Can President Trump Bring Peace Through Strength to the Middle East?
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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare. A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran. This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec. Christ is king! I've been negotiating. I told them to do the deal. They should have done the deal.

The cities have been blown to pieces and lost a lot of people. They should have done the deal. I told them, do the deal. So I don't know. I'm not too much in a mood to negotiate now. JOHN YANG: President Trump is back in the United States this morning after leaving the G7 summit early, as tensions between Israel and Iran escalate. Multiple reports say Donald Trump ordered the National Security Council to be ready in the Situation Room when he landed.

He didn't give a specific reason for leaving Western Canada, but pushed back on French President Emmanuel Macron's suggestion that he was rushing home to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Iran. Trump posted on Truth Social that the reason was, quote, "much bigger than that." He then told reporters aboard Air Force One, "We are not looking for a cease-fire."

Before departing, he joined G7 leaders in a statement saying Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. Iranian state TV was live on air, the anchor sounding defiant when suddenly Israel bombed the building.

According to a new report, President Trump opposed a recent Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader. What you're watching in real time is peace through strength and America first. Our job is to be strong. We are postured defensively in the region to be strong in pursuit of a peace deal. And we certainly hope that's what happens here. And America first means we're going to defend American personnel and American interests.

This is going on because President Trump says there has been a breakdown in the negotiation process between the U.S. and Iran, between those negotiators, some of which we are now told, and President Trump himself alluded to this, were killed in some of those initial strikes by the Israelis on Friday. Folks, we're on a razor's edge. There are some people who are focused on the nuclear threat, mushroom clouds,

massive destabilization, escalation in the region. And there are others right now who are focused on what comes next in a regime change. Think about it. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Ukraine. What have those all led to? Well, those have all led to massive demographic replacement in Europe, massive upheaval throughout the entire region. In Afghanistan, for example, the Taliban are now back in charge

of the entire country, and they have our military equipment, $9 billion of which that we left there after 20 years of blood and treasure. And all the blood and treasure in Iraq, Benghazi happened in Libya, Syria, well, that's where ISIS broke out, and do I even need to go into what happened in Ukraine and continues to happen in Ukraine after the US pushed for regime change in 2014? These are serious times.

We don't want to see American boys coming home in caskets. We don't want to see any more of these decade-long insurgencies and a civil war in Iran. Who knows what would take power? But you've got the globalists and the neocons running around Fox News and everyone else telling you this is the smartest thing in the world to do regime change right now. No, President Trump is right. Focus on the nuclear threat only. Regime change only.

is something that would lead to the law of unintended consequences. We have to remember something. America's safety comes first. And folks, we've got, and there are maps of this out there somewhere, American troops in harm's way all across the Middle East. And more to come as the USS Nimitz with 5,000 souls on it steams closer and closer to Iran's missiles. We'll be right back, Human Events.

And to understand what America first truly means. Welcome to the second American revolution.

All right, Jack, we're so peculiar. We're back live, human events, daily Real America's Voice, the Salem News Network, Salem Radio. President Trump now convening, we're told that he's currently convening the National Security Council in the Situation Room to discuss potential strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. We're going to be giving you the breaking updates on all of that as this hour continues. Folks, do you ever notice how gold doesn't get much airtime until the system, of course, starts to shake?

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Qasem Rahim, what are you hearing about this National Security Council meeting? Is it ongoing? Do you know if a decision has been made back or forth regarding this strike on Iran's nuclear facilities?

Yeah, Jack, thanks for having me. I think that the public deserves the truth about everything that's going on in Washington, D.C. at the moment. And rather than a lot of what other people are doing out there, speculating, I think it should be made clear to people that the

People in government who are supposed to be out there making things clear to people about what's going on are currently just not talking a lot, right? And you would expect that at a time like this. Critical decisions are being made. People are under immense pressure, working very late hours. And so, sorry, say again? No, go ahead. You're fine. Oh, sorry. Okay.

Yeah, and it's hard to know at any given moment what exactly the thought process is. So you have to kind of play a game of, well, I hear it's not this, so then what about this? And you're sort of constantly chasing little nuggets of information to create a bigger picture of the conversations taking place inside. I've been doing that now for the last, I don't know, 48 hours, really talking to as many people as I can.

And as of last night, the conversations that were being had were not, hey, are we going to enter the war in the next 24 hours? But hey, are we going to let Israel use a bunker buster bomb to attack Iran's borders?

nuclear facilities? Are we going to allow them to assassinate the Ayatollah as the next step up in this? And as of last night, and as of this morning, the latest information I was getting was that they are still pursuing diplomatic ends. This is not a situation, as I hear it, that they are currently handing this over to the Pentagon and DOD. No, the conversation remains at the State Department and White House levels, and I expect it to do so for at least the next 12 hours.

And I just, I want to throw up as you go through that, Rahim, we've got a map prepared of all of sort of the U.S. assets in the region, as well as the Iranian assets. The Persian Gulf is a very small place. And I think a lot of people don't always realize that. And so just as you go and break this down, I want people to realize what we're talking about. And yes, we do currently have a lot of Americans that are within, easily within range of Iran's

response, whatever that retaliation may be. And I just want people to be aware of that as more assets are now being brought into the region, we're told the USS Nimitz, the carrier strike group. And of course, these US assets do certainly have the ability to defend themselves as well. Reem, please go ahead.

Yeah, look, Jack, somebody said to me last night that if this is a negotiating tactic or a bluff, that it is one of the most expensive ways to do it possible. Well, that may be true, but there's something that's even more costly at stake, and that's a full-blown war.

I was surprised when some data came out today from a snap poll conducted by a pollster that I highly recommend and highly rate, the Democracy Institute, run by a friend of mine, actually, Patrick Basham.

And his numbers showed that a majority, a significant majority of Americans oppose a full-blown war, including ground troops with Iran. But I was surprised by the number of people that said yes at the same time. One in three, or just over one in three, 35% of all Americans said

using this data, say that they would support such a thing. I thought that number would be more of around 10 to 15%, but it sort of shows you what we're up against as, you know, some people want to beat the war, beat the drum for war over the next 24 hours. You know, we may be closer in terms of public opinion, at least, than some people might think. And I'm not taking any glee in that. I think that's appalling. I think that is something that should be avoided at all costs.

But I don't want people to get reticent here and think that because President Trump's instincts are peaceful, that that hasn't led to bad decisions being made in the past. It has, and we need to oppose it again.

And so, Rahim, we're seeing these these truths and that from President Trump. And this, of course, play into, you know, sort of what you're saying that that this ratcheting up. We're seeing the U.S. air to air refuelers. The KC-135 is now headed from Europe over to the Middle East. We're seeing the USS Nimitz carrier strike groups are providing various options.

In a strike like this, people should expect to see, by the way, when you're talking about bunker busters, that's not something that a fighter can shoot off itself. You would need a B-2 bomber flying probably from Diego Garcia, which is in the Southern Indian Ocean, but certainly within range. And then you would have fighters providing escort for those bombers, which don't really have the ability to defend themselves. The same idea, that's how the carrier strike groups work. That's why an aircraft carrier is always traveling contingent with a couple of submarines.

cruisers and those arleigh burke destroyers as well to provide an air screen because an aircraft carrier by itself is essentially a sitting duck it's just a floating airport

But when the fighters go up, et cetera, et cetera, that's what provides the screen are the rest of those ships. And so, Rahim, these truths, unconditional surrender, implying that we know where the Ayatollah is, but we have not decided to kill him yet. We control the skies over Iran, Tehran. How should Americans looking at this and Trump supporters looking at this read all of the things that they're seeing right now?

Yeah, look, I would be lying to you if I said that I felt totally secure enough in President Trump's sort of peacenik creds that I didn't think there was any chance of this escalating further. The problem is this is still Washington, D.C. at the end of the day. And while the swamp has been somewhat neutered, it has not been completely drained. And that is

you know, a generational task, I think most people recognize at this point. You know, you have to know that there are really, really awful voices in the president's ear trying to push for full-blown war, right? I'm not talking about, you know, just a couple of B2s at this point. I mean, you know, we're talking boots on the ground, regime change, democracy building, all of that stuff. And I say, and I say especially,

to the generation after us. Jack, I hear from people all the time, young people all the time, about how they look up to you and how they've followed you for so long. And I have to tell your audience, especially of a younger age, this. You know, Jack, you and I lived through those forever wars, and they just ended, you know, about last year, in fact, or the year before, and with a terrible whimper at the organization of Joe Biden.

There is nothing worse you could do for the next 20 years of your life than support this drumbeat for war. Nothing could derail the world more. Nothing could derail your futures more than letting malign actors drive you into another foreign incursion. And so, Jack, I think... We're coming up on a break. Do you want to hang out? Do you want to finish that on the other end? I really do think people need to realize just what a disaster that would be.

We're coming up on a hard break. Do you want to do it? Can we hold you over? Can you finish that on the other end? Yeah, we can do it. All right. We're going to hold over Raheem Kassam, folks. He's coming back. A message to Gen Z, the generation that comes next. We'll be right back. Today, you know, they talk about influencers. These are influencers. And they're friends of mine, Jack Posobiec. Where's Jack? Jack? He's done a great job.

All right, Jack, what's up? We are back live, Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice, Salem Radio Network. I want to go back to Raheem Kassam, the editor-in-chief of the National Pulse. Raheem, you were, just before we cut, before the last break, you were giving a message to sort of the generation that comes after us, Gen Z, Gen Alpha. My kids are Gen Alpha. They watch pretty much every single thing that I do. They watch very, very closely. And to the generation that I've noticed, and, you know, Raheem, you're a

Something anecdotally, I just noticed my son got his yearbook, finished first grade. And in the back of the yearbook, there's some photos from Halloween and the kids got to dress up. And there were a group of kids who, it was four of them, and three of them dressed up as Secret Service agents and the fourth dressed up as Trump. And they went to school and they reenacted the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt. And it just became this huge moment. So

The youth are watching. They're watching all of this with rapt intention. And how could you not, right? But it is something that bears repeating and it bears us... It's incumbent upon us to understand this, that the generations that come after us, they're already here and they're already watching all of this. Yeah, they're already voting in... Look, I...

I know that most of Gen Z perceives millennials to be pretty cringe at this point. And there's lots and lots of things to agree, I agree with them on in that regard. But they have to listen to us on this one thing. Because I think, you know, pretty much what happened in our youths, you know,

was pretty cringe, right? I mean, that's a mild way of putting it. Because what it did in failing to effectively oppose 20 years of war somewhere, which, you know, pretty much we received nothing in the grand scheme of things at the end of it all for.

negative on everything. The things that you have to consider, though, are not just like, okay, yeah, war is a generally bad thing, duh. But it's, okay, you're now going to get another migrant crisis. That is what happens next. You get inundated with more refugees and asylum seekers. You get, you know,

another decade's worth of deficits being run and higher taxes. You get higher gas prices and oil prices. You get higher shipping prices. And these are not things that happen, apply across the board, but these things especially have knock-on effects and knock-on effects and knock-on effects. And actually, you know, I would argue that between, you know, the 2008 crisis, 9 and 11, our youths, not that I'm complaining that we were particularly...

impoverished, but the things that could have been achieved in that period of time really never quite were as a result of all that global tumult. And if you're growing up and you're just kind of a voting age now, you don't actually have that much of an idea of that period of time, unless you've done your own research. But it's not particularly well documented yet.

And so I think this is the moment in time that we start doing that, right, and start talking about that, the stuff, the opportunity cost of the stuff that was stolen from one generation to fuel these pointless wars. And that is not to say, by the way, and amongst all of that, that anybody on our side believes that the Ayatollahs should have a nuclear weapon.

But it is to say that we believe that in diplomacy and prolonging diplomacy until every single, every single element of that is exhausted. And I just do not think we are there yet. I don't even think we are close to being there yet.

Right. We are the same thing. Oh, so you want Saddam Hussein to have weapons of mass destruction. So you want the Taliban to be in charge of Afghanistan. So you want, you know, you want this, you want this, you want this. Endless. It is endless. And it's the exact same refrain in many cases from the exact same people. And what we're saying is we don't want

American boots on the ground, American bodies coming home in flag-draped caskets again. Many of these pressures, by the way, are what led to the rise of Donald Trump and MAGA in the first place. We just passed the 10-year anniversary of that yesterday. And so what we're talking about is try to think beyond step one, because we have a lot of recent history here to tell us that these things don't go the way that we think they will. Oh, by the way, like you

Ukraine is another great example after we overthrew the government there. Rahim, I know you've got to run. Give people your coordinates. I know you'll be putting stuff up 24-7. Yeah, thenationalpulse.com. Thank you for having me, Jack. And I just want to say this. I know you have too. I've lost friends to those wars.

And, you know, people need to really consider that this isn't just about a week's worth of bombing. It's exactly what you said. People forget the frequency of how often we were seeing those flag-draped coffins coming back from overseas and how many of them would come back at a time. And by God, you want to avoid another two decades of that. Thank you.

No, I couldn't agree more with that. That is not the path forward. President Trump can find a way to thread this needle. I trust that he will. Jack Posobiec, right back, Human Events Daily. And Jack, where's Jack? Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you.

Great job, Jack. Thank you. What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the guys who should be getting policies.

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And folks, we're going to be, of course, monitoring all real-time developments from the National Security Council, from Iran, from the Persian Gulf. There's some reports potentially of U.S. Navy ships being deployed. We know that some were already on the move on the way from the South China Sea up through the Straits of Malacca. So, of course, we're going to be tracking all of those movements as the day progresses. But as we await that breaking news, I wanted to bring in now Liz Collin, investigative journalist.

from Alpha News in Minnesota, Minneapolis specifically, to break us down, break us through all of the insights right now that have gone on with this horrific, it's an attack, it's an attack that took place last weekend. Guys, do we have Liz?

Oh, we do. Great. So, Liz, walk us. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, by the way, for being there on the stream on Saturday as all of this was going down, the massive manhunt which you were able to report in real time. Walk us through. Let's assume someone who's listening hasn't heard any of this yet. In a nutshell, what has happened? What has transpired? What do we know? And where are we now?

Yeah, definitely a chaotic weekend, horrific what has taken place yet again. It seems like in Minnesota, I think we're dubbed now the capital of chaos and really some horrific moments. So this all begins Saturday at 2:00 AM just outside of Minneapolis in a suburb with the shooting of Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. We now know the man you're seeing now on your screen, Vance Bolter, a 57 year old man from Minnesota,

He shoots Senator Hoffman. He's now charged with these crimes and his wife. And then he stops at two other locations of different legislators in Minnesota in the same area before he ends up finally at former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark's home. That's in Brooklyn Park, so just a few miles from Champlin about

a quick drive and this is where he kills the former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. Very horrifying situation obviously and this man comes dressed

as a police officer. This is how he identifies himself. We understand to Senator Hoffman says open up police and you can see he's wearing a mask here. He has what looks to be a flashlight. We've been told he was wearing body armor and looked like a police officer. There are questions why he was let into the home. Still so many questions with all of this, but this murderous rampage then finally ends.

at the Hoffman residence, and this is about 3:30, so about 90 minutes later, and this is when he's interrupted by police. An alert police officer said, "Hey, we should go check out the former speaker's home, Melissa Hortman." And this is when police come up on the scene and it sounds like there's kind of a bit of a confrontation between police.

And this suspect, Vance Bolter, Bolter somehow goes inside the Hortman residence. Shots are fired. This is when Melissa and her husband, Mark, are tragically killed. He gets out the back door. He escapes on foot. He was even driving what looked to be a police cruiser. That's what was in the driveway with lights on and cars.

sets him back to a Minneapolis residence. Turns out he'd been renting a room for the last couple of years in Minneapolis where he'd stay a couple of times a week. So there's more to be said about just that address in Minneapolis as well. Finally, the manhunt for him comes to an end. It's about 43 hours later in Green Isle, Minnesota, not very far from his actual residence in Green Isle where he lived with his wife and five children.

and basically surrendered. He surrendered to law enforcement. They had him surrounded in a field in Green Isle, a rural area. He came out with his hands up and basically identified himself as Vance Bolter.

So that's, I mean, and what a harrowing story, clearly something that no one in the state of Minnesota was expecting to wake up to or hear about, and a horrifying word to happen anywhere. At this point, and I've seen, and Postmillennial had some stuff earlier today, I'm sure you have this as well, about these handwritten notes that he had been making using publicly available databases to look up some of the addresses.

Clearly not the sign of someone who is operating, to my estimation, in their right mind. I mean, the handwritten notes, all of this. Is there any indication, Liz, what his motive was in terms of what was he hoping to accomplish with any of this? Was he trying to send a message? Had these people wronged him in some way? Was there any payoff whatsoever? Because it just seems like this is wanton violence.

Yeah, still a lot of questions there. And you had the acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson fielding questions yesterday at the first press conference. Since these charges, he was asked that multiple times, but he said there doesn't seem to be any sort of clear-cut motive at this point. At first, they described a manifesto that he left, but really more than anything, it was a hit list. Alpha News obtained that hit list, if you will, and there were about 60 Democrats on it, also some Planned Parenthood locations.

So one would think if this had something to do with the abortion issue, but really yesterday authorities kind of backed off anything to do with that. He'd clearly been stalking and doing some, you know, reconnaissance surrounding some of these people for some time. And I think more of that will come out soon.

And actually the people that lived in Minneapolis were aware of him showing up just a couple of times a week. They thought it was strange, but they thought he was a detective. He would leave every day with his briefcase when he would stay at that residence and drive off in what looked to be a police cruiser.

And there's a lot of information about some different companies he was attached to. And I know much has been made about this Workforce Development Board that Walls did appoint him to, and he was not reappointed back in 2023. However, Walls or a source from Walls told the newspaper here in Minnesota that Governor Walls did not know him, but Governor Walls has not said anything publicly about that yet.

And so have there been any information about others that he may have been working with? So we saw that his wife apparently had also been arrested in this really blaring headline, blaring headline, that she had money and cash, passports, others, five children that they had between the two of them, yet don't necessarily seem to be involved. I can't imagine. Was this some sort of plot between the two of them?

You know, I think that's a good question because we learned yesterday just in the charging documents attached to this case that Vance Bolter did text his wife that morning. So these texts came in after six in the morning. So this would have been

a few hours after the murders of the Hortman family. But he sent a text to his wife that said, "Dad went to war last night. Words are not going to explain how sorry I am for the situation. There's going to be some people coming to the house armed and trigger happy.

And I don't want you guys around. So this is when my law enforcement sources have said they're pinging, you know, the wife's phone, which wouldn't be uncommon in, you know, a situation like this. And this is when she's pulled over. She's pulled over in Onemia, Minnesota. Onemia, Minnesota, excuse me, which...

is quite a drive from Green Isle. So is she leaving at that moment? She has been released and they have said that she is cooperating with authorities. But obviously these text messages, I think, raise some questions as well. Well, and it's possible, I suppose a number of things are possible. That could be a set phrase. That could be something where she's told to

but had no idea what, you know, quote-unquote daddy was doing. So it very well be, or potentially, you know, something that, and of course I'm just,

I don't have any special information or potentially she did have an idea of what was going on and she was trying to get away from it. Again, I really don't know. I'm just trying to play devil's advocate here as to various, you know, various scenarios that could be playing out. And of course, we'll see what remains to be found out when, you know, when lawyers get involved, when debriefings get involved, interrogations, interviews, all the rest of it.

Liz, what has been the response, I guess, politically and obviously this is politically charged there in Minnesota? You know, yeah, I think that in the world we live in, Jack, you know this better than most of us as well. It seems that everybody has to there has to be a side. There has to be a political angle to this. Clearly, this guy is a monster more than anything else.

You have the mainstream media in Minnesota, of course, saying he's a Trump supporter because his roommate has said that and they don't seem to be wanting to look much further than that, of course. And he certainly seemed to align himself with pro-life

that the pro-life movement, if this list of 60 Democrats and this Planned Parenthood is in fact this hit list. They also found flyers that had no kings scrawled across them in his vehicle as well. So I think you see the...

More than anything, it does seem like there is some unity trying to take place in Minnesota among Republicans and Democrats as the loss of the Horton family is mourned. I know her two younger children released a statement yesterday about their deaths. Well, I think that goes without saying, regardless of politics. Liz, you've been tireless and dogged on this. Where can people go to get all the breaking updates from you?

Yeah, it's at Liz Collin on X, at Alpha News MN on X or alphanews.org. We'll continue to stay on the story here.

What an incredible job she's been doing, folks. Liz Collin, the minute that I saw something that was going on in Minnesota, I said, just call Liz. Just call Liz right now, and she will know everything that's going on. She was at a baseball game with her family, and yet she knew every single detail before anyone else. That's how good Liz Collin is. You need to be following her and Alpha News. Jack Posobiec, we will be right back here. Human Events Daily continues all the updates.

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All right, folks, Jack Posobiec back, live Human Events Daily. We've got a live shot there of the White House where we're told President Trump is now meeting with his National Security Council team and will be delivering a statement reportedly following the end of that meeting. The stakes couldn't be higher. A potential U.S. strike directly on Iran?

Certainly something that would be unprecedented. However, President Trump has repeatedly said, even as long as 10 years ago, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. We know this. U.S. forces are deployed throughout the Middle East. They have been on bases as well as deployed in harm's way in Syria and Iraq. They're still in Iraq, by the way. And we also know that, of course,

Oil plays a significant driver in all of this. And for anyone who tells you that oil isn't playing a driver in all of this, just take a look at the map. There are oil fields all over Iraq,

Persia, the Middle East, 20% of the world's oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, which is the mouth of the Persian Gulf. So when you hear Strait of Hormuz, that's the mouth of the Persian Gulf. So it's just the name of that particular choke point through which that oil flows. And that's why it's so important. That's why it's so key.

And so the issue here, folks, the issue is who stands to gain, who stands to benefit, and who stands to lose from everything that's going on. We know that Americans are watching with bated breath.

And of course, we know that the MAGA movement stands for the protection of the American people above all else. And that's what President Trump has in mind, the protection of the American people. That's why we're for deportations. That's why we're for protecting the American homeland from threats abroad and threats domestic, foreign and abroad, domestic and abroad. That's why it's all about. That's what it's all about.

And so we see right now it seems that Iranians are attacking Israel again. That's a huge update that's going on. Israel's interceptors are up, striking those. We're going to give you that information as it happens in real time.

Israel, Wall Street Journal has a new article out. Israel built its case for war with Iran on new intelligence. The U.S. didn't buy it. That's not my headline. That's Wall Street Journal. American spy agencies stand by their assessment that Iran hasn't decided to build a nuclear weapon, but Trump now says Tehran is very close. We're talking about those launches on Iran right now.

There are some reports of U.S. ships entering the Persian Gulf from Bahrain, according to Israeli Channel 9. Of course, if you guys throw that map up, people can see the places that I'm describing.

Macron says, "We are against a change of the Iranian regime because we do not know what will happen after this regime." Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has introduced a resolution aimed at banning U.S. involvement in the Israeli-Iranian war. Thomas Massie says, "This is not our war. Even if it were our war, Congress should decide these issues in accordance with the Constitution."

And we're told, so the national security meeting, I'm just trying to check the time on this, that it started around 2.30. So it's right now 2.54 Eastern time. So that means, of course, that the meeting has been going on for about, so it's just under the 30-minute mark right now. It's only been going on for about 25 minutes. So I would expect this report from President Trump to come very soon. And President Trump has always been clear with the American people

whether it's on Truth Social, whether it's an address to the nation, whether it's a statement to press, one of these press gaggles, whether it's leaving the G7 to come back to Washington to decide all of these things. President Trump has always been the one to tell the American people up front about what's going on. And that's one thing where I can say for certain that President Trump is the one that we should all trust.

when it comes to the information that's coming out and the decisions being made. We know that there's going to be leaks. We know that there's going to be people saying this, an unnamed source here, an unnamed source there. But President Trump is the one who will tell us what's going on, and he will be the one to make this decision. And it is his. He is the man who won the popular vote. He is the man who won 7 out of 7 in the swing states. He is the man in whom the American people put their trust.

And he is the man who survived an assassin's bullet on that field in Butler going back July 14th, 2024. Folks, the stakes couldn't be higher. World war potentially hanging in the balance. President Trump is the man for the job. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.