1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Joining us on the telephone line. Donald Trump Jr. He's 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: got a new book out. We're gonna talk about that. 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: It's called Triggered. But don First of all, thanks for 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: calling in. Second of all, is your reaction tonight. It's 5 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: a majority leader McConnell saying this is going nowhere. Well, listen, 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. I mean you saw, you know, the vote, 7 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: you know, obviously partisan with a few Democrats, uh, you know, 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: actually coming over to the Republican side. Because all people 9 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: need to do is read the transcript. I mean it's 10 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: sort of insane. Everything else is based on innuendo and uh, 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: you know opinion. I said this a couple of weeks 12 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: ago on Twitter, I go, who wants to bet? You know, 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,319 Speaker 1: the whistle blow where all these guys that come out 14 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: of the woodworks end up having some sort of ties 15 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: and you know, to the left and to this and 16 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: Di Biden YadA, YadA, YadA, and of course they have. 17 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: I mean, this is the sham process, Kevin. I mean, 18 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: let's not get ourselves. This process started on November nine, 19 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: when my father won. Uh. The Washington Post wrote their 20 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: first impeachment article nineteen minutes after the inauguration, saying it's, 21 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: you know, the case for the impeachment. They've been trying 22 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: to do this forever. And the problem is, you know, 23 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: they think it's all great and wonderful, but the real 24 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: people in Middle America, they see what it is. They 25 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: see the sham. They just want to see him be 26 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: able to do his job, and they haven't let him 27 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: do that. They've tried to make it difficult. And the 28 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: reality is he's delivering results despite that unprecedented income. Now, 29 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: if the Democrats worked with him a little bit, maybe 30 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: he did something like signing the U S m c A. 31 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: Right now, I want to talk about that Belossie's death. 32 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: For nine months, you know she was doing that and 33 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: not signing it because you know that would pass with 34 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: bipart doesn't support I don't think anyone even questions that 35 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 1: it could be done in about three minutes. It would 36 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: bring a you know, hundred thousand plus jobs to Americans, 37 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: but like you know, that would also give a win 38 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: to Trump, and we can't have that. Uh. And that's 39 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 1: a shame. And that's the state of the American political system. 40 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: I wrote the book in part because I got to 41 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: experience that. I mean, you were you saw me on 42 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: the campaign trails during sixteen, but uh, shooting guns all 43 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: what happened afterwards? Right? Yeah, well all right, so let's 44 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: let's we've got a lot to talk about. And you 45 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: mentioned U S. M. C A R NAFTA two point 46 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: oh as they call it in your book. You take 47 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: me back to your high school years when you were 48 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: at the Hill and you talk specifically about this was, 49 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: as you write in the book, triggered your first exposure 50 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: to NAFTA and it's impacts. Talk to me about that. Yeah, listen, 51 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: you know, make no mistake, I'm not saying it wasn't 52 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: you know, a boarding school where a lot of rich kids, 53 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: you know, But again I went there from eighth grade on. 54 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: So my formative years here, I went through puberty and 55 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: the rust Belt. You know, I I dated girls from 56 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: those towns. I had friends from the town I mean, 57 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: you know, I grew up in you know, the way. 58 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: Reality is, I grew up in that rust belt, uh, 59 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: you know, part of the country, and I saw those people, 60 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: I saw the jobs. I think you know that resonated 61 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: on the campaign trail in sixteen and with my hobbies 62 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: where there's hunting, fishing, competitive shooting all of those things 63 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: that I do. I mean, it doesn't leave me in 64 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: New York much on the weekends. You know, I'm not 65 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: a fixture on the New York City rover garity Dinners circuit. 66 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: You know, I spend my time with real Americans in 67 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: the real part of the country, and I see those people, 68 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: and honestly, I see the Democrats in that part of 69 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: the country, and then they like, listen, I'm a Democrat, 70 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: but like man, I wish they'd let just do his job. 71 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: Seems like you're doing pretty good. And when I talk 72 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: to them about being a Democrat, I understand the history, 73 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: I understand the tradition. But I asked those same guys, 74 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: you know, those blue collar Democrats that you know, I 75 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: think the Democrat Party has totally forgotten, uh and certainly 76 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: that resonated in sixty and I go, you don't listen, 77 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: I get it. You know, you quote unquote would be 78 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: rolling over. Your grandfather be rolling over in his grave 79 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: if he knew you were voting for a Republican. But 80 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: I go, you know, what would you say about today's 81 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: Democrat Party platform? And the reality is this, Kevin, you 82 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: know this is not your grandfather's Democrat Party. That party 83 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: has long gone, That party has left the hard working 84 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: men and women of this country long ago, and they 85 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: got to sort of get over that tradition of voting 86 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: that way because those people don't represent their values anymore. 87 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: They don't represent their interests anymore. Uh, you know, as 88 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: as evidenced by you know, most of the things that 89 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: they make a big deal these days legislatively, but more 90 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: importantly and evidenced by sitting on the renegotiation of NAFTA, 91 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: which was a twenty five year disaster which did nothing 92 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: but export our American dream to other countries, to send 93 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: our jobs to other places, and destroy the working class 94 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: of America. See, I think this is this is interesting 95 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: because even now I've been to all the Democratic debates 96 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:14,119 Speaker 1: and it's come up a few times. But so Elizabeth 97 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: Warren says that that NAFTA that not to two point 98 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: over us m c A, isn't liberal enough, and then 99 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: you've got this divide. Biden says, you know, he's perceived, 100 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: you know this done. He's perceived as not as not 101 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: liking tariffs as much as your dad, President Trump. So 102 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: when you look at the debate within the Democratic Party, now, 103 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: and as you told Fox News, you said that earlier 104 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: today President John F. Kennedy would have been a quote 105 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: unquote a right neo Nazi terrorist if he was running 106 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: as a Democrat. Uh in election. They I mean, let's 107 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: not forget first of all, Joe Biden, he gave you NAFTA. Okay, 108 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,799 Speaker 1: he's one of the people involved in NAFTA. Joe Biden 109 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 1: doesn't think that China is a threat to America, and 110 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: by the way, neither do the other Democrats because last 111 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: time on the debate stage, they've spent more time talking 112 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: about Donald Trump's Twitter account they ever did about China. 113 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: They never even brought China up. Joe and doesn't think 114 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: China's a threat because his son took one point five 115 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 1: billion from them. So let's just say he's probably on 116 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: the payroll. Okay, we can't you know, discount that to 117 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: say that China is not an actual threat to America 118 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: when we've been neglecting those trade policies for so long. 119 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: No one's doing, even Chuck Schumer's like, oh, it's about 120 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: time we needed to, you know, fight back on this nonsense. 121 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: Give me a break. You can't sell that man that 122 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: that's such nonsense, but they won't make it an issue 123 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: because those aren't real issues for the Democrat Party anymore. 124 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: Like I said, the party has been hijacked by the 125 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: radical left, by the socialists and the communists, and they're 126 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: not worried about those kind of things. They probably are 127 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: fine with it. Uh. You know, they're not fighting for 128 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: the American working class, so you know that's not an 129 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: issue for them. You know, they'll spend a lot of time, 130 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: you know, talking about nonsense, and they want to try 131 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: to stop Donald Trump, you know, having a Twitter account 132 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: because they're attacking you know, the free speech of the 133 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: First Amendment. Certainly they're attacking the Second Amendment. You know, 134 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: they don't have that same value system that so many 135 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: of those hard working Democrats. That's why when I go 136 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: out there and I'm railing against Democrats, usually just say 137 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: leftist because I know a lot of good, hard working Democrats. 138 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: You know, they're they're more Democrat again, you know, because 139 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: of tradition than actual values. But that's the way they are, 140 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: and I don't want to insult them that way, but 141 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: those guys do they do have to wake up and 142 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: sort of figure out that you know this that their 143 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: party has left them a long time ago, and the 144 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: Republicans are the only ones acting, and they're best interesting today. 145 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump Jr. Is on the line. His new book 146 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: is called Trigger Don. I was up on Capitol Hill 147 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: earlier today and uh and and before that at the 148 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: White House for Bloomberg Television, and we've been reporting in 149 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: terms of the ongoing US China trade deal. But when 150 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: when I was up on the hill, I mean, so 151 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: much of the conversation in the halls, amongst a lot 152 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: of the mainstream reporters, as well as even amongst the 153 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: staff level, and they're in recess, has been about this, 154 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: the release of these transcripts, And I was thinking to myself, 155 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: I wonder if Don thinks that this this, if Rudy 156 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: Giuliani was really the right person to be working for 157 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: his dad. It's your assessment of how Rudy's relationship has 158 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: been with President Trump. I think the relationship is great, 159 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: you know. I think the reality is Rudy's a rude 160 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: is a fighter, so he gets up there and fights. 161 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: I don't know enough about the details about what's actually 162 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: going on there because I'm not in the administration. I 163 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: frankly don't get involved I've seen what happens, you know, 164 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: with that as you know, being a big part of 165 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: the books, you know, being the number two target after 166 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: my father of the original uh impeachment inquiry we also 167 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: known as the Russia Hoax, the Mullering Inquisition. Uh. You know, 168 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: so so I've been there, done that scene it. Uh. 169 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: You know, I appreciate having people that fight. I don't 170 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: know the actual involvement. I don't know that it matters 171 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: that much. I think the reality is my father released 172 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: the actual transcripts. Kevin. Uh. You know, people seem to 173 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: neglect that. You know, I read about every day. You know, 174 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: democracy dies in darkness. Interesting because you know they have 175 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: no problem conducting an inquiry led by judge jury executioner 176 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: Adam Schiff, who for three years pedal to the American 177 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: people on TV on a daily basis that he had 178 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: some sort of magical evidence that no one else has 179 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: seen still hasn't been released. Amazingly enough, after that one's over, Uh, 180 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: you know, this is the guy that's making the decision. 181 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: This is the guy that's deciding whether Republican can answer 182 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: you ask a question or not. Who's the next witness? 183 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: So after leading them like he coached Cohen and all 184 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: of those other people in the original attempts to get 185 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: my father. You know, this isn't a democratic process. This 186 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: isn't on a fair process, and the mainstream media is 187 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: more than happy to, you know, continue to be the 188 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: marketing wing of the Democrat Party. You'll be out there 189 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: and say, oh, no, no, this is so fair, Like, 190 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: let's not get ourselves that when they do the comparison 191 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: to the Clinton, uh impeachment, Now it's Clinton had real 192 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: lawyers that were able to actually be out there, to 193 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: be in there, to be in the hearings to do this. 194 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 1: You actually had Democrats I think thirty four of them 195 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 1: that voted for impeachment. Uh, you know it was a 196 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: little three under oaths like it's it's a little different 197 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: than well, you know some guy who's a leftist whatever 198 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:47,959 Speaker 1: it is, you know that worked for Biden the past. 199 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 1: His opinion is this, when the transcripts out there, when 200 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: Crane didn't even know about any kind of holes, when 201 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: they think we're going on, I mean, this is a 202 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: farce and a sham of a problem. You think the 203 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: American people see that too. Do you think President Trump 204 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: should release the transcripts from Joe Biden's calls with the Ukrainians. 205 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: I'd love to say, hey, Kevin, I you know I 206 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: actually you know what what would happen? What would the 207 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: what would that Washington media do if I went over 208 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: right now to the Ukraine and got an eighty three 209 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: thousand dollar a month gig minor details. I don't know 210 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: anything about oil, Hunter and I don't know anything. I 211 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: don't speak Ukrainian. Do you think they have a problem 212 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: with that? You know, my dad's making policy decisions done. No, 213 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: that's okay. No, he's a private businessman. You know, Don Jr. 214 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: That's rich. You've got rich because of your father. I 215 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: don't even hide from that. I've said that my whole life, 216 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: like I'm I am here in a big part because 217 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: of my father in our last name, the differences we 218 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: did that as private businessman, Hunter Biden magically became an 219 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: international businessman. Okay, When his father assumed the Vice presidency 220 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: was in charge of the rule. Hunter Biden gets on 221 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: Air Force two, goes to China, magically comes back with 222 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,439 Speaker 1: one point five billion dollars in five days. When the 223 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: greatest investors in the world take years to break into China, Okay, 224 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: give me a break. If I did those same things, 225 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: they destroy me. But do you think that just when 226 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: we got into the presidency my father got we literally 227 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: stopped doing any new international deals. They don't talk about that. 228 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: They run this false equivalency of what your international business people. Yeah, 229 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: we have deals that we started in twenty ten that 230 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: we have to complete. We have a contractual obligation. We 231 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: voluntarily gave up all of the business are a big 232 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 1: part of what I did. I mean, it's probably why 233 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: I've gotten more involved in politics, because I can't do 234 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: the stuff that I was doing. Uh, you know, three 235 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: years ago as an international businessman, we said we won't 236 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: do any new deals, going to get rid of any impropriety, 237 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: you know, And they say so the false equivalency that 238 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: they run with between us and Hunter Biden is assinine. 239 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: But no, no, but that's not But do you think 240 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: that the president should release the transcripts of Biden's calls 241 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: with the Ukrainians from his time as I think they 242 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,599 Speaker 1: should get them all. But I think the reality is 243 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: you gotta fight fire with fire. But I love to 244 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: see presidents and leaders be able to have conversations with 245 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: other leaders that then don't get spread all over there 246 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 1: for the political grand standing and messaging because I think 247 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: as a is this guy, if I put my business 248 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: man hat on, you know, you need to be able 249 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: to have open dialogue with deal with allies and yeah, 250 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: frankly with adversaries. And if they're worried about then that 251 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: that's gonna get selectively leaked and everything that they say 252 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: no one's going to have honest dealings with you actually 253 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: get nothing done. So I'd love not to see that, 254 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: but that's you know, that's what the media will do. 255 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: You know, the same media you know who destroys Donald 256 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: Trump all day long and says, you know, the fifteen 257 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: year old kids like Nick Sanman who did nothing in war, 258 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: a maga cat, you know, our homegrown terrorists to say 259 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: that Albac Daddi, the leader of Ice, is who's doubted 260 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: journalists with fuel and lit them on fire. You know, 261 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 1: he's an austere religious scholar. Kevin. I mean, no one 262 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: believes they're getting the truth from the media anymore. It's 263 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: they listen to Bloomberg Radio sound on. You're you're the exception, Kevin. Okay, 264 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 1: you know, I'll give you, you know the credit for being, 265 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: you know, an honest dealer in in the years that 266 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: I've known you. And that's fair. But there's so few 267 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: that are There's so many that just have eliminated even 268 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: the pretense of objectivity at that point. And and that's scary. 269 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: I had um earlier today, don Juniors on the line 270 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:06,839 Speaker 1: is books called triggered. We've got a couple more minutes 271 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: with them left. I popped into the Trump hotel and 272 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: my colleagues have been reporting that you guys potentially might 273 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: be selling this. Has any update on that now, listen, 274 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: we'd look at it. The reality is this because because 275 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: of the deal, you have a hotel in d C. 276 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: And you know in other places where we've literally said, 277 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: unlike the Biden's we said, hey, if international business, you know, 278 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: from foreign governments whatever, you know, that's sort of DC right. Uh, 279 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: if we get any business from them, we're literally stroking 280 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 1: a check back to the Treasury. But then you have 281 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: all the activists. Great, well, well that guy he worked 282 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: maybe in an embassy somewhere. He bought a cheeseburger for 283 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: five dollars, and you've got to do an entire audit, 284 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: have accounted spine. I mean, it's not worth trying to 285 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: run a business that way. It doesn't make any sense, 286 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: you know, So you know, we may look to sell 287 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: it if if if it makes sense, we may do that, 288 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: or well, you know, we'll wait. In five years we 289 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 1: can get back to business as normal and be able 290 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: to run it. But you know, it's sort of hard 291 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,719 Speaker 1: to run a business, you know, especially in d C. 292 00:12:57,880 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: We'd say, hey, we won't take any of that kind 293 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: international business that is the majority of d C, and 294 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: you expect to run a business. We build an incredible 295 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: asset um. But yeah, we'd look at that. Gun control. 296 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: I know how you feel about gun control. I think 297 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: everybody knows how you feel. But this is something that 298 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: that you also know a lot of independent voters in 299 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 1: particular are paying attention to this. And and where is 300 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: an area that you think done And you've write about 301 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: this a little in your book. Where do you think 302 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: there's some areas where there actually might be some bipartisanship 303 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: on this incredibly polarizing issue. Well, yeah, the problem is, Kevin, honestly, 304 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: i'd love to see you know, there'd be some bipartisanship. 305 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I I cover that I've said that the 306 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: real problem is this. I mean, you know, you look 307 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: at it tweet from a couple of weeks ago sort 308 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: of you know, Ben Shapiro said something is someone you 309 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: know you have a gun, and you know immediately you 310 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: know Eric swallwell, you know tinfoil hat brigade commander jumps. 311 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: This is why you need red flag lest I mean, 312 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: you're gonna report Ben Shapiro under red flag gloss. And 313 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 1: that's the problem. The left is never going to deal honestly. 314 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: They will all take whatever legislation they have to weaponize 315 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: it against legitimate, law abiding citizens because their their goal 316 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: is not to come up with better it's to eliminate 317 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: it entirely. And that's the problem is they show that 318 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: with all of that, they're not being genuine dealers. They're 319 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: not being honest dealers. So I'd love to have that conversation, 320 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: but you know, the second they get an interest, the 321 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: next day, you know they're back in there calling again 322 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: because they're not looking to represent law abiding citizens. I mean, 323 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: I wish they would do something much harsher penalties on 324 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: those who actually break those laws. You don't look like Chicago, okay, 325 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: But they won't do that because then they're gonna get 326 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: called racist for actually enforcing laws. Uh, you know, it 327 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: doesn't work. They're not being honest dealers. I mean, I'd 328 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: love to see something happen, but I truly don't believe 329 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: that anyone on that side won't then immediately weaponize, whether 330 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: it's red flag laws or anything else, to try and 331 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,119 Speaker 1: make it impossible for law abiding citizens to exercise their rights. 332 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: And they show it every time they open their mouth. 333 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: You've said in a couple of your interviews today, and 334 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: everybody's asked you all, is he gonna run for office 335 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: one day? Is he gonna run for Congress? Is he 336 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: gonna run for Senate? So let me quickly ask you, well, 337 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: you if you were up against Chelsea Clinton don for 338 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: a House seat in New York, who would win? You 339 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: were Chelsea? I guess it depends on what region, right 340 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: or north or south of Westchester County? North North, I 341 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: probably do pretty well. Uh you know, Westchester in soul 342 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: that maybe harder. But you know the reality is, you know, again, 343 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: my only focus in politics right now is making sure 344 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: my father gets re elected. I see the results, I 345 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: see the job numbers, I see the economy. I see 346 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: that there's but one more question. I know I'm not 347 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: to interrupt, I'm gona interrupt because I want to get 348 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: this in. What about a senator in Wyoming if lesh 349 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: Cheney doesn't run, would you consider running in senator? And 350 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: that some people try to recruit it for that not 351 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: not this time around. Like I said, my only focus 352 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: is getting my father reelected. I have no other political 353 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: aspirations beyond that. That doesn't mean I won't do it 354 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: in the future. It doesn't mean I won't stay involved. 355 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: You know, I'm into it. I like it. I love 356 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: seeing sort of, you know, some of the new guys 357 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: rising up who are willing to fight for conservative values 358 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: as opposed to those who you know sort of you 359 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: know they've talked about it for their entire lives, but 360 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: you know they've never actually had the guts to actually 361 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: stand up and push back against the leftist mob. They're 362 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: more concerned about being loathed by a media that would 363 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: destroy them in two seconds, uh if they had the chance. 364 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: So you know that that's not my game. I'm there 365 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: to support the guys that are gonna help my father, 366 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: and I think I'm gonna do that very hard for 367 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: the next twelve months. See, I remember This is my 368 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: last question for you, and thanks Don Jr. His books 369 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: called Triggered. We appreciate you always stopping by making time 370 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: for us on on this program. Uh, you've you're write 371 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: about this in the books. So many folks know you 372 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: for your strong view, particularly as it relates to guns, 373 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: and they agree, they disagree, you know, we'll let them decide. 374 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: But this stems from your childhood and with your grandmother 375 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: and spending time with her in Czechoslovakia and your time 376 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: and your time over there when you spend a lot 377 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: of time outdoors, and in the book you write about 378 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: how that was actually your first converse stations about socialism 379 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: and the role that she's played. Tell me about that. Yeah, well, 380 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: I mean there's a big part of the book and 381 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: it's sort of you know why, maybe I'm an unlikely conservative, 382 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: right I You know, I grew up in New York 383 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 1: City as the son of a billionaire, once in Ivy 384 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: League school, did all that. You know, I'm not supposed 385 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: to be a conservative, But I had a mother that 386 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: escaped Communist check flaw, Like, yeah, I had a grandfather 387 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: that you know, had that conversation with my parents, you know, 388 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: the blessings that we have living in this country with 389 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: our freedoms are incredible. Uh, and you know your should 390 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: see the other side. So I used to spend my 391 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: summers as a kid. They're five six years old, um 392 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: speak the language, had friends over there. And trust me, 393 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: I've waited in those breadlines that everyone's glamorizing and saying 394 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: they're so wonderful. I can assure you they're not when 395 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: you've actually lived it. I say, you know, why is 396 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: it that, you know, if socialism so wonderful and it's 397 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: becoming a mainstream, you know, part of the leftist movement, uh, 398 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 1: from real candidates who are viable presidential contenders, Like, how 399 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: come there's not someone from Eastern Europe. How Come there's 400 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: not someone from former Soviet Union. How Come there's not 401 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: someone from China, from Cuba, from Venezuela, all of these 402 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: countries that have been destroyed by those systems. How come 403 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 1: there's no one they're here vouching for it, saying no, no no, no, 404 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: we gotta bring that here. It's such a wonderful thing. 405 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 1: No one, Oh you have. It's academics and Bernie Sanders 406 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: and you know, the wars of the world preaching you know, 407 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 1: these virtues and it doesn't work. You know, I've seen 408 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: it firsthand. I have a ninety three year old grandmother 409 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: who is a tough woman. Uh, tougher than most of 410 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: the people and certainly my generation. You know, she hid 411 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: from the Nazis for two years in the basement of 412 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: our farmhouse as in her twenties and late teens during 413 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: World War Two. Then she lived through Communist occupation and 414 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: she calls me, you know, she watches CNN over there. 415 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: That's all they have, right, No, don't you don't understand. 416 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: It always sounds so good, it always sounds so wonderful. 417 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: Everything is free, everything is great. It's not, you can 418 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: This is a woman who's been through a lot, who's 419 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: in tears for fear of the future of her grandchildren 420 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: and her great grandchildren, because she knows what those systems 421 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: will eventually do and what they become. You know, that's 422 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: my biggest motivator being in this fight. It's not you know, 423 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: republican Democrat. It's fighting against that nonsense. I mean, this 424 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: election is about freedom versus socialism and eventually communism. And 425 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: they're not even hiding it anymore. It's not a fringe 426 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: element of the party. Uh, it's truly scary. And it's 427 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: her telling me that, in relaying that story, and me 428 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: as a five year old getting pulled out of a 429 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: customs line because I was wearing a jean jacket with 430 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: the American flag on it, the stars and stripes, by 431 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: a guy in a drab military outfit, questioning me as 432 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: to whatever I was there to spread the virtues of 433 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: you know, um capitalism as a five year old. You know, 434 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: that was the first fear I've ever had in my life. 435 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: I've been there, I've seen it. Uh, and I promise 436 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: you I will do whatever I can to fight against 437 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: that crap. It's not coming here. Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. 438 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: The book is called Triggered Don great to catch up 439 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: with you. Appreciate the times. Thank you, keV. I'm good 440 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:33,239 Speaker 1: to be with you.