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Donald J. Trump
Interview: Dan Bongino of The Dan Bongino Show Interviews Donald Trump - May 1, 2020
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Dan Bongino
00:00:00-00:00:16 (16 sec)No StressLens
Now, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, President Donald J. Trump, followed by my regular show, where I have some more breaking news on the Mike Flynn case. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm really excited to have back the president of the United States, President Donald J. Trump. Mr. President, thank you so much for joining us today.
Dan Bongino
00:00:31-00:00:45 (14 sec)No StressLens
I posted on Facebook that you were going to be here, and the one comment I got most of all was, and I mean this, this is -- everyone could see it, it's public. A lot of the folks who are fans of mine on Facebook wanted me to extend my gratitude to you for your leadership during this crisis, so I wanted to put that out there first.
Dan Bongino
00:01:03-00:01:23 (20 sec)No StressLens
I agree. Well, there was some breaking news this morning, the de facto Democrat nominee, Joe Biden, had to answer questions and finally broke his silence about these Tara Reade allegations of sexual assault. Mr. President, I thought you handled it very statesman-like yesterday, hoping that Joe Biden gets due process like any other American.
Dan Bongino
00:01:23-00:01:47 (25 sec)No StressLens
We wish that would happen to Republicans. Unfortunately, it doesn't because of the media. But he was asked by Mika over on MSNBC about records, University of Delaware records, and about a search of Ms. Reade's name in those records and in the Senate records to see if there was, in fact, any information that would help in clearing this up. Should Joe Biden release those records given that they've called for everything, including your like kindergarten report card from you?
Donald Trump
00:01:49-00:02:10 (21 sec)Weak (1.283)
Well, with me, you know, you -- you see what goes on with me. I don't even know. I'm looking at pictures of people. I never even saw people. I mean, this is ridiculous. Every day, another one emerges. And, you know, you talk about false accusation. So I understand that. And I could understand if he said it. I could also understand, you know, I watched her and she seems very credible.
Donald Trump
00:02:10-00:02:32 (22 sec)Medium (1.784)
The mother was so credible. The mother was great, and I guess a friend of hers came out. So I -- I don't know. You know, it's his problem, but I like to get in front of it and -- and I just deny it. If it's not true, you deny it. And I have not -- I mean, I've been a total victim of this nonsense, false accusations, and they do it. They make it the worst.
Donald Trump
00:02:32-00:02:59 (27 sec)Weak (1.363)
The victim that I've ever seen before was a very high-quality human being, Brett Kavanaugh. There has never been, Dan, a case so vicious as that. And they went after him. They didn't want to hear it. He was totally guilty according to these very dishonest people, these -- they're Democrats in all cases. There's never been anybody treated in the history of Congress as badly as Brett Kavanaugh, and he's an innocent man.
Donald Trump
00:02:59-00:03:17 (18 sec)Weak (1.23)
And I look forward to the day, someday, they have to sue these women because every one of them was lying. They were lying. And I guess three of them have admitted it. The only one that hasn't yet is Blasey Ford. But you look at her testimony and it's a disgrace, and what they put that man through and his family.
Donald Trump
00:03:17-00:03:37 (21 sec)Weak (1.427)
His wife is an incredible woman, his daughters. For him to have to go through what he went through is a disgrace. And, you know, look, I look at the double standard. You look at Biden, nobody even wants to bring up the subject. So it's -- and by the way, with somebody with far more credibility than any of those four people had with respect to Brett.
Dan Bongino
00:03:37-00:03:54 (16 sec)No StressLens
What do you think he should have those records searched for Tara Reade's name? I mean, Biden seemed rather confused this morning when asked on MSNBC when they said to him, well, why not just search your records for her name to see if there's any records the public could see? He seemed confused and didn't give a -- a -- a straightforward answer.
Donald Trump
00:04:00-00:04:19 (19 sec)Medium (1.761)
Well, he is a confused man. You know that. I mean, you get it. This is an amazing situation. This is -- what's going on here is an amazing situation. You want to know the truth. He's confused by, not only that question, he's confused by every other question he's asked, but that -- but look, he's going to have to make his own decision.
Donald Trump
00:04:19-00:04:48 (29 sec)Medium (1.697)
I'm not going to be telling him what to do. I would say this. If they're not true and if the allegations aren't true, he is to say they're false allegations, false -- false accusations and he has to get on with it. As far as records and all, I have no idea. He'd have to make up that decision. I can say though that I've been accused, you probably have too, as soon as you're famous, you get accused and, you know, they had it for a while.
Donald Trump
00:04:48-00:05:07 (19 sec)Weak (1.15)
It's at -- at the Brett Kavanaugh. If you are accused by a woman, you are 100% guilty. You are to resign immediately from the presidency of a major corporation. You are to destroy -- they're going to destroy your life. All that has to be, somebody just has to say it. It was so crazy. And you know who the most against this are?
Donald Trump
00:05:07-00:05:33 (26 sec)Weak (1.042)
Women. Women are the most against what's happening because as you know, they have sons and they have husbands, and they have people that can be destroyed with a mere statement. So I understand where he is. I understand what he's -- and he's just got to do what he's got to do. But he can deny. And then as far as records, if he had any records, that would be a great thing if he could show records and -- and, you know, dispose of it with records.
Donald Trump
00:05:33-00:05:57 (24 sec)No Signal (0.86)
But I've been -- I've been falsely accused by people that I'd never even seen. I've -- I've never even seen many of these people, and some of them I -- I met them is zero interest. Okay, like zero. And all of a sudden you become a wealthy guy. You're a famous guy. Then you become president and people just -- people that you've never seen, that you've never heard of make charges.
Donald Trump
00:05:57-00:06:15 (18 sec)No Signal (0.898)
So, you know, I guess, in a way, you could say I'm -- I'm sticking up for him, but the mother was very compelling, certainly, and the girlfriend or the friends were very compelling, and certainly far more compelling than anything they had with respect to Brett Kavanaugh. This is one of the most high-quality human beings.
Donald Trump
00:06:19-00:06:41 (22 sec)No Signal (0.827)
You know, it's very interesting, when I decided the then chi -- when I gave Brett the -- the nod and I said, "Brett, you're an incredible gentleman." I've long heard he should be on the Supreme Court. For 10 years, I've been hearing about this guy, Brett Kavanaugh, I didn't know. But I've long heard he should be. But I gave it to him in the White House.
Donald Trump
00:06:41-00:07:01 (20 sec)Weak (1.477)
We were sitting and I said, "I'm infusing you and I just want to congratulate you." And I said, "Brett, now listen, this is going to go so fast. This is going to be so easy. You have the best education possible. You have the great family. You have everything, the perfect background." We have checked, we have studied.
Donald Trump
00:07:01-00:07:19 (18 sec)Medium (1.782)
You know, we don't just do this. It's very -- and I shook his hand and I said, "Good luck, Brett. Don't worry about a thing. It'll go so easy." And what they did to try and destroy that man, something that should have taken, like, no time, and what they did to destroy him and his family, and they're still trying.
Donald Trump
00:07:19-00:07:42 (23 sec)Weak (1.243)
The people are psychos. So what they did to him, and then you look at the double standard. But I would just say to Joe Biden, just go out and fight it. It's -- it's, you know, one of those things. But I'd say, he has far, or she's far more convincing than Blasey Ford or the other three that I believe have already recanted and said it wasn't true.
Donald Trump
00:07:46-00:08:05 (19 sec)No Signal (0.976)
No, give him -- give him honest -- look, you got to go through it and he'll probably have others come out. He might, he could have others come out. But with me, I can only tell you from my experience, it's incredible. People I'd never even saw before. He kissed me on the cheek or he touched my hand when we were saying hello.
Donald Trump
00:08:05-00:08:27 (21 sec)Medium (1.511)
He touched her hand. And I was never a big handshaker anywhere, but I touched her hand. It -- it is so crazy. And then they make it like they put the picture of the young woman on it. It's a terrible thing. It's a very scary thing. And I'm just going to say it once again, the biggest opponents of this are women because they have sons, they have husbands.
Dan Bongino
00:08:34-00:08:53 (19 sec)No StressLens
Yeah. So Mr. President, moving on, the -- the economic damage from this virus has been profound. You are leading one of the great economic recoveries we've seen after the dreadful eight years of the Barack Obama recovery, which wasn't much of a recovery at all. Are you pushing the payroll tax cut? I've heard you publicly mentioned it.
Donald Trump
00:09:03-00:09:29 (26 sec)Weak (1.208)
So the Democrats don't want it. It would be the easiest, the best. I've wanted this from the beginning, payroll tax cut, both corporate and the -- and to the person [Inaudible] cause you have a double, you have sort of like a double edge on it. This would be precise. It would be over a period. Now, I was fine with what we've done because it's, you know, money getting into the pockets of a lot of people, and I think that's good and we want to save our small businesses.
Donald Trump
00:09:29-00:09:48 (19 sec)Weak (1.185)
I also -- we're saving large businesses too. You know, we bailed out the airline business, which, you know, no fault of theirs. All of a sudden, you have a -- you have this scourge coming over and people go from packed planes to nobody flying, right? So you have to, you can't lose the business. So we -- we helped them and got that taken care of, and other businesses also.
Donald Trump
00:09:48-00:10:10 (22 sec)No Signal (0.918)
But no, I -- I think the payroll tax cut is really precision. It's like scalpel [Inaudible] and I would like to see that. At the same time, I'm -- I'm in for take it nice and easy for a little while because, you know, the Democrats want to bail out the states. That's what they want. They want to bail out their states.
Donald Trump
00:10:10-00:10:26 (17 sec)Weak (1.003)
That would be New York and California and Illinois primarily. And then some others. And they're all Democrats states. You know, our states are doing great. Texas, Florida, and many others. The Midwest, they're doing incredibly well. And I was able to get this at the last part of the negotiation. They wanted to do it in phase one, two, three.
Donald Trump
00:10:26-00:10:55 (28 sec)Weak (1.272)
I said, no, let's do that last. And I was a little surprised that they went along with it, but at least it puts us in a good negotiating position with these characters for once cause Schumer is a very, very dishonest guy and I think AOC is going to kill him when she runs against him in the primaries. I do. I -- I'm not -- I'm not a big fan of hers, but she's got a spark, he doesn't. And, you know, I saw him on television last night and he, you know, he's got his soundbites.
Donald Trump
00:10:55-00:11:12 (18 sec)Weak (1.201)
We've done an unbelievable job with what we're doing and the testing and the ventilators and everything. Everything we've done, the guy -- every governor's saying -- they're praising me. Schumer gets on and started saying we need more testing. You know, no matter how much testing I get them. We have six million people tested, which is more than any other country in the world.
Donald Trump
00:11:12-00:11:31 (19 sec)Weak (1.29)
In fact, it's more than every other country added up together. We've done more tests. Again, it's a better testing. And this guy gets on this stupid show last night. He -- he -- I mean, how these guys make money? Where is Johnny Carson? You know, where is Johnny Carson? But he gets on this show last night and he starts saying testing -- it's a soundbite.
Donald Trump
00:11:31-00:11:48 (17 sec)Weak (1.181)
We need more testing. How's Trump doing? We need more testing? It's just a soundbite. So anyway, I -- I think the guy's a loser. You know, he only brought one thing back to New York. I look at some of these senators, some of these Southern guys. Frankly, I look at Mitch, look how much he brought to Kentucky.
Donald Trump
00:11:48-00:12:05 (17 sec)Weak (1.084)
He brought so much, to billions and billions of dollars. Schumer brought nothing. You know what he brought? SALT. You know what SALT is, right? SALT is a disaster. And he never called me and said, "Hey, could we do something about it?" I would have listened. But I never got a call from Schumer. So New York got SALT.
Dan Bongino
00:12:07-00:12:25 (18 sec)No StressLens
Which is -- which is interesting though, Mr. President, because the SALT limitations have actually, you know, hurt some people who are -- who are paying mortgages on big enormous houses, the wealthy. And -- and the Democrats entire talking point has been taxed the rich more. But when it came to SALT, they want to tax the rich less.
Dan Bongino
00:12:25-00:12:46 (21 sec)No StressLens
They're total frauds. But I wanted to follow up on something you said. Mr. President, on my show, I get a lot of feedback, email, Twitter, and, you know, and Facebook, social media. And the state potential bailout is grotesquely unpopular and for a number of reasons. First, you've already, Mr. President signed a bill that's provided billions of dollars to the states, that media conveniently forgets that.
Dan Bongino
00:12:46-00:13:04 (17 sec)No StressLens
Secondly, whatever the states have asked of you, even Democratic states, go -- Governor Cuomo and Governor Newsom, no one has come out and said, "The president refused to give it." They said the opposite, that you've come forward with the comfort, the Javits Center, the testing, the money. The state bailouts will be a disaster.
Donald Trump
00:13:14-00:13:31 (17 sec)No Signal (0.83)
Well, you know, I spoke with the governor of South Dakota yesterday and she was saying how they're balanced, their budget's balanced. They have a constitutional amendment where their budget has to be balanced and they charge almost no tax and their primary taxes are sales tax. You know, we're getting them at the great monument.
Donald Trump
00:13:31-00:13:47 (15 sec)Weak (1.355)
We're getting them -- I get fireworks for 20 years or something. It hasn't been allowed for environmental reasons. You believe that? When it's all stone. So I'm trying to say, where's the environmental reason? Anyway, I got it approved. So I'm going to go there in July 3rd and they're going to have the big fireworks.
Donald Trump
00:13:47-00:14:05 (18 sec)No Signal (0.935)
That's South Dakota, Kristi. And she was telling me about, yeah, they don't -- they have virtually no debt. And many, many of the governors, it's Republicans, they're all Republican stuff and the state is so well run. This is a Democrat boy. This is by far their biggest point. And I'm in no rush. I'll be honest with you.
Donald Trump
00:14:05-00:14:23 (19 sec)Weak (1.303)
I mean, if they -- if they do it, they're going to have to give us a lot. And I -- I hope you're proud of me. But I was able to put that in phase four as opposed to phase one, two and three. And so their -- their ask is that. And the other thing that we're talking about is infrastructure, but, you know, they want infrastructure.
Donald Trump
00:14:23-00:14:51 (28 sec)Medium (1.958)
But I don't want it to be a green new deal infrastructure. I don't want to be talking about the carbon footprint. And then Obama flies to Hawaii to play golf in his plane when he was president and then talks about how he lands and he starts giving a speech on the carbon footprint, but he flies thousands of miles to Hawaii in Air Force One 747. You know, the whole thing is -- the whole thing is -- cause, you know, I don't want to be talking windmills -- windmills, you know, I ended that tax with that subsidy, that all of that stuff.
Donald Trump
00:15:03-00:15:19 (16 sec)Weak (1.231)
That's costing us like nothing. Nothing. Got a little lucky on that, but we take -- you have to take advantage of your luck. You know, because of the oil prices, I'm filling up the strategic reserve, which had a lot of empty space at it and we're filling it up and, you know, happily doing so.
Dan Bongino
00:15:19-00:15:41 (21 sec)No StressLens
Yeah. Mr. President, one question I get often from my audience is the national debt tsunami coming our way. Now, obviously, the virus, no one saw this coming despite the media, you know, faking to do and head fake and everyone, pretending they were the ones who saw it coming when they were saying the opposite, by the way, and calling you a xenophobe for the travel ban, which saved hundreds of thousands of lives potentially.
Dan Bongino
00:15:41-00:15:59 (19 sec)No StressLens
But that's a whole other topic. But the national debt tsunami coming our way is a real problem. The entitlements, we just don't have the money. If reelected, and I'm hoping that happens, I don't think my -- I wear my political stripes on my sleeve, do you have a plan for that? It really seriously keeps me up at night, I'm not kidding.
Donald Trump
00:15:59-00:16:18 (19 sec)Weak (1.429)
I do. Now, this, you're right. And -- and it bothers me too, but we're going to get out of it, and I'll -- I'll tell you. Number one, remember this, we're borrowing fairly long term and long term money at zero. Okay? That's the good news, okay? That's the -- the big difference between zero and 5%. And, you know, my biggest fear was always that.
Donald Trump
00:16:18-00:16:36 (17 sec)Weak (1.211)
But we have -- we're putting in, we're replacing debt with really long term good debt. Zero. You know, it's a beautiful thing. Our dollar is very strong. The good news is that we have a strong dollar, okay? The bad news is it's harder to do business over -- you know, with other currencies where they're falling.
Donald Trump
00:16:36-00:16:55 (19 sec)No Signal (0.819)
But our currency is really powerful now, it's really strong. We're going to be able to do things that are going to be amazing. We're keeping it strong. We're going to be able -- and what that means is we're oversubscribed every time we go out. If we want to do highways and if we want to do whatever we want to do, we're paying zero and we're oversubscribed.
Donald Trump
00:16:55-00:17:17 (23 sec)Medium (1.982)
Many times what we ask for with other places, as you know, don't have such an easy time getting money. We will, year five, we will start doing things that will be magic. And importantly, and by the way, you'll always have your social security. We're not playing that game. The Democrats will never. They will ruin social security because whether it's Medicare for all, any of their plans, they're going to ruin social security.
Donald Trump
00:17:17-00:17:38 (21 sec)Strong (2.055)
3 of 81 paragraphs scored.By the way, you're going to lose your fifth -- you're going to lose, in -- in my opinion, you take -- you take your second amendment, you take other amendments, but let's take your second amendment. You're going to lose your second amendment. You're going to lose gun rights. You know that. If they get in, you'll be losing gun rights 100%. They want to -- it's amazing the shift that they've taken on that.
Donald Trump
00:17:38-00:17:55 (17 sec)Weak (1.142)
So you're going to lose that. You're going to lose so much. I think it's going to be a very interesting election. I think that the last election, Dan, was so important, and I always said, that's good and that's the most important, but we need the four more years so all this stuff [Inaudible]. You know, we've done so much including tax cuts.
Donald Trump
00:17:55-00:18:14 (19 sec)Weak (1.22)
They want to raise taxes, they want to do everything the opposite. We're going to have tremendous growth. I think what's happening, I think you're going to have a transition. We're starting that transition soon. That'll be the third quarter. The fourth quarter is going to be incredible. And next year, I think is going to be comparable to any year we've had.
Donald Trump
00:18:14-00:18:30 (17 sec)No Signal (0.878)
And we'll also be very strong on the bottom line. Now, with all of this, I have to say, the Democrats, every time we want to do something on the military for our defense, the Democrats some -- wants something that's terrible. You understand. Like not a thing that you would -- not a thing you or your wife would approve.
Donald Trump
00:18:30-00:18:47 (17 sec)Weak (1.123)
That I can tell you, Dan. And you have to go along with it because otherwise you're not going to get the votes. You know, we need their votes. Where people don't understand, we may have majority like in the Senate, but it's 53-47. It's a small majority. And -- and we may have -- when -- when we had it in the house, it was, well, you need Democrat votes.
Donald Trump
00:18:59-00:19:14 (14 sec)Medium (1.797)
-- COVID. But, you know, they demand Kennedy Center. They demanded things that were terrible, but the big picture is we had to get what we had to get for the workers and for the small companies. So, you're going to see incredible things happening in year five and six. You're going to be very happy.
Dan Bongino
00:19:44-00:19:59 (15 sec)No StressLens
No, I'm a softie. I'm a big Teddy bear. Yesterday, you'd mentioned in the press conference, and of course, the media, as they always do, misconstrued your comments. You had suggested that, I'm not asking you to get into the intelligence at all, but you had suggested you had seen some evidence that the virus came from the Wuhan lab.
Dan Bongino
00:19:59-00:20:17 (18 sec)No StressLens
Not that it was created in the Wuhan lab, which some media folks, I was going to say something different, but out of respect for the office, I will not, said that, you know, or implied I should say, that you were suggesting it was created in the Wuhan lab, which you did not say. Can you just comment on that, please, so we can correct these media?
Donald Trump
00:20:17-00:20:41 (24 sec)No Signal (0.721)
Yeah. No, I didn't say that. And the question was a straightforward question and -- and I also really said that we'll be talking to you about it at a later date when we really know some good hard facts. But I've seen a lot of things. I've seen it -- I've seen thing -- I've -- I've seen probably every version of most of the things you've heard and some of the things you haven't heard and you've heard pretty much all of it. But we're going to find out about it. You know, I did an incredible deal.
Dan Bongino
00:20:50-00:21:02 (12 sec)No StressLens
Pre -- Mr. President, they used to make fun of you on the campaign trail how often you brought up China, and now you notice they flipped the script that you were being soft on China? Well, I -- this is bizarre. It's like the China [Inaudible] history.
Donald Trump
00:21:02-00:21:23 (21 sec)No Signal (0.763)
But -- but I talked about China's ripping us off more than -- I mean, they would taken out from 300 billion to $500 billion a year out of our country, out of our hides for years. And that is, in all fairness, to sleepy Joe, he had no idea. He has no clue. But Obama and -- and Joe, they ripped them off so badly.
Donald Trump
00:21:23-00:21:42 (19 sec)Weak (1.063)
But they also did it with previous administrations. I mean, this has gone on for years until I came along. And I've taken in billions and billions of dollars, literally a month. And China has never gave us 10 cents. And now they haven't -- even before the trade, do you remember I put ta -- tariffs, 25% on 250 billion, and they targeted our farmers.
Donald Trump
00:21:42-00:22:04 (22 sec)Medium (1.678)
And I took the money, a small piece of it because it did -- I said, how much did the targets get? Did they get -- did the farmers get targeted for, Dan? They said, sir, study produce the Secretary of Agriculture doing a great job. They said, "Sir, two years ago it was 12 billion, this year it's 16 billion." I said, good, we'll take 12 billion and we'll take 16 billion out of our tariff money.
Donald Trump
00:22:04-00:22:30 (26 sec)Weak (1.298)
We have a lot leftover, like tens of millions leftover from China and we'll give it. And I gave 12 billion the year before and I gave 16 billion last year, and we're giving 19 billion this year. Nobody ever did that. And one of the reasons that the other administrations never challenged China is they thought that they'd take advantage of us. I said, no, no, you're going to pay tariffs, so 25% on 250 billion.
Donald Trump
00:22:30-00:22:47 (18 sec)Weak (1.377)
That's a lot of money. Plus 10% on any money over that. So you're going to pay tariffs. And they did. So we've taken in tens of billions of dollars, and I've been able to help the farmers who were unfairly targeted. I mean, you -- you haven't heard any complaints. I'll tell you. And, you know, the farmers love me and I love them.
Donald Trump
00:22:47-00:23:05 (18 sec)No Signal (0.438)
But -- but the -- the thing about the Democrats, like as an example, they want open borders. So look how well I've done with the border. That border is sealed except where farmers need people coming through. You know, we make it actually easier. We could kill our -- hurt our farmers. You know, it's not true with people, certain people coming through.
Donald Trump
00:23:05-00:23:26 (21 sec)No Signal (0.858)
But the border is sealed. And we built 170 miles of wall already and it's -- it's moving forward at a rapid rate. Every -- every week, we build two, three, four mo -- you know, more miles. I'll have, by early next year, the wall would be complete. Nobody ever talks about it. You know, the Democrats don't talk about it because they now know that was a bad political move.
Donald Trump
00:23:26-00:23:51 (24 sec)No Signal (0.988)
They opposed me on the wall and then I'll say, nobody else but me could have gotten that wall. We had the Democrats. I got $738 billion for the military, but they wouldn't give you 10 cents for a wall. And we're building the wall, 170 -- over a hundred -- I think it's 172 miles as of today. And in the area where the wall is, nobody comes in. That wall is a powerful wall.
Donald Trump
00:23:51-00:24:10 (20 sec)Medium (1.987)
That was done -- we went to the border patrol and we said, give us your ultimate wall because I'll build the ultimate, might as well do it right. And we built them a wall with -- which is concrete and steel. It's got every aspect in it and it's loaded up with a -- the wall is loaded up with very sensitive equipment and everything else.
Donald Trump
00:24:10-00:24:27 (16 sec)No Signal (0.791)
So we have a wall, and in that 170 miles, it's like -- it's like a new life for the people on the other side, but people can't come through. So it's been very good. But they don't talk about that anymore and they don't talk about the fact, Dan, that they want open borders where everyone pours into our country.
Dan Bongino
00:24:28-00:24:53 (25 sec)No StressLens
Mr. President, last question for you. So the -- the recent revelations against General Mike Flynn and American Patriot are beyond disturbing. As a former federal agent myself, what happened to him is a -- is an international disgrace and an embarrassment. I personally don't have a lot of faith in Director Wray, but what can -- FBI directory, what can the FBI and DOJ do to ensure this never happens again?
Donald Trump
00:25:01-00:25:44 (43 sec)No StressLens
It's a disgrace what happened to General Flynn? It's a -- it was a setup from day one. You picked it up in about two hours. Okay. But -- and by the way, the other side knows it was a scam, but they -- it's not to their advantage. Do you know that if you look at MSDNC and if you look at fake news CNN, do you know they don't even talk about General Flynn today, and yet, two years ago, year and a half ago, when he was under persecution, not prosecution, persecution, when they were persecuting him, he made up their whole show, and now that they find out he's totally innocent because you look at this and more is coming out, they find out he's innocent, they don't even talk about it. You don't even see a soundbite that the man is innocent.
Donald Trump
00:25:44-00:26:04 (20 sec)No Signal (0.964)
It's a disgrace. He's an innocent man, and one way or the other, he's innocent, and you know what that means. One way or the other, he's innocent. But hopefully, he can be exonerated fully because they have to give his life back. They've destroyed him. They've destroyed his family. Now, ultimately, they were looking to destroy the presidency.
Donald Trump
00:26:04-00:26:23 (20 sec)No Signal (0.732)
They would looking to destroy a duly elected president who beat the hell out of a horrible candidate called crooked Hillary, and now, fortunately, we have another horrible candidate. Frankly, a far worst candidate who -- who, you know, I don't even know if he's going to be the candidate, to be honest, I don't -- I don't know that that's going to happen.
Donald Trump
00:26:43-00:27:08 (25 sec)No Signal (0.895)
Remember, when he was on Laura two weeks ago, the whole world got shaken up. He just gives a very simple -- he's a very cool guy actually. You know, he gives like simple answer, then Laura, who's great, she goes the -- she goes on to the next question, then she goes, "Whoa, wait, what did you just say?" You know, she goes back because he gave a very strong answer two weeks ago, and yet he said so beautifully and he carries a big stick.
Donald Trump
00:27:08-00:27:29 (21 sec)Medium (1.519)
He's a strong guy, Bill, he's doing a great job. I'll tell you what, you're going to see what a good job he's doing, and I let him do it. I don't get involved. I say, "Bill, you have to do what's right." I can get involved. You know, in theory, I'm the chief law enforcement or I can, but I think it's better if I don't. And, you know, so far I think that, but I can get -- legally, I can get involved.
Donald Trump
00:27:29-00:27:48 (19 sec)No Signal (0.854)
Legally, I could head it up. But I -- I am a -- wait until you see what's happening? And again, I let the professionals handle it, but Bill Barr is a total professional and I think people are going to see things. We hope Lindsay starts with his -- with his judiciary committee. I mean, that should get going.
Donald Trump
00:27:48-00:28:09 (21 sec)No Signal (0.889)
That really should get going. He's got so much information, you could go on for years, the information he's got. That Comey report, 78 pages from Horowitz was a fantastic report. I -- and I ge -- I have a lot of respect for Horowitz. He did a fantastic job on -- on that. And, you know, he's a Democrat. He was appointed by a Democrat, but he's been very fair.
Donald Trump
00:28:34-00:28:55 (21 sec)Weak (1.267)
-- is a disgrace. NBC, I think is worse than -- I think it's more fake. You know, it's Comcast. I call them Con-cast with an "n". They're disgraceful, that they can use free public airwaves and -- and give fake news all night long. And just as much on NBC Nightly -- Nightly News with Lester Holt, he's another beauty.
Donald Trump
00:28:55-00:29:15 (20 sec)Medium (1.526)
Now, it's -- it's so much fake news. It's hard to explain to your audience how fake it is. And, you know, the hard part, you understand this better than anybody. I know it's fake because I'm in it. An audience member sitting out there, somebody at one of our citizens sitting out there listening, they don't know it's fake because they have no idea.
Donald Trump
00:29:16-00:29:34 (18 sec)Weak (1.266)
But I -- I do things that in many cases are so good and they'll make them look so bad. And in some cases, I'll do something wrong. I don't mind. Okay, let them report it correctly. But we do great things and they -- they -- like ventilators. Everything was ventilators. We -- we had virtually no vent -- ventilators, a big thing.
Donald Trump
00:29:34-00:29:50 (16 sec)No Signal (0.92)
We now are the king of it. We -- we have mobilized this country and now we're giving them to other countries, and so you don't hear anything about that. They were killing us on vent. You know, when I took over, the cupboard was bare. We didn't have medical supplies and all of the things that we should have had under the Obama administration.
Donald Trump
00:30:01-00:30:22 (21 sec)Weak (1.047)
Well, I think if I didn't fire him, I would probably wouldn't be here. He was leading along with others, excuse me, including people that were above him. And you understand that very well. It's impossible for him to have done it himself. I think Jim Comey is turning out to be a very stupid man who is a -- you take a look at that report.
Dan Bongino
00:30:35-00:30:48 (13 sec)No StressLens
Yeah. Well, Mr. President, thank you so much for your time. It is really an honor for you to come back and join our show here. I really appreciate it. Thanks for everything you're doing, getting us through this crisis. Really appreciate your leadership, your go get them businessman style. I think it's exactly what we needed right now.
Donald Trump
00:30:58-00:31:19 (21 sec)Weak (1.236)
And there are some of us, and I'll tell you what we're getting between Sean and Laura and plenty of other people. We're getting -- we're getting the word out and we're getting it out strong and, you know, the people get it, Dan, the people really get it. They -- they see it. And Gallup just came out with a poll where I'm leading Biden and pretty substantially too, especially on important elements.
Donald Trump
00:31:19-00:31:35 (16 sec)Weak (1.169)
But, you know, you don't even -- they don't put it in and Gallup is no friend of mine, believe me, they got the first one wrong, and they came out with a poll, I'm leading. You never hear that stuff. It's all fake. They make it all up. They -- they -- literally, they make everything. They make so much up. So I just want to thank you.
Donald Trump
00:31:35-00:31:45 (10 sec)Strong (2.297)
1 of 81 paragraphs scored.You've been a friend of mine in the sense, and -- and by the way, Dan, you've been a friend of mine in the sense that you're honest and you're a pro, and therefore, you're a friend of the country. And thank you very much.