Donald Trump on Deep State Threats, Ashley Babbitt & 2025 Vision

[00:00:00]Greg Kelly
Mr. President, it is great to see you.

[00:00:02]Donald Trump
Thank you very much.

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Greg Kelly
Yeah. You happy?

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Donald Trump
I don't know about happy. I'm thrilled to be here. We're going to make this a much better country that's suffered greatly over the last four years, like nobody can believe, with the border and with the inflation and with all of the horrible things that took place. But we're going to making it great. We had a tremendous two months, and I think we're going make it back where we had it and beyond.

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Greg Kelly
President Trump, I want to ask you about something that I think the American people don't know enough about, and that is the attack on you in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the follow-on attack in West Palm Beach. This is something that Dick Cheney said publicly in a video. He said, in our nation's 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He said that in a campaign video for his daughter. His daughter has said equally horrendous things. To me, that was an invitation, quite frankly, to somebody in or out of government to do something bad to you. I think that is possibly a crime. But, overall, we don't know enough about what happened. How do you feel about that? It was it possibly government involvement?

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Donald Trump
Well, we don't know. But when I hear a statement like that from a guy that got us into spending nine — think of it. They spent billions and billions, almost a trillion dollars in the Middle East blowing up everything. killing people all over the place, engendering tremendous hatred. What a mess. And then just leave. We leave. We leave with nothing. And he got us in along with Bush. It was one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of our country. So when I hear a guy like that make that statement, And, you know, I did something that he couldn't do. He had a certain person that worked for him that they didn't take proper care of.

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Greg Kelly
Scooter Libby?

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Donald Trump
Scooter LibBY. And Scooter LibBY was very badly treated by him and Bush. And he took a fall for them, frankly, and they didn and take care of them. I took care of them, I didn't have didn't do it for him. I did it because Scooter Libby was treated very unfairly. But when I hear that stuff, and then the daughter goes out, she runs for office in a state that they virtually owned, and she loses by the largest margin in the history of Congress. You know that? The largest margin, like 44 points or something. They've got to screw loose. They've got a screw loose.

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Greg Kelly
About a month ago or so, you said they were going to brief you on what happened, what they know, the investigation. Has that happened? Is there anything you can share with us? And maybe there should be a commission. Maybe there should be something else.

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Donald Trump
So it is. It has happened. And they don't seem to think there was anything other than abnormal people. And I'll assume that's true. They do have a case coming up, a case that a lot of people don't talk about, but it's coming up. Really sort of a third case, I guess you'd say. And so we'll see how that one works out. But, you know, it's a dangerous profession being president. If you look, race car drivers, one in one. Think of this one tenth oftenth of one percent. Bull riders, one- tenth of one percent. Presidents, I won't tell you the number, but it's big. It's a dangerous profession. Why didn't you tell me this? You could have told me this, please.

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Greg Kelly
This would-be assassin crooks had apps that they can't get into, foreign, sophisticated. All right, let's face it, the team, the national security team was using Signal. And I know you just spoke about that. Are you concerned, number one, about anybody on your national security team keeping in touch with a guy like Jeffrey Goldberg? So it suggests that perhaps they've been talking to him. It suggests, it doesn't guarantee that, but that seemed kind of weird.

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Donald Trump
Yeah, Goldberg's bad news. It's the Atlantic. It's failing. It's probably going to be out of business soon. And it's a terrible magazine. They made up all sorts of stories about me with... with standing over the graves of soldiers. There's nobody that treats the military better than me. And they treat me well, too. They showed that in the election. But they write stories. It's such a disgrace. And there are plenty of others also. But Goldberg's a loser. His magazine's a big loser. And what it was, we believe, is somebody that was on the line with permission, somebody that was with Mike Waltz, worked for Mike Waltz at a lower level, had, I guess, Goldberg's number or called through the app. And somehow this guy ended up on the call. Now, it wasn't classified, as I understand it. There was no classified information. There was no problem. And the attack was a tremendous success. So I can only go by what I've been told. I wasn't involved in it, but I was told by and the other people weren't involved at all. But I feel very comfortable, actually.

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Greg Kelly
You were on the phone that day in the golf club. You were on a hard line. Are you concerned? Hey, no more signal. Or actually...

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Donald Trump
Well, I like hard lines, but the best way is to be in the situation room or some other room where you're all together, where you don't have... Anytime you have a line, whether it's air or whether it's hard, there's always a risk that people are listening.

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Greg Kelly
One more thing on this. Is it possible that doing business through a secure line, even on a cell phone, is so cumbersome. I've heard it can be very, very difficult. Almost difficult on purpose. You know, they were leaking, the intelligence community was leaking on you during the first term. Yeah. Is this a way around that, perhaps?

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Donald Trump
You got to have the right people. You know, we had some people that I inherited and that were recommended by RINOS or others. And the beauty is I gained a lot of experience in that first term. And we have wonderful people now. We have tremendous people. That's why when you look at what's happening with the economy, how well we're doing, even the prices. You know, when I came in, everyone was complaining about eggs, the cost of eggs. I said, I've been here a week. They were trying to blame me, and I was here a week. And, you know, they're down almost 50 percent, and there's plenty of them. I mean, they've done an amazing job. My people have done an amazing jump. They talked about the price of groceries and how expensive it was. And I campaigned on it, in all fairness. I never, I haven't used the word grocery. It's like an old-fashioned word. But really, it's not. And people understand it. And I campaign very hard on groceries. And they're coming down very much. If you look at your gasoline prices, it's really coming down tremendously. And that's bringing other prices down with it. So I mean, I just have — I have really great people. But it took a period of time. You know, I never did this before. I ran. I was a real estate guy from New York. I wasn't a Washington, D.C. person, so I didn't know a lot of people in Washington. And when I came here, I had to rely on the on others. And by the way, I had some great people. I got the largest tax cuts in history. I got the longest regulation cuts in history rebuilt our military. They shouldn't have given it a lot of it to a place called Afghanistan in one of the dumbest, worst days or periods of time in the history of our country. I think the most embarrassing period of time in the history of my country, but they shouldn't have given so much. But I had some great people, but I had some people that I wouldn't have used. Now I have people, I have a team that's really fantastic. And I think you see the results we have. Apple is going to spend 500 billion dollars. The biggest chip maker is going to spent fortunes. I mean, just fortunes of money coming out of Taiwan. We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen anything like it. And they're going up fast. Honda just announced their building in Indiana, one of the biggest. And the nation's doing really well. And a lot of that's the results of November 5th. And a lot it is also the tariffs.

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Greg Kelly
No one has spoken, and I'll have to get back to the terrorists, but if you don't mind, no one has spoken as boldly and with as much truth as you about Ashley Babbitt. It was a bad shooting. My father can tell you that. Anybody. It's

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Donald Trump
a terrible thing.

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Greg Kelly
I don't know if you know this, but the Department of Justice right now is still kind of fighting that case. The family of Ashley Babbott is suing the government, wrongful death. The DOJ right now, officially, is still opposing that lawsuit, trying to justify it. Shouldn't that be something that can just be settled at this point?

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Donald Trump
Well, I'll look into that. I mean, you're just telling me that for the first time. I haven't heard that. I'm a big fan of Ashley Babbitt, OK? And Ashley Babbott was a really good person who was a big MAGA fan, Trump fan. And she was innocently standing there. They even say trying to sort of hold back the crowd. And a man did something to her that was unthinkable when he shot her. And I think it's a disgrace. I'm going to look into that. I did not know that. No.

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Greg Kelly
And the officer who shot her, Michael Byrd, is still on duty. They gave him a raise and they gave him a medal and I believe a promotion.

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Donald Trump
I think it is a disgrace.

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Greg Kelly
He is a federal employee. Would you or could you do something like that?

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Donald Trump
I'm going take a look at it. I'm going to look at that, too. His reputation was, I won't even say. Let's find out about his reputation, okay? We're going to find out. But I watched that and I saw that. And by the way, she was killed, but nobody else was killed. And, you know, the people that went down there, they had no guns. They didn't have guns. There was something to do with the FBI. There was something with Antifa and others, and it wasn't mentioned. And there's never been a group of people, I think, with the exception of maybe over the years, a couple of groups were treated pretty harshly, but essentially never treated so badly. And, as you know, I gave — I let them out with pardons. I know you were very happy. I watch your show all the time. You were extremely happy about it. Plenty of other people were, too. People don't realize this whole movement that we have is just a it's a very inspiring thing. What's happened to our country? These people are incredible people. They were treated so unfairly, so horribly. Some of them didn't even go into the building. and the judges, the system, the hatred, the vitriol, the prosecutors, the way they wanted to destroy these people, people would go in and they would be so proud to go before court, And they'd have a good lawyer. They'd walk out of court like devastated the way they were treated, devastated, given years in prison. No, but I took care of them. I said I was going to, and I did.

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