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"Hello, everybody. Hi. Hello, Margo. Is she with the media or is she with us? Did you vote for the party? Very much so. Mr. President, at least four polls in the last 48 hours have been proven to be complete frauds and shut down. This was cited by the New York Times and Nate Silver. Are any of those"
[0:00] Hello, everybody. Hi. Hello, Margo.
[0:07] Is she with the media or is she with us?
[0:10] Did you vote for the party?
[0:11] Very much so.
[0:13] Mr. President, at least four polls in the last 48 hours
[0:18] have been proven to be complete frauds and shut down.
[0:20] This was cited by the New York Times and Nate Silver.
[0:23] Are any of those polls worth looking at?
[0:25] Well, they found a lot of discrepancies, bad ones, big ones.
[0:29] And in Los Angeles, as you know, they have 20,000 votes,
[0:33] and it could be as high as a million votes.
[0:36] The 20,000 is just a little bit.
[0:38] And that had to do with the past election, not this current election.
[0:42] The U.S. Attorney found potentially hundreds of thousands of illicit votes.
[0:49] Mr. President, Mrs. Trump, do you have any update on that suspicious package?
[0:54] There were three found yesterday, one close to the White House.
[0:58] Do you know anything about that?
[0:59] Yeah, they'll be making a report probably tomorrow.
[1:02] Mr. President, polls also show that government corruption
[1:05] is shot to the top of voter concerns this election.
[1:07] Why do you think that is?
[1:08] Well, because the Democrats are very corrupt.
[1:10] To me, corruption is one of the biggest things.
[1:12] If you look at Minnesota, if you look at Los Angeles,
[1:16] if you look at New York, the corruption is rampant.
[1:19] And to me, corruption is a very big factor.
[1:22] There have also been some allegations involved.
[1:24] What are you right for?
[1:25] The Wall Street Journal, sir.
[1:26] You guys are worse than anybody, you know?
[1:28] After the Wall Street Journal has lost its way.
[1:31] There's massive corruption that you don't cover on the Democrat side.
[1:35] And you should.
[1:36] Because you ought to look at Minnesota.
[1:38] You ought to look at Maine.
[1:39] You ought to look at Los Angeles.
[1:41] Because we are straight and we are solid.
[1:45] But you ought to look at the real corruption.
[1:47] It's Democrat corruption.
[1:48] And that includes Jeffrey Epstein.
[1:50] All Democrats involved.
[1:52] Mr. President, you said yesterday you urged the DOJ to sue Alaska.
[1:57] What do you say to those concerned about the independence of the Justice Department?
[2:00] Well, all I do is I say this.
[2:02] You have a man named Dan Sullivan, a highly respected Senator running.
[2:06] They find a man named Dan Sullivan or Daniel Sullivan,
[2:10] and they put him up as a matter of confusion.
[2:12] He got two and a half or three points in the primary,
[2:15] and he's going to get possibly that now.
[2:17] And I looked at it, and there's very few people will be able to differentiate.
[2:23] So they have no idea what they're doing.
[2:25] It is a totally corrupt weaponization situation,
[2:29] and they shouldn't be allowed to do it.
[2:31] So I recommended it to the DOJ.
[2:33] They looked at it.
[2:34] They agreed with me, and they've gone to court.
[2:37] Let's see what happens.
[2:38] But that's pure corruption.
[2:39] And the Daniel Sullivan that they have up was never a participant in any elections,
[2:45] never even voted before.
[2:47] It's a disgrace.
[2:48] They found a guy named Daniel Sullivan.
[2:50] They put his name on.
[2:51] In fact, he later on tried to change his middle initial
[2:54] so that it was the same as Daniel S.
[2:57] I think it's a disgrace.
[2:59] So are you considering pardoning junior administration officials
[3:02] to shield them from congressional inquiries?
[3:05] Like who?
[3:07] There is a report by The Washington Sun this morning
[3:09] that the White House is kicking around a plan
[3:11] to shield junior administration officials from their own names.
[3:14] Well, I haven't thought of it, but I will tell you,
[3:17] it would be very unfair to go through what we went through for four years
[3:22] with the corrupt weaponization that took place.
[3:25] So in light of what Biden did, as you know,
[3:28] Biden shielded many people, including the Congress.
[3:31] If you look at what they did with Congress,
[3:34] when they set up the special committee, which was a fraud,
[3:37] they all got shielded.
[3:38] So certainly I haven't thought about it, but certainly I'd be allowed to.
[3:42] The presidential pardons are, they say, the most powerful thing a president has.
[3:48] I certainly don't want to see innocent people go through hell
[3:52] and lose all their money, like Margot.
[3:54] Lose all their money, because if she becomes a target,
[3:57] you know she's a very honest person.
[3:59] But they're going to drag her into a grand jury.
[4:01] She's standing right there.
[4:03] Margot, you're not going to have to worry about it, okay?
[4:06] You're working in the Ukraine and what happened with the ceasefire?
[4:11] Did you speak to the Pope? Can you clarify?
[4:13] It is great to have Pope's support.
[4:17] And they are starting a ceasefire on October 27th.
[4:21] And I hope everything goes as it's planned.
[4:25] Did you talk to President Putin or President Zelensky?
[4:28] We talked, we signed agreements, and...
[4:32] With both.
[4:33] With both of them.
[4:34] She does better than our professionals.
[4:36] Mr. President, would you like the First Lady to get more involved?
[4:39] I think so. Do you agree?
[4:40] I think she's doing better than the professionals right now.
[4:43] Now she got a ceasefire.
[4:45] This has to do with children and people.
[4:47] Have you spoken with Elon Musk about the Ukraine situation
[4:51] and the controversy over there?
[4:52] I have, yeah.
[4:53] Can you tell us about that?
[4:54] No, I can't.
[4:55] Mr. President, the left says that we should believe women
[4:59] when they speak out.
[5:00] But Amy Acton's own mother is criticizing her,
[5:02] saying she's not fit to be governor.
[5:05] Why does it seem like the rules change when it comes to Democrats?
[5:07] Well, it's amazing because, you know,
[5:09] they've said very bad things about Vivek
[5:11] and the press doesn't complain.
[5:13] So you have a mother that said the daughter is a liar
[5:16] and essentially that the daughter is no good
[5:18] and she is not qualified.
[5:20] And the press comes to the other person, Amy Acton,
[5:24] side.
[5:25] What a terrible thing to say.
[5:27] If my mother, Mary McCloud, the great Mary McCloud,
[5:30] who you know and love, if she ever said anything bad about me,
[5:34] let me ask Margo.
[5:36] Margo, if my mother said anything bad about me,
[5:38] do you think the press might not give me a pass?
[5:41] Mary McCloud would be from the Senate.
[5:43] This is a disgrace.
[5:44] The mother said that Amy Acton is a liar and she's no good.
[5:49] And you know what?
[5:50] I don't think you could get a better reference than that.
[5:53] Mr. President, President Obama and President Clinton
[5:56] are out there being a little critical of you today.
[5:58] Do you want to respond to them?
[5:59] Well, they're critical because we've beaten them.
[6:02] You know, when I started,
[6:03] we had a very much weaker Republican Party,
[6:06] a smaller, weaker Republican Party.
[6:09] And then I ran and I won in 2016.
[6:12] And I won in 2022, but it didn't work out that way.
[6:16] It was a rigged election.
[6:18] But I won by millions of votes.
[6:20] And I figured because I did, I'll do it again.
[6:23] And I did it again and I made it too big to rig.
[6:25] Even better than 2020 or 2016.
[6:28] And they're out there fighting.
[6:30] And I guess I'd be fighting about with them too.
[6:33] But Obama was a lousy president.
[6:35] Clinton was not bad.
[6:36] But he got caught up in a lot of scandals.
[6:38] Outside of the scandals, he would have been a good president.
[6:41] Mr. President, any thoughts on Russia wanting to invest in Alaska natural gas?
[6:48] No, but we'd like to get back to life where Russia and Ukraine make a deal.
[6:55] And then we'd be able to do business with both.
[6:57] You know, I made a deal with Ukraine to get their natural,
[7:01] up to a trillion dollars' worth of their natural minerals.
[7:05] And the reason, because Biden gave them $350 billion worth of equipment.
[7:10] So I said, yeah, I feel foolish.
[7:11] Because all you had to do is ask them if they would have paid.
[7:14] Meaning the European Union would have paid.
[7:16] No, I have no comment on that other than certainly we'll do business with Ukraine
[7:21] and with Russia after this war ends, I would think.
[7:24] Mr. President, there's a new intel report.