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The Kuhner Report — Going for Gold. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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to be president of the, you know, the nominee of their party, to be president of the United States. President Trump now has flipped the script. And in Dallas, with 55 days left to go, in maybe the most important midterm election in our nation's history, President Trump delivered absolutely brilliant keynote address. Honestly, one of his best speeches ever, and what he's now doing, he's going for the victory in November. As I said, going for gold. And what he did is he set the table and described the stakes of what now is about to take place. Will the United States continue on its path under President Trump of strong borders, low crime, low taxes,
energy dominance, becoming an energy superpower, and a country that will always put its national interest first? Or are we going to go down the disastrous road of socialism, communism, collectivism, that the democratic socialists now are running openly as their agenda, should they capture both houses of Congress and sweep into power? Listen now to President Trump, saying in 55 days, we are going to be going to the polls in one of the, if not the most important election midterm election in our history. And it's no accident that it is taking place right now at our 250th anniversary, the year of our 250th anniversary,
we are now at a crossroads. Listen now to the President, he made the choice as stark and clear as possible, roll cut 100 a mic. In 55 days, Americans will be going to the polls in one of the most important elections in our country's history. Your vote will decide whether our country will have the stumbles at the starting gate of the next 250 years, or a surges forward, and never, ever looks back. If we hand American's future to the radical left Democrats, and our nation will spend the next decade just getting back on its feet, it will be a tragedy. Vote Republican, and we will leave the world in our dust for generations to come.
There'll be nothing like it. He's completely right. In fact, I don't want to quibble with him because it was such a powerful, well-delivered, I think, brilliant speech. I don't think it's, if we hand the keys to the power back to the radical left, basically a repeat of the disastrous Obama Biden years. I'm telling you, I don't think it's going to set us back 10 years. I don't think we're going to recover. My honest opinion, you don't come back from communism. I mean, you may shoot your way back, but that's a different story. You don't politically or economically come back from communism. And what the Democrats are now proposing will economically and politically destroy this country. I mean, it's that the choice now could not be clearer. And so the president is not just running against the radical Democrats. And what their agenda will do to the United States.
He's not just running on his record of an economic boom, as I said, strong borders, stopping Biden's border invasion, energy dominance. If not, as I said, us becoming an energy superpower, low taxes, low crime, the United States military now being completely rebuilt, and a national interest on trade, defending our trade interests, defending our foreign policy and national interests here and around the globe. He then shook up the entire race. By proposing, listen to this, a $5,000 dividend, a $5,000 check, he says for every adult American citizen. So for example, in my home, $5,000 to the Koonerman, $5,000 to Grace,
that's $10,000. If the Republicans win in November, and keep the House and keep the Senate, he says, take it to the bank. I will, the Congress will pass with my signature, a $5,000 dividend check to every adult American citizen. Roll cut 101, a mic. What we're doing is because we've done so well, and because our country is making so much money, that only I can make this promise to you. And here is my promise. If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic, tremendous economic success, like in history, we've never had anything like what's happening,
but because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America, for $5,000. Now, Trump compares it to a company, as he put it, that is doing extremely well, is growing, is experiencing an economic boom, is expanding constantly. And he says, if the company does well, it gives a redistribution of money to the shareholders. And the shareholders of America are you, me, and American citizens. Now, his proposal is being attacked. It's already being attacked and vilified by the media, by the Democrats, and yes, by even some Rhino Republicans. And their argument is, Trump is trying to bribe voters before the election.
This is the argument that this is a bribe. Vote for me, vote for the Republicans, keep us in power, and you're all going to get a $5,000 check. Well, hold on now. Let me address that point by point, because I know many of you're going to say, well, Jeff, what about the deficit? Where trillions of dollars running trillion dollar, multi trillion dollar deficits every year, we've got a $40 trillion national debt. How the hell can we afford a $5,000 dividend for every adult American? So we're going to break the bank. That's number one. Number two, Jeff, this is a naked bribe, Jeff. Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, what the hell is this? Now Republicans are for government handouts. Now Republicans want to start putting money in people's pockets, so they vote a certain way. My answer is a simple one. The Democrats for generations,
for generations have been using taxpayer money to bribe voters. Who the hell are the Democrats and the media who have supported this for decades to lecture us now when Trump flips the tables on the Democrats? What do you think welfare is? It's a bribe. What do you think socialism is? It's one massive bribe. What do you think Medicare for all is? Obamacare, bribe after bribe after bribe? So rather than taking $5,000 out of my pocket to give to illegal aliens, to give to welfare deadbeats, to give to a favored Democrat constituents, how about for once they take $5,000 and they put it back into our pockets?
Because in the end, the $5,000 dividend that we're getting back is our money. It's essentially a one-time tax cut, okay? A $5,000 personal tax cut, one time. It's our money. So rather than for once, us, bribing liberals, bribing welfare, people on welfare, bribing illegal aliens, how about for once a set of our money being used to subsidize everybody else? Some of our money finally comes back to us. Now, as for the debt or the deficit, yes, I'm a deficit hawk. Of course, I'm a deficit hawk. But I'm telling you right now, no one is cutting spending. No one. In fact, if you look at the Democrats' plan, they want to spend trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars more and taxes into oblivion.
So don't lecture me about the debt or the deficit. My friends, Trump now has put on the table a proposal that could fundamentally change and alter the result of the midterm election. $5,000 if Trump wins and the Republicans keep the House and the Senate. Your reaction next.
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