VIDEO Nº: 160
TITLE:160. FULL SPEECH Donald Trump Town Hall in Janesville WI (3-29-16) Janesville Wisconsin Rally HD
DATE OF EVENT:29/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:25/09/2016
DURATION:01.40.19 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:10523
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Thank you everybody. Wow!
Thank you! I feel so badly. Outside we have 5,000 people, and they can’t get in. I feel badly.
…–MR. TRUMP STARTS SPEAKING AT 00.37.24:
I wanna apologize. We have have…uh…speakers outside, but I wanna apologize. It’s…who would have thought? We have over 5,000 people [that] cannot get in, so…; now does anybody wanna leave and give you a place to somebody outside? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. No, yeah…–MR. TRUMP GIGGLES. I had a feeling you might be saying that.
It's an honor to be here. It's an honor to be with you. Uh…it…very important, you know, we're doing really well. A millions of votes ahead of Cruz…millions! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, I get a kick. I call him lyin Ted. Lyin Ted Cruz! He stands up, and I'm win the…I win, as you know, you've seen it, I have been winning all of the evangelical vote. But he stands up, Bible high, puts it down and then he lies. You know, it’s sort like an amazing…it's amazing to watch it.
But, he said…uh, “yeah, I'm the only one that can beat Donald Trump. I've done a time, after time…”. And I said, “wait a minute, I've won…like…most of the states!”. I think he had five, or six and I had 20, or 22, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS. And, I said, “I can't believe it!”.
Then I have millions of votes more. He says, “I'm the only one that can outvote him!”.
And I'm saying, “but, I have like…millions of votes more!”. I'll tell you something, [it’s] so important: there is something happening, it's like a movement. It's incredible. It's a movement. And we're part of the movement. It's not me, I'm a messenger, to be honest. I'm a messenger.
And, this is something that's so…special, and so amazing! And it's on the cover of Time magazine; it's on the cover of every newspaper…; it's…something that has never…and that has, maybe, never happened. And there saying, “it's a phenomena”. Sometimes they say I'm a phenomena. I'm not. The messege is…what we want. We want jobs…–THE CROWD CHEERS[MOU1] . We want jobs. We want trade deals that are smart deals, not stupid deals…–THE CROWD CHEERS.
And you know, Wisconsin, I wrote down some notes. Look, I didn't think…I thought it…–MR. TRUMP MUMBLES…had a…you know, it’s one of those things…; so, look: I wrote down some notes, and it's like…it's like devastating!
So, Walker came out today. I wrote down notes about Wisconsin…–THE CROWD BOOS. Look, he certainly can't endorse me after what I did to him in the race, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…but look at this: by the summer of 2015, Wisconsin was facing a 2.2-billion-dollar two-year budget deficit. That's terrible! By the way, these are out of books. All right? This isn't Trump. This is out of books.
Total state debt is 45 billion dollars. Now, maybe somebody's gonna tell me that's wrong, but again, these are…; 45 billion, very high. One of the higher ones. 25,000…fewer people in labor force in Wisconsin than seven years ago, even though population has grown by 100,000. So, your population is higher, and…; now, I wouldn't have done this, but what he endorsed Cruz, what am I gonna do? Am I gonna say he's doing a great job? He's not doing a great job! …–THE CROWD CHEERS.
You know, he comes in and his motorcycle jacket, a big…Harley [Davidson]…I love Harleys, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. But the motorcycle guys like Trump! They really like Trump! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
And he doesn't look like a motorcycle guy to me, I'm sorry…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I'm sorry. Unemployment rate…well, they say…that can't be possible…–MR. TRUMP READS FROM THE PAPER HE’S HOLDING. Unemployment rate, they have down 20 percent? That can't be possible…–THE CROWD SAYS ‘YES!’.
What!? Is it 20 percent? Effective, or…regular? I mean, just effective unemployment rate, 20 percent. Hey, this is out of the big book! 800,000 food stamp recipients…–THE CROWD BOOS. Middle class…hit very, very hard due to loss of manufacturing jobs. These are the…these are the stats, right? You know about this, right? It goes on and on…;
Wisconsin has lost 15,000 net jobs to Mexico since NAFTA! Now, just so you understand…Kasich is running also! We forget about him…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. He voted for NAFTA! Both of them want TPP! TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership. Both of them want Trans-Pacific. That will make NAFTA look like a baby. And Wisconsin will be hit so…hard! Your motorcycle guy? I'll bet, right? …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A SPECIFIC PERSON IN THE CROWD. THE PERSON YELLS ‘YEAH!’. Am I right? Do they love Trump!? I don't even know why! I'm not big with the motorcycles! …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY AND LAUGHS. But, the motorcycle guys love Trump! Right? Oh, look! I love the disabled veterans, and the veterans. We're gonna take care of our veterans, you know that, right? We're gonna take care of our veterans…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
What is it about Trump that they like? I…seriously! We went to…uh…Hilton Head; we went to different places, and there were hundreds! Hundreds of…bikers out there! Beautiful bikes! Lots of Harley's, right? Lots of Harley's. But…made in America. But beautiful, beautiful bikes. What is it with the…uh…motorcycles? Why do they like me? Tell me…–A PERSON IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘YOU DON’T TAKE ANY SHIT!’. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AND THE CROWD CHERES. Who said that? Who has said that? I love it. I don't know what it is! But they like me. I feel good with them. I feel safe! I got out, I took a picture, [and] Secret Service went crazy! I said, “these are great people! Don't worry about it!”.
But listen, I appreciate it, fellas. I appreciate it. I know. It does keep you free. You're right. We're gonna keep you free. I'm gonna keep you free…–­THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Because we're getting rid of ISIS. We're gonna have good borders. We’re gonna have borders again! We're gonna have borders again! …–­THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, here…uh…here we have something that's pretty interesting…–MR. TRUMP KEEPS READING FROM HIS PAPER AS THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU TRUMP!’. I love you too! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. You lost 70,000 jobs to China. 70,000 jobs…–­THE CROWD BOOS. 100,000 illegal immigrants living in Wisconsin. Taxpayers are paying tens of millions of dollars…–­THE CROWD BOOS. Oh, yeah. Look, I don't know. Look. Yeah, I don't know.
So, what happened with Walker, and I just…will finish off with this. He's a nice man. He came up to my office like about a year ago, before I was…I did the running. You know I’ve been a politician for what about eight months, right? I never thought I'd be a politician. The last thing in my mind I want to be was a politician.
But I built a great company. I filed papers. Everybody's amazing. The company is…incredible. Very little debt; tremendous cash flow; some of the great assets of the world. And I say that not in a bragging way, I say that cause that's the kind of thinking we need, folks. I mean, either it’s…we can't have China ripping us off…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and…Mexico, and Japan…and Vietnam…! We can't have it. We can't have it. And they are ripping us like they've never ripped anybody before.
We've rebuilt China! I mean, we're rebuilding Mexico! You look…the other day, you saw it: Carrier are moving down, Carrier air-conditioner. I buy those air conditioners, a lot of them. I'm not buying any more of them. But Carrier air-conditioner moving to Mexico. Ford moving to Mexico. Uh…Nabisco! Home of the…uh…the wonderful former…formerly wonderful Oreo, which…we don't need anymore, right? We…we don't need it. We don't need it.
Number one, it's a good way of…it's a good order…it's called enforce diet…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDL. But you know what? Look, we're losing our jobs. Look at your jobs! When I see that statistic…I mean, you're losing your jobs. When I went after…your governor, when he decided to run. And I said, “you know, I'm gonna be nice to him! He's a nice guy! The guy came up to my office. He handed me a plaque, because I supported him! What do I know? I supported him. I gave him 50 or 100 thousand dollars. That's a lot of money, for a guy you never met before, right? That's…pretty good.
But I like the fact he was fighting, fighting…he was always fighting! You know, to a certain extent, I'd rather see somebody able to make a deal without having to go through all of that…mess. But he was fighting, and I gave him a lot of money. And he came up, you know, a year ago or so, and he gave me a plaque! [A] Beautiful picture of…something. I haven't…I never really got to read it to be honest with you…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. And I put it aside. That was it.
I just had my girl find it! She just called. she said, “Mr. Trump, I've just found it!”. A wonder…a wonderful woman comes up and she…I said, “where is it?”. She said, “I think I know!”, and she found it! Under a pile of a lot of other plaques…–THE CROW LAUGHS. So, so I'll bring it. I'm gonna try getting it if I can tomorrow, or the next day, so we’ll do…cause I'm gonna be here the whole week! I'm gonna be in Wisconsin! The whole week! …–­THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Because…because if we win Wisconsin, it's…it's like gonna be over. Pretty much over. Cause we're gonna do great……–­THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
Emerson’s…cause Emerson poll…Emerson pale…poll came out, [and] I think I have 67, [or] 68 percent in New York compared to like 10 percent or whatever. And you had Cruz talking about New York values, New Yorkers are no good. New Yorkers…; I watched New Yorkers rebuild the World Trade Center. I watched New Yorkers dying…believe me, New Yorkers are good. New Yorkers are very good…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But Cruz said they're no good. So, anyway.
So, I think we…we’re gonna do great in New York. We're gonna do great in New Jersey. Chris Christie endorsed me. We’ll do great in New Jersey. [He’s a] Good guy. Uh…Ben Carson endorsed me. Sarah Palin…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. Sarah Palin endorsed me. Sheriff Joe, from Arizona. We love Sheriff Joe…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And, you know, with the evangelicals I've had so many ministers, I've had so many…pastors endorse me; and, uh…Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed me, [it] was incredible. And we've done so well with the…with the…uh…evangelicals. I mean, Christians, evangelicals…we've done…so well.
In fact, in South Carolina, when we went to South Carolina., that was gonna be Cruz’s territory. He was gonna take it! Except we won in a landslide. You know that! You saw it! He was there! This guy follows me around, I'll tell you! …–­MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY. But you were there, right!? [Do] You remember? He was going to win that in a landslide!
And then, I started speaking, I started talking to people, and I started saying…you know, the good and the bad, and the ugly. And, we won in a landslide. And we won the evangelicals. I've won…just about, I think, almost every place. I've won with evangelicals. And it's been…an amazing…it's been an amazing time.
So, now I’m here to talk to the people of Wisconsin. I have friends in Wisconsin. I've been here before. Uh…it's an incredible place, but it's a place that has problems! But you have a governor that has you convinced that it doesn't have problems.
Now, I remember when he was on the campaign trail, I was so nice to him! You know, I said, “how can I hit him? I'm not gonna hit him. I'm not gonna add him”. And I was so nice. I hit Jeb instead, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERES AND APPLAUDS–…right? And I hit Rand [Paul]! Rand, oh, Rand! And I hit a lot of people. And they all went down. Wouldn't it be nice to have a president that could, just with his mouth, make…things…happen that are positive? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know…;
But it…it’s…it's not with the mouth. It's really with the…mouth, the heart, and the brain. Remember the brain…–THE CROWD LAUDS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
I have a lot of friends that go…they’re good with the mouth, but they're not with…they're not good with the brain. It all doesn't work, okay? You know, we had an interesting thing today. A poll came out, a nationwide poll. It was [a] great poll. It was, Trump 48…it was an NBC poll. Trump, 48. Uh…uh…I think Cruz was second, in the…look, in the 20s, mid-20s, [or] something, and Kasich was way down.
So, what happened is, they show the poll! It was an NBC poll. They called NBC monkey poll. And it was on The Today Show! And it was on Morning Joe. Morning Joe held it up, [and] he said, “wow, those are great numbers!”. 48 it's pretty good! You have three people…you know; I don't get enough credit for that. I've been at 42, 44, 45…and I've had like seven people! How do you get 45 when you have seven people!? Nobody says that.
They said, “he hasn't cracked 50!”. And how do you crack 50 when you have all these people running! So, I’m at 48; [the] poll was good, way, way ahead of anybody else nationwide!
And they showed Hillary Clinton. Hers is very close! She's got a…little problem…[that] could happen. [She’s] Got a bigger problem with the emails, and she has a…with Bernie, to be honest with you…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. She should have! Her bigger problem should be with emails. We’ll find out. We'll find out how honest our country is, right?
But…but…she's got a sort of close race! And they put a poll up, it was…you know, put up there, big letters. And then they said, “and Donald Trump is winning”. That was it! They didn't say…they didn't put numbers up. They didn't say…I'm doing great! In fact, they actually said, “Donald Trump is winning”, and they put some…a little slightly negative statistic…in…it was like…wait a minute!
They put her numbers up, and they didn't put my numbers up! Folks, it's so unfair! The press is so dishonest, [that] it's unbelievable! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That was Chuck Todd. That was…that was Chuck Todd, uh…this morning on The Today Show. Check it out. They put Hillary's numbers up, and I'm winning by a lot, and they said, “Donald Trump is winning”. You know, “let's go to a new subject”, okay?
Now, I guarantee you one thing: if I was losing…or doing poorly? It'll still be up! It'll be up all morning! Because they don't like what's happening. I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm putting up my own money. They don’t like it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Ted Cruz and Kasich are getting money from the banking industry; from the energy industries; they're getting money from the pharmaceutical companies…; they're getting money from everybody. Folks, you can't…straighten out…this…mess, [because] we're in a mess, if…you can't do what you have to do.
When millions of dollars are given to Cruz, and Kasich, and millions from different industries, you're not gonna be able to say, “well, we're gonna do and go against the banking industry, to do what's right for the people, if the banking industry gave you millions of dollars”. Now, that's true with Hillary also, cause she's got millions of dollars. But I'm the only one self-funding my campaign[MOU2] . I'm in for a lot of money. I mean, a lot of money. What was beautiful is when I was running against Jeb. I…in New Hampshire. I was in for two million, Jeb was in for like 48 million. I was in first, and he was close to last. I said, “who do you want as your president!?”.
By the way, did Jeb endorse anybody yet? Cause I haven't…I think Jeb probably endorsed…[he] must have endorsed…–THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INCOMPREHENSIBLE. Huh? Did he endorse? That shows you how important it is! Nobody even know. I don't even know! …–­THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, he probably…; look, he'll endorse…just so you know, look: when you're in war…you gotta fight. And you fight hard! When I fight, I win. You're gonna win! You know that. You're gonna win…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But, you know, you do pretty serious damage, right? Cause you wanna win, [and] you wanna win fast. And…a lot of people don't love you after you finished. But I just love you. I don't care about them! In fact…­–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…in fact, they're asking Cruz. You know, at the debate, which, by the way, they said I want every single debate. Now I heard the other night he said, “I wanna debate Trump!”. I've debated him 11 to 12 times! Every single online poll has me winning the debates. And he's an okay debater, but he's a bad talker. You know, everything so dramatic…oh…! And he waits…–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘PHONY!’. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT. Phony! …and he waits! You know, he…I've…ever seen…he goes sentence after sentence, and he stops for like 3-4 seconds. And then he goes again. It looks like we're in the theater! We're not in the theater, we’re the real world! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND THEN THEY CHANT ‘TRUMP!’ TIMIDLY. So…so, what happens…thank you. That's all right. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank you very much.
By the way, the sheriff is here. He’s a great guy and his people are fantastic. Thank you, sheriff! Thank you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
The…a…I mean, the only thing I feel so guilty about [is] all the people outside. So it feels so guilty! We're gonna come back. I'm gonna come back…we’re gonna come back to this area. You guys…you guys cannot come! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Okay? All of the ladies can come, but the guys can't. But…–THE WOMEN CHEER–…but…but…all of the people outside, we're gonna take a bigger place. We're gonna…we're gonna get…something, because I feel…I feel slightly…I feel slightly guilty.
But look, look. We have…a very serious mess on our hands. We have a serious situation. We have a country that's not protected. We have a country that's sitting on a big, fat bubble that's gonna explode. In a certain way I said, “let it do now. Don't do it after I get in”. Three days later it'll explode, [and] they'll say it's Trump's fault, okay? Ay, ay, ay! We are in a big, fat, ugly…bubble.
We have interest rates that are so low that if you're rich, like me, I can borrow money for any amount! If you a hard working guy with a great farm, or you're a hard-working developer, or businessman you can't borrow money! You can only borrow money really cheaply…think how bad that is! You can borrow money for nothing, practically, if you're rich! But if you're rich you don't need the money, so you'd have to borrow it!
But if you're a business person, [and] you wanna go to the bank for a loan, you can't get it. The regulators are running the bank's. Dodd-frank is a disaster, by the way. It's a disaster; it’s a disaster…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
But the biggest disaster…our regulations, our rules, regulations are horrible. We're gonna get rid of…probably 85 percent of them. There are some we’LL live with…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS­–…but we gotta go back. So many people from this area have told me [that] regulations, regulatory climate is the worst they've ever seen it.
I have a friend, he’s a farmer: And if a puddle forms, they conside it a lake for purposes of environmental. It’s considered…it's like a puddle, and they consider it a lake: So, but we know what we're doing. So, here's what's happening.
We're gonna make our country…so great again. We're gonna make our country so strong again. Our military is gonna be so…amazing. We're never gonna have to use it. Don't forget! I didn't wanna go into Iraq! All these guys think that I'm a tough guy, so I'll be so quick with the trigger. I'm not gonna be quick! I was the slowest with the trigger! I didn't want the trigger!
Now, when Obama left though, he shouldn't have left the way he did. He gave her a certain date! And the enemy said, “[it] can't be possible. Nobody would be that stupid. Nobody” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
So, I actually don't think it hurt that much, cuz I don't think the enemy ever believe that anybody would be stupid enough to give a date! “We're leaving on this date!”, and then he left! They said he, “was serious!”. They pulled back…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. They pulled back, then you see what happened. They pulled back and then they went in, with fury.
But, how about the 50 soldiers? He sold…a couple of months ago, [a] few months ago. He sent 50 of our finest. And instead of just sending him quietly, quietly sending them, what does he do? He sends them in, and he…makes a big press conference or announcement that, “we are sending 50 soldiers into Iraq, Syria…!”; and, now it…they…these soldiers have a big target on that back.
Why can't we just keep our mouths shut? Why can't we be…unpredictable? Unpredictable! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right? Why can't we be unpredictable? Why does he have to tell…?
First of all, it doesn't even sound good when you say 50 soldiers, cause it sounds like so small! People would say, “is that good or bad!? I mean, that sounds small!”.
But then, when you think about it, why…why do we have to say that? These are…extraordinary people. These are our finest! And they’re…you know, [a] very dangerous mission. Why would you tell people that we're sending them in? You just keep…you keep quiet, and let them accomplish something! They are right now…who knows what's happened to them? But right now they have a big target on their back. People that we've let go of Gitmo have now killed Americans. You've seen that: You saw that yesterday. That came out yesterday. We let people go out of Gitmo and they kill Americans. Okay. I was…is anybody surprised at that, though? Would anybody be surprised?
And we’re keeping it open. Now, they’re spending…you know, hundreds of millions to run it. I guarantee you could run it like cheaper. You’d have a lot of money left over. So, we’re gonna get efficiency in government, but we’re gonna end Obamacare. We’re gonna…we’re gonna replace it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…we’re gonna replace it with something so much better and so much less expensive.
We’re gonna get rid of Common Core, [and] we’re gonna bring our education local…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We’re going to preserve our Second Amendment…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s under siege. It’s totally under siege. And Christianity is under siege, I’ll tell you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Christianity is under siege.
You take a look! I…I’m with the…I…I…I’ll tell you what, I’ve been with so many pastors lately, and…uh…Jerry Falwell Jr., as an example, was telling me that…uh…first of all, he told me something…he says, “you remind me so much of my father”. I thought his father was a great guy. What his father did with Liberty College and you know, Liberty University…; and then, Jerry, to top it off has taken that to a whole new place.
But when Jerry was so strong and so great. But I was talking to…I probably had 50 of the…ministers and pastors. Different folks came up to my office. And they’re really…under tremendous pressure, because they don’t wanna have their tax exempt status taken away! This happened during the Lindon Johnson…presidency. And I said, “why is it that you, folks, are pushed around so much…? Christianity! These are the pastors. And these are strong people! These are really strong people! Why do you allow them? Why aren’t you more forceful?
And finally somebody said, “well, we have to be a little careful of our ta exempt status”.
I said, “when did that happen, actually?”. It was during the Johnson…; well, we’re gonna try getting rid of that, okay? Because…that’s really…terrible…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. We’re gonna try getting rid…; and I’ve said that to…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS­ –…I’ve said that to a lot of evangelicals, a lot of great Christians. We’re gonna try getting rid of it. Because it’s taken…; it sort of means that somebody walking down the street has more power than…somebody of religion, of…of…our religion, of…Christianity! Somebody that’s an evangelical! You take anybody, [and] they have more power! Because these people said, apparently, they’ve taken their right of free speech to it. So I said, “we’re gonna try and getting rid of that”, and I think we’re gonna be very, very successful.
You know, it’s interesting. I said, “how many Christians are there?”, because, you know, you got men…[and] you got women. [If] you cut it half, we actually have a few more women, but we have far more Christians that we have men or women. So, in a way, it's the most powerful lobbyists! The biggest group of people! But we're not allowed…they're not allowed to talk, because they're petrified! You saw what was happening with the IRS, and you saw what…was taking place with regard to certain groups.
So, we are going to try, and…and usually, when I say ‘try’ that means I'm gonna get it done…that means I'm gonna get it done…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But we are gonna try very hard. We’re gonna get that brought back. And, I think it's going to be very hard to counter it because, if the Christians, and if the…look, if the whole evangelical-Christian…sector gets together, nobody, nobody can beat [them].
You know, when I made the statement about Muslims, banning Muslims on a temporary basis, I took such heat! Now people are saying, “you know, Trump is sort of right about that!”. Now they're all going… ‘wow!’, cause they see what's happening! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I think [that] if I would have said it about Christians, I would have had less opposition. That's what's happened in this country, okay? That's what's happened…in our…country! And…we can't…we can't let it happen. We're gonna turn this country around, and we're gonna be the smart people! We're not gonna be the dummies anymore.
We're not gonna be where China…made, last year, trade deficit, 505…billion, with a ‘b’, billion dollars. Japan, over a hundred billion dollars! Mexico, 58 billion dollars! We're gonna build a wall, and Mexico is gonna pay for the wall! Okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I remember why…recently, I was in Florida, and…Marco, who’s a nice guy, actually. You know, he…[have] you noticed how nice they are after you've defeated them? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I like everybody I defeat. But when I won against Marco, it was…supposed to be a very…–A PERSON FROM THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS–…he…oh, boy! Well, he started it, right? Just like Cruz started the last deal. He…he started it.
But…but, Marco came after me…very viciously, right? You know, he wanted to be Don Rickles, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. And it didn't work! But what happened is…what happened is I won by 20 points! Almost 20…points! And…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and, a lot of these issues we were talking about, it was big issues. And, frankly, I wish I would have left about two days early. I wanted to stay in Florida campaign. I wish I would have devoted two more days to Ohio, because I almost won in Ohio. I would have won Ohio. But I didn't wanna take a chance on leaving my beautiful Florida alone! Cause I love Florida, and I wanted to win that.
So, if I would have left a couple of days early, I think I would have won Florida probably by the same, but I'm not gonna have anything happen, Wisconsin. We have to win! If we…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Look, we have to put these politicians in their place, folks, it’s time. And believe me, you know, Cruz likes to pretend he's an outsider. In the meantime, he gets all the establishment support, including your governor. Uh…so, believe me, believe me, they're all establishment. And frankly, in a way it's worse, cause Cruz's establishment, and yet he's got no relationship with the establishment!
He goes that he stands on the floor of the Senate for day and a half, and he filibusters, and these senators…look, I know! They’re tough cookies. I have the best…I've one of the great people, Senator Jeff Sessions, who’s great…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [There’s] Nobody better than Jeff. And you know, Cruz thought he was gonna have him, and he used him in a speech.
He said, “Senator Jeff Sessions…!”, and then he comes out and endorses me!
But when you think of it, look, at all of these senators, he has one supporter: Lee, who's his friend! I mean, it’s his friend! But, I'm sure…and by the way, [it] took him plenty time to…do it. But, you know, to stand there and to rant and rave for 2 days, and…to…show people…you know, [that] you can filibuster…in the meantime, nothing was accomplished! Cruz has not accomplished one thing!
So, he's an insider, but it's almost like…the man on the street, because he can't get anything done! He dislikes people; he calls people like…for instance, he said horrible things about the speaker; and…and, you know, the…it…he said…about the speaker, and he said about, separately, Mitch McConnell! I mean, he said…some terrible things about…! How do you get things done when you're…calling Mitch McConnell bad names, okay? Let's just say bad names.
So, he’s sort of got the worst of all…elements. He's…an insider, totally, but he can get nothing done. Okay? He can get nothing done.
Uh…your new speaker…how do you like Paul Ryan? How do you like him? [Do] You like him? …–THE CROWD BOOS. Oh, you don’t like him? All right…–THE CROWD BOOS. Wow! I was told be nice to Paul Ryan, because…; really!? All right! …–THE CROWD BOOS.
Well, he's the speaker…he's a nice guy…; he called me the other day, he was very nice. But I'm a very surprised at this statement! Wow! Are you all Republicans!? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’. Are you mostly conservatives? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’–…cause I don't care! You know, the word conservative…I always say I'm a commonplace, it…you know…just a common-sense conservative. And it’s so…it's so important! A common sense…;
And then somebody told me today that somebody else…I think Walker used my term! You know, Walker used…I said ‘make America great again’. I said ‘make America great again!’. And I copyrighted the term! And then Walker was making his speech, many months ago, when he first started, and he was saying, “make America great again!”, because he saw the response I got! The difference is he didn't get any response! You know, so they know…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. But we told him, “you can't do that”. That was the first little problem I had with him. We said, “you can’t do it”.
Now I said a ‘common-sense conservative’, and today I heard he used to term, because the press was up, and they interviewed me, and they said, “he said he's a ‘common-sense conservative’”. Well I coined the phrase, a few months ago! But that's what I am. I'm a conservative person. I'm very, very conservative on the military! I'm very conservative with our vets; and on…health care, and on lots of things! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…and I'm actually very conservative on trade, but a lot of people would say he's not that conservative on trade, because she doesn't believe in free trade. Well, actually, I do believe in free trade, but it's gotta be good trade for us, right? It's gotta be smart trade! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It can't be where Wisconsin's losing thousands and thousands of jobs; where you folks can't get into China, but China comes and he like it's…like it's Swiss cheese…! That's what happens! You know, China does not obey the rules!
Now, I get along great with China. I made a fortune dealing with China. I have two buildings because of China, big ones, in New York, and one in…San Francisco, [The] Bank of America that I have…in partnership with a great company, and it's…because of China!
I sell…I have the biggest one of the big leases with one of their big banks, with the biggest bank in the world, actually, from China! I sell millions and millions dollars to condos…of condos to people from China! I like China! I'm not angry at China! I like them! I think their leaders are doing a great job for them! But our leaders are doing a bad job for a…;
Same with Mexico! I get along great! The Hispanics? I love the Hispanics! I love the Hispanics! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But their leaders are killing us on the border, and they're killing us on trade! And, I'm not angry at them! I'm angry at our…country, and our…leadership because it's grossly incompetent, and we're gonna change it around; and we're gonna get the best, and we're gonna get the finest! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. THEN THEY CHANT ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATELDY.
So, what I thought, I'd do…thank you, folks. Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
So, whatever you can do to spread the word, uh…I'll be around, I'm going to Green Bay. I love that team, by the way. You talk about a great franchise…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, I love it. And you have a truly great quarterback. I don't know, he's probably endorsing somebody else but, I don't care. [He’s] still a great quarterback. Tom Brady's a friend of mine. He said you have a great quarterback. That's all I…need, right? When Tom says he's a great quarterback, that's pretty good.
But, you know, I…really…wanna…win…Wisconsin; because if we can win Wisconsin, we're gonna put all this stupidity away. We're gonna put these…these stupid, stupid people, that allow…and I'm talking about basically politicians. And, in many cases…you know, a lot of times people will see deals that are done. And they’re…I mean, take a look at the Iran deal. How bad is that? I mean, just as a deal. Forget about countries…­–THE CROWD BOOS. But many times, people say…deals that the country makes, right? Deals that we…; and they’ll say, “how can our politicians be so stupid!?”.
They’re not stupid! They've been hit by the lobbyists and the special interests, and they make a fortune! Okay? They get tremendous campaign contributions. They're not stupid. They're doing it for themselves! So, again, I'm not doing that! I'm doing for you! I'm working for you! But just…remember: they're not so stupid like you think! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But when you look at…the people funding Cruz's campaign, and Kasich campaign, and you look. Don't forget, Cruz said, “oh, the banks, the banks…!”. You know, he's gonna be Robin Hood. He’s gonna be this great guy. And then, in his personal financial disclosure form, he forgot to mention that he borrowed like…about a million dollars from the bank's, Citibank and…and Goldman Sachs. He borrowed a million dollars at a interest rate that everybody in this room would be proud to have. A very low…interest rate, almost no interest. He forgot to announce it in his…personal financial disclosure form. He just forgot! He said, “oh, I forgot! I forgot! I forgot!”, you know.
So, then he hits the banks. He's controlled by these people, folks. Okay? I mean, what he did was absolutely wrong, but they're controlled by these people! I'm controlled…by you! I'm gonna do…the right thing…for you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay? So, remember that.
So, let's take a few questions! And then I'm off the Green Bay! I love that.
Okay. Let's go. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead! My biker…my biker friend. We  have to start with that one.
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.09.40:
 
22 veterans a day commit suicide. That’s correct.
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MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.09.51:
 
We’re gonna take care of our veterans so much. Look, let me tell you. They…many of them kill themselves waiting for a doctor. They can't even get to see the doctor, you know that. They end up killing themselves before they see the doctor. 22 a day! And a lot of people don't believe that number! They think it's almost like an impossible number. How could it be so bad? And it's actually…[it] could it be worse than that. But, we are going to take care of them…from…the standpoint…; they wait, they wait…and they get bad service; and they wait some more, six, seven, eight days. And then, sometimes they'll get to see the doctor and the doctor says, “I can't see you now. I’m going on vacation”. You see the corruptness.
I just left Phoenix. We had 21,000 people. Uh…Sheriff Joe was there. The job he did was incredible. Incredible. You know, they had a little protest, right? Uh…that protest ended so quickly…he arrested three people, [and] everyone else scattered…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. You know, a lot of…and you have that kind of a sheriff here. You have a tough cookie here…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I can tell you. I just met him, and I can tell you.
 
But, we're gonna…what, you know, I have a great…policy plan, and I've gotten a lot of credit for it in…in…it’s on DonaldJTrump.com. And, with the veterans, when they're waiting for…exorbitant times, even for a little time, they're gonna go to the doctor, they're gonna go to local doctors, or local hospitals…many of the hospitals are dying for business. You know that! They’re dying! These hospitals! Some of these hospitals are dying! They're gonna get immediate treatment, immediate service. We're gonna pay the bill, and we're gonna save a fortune and they're gonna get great service! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And everybody is in love with it. And everybody loves it. And that's what's gonna happen.
 
So, we're gonna take care of our veterans. If we can't take care of our veterans, we can't…take…care…of anyone. So, we're gonna take care of our vets.
 
Go ahead. One more from my other biker friend here.
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.11.33:
 
Boy, do you look good, though! You look good and tough! I wouldn't wanna fight you. [Do] You think I could take you in a fight? I don't think so. What do you think? How about we do it right now? That'd be great for television…­–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Go ahead!
 
But I do have more hair than him, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Go ahead.
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH HIS QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.11.59:
 
Yeah. I know it's terrible. Why do they say…? I mean, if you could say it, why are you unemployable?
 
Okay. I got it. But…
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MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.12.41:
 
Right. I know that. Daycare is a problem.
 
Right. I know. I’ve heard this many times.
 
Let…let me tell you. Here’s the problem: our veterans are taking worse care of than illegal immigrants that come into the country and live good. Okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
You don’t even have to write it down. We're gonna do things about it. You know what? Cause I know…you know, what you're saying? I've heard this so many times before with the Daycare and everything else. Uh…we are gonna take care of our veterans.
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH HIS QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.13.11:
 
That’s right. And by the way…uh…uh…by the way, speaking of interest, Cruz…and Kasich, wanna destroy your Social Security, folks, okay? …-THE CROWD BOOS. I wanna bring money back into this country. I wanna bring jobs into this country. I wanna bring tremendous wealth into this country. I wannna take our wealth back from China, from…Mexico, from all of these countries that have our wealth. They’ve taken it out like we're a bunch of babies. And we're gonna save your Social Security, and we're gonna save your Medicare. They wanna get rid of it, okay? Remember that.
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH HIS QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.13.48:
 
You could do that. You could do that. Well, you could do. I wanna…I wanna not use too many executive orders, folks…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. You know, cause you know, executive orders sort of came about…more recently. Nobody ever heard of an executive order. Then all of a sudden, Obama, cause he couldn't get anybody to agree with him, he start signing them like they're…uh…butter!
 
Uh…so, I wanna do away with the executive orders for the most part. But look, just do me a favor: stick with me. You're gonna be okay. All right? All right!? Okay!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You're gonna be okay.
 
I know…what you've said, I've heard a hundred times. And the Daycare is a huge problem. [A] Huge problem. And your wife not working? Huge problem. She can't!
 
So, anyway. And I bet you have a great wife. Good wife? [You’d] Better believe it!
 
Okay. Yeah, go ahead!
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 01.14.37:
 
Well, what we're doing. We're in the Common Core. You're not gonna be educated…your kids in Wisconsin, are no longer going to be educated in Washington D.C. by bureaucrats, many of whom…I can't say all, but many of whom don't care for your kids. They couldn't care less. They get big, fat salaries…; your kids are gonna be educated locally. We're terminating Common Core. And, you will see something…you will see something that's magic! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And I've seen it, where…parents, and all of these people, they're all in the…the…uncles, the aunts, they're all on school boards; they get professionals, they have great principals…; you can't see what's going on from Washington D.C.! Many of the people never even come here! They sit behind a desk in Washington, they draw big salaries, and they're telling you how to educate you kids. [It’s] Not gonna happen that way.
 
And I've even seen it where the kid graduates. The child graduates, and those parents stay on! They love it, because their child went through the system. They love it! And they've become so good at it. That's what's gonna happen.
 
We're one of the worst in the world in education. We're gonna be one of the better ones. Not necessarily…you know, I don't know that we're gonna beat Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and China! But we're gonna come very close. Okay.
 
Yes. Go ahead.
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH HIS QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.15.50:
 
Discipline in school…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't think that Wisconsin should have a big problem with discipline. Do you have a problem with discipline? You’re from where? …–THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD SAYS “ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA!”.
 
Oh, that's interesting. Oh, well, that’s interesting! Okay!
 
Well, we have to get discipline back in the country! Forget about school! We have to get discipline! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I mean, I have a case…I have a wonderful guy, a campaign manager…you talk about discipline. And you probably saw what happened today, with my campaign…he’s a good guy, Corey. And by the way, the easiest thing? “Corey, you're fired”. I can't do that. I can't do it.
 
So, fortunately I have a…taping system, you know, a very…I'm rich, so I have tapes all over…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
 
So, this young woman, who complained…was, “oh…!” she was…talking about being maybe thrown to the floor, and all this…; I said, “oh, that’s terrible!”. And then we saw the tapes! Did anybody see the tape!? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’.
 
Why did you think, right!?
Nothing. Women are saying…; what did you think? What did you…? …–MR. TRUMP POINTS, PRESSUMABLY, AT A WOMAN IN THE CROWD. THE WOMAN SAYS “HE JUST KEPT WALKING, THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG!”.
 
I mean, she wasn't like her face stayed the same…; if somebody squeezed your arm, or did something really bad…; don't forget, initially she said “thrown to the floor”. But if somebody squeezed your arm or hurt you, wouldn't you start screaming, or something?
 
Did you see any change in her face?
 
…–THE WOMAN INTERVENES AND SAYS ‘I RE-RUN IT AND RE-RUN IT ON A WIDE SCREEN AND THERE WAS NOTHING. THERE WAS NOTHING.
 
Yeah…it’s very…same. It's…it's horrible. It's horrible. It's…honestly, it’s horrible. And the best thing I could do, is say…but I can't destroy a man. I’d destroy him. He’s got…a beautiful wife and children, and I'm not gonna destroy a man…for that!
 
And you know, when I saw that at the tape, at first I said, “oh, this is terrible”. Then I saw the tape: It’s my tape! I'm the one that has the tape! It's on the ceiling of this incredible Club, in…in…Jupiter, Florida. And, we're all leaving, and we have a press conference, right? And the press conference lasted a long time, it’s like 45 minutes. So, that was enough. I'm leaving with a whole big gang of people; people pushing left and right, left and right. And all of a sudden, she bolts into the picture, she has…she grabs me or hits me on the arm…in fact, I'm like this…with my arm up; and then, he goes by, and I’m…I mean, maybe he touched her a little bit, but I didn't see…; it was almost like he was trying to keep her off me, right?
 
…–THE WOMAN INTERVENES AGAIN, BUT IT IS INAUDIBLE.
 
Like he was helping her! Yeah! And did you see her fall to the ground? Okay. Because she talks about falling to…;
 
Now, after the…I must tell you, her statement changed big league. Because she said, “go to the ground!”. You know, all this. I could read it to you! Does anybody wanna hear it!? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’ EFFUSIVELY.
 
I mean, I wanna be accurate, cuz I like the press…to treat me.
 
So, before she knew she was on tape she said, “I was jolted backwards!”. Was she jolted backwards!? I mean, if she was, her face stayed the same. So, I mean…;
 
“I was jolted backwards. Someone grabbed me tightly by the arm, and yanked me down! Campaign managers aren't supposed to forcefully throw reporters to the ground!”. Except…she never went to the ground! She never even came close…! She never even…flinched! She didn't…!
 
You know, [if] somebody grabs you, even one of the guys, even the bikers! If somebody grabs even a biker or punches you a little bit, you are, “whoa!”, right? I mean, the toughest guy! The toughest woman!
Look at her face! It's zero! They're gonna destroy a man's life. And then I have Cruz saying, “oh, that was a terrible thing! That was a terrible thing!”.
 
Let me tell you something, folks. If I win, if I lose…I didn't need to do this. I'm doing this because…I just had a beautiful grandchild, with Ivanka…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY–…for Ivanka. Ivanka and Jared…beautiful, beautiful grandchild. I'm very proud. It’s my eight. I’m doing this all for them. I didn't need to do this. This is not so easy!

And I had no idea. You know, maybe none of us did. You know, I had no idea the message was gonna get across. It's a message of competence, you know. It's a message…it really is. It's a message of common sense, and it's a message of competence. And I had no idea that we'd have millions of more votes that we had…when we had that stiff, Mitt Romney. A total stiff…running…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…who, by the way, he's a dope! He's not as smart person, I'll tell you right now.
 
Let me…let me tell you about Mitt Romney. That was an election that he should have won and he lost and. And he should just go away and let the big boys do it now, because you know what? That's an election that should have been won! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
 
And you know, I beat…I'll tell you what. I helped…John McCain, and at that time, honestly, that was a tough deal for him, because…the world was sort of collapsing, and that was a tough one. But he lost. And I helped Mitt Romney a lot! And he lost.
 
And I said, “this time, we're gonna do it ourselves”, okay? We're gonna win. We're gonna win. So, just remember that. We're gonna win…because of Wisconsin I hope.
 
Okay. A couple of more questions. How about a woman? Go ahead! Go ahead! Go ahead!
 
A MEMBER IN THE MAKES A QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 01.21.16:
 
Great! Right! She's so smart. I don't wanna them to know! I don't wanna tell Putin what I'm thinking! She's so smart! What you just said…is…what does that say? “What about you Ukraine? Don't worry about Ukraine. Ukraine is gonna be fine. Just don't ask me why.
 
You know…you know, it's this…this world of politics… “Mr. Trump, you said…”. Don't forget, I'm the one that said ‘take the oil’. I was right. They didn't take the oil. [Do] You know who’s got the oil right now? ISIS has the oil.
 
You know that Libya…ISIS has all that oil from Qaddafi, all of that big oil from Qaddafi. He took it. We're like a bunch of dummies. Why aren't we embargo? Why aren't we creating a nice, big circle so they can't get the oil out? Why are we taking that while back?
 
Look. Look. I'm the one…that says, though, I don't wanna say everything. If I win…I have a good chance of winning, I'm the front-runner by a lot. I wanna go in there, [and] I wanna knock the hell out of ISIS. I don't wanna tell all…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I really mean this. I don't wanna tell everybody in this room, and look at all the cameras that are going now. I don't wanna tell the world what I'm gonna do! Because they're watching! Just…let me do it, folks!
I will do it. You will be so happy. You don't have to know the details, okay? Let me do it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
You know, I used the word before. We have to be a little bit unpredictable. We can't say, “well, we're gonna go and attack on march 14th, and then we're gonna hit him from the front; and then we're gonna hit him from the back…”.
 
You know, Obama did that eight months ago with one of the cities. He said, “we're going in next week…”. Look, folks. Folks. Folks, you know, you have to trust. There has to be some trust, right? [Do] You trust?
 
We've gotta stop…we've gotta stop the stupid…that's why I really think your question is so great: “I don't wanna hear how you're gonna do it Mr. Trump! Just do it!”. I'll do it, okay? I love that guy…that…that woman! …­–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That woman! Thank you, honey! Thank you!
 
Yes, go ahead.
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.13.11:
 
Okay. I can see why.
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH HIS QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.24.14:
 
I remember that. Yeah, I remember that. Such a wonderful, beautiful woman. I mean, just an amazing woman. And, are you…are you doing…are you coming along okay?
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH HIS QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.24.58:
 
That's great…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And you know what we'll do? We're gonna watch him. You're gonna watch him, Daniel. Bennet, watch him. We're gonna be watching your boy, okay? But you're gonna hopefully be around. You're not gonna have to have anybody watching. You're gonna hopefully be around. Those doctors are gonna be so wrong. But we'll be helping you.
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH HIS QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.25.36:
 
Wow, that’s so nice. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry, I have to go down and say hello. Is that okay? …–THE CROWD CHEES AND APPLAUDS.
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH HIS QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.24.58:
Wow, what a great woman that is. That's a great woman. Great mother. I remember that, and it's…uh…heartbreaking, but it's…something beautiful is gonna happen. You watch. Something beautiful is gonna happen.
 
Folks, I just wanna say I'd almost like to leave it on that, because we can't top that. That is…so amazing! Thank you…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you. Okay.
 
You know, the…that…little…uh…very sad, but I think it's gonna be a…a really…a story of hope, and something that is really…great is gonna happen out of that. You watch!
 
But, I’ll…it…it sort of tells me, when I first did this, people said, “oh, it'll cost a lot!”, forgetting about the campaign, that's…peanuts by comparison. You know, I've spent tens of millions of dollars. But, the big thing I lost…certain businesses, and I owned the Miss universe Pageant. I bought it, very inexpensively, many years ago, 15 years ago. And, because of the fact that they thought I was against this one, or that one…I had a hard time with television!
 
Now, the good news is I sold it for a wonderful…I was very happy, okay? With that. But I didn't wanna sell it! But I sold it. And I…I built it to…really a very good company. We did a great job with that company. Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA.
 
But other businesses, I…I…sort of like…the shirts, and the ties with Macy's. Macy's was unbelievable disloyal…unbelievably disloyal, because of illegal immigration! And, they ended the shirt size. Who cares? I mean, it's not…a big deal.
 
But I'm doing something…nobody else is giving up what I'm giving! I mean, when Cruz runs, he runs. If he wins, great. If he loses, great. He isn't…you know, it’s him. He's a politician. They just…they run! They win, they lose…who knows? But these guys run for office. That's all they do. I've always heard that if you're a very successful person, you can't run for office, especially for president. You just can't run for president! And I can see it. I have so…much…false…press about me. Things that are so false, the…!
 
You know, I saw the other day on television. There were like 50…did you see it? 56,000 negative ads on me. 56,000! In fact, in Florida, I own Doral, and in Florida, we had the tournament there, two weeks ago. Adam Scott, the great Adams Scott. [A] Great golfer he was winning. And in between shots, I told you this after the victory speech. In between, they'd have commercials, and they were all about Trump! Negative, horrible negative commercials. Mostly false! Mostly. Not all false, but mostly false. I have to be honest. But it came out the other day. I think it said 68 million dollars…55,000 negative ads! Negative ads!

And when I was running in Florida I said, “how is it possible to win!?”. I mean, with all of this…cuz I knew it! I mean, you couldn't turn on…in Florida, where I was, you couldn't turn on the television without seeing Trump commercials. Sometimes four, or five in a row! And they were horrendous! Done by very, very bad people. Very…bad, evil people.
 
And I said, “how is it possible to win?”. And God helped me, honestly! Because…because I won in a landslide! I won by…almost 20 percent! So…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and now they're doing it here. Club for Growth. It's a crooked outfit.
Look, Club for Growth. Did you ever hear this? Club for Growth. A friend of mine calls, “would you…?”. He's a conservative guy; [he] calls, “would you do me a favor? See Club for Growth”.
 
I said, “what's Club for Growth?”.
 
He said, “well, they wanna talk to you”.
 
I said, “all right, send them up”. He's a friend. He's a good guy. And now I'm in politics. We have to see people that I wouldn't normally. You know, I'd say, “give me a break” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
 
So, Club for Growth. Club for Growth, they come up to my office. This guy was, I think, a former congressman. And he tells me a little bit about Club for Growth, I'm falling asleep. And then he goes…and then he goes, “would you contribute 1 million dollars?”.
 
I said, “a million dollars for what!? I don't even know you! I never met you!”. I said, “do me a favor”. I'm trying to be nice. And I said, “do me a favor. Go back, write me a little note if you can”, and he was stupid enough to write me a note! He writes me a letter asking for 1 million dollars.
 
I let him know that I'm not interested. You know, you can be rich…I'd rather take a million and throw it all over to this room. I'd rather give it to you for your boy, okay!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And…so what happens…what happens is…they write me a letter, put it in writing! I’LL give you the letter! Some of you…has anyone seen this letter? They wrote…it's incredible! They write me a letter. It's like extortion! They asked me four million dollars. I said, “no”. Nicely! And then, they're doing ads all over…Wisconsin! True…Club for Growth! They get up all over Florida! Club for Growth! About…uh…eminent domain. By the way, without eminent domain, you wouldn't have highways; you wouldn't have schools; you wouldn't have hospitals; you wouldn't have…bridges; you need eminent domain!
 
If something's in your way, and you're building a highway, if you're gonna produce 7,000 jobs and you need a little corner of somebody's property, every once in a while…! You know, it's funny. These guys all want the Keystone pipeline, right? Everyone. Conservatives. No, conservatives want the Keystone pipeline. I like the Keystone pipeline too, but they have a whole big thing on eminent domain in the prospectus! Because without eminent domain, they wouldn't go 15 feet! They wouldn't be able to build it! So, they have a whole…;

So, they don't want eminent domain. They do commercials about eminent domain. They love the Keystone pipeline, and the whole Keystone pipeline is based around eminent domain! Cause you gotta go from Canada, where Cruz was born, to Texas, where he's representing! Think of it! …–THE CROWD CHERES AND APPLAUDS. This guy…!
 
And don't forget that! Remember what I said! I'm gonna win! Just remember what I said. I'm gonna win, and I thank you baby. I thank you. She's…she’s saying, “oh, please win!”. Oh, you are so amazing! You are so amazing!
I'm gonna win! But remember this: if for some reason he does…he gets the nomination, the first thing…just…remember I'm a good prognosticator, I'm a good predictor. The first thing that's gonna happen is the Democrats are going to sue Ted Cruz. He was born in Canada! He lived there for four years! The head of the Harvard Law School, one of the top…people…in the business in terms of…Constitution is…saying that, you know, he's wrong! And we have other people that are much more…much stronger than even that.
 
So, remember this: if Cruz gets lucky and he wins…and the only way he can get lucky is if he doesn't get, if I don’t…cause it's all establishment. You know, if I go into that…whole mess of the convention, I'm not the establishment. I don't take their money. I don't hire their people. I don't do any of that stuff, okay? So, you have a disadvantage.
 
But if Cruz wins, remember what I said. Just remember. Again, he's not gonna win but if he does. If he gets the nomination, within the first few days, he will be sued by the Democrats that he doesn't have the right to be President! And I think they're right! Because he wasn't born on our soil! He wasn't born! He's not a natural-born citizen! He not a natural-born citizen! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't like to make a big deal of this, but, it was just brought up by somebody. He is not a natural-born citizen.
 
So, if for some reason he should get the nomination, I really believe you're wasting your time. And, boy, do we have a problem! Because you're gonna have somebody that's going to be sued. Probably will lose the lawsuit. Again, he was born there, [he] lived there for four years, [his] mother was there…the whole thing for a long period of time! And he was a Canadian citizen, joint with US, until 14 or 15 months ago!
 
Did anyone know that? So, he's…a senator from Texas, only because of the great Sarah Palin, by the way. Without Sarah Palin, he could have never won that election. It was a fluke. But he was a senator…from Texas; he lived…he's a joint citizen! Now, he finally gave up his citizenship to Canada like 16 months ago. He said, “oh, I didn't know I was a…citizen of Canada”, also…–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. Does anybody…? Just like he didn't know that Goldman Sachs and Citibank gave him money! I mean, this guy…is…you…you just have to study it, folks.
 
Look. Again, I'm doing this we're gonna win. We're gonna turn this country around. We're gonna make America great again. And we're gonna win a lot. But you have to know the facts!
 
I love you all! …–THE CROWD CHEERSA AND APPLAUDS. I love you all! Thank you! Thank you! I love you all! Thank you very much! Thank you! Thank you! Get out there!
