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Donald Trump (0:01)
Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens. The golden age of America begins right now. The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first. I've heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come. Today is Martin Luther King Day and his honor. This will be a great honor. But in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true. So this is January 6th. These are the hostages. Approximately 1,500 for a pardon?
Stephen K. Bannon (1:57)
Yes.
Donald Trump (1:57)
Full pardon.
Stephen K. Bannon (2:01)
Full pardon or commutation?
Donald Trump (2:02)
Full pardon. We have about six commutations in there where we're doing further research. Nice to see you again. So this is a big one. Anything you want to explain about this? We hope they get them. We hope they come out tonight. Frankly, if you're expecting it.
Stephen K. Bannon (2:35)
The Republicans feared for their lives that day as much as the Democrats. Since the Republicans that were running and sheltering in place as much as the Democrats, their lives were at risk that day as much as the Democrats.
Unnamed Analyst (2:50)
The people who entered the Capitol this day intent on harming police officers and potentially members of Congress. Like there's this iconic video of former Senator Mitt Romney being redirected away from the mob. Can you think of what would have happened if the mob saw Senator Romney? They were searching through the Capitol looking for Nancy Pelosi saying, where's Nancy? Where's Nancy? Last night after.
Stephen K. Bannon (3:15)
Okay, let's go. Let's. Let's turn it down. I can't take any more. Listen to this stuff. Can we please do what I'd like? Can we please cut a nice thing of President Trump's speech and I can play it. You're in the war room. It's Wednesday, the 21st of January, year of our Lord 2025. What we're trying to do in juxtaposed. But it's not the radical left. The established order is so triggered by this. As I told you there were going to be that we have to have a reset here already and make sure we understand our battle plan and how we're going to power through this. So, President, and to start off, I want to thank Rob Sig Parker, Sig Harry. The team in Denver, led by Wendell, our director, and also Cameron and Will, our producers here and many others, Mo Bannon and Grace Chung. Yesterday was a logistics really tough logistically because of the bitter cold in the wind up high, it was just pulled off magnificently. The, the shots were incredible. The location was incredible. And John Solomon, everybody that pitched in from the studios, and of course, Ben Berkwam and others, David Zier and Michelle Bacchus at the arena. It kind of came together. When you're in that moment, it's very tough to kind of keep exactly what's going on. The speech was magnificent. And it was a speech where President Trump did two things. He gave you where we're going, the sunlit uplands, what I call the, you know, the new golden age, the new golden age of America. And he laid that out and he talked about unifying and pulling the country together, given the victory he had, and particularly what that victory can potentially mean on demographic groups and pulling people together and talking about America first in maga, the MAGA policies that unifies. But then he also, he giveth and he taketh away. He put the political class on notice with just some brutal reality of what he's overcome, the weaponization, all of it, the destruction of our sovereignty. He said, quite frankly, we're going to take our sovereignty back. Well, in order to get our sovereignty or return to our sovereignty means somebody gave it up. And that was the people sitting there, both Republicans and Democrats, in Bush 43. And I realize some traditional Republicans may not like to hear this, but I don't care. Bush 43 was part of the problem, not as much as it's gotten worse over time, finally reaching a crescendo with Biden, because we don't know today even who's calling all the shots. And so Trump did two amazing things, and this is why it will go down as a classic inaugural address. And can we get, I think I gave the the Time magazine cover. If Denver can get that, if we can't send it to him, the inside the Capitol, underneath that magnificent dome, although it was very restricted, it was TV lighting, the lighting was perfect. I think maybe now I understand why we're inside the COVID of Time magazine. The COVID that's going to come out is absolutely it looks like a portrait, looks like a painting. It looks like it could go up next to the painting of Cornwallis surrendering to General Washington in Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton. Did they have some pretty impressive people at Yorktown, some people that made a difference when they played the tune the world turned upside down. That tune they could have played yesterday at this magnificent event where Trump did two things. Both talked about the big vision and the big picture of pulling the country together and taking us to a new golden age of peace and prosperity, at the same time putting the political class on notice that we are taking our sovereignty back and we are going to return America to her greatness. There's two lessons there for this audience. The first is how we got to that moment. And the second is how we're going to get to the sunlit uplands supporting President Trump. And this gets down to the meaning of populism and the meaning of being a populist nationalist. Let's go back in time to the 2020 election or really even the pandemic, or maybe before the impeachment. Look at the history of the show, the arc of the show. We started as war room impeachment. Just going to be a short term. We're going to come up for down to 6, 8, 10 weeks, however long it took. Then we went right into war room pandemic. Then we went into War Room 2020. One thing led to the other, the impeachment. And then you had the pandemic and then you had the election. Then you had the steal. And then we arrive after those. We arrive at Mar a Lago. You know, Boris Epstein sitting on the. Sitting on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base, calling into the show when Trump's leaving. We're playing Frank Sinatra's My Way. He gets down to Mar A Lago. This is the decision point. He can either stay the lion in winter can either stay there, stay caged McCarthy. These people go down every so often to make sure he's in his cage. Rupert Murdoch comes out and puts out a memo. We are making him a non person. Many of the Fox host and hostesses, I don't hold this against them. They're getting a paycheck from Murdoch. I got it. I understand. I got it. All of those, and I mean all of those were part of the. Let's not put Trump live for 18 months to two years because Murdoch ordered it, because he might talk about the stolen election. And what did we do every day hammered here, the illegitimacy of the Biden regime. And what did I tell you? If you hammer enough on this and you hammer enough on this and you give up, you put up evidence and you hammer and you hammer and you hammer and you hammer. Eventually the Republican Party, but then the independents and then the Democrats and the American people will eventually get to understand that this is an illegitimate regime under Biden. What are they doing concurrent with that was President Trump had the moral courage, the single most important decision, I think, by any person in this country, and particularly any political figure, to make a decision. And that decision made, I think immediately in late January 2021, early February, that he was going to return to office. What did he say at Amfest? I knew I had to run because I had won the 2020 election. All this is inextricably linked. You can't have one without the other. You can't. People are going to try to do this. Opportunists and people that are coming in. Yes, I understand. That's human nature. It's not wrong, it's not evil. It's just not the thing itself. What is the thing itself is that those followers of Trump, of Trump, a collection of grundoons, a collection of schmendricks, a collection of just common men and women in this country that have always been the backbone of this country and that's been passed down generation to generation, regardless of your ethnicity, regardless of your race, regardless of your religion, regardless of your color and in your individual agency. Because we believe in self reliance and we believe in individual liberty. But it's in that, that collective intelligence and that collective courage and that collective determination is the key thing of American history. Whether it's in the revolution, whether it's in the Civil War, whether it's in the Great Depression of World War II, those great three big turnings of American history happens every, I don't know, 80 to 100 years. And now here, now in this time and place, with all the balls and all the parties and all the exclusivity and people going around town and let's be blunt, you know, Matt Boyle put up the deplorables were not particularly treated well this weekend. Horribly, terribly. Your determination and your just focus, wanting to be part of it, standing out for hours and hours and hours outside of the arena, extended these balls last night for hours where you couldn't get in. Military folks couldn't get in. In the long run in history, it's not important. It's important at a different level and we'll address that later. But here is the key point. It was your decision and you're backing this man who made a decision of incalculable moral courage to return. You had his back. That does not go away. This victory. The reason it's the most important political movement in history, you upon your shoulders, your individual Agency, your common wisdom, determination and decency. Trump has returned triumphant to position ourselves for a new golden age. It was your decision. Every. All the elites, all of them, were against you and against him. They deemed in their judgment and their wisdom, he was not worthy. In fact, he was. If he returned to do this, he was a criminal. And he would be criminally charged. He should be bankrupt. He should be othered as you should be. Fired from your job, harassed by local officials. Othered, you can't understand today unless you understand that that's just so much you read and so much you see on tv. It just misses the point or misses the mark, as I like to say. Therefore, it's not particularly relevant. It's noise. It's not signal. Signal is what you determine. What you determine is going to determine whether we drive towards the sunlit uplands or we flinch and blink and turn away. Short break.
