Unnamed Guest (59:28)
Yes, I was too. And the New York Times. I used to write op eds and they did the same thing to me. The Other day, a guy named Baker called me for a quote about Trump. And I said, I said to him, I had, he had done that before and I don't know if he remembers, but I said, I don't want the editorialized. He said, no. So he wrote, no, no, we just want to get, just give me a quote. So I said about the Biden Trump transition and whether Trump has exceeded his constitutional authority. So last week or the week before, I said Joe Biden vastly expanded the prerogatives of the presidency to enact by executive order, policies that were on popular. Donald Trump inherited that new ability to enact policies that were popular, like the border clothing. And he broke his word. He printed that. And then right underneath mine, he says, of course, the pardons were not popular January 6th. So he editorialized in a way that, you know, so I'm not going to do that anymore. And if you get a call, if I get a call from cnn, I just got one the other day. I don't do it. Nothing. Because, you know, you get a certain point in life and you know who you're dealing with. You're dealing with some 20 something, 30 something smart, blank blank who thinks they're smarter than anybody and they're partisans and they're going to get some older conservative guy and they're going to entice him and flatter him, then bring him on and then try to sabotage him. Life's too short to do that anymore. I have nothing but contempt for those people, I really do, that are in the New York Times and New Yorker. I had a woman, they ran an article on me in the Washington Post that Dick Cheney was reading some of my books. This is 2003. And so this woman called me from the Boston Globe, said, I'd like to come out. I hear you're a farmer. I said, no, I don't want to talk to you. No, no, I'll come out. She flew all the way out and spent the day with me. Oh, this is so great. And then she wrote this article. We can't believe that a vice president, only a vice president like Cheney would talk to this hick guy who lives in this house out in the middle of nowhere as a raising farmer. He, you know, then a guy from the LA Times called up and said, I, I'm not like her. I want to write a whole thing on you. Can I go? And I said, you know, I'm really busy. Said, I'm just going to drive up. And I said, I have to go speak to an evangelical church. Today and I'm too busy, I'll go with you. I said, okay, you spend it. So he spent the day and sure enough, Victor Hansen spouted out right wing to an evangelical right wing church audience. And it was just so typical. Why do it? This, the LA Times, Chicago Tribune that I, you know, I, they syndicate. They used to syndicate, now it's Tribune. And I would send a column in and they'd say, well, they'd fact check. And I said, that is not necessarily not true, but it needs context, context. And then they would. About every three years they go, well, we don't know how to ask you this, but, but you're getting people very angry. And we've got a lot of Stanford professors and underneath your byline it says, victor Davis Hanson, senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, comma, Stanford University. Now, I know you wouldn't lie to us, but they claim yet you're not Stanford affiliated and you're speaking for them. I said, what do you want? They said, well, can you send us your pay stub? And I said, now what would be needed on my pay stub? We need the name Stanford University. I said, I'll be happy. And I did that every two or three years. And it was always professors that were so angry to see Stanford University with anybody affiliated with anybody that didn't have their views. Well, Victor, if it was medieval times, I would have been burned at the stake. I bring this up, Jack, because just to finish, yes, we went through this with Sammy. They took the security details away from Brian Hook, Pompeo, John Bolton, Fauci. And I said at the time that they were distinct cases, the people who were involved for a long, long time fashioning the Iran deal in Soleimani. And that was Brian Hook and Pompeo. Bolton came in later. I can see that. I think they should. I don't know what their circumstances are, but I thought I said, and maybe somebody wrote me a not and said, you're wrong. But it was my impression that neither one of them had a lot of income and that that was wrong because they would not be able to afford private security. But I did say that. I know that for a fact. John bolton had a 7 million dollar pack. And I know people who give lavish amounts of money. So I said, John Bolton has private means. And I know that Anthony Fauci and his wife were the highest paid couple, you know, almost 900,000. And they were being paid by the NIH, the security detail. And it was Biden that cut it off, not Trump. But my point was this Trump was right. Nobody gets lifetime security details. Nobody. Mark Milley doesn't. Nobody should. And in cases where they made courageous decisions that put them in danger, they got. They got security details for four or five years, three or four years. And Trump is doing more for them than the security details alone because he is warning Iran, if you dare touch a person's hair, you're going to regret it. And Biden didn't do that. So he is deterring them. And the Iranian president confirmed that about a month ago. He gave an interview and said, no, no, no, no, no, we do not assassinate anybody. Now, he may have been lying, but he felt he had to say that. So they know that if they touch any of those people, they're going to be killed, and they will be killed. So my point was just, if they have a lot of money, why would the government keep giving them security details? And then the people who didn't have money and were involved to a much greater degree in the decision to kill. So, like Pompeo or Brian Hook, I think that they probably should get some more details. But the other thing I said was, go ahead.
