Donald Trump (00:06):
If you think that it was easy to get here tonight, you are wrong. In fact the pilot said, “Sir, I think you might have to do it maybe another time.” I said, “I’m not going to tell the people of New Hampshire, I’m not going to be there tonight.” This was a little bit rocky tonight, I will tell you, but I’m glad we made it. That would’ve been a pretty big story, if we didn’t make it. I mean, didn’t didn’t make it. I’m thrilled to be back with the people of the great state of New Hampshire with thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots, which is what you are.
(00:47)
As you know last night we had a record setting evening in Iowa. What a great place that is too. The largest margin of victory in GOP history. Is that good? I had the previous record, as you know, was 12 points and we beat it by more than 30 points. So that was really something. That’s a long year. That’s a lot of years. So we were honored by it. They’re really great people also.
(01:15)
The whole country is great frankly. They want to see change. They want to see change because right now our country’s not doing too well. We’re laughed at all over the world. This is not going to happen for long. I do worry about 10 more months with these people because they can do a lot of damage. What they’re doing to our country is very sad. We were the first candidate ever to get more than 52% of the vote. We now have our eyes on a very special place. You know what that place is? New Hampshire.
(01:51)
I know that New Hampshire will never let us down. Just like in 2016, you remember that? We came in here and we won in a landslide, 2016. It’s time for the Republican Party however, to unify, come together, and move forward as one team. We have to beat Crooked Joe Biden. We have to beat him. Our country is at stake and we need to focus on all of our resources. We have to put them into energy and effort in defeating Biden and all of these radical left lunatics, what they’re doing to our country. We can’t let it happen. We cannot let it continue. We’re going down and we cannot let it continue.
(02:31)
Last night, I was honored to receive the endorsement of a man who has become a true leader and earned the admiration of so many patriots. I’ve been a friend of his, even though we were competing against each other, but I was a friend of his and we got along. He was saying, “He’s a great president.” I kept saying, “Why is he running? He keeps calling me a great president.” He’s a fantastic guy, a very smart guy. He’s got some tremendous ideas. He’s young and he’s got some young ideas too, and that’s a good thing. So he has a big, beautiful, bright future ahead. Vivek Ramaswamy. Come on up, Vivek.
Vivek Ramaswamy (03:25):
Let’s do this, guys. It’s good to see you. It’s good to be back to New Hampshire. We miss you guys. We’re going to make this happen. You guys know this well, you know this man. You know why we’re here. Patriots across this state, we are in the middle of a war in this country. That’s what this is. It’s not a war between black and white. It’s not between Democrat and Republican, even in a deeper sense. It’s between the permanent state and the everyday citizen, between those of us who love the United States of America and a fringe minority who hates this country and what we stand for.
(04:04)
Right now we need a commander in chief who will lead us to victory in this war. That’s what we need in this country. You got to know you’re in war to win one. You can’t win one if you’re asleep at the switch. Have your head stuck in the sand like most Republicans. I think that’s going to require somebody who isn’t bought and paid for. A businessman, not a politician. Anybody heard of that? That’s why I was in this race.
(04:39)
I’ll tell you, the people of Iowa spoke loud and clear last night. I’m a big believer that we the people create a government that is accountable to us, not the other way around. That we the people choose who leads this country. So we heard we the people last night, and that is why last evening I met my friend here. We met in person and I told him that I would endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the United States and do everything in my power to lead us to victory in this war.
(05:09)
It is a 1776 moment right now. That’s where we live right now. You want to know, what does it mean to be a Republican today? It means we believe in the ideals of 1776. Ideals like freedom and merit and the pursuit of excellence, that you get ahead in this country, not on the color of your skin, but on the content of your character and your contributions. End affirmative action, end at DEI. We are done with the nonsense. Send it back home.
(05:39)
It means you believe in the rule of law. I say this as the kid of legal immigrants to this country, that means your first act of entering this country cannot break the law. That is why we need to use our military to secure our own southern border in this country. That’s what it means to stand for the rule of law in the United States of America. It means the people we elect to run the government needs to be the ones who actually run the government, not the shadow government in the deep state that runs the show today. This man is going to get in there this time around and actually shut down that deep state. Not messing around this time anymore. That’s how we win this war in this country.
(06:27)
The way we’re actually going to do this in the long run and win this, this time around is with elections we need to secure in this country for the long run. You want to know what needs to happen in this country? Single day voting on election day as a national holiday with paper ballots, government issued ID to match the voter file, and English as the sole language that appears on a ballot. I’m confident this man will be the one to get us there. This is how we get our country back.
(06:57)
Not black or white, it’s deeper than that. These are the ideals of the American Revolution. You know what? We do have some enemies that we need to defeat on the other side, but we have challenges to address in our own party right here at home. So you know what? If you want somebody who’s going to foist onto you, to use your social media account, you want to use a driver’s license to do it, to have the right to use the internet. This man’s not your man. There’s another candidate in this race who’ll do that for you. It’s Nikki Haley. You want to cut social security, you want to cut Medicare, you want to cut veterans benefits so we can fork over more money to Ukraine so some kleptocrat can buy a bigger house? Vote for Nikki Haley. Not this man right here. If you want to actually put an agenda that puts Americans first to say that the moral obligation of your leaders is to the citizens of this country, not another one, there is not a better choice left in this race than this man right here. That is why I am asking you to do the right thing as New Hampshire and to vote for Donald J. Trump as your next president because we’re not working with a lot of time here.
(08:08)
If our kids are in high school before we get this right, we don’t have a country left. That’s what it means. We’ve been celebrating our diversity and our differences for so long that we forgot all of the ways that we are the same as Americans. Bound by that common set of ideals that set this country into motion. We believe those ideals still exist. This man is going to be your next president to revive them. E pluribus unum. From many, one. You know how we’re doing it? We’re doing it by speaking the truth at every step of the way.
(08:50)
There are two genders in this country, period. That is the truth. Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity. Drill, frack, burn coal, embrace nuclear energy. Reverse racism isn’t racism, and open border is not a border. Parents determine the education of their children. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind. Capitalism lifts us up from poverty. There are three branches of government in the United States, not four. The US Constitution is the strongest and greatest guarantor of freedom in human history. That is the truth. We fight for the truth.
(09:40)
We stand up for the truth. That is what won us the American Revolution. That is what reunited us after the Civil War. That is what won us two world wars and the Cold War. That is what still gives hope to the free world. If we can revive that dream, over group identity and victimhood and grievance, then nobody in the world, not a nation, not a corporation, not a virus, not China is going to defeat us. That is what American exceptionalism is all about. That is what we are going to revive to, yes, make America great again.
(10:22)
Vote for this man right here in the New Hampshire primary. God bless you and your families and may God bless our United States of America. Thank you, New Hampshire. It’s good to see you guys. We’re coming back and winning this in a landslide. We will not stop until we get this job done. Thank you, all. God bless you and your families.
Donald Trump (11:02):
Thank you. Thank you. Wow. How was that? Pretty good. That was pretty good. He’s a fantastic guy and he’s got something that’s very special because he started off with a zippo and he ended up very strong. He did a great job. I was actually surprised when he called because he was doing well. It’s an honor to have his endorsement. He’s going to be working with us and he’ll be working with us for a long time. Thank you.
(11:35)
Now for sort of the opposite, in my opinion. As you know, Nikki Haley in particular is counting on the Democrats and liberals to infiltrate your Republican primary. You know that. That’s what’s happening, you have a group of people coming in that are not Republicans and it’s artificially boosting her numbers here, although we’re still leading her by a lot. As you know, I watched her speech last night, I thought it was inappropriate, but because it’s bad for unity, it’s bad for the party, what she said. You’d almost think she won. She came in third and she lost to not a particularly great candidate, obviously, as you’ve seen. She lost to somebody that beat her by about two and a half points. Ron DeSanctimonious.
(12:21)
So I’ll tell you, we have these two people. We really got to get back onto Biden and beating the Democrats and not wasting a lot of time with these two. They’re supported by some people that you don’t want to have support. The reason they’re doing it, and I will tell you, so we had a very interesting thing. We were making the speech last night. It was called a victory speech. Yeah, please sit down. Everybody could see back there? This is a big crowd. This is a nice crowd of people.
(12:53)
We’re driving in the snow. You can’t see three front… I mean how you all got here. I said, “Will people show up?” They always show up, right? They love their country. We were talking about a show and how corrupt the press is. Last night it was amazing. NBC and CNN refused to air my victory speech. Think of it, because they are crooked, they’re dishonest, and frankly, they should have their licenses or whatever they have taken away. They put on Nikki Haley. She came in third, a distant third, I mean a distant third. They put on Ron DeSanctimonious who came in a boring second.
(13:34)
Now we don’t talk about him too much because over here he is polling at 4%. So we’ll save him where he seems to go up. We haven’t found that place yet. He’s gone down a lot. She’s not doing particularly well, but she had one phony poll. She walks around with a poll saying she’s upping Biden by 17. That poll is about three months old and it’s a fake poll. From every other poll, she’s just about down in every election. We’re up
Donald Trump (14:00):
… every single poll for the last two months against crooked Joe Biden. But people behind Nikki Haley are pro-amnesty, they’re pro-China, they’re pro-open borders. These are the people that are backing her. They’re pro-war. We don’t want war. We got out of all the wars. We beat the hell out of ISIS. They’re pro-Biden, frankly. And if she wins, Biden wins. And if Biden wins, New Hampshire cannot win. You’re going to lose and bad things happen.
(14:31)
We had the greatest country in the history. In our history, three years ago, we had the best borders, we had the best economy, we had no inflation, we rebuilt our military, we gave you the biggest tax cuts in history, the biggest regulation cuts in history. Nobody’s done what we’ve done. And especially, frankly for this state, if you want a nominee who is endorsed by all the RINO, globalists, and demented Never Trumpers. Never Trumpers here, they’re a dying breed, I will say. Like a guy like RINO Paul Ryan, he was so bad for us; liberal Larry Hogan, that’s another beauty; open borders RINO Charles Koch. Charles Koch, he spends a lot of his inherited money on elections, but not so much, but he has been giving Nikki a lot. He wants open borders. He’s pro-China, he’s not pro-U.S.
(15:20)
And crooked Joe Biden’s biggest donor is then Nikki Haley as your candidate, if you want that. We need strong borders. We need free and fair elections, and if you don’t have those two things… And I’d love to add in, we need an honest media, because we don’t have an honest media.
(15:40)
The Democrats are supporting her because she’s easy to beat. The Democrats are funding most of her campaign, and they’re doing it because they want to run against… They don’t want any more of Trump. How did they do in 2016? And then, we did even better in 2020. A lot better. Millions and millions of more votes. They don’t want us. They want her. I mean, she’s probably their first choice. And Ron DeSanti-monious is their second choice, and I’m their last choice. But they’re a party of disinformation. They see we’re leading.
(16:15)
Rasmussen just come out, did you see that? Rasmussen, highly respected. They just announced that the nomination for the Republican Party is over. They just said it’s over, that Trump won. Now, I don’t know how they can do that [inaudible 00:16:32], but I guess, they looked last night and they looked at all of the different states, we’re beating her by many, many, many points in South Carolina, where she’s the governor of South Carolina, and she’s losing by 50 points. That’s not a good sign. And very shortly we go out to Nevada. We’re beating her by about 90 points. So, we’re beating everybody and we’re beating much of… Maybe more importantly, although we have to get there, but more importantly, we’re beating Crooked Joe Biden in every poll. We’re beating him by 11 points in Michigan. We’re beating him all over. I mean, we’re beating him in Pennsylvania. We’re beating him in South Carolina. Every poll that they take. And by the way, we’re beating him very big in a place called New Hampshire. Have you ever heard of it? Have you heard it?
(17:20)
If you want to defend your honor, and if you want to defeat the radical-left Democrats and save America, you must vote for your favorite president of all time, Donald J. Trump, that’s me. The only way to stop the Biden lunatics and radical leftists is trying to… They’re trying to cancel out your votes. They want to cancel out your votes. That’s what they’re doing with Haley. They love Haley because they’re going to load it up with… They’re not going to win anyway. They’re not even close, but they’re going to load it up with Democrats and independents, and that’s not what the Republican Party is about. We love Democrats that want to vote for us, and we love independents especially that want to vote for us. But it’s not what the party is about.
(18:03)
But you have to go in big numbers on January 23rd, that’s Tuesday, next week. I spent so much time talking about this because we had these tremendous polls, just like we do here in Iowa. And I’d say, “Please, it’s very important. We have to keep our eye on the ball in November and we’re sending a signal. Don’t believe the polls. Or even if you want, think we’re one point down.” We’re not, we’re like 30 points up. But don’t believe them, you have to get out and you have to vote.
(18:36)
I joked the other night, I got a little heat for it. I said, “Listen, darling, you’re not feeling well, but I don’t care. You have to get up. We have to vote.” “But I’m not feeling well.” “It doesn’t make any difference. You have to vote.” And I went a step further. I said, “Even if it means the ultimate, you got to vote, because we’ve got to save our country.” All the information you need is available at nh.donaldjtrump.com. Everything is available.
(19:09)
So, we do have to create the margins. We’re going to be in great shape in terms of winning. But the margins, and I think that’s why we got, I guess 52%. They said it will be almost impossible to get over 40, and we got fifty-two percent last night, which is great. The biggest margin in history. By a lot, the biggest margin in history.
(19:28)
With your help, one week from now, we’re going to win the New Hampshire primary, and then we’re going to defeat crooked Joe Biden. He’s a crooked guy. He’s the worst president in the history of our country. He’s the most corrupt president in the history of our country. And frankly, he’s the most incompetent president. You’re going to end up in World War III with this guy. But we’re going to take back our country and we are going to what? Make America great again. One of the most important questions is, and I’m having to answer it all the time, it’s the candidate, what candidate can rescue the American economy and save the American Dream? When was the last time you heard the phrase American Dream? You used to hear it all the time. Well, you hear it with me and you heard it four years ago, three years ago, but you haven’t heard that term in a long time because there is no American Dream. It’s survival now, and it’s embarrassment.
(20:28)
And you take a look at what they did with Afghanistan, the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. 13 soldiers dead. We left hundreds of people there that should have been brought out, they’re hostages. And we left $85 billion worth of the best military equipment in the world. And they’re now one of the largest sellers of military equipment. They don’t need 700,000… Think of it, 700,000 rifles and guns, 700,000, they sell them, they make a fortune. We left them there. 70, 000 vehicles, many of them armor-plated, costing millions of dollars, millions and millions of dollars. We left all of this there. We are like a country run by fools. We’re run by fools, and we’re going to take it back and we’re going to take it back quickly and methodically.
(21:22)
We’re going to win that election. We’re going to go back into the White House and we’re going to, “Drill, baby drill.” And we’re going to strengthen up our border, like we used to have it. Remember, we had the safest border in history three years ago, and now we have the worst border probably in the history of the world. There’s never been a border for any country, third world, Banana Republic, there’s never been a border like this. There’s never been, where millions… And we’ll fix it, and we’ll fix it very fast.
(21:50)
All Biden had to do, when he goes to the beach, because he’s got consultants, we all have consultants, and they say, “You look great in a bathing suit, Joe.” I mean, I’ve never seen a guy go to the beach so much, and he has a hard time walking in the sand because sand is heavy. And he has an even harder time lifting one of those aluminum chairs that are meant for a child to lift. He can’t lift it. And if he would’ve just gone to the beach and left our border alone… We had the most secure border. All he had to do is leave it alone.
(22:29)
We had the best people. The border patrol are incredible. ICE are incredible. All of the law enforcement is incredible. We love our law enforcement. By the way, we are going to get immunity for our law enforcement, so they can’t get sued. In many places, I don’t think here, but in many places, law enforcement gets sued and they say, “Go out. Get your own lawyer. We’re not going to represent you.” Can you believe it, what they do to our law enforcement? Well, we’re going to give them immunity. We’re going to grant them immunity. We’re going to take care of their problem.
(22:59)
Under the Trump administration, we had the greatest economy in the history of the world, with record low unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans. By the way, have you seen our poll numbers with African Americans and with Hispanic Americans? Last night was quite a surprise. That’s why they couldn’t put us on. NBC couldn’t do it because the margins were so crazy. But I’m not that surprised, because I see it, I feel it. We did great. In 2016, we won. We did much better in 2020. But there is much more enthusiasm now than there was even in 2020 or 2016, not even close.
(23:38)
But we did better with everything. And we’re doing better with women, with Asian Americans, with kids with MIT diplomas. Of course, that gets hurt a little bit now. MIT has been a little injured with the three people. Harvard, Penn. Went to Penn. And you take a look at MIT, they got badly… My uncle was a professor at MIT for 40 years, Dr. John Trump. He’s the longest-serving professor in the history of the school. And he’s up in heaven now looking down on us and saying, “That’s a beautiful place that he’s speaking at with very beautiful people.” But he would be very embarrassed if he saw what was going on with MIT and all of the places. But whether you had a diploma from MIT or any of the great schools, or whether you didn’t have a high school diploma, we had the best numbers in every single category that we’ve ever had. And we’re going to bring it back there and we’re going to bring it back fast. It’s going to happen very quickly.
(24:42)
The lowest poverty rates, record-high incomes, all of these things that we had. We increased the typical American family’s take-home pay by an astounding record setting $6,000 a year, and they lowered it by $5,000 a year. Think of that. They lowered it, so you add those two, that’s a lot. I passed the largest tax cuts and regulation reforms in history. We did the largest regulation cuts in history. We did the biggest tax cuts by far in history, and they’re coming due fairly soon, and the Democrats don’t want to do it. That would give you the largest tax hike in the history of our country. Congratulations. Nobody cares about that, do you? Do you mind paying 50% more tax? Because, get used to it. If they win, and I don’t think they will, I don’t see how they can. How can you win when you have open borders, when you have high interest rates, when you can’t get a house anymore, you can’t buy a house, your education stinks, everything’s woke? That’s all they talk about.
(25:44)
They go after their political opponents with the DOJ and the FBI. That’s me. They go after me. I got so many court cases. I’ve been indicted more than Alphonse Capone. You know who Alphonse… Greatest gangster of all time. He was the number one of all time, Scarface. Did anybody ever hear, he was a lovely man. If he had dinner, if he took you out to dinner, had dinner with you, and he didn’t like the tone of your voice, you were killed. You were guaranteed. I got indicted more than he did, sir. But they’re bullshit indictments, I’ll tell you. You know what I call them? They’re Biden indictments. No, they’ve weaponized the DOJ. They go after their political opponent. Now, in this particular case, it didn’t work out so well.
(26:29)
So, our polls are at record numbers. Like last night, we won. In the history of Iowa, nobody’s ever come close to getting the kind of numbers I got. If I didn’t get indicted all these times, and if they didn’t unfairly go after, I would’ve won, but it would’ve been much closer, I tell you. I don’t know if I would’ve made the trade. I might’ve just liked the position we’re in right now, and we’re doing very well on that score. Did you see Fani? Fani from Atlanta? She paid her boyfriend, a lawyer who had no experience as a lawyer and no experience doing what, almost a million dollars. And then, they decided to go on beautiful Norwegian cruise lines, trips all over the place. He was a very generous person with our money. And he was the guy coming after me. Can you believe it? And they’re all, every one of these people, these are corrupt people. These are corrupt.
(27:21)
And you know what? Forget about me. They indicted 18 fine people. 18 people like you. In some cases, elderly. They signed a slate, just like Thomas Jefferson did slates. They got slates, just like they did to me in 2016. They wanted a slate for Alabama that I won by 45 points. They said, “Maybe he didn’t win Alabama,” but I won by 45 points. They could have picked something that was a little bit closer, but they go after people and they want to destroy people, and they’re evil. And we’re putting an end to it and we’re putting an end to it fast, because you can’t have that happen. You can’t have that happen in this
Donald Trump (28:00):
… this country. And most importantly, under Joe Biden, our country is dying. I mean, our country’s in serious trouble. And I stand before you today as the only candidate who is up to the task of saving America from every single Biden disaster, and they’re only disasters. What has he done good? I mean, think of it. You had no inflation, you had nothing. Israel would’ve never been attacked, Ukraine would’ve never been attacked. I know Putin very well, there was no way he was going to do it. One of the reasons he did it is he, Biden, drove oil prices up so high, makes his money with oil. He was making a fortune, he had plenty of money to prosecute it. But even without that, because ours was much lower. We had a $1.87. Does that sound good? $1.87.
(28:52)
But they would’ve never done it. Israel would’ve never happened. You see what’s going on with Taiwan, China wants to go in there. He would’ve never done it, President Xi of China. Strong man. He would’ve never ever done it, just watch. As soon as it becomes clear or an election night that we’ve defeated crooked Joe Biden, you’ll see your 401K soar, and you already see it. Every time we have a good poll or every time we have a night like we did last night… Was that exciting, by the way? That was so beautiful. That was so beautiful.
(29:26)
By the way, you think you have cold weather out tonight? That was 40 degrees below zero. I said, “Don’t worry about it, we’re in a car.” Oh, really? If you had to walk like 15 feet from the car to the door, it was a very, very troubling experience. Your net worth will skyrocket as soon as we come in or as soon as it’s known that we came in. Last time when we won the election, everything went up, and they got the credit for it. They said, “No, you have to go from the election. Don’t go from January 20th.” But everything went up except the gasoline. The gasoline went down. We brought energy down to a level that you haven’t seen in many years.
(30:07)
And in New England overall, but New Hampshire in particular, you have the highest energy prices anywhere in the United States. I hope you know that, right? We’re going to bring your energy prices down in half. We’re going to bring them down in half. And it would be nice if your governor would help because that’s something he could do. It would be nice if he would help.
(30:35)
You do know he ran for president? He just didn’t have the courage to say, “I’m running for president.” He was all over the place for months, running, running, running. And then after he got his highest number, about 2%, he decided to announce that he’s not running. But he didn’t announce that he’s running, he ran without announcement. And honestly, that’s not the way to do it. That’s not the way. But you have the highest energy prices, this area, in the entire country. We’re going to cut your energy by at least half and it’ll be done in the first year, you watch. First year.
(31:08)
The next Trump economic boom will begin on November 5th, 2024. That will be an economic boom. And the only thing that they have now is a stock market that’s going up, and it’s only going up because people think we’re going to win the election. I don’t know if you saw yesterday, I felt very badly for them. China had a crash yesterday in their stock market. You know why? Because I won Iowa. It’s true, it crashed. So when people say, “Oh.” I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. And literally, as soon as those numbers started coming in yesterday, they had a crash, one of the worst numbers that they’ve had in years.
(31:52)
But what that’s telling you, and I’m not knocking them because I get along great with President Xi and I love China. I love everybody, but they can’t take advantage of us. But it tells you better than anybody with the words and all the words and talk. That tells you what it’s about. If I get in, they know it’s not going to be so good for them. And we want it to be good for us because for years they’ve taken advantage of us. They’ve taken big advantage. But during my four years, it was a whole different thing. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars. I actually took in 28. We have some farmers here, but I just left a place, we got a lot of farmers, and that’s one of the reasons I won.
(32:31)
In fact, my people said, “Sir, don’t be so confident about Iowa, please. It doesn’t sound good.” I said, “I got them $28 billion dollars from the farmers from China. Of course, I’m going to be confident.” I went into rooms. I said, “There’s no way you’re voting against. I got you 28.” I said, “You think Biden, when he’s sleeping, he’s turning and twisting and sweating in bed thinking about how to get his farmers taken care of? He just goes out like a light. Me, I twist and turn thinking about how we’re going to make our country rich as hell again.”
(33:10)
It’s actually true. Too bad, but it is true. Starting on day one of my new administration, I will quickly end Joe Biden’s inflation catastrophe by stopping his wasteful spending, terminating his Green New Scam. It’s a Green New Scam, it’s not a Green New Deal. It’s called the Green New Scam. And tapping the liquid gold. So we have more wealth under our feet than any other country, but we don’t use it. We’re now getting oil. It’s not even oil, it’s tar. We’ll drill baby drillers, right? It’s tar from Venezuela. We get tar from Venezuela. You know where we refine it? In Houston, Texas.
(33:51)
And so if you’re a believer in everything spewing, and I believe that, we all believe that. But if you’re a believer, we are refining. It’s the only refinery that can do the Venezuelan tar because it’s a lot of tar. We have light, sweet crude, we have the best oil, we have the most oil, and we don’t use it. And by the way, you could use a little because when we turn on the tap, you are actually going to go down at numbers that you’ve never seen before. And you started seeing that three years ago. You were at a low number. Now you’re at a number that’s very, very embarrassing for this country to have, but you are the worst of all. You’re the highest energy in the whole country.
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So you can’t vote for the Democrats and you can’t vote for DeSanctimonius, but he’s only at 4% or 5%. What the hell happened to him, by the way? Man, did he go down. Ron DeSanctimonius, did he go down like a rock? I don’t even want to talk about him because I don’t want to waste it. I do want to talk about Nikki, because this perception that she’s gone up. But I worked with her for a long time, and she was okay. Not great. She was not great. She’s not tough enough to deal with these people, I will tell you that. She’s not tough enough.
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While Joe Biden is pushing the largest tax hike in American history, he wants to quadruple your taxes, I will make the Trump tax cuts permanent and we will deliver more tax cuts, tax credits, regulation cuts for New Hampshire workers and family than any other. Just before COVID came in, we were going to drill like we’ve never drilled. And we were doing that. And we were in fourth place, then we were in third, second, first. And if you look at a chart, you’ll see Saudi Arabia, you’ll see Russia a little bit below that. You’ll see a couple of others sneak in. I mean, they’re pretty good. But all of a sudden you look at this chart where we’re like this, like oi. And then I get in and it goes.
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We were doing much more than they were doing. But when I left, which was ridiculous, that we had to leave, but we had to leave. We have to follow the laws of our land. But what a… Isn’t it amazing? They don’t investigate the people that cheated in the election. They investigate the people that understand they cheated, and go after them. But they don’t investigate the people that cheated like hell. We have to have fair and free elections. We have to.
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Nikki Haley supported a brutal 23% national sales tax, which is a disaster by the way, why she did it. And that’s why some people call her the Nikki New Tax. I don’t think that’s particularly good. But she did support. She wants a 23% national sales tax. And Ron DeSantis wants that also, he wants it to be 23. I think that makes them unelectable. I think if you have a 23% tax like that, I think it makes them unelectable. And there’s other reasons they’re unelectable, but I can tell you, the greatest people in the world at misinformation and disinformation are the radical-left crazy Democrats. If they think they’re going to have an easy time with somebody, they’ll say, “No, we don’t want to run against them. They’re so good.” If they think they’re going to get their ass kicked by somebody, they say, “That’s the one we want to run against, Trump. We want to run again.”
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How did they do the last two times? It was not good for them. So we’re going to take this country, we’re going to turn it around. We’re going to make it better than ever before, greater than ever before. The radical Democrats are looking to literally destroy our country. And sometimes you wonder, think of it, open borders. People coming in from prisons, from jails, there’s a slight difference. Do you know what the difference between a prison and a jail is? Not enough to talk about, let’s put it this way. Not enough to talk about. But they’re coming in from prisons and jails. They’re coming in from mental institutions and insane asylums. Insane asylum, that’s a step beyond. That’s Silence of the Lambs. That’s Hannibal Lecter. Did you ever hear of Hannibal Lecter? They’re being dropped into our country. Hannibal Lecter is coming in, lots of them.
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They’re closing up in insane asylums all over the world, not just in South America. They’re closing them up all over the world. In Africa, in Asia, in Europe, in the Middle East. We’re bombing Yemen. We have a guy who’s in charge of our war, I read about it today. He’s using a laptop from his hospital bed, they couldn’t find him, Secretary of Defense. And he’s running the war with a laptop like a child would do, like a child plays with a laptop. And these are the same people that ran Afghanistan into the ground. I was taking everybody out of Afghanistan, but we’re doing it with strength and we’re doing it with dignity. We were coming out. And they were afraid of us and they weren’t doing anything. I spoke to Abdul. You know Abdul? The leader of the Taliban. And we had a rough conversation.
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And after that conversation, not one American soldier was killed for 18 months. And then you had that disaster by Biden where they took the military out first. No, you take the military out last. You get your people out first. You get your equipment out, and then you come out. But they took the military out first. We have those same people telling us about wars in the Middle East. You don’t need wars, because we built the strongest military in the world, we defeated, as you know, ISIS, 100% of the caliphate. Soleimani gone, al-Baghdadi gone, all of the big terrorists gone. We created a safe nation. We didn’t have one terrorist attack in four years. I never said that during my four years because I say I don’t want to have it and then the next day we have an attack. But we didn’t have one terrorist attack. Iran was broke.
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I told China, I told all of the countries, anybody that does business with Iran buying oil, because they are really the purveyor of cash, but the purveyor of terror, they would give billions and billions of dollars out to Hamas, to Hezbollah. Billions and billions. I say, anybody that does business with Iran, you’re not doing business with the United States. Plus, we’re going to put a tariff of 100% on all your goods that you send in. And everybody, including China, said, “Well, I guess we’re not doing business with them.” And they were broke. A congressman, well-known Democrat congressman two weeks ago was on, I believe it was Deface the Nation. Did anybody ever hear of Deface? Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump on Deface the Nation. It is Deface the Nation. Because they’re dishonest, so they deface the nation. And or Meet the Fake Press. But they were on Deface the Nation, and he said, “Whether we like it or not, Iran was broke. They were broke,” he used that term.
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Under the Trump administration, they couldn’t do anything. They had no money, they had to survive. And we would’ve made it possible for them, all I wanted them to do is not have a nuclear weapon. Now they’re 38 days away from having a nuclear weapon, and these guys don’t know what to do because they’re incompetent. Our leaders are incompetent, they’re incompetent fools. They’re 38 days away, they say, from having a nuclear weapon. Once they have a nuclear weapon, negotiation is going to be a whole different thing. I was able to do a great job with Kim Jong Un. You might’ve heard of him. I used to call him Little Rocketman, but he became somebody that we actually got along with very well. He’d love to see me back, we had a very good relationship. When the press hears I have a relationship with Kim Jong Un or any of them, they say, “That’s terrible.” No, it’s not terrible, it’s called smart. You have a relationship.
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You would’ve had a nuclear war if Hillary Clinton got in. You would’ve had a nuclear war if Hillary Clinton got in. But we’re going to turn it around, we’re going to turn it around fast. You don’t have to get into these wars. Look at what’s happened in Ukraine. Place has been decimated. Many more people are killed than you read about. They’ll knock down an apartment, and you see the size of those buildings? They’re long, they’re like three blocks long. They’ll knock
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Knock it down, they’ll say, two people were injured slightly. No, no many people were killed. The real numbers will come out and you’re going to see many more people are killed in Ukraine than anybody thought even possible. The numbers are massive and the cities are just being flattened. They’re being leveled, buildings. It’s their culture. The magnificent golden towers going up that are a thousand years old, and all this stuff is just being leveled to the… It’s so sad to see. This never would’ve happened if I were the president and everybody knows it and it didn’t happen. People say, “Well, how do we know?” Well, it didn’t happen for four years. It didn’t happen. And Putin and I got along very well. It would’ve never, ever happened. I talked about it. I was the apple of his eye. There’s no question about it. I said, “Don’t do it, Vladimir. Don’t do it.”
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We had some good talks, I will tell you, but he wouldn’t have done it. And likewise, they would’ve never done the attack on Israel because they didn’t have the money to do it, and they knew that there would’ve been a very big attack back and it would’ve never happened. October 7th, what they did was unthinkable, so horrible. But it would’ve never happened. All of these things would’ve never happened. Inflation would’ve never happened because oil caused inflation. Energy caused inflation. Energy is so big. If you make donuts, you need it for the stoves, for the trucks, you need it to distribute. Every business is not a business that doesn’t need energy, and most of the energy is oil.
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And what they did with the oil was so bad, it just so bad, and that caused the inflation. Now, you look at the price as an example of bacon up five times. What does five times mean? I looked at it the other day, but our food prices are up 45 and 50%. Our energy’s up 50%. Everything’s up to a level that even if you are doing well, you’re losing. You’re way, way behind the eight-ball. Well, we’re going to all bring it back for you. It’s not going to be complicated and it’s going to go very fast. So I’m the only candidate who can withstand the vicious media smear machine. It’s a vicious group of people back there. And the dirty tricks that the Democrats have in store, because remember if I wasn’t running, they’ll do the same thing to whoever it is that is running, and you watch their wilt like little babies, they get a wilt, like a beautiful rose. You watch, there’s nobody else could take this crap. I want to tell you. There’s nobody else could take it.
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Just think of the field day crooked Joe Biden and his media protectors would have, and they are protectors, they protect him. You see things that are so bad. I mean, he can’t walk off a stage. He’s looking for the stairs. Where am I? Where am I? Where am I? This guy’s negotiating nuclear with Putin. Where am I? You ever see they… The Secret Service by the way, is great. They run up at the stage to grab him. Because they’re afraid he’s going to fall off the front of this. No, there’s stairs all over. We got three of them here, one there, one there, one there, right? And he doesn’t know that. And his speeches are not exactly good. They’re very short because you run out of octane. You run out. You ever notice, he starts off, “All right, MAGA. MAGA, MAGA, [inaudible 00:45:30].” By the end of the speech he’s like, oh. They say get him off the stage. He needs [inaudible 00:45:37]. Whatever happened to the cocaine? Whatever happened to whatever the hell it was that they had in the White House, a couple of them.
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That was a strange event. No, we laughed at all over the world. We’re laughed at. Look, I know the leaders of the world. I know them very well. Got along with most of them. The tougher they were, the better I got along. I don’t know what that is. That’s maybe something a little sad. But I got along with the toughest ones. Maybe that’s the best thing. But the ones that were weak and ineffective, I didn’t actually get along with them as well, but they understood. But when you look at what we have here, can you imagine what they think when this guy walks into their office and he can’t put two sentences together, and these guys are at the top of their game. They’re all at the top of their game. And we have a guy that 30 years ago really wasn’t very good, but now he’s really bad.
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Now he’s really bad. Just ask Ted Kennedy. Good old Ted Kennedy told me a long time ago, I was friends with him in Palm Beach. I said, “Ted, let me ask you a question. Who’s the smartest guy in the Senate?” And he gave me an answer, “I won’t tell you who it was because I can’t stand the guy.” Okay? I said, “Who’s the dumbest?” Yeah, I got along with him because I did him a big favor. And Palm Beach had a house, the Kennedy compound, a very rich family in Palm Beach. And I did him something that was a very nice favor, very, very nice. And for some reason he never forgot it. He liked it. I liked him. He was slightly left of me, like by about 200 degrees, but he was a great guy, an entertaining guy. I said, “So who’s the dumbest? Who’s the dumbest guy in the Senate?”
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And he goes like, “Probably Joe.” I said, “Who’s Joe?” He said, “Joe Biden. He doesn’t understand anything that’s complex like taxes.” Although he does understand, if you think about it, he does understand something about finance because a lot of money pours into his account. But he said, “Probably Joe.” And I always remember that that was a long time ago, 20, 25 years ago, long prior to his death actually. But he said, “Probably Joe.” Who’s Joe? Joe Biden. So this is what we have. And now he’s our president and now he’s our president at a reduced level, okay? At a reduced level. We’re dealing with the most complex and most powerful weapons in the world. And we have a man that has no idea what he’s doing. And you’ll end up in World War III. I’m the only one that can promise you that we will not end up in World War III. There’s not going to be World Wars. Not with me. There’s not going to be World Wars. And we do that through strength, not through…
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So what I want to do is I want to just tell you it’s very simple. We have to get out. We have to take back our country. We have a country that’s in such bad shape. We have to take it back. Nikki Haley is a disaster. She worked for me for a long time. I mean, I know it very well. I actually put her there for a different reason. I shouldn’t say this, but you had a lieutenant governor named Henry McMaster who was fantastic. I figured if I took her out of South Carolina governorship, put her someplace, any place. I put her someplace. Then Henry McMaster, who was my friend and who’s turned out to be a great governor in South Carolina, Henry McMaster would become the governor. So I moved her to the United Nations. And honestly, she was not a good negotiator. She was not a good negotiator. Now she likes to talk about when I negotiated with China… I negotiated with China. I did all of it. We got in hundreds of billions of dollars and I did it. And she has a hit on social security. She wants to raise the age very substantially. You don’t need that. We don’t want to do that. And we have that liquid gold. We don’t have to do that to our seniors. You earned it. You’re right. Who said that? That’s a good point. You earned it. You did earn it, and you don’t need that. And the same thing with Medicare. They want to obliterate it. We’re not going to do that. So I say this, get out and vote and make sure we win by big margins. The bigger the margin, the bigger the mandate that we have, the stronger we’re going to be. And I mean strong, not just for the next state, because the next state is Nevada and we’re leading by 90 points.
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So I mean, unless you had a catastrophic event, I think that’s in good shape. And then we go to South Carolina. We’re leading and then we’re leading by everything everywhere you go. But I’m talking about November. We have to win. Let’s send the word to the other side. They’re very destructive. Remember this, and I say it all the time. If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of our country, they will not have done the damage that crooked Joe Biden and this corrupt administration have done to the United States of America. So we want to send a strong signal. So even though we’re leading by a lot, you have to go out and vote. You just have to do it. If it’s cold, if it’s hot, I don’t care what the hell it is, you have to go out and vote, okay? And just don’t sit back.
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The one thing, and they really did it in every speech I started off by saying, “Look, we’re leading by a lot, but you must go out and vote. Don’t sit home and say, well, you know what? I love the president, but he’s going to win by so much.” Because we have to show big margins. We have to show margins like never before, which is what happened last night. We have to show margins like never before because we have to take back our country. And if we don’t take back our country, we’re not going to have a country. I love your state. There’s never been a better president for your state.
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Your businesses were thriving. And frankly, anything they have right now and it’s not very good, is running on the fumes of what I did, what my administration did, but what I did. So we’re going to get your gas prices down. We’re going to get your taxes down and extended. If they let the Trump’s tax cuts, the biggest in history, if they let that float and go back, your taxes are going to quadruple. It’s going to quadruple. We can’t let it happen. So we have to win in November. But let’s just start with your vote next week. Tuesday you have to go out, you have to vote, and you have to give us those margins.
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And I want to thank you though because I said at the beginning, remember that in 2016, I came here and you gave me a vote of confidence like nobody could have ever given anybody. We won by massive numbers. And it was an amazing thing. It was a great vote of confidence. And don’t forget, I never did this stuff before, right? Now I did it. I know everybody. I know the weak ones, the stupid ones, the brilliant ones. I know them all. I know the best ones. I went there. I said, “How’s this guy, had to rely on rhinos to give me advice. I don’t like that kind of advice.” And we had great people. Look, we rebuilt our military. Think of all the things we did even right to try, you know medical. So for years and years, they wanted to get right to try what’s called right to try, meaning to try a medicine or a cure for a disease.
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The problem was nobody wanted it. The country didn’t want it because of liability. Doctors didn’t want it. The insurance companies didn’t want it and the pharmaceutical companies. But we have the best labs in the world and people are dying. And we thought that maybe we’ll do something and they’d come to me and say, we can’t do it because if we do it and if they get injured because of the medicine or whatever it is that they’re going to be doing or taking, we’ll have a liability. I said, these people are terminally ill. They’re not going to get injured. They’re dying. They’re going to be dead in a fairly short period of time. They will sign something. And I got everybody in a room. I did it. I got everybody in a room, and I got the insurance companies. We got everybody with the insurance companies and the labs.
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I said, we’re not going to count it on your numbers or a separate set. They didn’t want to take people that were terminally ill because they didn’t want the counting. It doesn’t make their product look good. I said, “But look at it a different way. Think of it works. Then you’re going to save all these people.” And that’s what happened. And so we have saved thousands and thousands of lives with right to try and that had to get passed by Congress. We had to get that through Congress. So I just want to say we love you. I’ll be back here for a lot because we want to win this. We want to win this state. We want to win this sate. And now I’m going to go out and brave that cold weather and I’m going to get back to that airplane. And then I’m going to go back to New York tonight.
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And then I’m going to go to one of these phony cases tonight where we have tomorrow morning, early, nice and early. You know what I do? Here’s my schedule for the next four or five days. I come here, I meet with great groups in New Hampshire. I then get on a plane late at night when it’s snowing and freezing out, wonderful. And the pilots say, “Sir, it’s going to be tough.” And I get there early in the morning. I go to a Biden witch hunt, and then I come here in the afternoon and I stop and we make speeches and we get your votes and all that stuff. But nobody’s ever had to do this before.
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These people are disgraceful. They’re a disgrace to our country. I want to just leave this. We are going to win on Tuesday at a level that maybe could even be bigger than what we just did last night in Iowa. And the greatest expression of all time, I think the greatest slogan, whatever you want to call it, it’s called Make America Great Again. It’s called MAGA. It’s the greatest of all time. We are going to put America first and we are going to make America great again. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much everybody.