. But there
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: she is telling her story. Telling her story. Now, having
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: said that, not all Democrats have received the script. There
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: are some Democrats who are all in on, let's get
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Graham Platner out now. We've got very little time left.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: We've got to replace him. We've got to rig this
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: whole election. But on Ms. Now, there's a goofball called
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Charles Blow, which is, I think he's well-named because all
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: of his analysis blows. Here's Charles Blow instantly defending Graham
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Platner yesterday and suggesting that maybe he should stay in
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: the race.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Watch this.
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: The first thing I always want to say in situations
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: like this is that it sounds horrible and we deserve
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: to hear more of her case. If she wants to
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: pursue other actions, I think she should be encouraged to
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: do that and we should wait to hear more of
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: her case.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: But the second thing I want to.
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: Say is that we continue to have a situation. where
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: Democrats and Republicans are playing by completely separate rule books.
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: The idea that this would push him out of the race,
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: maybe that's the right thing to do. But, you know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: Donald Trump was found liable of sexually abusing a.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Woman.
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: And then eight months later, a separate jury found him
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: guilty of libel for defamation of her. And then 10
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: months after that, he was still elected. Christine Blasey Ford gave,
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: I thought, compelling testimony against Brett Kavanaugh about what she said.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: She was raped.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: He was still confirmed by Republicans in the Senate. We
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: are just on two different ball fields when it comes
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: to cases like this, situations like this, and politics.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Everything about that was idiocy, from the lies that E.
• 30:34
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• 30:37
  Speaker 2: that amounted to, paid for by Reid Hoffman, psycho left-wing
• 30:42
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• 30:44
  Speaker 2: destroy Trump, to the rigged juries that they tried to
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: use to approach that case. to the allegations against Brett
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Kavanaugh that were thoroughly defeated by a woman called Leland Kaiser,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: who was supposed to be Christine Blasey Ford's best friend,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: who has no recollection whatsoever of any of the allegations
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that Christine Blasey Ford made against Brett Kavanaugh and said
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Leland was there. Leland was like, what the hell are
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you talking about? I wasn't there. there's nothing to it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to it. At least in Jenny Rassico's case,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: she's got actual on-the-record support, on-the-record claims, credible accusations, contemporaneous
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: text messages. She's got evidence, unlike the rest of these
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: whack jobs. Massive difference, but that's not going to stop
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Charles Blow from appearing on Ms.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Now again.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: They'll have him back no matter what. He'll say anything.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Get him back on the air. He'll say, anything. So
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: that's it. So we'll see who they replace the guy with.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Their plan is to replace him. I wasn't the only
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: one who noticed that this was a left-wing political hit job,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: by the way, the way that this is transpiring. Again,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: don't confuse my words. Graham Plattner is a scumbag. You
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: and I have known this for a while. The fact
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: that Democrats are admitting it right now, well, this is
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: political timing. This is designed to rig the outcome of
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: this election. They really want that seat, and they don't
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: want Susan Collins to maintain it. Sean Farish also noticed this.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: He said the new Plattner scandal is a political exclusive.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: This is 100% an intra-party Democrat hit job. They did
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: this with Cuomo in the 2022 New York governor cycle,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Biden in the 2024 presidential cycle, and now Plattner in 2026.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: If they feel you can't win, they throw you in
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: front of a freight train and they keep moving. Voters
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: be damned. Yeah, that's the other piece of this. Sean's right.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: The voters in Maine, even despite the fact that he's
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: got this disastrous history, much of which has been public.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Primary voters in Maine did choose this guy to represent
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: their party. And now establishment Democrats are saying, up yours,
• 32:50
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• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: All right. So we'll see what happens. It's up to
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Plattner at this moment, but they're doing everything they can
• 32:57
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• 32:58
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to Bowlin Branch. Uh, Joe Slim is asking me, Vince,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: can you find out if Mitch McConnell is dead? Okay,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: give me a second.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: Hey, is Mitch dead yet?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Is Mitch, does anyone know?
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Let's see.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's dead. Okay, let's see. I've got some information
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: now about the National Museum of American History I want
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: to share with you. Brand new information. This is right
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: out of the White House that they're giving us today.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: And it is an amazing recitation of all of the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: ways the American History Museum is a complete disaster. It's
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: a complete disaster. It's being run right now by these
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: left wing activists who have destroyed it and undermined the
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: founding mission entirely of the museum from the very beginning
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: of the museum. When it was was set up, it
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: was designed to tell America's story. in a way that
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: really kind of made you like the country more, appreciate
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: the great history, the legacy that you're inheriting. And that
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: is not the current state of affairs at the National
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Museum of American History. Instead, they've got these left-wing activists
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: who are running the operation and telling people that they
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: should hate America. I don't know how much more explicit
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: I can be on this. In fact, Last week, we
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: had Dr. Matt Spaulding on the program, and I was
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: asking him about this because he's taken a special interest
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: in it. And he said, by the time you leave
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: the museum, you have a lower regard for America if
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: you don't know better. They're trying to convince you of this.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: So in the midst of the America 250 celebrations— The
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: White House released what they call Saving America Story, how
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: ideological capture at the Smithsonian institutions, National Museum of American
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: History erases our heritage, erases our heritage. And in it,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: they very quickly point out that the founding mission of
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: this museum was to uplift your understanding of American history.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: And making their case to Congress in 1953, Smithsonian leadership
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: argued that one of the quote, main reasons the National
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Museum of American History should be created, is to place
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: before millions who visit the nation's capital each year, a
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: stimulating permanent exposition that commemorates our heritage of freedom and
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: highlights the basic elements of our way of life. They
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: go on, it's about telling the story of American national progress,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: cementing America's progress for citizens and foreign visitors alike. to
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: instill in each citizen a deepened faith in our country's
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: destiny as champion of individual dignity and enterprise. So basically,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: in other words, it goes on and on talking about like, look,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: the point is to tell a great story about America's
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: founding and why this is such a great country, how
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: we ended up with a great country in the first place,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: what the legacy is, and Americans and foreigners alike will
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: walk away with a great impression of the circumstances. wonderful.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what a National Museum of American History should
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: be doing. But that's not what it's doing. That's not
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: what it's doing at all. And let me give you
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: some examples of what the modern National Museum of American
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: History is doing. And it's being led by a whack
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: job woman called Anthea Hartig, who is the current director,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: a left-wing activist. But here's the White House. They summarized
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: some of this on their Great Rapid Response 47 account.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: They said, here's some of the worst examples of what's
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: going on at the museum. So let's go into item one, right?
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: A museum supposedly for families and children displays a sadomasochistic
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: crotch harness. What the hell is a crotch harness?
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: What is that?
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: A crotch harness? What the hell am I looking at?
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: This is in the National Museum of American History? Were
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: the Wright brothers wearing this when they took off? What
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: the hell is the National Museum of American History doing
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: with crotch harnesses? What am I looking at here? They
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: have a crotch harness. Okay. A crotch harness. A trans
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: non-binary person's chest binder. A chest binder. This is when
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: a chest binder, as I unfortunately now understand, is when
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: you try and compress a little girl's chest so much
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: that it can't grow. You're harming little girls. This is
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: what the left is into. And then pages from a
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: six-year-old girl's diary in which she prays every night for
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: my penis to grow. So the National Museum of American
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: History celebrates mental illness and the abuse of children. The
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: White House says this sick material is sexualizing kids. A
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: crotch harness. Again, I.
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: Was.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Like, what?
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: We go on. The museum also features video clips of
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: drag queens, images of nude women... and a magazine promoting
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: female masturbation. Yeah, I remember that. That's from the Continental Congress.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: That was a big thing. That was from the second
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Continental Congress is when things got a little bit more risque.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: What?
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: It's sick and it's explicit content pushed on visitors of
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: all ages at an American History Museum. Look at this.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: You got drag queens. You got drag queen story hour
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: going at the National Museum of American History. They have
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: the magazine covers of the Dixie Chicks naked. They have
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: whatever the hell this is. Girl germs. Women hanging all
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: over each other. No shirts on. What is this museum? Look, son.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: American history. They also have smeared iconic pieces of our
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: culture as racist. Mickey Mouse is described as the vestiges
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: Oh, boy.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: The ukulele is also described as a product of U.S. imperialism.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Man, it has produced some great music, hasn't it? The ukulele.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: You know, one of my favorite ukulele players, the late
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: and very large Israel Kamaka Viva Ole. You know him
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: from his rendition of... What's the song? Oh, my gosh.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Great song. And a lot of
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: other great songs. And then there's Wild West shows they describe.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: as turning the subjugation of indigenous people into theater. What
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: the hell's going on here? And they have, of course,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: they have social justice nonsense in the museum. Has anybody
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: been to this museum lately in chat? Have you seen
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: all of this when you went? This is, what museum
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: is this? Says Portia L07. It's the National Museum of
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: American History. Look, you can even see it in this
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: little graphic right here. The National Museum of American History
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: is what I'm looking at. They share histories that, quote,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: begin with people, show interactions and influences across ethnicity, race, region, class, gender,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: and sexuality, disability, background, and belief. They illuminate how power works.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: This is neo-Marxism stuff, guys. This is what we're looking
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: at here. This is critical theory, Marxist nonsense. The president
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: just gave a huge speech this weekend for the 250th
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: birthday of the country. And he said that we can't
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: be a communist nation. Commies are currently running the National
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Museum of American History. What else have they found? They
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: reframed America's founding that museum has as a story of
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: pure evil. Christopher Columbus is described as a murderer, a slaver,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: and a thief. Christopher Columbus is a hero. He's an adventurer.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Christopher Columbus is an essential ingredient to our history. Christopher Columbus,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: it was understood so early by Americans that Christopher Columbus
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: had immense importance to this continent that we named everything
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: after him, including the very city in which The National
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Museum of American History is currently in. Christian pilgrims are
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: described as colonizers. This is a part of the anti-Christian
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: bigotry of the museum. And Thanksgiving is described as a
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: national day of mourning. What are you even talking about?
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: They don't even know the actual history of Thanksgiving, a national.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Day of mourning.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: What a pathetic attempt to pretend like you're telling American history.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: They want you to feel shame for being an American.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: They have an entire display called the unsettling of the
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: continent from 1492. You know, when Columbus sailed the ocean
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: blue to 1776, that would be the American founding. It
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: was the unsettling of the continent, unsettling the continent. No,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: it was settling the continent. It was conquering the continent.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: It was building a civilization on the continent. It was
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: building America. In the Benjamin Franklin exhibit, they devote 20%
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: of the space to enslaved people and ask visitors whether
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Franklin conducted electric shock experiments on slaves with zero evidence.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: They take one of America's greatest minds and smear him
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: with baseless accusations. Their toolkit for museum professionals lists rational
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: thinking and hard work as traits of white supremacy culture.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Anti-white racism is being taught as official museum guidance. Yeah,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: this goes back to, remember the African-American History Museum in Washington, D.C.?
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: They had a similar handout that they were using at
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: one point where they were saying that hard work and
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: rational thinking and punctuality that would be showing up on time,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: these are white traits, said the African-American History Museum, thus
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: suggesting that black people are incapable of doing those things.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: That's the African-American History Museum led by lunatic leftists who,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: when they built the museum, intentionally excluded Clarence Thomas from
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: the African-American History Museum.
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: What?
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: You can't recite African-American history without invoking Clarence Thomas's name.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: And so it's the same thing at the American History Museum.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: where they treat non-white people like garbage, like they're incapable
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: of rational thinking, hard work, punctuality. This is not, I
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: don't know, what do they call it, progressive? It's not
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: enlightened thinking. This is like straight up caveman thinking. This
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: is two-dimensional thinking. absolutely tribal, absolutely bigoted, disgusting thinking. And
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: they have the audacity, the temerity to lecture you. Oh,
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: you're a racist.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: What?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: You're the person who says that a non-white person's incapable
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: of hardworking. Yeah, it's the same garbage over and over.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: This is inside of our museum. Angela Davis, they also
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: elevate you. Many of you probably know Angela Davis, Marxist,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: She ran for vice president as a communist in 1980.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: She called for abolishing the police and jails. She was
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: among the FBI's most wanted regarding an armed courtroom takeover
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: that resulted in the murder of a judge. This is
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: who the Smithsonian is choosing to celebrate. So the White
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: House has released this massive report now. What's to be
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: done about this? That's a great question. Well, one, to
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: the extent that the administration can exert control over this
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: and quickly, they need to fire everybody involved. They need
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: to fire everybody. It's starting with this woman, Anthea Hartig.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Get her the hell out of there. Check her out.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Anthea Hartig, I posted about this on X this morning.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: She's a left-wing activist. She's currently running the museum. She's
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: the director of the museum. When she arrived, she changed
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: the museum's mission statement into a bunch of social justice claptrap.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: And here's the old mission statement.
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: Ready?
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: The last mission was, through incomparable collections, rigorous research, and
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: dynamic public outreach, we explore the infinite richness and complexity
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: of American history. We help people understand the past in
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: order to make sense of the present and shape a
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: more humane future. The new mission doesn't mention American history.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: All it says is this, empowering people to create a
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: more just and compassionate future, because the old future, the
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: past sucks, the old future, the past sucks, is the
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: implication here. By exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity of
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: our past. So why did she change it? What's the
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: mentality here? Well, she told a group, actually, in June
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: of 2024, that would be now two years ago, June
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: of 2024, in a presentation to undergraduate and graduate history students,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: she explained that she made the change in order to
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: help people, quote, get out of the America first mentality.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: She doesn't want people to think America first anymore. She
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: doesn't want somebody to walk into the American History Museum
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: and think it's great. She said, quote, it's a big challenge,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: especially going into 2026, which will be the 250th anniversary
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the 25th
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: year since 9-11, and the fifth year since January.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: 6th.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: That tells you everything. The fifth year since January 6th.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: That's the high holy day of the American left. Peace
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: be upon them. This is, her view is, oh, well,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: we've got to really dwell on January 6th of 2021
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: because it was an insurrection, you see, caused by President Trump,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: the America first guy, and we can't let this museum
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: be America first anymore. That can't happen. We need to
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: get rid of that. You know what we need to
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: get rid of?
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: You.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: We need to get rid of you and every propagandistic
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: pile of garbage that you have built into this museum. Now,
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: I'm already seeing the left's reactions to this report from
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: the White House. The left is making all sorts of claims. Oh,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Trump wants to whitewash American history. He wants to tell
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: people a lie. He wants to give them propaganda. Lie
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: after lie after lie. In fact, it's so over the top,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: so theatrical and so predictable because it's the... And now
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: it's time for the left's fake scandal of the week.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: Extra, extra....
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: No, it's not that at all. In fact, what we
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: want to do is tell the truth. We want to
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: tell the truth about the richness of American history. We
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: want people to know how great this country is. We
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: want them to know what our founders endured in putting
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: that up, putting it together. We want them to know
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: about our founders pledging their lives and their fortunes and
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: their sacred honor, putting it all on the line to
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: get this constitutional republic standing. to get us to a
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: point that we could create an environment for the greatest
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: human flourishing in world history. We want that history to
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: be told. We want the history to be told in
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: all of its complexity, including the story of slavery and
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: the Civil War, abolition, the cost of American blood that
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: it took to end slavery. We want that story to
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: be told. We want stories to be told about Frederick Douglass,
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: who called for us to look to the Declaration of
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Independence as inspiration for where we should be as a country.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: A man who was in bondage, who escaped bondage, and
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: appealed to the United States to live up to its
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: highest virtues. We should be able to reflect upon the
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: history of Booker T. Washington, a man who also escaped slavery,
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: who reflected on what it meant to be a slave,
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: what it meant to be able to forge ahead for
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: your own future, and what makes this country so great.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Booker T. Washington recognized those things. We should be able
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: to dwell upon the complexities of American history, all the
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: ways Democrats have tried to set us back, how they've
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: tried to maintain slavery in the United States, how they
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: fought to prevent Black Americans from having civil rights, how
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: the Republican Party was founded as an abolition party, as
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: a party that fought for civil liberties, that has fought
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: throughout its entire history for a colorblind meritocracy. This history
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: should be told. The history of our country in the
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: last century, the defeat of totalitarian regimes, defeating fascism, defeating communism,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: defeating the Marxists, freeing the world, winning multiple world wars, heroism,
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: creating the greatest military the world has ever seen, landing
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: on the moon. Our history should be told in all
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: of its richness, in all of its complexity, in a
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: museum that honors American history and tells it correctly. Don't
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: leave anything out. But don't you lie to us. Don't
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: you tell me that I live in a crappy country.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Don't you dishearten people when they walk in. Because, I mean,
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: that really is, isn't that the left's project? To demean
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: the country, to dissuade you from loving it. This is
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: why people, this is why Democrats don't fly American flags
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: outside of their homes. They've become so thoroughly convinced that
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: this country is not worth celebrating that they don't want
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: to raise an American flag in its honor. They're afraid
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: somebody's going to think of them as a Republican. Only
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: those dumb Republicans would love their country. No, actually, informed
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: people love their country. People who know their country's history
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: love their country. You should know it. And right now,
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: the National Museum of American History doesn't help you in
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: that endeavor. which is really awful. So yeah, this desperately
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: needs to be fixed. This is a staggering report. I
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: encourage you to take a look at it. I'm not
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: even all the way through it. I've just been going
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: through it and my jaw has hit the floor. And
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: as I always say, it's not shocking, but it is
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: appalling and it's in desperate need of being fixed. So
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: I wanted to bring that to you. We're going to
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: stay on it. We'll have to have Dr. Matt Spalding
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: on again because we got to talk to him about
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: what's going on there and the efforts to fix it.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Because on the board of the Smithsonian, you should know One,
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: the vice president of the United States has some power here, J.D.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Vance.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: He's a part of, I believe this is the Board
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: of Regents. This is the way it operates. I'm not
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: staring at it, but he's got a meaningful position on
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: the board by virtue of his office. Another guy who
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: has a position on the board is the chief justice
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: of the United States. That's John Roberts. He wields some
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: influence over this as well. And I know Justice John
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Roberts has driven us crazy and disappointed us from time
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: to time. But if there's ever been a time for
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: him to step up, it's now. Chief Justice Roberts, Vice
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: President Vance, and anybody else who's a part of making
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: decisions on this subject, move quickly. We need to rescue
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: America's museums and tell our story correctly. We really do.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: As always, I want to thank you for being with me.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: It's been great. Before we go today, one more thing
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: for you. I want to tell you about the Trump
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: accounts that President Trump announced yesterday before he left for
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: this NATO summit. By the way, he just arrived in
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Turkey this morning. on that brand new, beautiful looking Air
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  Speaker 2: Force One. But here's President Trump yesterday announcing Trump accounts.
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  Speaker 2: And if you have a child or if you have
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  Speaker 2: a newborn on the way, let me recommend to you
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  Speaker 2: that you consider using a Trump account in order to
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  Speaker 2: start generating some wealth for them. What a brilliant thing.
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  Speaker 2: Here's President Trump yesterday announcing it cut six.
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  Speaker 10: But if parents have not done so already and they
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  Speaker 10: are doing so in record numbers, They should go right
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  Speaker 10: away to TrumpAccounts.gov and sign their child up for a
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  Speaker 10: free investment savings account. And, again, a lot of people
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  Speaker 10: are people that are uninvolved in terms of they don't
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  Speaker 10: have the children or their children are older, but they're
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  Speaker 10: putting millions and millions of dollars into the accounts of
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  Speaker 10: poor children, financially poor children. And the parents can't even
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  Speaker 10: believe what's happening. So it's an amazing thing. But parents,
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  Speaker 10: loved ones, churches, and generous companies and individuals will be
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  Speaker 10: able to contribute funds to these accounts to grow throughout
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  Speaker 10: the child's life. And again, if we have a good
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  Speaker 10: market like we do now, they're going to become actually
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  Speaker 10: very rich. They'll have hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Think of that.
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  Speaker 10: Think of it. A child that has no money can
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  Speaker 10: have hundreds of thousands of dollars at a very, very
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  Speaker 10: young age. Accounts could grow to be worth numbers that
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  Speaker 10: nobody ever thought even possible.
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  Speaker 2: What a brilliant idea. And so the way it works
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  Speaker 2: is these are tax-advantaged accounts. When the child turns 18,
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  Speaker 2: they can turn into a traditional IRA. They invest in
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  Speaker 2: a broad index fund of the S & P 500,
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  Speaker 2: and then they succeed with the market. Their wealth grows,
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  Speaker 2: as American businesses do, and that child gets a piece
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  Speaker 2: of the action. You know, speaking as a parent, I
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: remember when my daughter was born and people would send,
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  Speaker 2: you know, birthday checks and baptism checks and these types
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  Speaker 2: of things, trying to figure out what to do. And
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  Speaker 2: I think sometimes parents, especially when the child is at
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  Speaker 2: the age of cognition and they can think through what
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  Speaker 2: they might do with the money, they'll often hand the
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  Speaker 2: money to the kid, but go buy yourself a present
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  Speaker 2: or we'll go pick out something together. But there's another option.
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  Speaker 2: You can save it. You know, when a family member
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  Speaker 2: stuffs some money in an envelope or in a birthday
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  Speaker 2: card and sends it to the kid, you can just
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  Speaker 2: put it right into the Trump account. Or better yet,
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  Speaker 2: tell them, hey, can you just contribute right to the
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  Speaker 2: Trump account? In fact, with each Trump account, there's a
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  Speaker 2: QR code. So family members and friends can give to
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  Speaker 2: the kid by virtue of helping to populate their Trump
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  Speaker 2: account and allowing that wealth to grow through the years.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's phenomenal. I think it's wonderful. And if
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  Speaker 2: you involve your child, you can teach them about financial literacy.
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  Speaker 2: You can teach them what compound interest means, how it works,
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  Speaker 2: how you can generate wealth, how you can invest, how
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  Speaker 2: you can watch your money grow and work for you.
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  Speaker 2: And if they get that lesson early in life, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to carry them very far for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: their life. It's a big deal. How many of us
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  Speaker 2: look back at time and, man, I wish I started
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  Speaker 2: investing earlier? Just imagine the gift that you can give
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  Speaker 2: to a child before they can even think about it.
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  Speaker 2: It is pretty amazing. In fact, it's so amazing that
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  Speaker 2: even CNN was raving about it yesterday. Even CNN. Cut seven.
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  Speaker 3: Watch this.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Dan, and when the free money machine is open
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  Speaker 9: and they're giving out a thousand dollars, I think a
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  Speaker 9: lot of people want to know, how do I get that?
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  Speaker 9: So if you have a child that was born in
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  Speaker 9: 2025 or beyond, then you can get this Trump account
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  Speaker 9: as long as you're a U.S. citizen and you have
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  Speaker 9: a valid social security number.
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  Speaker 2: For your kid.
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  Speaker 9: And actually, if you apply for a social security number,
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  Speaker 9: you can now apply for a Trump account at the
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  Speaker 9: same time with the same form.
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  Speaker 2: So what are the rules?
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  Speaker 9: How do you get this? Well, you can contribute $ 5, 000
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  Speaker 9: a year tax-free, tax-deductible investments in a low-cost index fund.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 9: That's like the S & P 500. Remember, the S
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 9: & P 500 made $ 300 percent over the past 10 years,
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  Speaker 9: that could be a really good investment.
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  Speaker 2: But even if you don't invest in it, it's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good deal.
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  Speaker 9: And you can use it for things like college, obviously,
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  Speaker 9: because when you're 18, that's one of the places that
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  Speaker 9: you're going.
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  Speaker 2: But you may not. You might want to use it
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: for your first home.
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  Speaker 9: You can even just keep it in your account and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: use it for retirement. If you use it for something
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 9: that's not one of these, though, then you do get
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 9: a 10 percent penalty and you have to pay those taxes.
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  Speaker 4: That I mentioned before.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you do not.
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  Speaker 9: Contribute to this and you just keep $ 1, 000, still with
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 9: a 10% return, which is pretty conservative over the past
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 9: 10 years, look at this, you can still walk away
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: with $ 5, 500 for college or something else like that. Now,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 9: that's not going to pay for college. If you do
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 9: max out your contributions, you're talking about some really serious money,
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  Speaker 9: about a quarter million dollars by the time your child
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 9: is 18, assuming that 10% returns. So the question is,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 9: how do I get this? Well, of course, it is
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  Speaker 9: IRS Form 4547. Why do you think that might be, Dana?
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  Speaker 9: And it is trumpaccounts.gov where you can sign.
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  Speaker 4: Up for all of this.
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  Speaker 2: Trumpaccounts.gov. That was a very helpful recitation of the details.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing they left out is that any child
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: under the age of 18 is eligible to sign up
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: for a Trump account. That limited window, the 2025 to
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: 2028 births, those are the ones who get the $ 1, 000
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: federal government contribution in their account. That's the distinction. But
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: everybody else, anybody under the age of 18 can get
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: a Trump account. So if you had an older child,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: they're good to go too. They're good to go too.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool. My thanks to the president for thinking about this.
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• 1:02:37
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