Transcription
And you're crooked and Meet the Press is crooked and so is ABC and CBS and CNN. Well, Mr. President, your one-sided crooked network. So, let's call it quits cuz I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.
Mr. President, let's please. I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. I've sat in the rain with you. I know the rain for an hour on and off in the rain. And I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest.
He traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview. Donald Trump lost his temper, abruptly ended an interview with NBC's Meet the Press and its host Kristen Welker. Flipped out, stepped on the microphone, and walked off all because she fact checked him about his lies about the 2020 election and other things. And we have to talk about this. But before we do, if you end up liking this video and you want to support the channel, please be sure to hit the like, subscribe, and alert bells before you go.
All right, folks. As Mediite reports, "Could I've had enough. Trump storms out of Meet the Press interview in wild fashion, explodes on NBC's Kristen Welker after she hits him with fact checks." Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact checked his claims on a variety of topics including the January 6th insurrection, his so-called anti-weaponization fund and election fraud. The heated 6-minute final block of the interview began with Welker pressing Trump on the $1.8 billion slush fund.
And with that in mind, we're going to talk about multiple things in this interview in subsequent videos. I really want to focus on the six-minute interval that really pushed Trump to just lose his mind. He got so triggered that he flipped out, dropped the microphone, stepped on the microphone, and abruptly ended the interview. And then we'll talk about other things they covered in subsequent videos. But courtesy of Aaron Rupar, here is the 6 minutes and 40 seconds that caused Trump to get so triggered and leave.
"8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. It was going to compensate people who say the federal government weaponized the legal system against them. It's been blocked by the courts, met with opposition from Republicans and Democrats in Congress and Democrats."
"Excuse me. Mostly Democrats."
"Mostly Democrats and some Republicans."
"Very few Republicans. Just to be very clear, are you backing off the fund completely as your acting attorney general Todd Blanch has said, or are you looking for another avenue to revive?"
"So, let me explain what the fund is. People have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe. They're vicious. They're violent. What they did to people and of course they went after me more than anybody else. They raided Mara Lago and all the other things. But people have been badly hurt. They've committed suicide. They've lost their jobs. They've lost their families. They've lost their wives. They've lost everything. They've lost everything over a fake weaponization of government."
"So, let's stop right there. Again, remember Trump sued the IRS, his own federal government in his private capacity as a citizen, and then forced his federal government to settle. Originally, the plan was the federal government would pay Trump $10 billion taxpayer dollars, your taxpayer dollars to him and his family. And once the political consequences and the potential legal consequences became too apparent because a federal judge said this seems kind of sus, instead what they decided was, 'Okay, I'll drop the lawsuit and in exchange we create a $1.8 billion taxpayer funded slush fund that I can dole out to my MAGA allies, including violent January 6 insurrectionists.' The other thing to remember is that as part of this deal, the IRS creates a blanket tax liability shield for Trump, his family, and his businesses. So, they can't be audited, investigated, or prosecuted. It's disgusting and despicable. But let's continue."
"Looking for a way to revive it?"
"Well, it's Look, it was up to me. I'd pay them the kind of money that they deserve. People have been destroyed."
"It is. I mean, you're a billionaire. You've made between $1.5 and $6 billion dollars according to some estimates off the presidency in this past year alone. So you have the scratch at your own disposal to compensate these fanatics if you really felt that way. But understand Trump doesn't actually give a damn about January 6 insurrectionists. He was the one who lied to them in the first place and set them loose on the capital and didn't pardon him or pardon them on his way out the door. Right? He let them languish in jail and suffer the consequences of their actions and his lies. He doesn't give a damn about them. He's virtue signaling and he's trying to create an incentive structure that will reward bad behavior in the future. He has no personal regard for the January 6th insurrectionists. Quite frankly, he shouldn't because again they're violent thugs. But understand when people say, 'Well, look, wow, he's just looking out for the little guy. He's looking out for his own supporters.' No, if that were true, he would pay them out of his own pocket. He could afford to."
"Lives have been destroyed. Many suicides. Think of it. People have committed suicide because a bunch of thugs went after them. So, me personally, I think the weaponization fund is a great idea and so do many other Republicans."
"You have to get it approved. If they get it approved, that's great. If they don't get it approved, I'd be disappointed."
"All right, we're going to motor us through."
"So, the noise you hear in the background, by the way, is rain. And we'll talk about in subsequent interview, Trump is easily distracted by the rain. And he's like a child, somebody dangling car keys in front of him. He's just pawing at it, right? Because he has no attention span. Sure seems like Trump is interested in resurrecting this $1.8 billion taxpayer funded slush fund, which is why it was so important for Senate Republicans to get on board with the Democrats and kill this thing legislatively. And at the 11th hour, they refused to do so. And every Republican like Susan Collins running for reelection should be forced to address that fact. Their Democratic opponent should make them suffer political consequences for not trying to kill this fund when they had the chance."
"This um"
"But you have to understand people have have been destroyed by crooked politicians and they should be reimbursed for that."
"Do you think anyone who attacked police officers on January 6 should get taxpayer money?"
"I wouldn't be inclined to say so, but I have to see it. I can tell you this. 97% of those people you look at them."
"So again, he's not ruling it out. He knows how bad it looks. He knows how bad it looks to say that people who violently assaulted cops on January 6 are eligible to receive taxpayer funds as a as a remuneration. But even there, he won't rule it out. Notice he could have said, 'Of course not, Kristen. Hell no. Absolutely not. Let me put that to bed right now.' And he doesn't. I wouldn't be inclined to say so, but I have to take a look at it. The FBI or whoever it was because you had a lot of crooked cops. You had dirty cops. Comey was a dirty cop. A guy like Bolton was a dirty cop."
"There's no evidence."
"Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Oh, you think Comey was a straight people who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers."
"Comey was a dirty cop. They had FBI assaulted. Listen to me."
"James Comey was the FBI director at the beginning of Trump's first term. He was fired long before January 6 ever happened. He years and years before. So again, Trump is senile, losing track of time. Number one, even if you thought James Comey was crooked, James Comey was fired by Trump years before January 6. Number one. Number two, Kristen Welker is pointing out it's not just that hundreds of violent January 6 insurrectionists were found guilty. Hundreds pled guilty. They admitted to beating the out of cops. So, you have no point here."
"They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI go into the building. Those people walking around, they're looking, oh, isn't this that? They weren't in. They were being ushered into the building."
"There's no evidence of that."
"You had a bunch of dirty cops and frankly what they did was weaponization of our government."
"Sir, there's there's no evidence of that. More than a thousand people. No, there's none. You know what you do? Try looking at the tapes one time."
"Would you take it home?"
"Look at the tapes one time."
"But 172 people did plead guilty to assaulting police officers."
"You know why they plead guilty? Because they told they were going to jail for 15 years. If they didn't."
"They plead guilty because they were frightened. They went down. They were ushered into a building. Many of them were arrested without even going into the building."
"Are you okay with them receiving taxpayer dollars?"
"The people were destroyed by dirty cops and by weaponization. Many of those people should be compensated. Now, with that being said, the, as I understand it, the weaponization fund was going to set up a group of people, uh, people."
"Again, folks, he can't rule it out. He won't rule it would, look, you could say the most absurd um, easily fact-checked, debunked lies about January 6, as he often does, and still say yes, those who actually attacked police, those who committed acts of violence, of course, will never receive a single cent from the federal government. But he won't say it, which is why you should not trust him, Todd Blanch, or the Republican party. None of them will rule it out."
"It could be picked by anybody, fair people, smart people, and they will go on an individual case basis."
"Okay."
"Now, I don't know what's going to happen with the weaponization fund. I love the idea because people like you, the fake dirty press, the crooked press, people like stupid Biden, he's not smart enough to know what's going on, but people that surrounded him, surrounded his beautiful resolute desk in the Oval Office, what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong."
"All right. Just just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying, but listen to me. Listen to me."
"There's tremendous evidence. There's nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. It was a dirty election and it's happening again right now in California."
"Presented evidence happening right now in California. Right."
"Beautiful. Again, kudos to Kristen Welker for doing this because unfortunately in the second Trump administration, too many people have just let Trump skate on this and not fact-check him. They're like, 'Ah, just let it go.' No, it's important."
"Now. It's Look, look at what's happening to that."
"It's doing well in California."
"In California, it's they're not they're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even close to coming up. You know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election."
"There's what? Do you have evidence to support?"
"All I have to do is look. All I have to do is look and I listen and I listen to people and let's see what happens."
"But sir, that's not evidence."
"Do you think it's a pro?"
"It is not evidence. That's the point. According to Trump and MAGA, cheating is whenever Democrats win elections. It just doesn't it doesn't matter. If they lose, they say Democrats are cheating. In their mind, Democrats cannot and never will win a fair and free election. By definition to MAGA, anytime a Democrat wins, it's a consequence of cheating. And that we can't have a system like this, folks. We can't have a system where the other side says, 'Oh, I lose. It must be because of cheating.' That just means that you will never accept an outcome or you don't win. We cannot have a system like this where one of two major political parties functions in this way."
"That's how they count the votes."
"Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later they're nowhere close to picking? Local officials acknowledge they are slow. They're urging No, they're crooked. They're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote."
"Crooked just like you're crooked. Your press is crooked. And Meet the Press is crooked."
"To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's"
"Well, you play right into their hands."
"You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with this. You know"
"That these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. You know that I won an election in a landslide and I got 94% bad press."
"But Mr. President, you know why I got presented? Because you have no credibility."
"But you've never presented evidence that it was rigged. Let's keep talking about I want to talk about Todd."
"You have more evidence. There's more evidence than ever presented."
"Your elections in this country, we're like a third world country. Your elections are crooked and you're crooked and Meet the Press is crooked and so is ABC and CBS and CNN. But Mr. President, your one-sided crooked network. So, let's call it quits cuz I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time."
"Mr. President, let's please. I traveled all the way to Wisconsin."
"I've sat in the rain with you. I know the rain for an hour on and off in the rain. And I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? Country can never be great with a dishonest."
"Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview."
"Pathetic. It truly is pathetic. He just can't handle being fact-checked in real time. And listen, Kristen Welker is a mixed bag because sometimes she lets things just skate right on by. This time she held his feet to the fire and grilled him. So kudos. This was an excellent performance by her. She was super humanly patient. Donald Trump is just fragile and dishonest and he can't handle any pushback. It's just also a sign of his rapidly deteriorating cognitive state and his understanding that there's quicksand beneath him politically speaking. But masterful performance. Trump crashed out. He just effectively fled the interview because he can't handle it. In the meantime, let me know what you think in the comments."