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Full text of former President Donald Trump's Pennsylvania speechby Donald Trump
9/3/22
Well thank you very much and hello, Pennsylvania. Hi.
I'm thrilled to be back in this incredible Commonwealth with the thousands of proud hardworking American patriots that I have gotten to know so well.
Two months from now, the people of Pennsylvania going to fire
the radical left Democrats and you are going to elect, Doug Mastriano is your next governor.
You're going to send my friend Oz, Oz is a great guy, to the U.S. Senate. you're going to elect an amazing slate of true America First Republicans to Congress. We are going to end the Nancy Pelosi political career, the Biden political career.
Our country is going to hell.
This election is a referendum on skyrocketing inflation, ramping crime, soaring murders, crushing gas prices, millions and millions of illegal aliens pouring across our border, race and gender indoctrination, converting our schools and above all this election is a referendum on
the corruption and extremism of Joe Biden and the radical Democrat party.If you want to stop this destruction of America, you must vote Republican you gotta get out
As you know this week Joe Biden came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give
the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president, vilifying 75 million citizens, plus another probably 75 to 150.If we want to be accurate about it, As threats to democracy and as enemies of the state, you're all enemies of the state.
He's an enemy of the state, you know that?
The enemy of the state is him and the group that control him, which is circling around him, 'Do this. do that Joe, you're going to do this Joe."
Right. I think Philadelphia was a great choice to make this
speech of hatred and anger. His speech was hatred and anger. By the way, the next morning he forgot what he said, you saw that.
I do like the red lighting behind him,
like the devil.
But Philadelphia was a great choice because
the city is being devastated under Democrat rules. Devastated. He could tell you, we love Pennsylvania. I went to school in Philadelphia, what's happening to Philadelphia?
Fourteen people were shot last weekend in Philadelphia, 14, and the fake news will—God, that's a lot of fake news lately. A lot of fake news.
Well, they'll go out and check the facts for people were killed last weekend. At one point last month, seven people were shot in the span of just 71 minutes, in Philadelphia this year. Philadelphia has already seen more than 1,400 people shot including numerous beautiful little children.
Last year, the city set
an all time murder record with 560 homicides, and it's on track to shatter that record. Again in 2022 numbers that nobody's ever seen other than some other Democrat-run cities. Armed robberies in Philadelphia are up 62 percent. Doug, you have to take care of this. You have to take care of it, and we'll send you the goods, I'll send him the goods. You know what the goods are: lots of police officers. That's what the goods are.
Retail theft is up 59 percent from last year.
There have been more than 750 carjackings this year. Anybody have a nice car, because you're not gonna have it long. More than triple the average for 2010 to 2019. And it's heading way up
heading up in other cities that are run by Democrats also.
Instead of trying to demonize half of the population, Biden and congressional Democrats should focus on stopping the killing and the bloodshed in
Philadelphia and every other Democrat-run city in America where record death and destruction is taking place every single day.Biden thinks making America great again is bad for our country. Do you believe it? That was in his—Biden says "We got to stop MAGA." That's when I defined it, because I don't think he knows what it meant. It means "make America great again." We have to stop it. Stop MAGA. Stop making America great again.
He thinks making America great again is a threat to our country. No, making America great again is great for our country.
There's only one party that's waging war in American democracy by censoring free speech, criminalizing dissent. You see that happening? Disarming law-abiding citizens, issuing lawless mandates and unconstitutional orders, imprisoning political protesters. That's what they're doing, rigging elections. weaponizing the Justice Department and the FBI like never ever before. And raiding and breaking into the homes of their political opponents. I wonder who that could be.
Republicans in the MAGA movement are not the ones trying to undermine our democracy. We are the ones trying to save our democracy very simple. The
danger to democracy comes from the radical left, not from the right. Not from the right.
This November, we're going to stand up to
this rising tyranny of sickness, lawlessness And death. And we are going to take back our country. We're going to take it.
There could be no more vivid example of the very real threats from American freedom.
And just a few weeks ago, you saw when we witnessed one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history, the shameful raid and breaking into my home Mar-a-Lago was a travesty of justice.
That made a mockery of America's laws, traditions and principles. Before the entire world the entire world was watching and they're shocked. They're shocked. South American countries, numerous of them, their leaders said could you imagine if that was ever done in our country? What the United States would be saying about us.
The Biden administration invaded the home of their chief political opponent who is absolutely destroying him and everyone else in the polls. I hate to say it.
Even including the Republicans, but we love the Republicans, on a phony pretext getting permission from
a highly political magistrate who they hand-picked late in the evening, just days before the break-in. And trampled upon my rights and civil liberties as if our country, that we love so much. We're a third world nation. We're like a third world nation.
They rifled through the First Lady's closet drawers and everything else, and even did a deep and ugly search of the room of my 16-year-old son, leaving everything they touched in far different conditions than it was when they started. Can you believe it?
The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters. controlled by radical left scoundrels lawyers and the media who tell them what to do—you people right there—and when to do it.
They're trying to silence me and more importantly, they are trying to silence you. But we will not be silenced, right. We will never stop speaking the truth. We have no choice because we're not going to have a country love.
The evil and malice of this demented persecution of you and me should be obvious to all entities.
Even media companies that are pretty far left have come out and said we can't believe this is happening in the USA.
We are being assaulted by the same groups, the FBI and DOJ, that just a few years ago declared no reasonable prosecutor would charge
Crooked Hillary Clinton after she set up a secret illegal server to hide her family's pay-for-play schemes. Crammed full of classified information, allowed it to be plundered by foreign hackers. You know that happened? And then deleted 30,000 emails, think of that, 30,000 emails, and
what else did she do? Bomb with a hammer, smashed her phone systems to smithereens after receiving the highest level of subpoena from the U.S. Congress. Think of that?
Thank you. That yet, now, the same people,
the exact same people are sending the FBI storming through the home of their number one political rival. It's a disgrace, a disgrace, like possibly never before. Our country has never seen anything like it. They talked about documents not being properly stored. Yet
they go in and take documents, dump them on the floor, stage a photoshoot, and pretend that I had done it like I had put them all over the floor.They took that back. After a lot of product
then they put out for public consumption, a picture which is seen all over the world. this is what they do. it's called disinformation. These are very dishonest, sick people. Very dishonest people.
Americans are sick of the lies sick of the hoaxes and scams, and above all sick of the hypocrisy. But our opponents have badly miscalculated.
This egregious abuse of the law is going to produce a backlash the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.
Before our very eyes,
our beloved country is being taken over by the very people who turned democracies into dictatorships and into ultimately, ruination. They think they can divide us but they can't. Can't divide us.
The MAGA movement is the greatest in the history of our country. And maybe in the history of the world, maybe in the history of the world.
In any event, we have no choice. We are trying to save our country because such bad things are happening to our beautiful, beloved America. We will make America great again. I will never turn my back on you.
And you will never turn your back on me because we love our nation. And
we will save our nation from people who are trying to destroy it. It was not just my home that was raidrd last month. It was the hopes and dreams of every citizen who I've been fighting for since the moment I came down the golden escalator in 2015, wanting to represent the people. Wanting to stop the massive corruption in our country and determined to finally in this world, put America first. I want to put America first and we did.
We did.
There's never been a period of time, both before COVID—or the China virus as we say—and after COVID. From that moment on, I became the enemy of the Washington swamp for six years.
The radical Democrat party, the RINOs, the media and the Deep State have tried relentlessly to stop me and you.
First they fabricated the Russia Russia Russia scam you so it was a total fabrication. Now they all admit it. Then we had
impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, and now the same exact people at Justice and the FBI, the same people along with outside scum, are at it again with the horrific raid of my home.
They just go on and on. And they have to be stopped. We have to spend time on our country, not on defending ourselves against scams.
Think about it, about Russia and the Muller—no collusion, right? Came in no collusion. That was your decision after two and a half years, no collusion. I could have told them that after the first hour. And they could have said that because they had the laptop from hell, which had everything, so they knew immediately.
But it went on—but think of this, you know what,
I tell this story on occasion very seldom because it's too sad to tell. But I tell this story because it's very important. Russia Russia Russia was a hoax. It was developed by Hillary Clinton and a group of people. Small group around the kitchen table, as a way of explaining why she lost an election that a lot of people thought she would win because the Democrats have an advantage in elections. Because of a lot of things, aside from the fact they cheat like hell.
So when they lost, Hillary Clinton and her people, guys like
Adam "Shifty" Schiff, watermelon head. Watermelon Head, he's a watermelon head, but no dummy.
Think of this,
think how bad they are, think how evil they are. We're all fathers and your mothers and your children are great people, and all of the people are represented here—think how bad they are. They make up a story that's false. It's now been admitted to be false. The FBI is the last one to tell us that. But it's now admitted even in the newspapers, even by the people back there,
they will not fight it. They make up now think of this or think of this.
So
they make up a story about Russia. Let's say, you know, I was tougher on Russia than any president before. I'm the one that stopped Nord Stream II, the pipeline. I'm the one that did the big sanctions.
And I guarantee you one thing, Putin was not going into Ukraine. I guarantee you that. I guarantee you, nobody was tougher than me, but I also got along with them. That's a good thing. You know, getting along with other countries. It's a good thing. Not a bad thing, but think of it. So
they make up a story, Russia, Russia. Russia. It was made up so that when they launched, they could say it was Russia.
I'm saying, what the hell did Russia have to deal with? It was Russia. Okay, so
Adam Schiff knows it's a fake story. He made it up with other people. They know it's a fake and I see Adam Schiff go solemnly to the microphones in the Capitol building, And stand.
They're so sad and say, "Donald Trump Jr. will be going to prison because of what he did with Russia." Now think of it, he knows the story is a scam. He knows the story's a fake.
And he wants my son, who's a good kid, he wants my son to go to prison over something that they made up, that they know is a phony story, and has now been, as they say, fully debunked.
In other words, it was a total lie, and he's standing before microphones with many of those people standing there and they can't get enough, saying that my son is going to prison. And I then call my son I say, "Donnie, you okay, what's going on? What's going on?"
Think of this. If you're a parent, think of it.
My son's going to prison on something that they made, which is a total hoax. These are bad people. They're trying to destroy our country, and we can't let it go on. Any longer because we have too much work to do.
Whether through activist Attorney Generals, the state attorney generals.
If I fly over a state, they send me before a grand jury. "Trump is up there. Let's see what can we do with the grand jury?"I've been going through this for six years now. Local Democrats and county prosecutors, congressional committees or federal agencies,
the radical Democrats are engaging in a desperate attempt to keep me from returning to the White House where they know I will clean this mess up again.
They want to stop us from completing our mission to bring back American values. Secure America's borders,
millions and millions of people are pouring into our country. Nobody has any idea where they're from. Last month, 129 countries were represented.
They're emptying their prisons into the United States of America.They know we'll continue to fix America's trade deals. Continue to lower taxes. Nobody gave tax decreases like Trump, bigger than the Reagan cuts. And lower regulations created all of those jobs, defend and protect our police and our military. We have to protect our police. You know, our police want to protect us. They're stymied from doing it.
We have to protect our police.
No, we're going to reclaim our energy independence. We're going to save our Second Amendment which is under siege.
We'll build our manufacturing base, just like I was doing. In other words, they know that we're going to make America great again. You know, we had a different saying because after we did so well we were all set.
And we had a statement remember Keep America Great. But after they destroyed it, I'd love to use it. But I must say there's nothing like MAGA.
I don't know. I don't know KAG. KAG wasn't the same. Keep America Great. The problem I had though wasn't the fact that KAG can't compete with MAGA, the real problem I had that.
We can't use the word Keep America Great because
they've destroyed our country. So we can't keep it great because it's not great. Right now. Our country is a laughingstock.
Our leaders are a laughingstock.You know, we just sent another $13 billion to Ukraine, that gets us close to $80 billion now. Well, it angers me more for a different reason. It would have never happened before, Putin really wouldn't have done it. Said "Vladimir, you're not gonna do that, Vladimir."
He knew that. He knew it. He knew it. But he did it soon as the election was rigged and it was considered over.
I don't know if it's ever going to end, if you look at what's going on, because more and more facts are coming out, like the FBI with Facebook the other day can you believe but you know what?Our country, it would have been so inappropriate to say Keep America Great, because who the hell wants to keep our country the way it is right now? I don't know.
But together, we have easily beaten every single
witch hunt in the past think of that—the time and the money and the effort it takes. And now we will likewise do that in the future if
they continue their craziness, and if they don't stop they don't stop that's
all they're good at is disinformation, they put out disinformation.You know, when I heard about Russia was right after I came down that beautiful golden escalator.
First lady, I said "you'll be a great first lady." She has been a great first lady. Great first lady. They love our first lady.
But people would come up to me, this was right at the beginning. Right after the escalator ride, but people have shared, "you know anything about Russia?"
Young guys come up, beautiful, staffers, there a lot of them here right now and here all over the place. That just came up to me. You won Pennsylvania by a lot, sir. That's right. You're right about that. I think at nine o'clock in the evening, we went 950,000 votes up with 73 percent of the vote cast. All of a sudden, around 3:02 or something, the equipment closed down. It all closed down. And then you had that massive spike. Remember the spike that went to heaven and came back? It should have gone to hell and come back.
And all of a sudden we were tied and then all of a sudden, we lost by a whisper. A rigged election. But the people would come up, some of them are here, "Sir, sir. It's such an honor to meet you, sir. Sir. Can I ask you a question? You know, what is it? What do you think about Russia?"
No, not really, but I know probably less than you know. But I have a lot of common sense and I know how to defend our country and I'll end up being friendly with them and will do just fine.
Then a month later another one came up. "Hello, Uncle Sam. Look, send up Uncle Sam." Great people, great people.
And a month later, another young person came up. A little naive, and said, it was really, actually, was cute. He said, "Oh sir, it's such an honor to go for a couple of minutes." He said, "Sir, can I ask you one question has been bothering me." Yeah, what is it? "Do you, what do you think about Russia?"
And then again and again, then after about five or six times you're gonna think about Russia. When I looked at my people, my help people that are a little older. I said, "What the hell is going on with Russia?"
This is all I knew what was going on. It was a scam. And we took two and a half years to win. But all of that time and effort and money and
the corruption and the people that were in charge of that scam are horrible, and they're the same people that we have now. They never leave. They never leave. And if we would have had an attorney general with courage, instead of somebody that was afraid to be impeached, so I don't want to be—we would have gotten to the bottom of the very quickly.
We've been waiting for Durham for a long time, Durham, please come in and give us your work, please. You're up, Durham. We gotta get Durham going here.
But this battle is not about me. This is a struggle for the very fate of our republic. Our movement is fighting against
a corrupt group of unelected tyrants who believe they can wield absolute power over you, with the help of a willing and very corrupt media.They think
the deep state, not the citizens should be the true masters of this country.
On our watch, we will never let that happen. And we will never let it happen, even though we're going to be gone. We're going to set this country up so strong and so powerfully that we may not be here, at least some of the older ones—that I love you all, but we're going to have the country set up properly. Like it was before the COVID came in, before the China dust came in.
And even after we handed it off where we had a higher stock market, because we did it twice. We had a higher stock market on January 20 than we did—think of it—the so-called handoff. I hate to even use the term it's so ridiculous. It's so ridiculous. I have to use that term. But the handoff, we handed it off, the market was higher than it was just prior to COVID coming into our country. We did an incredible job, an incredible job.
But we have no choice in 2022 and 2024.
We have to smash the grip of this vile and vindictive political class. We have to clean house in Washington, D.C. and we have to restore government for the people.
If we do not, our republic and, indeed,
our country will be destroyed and we will never be able to do what is called a comeback. You won't be able to do it. It'll never come back again.
It's so fragile, you know, it's so fragile. You will never bring it back again. You remember in the campaign, I used to say if these people get in
we're going to end up with Venezuela on steroids. I said it many many times. I never thought it was much of a possibility. But
I never knew people could cheat like that. Not like last week. Weirdo. He's a weirdo.
Mark Zuckerberg came to the White House, kissed my ass all night. "Sir, I'd love to have dinner, sir. I'd love to have dinner. I'd love to bring my lovely wife." All right, Mark, come on in. "Sir, you're number one on Facebook. I'd like to congratulate you." Thank you very much, Mark. I appreciate it.
Well, Mark Zuckerberg confessed that in 2020, the FBI went to Facebook and the media and gave them the false narratives that
the Hunter Biden laptop from Hell was Russian disinformation, even though they knew that was not true. So they went in they said it was Russian disinformation, by the way.
The guy that came in with that stuff just got fired. He perp-walked, he was perp-walked out of the FBI on Friday.But that doesn't help us, and the election of 2020, that doesn't help us.
They perp-walked him because of all the things he did. So many more than what we're even talking about. The FBI made it clear that they did not want the truth about the criminality and influence peddling of the Biden family coming out before the election, because that would hurt the chances of Joe Biden who virtually never left his basement winning the election.You know, he came to Philadelphia, as you know, you know many people they had almost nobody showed up. And we have a lot of people. A lot of people, and we're not even talking about all the people outside that couldn't get in, because you have better real estate, right? We got a lot of people outside watching. I hope they're watching the big screens we put up outside.
You know this place? I think it holds 12,000 people. So we sold out in about 15 seconds and I said what are we going to do? For the people that can't get in? That's why a lot of times, I like fields because fields, you could just keep having them. In Alabama, we had 66,000 people. Figure this: Outside of Houston, Texas, we had 89,000 people show up.
But
what the FBI did was corruption and election interference on a scale that we have never seen before in our country. According to pollsters, it made a 10 to 20 point difference, not even including all of the other totally determinative evidence of illegality that was found having to do with
the 2020 presidential election scam, including ballot stuffing and not adhering to the laws, rules and regulations of state legislatures, which is totally illegal. They just did whatever they wanted to do. And frankly, Republicans locally that ran things in a lot of states—should be ashamed of themselves.
Should be ashamed of yourself. And a guy like Mitch McConnell, who allowed this stuff to happen, should be ashamed. You should be ashamed. The 2020 election was rigged, and now our country is being destroyed by people who got into office through cheating and through fraud.
Now watch, the cameras will all turn off as soon as I say that because they're not allowed to put the cameras. They'll all turn off. They don't want to hear that. They don't want to hear that. You know why?
But
Republican leadership just doesn't fight because in many cases, they are intimidated. They're afraid they're actually afraid, Republicans must get tougher and stronger and fast.
The way I'll tell you a guy that fought back that's why he's here. Today is your nominee. Doug Mastriano. He fought, he fought, but he was dealing with RINOs, all such crap.
Doug, you fought like very few people fought, that's really why he's here, because everybody saw that. He fought. You know, after people figured it out. They all ran on the basis of "we're gonna stop" but they were not there. He was there at the beginning. And the people understood it.
So the big deal—by the way, I saw a poll today, Doug, that you're tied or up one point. Just so you know, again,
all they do well is cheat on elections and use this information. So when he's running, he's got a big base, and he won by a lot. He won by even more when I endorsed him, but that's okay. And you know what?
They said this guy Shapiro, who's a lightweight, they said the following. They saw he was going to win, he was doing well, he was way up and he had a big base and they don't like that. So what do they do? "The one we really want to run against is Doug Mastriano. That's the one."
Well, they say that one every time, they have somebody that's going to kick their ass, they go out and they say, "go on, we want to run again." The one person they didn't want to run against is Doug Mastriano. This information I kept hearing it, I'd be out I see the people going crazy for Doug, for his incredible wife but it's true.
He was right there from the beginning, day one, got to fight the Republicans and the Democrats, yet to fight people. American elections should be determined only by the American people. And that did not happen in 2020. and I'm just talking to FBI but there are many, many other things. We won't go into it.
The Mar-a-Lago raid was a desperate effort to distract from Joe Biden's record of misery and failure. The many disasters that our country in the world are now suffering would never ever have happened. If I was in the White House, you all know that all of this stuff when you could
take the five worst presidents in American history and put them together, and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our country in less than two years. They could not have done it.
Two years ago when I was in office, gas was $1.87.
We weren't talking about going to all electric cars which are twice as expensive. I mean, the problem is—a friend of mine wanted to do something for the environment. He went out and bought a electric car and he made a certain trip. I won't say from where—Kentucky—I won't say from, and he's a good person. He wants to do what's well, now he understands. Not so good.
And he bought an electric car and he made the trip often from Kentucky to Washington, and he made it and he drove down and put the car away and drive back. He was getting like 38 miles a gallon and he was fine. And then he goes to hybrids and all the other things they can do.
But he wanted to go all-electric, because he wants to save our country, wants to save the atmosphere. And he called me, he said "I'm exhausted." Why? He said, "This damn trip took me forever. I drive for two hours, and then I'd have to have my car charged. And in two cases I couldn't find a place to charge it, but even if I could, it took me more time to charge the damn car than I could spend in it driving."
He said, "It took me two and a half times. Please Please let's get rid of this stuff. Please." And you see in California, you see what's happening there, with going all electric cars. Number one, people can't afford them. Number two, the batteries are made all in China, all the earth, the rare earth comes out of China.
And interesting. We have all the guests, and the guests to leave the gasoline, when it's refined. We have it all right under us, we don't have any of the other stuff. And if we did, our environmentalists wouldn't let us take it. It all comes out of China and a little bit in the Congo, guess who controls the Congo, China.
We play right into their hands you see where I'm getting a lot of great press because I told Germany, don't make a deal with Russia on the pipeline. And they said, "Oh, that's so funny." I actually didn't during the meeting, G7, I sent, Angela, Angela Merkel, a white flag of surrender. She said, "Donald, Donald, but why'd you send me this white flag?"
I said, "Angela, you're going to surrender, 75 percent of your energy is coming from Russia. If you look back over the decades, Russia and Germany haven't done too well together. When there's a war, when there's a problem, they'll just turn it off, Nord Stream II, and Angela, you're not going to be able to defend yourself." "Oh, that will never happen."
Well, that was about two years ago. The only thing, I never thought it was gonna happen this fast. And now they're giving me great—remember, I made the speech at the United Nations. And the German delegation was all smiling. They thought it was so funny. They're not smiling. No one said it better than me. They're not smiling.
But now gas is $5 and $6 and $7. And it's going to be going up. Think of it, and they brag because it came down slightly. You know, it came down about 42 cents.
We actually had it down to $1.42. Remember that? But I had to get it a little up. We had to let the oil companies make a couple of bucks. I didn't want to wipe out the oil companies.
But what's happened is one of the big reasons for inflation is what this guy has done with energy, because energy is so all-encompassing. It's so big. With the help of Pennsylvania energy workers.
Did you get screwed or what? Remember, I told you they were gonna do this to you. He lied during the debate. He said, "No, no, I would never do that." The first thing he did practically was kill the pipeline. Right? That was like the first thing he did.
And you know, all those workers voted for me, but the head of the Union voted. I wonder if he's still the head, check it out. He ought to be fired real fast. The Keystone pipeline would have been great. A lot of jobs, would have done a good job, with the help of Pennsylvania energy workers, under my leadership. We had American energy independence for the first time ever, ever.
And within a short period of time, we would have been energy-dominant. We would have been bigger that Russia and Saudi Arabia combined, times two, and now we're beggars.
We're like a beggar nation. You think that, we're energy beggars, we would have been bigger than everybody combined. The two biggest, the biggest energy suppliers combined times two. We're going to be energy-dominant and figures we gave you the largest tax cuts and regulation cuts in American history.
The radical Democrat Congress just passed one of the largest tax hikes in American history, pulverizing the middle class and now you have the privilege of having 87,000 IRS agents go after you. And they've actually been approved. I'd never heard of this one. They got approved to carry guns so they can go after you with guns. You know, they don't want to have guns but it's okay for the IRS. It's like an army.Can you imagine that that was approved? That they allowed that to get through?
And all Mitch McConnell had to do is waive that debt ceiling. I'm not approving anything having to do with debt ceiling, unless you drop all this crap, $4 trillion. Because
McConnell folded like a dog, you saw that, and I always said he would, I told you he will, he did. And West Virginia which voted for me—45 points I was up 45 points—
West Virginia is not happy with Joe Manchin, because he killed coal, and they put taxes on coal. Clean beautiful coal, he killed it. I can't imagine he's going to do well. I don't know—well, the heck to him.
Under the Trump administration, we had the greatest economy in the history of the world with no inflation.
Biden and the Democrat Congress created the worst inflation in 50 years, 9.1 percent. It is gonna go a lot higher. And now they are making it worse with their immoral plan to wipe out hundreds of billions of dollars of debt for college graduates. Now think of this. How unfair is it, how unfair is it all of those, people, many of you are here, that paid and worked so hard. I saw they were doing a story about Pocahontas. That's Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts.And this big strong guy came up, a really good looking guy. And he looks at he goes, "Hey, well, what's going on with this debt? You want to cancel the debt? I've been working my ass off for 12 years," he said, "and I've almost got my daughter's debt paid off. I worked weekends for 12 years. My neighbor, he's my friend but he hasn't worked at all. And now his debts could have been canceled, but I worked. This is unfair."
And then he was not doing nice after that. So we'll forget what he said, that he was not too happy. But you can multiply that times millions and millions of people.
They paid for it on the backs of hardworking citizens and they're raising your taxes. Remember this, you don't realize it, you're getting the biggest tax increase in history. So all this information, they're saying under, under 400,000,
You're getting the biggest tax increase in the history of our country. So enjoy paying it.
And you know what? It's paying for things like that, but
the "Green New Deal," which is like taking the money and throwing it out the window, and it's actually worse. It's actually like taking the money and destroying our country. Because it sets us back. Just like Germany, you know, Germany's back to building and opening its plants because they got so screwed up with a green new energy.
They got carried away, windmills all over the place, killing all the birds, destroying all the values of homes, destroying the plains and fields, beautiful plains. If you want to see a dead bird cemetery, go under a windmill sometime. It's not a pretty sight. It's also the single most expensive form of energy you can get. And all of those big giant turbines are built in China and Germany to a lesser extent.
I rebuilt our military including our nuclear capability and hope to God we never have to use it. And the creation of the Space Force.
See what they're doing with Iran. Iran was dying to make a deal with them, without a deal done, within one week after the election. And now we're going to pay them hundreds of billions of dollars and they're gonna have nuclear weapons within a short period of time.
These people are crazy, this figure. I mean, they honestly, they can't be stupid. They must hate our country. They must hate our country. They surrendered our strength and our wisdom, our everything. They turned Afghanistan into the greatest humiliation our country has ever seen.. I believe it was the most humiliating thing, time that our country's ever gone through.
Thirteen dead soldiers, but they never mentioned those soldiers who lost their legs and arms and face. They were obliterated. Nobody talks about them and there were many. Nobody talks about them.
We left American citizens behind. And we left $85 billion worth of the best military equipment in the entire world, planes and tanks and goggles 700,000 rifles and AK-47s.We left it all behind, figure this, 70,000 vehicles is not a used car lot in the country that has probably 500 vehicles, 70,000 vehicles we left behind. Some of those vehicles cost millions of dollars because they're armor-plated with six inches of steel. We left it all behind. I built much of it. Because I rebuilt our entire military, think of it, $85 billion worth of military equipment. And you know, I saw a number the other day, the second largest arms dealer in the entire world is Afghanistan.
Because they're selling their cars. They don't need 700,000 rifles and guns—700,000—they need 40,000 or 20,000. What were we thinking? You don't take the military out first. And remember this, in Afghanistan 18 months, we didn't lose one soldier. You heard the numbers' Philadelphia, 18 months.
I spoke to Abdul, I said, Abdul don't do that. Don't do that. "Why sir. Why do you send me a picture of my house?" I said Abdul, That's a different story. Don't go and we were fine. Remember, they said, why is he speaking to the Taliban? Because that's where the problem was, right. That's where the problem was.
Eighteen months and Biden, actually a couple of months ago, well, I'll say one thing. We didn't lose one soldier in 18 months and they're screaming at him. You don't take it back. You're not supposed to say that, because it's good. We didn't lose a soldier in 18 months. They were so afraid. They didn't want anything. We could have gotten out, I want to get out more than anybody. I'm the one that got it down to 2,000.
But also, we should have kept Bagram because if China—Bagram Airbase costs billions and billions of dollars, years ago, to build. It's one hour, a day from where China makes its nuclear weapons. We should have never left without keeping Bagram. What a shame.
The most humiliating time I believe, actually, that probably, Putin went in because when he saw the incompetence of that, he said, "This is going to be easier than I thought." And
now we have a war between Russia and Ukraine with potentially hundreds of thousands, and even millions of people, are going to die. That would have never happened if I was your president. Would have never happened. I promise you.
Vladimir, you can't do that.
Those beautiful golden terrorists in Moscow, Vladimir, I want to leave them alone. Please. You can't do it, Vladimir. He would never have done it. He would never have done it.
He said "Why should I believe you? You did kill me on Nord Stream." Nobody thought that was possible.
I ended Nord—can you imagine? Biden came in and he opened up the pipeline. I ended it. Then he says, "Oh, Trump was soft on Russia." I was soft.
The only one that doesn't think that is Putin. He didn't think I was too soft with the sanctions. But think of it, the biggest deal they've ever done is Nord, that nobody ever heard of until I came along. They were building this massive pipeline. Nobody ever heard of Nord Stream II till I came along.
