BREAKING: RFK Jr. Suspends Campaign

[00:00:00] So, Robert F. Kennedy is expected [00:00:02] momentarily to drop out of the [00:00:04] presidential race. There was some [00:00:05] speculation a little bit earlier today [00:00:07] that he was not in fact going to endorse [00:00:08] Donald Trump. It now appears that he [00:00:10] will. He has filed forms in Pennsylvania [00:00:12] to remove himself from the Pennsylvania [00:00:14] state ballot. In those forms, [00:00:17] apparently, he has suggested he's going [00:00:18] to endorse Donald Trump. He's supposed [00:00:21] to be speaking in Arizona momentarily. [00:00:23] The speech was originally supposed to [00:00:24] take place at 2 p.m. Then it was 2:30 [00:00:27] p.m. Eastern time. Now, it's supposed to [00:00:29] take place at 2:45. There had been a bit [00:00:31] of speculation a little bit earlier that [00:00:32] perhaps he would not in fact endorse [00:00:35] Donald Trump. That speculation was added [00:00:37] to by Nicole Shanahan, his vice [00:00:39] presidential pick, who had gone on a [00:00:41] podcast and suggested that unless Donald [00:00:42] Trump walked back his support for [00:00:44] Operation Warp Speed, which of course is [00:00:45] the gigantic scientific project to push [00:00:48] forward the vaccine for CO, that unless [00:00:52] he walked that back and acknowledged his [00:00:53] mistakes that an endorsement would not [00:00:55] take place. That appears not to have [00:00:57] been true. Here was Nicole Shanahan a [00:00:59] little bit earlier today trying to push [00:01:00] this idea. [00:01:02] The hesitation we have right now in [00:01:05] joining forces with Trump is that he has [00:01:07] not apologized or publicly come out and [00:01:10] said operation warp speed was my fault. [00:01:12] It was a failure and I let it happen. [00:01:13] I'll never let it happen again. [00:01:15] The vaccinations, right? [00:01:17] I mean all of it. The lockdowns, letting [00:01:20] Fouchy and Francis Collins run the show. [00:01:23] um the firing of the other um folks uh [00:01:27] at the NIH um and and individuals at the [00:01:32] CDC that were censored. I mean, [00:01:34] there was a lot that happened under [00:01:37] Donald Trump's watch that should not [00:01:39] have happened and and cannot happen [00:01:42] again. And if we are going to [00:01:46] um put our bet with him and we haven't [00:01:49] we have not confirmed anything but we [00:01:51] need absolute assurance [00:01:53] that he [00:01:56] you know it's this is a tough one. [00:01:59] Well you know obviously something [00:02:01] changed and possibly one of the reasons [00:02:03] this has now been pushed back a few [00:02:04] minutes is because there were ongoing [00:02:06] negotiations with presumably the Trump [00:02:08] campaign. We'll have to see if he [00:02:10] receives some sort of slot in a [00:02:12] prospective Trump administration for [00:02:13] doing so. If Trump announces that he [00:02:15] will put RFK in charge of some segment [00:02:17] of his campaign, what concessions were [00:02:19] made to RFK Jr. to actually receive his [00:02:22] support? It would have been particularly [00:02:23] foolish if RFK had in fact not endorsed [00:02:26] Trump because then you don't even get [00:02:27] the effect of him dropping out. [00:02:29] Presumably, there would have been some [00:02:31] voters of RFK who shifted over to Trump. [00:02:33] But RFK full-scale endorsing Donald [00:02:35] Trump means that the people who support [00:02:36] RFK now, which is likely a [00:02:38] disproportionately Trumpfriendly base, [00:02:40] considering that most of the Democrats [00:02:41] who supported RFK did so because they [00:02:44] didn't like Joe Biden and have now gone [00:02:45] back to Kla Harris. It's not an [00:02:47] insignificant thing that RFK Jr. will be [00:02:50] dropping out of the race and presumably [00:02:52] endorsing Donald Trump. It could have a [00:02:54] significant impact on the race. In fact, [00:02:56] now Nate Silver suggests that it may be [00:02:57] less than one percentage point in the [00:02:59] swing states, but that may be a lot in a [00:03:03] race that is coming down to bare numbers [00:03:05] of votes. If you're looking at the [00:03:07] polling statistic in virtually every [00:03:10] swing state, every swing state is now [00:03:12] within margin of error. All of them. [00:03:13] Pennsylvania is effectively dead even. [00:03:15] Michigan is about two points in favor of [00:03:17] Harris. Wisconsin is within one point in [00:03:19] favor of Harris according to the Real [00:03:20] Club politics polling average. RFK in [00:03:23] many of these polls is driving 2 3 4%. [00:03:26] So it is not insignificant dropping out. [00:03:29] And according to Nate Silver, he says, [00:03:30] "We've long thought the conventional [00:03:32] wisdom RFK would hurt Democrats was a [00:03:34] little backward." He says maybe in the [00:03:35] early going because of the Kennedy name, [00:03:37] but his anti-establishment sometimes [00:03:38] verging on conspiratorial positions were [00:03:40] always a little Trumpy and even when [00:03:42] Biden was on the ballot and RFK served [00:03:43] as a free parking space for voters who [00:03:45] had concerns about Biden's age, we found [00:03:46] him taking votes about evenly from both [00:03:48] candidates. And he's not trying to [00:03:50] outflank Democrats from the left. He's [00:03:52] not Cornell West or Jill Stein. Neither [00:03:54] of whom are dropping out of the race. [00:03:55] They're going to maintain in the race. [00:03:56] That is going to be particularly true [00:03:57] after Kla Harris's comments at the DNC [00:04:00] in which he had some warm words for [00:04:01] Israel before, of course, turning around [00:04:03] and then having some very warm words [00:04:04] about self-determination for [00:04:05] Palestinians who, if given the vote, [00:04:07] would immediately elect Kamas. According [00:04:10] to Nate Silver's breakdown, he suggests [00:04:12] that the polling averages will likely [00:04:14] make a net difference of maybe point4 [00:04:17] points. That may be plenty in some of [00:04:19] these states. These states are [00:04:20] extraordinarily tight. More than that, [00:04:23] this also drives a feeling of momentum [00:04:25] back into the Trump campaign. Trump has [00:04:27] been effectively floundering in the [00:04:29] water since Kla Harris entered the race. [00:04:32] Until that point, Trump was sailing and [00:04:34] then obviously Joe Biden dropping out [00:04:36] drilled a hole directly in the bottom of [00:04:38] the boat for Donald Trump. Kla Harris [00:04:40] got this big upsurge in enthusiasm. We [00:04:43] went from 25 30% Democratic enthusiasm [00:04:46] to 60 70% Democratic enthusiasm. The [00:04:49] number started to swing in her favor. [00:04:51] The late breaking polls suggest that, [00:04:53] for example, Donald Trump may be [00:04:56] trailing by as much as six points, but [00:04:58] with RFK Jr. out of the race, it may be [00:05:00] somewhere between two and four points. [00:05:01] We're going to go live now to Arizona [00:05:03] where we're about to hear Robert F. [00:05:05] Kennedy Jr. make his dropping out [00:05:07] speech. [00:05:11] [Music] [00:05:13] I'm sorry to keep everybody waiting. [00:05:16] 16 months ago, in April of 2023, [00:05:20] I launched my campaign for president of [00:05:22] the United States. [00:05:24] I began this journey as a Democrat, the [00:05:27] party of my father, my uncle, the party [00:05:30] which I pledged my own allegiance to [00:05:33] long before I was old enough to vote. I [00:05:36] attended my first democratic convention [00:05:40] at the age of six in 1960. [00:05:44] And back then the Democrats were the [00:05:46] champions of the constitution [00:05:48] of civil rights. The Democrats stood [00:05:51] against authoritarianism, [00:05:54] against censorship, [00:05:56] against colonialism, imperialism, and [00:05:59] unjust wars. [00:06:01] We were the party of labor, of the [00:06:04] working class. [00:06:06] The Democrats were the party of [00:06:08] government transparency and the champion [00:06:11] of the environment. [00:06:13] Our party was the bull work against big [00:06:15] money interests and corporate power. [00:06:18] True to its name, it was the party of [00:06:20] democracy. [00:06:22] As you know, I left that party in [00:06:24] October because it had departed so [00:06:27] dramatically [00:06:28] from the core values that I grew up [00:06:30] with. It'll become the party of war, [00:06:34] censorship, corruption, [00:06:36] big pharma, big tech, big a and big [00:06:42] money. When it abandoned democracy by [00:06:45] cancelling the primary to conceal [00:06:48] the cognitive decline of the sitting [00:06:51] president, I left the party to run as an [00:06:54] independent. [00:06:56] The mainstream of American politics and [00:06:59] journalism [00:07:00] derided my decision. Conventional wisdom [00:07:03] said that it would be impossible even to [00:07:05] get on the ballot as an independent [00:07:08] because each state poses an [00:07:10] insurmountable tangle of arbitrary rules [00:07:14] for collecting signatures. I would need [00:07:17] over a million signatures, something no [00:07:19] presidential candidate in history had [00:07:21] ever achieved. [00:07:23] And then I'd need a team of attorneys [00:07:25] and millions of dollars to handle all [00:07:29] the legal challenges from the DNS. [00:07:32] The nater the naysayers told us that we [00:07:35] were climbing a glass version of Mount [00:07:37] Impossible. [00:07:39] So the first thing I want to tell you is [00:07:41] that we proved them wrong. We did it [00:07:44] because beneath the radar of mainstream [00:07:46] media organs, we inspired a massive [00:07:50] independent political movement. More [00:07:52] than a 100,000 volunteers sprang into [00:07:55] action, hopeful that they could reverse [00:07:57] our nation's decline. [00:08:00] Many worked 10-hour days, sometimes in [00:08:02] blizzards and blazing heat. They [00:08:04] sacrifice family time, personal [00:08:07] commitments, and sleep month after [00:08:09] month. Energized by a shared vision of a [00:08:12] nation [00:08:14] healed of its divisions, they set up [00:08:17] tables at churches and farmers markets. [00:08:20] They canvased doortodoor [00:08:23] in Utah and in New Hampshire. Volunteers [00:08:25] collected signatures in snowstorms, [00:08:29] convincing each supporter to stop in the [00:08:31] frigid cold to take off their gloves and [00:08:34] to sign legibly. During a heat wave in [00:08:37] Nevada, I met a tall athletic volunteer [00:08:41] who cheerfully told me that he had lost [00:08:43] 25 pounds collecting signatures [00:08:46] in 117 degree heat. [00:08:49] To finance this effort, young Americans [00:08:52] donated their lunch money and senior [00:08:55] citizens gave up their part of their [00:08:58] social security checks. Our 50 state [00:09:01] organization collected those millions of [00:09:03] signatures and more. No presidential [00:09:05] campaign in his political American [00:09:07] political history has ever done that. [00:09:10] And so I want to thank all of those [00:09:12] dedicated volunteers and congratulate [00:09:16] the campaign staff [00:09:19] who coordinated this enormous logistical [00:09:22] feat. Your accomplishments [00:09:25] were regarded as impossible. You carried [00:09:29] me up that glass mountain. You pulled [00:09:31] off a miracle. You achieved what all the [00:09:34] pundits said could never be done. You [00:09:37] have my deepest gratitude. And I'm never [00:09:39] going to forget that. Not just for what [00:09:42] you did for my campaign, but for the [00:09:45] sacrifices you made because you love our [00:09:49] country. You showed everyone that [00:09:51] democracy is still possible here. It [00:09:54] continues to survive in the press and in [00:09:57] the idolistic human energies that still [00:10:01] thrive beneath a canvas of neglect and [00:10:04] of official and institutional [00:10:06] corruption. [00:10:08] Today I'm here to tell you that I will [00:10:10] not allow allow your efforts to go to [00:10:13] waste. I'm here to tell you that I will [00:10:16] leverage your tremendous accomplishments [00:10:19] to serve the ideals that we share. The [00:10:21] ideals of peace, of prosperity, of [00:10:25] freedom, [00:10:26] of health, all the ideals that motivated [00:10:29] my campaign. I'm here today to describe [00:10:32] the path forward that you've opened with [00:10:34] your commitment and with your hard [00:10:37] labors. [00:10:39] Now, [00:10:40] in an honest system, I believe that I [00:10:44] would have won the election. in a system [00:10:46] that kind that my father and my uncles [00:10:51] thrived in. A system with open debates, [00:10:56] with fair primaries, with regularly [00:10:58] scheduled debates, with fair primaries, [00:11:01] and with a truly independent media [00:11:03] untainted by government propaganda and [00:11:05] censorship [00:11:07] in a system of nonpartisan courts and [00:11:10] election boards, everything would be [00:11:12] different. After all, the polls [00:11:15] consistently showed me beating each of [00:11:18] the other candidates both in [00:11:19] favorability and also in head-to-head [00:11:22] matchups. [00:11:24] But I'm sorry to say that while [00:11:25] democracy may still be alive at the [00:11:28] grassroots, [00:11:29] it has become little more than a slogan [00:11:32] for our political institutions, for our [00:11:34] media, and for our government, and most [00:11:37] sadly at all for me, for the Democratic [00:11:40] Party. In the name of saving democracy, [00:11:44] the Democratic Party set itself to [00:11:46] dismantling it. Lacking confidence in [00:11:49] its candidate that that its candidate [00:11:52] could win in a fair election at the [00:11:55] voting booth, the DNC waged continual [00:11:59] legal warfare against both President [00:12:01] Trump and myself. [00:12:04] Each time that our volunteers [00:12:06] turned in those towering boxes of [00:12:08] signatures needed to get on the ballot, [00:12:11] the DNC dragged us into court, state [00:12:14] after state, attempting to erase their [00:12:17] work and to subvert the will of the [00:12:20] voters who had signed those petitions. [00:12:23] It deployed DNC aligned judges to throw [00:12:26] me and other candidates off the ballot [00:12:30] and to throw President Trump in jail. [00:12:33] It ran a sham primary that was rigged to [00:12:36] prevent any serious challenge to [00:12:38] President Biden. [00:12:41] Then when a predictively bungled debate [00:12:44] performance precipitated the palace coup [00:12:47] against President Biden, the same [00:12:49] shadowy DNC operatives appointed his [00:12:52] successor, also without an election. [00:12:56] They installed a candidate who was so [00:12:59] unpopular with voters that she dropped [00:13:01] out in 2020 [00:13:03] without winning a single delegate. My [00:13:06] uncle and my father both relish debate. [00:13:10] They prided themselves on their capacity [00:13:12] to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in [00:13:15] the battle over ideas. [00:13:18] They would be astonished to learn of a [00:13:20] Democratic Party presidential nominee [00:13:22] who, like Vice President Harris, has not [00:13:25] appeared in a single interview or an [00:13:28] unscripted encounter with voters for 35 [00:13:32] days. This is profoundly undemocratic. [00:13:35] How are people to choose [00:13:38] when they don't know whom they are [00:13:40] choosing? And how can this look to the [00:13:43] rest of the world? My father and my [00:13:46] uncle were always conscious of America's [00:13:48] image abroad because of our nation's [00:13:51] role as the template for democracy, the [00:13:54] role model for democratic processes, and [00:13:57] the leader of the free world. [00:14:00] Instead of showing us her substance and [00:14:02] character, [00:14:04] the DNC and its media organs [00:14:07] engineered a surge of popularity for [00:14:09] Vice President Harris based upon, well, [00:14:12] nothing. [00:14:14] No policies, no interviews, [00:14:17] no debates, only smoke and mirrors and [00:14:21] balloons in a highly [00:14:23] produced Chicago circus. There [00:14:27] in Chicago is a string of Democratic [00:14:30] speakers [00:14:31] mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on [00:14:35] the first day. Oh, who needs a policy [00:14:38] when you have Trump to hate? In [00:14:41] contrast, at the RNC convention, [00:14:43] President Biden was mentioned only twice [00:14:46] in four days. I do interviews every day. [00:14:50] Many of you have interviewed me. Anybody [00:14:53] who asks gets to interview me. Some days [00:14:56] I do as many as 10. President Trump, who [00:15:00] actually was nominated and won an [00:15:02] election, also does interviews daily. [00:15:06] How did the Democratic Party choose a [00:15:08] candidate that has never done an [00:15:10] interview or debate during the entire [00:15:13] election cycle? We know the answers. [00:15:16] They did it by weaponizing the [00:15:17] government agencies. [00:15:19] They did it by abandoning democracy. [00:15:22] They did it by suing the opposition [00:15:25] and by disenfranchising [00:15:27] American voters. [00:15:29] What most alarms me isn't how the [00:15:32] Democratic Party conducts its internal [00:15:34] affairs or runs its candidates. What [00:15:37] alarms me is the resort to censorship [00:15:40] and media control and the weaponization [00:15:43] of the federal agencies. [00:15:46] When a US president colludes with or [00:15:49] outright coerces [00:15:51] media companies to censor political [00:15:53] speech, it's an attack on our most [00:15:55] sacred right of free expression. And [00:15:57] that's the very right [00:15:59] upon which all of our other [00:16:01] constitutional rights rest. [00:16:04] President Biden [00:16:06] mocked Vladimir Putin's 88% landslide in [00:16:11] the Russian elections, observing that [00:16:13] Putin and his party controlled the [00:16:16] Russian press and that Putin prevented [00:16:18] Syria's opponents from appearing on the [00:16:21] ballot. But here in America, the DNC [00:16:24] also prevented opponents from appearing [00:16:26] on the ballot. And our television [00:16:29] networks exposed themselves as [00:16:31] Democratic Party organs. Over the course [00:16:34] of more than a year in a campaign where [00:16:36] my poll numbers reached at times in the [00:16:40] high 20s, the DNC allied mainstream [00:16:44] media networks [00:16:46] maintain a near perfect embargo on [00:16:48] interviews with me. During his 10-month [00:16:52] presidential campaign in 1992, [00:16:55] Ros Perau gave 34 interviews on [00:16:59] mainstream networks. [00:17:01] In contrast, during the 16 months since [00:17:04] I declared, ABC, NBC, [00:17:08] CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave only [00:17:14] two live interviews from me. Those [00:17:17] networks instead ran a continuous deluge [00:17:20] of hit pieces with inaccurate, often [00:17:23] vile pjoratives and defamatory smears. [00:17:27] some of those same networks [00:17:30] and colluded with the DNC to keep me off [00:17:32] the debate stage. [00:17:34] Representatives of those networks are in [00:17:36] this room right now. And I'll just take [00:17:39] a moment to ask you to consider [00:17:42] the many ways that your institutions [00:17:44] have abdicated [00:17:46] this really sacred responsibility, [00:17:49] the duty of a free press to safeguard [00:17:52] democracy and to challenge always the [00:17:54] party in power. [00:17:56] Instead of maintaining that posture of [00:17:59] fear, skepticism toward authority, [00:18:03] your institutions have made your made [00:18:05] themselves government mouthpieces and [00:18:08] stenographers for the organs of power. [00:18:12] You didn't alone cause the devolution of [00:18:14] American democracy, but you could have [00:18:16] prevented it. [00:18:18] The Democratic Party's censorship of [00:18:20] social media [00:18:23] was even more of a naked exercise of [00:18:25] executive power. This week, a federal [00:18:28] judge, Terry Dodie, [00:18:31] upheld my injunction against President [00:18:33] Biden, calling the White House's [00:18:36] censorship project, quote, "The most [00:18:38] egregious violation of the First [00:18:40] Amendment in the history of the United [00:18:42] States of America." [00:18:44] OD's previous 155page decision details [00:18:48] how just 37 hours after he took the oath [00:18:52] of office swearing to uphold the [00:18:55] Constitution, President Biden [00:18:58] and his White House opened up a portal [00:19:01] and then invited the CIA, the FBI, CISA, [00:19:06] which is a censorship agency. It's it's [00:19:09] the center of the censorship industrial [00:19:11] complex. [00:19:12] DHS, the IRS, and other agencies [00:19:17] to censor me and other political [00:19:19] dissident on social media. Even today, [00:19:22] users who try to post my campaign videos [00:19:25] to Facebook or YouTube get messages that [00:19:27] this content violates community [00:19:29] standards. [00:19:30] Two days after Judge Dodie rendered his [00:19:33] decision this week, Facebook was still [00:19:36] attaching warning labels to an online [00:19:38] petition [00:19:40] calling on ABC to include me in the [00:19:43] upcoming debate. They said that violates [00:19:46] community standards, their community [00:19:47] standards. Um the the mainstream media [00:19:51] was once the guardian of the first [00:19:53] amendment and democratic principles [00:19:56] and has joined this systemic attack on [00:19:59] democracy. [00:20:01] It also the media justifies their [00:20:04] censorship on the grounds of combating [00:20:06] misinformation. [00:20:08] U but governments and and oppressors [00:20:13] don't censor lies. [00:20:16] They don't fear lies. They fear the [00:20:19] truth and that's what they censor. [00:20:22] And I and I don't want any of this to [00:20:24] sound like a personal complaint because [00:20:26] it's not. I um for me [00:20:31] uh it it's all part of a journey and [00:20:33] it's a journey that I signed up with. [00:20:36] But I need to make these observations [00:20:38] because I think they're critical for us, [00:20:42] doing the thing that we need to do as [00:20:44] citizens in a democracy to assess where [00:20:47] we are in this country and what our [00:20:49] democracy still looks like and the [00:20:52] assumptions about US leadership around [00:20:54] the globe and are we living are we [00:20:58] really still a role model for democracy [00:21:00] in this country [00:21:02] or have we made it you know a kind of uh [00:21:06] a joke. [00:21:08] Here's the good news. While mainstream [00:21:11] outlets denied me a critical platform, [00:21:15] they didn't shut down my ideas, which [00:21:17] have especially flourished among young [00:21:19] voters and independent voters thanks to [00:21:22] the alternative media. Many months ago, [00:21:25] I promised the American people that I [00:21:27] would withdraw from the race if I became [00:21:29] a spoiler. A spoiler is someone [00:21:32] who will alter the outcome of the [00:21:33] election but has no chance of winning. [00:21:36] In my heart, I no longer believe that I [00:21:38] have a realistic path to electoral [00:21:40] victory in the face of this relentless [00:21:43] systematic censorship [00:21:45] and media control. [00:21:48] So, I cannot in good conscience ask my [00:21:50] staff and volunteers [00:21:52] to keep working their long hours or ask [00:21:54] my donors to keep giving when I cannot [00:21:57] honestly tell them that I have a real [00:21:59] path to the White House. Furthermore, [00:22:02] our polling consistently showed that by [00:22:06] staying on the ballot in the [00:22:08] battleground states, I would likely hand [00:22:10] the election over to the Democrats [00:22:14] with whom I disagree on the most [00:22:17] existential issues, censorship, war, and [00:22:21] chronic disease. [00:22:23] I want everyone to know that I am not [00:22:26] terminating my campaign. [00:22:28] I am simply suspending it [00:22:32] and not not ending it. My name [00:22:38] my name will remain on the ballot in [00:22:40] most states. If you live in a blue [00:22:43] state, you can vote for me without [00:22:45] harming or helping President Trump or or [00:22:49] Vice President Harris. In red states, [00:22:52] the same will apply. I encourage you to [00:22:55] vote for me. And if enough of you do [00:22:58] vote for me and neither of the major [00:23:00] party candidates win 270 votes, which is [00:23:03] quite possible, in fact, today our [00:23:06] polling shows them tying at 269 to 269. [00:23:11] And I could conceivably still end up in [00:23:14] the White House in a contingent [00:23:15] election. [00:23:16] [Music] [00:23:18] But [00:23:20] in about 10 battleground states where my [00:23:24] presence would be a spoiler, I'm going [00:23:26] to remove my name and I've already [00:23:28] started that process and urge voters not [00:23:30] to vote for me. It's with a sense of [00:23:33] victory [00:23:35] and not defeat that I'm suspending my [00:23:38] campaign activities. Not only would did [00:23:41] we do the impossible by collecting a [00:23:43] million signatures [00:23:44] and we changed the national political [00:23:46] conversation forever. [00:23:49] Chronic disease, free speech, government [00:23:51] corruption, breaking our addiction to [00:23:53] war have moved to the center of [00:23:56] politics. I can say to all who have [00:23:58] worked so hard the last year and a half, [00:24:02] thank you for a job well done. [00:24:05] three great causes drove me to enter [00:24:08] this race in the first place primarily [00:24:11] and these are the principal causes that [00:24:13] persuaded me to leave the Democrat [00:24:15] Democratic party and and run as an [00:24:19] independent [00:24:20] and now to throw my support to President [00:24:24] Trump. The co the causes were free [00:24:28] speech, the war in Ukraine, [00:24:31] and the war on our children. I've [00:24:34] already described some of my personal [00:24:36] experiences and struggles with a [00:24:38] government censorship industrial [00:24:40] complex. I want to say a word about the [00:24:43] Ukraine war. The military-industrial [00:24:46] complex has provided us with a familiar [00:24:50] comic book justification like they do on [00:24:52] every war. at this one is a noble effort [00:24:56] to stop a super villain Vladimir Putin [00:24:59] from invading the Ukraine and then to [00:25:02] thwart his Hitler-like march across [00:25:04] Europe. [00:25:05] In fact, tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a [00:25:08] geopolitical struggle [00:25:11] initiated by the ambitions of the US [00:25:13] neocons [00:25:15] or American global hedgeimonyy. I'm not [00:25:19] excusing Putin for invading Ukraine. He [00:25:21] had other options. [00:25:23] But the Russia is war. The war is [00:25:26] Russia's predictable response to the [00:25:28] reckless neocon project of extending [00:25:31] NATO to encircle Russia, a hostile act. [00:25:35] The credulous media rarely explained to [00:25:38] Americans that we unilaterally walked [00:25:40] away from two intermediate nuclear [00:25:42] weapons treaties with Russia [00:25:45] and then put nuclear waretti ages [00:25:47] missile systems in Romania and Poland. [00:25:50] is is a hostile hostile act and the [00:25:54] white the and that the Biden White House [00:25:58] repeatedly spurned Russia's offer to [00:26:01] settle this war peacefully. [00:26:04] The Ukraine war began in 2014 when US [00:26:07] agencies overthrew the democratically [00:26:09] elected government of Ukraine and [00:26:12] installed a handpicked pro-western [00:26:14] government that launched a deadly civil [00:26:17] war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine. [00:26:21] In 2019, America walked away from a [00:26:24] peace treaty, the Minsk agreement that [00:26:27] had been negotiated between Russia and [00:26:29] Ukraine by European nations. And then in [00:26:32] April of 2022, we wanted the war. In [00:26:36] April of 2022, [00:26:38] President Biden sent Boris Johnson to [00:26:40] Ukraine to force President Zilinski to [00:26:44] tear up a peace agreement that he and [00:26:46] the Russians had already signed. And the [00:26:48] Russians were withdrawing troops [00:26:51] on Kiev and Dumbas and Lukans. [00:26:54] And that peace agreement would have [00:26:56] brought peace to the region and would [00:26:59] have allowed Dumbbas and Lugans to [00:27:00] remain part of Ukraine. President Biden [00:27:03] stated that month that this object that [00:27:06] his objective in the war was regime [00:27:08] change in Russia. His defense secretary [00:27:11] Lloyd Austin simultaneously explained [00:27:14] that America's purpose in the war was to [00:27:17] exhaust the Russian army to degrade its [00:27:20] capacity to fight anywhere else in the [00:27:22] world. These objectives of course have [00:27:25] nothing to do with what they were [00:27:27] telling Americans about protecting [00:27:29] Ukraine's sovereignty. [00:27:32] Ukraine is a victim in this war and it's [00:27:34] a victim of of the West. [00:27:37] Since then we and of of Russia and both [00:27:40] Russia and the West. Since then we have [00:27:43] since tearing up that agreement, forcing [00:27:45] Zanski to tear up the agreement. We've [00:27:48] squandered the flower of Ukrainian [00:27:50] youth. As many as 600,000 Ukrainian kids [00:27:55] and over a 100,000 Russian kids, none of [00:27:58] whom all of whom we should be mourning [00:28:02] have died. And the Ukraine's [00:28:04] infrastructure is destroyed. The war has [00:28:07] been a disaster for our country as well. [00:28:10] We squandered nearly $200 billion [00:28:12] dollars already and these are badly [00:28:15] needed dollars in our communities, [00:28:17] suffering communities all over our [00:28:19] country. The Nordstream pipeline [00:28:22] sabotage and the sanctions have [00:28:24] destroyed [00:28:26] Europe's industrial base which formed [00:28:28] the bull work of US national security. A [00:28:31] strong Germany with a strong industry is [00:28:33] a much much [00:28:35] stronger deterrent to Russia [00:28:39] and a Germany that is that is [00:28:41] de-industrialized and turned into just [00:28:43] an extension of US military base. We've [00:28:47] pushed Russia into a disastrous alliance [00:28:49] with China and Iran [00:28:52] were closer to the brink of nuclear [00:28:55] exchange than at any time since 1962. [00:28:59] And the neocons in the White House don't [00:29:01] seem to care at all. Our moral authority [00:29:04] and our economy are in shambles. And the [00:29:07] war gave rise to the emergence of bricks [00:29:10] which now threatens to replace the [00:29:12] dollar as the global reserve currency. [00:29:14] This is a first class calamity for our [00:29:18] country. Judging by her Bellose [00:29:21] belligerent speech last night in [00:29:23] Chicago, we can assume that President [00:29:26] Harris will be an enthusiastic advocate [00:29:29] for this and other neocon military [00:29:33] adventures. And President Trump says [00:29:36] that he will reopen negotiations with [00:29:38] President Putin and end the war [00:29:40] overnight [00:29:42] as soon as he becomes president. This [00:29:44] alone [00:29:45] would justify my support for his [00:29:47] campaign. [00:29:49] Last summer, it looked like no candidate [00:29:52] was willing to negotiate a quick end of [00:29:54] the Ukraine war, to tackle chronic [00:29:57] disease epidemic, to protect free [00:29:59] speech, [00:30:00] our constitutional freedoms, to clean [00:30:02] corporate influence out of our [00:30:04] government, or to defy the neocons and [00:30:06] their agenda of endless military [00:30:09] adventurism. [00:30:10] But now one of the two candidates has [00:30:13] adopted these issues as his own to the [00:30:16] point where he has asked to enlist me in [00:30:20] his administration. [00:30:22] I'm speaking of course of Donald Trump. [00:30:25] Less than two hours [00:30:28] after President Trump narrowly escaped [00:30:30] assassination, [00:30:32] Gi Means called me on my cell phone. I [00:30:35] was then in Las Vegas. [00:30:37] Alli is arguably the leading advocate [00:30:39] for food safety, for soil regeneration, [00:30:43] and for ending the chronic disease [00:30:45] epidemic that is destroying America's [00:30:47] health and ruining our economy. Galley [00:30:50] has exposed the insidious corruption at [00:30:53] the FDA, the NIH, the HHS, [00:30:56] and the USDA that has caused the [00:30:58] epidemic. [00:31:00] GI had been working on and off for my [00:31:02] campaign advising me on those subjects [00:31:06] since the beginning and those subjects [00:31:08] have been my primary focus for the last [00:31:11] 20 years. I was delighted when Cali told [00:31:14] me that day that he had also been [00:31:17] advising President Trump. [00:31:20] He told me President Trump was anxious [00:31:22] to talk to me about chronic disease and [00:31:24] other subjects [00:31:26] and to explore avenues of cooperation. [00:31:30] He asked if I would take a call from the [00:31:32] president. President Trump telephoned me [00:31:35] a few minutes later and I met with him [00:31:38] the following day. [00:31:40] A few weeks later, I met again with [00:31:42] President Trump and his family members [00:31:44] and closest adviserss in Florida. [00:31:48] In a series of long intense discussions, [00:31:51] I was surprised to discover [00:31:53] that we are aligned on many key issues. [00:31:57] In those meetings, he suggested that we [00:31:59] join forces as a unity party. We talked [00:32:03] about Abraham Lincoln's team of rivals. [00:32:06] That arrangement would allow us to [00:32:08] disagree publicly and privately and [00:32:11] fiercely if need be on issues over which [00:32:15] we differ while working together on the [00:32:18] existential issues upon which we are in [00:32:21] concordance. [00:32:23] I was a ferocious critic of many of the [00:32:27] policies uh during his first [00:32:29] administration and and there are still [00:32:31] issues and approaches [00:32:34] upon which we continue [00:32:38] to have very serious differences. Uh we [00:32:41] are aligned with each other on other key [00:32:43] issues like ending the forever wars, [00:32:46] ending the childhood disease epidemics, [00:32:49] securing the border, protecting freedom [00:32:52] of speech, unraveling the corporate [00:32:54] capture of our regulatory agencies, [00:32:57] getting the US intelligence agencies out [00:33:00] of the business of propagandizing and [00:33:03] censoring and surveilling Americans [00:33:06] and interfering with our elections. [00:33:09] Following my first discussion with [00:33:11] President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully [00:33:14] to open similar discussions with Vice [00:33:18] President Harris. Vice President Harris [00:33:21] declined to meet or even to speak with [00:33:24] me. Suspending my candidacy is a hard [00:33:27] rending decision for me, but I'm [00:33:29] convinced that it's the best hope for [00:33:32] ending the Ukraine war and ending the [00:33:34] chronic disease epidemic that is eroding [00:33:37] our nation's vitality from the inside [00:33:40] and for finally protecting free speech. [00:33:43] I feel a moral obligation to use this [00:33:46] opportunity to save millions of American [00:33:49] children above all things. [00:33:52] In case some of you don't realize how [00:33:54] dire the condition is, our children's [00:33:57] health and chronic disease in general, I [00:34:00] would urge you to view Dr. Carlson's [00:34:03] recent interview with Cali Means and his [00:34:06] sister, Dr. Casey Means, who is the top [00:34:08] graduate of her class at Stanford [00:34:11] Medical School. [00:34:13] This is an issue that affects all of us [00:34:15] far more directly and urgently than any [00:34:17] culture war issue and all the other [00:34:21] issues that we obsess on and that are [00:34:23] tearing apart our country. This is the [00:34:25] most important issue. [00:34:27] Therefore, it has the potential [00:34:30] to bring us together. So, let me share a [00:34:33] little bit about why I believe it's so [00:34:35] urgent. Today, twothirds we we pay we [00:34:38] spend more on healthcare than any [00:34:40] country on earth. twice what they pay in [00:34:42] Europe. And yet we have the worst health [00:34:46] outcomes of any nation in the world. [00:34:48] We're about 79th in [00:34:51] health outcomes behind Costa Rica and [00:34:54] Nicaragua and Mongolia and other [00:34:56] countries. Nobody has a chronic disease [00:34:59] burden like we have. And during the [00:35:02] COVID epidemic, we had the highest body [00:35:04] count of any country in the world. We [00:35:06] had 16% of the COVID deaths. And we only [00:35:09] have 4.2% 2% of the world's population. [00:35:13] And CDC says that's because we are the [00:35:15] sickest people on earth. We have the [00:35:17] highest chronic disease rate on earth. [00:35:19] And the average American who died [00:35:22] from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. So [00:35:26] these were people who had immune system [00:35:28] collapse, who had mitochondrial [00:35:31] dysfunction. [00:35:33] And no other country has anything like [00:35:35] this. [00:35:36] Twothirds of American adults and [00:35:39] children suffer from chronic health [00:35:40] issues. 50 years ago, that number was [00:35:45] less than 1%. Oh, we've gone from 1% to [00:35:50] all to 66%. [00:35:54] In America, 74% of Americans are now [00:35:57] overweight or obese. [00:35:59] And 50% of our children 120 years ago [00:36:03] when somebody was obese they were uh [00:36:06] they were sent to the circus. They were [00:36:08] literally there were case reports done [00:36:10] about them. Obesity was almost unknown. [00:36:14] In Japan childhood obesity rate is 3%. [00:36:18] Compared to 50% here [00:36:21] Americans have pre-diabetes or type 2 [00:36:24] diabetes. When my uncle was president I [00:36:26] was a boy. Juvenile diabetes was [00:36:29] effectively non-existent. A typical [00:36:31] pediatrician would see one case of [00:36:34] diabetes during his entire career, a 40 [00:36:36] or 50 year career. [00:36:38] Today, one out of every three kids who [00:36:40] walk through his office door is diabetic [00:36:42] or pre-diabetic. and the mitochondrial [00:36:45] disorder [00:36:46] that caused diabetes also causing uh uh [00:36:50] Alzheimer's which is now classified as [00:36:53] diabetes [00:36:55] and it's costing this country more than [00:36:57] our military budget every year. There's [00:37:00] been an explosion of neurological [00:37:02] illnesses that I never saw as a kid. [00:37:04] ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, [00:37:07] Tourett syndrome, [00:37:09] narcolepsy, ASD, Asperes, autism. [00:37:14] In the year 2000, the autism rate was 1 [00:37:17] in,500. [00:37:19] Now autism rates in kids are one in 36 [00:37:22] according to CDC nationally. Nobody's [00:37:25] talking about this. One in every 22 kids [00:37:28] in California has autism. [00:37:31] And this is a crisis that 77% of our [00:37:36] kids [00:37:37] cannot are are too disabled to serve in [00:37:40] the United States military. [00:37:42] What is happening to our country? And [00:37:45] why isn't this in the headlines every [00:37:47] single day? There's nobody else in the [00:37:50] world that is experiencing this. This is [00:37:53] only happening in America. [00:37:56] About 18%. And by the way, you know, the [00:38:02] the there has been no change in [00:38:03] diagnosis, which the industry sometimes [00:38:05] like to say there has been no change in [00:38:08] screening. [00:38:09] This is a change in incidents. In my [00:38:12] generation, [00:38:14] 70-year-old men uh [00:38:18] the the autism rates are about 1 in [00:38:20] 10,000. In my kids' generation, one in [00:38:23] 34. I'll repeat, in California, one in [00:38:26] 22. [00:38:28] Why are we letting this happen? Why are [00:38:30] we allowing this to happen to our [00:38:32] children? These are the most precious [00:38:35] assets that we have in this country. How [00:38:38] can we let this happen to them? About [00:38:40] 18% [00:38:42] of American teens now have fatty liver [00:38:45] disease. That's like one out of every [00:38:47] five. That disease when I was a kid only [00:38:50] affected [00:38:52] lateage alcoholics who were elderly. [00:38:55] Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the [00:38:57] young and the old. Young adult cancers [00:39:00] are up 70 79%. [00:39:03] One in four American women is on [00:39:05] anti-depressant medication. 40% of teens [00:39:08] have a mental teens have a mental health [00:39:10] diagnosis. [00:39:12] And 15% of high schoolers are on aderall [00:39:16] and half a million children on SSRI. [00:39:19] So what's causing this suffering? [00:39:22] I'll name two culprits. First and the [00:39:25] worst is ultrarocessed foods. [00:39:28] About 70% of American children's diet is [00:39:31] ultrarocessed. That means industrial [00:39:33] manufactured in a factory. [00:39:36] These foods consist primarily of [00:39:39] processed sugar, ultrarocessed grains [00:39:43] and seed oils. Laboratory scientists who [00:39:46] formed, many of whom formerly worked for [00:39:49] the cigarette industry which purchased [00:39:51] all the big food companies in the 1970s [00:39:53] and 80s [00:39:56] deployed thousands of scientists to [00:39:58] figure out chemicals, new chemicals to [00:40:00] make the food more addictive. And these [00:40:04] ingredients didn't exist 100 years ago. [00:40:07] They humans aren't biologically adapted [00:40:10] to eat them. Hundreds of these chemicals [00:40:13] are now banned in Europe but ubiquitous [00:40:16] in American processed foods. [00:40:18] The second culprit is toxic chemicals in [00:40:21] our food, our medicine, and our [00:40:23] environment. [00:40:25] Pesticides, food additives, [00:40:28] pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste [00:40:30] permeate every cell of our bodies. These [00:40:33] assault on our children's cells and [00:40:35] hormones is unrelenting. [00:40:38] to name just one problem. Many of these [00:40:40] chemicals increase estrogen [00:40:43] because young children are ingesting so [00:40:46] many of these hormone disruptors. [00:40:48] America's puberty rate is now occurring [00:40:52] at age 10 to 13, which is 6 years [00:40:57] earlier than girls were reaching puberty [00:41:00] in 1900. [00:41:02] Our country has the earliest puberty [00:41:04] rates of any continent on the earth. And [00:41:08] no, this isn't because of better [00:41:09] nutrition. This is not normal. Breast [00:41:13] cancer is also estrogen-driven and it [00:41:16] now strikes one in eight women. We are [00:41:19] mass poisoning all of our children and [00:41:22] our adults. [00:41:24] Considering the grievous human cause of [00:41:26] this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, [00:41:28] it seems almost crass to mention the [00:41:30] damage it does to our economy. [00:41:33] But I'll say it is crippling the [00:41:36] nation's finances. When my uncle was [00:41:38] president, our country spent zero [00:41:40] dollars on chronic disease. [00:41:43] Today, government healthc care spending [00:41:44] is mo almost all for chronic disease [00:41:48] and it's double the military budget and [00:41:51] it is the fastest budget growing budget [00:41:54] item in the federal budget. Chronic [00:41:57] disease costs more to the economy as a [00:41:59] whole. cost at least $4 trillion, five [00:42:02] times our military budget. [00:42:05] And um and that's a 20% drag on [00:42:09] everything we do and everything we [00:42:12] aspire to. Poor and minority communities [00:42:15] suffer disproportionately. People who [00:42:18] worry about [00:42:20] DEI or about, you know, bigotry of any [00:42:23] kind. This dwarfs anything. We are [00:42:26] poisoning the poor. We are po [00:42:28] systematically poisoning [00:42:31] minorities across this country. Industry [00:42:34] lobbyists have made sure that most of [00:42:36] the food stamp lunch program about 70% [00:42:39] of food stamps and 70 or 77% of school [00:42:43] lunches are processed foods. There's no [00:42:46] vegetables. There's nothing that you [00:42:49] would want to eat. We are just poisoning [00:42:52] the poorest citizens and that's why they [00:42:54] have the highest [00:42:56] chronic disease uh burden of anybody any [00:42:59] demographic in our country and the [00:43:01] highest in the world. The same food [00:43:03] industry lobbyed to make sure that [00:43:05] nearly all agricultural subsidies [00:43:08] go to commodity crops that are the feed [00:43:10] stock of processed food industry. [00:43:14] These policies are destroying small [00:43:17] farms and they're destroying our soils. [00:43:20] We give uh we give about I think eight [00:43:24] times as much [00:43:26] in subsidies to tobacco [00:43:28] than we do to fruits and vegetables. It [00:43:31] makes no sense if we want a healthy [00:43:34] country. The good news is that we can [00:43:37] change all this [00:43:40] and we can change it very very quickly. [00:43:42] America can get healthy again. To do [00:43:45] that, we need to do three things. First, [00:43:49] we need to root out the corruption in [00:43:51] our health agencies. [00:43:53] Second, we need to change incentives in [00:43:55] our health care system. And third, [00:43:58] we need to inspire Americans to get [00:44:00] healthy again. 80% of NIH grants go to [00:44:04] people who have conflicts of interest. [00:44:06] These these are the people virtually [00:44:10] everybody who sits in Joe Biden um just [00:44:14] appointed [00:44:16] a new panel to NIH to to decide [00:44:21] the food recommendations and they're all [00:44:24] people who are from the industry. [00:44:26] They're all people who are from the [00:44:28] processed food companies. [00:44:30] They're deciding what Americans, you [00:44:32] know, hear is healthy and the [00:44:35] recommendations on the food pyramid and [00:44:38] the re and what goes to our school lunch [00:44:40] programs which go what go to the, you [00:44:43] know, the program the uh the the Swiss [00:44:46] program, the food stamp programs. They [00:44:49] are all corrupted and conflicted [00:44:51] individuals. These agencies, the FDA, [00:44:53] USDA, CDC, all of them are controlled by [00:44:56] giant for-profit corporations. [00:44:59] 75% of the FDA's funding doesn't come [00:45:02] from taxpayer. It comes from pharma. And [00:45:04] pharma executives and consultants and [00:45:06] lobbyists cycle in and out of these [00:45:09] agencies with President Trump's backing. [00:45:12] I'm going to change that. We're going to [00:45:14] staff these agencies with honest [00:45:16] scientists [00:45:17] and doctors who are free from industry [00:45:20] funding. We're going to make sure the [00:45:22] decisions of consumers, [00:45:25] doctors, and patients are informed by [00:45:27] unbiased science. A sick child is the [00:45:30] best thing for the pharmaceutical [00:45:32] industry. When American children or [00:45:34] adults get sick with a chronic [00:45:36] condition, [00:45:38] they're put on medication for their [00:45:39] entire life. [00:45:42] Imagine what will happen when Medicare [00:45:44] starts paying for ompic which costs [00:45:47] $1,500 a month and it's being [00:45:50] recommended for children as young as [00:45:52] six. [00:45:54] All for a condition obesity that is [00:45:55] completely preventable and barely even [00:45:58] existed 100 years ago and 74% of [00:46:01] Americans are obese. The cost if all of [00:46:04] them took their ompic prescription is $3 [00:46:08] trillion a year. This is a a drug that [00:46:12] is made by Novo Nordis, [00:46:16] the biggest company in Europe. It's a [00:46:18] Danish company and the Danish government [00:46:20] does not recommend it. It recommends [00:46:23] change in diet to treat obesity and [00:46:25] exercise. [00:46:27] And in our country, the recommendation [00:46:29] now is for oamic to children at age six. [00:46:32] Um, Novon Nord is the biggest company in [00:46:35] Europe and virtually its entire value is [00:46:37] based upon its projections of what it's [00:46:40] going to sell of the ASMIC it's going to [00:46:42] sell to America [00:46:44] and uh and we we have the food lobbyists [00:46:48] have a bill in front of Congress today [00:46:50] that is backed by the White House, [00:46:52] backed by Vice President Harris and [00:46:54] President Biden [00:46:57] to to allow this to happen. this $3 [00:46:59] trillion clause that is going to [00:47:01] bankrupt our country. [00:47:03] We for a fraction of that amount we [00:47:05] could buy organic food for every [00:47:07] American family, three meals a day and [00:47:09] eliminate diabetes altogether. We're [00:47:13] we're going to bring healthy food back [00:47:15] to school lunches. [00:47:17] We're going to stop subsidizing the [00:47:19] worst foods with our agricultural [00:47:21] subsidies. [00:47:23] We're going to get toxic chemicals out [00:47:24] of our food. We're going to reform the [00:47:26] entire food system. And for that we need [00:47:28] new leadership in Washington because [00:47:31] unfortunately both the Democrats and the [00:47:33] Republican parties are in cahoots with [00:47:35] the big food producers big pharma and [00:47:38] big a which are among the DNC's major [00:47:42] donors. Vice President Harris has [00:47:44] expressed no interest in addressing this [00:47:46] issue. or more years of democratic rule [00:47:50] will complete the consolidation of [00:47:51] corporate and neocon power and our [00:47:54] children will be the ones who suffer [00:47:56] most. I got involved with chronic [00:47:58] disease 20 years ago not because I chose [00:48:01] to or wanted to. It was essentially [00:48:04] thrust upon me. It was an issue that [00:48:08] should have been central to the [00:48:09] environmental movement. I was a central [00:48:11] leader at that time but it was widely [00:48:14] ignored by all the institutions [00:48:16] including the NOS's who should have been [00:48:18] protecting our kids against toxins. [00:48:21] It was an orphaned issue and I had a [00:48:24] weakness for orphans. I watched [00:48:26] generations of children get sicker and [00:48:29] sicker. I had 11 siblings and I had [00:48:31] seven kids myself. I was conscious of [00:48:34] what was happening in their classrooms [00:48:36] and to their friends. And I watch these [00:48:38] sick kids, these damaged kids like in [00:48:41] that generation, almost all of them are [00:48:44] damaged. And nobody in power seemed to [00:48:47] care or to even notice. For 19 years, I [00:48:51] prayed every morning that God would put [00:48:54] me in a position to end this calamity. [00:48:58] The chronic disease crisis was one of [00:49:01] the primary reasons for my running for [00:49:03] president along with ending censorship [00:49:05] in the Ukraine war. It's the reason I've [00:49:08] made the heart-wrenching decision to [00:49:11] suspend my campaign [00:49:13] and to support President Trump. His [00:49:16] decision is agonizing for me because of [00:49:18] the difficulties it causes my wife and [00:49:22] my children and my friends. But I have [00:49:25] the certainty that this is what I've [00:49:27] meant to do. And that certainty gives me [00:49:31] internal peace even in storms. [00:49:35] If I'm given the chance to fix the [00:49:37] chronic disease crisis and reform our [00:49:40] food production, I promise that within [00:49:42] two years, we will watch chronic disease [00:49:45] burden lift dramatically. [00:49:48] We will make Americans healthy again. [00:49:50] Within four years, America will be a [00:49:52] healthy country. [00:49:54] We will be stronger, more resilient, [00:49:57] more optimistic and happier. I won't [00:50:00] fail in doing this. Ultimately, the [00:50:03] future, however it happens, is in God's [00:50:05] hands and in the hands of the American [00:50:08] voters and those of President Trump. If [00:50:12] President Trump is elected and honors [00:50:14] his word, the vast burden of chronic [00:50:17] disease that now demoralizes and [00:50:19] bankrupts the country will disappear. [00:50:22] This is a spiritual journey for me. I [00:50:25] reached my decision through deep prayer, [00:50:28] through hard-nosed logic, and I asked [00:50:30] myself, [00:50:32] what choices must I make to maximize my [00:50:36] chances to save America's children and [00:50:38] restore national health? I felt that if [00:50:41] I refused this opportunity, I would not [00:50:43] be able to look myself in the mirror [00:50:45] knowing that I could have saved lives of [00:50:48] countless children and reverse this [00:50:50] country's chronic disease epidemic. [00:50:53] I'm 70 years old. I may have a decade to [00:50:57] be effective. [00:50:59] I can't imagine that President Harris, a [00:51:02] President Harris would allow me or [00:51:04] anyone to solve these these dire [00:51:07] problems. After eight years of President [00:51:10] Harris, any opportunity for me to fix [00:51:13] the problem will be out of my reach [00:51:15] forever. President Trump has told me [00:51:17] that he wants this to be his legacy. I'm [00:51:21] choosing to believe that this time he [00:51:23] will follow through. [00:51:25] His son, his biggest donors, his closest [00:51:28] friends, and all support this objective. [00:51:32] My joining the Trump campaign will be a [00:51:35] difficult sacrifice for my wife and [00:51:38] children, but worthwhile if there's even [00:51:40] a small s chance of of saving these [00:51:43] kids. Ultimately, the only thing that [00:51:46] will save our country [00:51:49] and our children [00:51:51] is if we choose to love our kids more [00:51:54] than we hate each other. [00:51:57] That's why I launched my campaign to [00:51:59] unify America. My dad and uncle made [00:52:04] such an enduring mark on the character [00:52:06] of our nation. Not so much because of [00:52:09] any particular policies that they [00:52:11] promoted, but because they were able to [00:52:13] inspire profound love for our country [00:52:17] and to fortify our sense of ourselves as [00:52:20] a national community [00:52:22] held together by ideals. They were able [00:52:25] to put their love into the intentions [00:52:27] and hearts of ordinary Americans [00:52:30] and to unify a national populism [00:52:33] movement of Americans, blacks and [00:52:35] whites, Hispanics, [00:52:37] urban and rural Americans [00:52:40] inspired affection and love and high [00:52:44] hopes and a culture of kindness [00:52:47] that continue to radiate among Americans [00:52:50] in from their memory. [00:52:53] That's the spirit on which I ran my [00:52:55] campaign and that I intend to bring into [00:52:58] the campaign of President Trump. [00:53:00] Instead of vitriol and polarization, I [00:53:03] will appeal to the values that unite us. [00:53:06] The goals that we could achieve if only [00:53:08] we weren't at each other's throats. [00:53:11] Most unifying theme for all Americans [00:53:15] is that we all love our children. If we [00:53:18] all unite around that issue now, we can [00:53:21] finally give them the protection, the [00:53:23] health, and the future that they [00:53:26] deserve. Thank you all very much. [00:53:37] And and with that speech, RFK Jr. steps [00:53:40] out of the race and throws his [00:53:41] endorsement to President Trump. He [00:53:43] apparently has made some sort of [00:53:45] agreement with President Trump to enter [00:53:46] his cabinet if President Trump is indeed [00:53:48] reelected. [00:53:50] There's a lot in that speech. The first [00:53:52] 15 minutes were a true barn burner. I [00:53:54] mean, really a barn burner. The single [00:53:56] most cohesive statement against the [00:53:57] Democratic Party and Kla Harris and the [00:53:58] media of this entire campaign from [00:54:00] anyone. That includes President Trump. [00:54:02] That includes JD Vance. It was a [00:54:03] fullscale attack on the Democratic party [00:54:06] for rigging their primary process in [00:54:08] order to cover the sility of Joe Biden. [00:54:10] Then elevating a person who's never won [00:54:11] a primary vote. Kla Harris to a position [00:54:13] of power. He ripped on Kla Harris for [00:54:15] being smoke and mirrors, for not [00:54:17] providing a single policy position. He [00:54:20] ripped on the media for denying not only [00:54:22] him access to the airwaves, but also for [00:54:25] hiding all of the things from Joe [00:54:27] Biden's infirmity to Kla Harris's lack [00:54:30] of policy positions. It was a frontal [00:54:32] assault on that triumphvirate. the [00:54:34] Democratic Party, the media [00:54:38] and the the Democratic Party, the media, [00:54:41] as well as the [00:54:45] institutional structures of the [00:54:47] judiciary, for example, that he says [00:54:49] have the the governmental structures [00:54:50] that have been used against him, social [00:54:53] media, tech, and all the rest. A very [00:54:55] powerful speech there. Obviously, I [00:54:57] disagree with many of the things that [00:54:58] RFK says. You can watch the interview [00:55:00] that I did with RFK Jr. just a few [00:55:02] months back and we talked about many of [00:55:04] the things that he talked about right [00:55:05] there. He obviously has a passion for [00:55:06] children's health when he is talking [00:55:08] about the uncanliness of the food supply [00:55:10] when he's talking about the the [00:55:12] generalized bad standards of health and [00:55:15] safety in the United States. However, [00:55:17] here he was speaking with me. Here was [00:55:19] his critique of Joe Biden at the time. [00:55:23] I think there's a tremendous reason to [00:55:25] hope in this country if we have the [00:55:27] right leadership. And I don't the reason [00:55:29] I'm running is cuz I just don't believe [00:55:31] that President Biden who I've known for [00:55:34] many years like personally [00:55:36] that he has any capacity to even see you [00:55:41] know over the horizon and see which [00:55:43] direction and provide the kind of [00:55:44] leadership that we're going to need to [00:55:45] make this transition. [00:55:49] He laid out several reasons in his [00:55:51] speech why he believes that Donald Trump [00:55:53] is a better pick for him than Kla [00:55:54] Harris. Obviously, one of those reasons [00:55:56] that the Democratic Party legitimately [00:55:58] forced him out of the race very, very [00:56:00] early. They wouldn't even allow him on [00:56:01] the primary ballot. He suggested that [00:56:04] his top priorities are protecting [00:56:05] freedom of speech, that that was a big [00:56:08] priority for him, and that meant not [00:56:10] allowing the visiation of the borderline [00:56:12] between the government and the media [00:56:13] that has happened under the Biden [00:56:15] administration. He mentioned bringing [00:56:17] back manufacturing and protecting the [00:56:18] dollar and of course his health [00:56:21] priorities. Now, obviously, he and I [00:56:23] disagree very strenuously on the Ukraine [00:56:25] Russia war. I think that his narrative [00:56:28] is not in line with the the facts about [00:56:30] what Russia's actual ambitions are in [00:56:32] Ukraine or why that war broke out. But [00:56:34] his generalized idea, which is that [00:56:36] Donald Trump is better for peace in the [00:56:37] world than Kla Harris, is obviously and [00:56:39] certainly true and that is empirically [00:56:41] true. So, he has stepped out of the [00:56:43] race. He has endorsed Donald Trump and [00:56:45] he is going to be an attack dog for sure [00:56:46] against Kla Harris and the Democratic [00:56:48] party that are doing their best to avoid [00:56:51] any and all scrutiny. For his part, [00:56:53] President Trump has made quick comment [00:56:56] about RFK's endorsement. Here's what he [00:56:57] had to say. [00:56:59] We just had a very nice uh endorsement [00:57:03] from RFK Jr. Bobby [00:57:07] [Applause] [00:57:08] and I'll be talking about that. We're [00:57:10] heading out right after this. We're [00:57:11] going to be going to Arizona. We'll be [00:57:13] talking about that and uh a lot of other [00:57:15] things too. But I just want to thank [00:57:17] everybody and I want to thank Bobby. [00:57:19] That was very nice. That was really very [00:57:22] that's big. He's a great guy, respected [00:57:25] by everybody. [00:57:28] Okay. Well, CNN for its part cut [00:57:30] directly out of that speech. So, we [00:57:31] played you the whole speech. CNN about [00:57:33] 10 minutes in when they realized that he [00:57:34] was going to turn his guns on CNN and [00:57:36] the mainstream media and the legacy [00:57:38] media's cover up of the Kla Harris [00:57:40] campaign, their cover up of Joe Biden [00:57:41] sility. They tuned out of that almost [00:57:43] immediately because again they could not [00:57:45] risk the exposure of the Democratic [00:57:49] media human centipede that has been [00:57:50] created for this campaign. I think that [00:57:53] RFK Jr. for all of his flaws in my [00:57:57] thinking with regard to some of his [00:57:58] policy prescriptions. I think what he [00:58:00] does bring is a independence. Obviously [00:58:03] there are a bunch of independents who [00:58:04] like RFK Jr. He's somebody who's [00:58:06] heterodox. He's somebody who obviously [00:58:08] has high levels of name recognition and [00:58:10] he just moved some momentum back into [00:58:12] Donald Trump's camp particularly in the [00:58:14] swing states and frankly his plan is [00:58:16] pretty smart right his plan is that he [00:58:18] is going to take his name off the ballot [00:58:19] in the 10 most competitive states and [00:58:20] leave it on the ballot in all the other [00:58:22] states in the other states he says it's [00:58:24] not going to make a difference and it [00:58:24] will signify how many people are [00:58:26] dissatisfied with both parties and [00:58:28] that's a smart move moving forward for [00:58:29] him and in the swing states he says I'm [00:58:31] not going to be the spoiler so he is [00:58:34] stepping out of the race obviously that [00:58:36] is the biggest news of the day in terms [00:58:38] of the actual effect, it could dwarf the [00:58:40] effect of the actual Democratic National [00:58:42] Convention, which of course was just a [00:58:44] highly produced slick spectacle in which [00:58:46] we are all supposed to worship the altar [00:58:47] of joy or some such. But the theme that [00:58:50] he hit and the theme that Trump has to [00:58:51] hit, the theme from here until election [00:58:53] day is every time Kla Harris says we [00:58:55] should do X, Y, or Z, the question [00:58:58] should be from Donald Trump, from RFK [00:59:01] Jr. for everyone else. So why didn't you [00:59:04] do it? So why didn't you do it? You're [00:59:06] the vice president of the United States. [00:59:08] Hell, why don't you do it right now? She [00:59:10] has not answered a single question. And [00:59:12] again, RFK Jr. did the same thing I've [00:59:14] been doing on the show. He literally [00:59:16] named the number of days she has not [00:59:17] done a sit down press conference. She [00:59:19] has not done a sit down interview. She [00:59:20] has not explicated any of her policies. [00:59:23] It is time to force her to actually [00:59:26] answer questions about what she is going [00:59:28] to be as president. And we all know the [00:59:29] answer. It's going to be Biden part two. [00:59:31] So, if you like Biden part one, then [00:59:33] maybe you're up for Biden part two, but [00:59:35] with a younger face. Or maybe if you're [00:59:37] like most Americans, you actually don't [00:59:38] like the direction of the country right [00:59:39] now, you might want to think about a [00:59:41] change, even if you're not particularly [00:59:43] fond of Donald Trump as a human being. [00:59:45] All righty, folks. So, we'll be back [00:59:47] here on Monday. I'm sure we'll have more [00:59:49] updates as the weekend continues, if [00:59:51] there are more updates to bring. Again, [00:59:53] you can't miss a minute. There's one [00:59:54] reason you should subscribe over at [00:59:55] Daily Wire Plus because we're constantly [00:59:56] bringing you updates throughout this [00:59:57] election season. Man, this election [00:59:59] season is moving fast and uh taking no [01:00:02] prisoners. So, we'll see you very soon.