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trump, the featured speaker at the south dakota republican party's monumental leaders rally. then, the attorney for former proud boys leader hidden in ricky torino commenting on the 22 year sentence handed down to his client for seditious conspiracy. later, the texas state senate and the impeachment trial of ann paxton on allegations of bribery and obstruction of justice -- ken paxton on allegations of bribery and obstruction. former president donald trump was a keynote speaker at the monumental leaders rally, hosted by the south dakota republican party. ♪

>> we chose a different path.

[applause] on july 3, we gathered at this nation's greatest monument and invited the world's strongest leader to join us. [applause] donald j. trump showed up. [applause] trump showed us like he always does for the american people. he has shown appear again tonight. [applause] i have gotten lots of questions from people across the country about tonight's event. they want to know why. why did you invite president trump to come support the south dakota republican party? [applause] they wanted to know, why would

he waste his time in the middle of a presidential race to go to a small, insignificant state like south dakota. somebody really asked me that. that conversation went south quickly. another question they asked is, is president trump going to pick you as the most popular governor? i said, yes. here are the facts. chairman john wick had this fantastic idea to bring republicans in -- and our state to gather to rally us around our principles. i love the idea. i told him i would do every thing i could to help him. we started discussing inviting the candidates running to be president of the united states. tim scott was asked. he declined. the vet was invited.

he turned us down. all of them told us he -- they had better things to do. but, when trump was invited to come tonight, he said i will be there. [applause] that is why people love president trump. he does not listen to consultants. he does not this into the media or the political elite to tell him what was important and what his priorities should be. to him, every american is worth fighting for. no one is better than anyone else. no one deserves to be between differently than anyone else and he will never forget about us. the little people in the little states that are the backbone of this country.

he shows up for every american and he fights for us every single day. some people cannot figure out his popularity. why are people so loyal to him? i'm convinced it is because we have never seen anything or anyone like him ever before. [applause]

all while preserving our values and our way of life. we have done that and we did not do it through government control or by raising taxes. we did it by trusting our people and by giving them more opportunities to succeed. when the rest of the country was locking down and ordering people to stay home, we did the exact opposite. [applause] we invited people to come to south dakota. we used it as an opportunity to tell our story. we were a city on a hill there ring a very dark time and we represented hope. we showed people and the country how to do better, how to be

better. many were threatened by what south dakota had done the last several years. here's why. while big government socialists want more control over you and your family, your money and your life, we chose personal responsibility we cut taxes, we cut regulations, we let families make the best decisions for themselves and we have thrived. [applause] we have gone from flyover country to one of the fastest growing states in the nation. [applause] south dakota's real gdp just grew a whopping 10.1%. [applause] our personal incomes just went up in other 9.2%. those are both top five in the nation. our population has been growing up to 10 times the national

average over the past several years. we are a beacon of freedom to the nation and we have broken tourism records every year since the pandemic. we have grown our economy faster than any other state and faster than at any other time in south dakota history. [applause] let me give you a quick refresher on south dakota's history. in january 2020, i stood in front of our legislature and in my state of the state address, i declared south dakota open for business. just two months later, our first covid cases came to south dakota. i knew one thing, the only way we were going to get through it was together. we made decisions based on the science, the facts and data and the sides did not support mandates or lockdowns. [applause] we asked south dakota and's to

use common sense and we trusted them. we trusted them to use personal responsibility to make the best decisions for themselves and their loved ones and as a community, as a state, we went back to work. other states were taking a very different approach. they ordered their citizens to shelter-in-place. they ordered businesses to lock down their churches to close. some even sent nursing home patients who had covid back to their facilities. those decisions were not leadership. they were made based on and control. south dakota, we focused on our staff. i respected my oath to the united states of the south dakota constitution. i respected our freedom and i respected our people. if joe biden had been president, he would have tried stop me from protecting you. thank god president trump was in the white house at the time. [applause]

he let me do my job. the results have been incredible. earlier this year, south dakota became the first state in american history to reach a 1.8% unemployment rate. [applause] no state has ever had an unemployment rate that low. our people understand the value of work and having a purpose. they understand that were created to serve each other. incomes have been going up faster here than anywhere else. women-owned businesses do better here than virtually any other state. folks are moving here. [applause] in record numbers -- our birthrates are the highest in the country. our new housing development have led the nation. we have had historic tourism numbers, set new records in hunting and fishing licenses and cut taxes. all while building historic revenues because of our economic growth. while other states were

struggling with out-of-control crime and violence and hopelessness, south dakota enforce our laws. we respected our law enforcement officers. [applause] we even saw declining mental health challenges, declining drug overdoses and declining suicide rates. by embracing our faith and freedom and by working together, our people are happier. you see, i believe this is one of the main reasons why south dakota is so attacked by those who want to cs fail. they will do anything and destroy anyone to get more control and power. we refused to comply. [applause] all we did in south dakota is

what republicans have always said that they believed. but, we did it and it worked. now, that terrifies the liberals. we have proof that our policies lift people up. that they help people, that they improve their opportunities for success. we do not have to speculate or guess or be philosophical about the benefits of our principles. we have proof that they work. three ears ago on july 3 in mount rushmore, i stood there to honor our nation. i quoted one of our great leaders carved in stone on that mountain. i quoted my favorite president. teddy. it is not the critic that counts, not the man that points out how the strong man stumbles or where they do wear of deeds could have done them better. the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who airs and come up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.

but, who does actually strive to do the deed? who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause?/ who at the best, in the end, knows the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst as he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither knew victory nor defeat. that night, i used those words to introduce our special guest with us this evening. i introduced him as someone who knows precisely what it means to raise the dangers in the arena, someone who strives valiantly, who knows great doozy at them, who spends himself in a worthy cause. who has firmly and repeatedly stated his commitment to place americans, american liberties, american safety and the american constitution before anything else.

[applause] let me be clear. there are many who choose not to be in the arena. many who take the easy path, who criticize, who do not show up for our party, our country or our constitutional rights. i do not show up for you when it matters a good not show up here tonight to welcome a former president of the united states to south dakota. a president who cared enough to come and support our state republican party and our great chairman, john wick. yes, maybe it is controversial to be here tonight. maybe it was not convenient. but, it is not the critic who counts. thank all of you for being respectful, for being here for a man who shows up every day for each of us. [applause]

may we all know the triumph of high achievement. because of those like him who fight for freedom, it is a worthy cause. i was at the southern border to weeks ago, make no mistake, it is a war zone. president biden's policies are inhumane. he is ignoring federal laws, he is perpetuating drug and human trafficking. he is undermining our national security. the only person in this presidential race who will fix that situation is president trump. [applause] he started building and funded the wall. he instituted the remain in mexico policy. he supports our allies such as israel and taiwan. he understands a strong america brings a safer world.

i trust president trump to use our military when it is in america's best interest. i have been commander-in-chief for the south dakota guard peered i have had south dakota guards men and women deployed every day since i have been governor. before that, i served on the house of armed forces committee. i know how important it is. i have seen president trump take decisive action time and time again. he exhibits peace through strength. he destroys our enemies and swiftly, without hesitation. [applause] and, he understands that american women and men in uniform should only be deployed as a last result. the only person in the race that i trust to be done on these issues is president trump. [applause]

i have not seen these other candidates fight when it mattered, when it was hard to do the right thing for our country. some of them talk pretty tough, but where were they when the pandemic was raging? when leaders were taking away people's constitutional rights, because the government told folks they cannot gather together. people lost their freedom of sibley. the government told people they could not go to church, people lost their freedom of religion. government censored what information could be shared and what could not, people lost their freedom of speech. where were these candidates then? they were silent. they were cowering. or worse yet, they were locking down their own people. they were pushing mandates, closing beaches, even arresting people for taking a spring break. yes, i will be attacked for speaking the truth to all of you tonight. yes, i accept that joe biden --

it is nothing new. frankly, i am getting used to it. [applause] but, all of us here tonight, we need to heed this warning in this well-known quote. the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. [applause] so, listen. do something. get in the arena. history cannot and should not be rewritten. we must remember what has happened in the past. learn from it, and not allow those who abuse their power to ever perpetuate their harm again. two president trump, tonight, my message is clear. it is an honor to have you here with us in south dakota.

[applause] these people here, these people are free. we are the strongest state in america because president trump let me do my job. we seized that moment and we told our story. as you travel this great country , point to south dakota as the example of what is possible. we just did hear what republican savoy said they believed, but we did it and it worked. we do not have to talk hypotheticals anymore. we kept our business is open. we kept government out of people's lives. we cut taxes. our government live within its means. we have a surplus, not that. we fund our pensions, take care of our veterans, we conserve our natural beauty without government mandates. we play for true and honest education because we know how important it is to hand america off to our kids. [applause]

we stand up for common sense, like fairness in girls sports. [applause] we do our part to secure the border read we honor america's heroes. we stand and pray to the almighty. and, we sing the national anthem proudly. this is real america. south dakota is the example you should share with the rest of the country. you made america great again once. let's do it again. [applause]

it is my honor to present to you the man in the arena. he is a man of significance. ♪

we have to start. thank you for that incredible south dakota welcome. this place is packed. this arena is incredible. you are incredible people. i am thrilled to be back with thousands of hard-working, god-fearing patriots in the heartland of america. i want to thank one of the most successful governors in the entire nation, incredible persons south dakota's on kristi noem.

she is tough on china unlike other governors she never locked down south dakota. they all say they kept it open. they did not keep it open. we had some good ones. we had some really good ones but she was just incredible. you got to look at those numbers. i'm truly honored to receive your endorsement, very much so. i appreciate it. i get endorsements, some good, some bad.

hers means a lot. everyone here tonight as part of the greatest political movement in the history of our country. we come to south dakota, i said how many people you normally have at your dinners and events. a couple hundred. this is like 6000 people. this is a lot. your chairman is great. he has done a fantastic job. just broke at all-time record may be will break it again next year. we are racing for a monumental victory. this is so important. when we did 2016, i said this is the most important election we've ever had. our country is going to hell.

together we are going to defeat cricket joe biden -- crooked joe biden, most incompetent president in history. we are going to make america great again. [applause] three years ago i traveled to south dakota to deliver a historic address, turned out people look the speech. they always say it was the best one. i think the beautiful facade, is there a better place in the world to make a speech? do not think so. even though you have the the tics that would like to chop it up and knock it down, it is not happening. i would not want to be them.

some of the most beautiful pictures avenue everett had taken of my family, we had a goodwill crowd and we opened it up for the fireworks. he had the fireworks for a few years. the democrats close it down for the fireworks. why would they do that? how beautiful was that. they close it down, they were worried about fire but i said it is all stone and rock. it is hard for a rock to catch on fire. they did not want to do it but mount rushmore is a very special place. i stood before you at this majestic period of time, majestic my meant and defended our great american heroes from the marxist, communists, maniacs trying to blast them. trying to blast that incredible work off of the face, the very beautiful now and, yet today

under joe biden, fascist, cabinets are not just tearing down statues, they are tearing down the economy, dismantling the border, destroying the laws, looting the middle-class, mutilating our children. who would imagine somebody would say that and it is true? desecrating our constitution, perverting our military. our military is becoming woke. our white house a place that is not recognizable. hallie weaponize department of justice mutt like never before. i took the word out, crooked hillary, i give her a different name. have enough words.

i call her beautiful hillary. that was a good day a few months ago but when he did the indictment, this is not an indictment, -- this is the campaign thing they told. under joe, i thought it was an appropriate name. take a look at what is going on. millions of dollars stolen. our country being destroyed under this man. i repeat what i said three years ago, and the american people is strong and we are proud and will not allow our country, all the values, incredible history to be taken from us. they are trying to take it from us. you see what is going on with the vote. joe biden banana republic. we have turned into a banana republic.

we have no borders, dishonest elections. who wants to have millions of people like an invasion pouring into the country? we have no idea where they come from. they come from jails and places you do not want to know about. with the vote, joe biden's country it is on november 5, 2024 -- ends on november 5, 2024. america will be safe and great nation of washington, jefferson, lincoln, and roosevelt will be restored. it is never been this low. if you took the five worst presidents in the history of u.s. and added them up, they

would not have done the distraction to our country as joe biden and bided administration -- biden administration has done in short years. no damage worse than the disaster known as bidenomics. he was given the term as the negative and he liked the way it sounded. they're all about disinformation. christie tells it like it is. no disinformation. sometimes you may be better off doing it that way. it is easier rather than having to produce. he tried to turn bidenomics into a good thing. it is a bad thing. he likes the sound of the name. he does not know too much about what is going on anymore. since joe biden took office, inflation reached almost 20%.

think of it. 2.5 year period. imagine more than one year and we can rid ourselves of what is happened to this country, bring our country back. the dollar has lost more than 20% of its value three years time. never happened before. jill biden belong through -- joe biden belong through 11.5 trillion dollars in wasting spending. equivalent to 88,000 dollars taken away from every family in america. the budget deficit is exploding and set to more than double this year alone. we were doing something with energy and making a lot of money.

we're going to pay off our debt. were going to lower taxes. manufacturing contracted. monthly job reports revised downward every single month. they have gone down. we are probably heading into a great depression, something i never said before publicly. i hate to say this is the state i have to say it, but i did not believe of said that before. i hate to make it. the question is whether or not it will be during the remaining months of the biden administration. if it is going to happen, let it happen then. let it be during joe and we will come up and spring this sucker out. [applause] mr. trump: will the next president have to bear the brunt

of what biden has done to our country? he has done such damage. i did not want to be the next herbert hoover. the great depression. he was the president during the beginning of the great depression but i will not let that happen. that i can tell you. during bidens first 30 months in office, 2.1 million new jobs created. the wrinkle is so off even the fake news said you cannot get way with that. he makes up these stories like a picture of a fighter jet. i used to be a fighter jet pilot . there's a picture of a truck. i used to drive a truck. the worst is did you ever see his golf swing? he said he said he's a six handicap. six

handicap is a good golfer. this guy cannot hit a ball to chrissy -- kristi. six handicap. i think that is the greatest light of all. during the first 30 months of present trump we created 4.9 million new jobs chattering all predictions and projections. it is the greatest economy in history. hunter biden, rome come gone down -- real income has gone down. under president trump, yearly income went up more than 6000 dollars. think of that. all of this horror and joe biden traveling around the country attending he's an economic genius. he is actually an economic

arsonists. bidenomics incinerating american wealth at a level never seen before. it is an an inferno of inflation , taxation, and value, and submission. we submit. we are cementing to china. we cannot take care of our own country. we cannot help hawaii but we send billions of dollars to other countries. the choice between biden economic bust. or a trump economic -- we had a booming like never before. this was the most successful economy in world history. we had the most successful. everybody was happy. african americans, asian

americans, hispanic americans, men, women. people from harvard, and mighty, those with no degrees at all. now you're giving phony numbers because far few people are looking for jobs. they throw around 3.6% but is a different group of people. they are looking for jobs but many are not looking for jobs. it is a fake number. he only cares about enriching his own family. i care about enriching your family. something that again, this is like an evening of first but is something which i proudly say, and the only president that everett lost money while serving in office, and i knew that would happen.

i did not know it would be that much. that is a lot. i lost billions but i knew it was a part of and that is what i intended. i put things in trust. i said my kids are going to run and they said do not do deals outside of the country. i come out and i watch this biden stuff. it is just the craziest thing i've ever seen. i got to give credit to jim jordan and jimmy comer because they found things that nobody thought. it cost me billions of dollars. it has been worth every single penny of them.

i am working for you. i could've made so much. we would love to do a deal with saudi arabia. i cannot do it. i am president. joe biden would do it. we did the right thing. i would do it that way again. you have a short period of time -- we have a short period of time. i gave away my salary. does anyone say i gave away my salary? no. they used to call, did you give it a this month? you have to give it to various agencies. if i ever said no, what i say,

yes, we did, and i never read anything about it. it was all an honor. if you want the bidens to make millions selling out americans, all your savings go up in flames, that is what happened. how is your 401(k) doing, you know, as an example. then vote for crooked joe. we used to call him sleepy joe, but i think crooked joe is a better name. it is more appropriate. if you want better jobs, higher wages, affordable american dream, you must vote for your favorite president donald j trump.

thank you very much. i wish those cameras would turn around. i go to arenas and we sell out these arenas and they are great but i wish cameras with shouted. it would be good for the ratings. when i first started, we started in 2015, got into the arena and it will be packed. never having had enthusiasm we have now. we had record enthusiasm in 2016. 2020 we had more. we did better in 2020 and 2016

but never had enthusiasm we have now. i used to say it is a shame i go home and are great first lady was say to me how are you and i would say can ask you did you watch the speech. how did i do? well, i did not like your hair. i said oh, that is not good. but how did the crowd look? you cannot tell except for the noise. not 200 people shouting. remember joey could not fill up the eight circles but he supposedly won. how did you like the crowd? they never show the crowd that i can tell it was a big crowd. it is your great football team.

you can sell. she could tell. [cheers] mr. trump: good. i'm going to get a good review tonight. she could tell but she said they never show the crowd and i figured it is maybe the structure of the camera. tripods and maybe you cannot turn and and then we had a couple embarrassing moments were people ended up writing in the corner and that camera turned around like a pretzel. they want to show that. my three was you could not turn it because it was to but they

started fighting in the corner, i've never seen a camera like that. they got every angle. i realize that was not working but -- i would love it if the press would turn around the cameras and show this incredible. [applause] mr. trump: they do not do it. [applause]

mr. trump: they do not do it. because they are told not to do it because they want to make it look -- they did not want to show crowds like this because no one has ever gotten krause like this. it is not me, this is our moment. they are tired of what happened to our country. they want do it even though it is good for them. it is incredible. they just won't do it. i asked nicely . i did not see one of them even make an effort to turn around.

that is why they call it fake news. i am proud of a lot of things create you do not mind if i go off the teleprompter for a second, do you? [cheers] mr. trump: better than i thought. we like we go off the teleprompter. member the beginning used to do it without teleprompters. you have to because we gone the teleprompter too long, no matter how good you are, it is called the boring time. but we've had an incredible time with this country. we have such potential and we speak so negatively and it is horrible to be telling you what

happened but you know what happened, watch the news cast, which by the way if you look at abc, cbs, cnn, you look at msdnc, they are evil. they are a wing of the democratic party. someone should put that for campaign contributions. you do not want your family to watch it. i hear him to be indicted. indicted? i never learned about that at the wharton school. i see my wife. i'm going to be indicted for no reason whatsoever on friday.

then that happens. it is dramatics. you call your daughters and sons. it is a terrible thing. i hear later i'm going to be indicted for something else, then for something else, then for something else, and now they're saying and not and i am anymore because they lost credibility. you go four times and even the lawsuits. these are sick people. these are people actually saying. they're just the showing the country. if we do not take it back i really believe we will not have a country left. you see it less because you here in this great state. i heard flight over and everybody admires you. they know what is happening on the west coast. they know what is happening on

the east coast. it is not pretty. the people that are smart say there no more flyover, we are coming to south dakota, or other places. you do not see was going on other than the news. they do not show, the main networks, they do not show what is going on at the border. they show nothing compared to the facts. this is an invasion and destruction of our country and did not want to show it because they want that crooked guide to be elected, if you mix it to the starting gate. i used to treat him with a modicum of respect because i have respect for the office of the presidency. but when they indicted me for nothing, for free speech. i said the election was rigged and stolen which it was. everybody knows it. free speech.

i used to say, we are political opponents, but he did this to an opponent. nobody would ever think it is possible. it is not really possible. when you think about it, i never said that. now i say he is the worst president in the history of the country. as other foreign leaders say and as i say, he is grossly incompetent and very dangerous because he has no idea what he is doing. he cannot put two sentences together and we are playing with nuclear weapons with other countries and has no clue what the hell is going on. i would have never have said

that for respect of the office, not for him, but they weaponize the department of justice, the fbi came out with twitter files, and he thinks they have done is so bad -- the things they have done is so bad and corrupt genuineness on a nightly basis and you do get to see what is happening. when you the kind of things i am totally free to speak my mind and my mind is the same as your mind because you know what is happening like i do. we will because they do not care about south dakota, we will stand up for south dakota

workers. we will stand up for south dakota farmers. no one has ever taken care of the farmers like president trump.as your president i took on communist china like no administration in history, bringing hundreds of billions of dollars into our treasury. they did not like me too much. i think i got along well with them considering what we were doing. no other president had ever gotten $.10. hundreds of billions. i gave our farmers out of the money we got $28 billion. your state. iowa. i go to iowa tomorrow. i knock on wood. this is real wood. i do not like saying things like

nobody else could do this, but nobody else could have gotten you 28 billion for your farmers, and i said to the people of iowa, nebraska, we are represented very well, charles, i said we cannot possibly lose because i got the farmers $28 billion from china. nobody else would think about it. i will just tell you, a guy who is very disloyal, i got him elected, he strongly oppose my protection for our farmers. those farmers got big checks. any farmers in here got big checks? yes. he is happy but that goes to the people. 28 billion. nobody else is going to be able to do that.

no way a loose farm states but very simply desantis side it would communist in china and fought very hard this not take place. he opposed medicare and social security. remember this about politician. their first idea is what they always go back to. he is so low in the polls. they say forget about him he is gone but nobody is gone until it is over. it is not over until it is over. the great yearly bera. he is get -- he has voted to get social security. you know who paul ryan in? he wanted to raise and will raise if he got in here, which i did not think will happen, he wanted to raise the venom age --

minimum age to 70. he wanted to hit medicare. i ended the worst trade deal ever made in the history of our country and replace it with the brand new u.s. mca. i made a deal with china but i do not talk about it because once covid came in i said i'm not talking about it but the deal i made with china is $50 billion they buy a year. it started out at four then we got them up to 15 then i went to the negotiating room. you are so big. we want to 50 billion. they said ok. the farmers went along with me. it took 1.5 years to get done because they're not easy to do with.

they cannot believe it was happening. you see they way they go and val to the chinese -- bow to the chinese. i said is going to take long to do this and i will never forget, 32 farmers came to see me at white house. i said i'm going to get you a lot of subsidy from china. wendy farmers raise his hand, -- one of the farmers raise his hand and said we do not want subsidy, we just want a fair of a playing field. i could not believe it. the first time that ever happened. everybody else says we want the money. the farmers wanted a level playing field which they did not have. i went to sonny perdue, secretary of agriculture. what damage had they done the last 3, 4, five years to the farmers? he says about $28 billion.

i said that is a lot. wriggling to get it and i got it -- i said were going to get it and i got it. the farmers picked up beautiful checks. i said no way i lose a form stated. any form or what it against me i cannot imagine that so. i was cockier than i should be. now i will knock on wood just in case. i cannot see how he lives with farmers and manufacturers, the same thing -- i cannot see how we lose with the farmers and manufacturers, the same thing. i bet you right now if you look up, they're not buying anything, i bet they are not buying at all. there's is no reason for it. we had strong relationship and we did fantastically well but

that a deal might've been better than u.s. mca was very one-sided deal. nafta so one-sided. they made typos. there were typos of numbers ready typos were much more for them and they did not change it. yeah the thing, call up and say you made mistakes. they did not bother changing it. usmca they want to renegotiate the deal. they called the biden and administration and said the bill is not fair. i think the china deal might be better. we made deals with japan because they were ripping us. we made deals with south korea. you know what they were doing. we made our country successful.

we may people in manufacturing successful. we saved our steel mills. it has been an honor to do it and it was sort of easy. [applause] mr. trump: prime minister of japan who was assassinated, great guy. i said to him this is so unfair, the deal you have with america. it is really unfair. we got to redo it. he said i knew you would come to me. no other president came to him. he understood how unfair it was. south korea the same thing, sort of. i said we need to renegotiate. we had 35,000 troops there in harm's way because you have north korea. if are not elected president,

you would've had a nuclear war guaranteed. italy clinton went in or obama -- hillary clinton in or obama, you would've ended up in nuclear war. member rocket man, i have a red button on my desk and i said i have a red button to an mine is bigger and better and work stronger. president obama me when we sat down. he said the biggest problem is north korea. he really felt we would end up in nuclear war. have you called them? he did not say yes. i said maybe someone should have the call. the truth is they did call and they were not received well.

we spoke and we dealt, i went over there. a very historic moment. i said you the most beautiful shoreline. your between china, russia, and south korea. you could have the most beautiful condos you've ever seen and become rich as hell. you do not have to live like youre livin. he just loves collecting nuclear weapons. we got along and couldn't wait well once we met and started and we saved the olympics in south korea because no one was going. no one wanted to be blown out of the stadium. they purchase a paid it -- they participated in the olympics.

think of what is happened to our country in just three years. you look at the borders and you look at it -- we are not respected. we are laughed at all over the world. we're losing all these countries. saudi arabia aligned with china. we did not want them aligned with child. -- we do not want them aligned with china. we have more oil under our feet, liquid gold, then it saudi arabia or russia. you know what we do? we get it from venezuela. they do not have good oil. they have tar. we processed in houston. it all goes up into the atmosphere and when china is

dirty, it blows over here. in the pacific ocean, we are taking tons of garbage because china dumps their garbage in the pacific and the tide flows it into los angeles. they have to participate because it blows over in three or four days so what good does it do for us to destroy our businesses by putting controls all over the place. by having -- we had a trucker. i said i read last night they want to make all of these big trucks that travel all over the country, make them all electric. it does not seem to make sense. he said it will destroy the industry because they go for two hours and have to charge for four hours. you have to talk to the people

in trucking industry, not to some person who wants to destroy the country. i believe that is what they want to do. unlike the establishment of local list in -- globalist in this race. i've been a defender of ethanol champion. it is a big factor. our record on the economy is unmatched in the history of our country. it is no wonder we are very big in polls, leading all republicans by massive numbers and crushing joe biden in the general election. the new poll that came out today , used to go over the polls, go over the polls only if they were good. if i had a bad period and they are not looking good, i would not talk about them. i will talk now because these are the best. the new poll that just came out,

62%. desantis second, 12%. he is sinking rapidly. he is not doing a great job. the rest of the people single digits. we have a couple of them at zero. what is the guy from arkansas? i love arkansas. hutchison, ada. what is he doing? he is at zero. does he think he can win? he is not going to be picked for cabinet post if that is what he is thinking but read poll, we are at 65%. dissent is at 9%..

when we started we were up 25 points. now we're up 50 points and they say why you not doing the debate. i do the debate, what my doing? have a guy at 0, 1, 2. ask you meet nasty question's pretty somewhat of a hostile network asking nasty questions. you want to have a smart president, not a stupid president. what i look forward to is debating democratic, whoever it may be, and again, it is going to be interesting to see because i did not think he makes it to the starting gate, but maybe he's does. is going to be adjusting time. -- it is going to be adjusting time. they just released the iowa state poll.

just came out, about 37 points, 51-14, i do not know if the sentence is second anymore. when asked by morning consult who has the best chance of defeating cricket joe biden in november, it was trump at 63%, desantis at 13%. kristi and her incredible guy, her husband is incredible, and appreciate you putting everything -- putting up with everything in the world of politics. incredible guy. we are doing well and she's doing so well. i look at your polls. at think you might be beating me in the state. that is an excitable to have

that happened. but we are leading biden in a landslide. as a republican, when you lead a democrat in presidential race by 2: points or three points, it is very different. people that do not know politics, one poll came out last week and i'm leading by three and a friend said how can you only be leading by three. he cannot speak. i said that is the world of politics. we have to be so careful. to make sure they did not cheat because they are teachers and that is the biggest scare we all have -- they are cheaters and that is the biggest scare we all have. our momentum is on president and hopefully unstoppable and it is

the reason joe biden what his leading opponent arrested on 91 funny charges -- phony charges. regards ask -- we are going to ask for dismissals. that means if i win, somebody wants to run against me, i call my attorney general and say and died him. he is not do anything wrong. i do not know. and died him income tax invasion -- and item on income tax invasion. you will figure it out. and mobile to speak but if you are regular politician, and on this politician and you get indicted, a subpoena and it is reported in the news, you have to leave office. the republicans in the senate,

in the house cannot let this go on because people are being destroyed, lives destroyed by these lunatics in washington. i think i can honestly say this, i am the only person in history of politics that has been indicted, whose poll numbers went up 25 points or something. i think so. usually if you get indicted -- i would like to announce my retirement, i'm going home to spend time with my family. it is nothing you can do. i have a big voice and for better or worse, you know what the hell you're getting.

you're witnessing the most corrupted, blatant open eyes nation of law enforcement. our country has ever seen and they're doing it for alleged interference because with these indictments come bad publicity. my case is unusual. navy it switches. you got with this people and they say this and that. it is incredible but if you take a look at what they do to publicity of a person and i know numerous people over the years i thought were honest and they relatively out of politics in a matter of hours. some quit immediately upon getting served with a subpoena. they will not happen with me. by the way, i say this more to the country then to this great

state because we have some states that are close. this is not close. what did i wind by the state? a lot. 28 points or something. you are very forgiving. yet have others where it is closer and he got to be very careful. you have to get out and fight like hell because these are dirty players. we have to take back our country. straighten the whole situation out. it allows me because this is unthinkable, i am president and i call my attorney general, indict my opponent, he is doing well. i am leading joe biden in all these polls. i have another indictment.

what is this one for? if there president, you're the chief law enforcement officer of the country. there were two fake impeachments . one was over a phone call that turned out to be exactly right. what you do in make it impossible for people to win an election. discard election indifference at a level never seen before and we have to stop it. if they're allowed to do it, that means the republicans are allowed to do it and then you get into this situation which is really very bad and dangerous for our country. we did great in 2016 and we won. we did much better in 2020 getting millions more votes and were going to do even better than we have done before in 2024. i feel that.

do not forget. you look at this arena and it is packed. we are a year before the election. these guys do not pack the arena the night before the election. remember hillary with the women screaming? the woman with the glasses has become famous. that was the most beautiful stage i've overseen. by the end of the evening it did not look pretty. they rigged the presidential election 2020 and were not going to allow them to rig the presidential election of 2024. we will not have a country. every time the radical left democrats, marxists, communists, fascists and i me i considered a

great badge of honor -- indict me i consider it a great badge of honor. i am being indicted for you. i'm not too thrilled about that but as a part of the job description. they spied on my campaign and we called them. let's see what all happens. we had a great report come out. it just took so long and we had the ig. fantastic job. appointed by democrats. they spied on my campaign. think of what i haven't if i spied on obama's campaign -- think of what would happen if i spied on obama's campaign or a's campaign -- biden's campaign.

i would not want to, probably very boring. they chapel our rights and liberties every single day of the year. it is for the blue-collar workers, waiters, waitresses who joe biden is harassing with 87,000 new irs agents allowed to carry guns. they're allowed to carry guns. the biden crime family cheat on their taxes as they take in millions and millions of dollars of bribes. joe biden is a manchurian candidate. totally controlled by china and other countries that paid him off and he is petrified of them because they know the numbers. jamie comer, jim jordan would not have to wait very long. they

can give a list of where the money came from and i think it is why he is acting so weak with other countries. facing 20 years in prison for protesting and free speech while in and other groups burn down cities, killed people, go free, and in many cases do not get prosecuted. this battle that we are in is about toll for all of us -- is a battle for all of us. we are either going to go one way or the other and if we go the other, we are not going to have a country left. we will fight together. we will win together and then we will seek justice together. we will seek justice together. [cheers]

mr. trump: thank you. [cheers] mr. trump: thank you very much. never forget our enemies want to stop us because we are the only ones who can stop them. they want to take away my freedom because i will never let them take away your freedom. i would rather have it be me. friend of mine, very smart very tough said how do you take it? every day get another indictment. i said i do not know. you just have to take it. i'm doing it for a lot of great people. i said, second of all, do i have a choice? i do not think so.

we did the greatest job ever and we had to finish it all -- finish it off. the rolled sinks we are a bunch of stupid for because we are led by a man who should've never ever been allowed to be in that position. he is in a position he should never have been allowed to have. in the end they are not after me , they are after you. i'm just standing in their way and i do proudly stand in their way. i promise you this. if you put me back in the white house, their rain be over in america will be a free nation once again. we are not a free nation. i do not think there's been a darkness around our nation like there is right now. you take a look at afghanistan, the horrible moment in history. as with a lot of the families

the other night. they would never be the same. the so unnecessary the one -- the way we got out. you do not take the soldiers out first. to take the soldiers out last. took the soldiers out and the rest was a field day for these people. we do not lose one soldier in 18 not one soldier. and biden admitted that in this beach. we did not lose one soldier, and 18 months with the taliban. it is so sad to see. i was with these people, they were great people. they showed me pictures of their sons and daughters and one said sir, you had to know my son.

he was so good at football he could throw the ball so far. could i tell you about a game that was played. we had a rifle, a local school and they were very tough and my son threw the ball and it went so far. i just let her talk. i don't think people could ever be the same and they were treated so badly by our government and by this man, this man who doesn't even have a clue. the bodies are coming in. he doesn't know what it says anyway he says, huh? in addition to governor noem we are pleased to be joined by her husband brian and mother, who i met.

she was fantastic. now i know how this all happened. could you stand up? thank you. [cheers] do you think it is easy being with her? it's not easy. they are two incredible people. lieutenant governor gary roden has been really terrific. wherever he may be. thank you larry. attorney general, marty jack lee. a great job you are doing. great job. treasurer josh hader, thank you. auditor, rich sakist.

they spent billions of dollars to afghanistan and nobody knows where the money is. think of it, we put in $200 billion in europe which is the same sized economy but obviously much more affected by that situation. would have never happened and i will get it done, i will get it negotiated but it would've been a lot easier. all of those dead people in ruin. when you look at that and look at what happened this is something that should have never happened but europe is in for 20 billion, we in for 200 billion? it was like that with nato. we said you're not paying your bills. so they screwed us on trade and

we have to protect militarily. i got them to put up hundreds of billions of dollars in one meeting. does that mean you will not defend us from russia before not paid up? did you pay? that means you will not be defended in the money came pouring in. hundreds of billions of dollars which is why nato has money. they are in for 20 billion where in for 200 billion. we need to equalize. they are dealing with stupid people. why should france and germany put up money if we don't ask them to put it up. do you think biden says you have

to equalize, this is not right. i don't think so. i don't think he knows what we are talking about. we have to get them to put up money. they have a lot of money but why should they put it up before doing it? we sent 25 billion yesterday, that is a lot of money. we will give you another 25 billion which is more than your put in. we have to be respected again. they don't respect us. they respected me and i was tough with all the money and took it from countries including china but they do better, you can be tough and you do better with them. they never treated us in me the way they treat this administration. they treat them like they are a lot dogs.

who said that? you are right about that. they have to respect you. school and public lands commissioner, brock greenfield, brock, thank you. is china buying any of that land? he says no sir. a very special guy, this guy is crazy. he broke every record, it is true what christie said. he let people down. i come back.

he knew what he was doing. he went to christie do you think we could get trump. and i said let's break every record for north dakota. john wet, great job. -- john witt. a man doing something special rapid city mayor, jason solomon. thank you jason. a friend of mine and one of the most respected people in the senate, he is a great guy. steve danes? where's steve. we need more steve danes in the senate.

a man who is just outstanding, i put him in six months before i ran, it looks like i was doing well in the polls. he said sir, i'm telling you you're going to win and every day he would say you're leaving, you are winning this poll this unbelievable. he said you're unbelievable sir. most incredible politician ever seen and i hadn't even started yet. he got me excited and i saw the country was not doing well and you know what corey lewandowski, he is a great guy, smart guy and a friend to everybody. corey lewandowski, where is he?

were they real polls cory? he said no. i had a feeling that might be true. with the help of many of you this arena in four short years we achieved more than any administration in the history of our country. i say that all the time and the fake news doesn't even correct me. we became energy independent and would have been energy dominant for the first time ever. making billions and billions of dollar rapidly paying down our $34 trillion in debt. we could play it down so fast and reducing your taxes, i gave you the largest tax cut, larger than the break-in cuts. we created the most secure

border and got mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers. they gave us 28,000 soldiers why we were building the wall. we built almost 500 miles. it wasn't all new. these people are sick. we built almost 500 miles and we were going to add another 200 miles and we had it all done. it would've taken them three weeks and every hole would have been plugged in we built the exact bowl. we have incredible people -- and they want to do this job.

they can sit back and not do anything but they want to do it, they love the country and want to see it happen. but we got mexico billions and billions and billions of dollars and 28,000 soldiers protecting their border. we have the best record ever in the history of the country. we got human trafficking, you think of it as an ancient, horrible situation. because of the internet it is this massive, massive, much bigger than it was 100, 200 years ago. we had it been the lowest point in decades. we had drugs down the lowest point in decades and we got mexico to give us all those soldiers and this was much more money if they would've paid. if you don't do that we will

tariff the cars that come in the united states. we would love to give you 28,000 free soldiers. when i said we needed 28 1000 soldiers on the border and they looked at me like are you kidding? and i said no, we have to have it. they said no we won't do that and i said you will. we had a woman who was at the state department and she said sir they will never do it. we will never get anything but they won't do that. and i said yeah, they will. as such we want 28,000 soldiers. i said here's the story of him signing this document and on monday morning, everything you

send into the united states we will have a tariff on it for 25% and that's more money than your soldiers would cost. they said sir i can make a phone call and we'll be back in five minutes. and when i was negotiating is said to brandon chad and john holloman and all the people that were there that are so great. we have the border so good, who is telling him to go to the beach every day? he can't lift a chair, he can't get his feet out of the sand.

does he have some political consultants say you have a great body, who is giving him that advice? does he like the beach that much? it's so crazy. we negotiated, remain in mexico. they used to come into our country and we couldn't get them out. we said, we want remain in mexico and hundreds of thousand people were in tijuana. until we learn to they were and in many cases we would not accept them and biden gave that up. we deported illegal alien criminals by the tens of thousands. these guys are so tough. they love our country so much. they would walk into a nest of

ms-13, these are the toughest game in the world. a lot of them go to long island and we have thousands of them. these guys were walking into a nest and you see fence flying. you're a tough guy, you won't do that job? right? you wouldn't do that job. these are tough people and they love our country and they were taking them out in the paddy wagon. they were taking them out by the thousands and we had a problem because these other countries like el salvador, all of these different countries would not take the people back. they came to me and said sir,

guatemala, el salvador, they won't take him back, they never have. president obama was able to get the back. how much do we give them an 80 year? we give them 75 million. i think you are wrong i think it is 10 times that much. you said 750 million. that's a lot of money inform them that effective immediately we are not making any economic development parents of the country. we would load up a plane, a bus, we would take it into the country and they would not allow it in. they put planes on the runway so our planes couldn't land. and i said, we will not give them any more money, inform them

effectively immediately. the following morning i got a call, sir we would like to talk to you. i understand there's some difficulty with ringing back people to our country. i was like for about 10 years you have and let anyone back. you sent them out into caravans but you wont take them back. sir, perhaps there's a misunderstanding. we would be honored to take them back. when will the money start coming back? number one you have to take them . we brought them back to those countries by the thousands and thousands. some of the ms-13s in long island, to beautiful, young girls were walking to school and they attack them and cut them into little pieces.

they use knives, not guns because the knife is much more painful. they watch these kids suffer. these were beautiful, perfect kids. and they cut them up into pieces. these are animals. i said that publicly and nancy pelosi said these are human beings. we cut them out by the tens of thousands and now they are pouring back in because we have stupid people running our country. we appointed over 300 judges and three great supreme court justices. i will tell you something because it's a positive but they try to play it as a negative. last year those justices bravely and incredibly ruled on something everybody has wanted for decades.

for 51 years. they ruled to end roe v. wade. [cheers] in the probably cost us, the other side got energized. but now pro-lifers have a tremendous power to negotiate. with roe v. wade you could not negotiate. you could do anything you wanted. we didn't have any of that before the ruling. this means that back to the states where every legal scholar should be. and like ronald reagan, i support the three exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. not everybody does. a large portion do and i think

we should. that's your own feeling. remember the democrats of the radicals on this issue because they are willing to kill babies in their six, seven, 89 months and even after birth. when politicians talk about this because you have to say they are the extremists. if you're willing to take a baby at eight months or even after they are born. and recently with the supreme court, the pro-life question is going to get you in a position where a lot of tremendously good things are going to happen. 52 years, we did it and now you will be in a position what everybody knows is right and

it's an important decision. the supreme court also approved nobody thought they would ever see, a merit-based system of education. if somebody is going to college and has all a's and wants to apply. the best of everything, work so hard it gets rejected by somebody who didn't have the academic credentials. that was such a big thing, it's called merit-based. we have to go back to a merit based country. that was just the beginning, here is some of the agenda i will be implementing when we become 47 president of the united states of america. before i even arrived, at the

oval office i will have the horrible war between russia and ukraine settled. when i was on cnn i told them i am on the side of people not being killed. i am on the side of hundreds of thousands of people are dying and i think that is one of the bad things later on when you find out the real number of people dying in that war. there were hundreds and hundreds of people killed. big buildings coming down, so many people, hundreds of thousands, it will be millions

and it's a very sad thing in the numbers are far bigger than anyone understands, i'm the only candidate who could make this promise. i will prevent world war iii. nobody else is going to protect you. nobody else is going to protect you. this will be a war like no other this is a nuclear war. this won't be army teams going back and forth this will be levels of destruction that nobody has ever contemplated are thought of before. i will totally obliterate deep state. we started that we were doing so well and we will fire the corrupt bureaucrats that have weaponized or justice system and are destroying our country to stop the marxist prosecutors who persecute republicans,

conservatives and people of faith. i will overhaul doj to investigate every radical d.a. in america. i will immediately terminate every open borders policy of divided administration. we will seal up our borders like they were when we took office. week after week we are watching his joe biden deadly border for trails take lives. in may, a pack of five adults, illegal aliens, suspected ms 13 animals. worm arrested for murdering a 15-year-old boy and dumping him in a state park. when the parent saw this, they will never be the same either.

the people i was with the other night, they will never be the same. no parent will ever be the same. last week, and illegal alien strangled the girl and raped before she died as she texted her father that someone was knocking on the door. he arrived home and found his daughter's body under her bed. these fishes biden border killings will only get worse because they are letting people in from prisons, mental institutions. they are letting some of the worst people and and i've been around of law enforcement and we have the greatest people in the world. they know how to do their job.

we have to let them do it. when i am reelected, we will commence the largest deportation operation in american history. we could not wait until 2025 to begin stopping this horrible invasion. this is like a military invasion. they are killing hundreds of thousands of people between the drugs coming in, the people, the crime. that is what i am calling on congressional republicans from banning joe biden from using a single tax dollar to release or resettle illegal aliens starting on the government funding deadline of september 30. we take better care of these people and many of them are

criminals, then we take care of our veterans, our soldiers. we spend a lot more money doing this. in new york, many are living in luxury hotels. hotels you would not want to go to because he wouldn't want to pay the price. it's not even believable. the time for talk is over, now is the time for action. people are tired of talk. people are tired of talk. i said to her first lady, they caught biden getting 10.2 million dollars. that's peanuts to other numbers. this is big stuff. she said oh well. nothing will happen. i told stephen everybody, you have to take care. our country is being fleeced and robbed by people who have gotten

away with things that nobody should be allowed to and a lot of the republicans, democrats two, they feel things should happen to take care of this when she went oh, that's good. nothing will happen. a lot of people feel that. we can't have that and i hope that is why steve and his friends, the house is been working hard but the senate under mitch mcconnell is a disaster. they should immediately define the doj and prosecutors trying to take conservatives out of political races through indictments and other illegal means. that is what they are doing. if i was in third or fourth place or if i wasn't running i would be living the life of riley.

they wouldn't indict me. they indicted me because i'm in first place. every time i read a good pole they want to indict me again. maybe i should announce that i'm doing horribly. they want to make it harder for republicans to win. congressional republicans should stop the biden administration from bringing back covid restrictions by cutting off the money. in your state, because of your governor you won't have that problem. the radical democrats are trying hard to restart covid hysteria. is there an election coming up by any chance? the other day i heard were

thinking about masks again? oh yeah there's an election coming up. we can't complain. just follow your governor, and my new administration i will terminate every green new deal restriction thus destroying the economy. starting with bidens electric vehicle mandate. some people want to drive for more than 1.5 hours. sean bain, president of the united autoworkers can even think about allowing all electric cars. they will be made in china and the auto industry in america will cease to exist. they do all electric cars, none will remain here. they have all the minerals, every form of material, every

form of everything. we have a thing called gasoline and they don't have that. but they have to do something. some people like an electric car, a hybrid. you have to have a choice. enforcing it? california had big blackouts and they had a restriction on electric cars taking electricity and they want to go all electric. the whole thing is crazy. there is already an e-glut. the consumer once choice just like we want school choice. we want choice and what kind of car we buy. so vote for trump

and i will stop this madness. when you think about it, mexico and canada, in michigan and all other states. the american consumer is not interested in doing this, they are not going to do it. we have to save the american consumer is what what we have to say. i will revoke china's most favored status. our country has gone to hell. we will bend china from buying up america including american farmland which you know something about. on day one, i will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school wishing critical race theory,

transgender insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual, political content on our children and i will keep men out of women's sports. [cheers] i will sign a law to prevent child genital mutilation in all 50 states. can you imagine having some politician. i never really wanted to be a politician but that is what i became. can you imagine saying i will stop child mutilation? who would think of this? child mutilation without parental consent? if you made that statement 10 years ago you would say is that guy crazy?

we would restore the trump ban on transgender in the military. we had a ban on transgender. and i went to generals and i said what he wanted to? and they said no, no. i had a ban and a tremendous amount of drugs are necessary. i love everybody but is not something that works as generals will tell you and people will tell you in the military. i had a band and they released that ban. i will fully uphold the second amendment. i will secure our elections. our goal will be one day voting with paper ballots and voter id.

that's all were doing. until then, you have to give out the vote. they can only cheat so much. a lot of people say, you could vote early, tuesday. they had a vote and arizona where many of the machines were broken, the republican machines. they had a vote tuesday and stood in line for hours because of a percentage of the machines were not working. a terrible thing. this is what we must do to restore our country to greatness. we are taking some of the most vicious opponents.

no matter how hateful and corrupt the communistic criminals we are fighting against may be you must never forget this nation does not belong to them. this nation belongs to you. this is your home. this is your heritage. our american liberty is your god-given right. from sioux falls to rapid city, from the black hills to the badlands. that is a hell of a name, i live in the badlands. the inner cities are the badlands. i bet you're badlands are very nice. and from the open skies to the great plains to the majestic banks of the missouri.

we stand on the shoulders of some of the toughest and fiercest people ever to walk on this earth. like her, by cam, like so many. this state was built by a strong south dakota men and women who braved the snow, the rain, the cold, the dangers, the diseases that had west. life was hard but they were americans and this was, to them, god's country. this is god's country. south dakota is a state that lewis and clark discovered the splendor of the american west. it's where workers carved their heroes into the faces of mount rushmore.

it's where generations of hunters, ranchers, miners, help build america into the greatest nation in the history of the world. [cheers] [music]. right now, we are a nation in

decline. we are a failing nation. we are a nation that has the highest inflation in 50 years. where banks are collapsing, interest rates are through the roof, energy cost have reached the highest in our history where we are noonger energy independent energy dominant as we were just a short number of years ago. we are a nation that is begging to venezuela and others for oil. please help us. we have more liquid gold right under our feet than any other country in the world. we are a nation that just yesterday heard that saudi arabia and russia will be reducing their output of oil in substantially increasing the price and we met that threat by

announcing we no longer will be drilling for oil in large areas of alaska. we are a nation that is consumed by the radical left yet everyone knows that the renewed deal is fake and will lead to our countries destruction. we are a nation whose leaders are demanding all electric cars despite the fact that they can't go far, cost too much in those batteries are produced in china with materials only available in china with an unlimited amount of gas is available inexpensively in the united states. but not available in china. and now, we are a nation that wants to make our army tanks all electric so that despite the fact that they will not be able

to go very far either, fewer pollutants will be released into the air. we are a nation who wants to make our jet fighters with green energy stamps lose 15% efficiency but keep our enemies atmosphere clean. what other country would do such a thing is that? we are a nation that surrendered in afghanistan leaving behind dead soldiers, american citizens and 85 billion dollars worth of

the finest military equipment in the world. we are a nation that allowed russia kill thousands of people and it will only get worse. it would never have happened with me as your president and for four straight years it did not happen. we were a nation that weaponizes against an opposing political party. we have federal bureau of investigation's that won't allow election changing facts to be released to the public and offers one million to a writer of fiction to lie and say it was fact. where hunter biden's laptop from hell with russian

misinformation. 51 intelligent agent said it was and they knew it was at the department of justice that refuses to investigate egregious acts of voting irregularities and fraud. we have a man who is totally corrupt and the worst president in the history of our country who was cognitively impaired and now in charge of dealing with russia and the possibility of nuclear war. which would be world war iii and far more devastating than any of the previous world wars because of the weaponry that no one wants to even think about. with powerful weapons. we no longer have a free and fair press. big news is all you get and they

are the enemy of the people. they refused to discuss the biden crime family but enjoy covering false indictments of donald trump. who has done nothing wrong. we are a nation where free speech is no longer around. we are a nation that is allowing iran to build a nuclear weapon in china to use the trillions of dollars taken from us to build a military to more than rival our own. and less than three years ago we had a rand, china, russia and north korea and check. they weren't going to do a thing against us. everybody knows that. they respected us greatly. now russia and china are holding

up the world. we are a country that is no longer respected on the world stage. they think we are run by fools. we are a nation that has become a joke and we are a nation that is hostile to liberty, freedom of faith. we are nation whose economy is collapsing, who supply chain is broken and who stores are closed. in the execution is ranked at the bottom of every list. large packs of sadistic criminals and thieves are allowed to go into stores and openly rob them, beat up and kill their workers and customers and leave with armloads of goods

with no retribution. the authority of our police have been taken and their families threatened and lives are being destroyed with the mere mention of the words, law enforcement. we are a nation where fentanyl and illegal drugs are easier to get that formula for our beautiful little babies. a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess. use it and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won't leave and they have no idea when they will. ticket prices are tripled. they don't have positive fly the plane and no traffic controllers. we are a nation that has lost

his confidence, willpower and strength. we are a nation that is quite simply lost its way. we are not going to allow this horror continue. three years ago we were a great nation and we will soon be a great nation again. [cheers]. it was hard working people like you who built this country and hard-working patriots like you who will save this country. 2024 is our final battle. with your support in this primary we are going to finish what we so brilliantly started. with you about my size you will demolish the globalist, cast out

the communist and throw off the sick political class that hates our country. we will route the news media and drain the swamp once and for all. [cheers] like those patriots before us we will not bend, we will not break, we will not yield, we will never give in, never give up. and we will never, never back down. together we will become fully sufficient. we will cross the finish line. we will evict crooked joe biden intake by this country with the righteous and magnificent victory on election day 2024.

the great silent majority is rising like never before and under our leadership, we have men and women will be forgotten no longer. we are one movement, one people, one family in one glorious nation under god. and together, we will make american powerful again. we will make america wealthy again. we will make america strong again. we will make america proud again. we will make america safe again.

and we will make america great again. thank you, thank you south dakota, god bless you. god bless you all. ♪ ♪

♪ ["hold on, i'm coming."] [cheers]

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