The Exchanges

Q Do you worry at all about what the deep state or the administrative does to try to push back between now and Jan 20th or even beyond? And do you have any advice for the incoming administration on what to do?

A I think you have to be absolutely relentless. Look, I think the look, I come out of the military as a naval officer for eight years, served four years at sea and four years in the Pentagon is the aid to the chief naval operations. So, and my daughter went to West Point. So it's not like I'm kind of shrinking violet, but this, the military industrial intelligence, legal law enforcement complex is out of control. Uh, it has to be deconstructed. President Trump's going to need some very tough people in DOJ. Very tough people to really work through what's going on with the FBI, the CIA. He's got to hit it. He's got to hit deck place, right? And it has to be done. Uh, it has to be done in front of the American people. You can't adjudicate this. You can't start to deconstruct the, the more radical rogue element of the administrative state, unless I think you have full transparency. The American people have to know what you're doing. They have to see what went on. I think there have to be major investigations, but They're definitely going to try to do something. I don't think there's any doubt about it. Look what they've tried to do to President Trump to date. Remember, President Trump still goes for, um, for his sentencing on the 26th of November, just three weeks, uh, from today. And, uh, Mershon is no doubt to me Mershon is going to give him a prison sentence. So we still got a lot…

AI assessment note: “They're definitely going to try to do something. I don't think there's any doubt about it.”

Q Can we kick this off? Um, we had, we had a similar framing for folks, which I think it would be great for you because as Jason said, you were the architect of a lot of this in 2016, but what do you think if you had to summarize was the ideology, not the party, the ideology that was on referendum today?

A The ideology is you've got to put the American people and particularly working class and lower middle class people first. This is just not an America first movement. This is American citizens first. And I think the pattern recognition that's most important is Hispanic families and Hispanic men and particularly African American men in places like Philadelphia and Detroit. I mean, it looks like 25% of African American men Uh, could vote for President Trump. More importantly, I think a majority of, of eligible voters that are Black are not going to vote for Kamala Harris. They're fed up. This is a transformational night. I mean, look, we've, David Sachs, you know, Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, uh, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Danica Patrick, uh, uh, Nicole Shanahan. You've had these group of people come together That, that represent a new voice in America, but most importantly tonight, it's the working class of the country has spoken. You got to remember this grassroots effort we've gone through the last couple of years to change the architecture of the Republican party by registrations was all done by bootstrap. And then at the end, the, the get out the vote effort, the Trump campaign didn't even have the money. This was Elon Musk. It was Miriam Adelson was others, but that all depended upon a massive grassroots turnout. To support that get out the vote movemen…

AI assessment note: “The ideology is you've got to put the American people and particularly working class”

Q trusted. His instincts are terrible. You know, it's one of these things where, when we're watching this, we're wondering who's correct. You tell us you're the person who was there. He, You have had a, uh, an on and off again relationship with Trump. What is your relationship with him now? And how should Trump build his cabinet and the group around him for this Trump two point O term?

A I have an excellent relationship with him because I think I'm the only major person that really had his back from, you know, the, the, the Boston Herald has a story from 15 February of night of 2021 after you've been in Mar-a-Lago where I laid out the entire strategy of his comeback to win the nomination for the Republican Party and then win the White House. Our, our show has been the, the, the bulwark of President Trump and the fighter for him, not just in the stolen 20 20 election, which was stolen, but, but going forward. Uh, and I think he knows that we're totally simpatico when it comes to policies. Look, it, it, to me, it's very straightforward. You have to adopt, uh, General Sherman's, Tecumseh Sherman's, a simple plan aggressively executed. I think he needs to get a handful of people around him, particularly White House counsel, chief of staff, uh, who he's gonna put in DOJ, uh, the National Security Advisor, NEC, in the White House, and really have a plan to attack our financial and economic problems, which I think Have to be addressed first because I think the spending, the debt, uh, how the jets being financed short term is a ticking time bomb national security problem that has not been addressed. It was not debated in this campaign that has to be addressed along with the deportations. And then to really start to think about these global wars and what we're going to …

AI assessment note: “I have an excellent relationship with him because I think I'm the only major person”

Q We know you have to go, Steve. Final question. Have you spoken to Trump in the last couple of weeks, and has he offered you some official role in the new administration?

A I talked to President Trump. He's the first guy I really talked to when I left prison. Um, and, uh, we had a long, good chat. We stay in pretty good communication. I have absolutely zero. President Trump, look, the war room is the media platform for the activist base of the MAGA movement. Uh, we're not really entertainment. Uh, our audience are very focused. They're the people that went out and did the get out the vote. They're the ones that did the election integrity, the precinct strategy. These are The most active of all the Trump followers, and that's what the show is. My, my, my best, highest and best use is doing that. I, I have, I'm not a staffer. I gave one year of my life from August 15th, uh, August 15th for one year. Uh, I have no interest in going to the White House, and quite frankly, I'm much, uh, better for President Trump to support him and his policies being on the outside and continue to do war room.

AI assessment note: “I talked to President Trump... I have no interest in going to the White House”

Q Steve, some people tried to put January sixth on, um, In the, you know, as part of this vote, and I think some people still feel very strongly about January six. What is your summation about what happened and why it does or doesn't matter anymore in the history of, uh, of American politics?

A Well, I think it matters very much. I, I, listen, you've got to take care of the financial, the geopolitical. We have so many issues that have to be dealt with the deportations, the building of the wall, but a dual track. And you talk about the deep state, we have to go back. And I think reconvene the J six committee, and it's got to be done dual track. It's not going to be a number one priority, but the house has got to get into this thing. We have to investigate the FBI. You have to investigate what happened on January six. You have to investigate what happened in the 2020 election until we adjudicate that publicly. Where the Democrats have a ranking member and minority council, the way this committee should have been done the first time, which one of the reasons I went to prison, because I said this committee was completely fraudulent. We have to do this. We're not going to have a country. Yes. I know people, some people don't want to talk about it, but this gets to the core of who and what we are, and also how the deep state element kind of took it over. You have to get to the bottom of this, not just the people that have been put in prison, the thousand people have been put in prison, but exactly what happened What was the chain of command? Why were President Trump's orders not followed? And it's not that we're going to go back and pick a scab, but through the House Judici…

AI assessment note: “Well, I think it matters very much.”

Q So their answer to that was maybe painted with the brush of DEI and wokeism. What does it mean about those things? And were there any parts of that that made sense?

A I think the DEI, listen, to have more participation in our society, particularly by working class, I think is a great thing. DEI was another top down, uh, from kind of the, uh, uh, you know, the, uh, the, the, the intellectual elite or the credential class kind of jammed down into people, not just, not just the white working class, but the Hispanic and black working class rejected it out of hand. Also, particularly men who they kind of condemn as part of the patriarchy, right? The handmaid's tale. So yes, The, the cultural aspects of this, I think we're kind of beneath it, but I strongly believe it is the, it is the economic that really is the most important. Remember the, the invasion of the 10 or fifteen million that were invited in by Harris and Biden were really to kind of drive down, uh, wage inflation, uh, in, in unskilled workers. And if you talk, if you go in those communities, I had the opportunity in my four months in federal prison. Uh, to really spend a lot of time as a teacher and kind of listening to young African American and Hispanic nonviolent, uh, drug dealers talk about their communities, talk about their families, talk about the lack of opportunity, the thing that drove them to sell drugs. And, and these guys are very smart and they detest Kamala Harris because they think she's in back of mass incarceration and she will not deport these criminals. So the cul…

AI assessment note: “to have more participation in our society, particularly by working class, I think is a great thing”