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There was a story, um, in the New York Times that I just, I, I find fascinating. Uh, Donald Trump, you know, is, uh, is casting suspicion on refugees, according to the New York Times. President Trump claims there are a lot of problems with Afghans without providing any evidence. I mean, does he have to provide the evidence on that? I mean, I think it's pretty darn clear, uh, that we're, we're having some real problems, especially this weekend. We have three people arrested. We had two people shot in Washington D.C. Then we had somebody in Dallas that, uh, was caught making bombs. Same thing, Afghani. And I thought there was a third one as well. I mean, you know, it's kind of, you know, it's kind of out there. Um, but, uh, nope. Nope.
Uh, and then they said he jumped right on the Somali thing, disparaging the Somali community. And, uh, well, okay. Okay. Well, uh, when a reporter pointed out that according to officials, the suspect had worked with the CIA, therefore it would have been vetted, Mr. Trump said he went nuts. I mean, he went nuts, blah, blah, blah. Jumping on the subject of the Somali refugees in Minnesota, he said, "The population was taking over that state, bringing gang violence." Asked what Somali had to do with the Afghan suspect, Mr. Trump said, "Nothing, but Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off of a lot of money." This led him to criticize Representative Ilhan Omar, blah, blah, blah. He then he, you know, then they go on and say, "Well, he just wants to deport everybody." No, no, no, that's not what he's saying. I mean, is it really that unreasonable to say we want to know who is here and if you're causing a problem, you shouldn't be here? I mean, I, I don't know why that is so controversial today. I guess maybe because nobody knows how to do it. You know, "Well, he's going to become a tyrant." Well, you don't have to become a tyrant to do that. I mean, that's, that's the biggest lie that, you know, to defeat a tyrant, you have to become the tyrant. That's, that's what happens in every revolution except for the American Revolution. And it's wrong, and it's always been wrong. But, you know, only America really has, you know, gotten that in the past. But if we fall into that trap again, you know, if we fall into that lie now, then, you know, an Islamist doesn't have to destroy our Constitution. They're, they're, we'll do it for them. We'll be done.
So, you want to defend the republic? What do you say we do it the American way? I mean, it's really not that hard. We have to defend ourselves, right? But do it constitutionally. And if we don't do it constitutionally, then isn't everything really, really hollow? If, if we do it, George Bush, I, I abandon the free market to save the free market. There's no free market. And we're seeing that now. Look how free our market is. Thank you, George Bush. You can't violate it to save it. It doesn't work that way. You know, there's some principles that you have to live by. And the first one is security begins with clarity. Clarity, not cruelty. The Constitution demands something from us. You have to distinguish between peaceful Muslims and political Islamists. We're a safe harbor for the persecuted, but we're not a staging ground for the persecutors. And that's what's happening. You persecuted have come in along with the persecutors. So the question is not how do we remove all these Muslims? That's bigotry. The question is how do we remove the Islamists? That's a political movement that rejects our Constitution, our laws, our civilization, everything else. You judge a person. This is, this is going to be crazy in today's world, not by their identity, but the content of their character, meaning their actions. This is the foundation of every constitutional tool we possess.
The next principle, we don't, we have the existing law. We don't need more laws to enforce it. Okay? We, we got them. We don't need new powers. We don't need new surveillance. You know, we don't need to shred the Bill of Rights. Everything we need already written, black and white on paper. Material support for terrorism, illegal affiliation with designated foreign extremist groups, illegal advocacy of political violence, not protected speech, immigration, visa fraud, felonies, foreign funding of domestic political movements, prohibited charity funds, money laundering, encrypted remittances. All of this stuff can be prosecuted. Calling for the overthrow of the Constitution. I don't know. Deportable if you're not a non-citizen. If you're a non-citizen. We don't, we don't need any new laws. We just need to watch the actions and go, "Yep, you out." We need courage of the people. And this is not going to happen in Minnesota. You need courage from the politicians who are in charge. Use the laws you already have.
The third principle is the First Amendment protects religion. Religion, not political tyranny masquerading as religion. The Constitution says, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or, uh, prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Beautiful, sacred, essential, except the same Constitution says no one has the right to impose religious law on others. No one has the right to incite violence. No one has the right to overthrow the republic. Islamism is not a religion. That's political using religious symbols. You know, if you want to say the Ku Klux Klan is Christian, you can go ahead and say it all you want. But Christians know the KKK is not Christian. Only non-Christians think that that's Christian. People who hate Christianity. The same thing with Islamism. If you're an Islamist, you're not a Muslim. And you know who knows that? Actual Muslims. First Amendment protects your right to worship. It doesn't protect your right to destroy the rights of others. And that distinction is constitutional gold. Why aren't we enforcing that? Why are we, why are we afraid to say that out loud? Why won't anybody say it to each other? Why are you afraid to say this?
How about this one? The fourth principle. Deportation is legal. Deportation is moral. Deportation is necessary as a tool. We are generous. Our, our record is very, very clear. There's never been a more generous, uh, country than the United States. But generosity is not suicide. If a non-citizen praises jihad, supports Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Islamic Jihad, advocates for Sharia law, lies on their immigration forms, I don't know, marries their brother, launders money to foreign terror groups, attends foreign funded mosque tied to extremist networks, rejects the Constitution, or publicly calls for violence. I don't know. I don't need a single new law. That person has forfeited the privilege of being a citizen and remaining here. It's not a punishment. It's not a punishment. That's self-defense. Why is it we won't stand up for our own way of life and our own children? Immigration is not a right. I know they're trying to make it that there are no borders. Yes, there are borders. There are. Citizenship is not a right. Constitutional order is a right, and that right we have to defend. Thank God we're already doing one of these things.
The fifth principle, we're looking at the money river. Damn the money rivers. No Islamist movement grows without Qatari funding, Turkish political machinery, Iranian Revolutionary Guard money, Muslim Brotherhood, NGO fronts, charity fraud, shadow remittances, crypto transfers. Cut the financing and you'll starve the beasts. This is not profiling. This is called forensic accounting. And this is exactly how we brought down the mafia, um, MS-13, the ISIS network, cartel pipelines. That's how you do it. You follow the money and the Constitution and everything seems to work out. But everybody is concentrating on force. Force. Force. He's going to use force. He's going to use force. Why? The strongest weapon we have is not force. It is the alliance that we have with everyone who fled here because they were getting away from the ideology. We're now saying we should fight the Muslim reformers, the Iranian dissident, the Yazidis, the Coptic Christians, the Lebanese Democrats, the Kurds, the moderate Muslims. These are the people that Islamists fear most because they expose the lie. They know they were there. When they stand beside us, and they're begging to, by the way, the entire narrative collapses. The word Islamophobia crumbles into dust. Really? You're calling them? Really, the moral high ground is ours again, constitutionally, spiritually, and historically. The Constitution is a shield. Why? Why do we refuse to use it? We should proudly use it as a shield. Take this one thought with you. We defend the Constitution not by weakening it, but by applying it fully, fearlessly, and without exception. That means you can't racial profile, no religious bans, no collective guilt, no compromise on freedom, no surrender of rights. But it also means this. No tolerance for political movements that seek to destroy the Constitution. No sanctuary for foreign funded Islamist networks or any other kind of foreign funded, uh, network that cares to take down the Constitution or destroy America. No free pass for those who advocate tyranny. No apology for defending our civilization. This is the balance that our founders struck. That was it. It seems so easy, but for some reason we find it so hard. We either stay American or we lose everything. I'm going to get to Venezuela here in a second because that's, that's what they're claiming right now. We're not being American. We're not following the Constitution. Well, I'd like some evidence of that. We, we either claim America and and use our Constitution or we lose everything. We don't defeat Islamism by becoming the mirror image of the thing we fight. We defeat it by being the thing that the Islamists fear the most. A nation of free individuals governed by laws, protected by rights, anchored in moral truths and the rights that come from God. We become a nation that is unafraid to defend itself. If you do that and you follow the Constitution with courage, then America will be what it always has been, a refuge for the oppressed, a graveyard for tyrannies, and the last best hope that a world desperately needs. Are we too timid? Are we too tired? The hour is late, and I'm telling you, it is, you're just seeing if you paid attention at all to the news this weekend, things are speeding up. I told you a few months ago, we've changed seasons. It's coming, and it's coming fast. What are you hanging on to? A political party? A politician? Anger? Vengeance? What? I'll hang on to God, and I'll hang on to the Constitution. That's the greatest document ever written by the hand of man. And it's calling on you right now to rise. Not as a mob, not as a tribe, but as Americans that know the difference between right and wrong, truth and fiction. And you'll stand, you'll stand up for it, not without any, without any hatred. I dismiss you. You, you're an Islamophobe. Really? Am I? Good for you. It's cute, but it doesn't work because all I'm asking is to follow the Constitution because I think this country is worth standing up for.