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First up is our interview with President Trump on the eve of the verdict in his sham conviction.
That trial was total BS.
We know it.
Listen to what he had to say about it.
We talked about his selection of attorney general, which I think is the most important
position he's going to pick.
Check this out.
Mr. President, I know you've got a thousand important decisions you have to make about
personnel with your team.
I'm not naive to that, but I made the argument on my show a couple of times.
You may think I'm crazy.
Maybe not.
I think your selection for attorney general is your most important pick.
Vice President's obviously important.
But if we get the attorney general wrong, I know you won't.
But if we get that wrong after this abomination of justice and what happened to you, we're
not going to have a country left.
Your thoughts on that?
It's a very big choice that I made two bad choices.
Now, you know, I was loyal.
Jeff Sessions, he was the first senator to endorse me.
He came to me, please let me.
He was begging me to do it after I won.
And I was loyal.
And he didn't have what it took.
You know, as soon as he heard the word Russia, he ran for the hills.
And Bill Barr, you know, unfortunately, I know he endorsed me recently, so it's always
tough to be.
I mean, if you can believe that he endorsed me, but he was not a man of strength.
He was a coward.
And he was afraid to go after people in the election, cheating that went on that you know
and everybody knows with a brain went on.
And we're not going to let that happen again.
But I wish, you know, I made two different choices there.
I had it twice.
And then you have other important positions, too.
I think, by the way, I think defense was very good at the end.
He did a good job.
But we had mostly good, you know, Bob Lighthizer was great.
We had a lot of great people.
But now I know everybody, Dan.
And I know the good ones, the strong ones, the weak ones, the dumb ones, the smart ones.
I know them all.
But I was never, you know, I was never a Washington guy.
I was with you in New York and I knew New York very well.
But now I know Washington better than probably anybody.
And I know the good ones and the bad ones, the weak ones and the strong ones.
And we got to get there.
But that is an important.
And then you need Secretary of State, you need Secretary of Defense.
They're all important, Dan.
Every one of them.
Yeah.
Yeah, they are.
I just, Attorney General, with everything at the Weaponization and Justice Department
is really troubling.
Very important decision.
No question about it.
Speaking of your trial here as well, Mark Levin, a friend of both of ours, a real great
patriot there.
He put out a very interesting thread this morning on his social media accounts talking
about how the Supreme Court, and we don't know yet what's going to happen, but if there
is a ridiculous conviction in this sham, disgusting, filth-ridden, grotesque trial, I don't have
enough adjectives and adverbs to describe this abomination, that the Supreme Court should
take this thing immediately on due process violations.
They've yet to state a crime, no less proved beyond a reasonable doubt you committed one.
Your thoughts on that and the left's attempts right now to intimidate the Supreme Court
going after Alito and others.
They're clearly doing that to send a message in case this winds up at the Supreme Court.
Well, they're trying to play the ref.
Alito's a tough guy and he's strong and very, very smart.
And he put out a great statement today.
In fact, I commented on it, I don't know if you saw that, on truth.
Your people love truth and so do I.
But I commented on it and I gave him a lot of credit for it.
But they play the ref.
You know, they intimidate him.
They still to this day, you know, by law, they have to give, you can't have protesters,
you can't around their houses.
They haven't done a thing.
They haven't done a thing.
What they're doing is so bad.
They haven't done anything to protect the justices.
It's really disgraceful what's going on.
You know, all that, we heard about it for two years.
But Alito's great.
Thomas is great.
The three that I put in, I think they do, I mean, it's a little early.
But the people are, people are starting to warm up to him.
I will say this.
But they've got to be strong and they've got to be tough.
Alito's been very tough, very good.
And Thomas has been good.
And we're going to see how it all works out.
But it's such an important position, such a big deal.
But when I look at the way they're treated, you know, they play the ref.
They try and scare them.
They try and, you know, like, look, they're humans like everybody else.
But they try and do Bobby Knight, you know, the great Bobby Knight, he'd scream, scream,
scream.
And Bobby said, well, you're not going to win this one, but we'll win the next call.
Right.
And that's what they do with our judges.
Not only the Supreme Court justices, but they do it with judges and they do it with a lot
of different people.
They do it with a lot of different people where they're afraid to function.
People are afraid to function because they don't want to go through it.
But the and the problem is the left.
Look, you know, the problem is the left.
I see.
I know the left.
I know the right.
The big problem here.
They don't talk about it.
The problem is the left and the danger comes from the big danger comes from the left.
Yeah, they do.
I mean, obviously, they've taken on totalitarian tendencies.
I mean, we've seen it.
The evidence is everywhere.
Mr. President, this discussion, I hate to even bring this embarrassing to even have
this discussion, but this is how crazy they are.
This discussion of jail and the Secret Service advancing a job.
I mean, this is third world type stuff.
I got to tell you, there are third world tinpot dictators who are watching this and can't
believe what's happening.
We're living in a third world country.
We have no borders.
They're pouring in by the millions and they're coming from prisons and jails and mental institutions
and insane asylums.
And they're coming, they're terrorists, massive numbers of terrorists are coming in.
They're coming from the Congo.
They're coming from all over Africa.
They're coming from all over Asia and they're coming from the Middle East and they're coming
from South America.
But you would be amazed.
The numbers are getting bigger outside of South America.
They're coming from all over the world.
We have no idea who they are in many cases from where they come.
The only thing we know is they're tough as hell and they're criminals.
Many, many criminals are coming in.
Many, many criminals are coming in.
And this horrible president, the worst president in the history of our country, is allowing
it to happen.
He's destroying the fabric of our country.
And we're going to have the biggest deportation ever, ever.
And we're going to get and we're going to start with the bad ones that we know who they
are.
And you know who knows who they are?
The local police.
They know everything about them.
We're going to give immunity to them and we're going to let them do their job because they
have to.
But local police, they're afraid to protect people because they end up losing their pension,
losing their job.
You know it better than anybody.
They lose their family if they do their job.
And we're not going to let that happen.
They have to do their job.
So, Mr. President, Joe Biden had a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a gym.
I think about five people showed up, two family members and three members of the media.
How does that make you feel that they're they're trying to hole you up in a courtroom
and the and the reason they're doing it is obvious.
You go to the South Bronx, a deep blue area, thousands of people show up.
It's a raucous crowd.
Joe Biden goes to an area should be Democrat and, you know, five, 10 people exaggerating
a little bit, but not too much.
The guy can't draw a crowd.
He can't compete against you.
He's not a leader.
And the whole thing was a disgrace.
The whole election was a rigged election and a disgrace.
And we're going to make it up.
November 5th is going to be the most important day in the history of our country.
We're going to make it up and we're going to we're going to make America great again.
That's all I can tell you.
We're going to do it fast.
We're going to drill.
We're going to get energy prices down, like down, I say, drill, baby, drill.
We're going to get energy prices way down.
We're going to bring that those numbers.
I mean, people are looking at numbers sometimes as high as 50 percent of costs of things are
up.
No matter what.
No matter what they're making, they're getting wiped out.
The middle class is being destroyed.
The lower the the lower income people are.
They can't even live under Biden.
You know, he talked about by dynamics.
He doesn't use the term anymore.
It's a disaster.
But the people are being hurt in our country.
Look, we wouldn't have had inflation, more importantly, because frankly, that's numbers
and it's terrible.
But we wouldn't have had all those people being killed in Ukraine.
It would have never happened.
Putin would have never done it.
We would have had oil prices down.
I mean, the high oil prices gave him the money to do it.
And we had low oil prices.
We had low energy prices.
You wouldn't have had Israel.
You wouldn't have had the October 7th attack in Israel.
You wouldn't have any of this stuff.
You wouldn't have China.
China wouldn't be eyeing Taiwan, which looks like they want it pretty badly.
They weren't doing it.
I had plenty of talks with him and I had plenty of talks with Putin that would have never
gone in.
Putin would have never gone in.
President Xi would have never gone in.
We would have had a much different world.
I'll tell you, Dan, you wouldn't have had those two things alone.
You wouldn't have had inflation.
And if you take those three out and you would have had Iran was as you know, they were broke.
They weren't funding Hamas and they weren't funding anything.
They weren't funding Hezbollah.
They weren't funding any of these terrorist states, these terror gangs, you call them,
because they're gangs.
And they were being funded by Iran.
Iran had no money.
They had no money.
We had anybody bought.
They couldn't do business in the United States.
They had no money.
And now they have two hundred and twenty four billion dollars, a lot of money.
So there are different different group and they're looking to get a nuclear weapon and
they're going to have one soon because this this idiot is allowing them to have a nuclear
weapon.
And when they have, you're not going to be able to talk to them anymore.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just a new report released on their progress.
Mr. President, I'm sorry you're going through all this.
Thanks for fighting for the country.
We really appreciate it.
And thank you so much for these exclusive comments after this sham trial today.
We we really appreciate it.
Thanks for your time.
It is my honor to be fighting.
Thank you very much.
Thanks, Dan.
Sir.
Appreciate it very much.
President Trump, folks.
President Donald J. Trump.
Really appreciate that.
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We talked with renowned cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough about what happened with Dr. Fauci
and most importantly, the potential dangers of the vaccine for some people and how you'd
know you were at risk.
This is really an important interview you're going to want to hear.
Check it out.
All right.
This is one of my most popular guests, been on the show often, world-renowned cardiologist
and early on, one of the few, sadly, and I say that with regret, medical professionals,
healthcare professionals out there who is willing to say, hey, we're going to do science
here, we're going to do hysteria when COVID hit in 2020 and 2021.
Welcoming back to the show, Dr. Peter McCullough, Doc, welcome to the show.
Thanks for spending some time with us.
Thank you.
Doc, you watched Dr. Fauci's hearing like I did.
I saw some of your commentary on Fox about it, and you had to be as horrified as I was.
It appears he's rewriting history.
What did you think first about his line about how he kept an open mind about the lab leak
theory when you and I can both read his emails and what was happening behind the scenes?
It appeared they were doing everything to suppress us from looking into this lab leak
theory.
Keeping an open mind on his plan.
He was part of this conspiracy, this working group of the NIAID, his research branch, Ralph
Baric at UNC Chapel Hill, Peter Daszak at EcoHealth Alliance, and Dr. Xing Li, the Bat
Lady in Wuhan.
They created SARS-CoV-2.
Fauci is part of that team.
They published it in 2015 and 2016, Nature Medicine, proceeds of the National Academy
of Sciences.
They're blocking the release of that genetic code from those two papers, which probably
closely matches SARS-CoV-2, and then Fauci, clearly in the emails, was actively working
to cover it up.
So when he goes to Capitol Hill and says he kept an open mind, he's part of the team that
created it.
Yeah, that kind of really disturbed me because, you know, people like you and I, who legitimately
kept an open mind, you know, Doc, I didn't know early on if it had some natural origin.
I'm not a virologist, an epidemiologist, certainly could have.
But the evidence that a virus that leaked from Wuhan was studying viruses of that specific
origin seemed pretty overwhelming.
Let me move on to some other information, more your your wheelhouse here.
You had warned early on about the vaccine that, hey, this may not be for everyone.
You said there are some there's some information about this vaccine.
We don't know everything.
We need some longitudinal data over time about what these outcomes may be.
And again, you were called a conspiracy theorist and every malicious name in the book.
And it turns out that you may in fact have been right.
And some of the benefits of this vaccine were likely overstated.
Where do we stand now with the vaccine?
I believe last time we talked, you told me there were three groups of responders.
And I don't want to put words in your mouth that some people are having a hard time with
this.
Now that we have a bigger data set and time has passed, what what are your thoughts on
the vaccine, its efficacy and side effects?
You know, I'm the only public figure who called it ahead of time.
August of 2020, Dan, I published an op ed in The Hill.
It was titled The Great Gamble of the COVID-19 Vaccine Program.
I'm the only one.
You're talking to him.
I called it ahead of time.
I said, listen, it's the genetic code for the dangerous and lethal part of the virus.
Once this genetic code gets injected, we had no way of shutting it off.
We had no idea where it went in the body, how long it lasted.
And boy, has it been a disaster.
Fortunately, data from three sources now suggest about a third of people have zero side effects,
zero, starting from the initial shots.
Just under two thirds have some mild side effects, but they're OK.
Three studies demonstrate that between 5 to 10 percent of people, Dan, they're in trouble.
Now, Doc, we're talking to Dr. Peter McCullough, world-renowned cardiologist, one of the few
truth tellers early on about COVID.
Is that, forgive me, again, not being a medical health professional, is that an unusually
large number for an mRNA-based vaccine to have side effects in the 5 to 10 percent range?
You see this stuff all the time.
Is that high?
Is it low?
Is it average?
In terms of outcomes in cardiology, low is less than 1 percent, moderate is 1 to 5 percent,
and high is over 5 percent.
Our CDC v-safe data, 10 million Americans, they took the shots, Dan, 7.7 percent of people
got so sick with the shots they had to go to urgent care or be hospitalized.
It's too high.
So, when you were warning about this early on, and medical health professionals, and
I use that term loosely, like Dr. Fauci and others, Dr. Birx, when they were implying
that this vaccine had an incredibly tight safety profile and that we really shouldn't
worry, I mean, you can go back and listen to yourself.
You heard it, Doc, just like I did.
They were the ones actually manipulating the science, correct?
It wasn't people like yourself who said, maybe we should wait a little bit.
They were the ones putting out this information.
Dan, when the vaccines first came out, December 10, 2020, there was only one month for the
primary series and two months of observation.
No one could have known what happened in month four.
No one could have known.
So, when these doctors, American Board of Internal Medicine, others said they're safe
and effective, everybody take them, no one knew.
This was what's called vaccine hubris.
That is, people becoming overconfident in mankind's invention.
We should have been much more humble to say, listen, we don't know if this is going to
work or not.
Everybody should have a free choice, evaluate the emerging risks and benefits.
We should have had monthly safety meetings from the vaccine sponsors, the FDA and CDC.
None of that happened.
Basically, people were told to take it or lose their job.
And many of them did.
I'm talking to Dr. Peter McCullough.
Doc, regarding the vaccine, I'm getting a bunch of questions now coming in via my social
media.
They want to know, in your professional opinion, if it's been, say, three years or so, two
years, they've had a vaccine and they haven't actually felt any symptoms.
Maybe they haven't had blood work or anything like that, but they haven't felt any symptoms,
no noticeable change in their heart rate or anything like that.
Are those people OK?
Is there something they should be doing?
I know you had mentioned natokinase.
I actually have it on my desk.
I take it every day.
Is that still an avenue?
What about lumbrokinase?
Are there anti-inflammatories out there?
If you are having issues with that, I'm not asking you to diagnose anyone specifically.
I know they're not in front of you.
But in general, does any of that stuff work?
Well, let me tell you what I do in practice, is I do an analysis.
I ask them, what shots did they take and when they took them?
How many episodes of COVID, proven COVID, did they have?
And then we measure antibodies on an extended-range assay to the spike protein, which is a proxy
of how much spike protein exposure someone had.
And then we run tests for autoimmunity, the ANA, the anticitrillative peptide and rheumatoid
factor if there's skin or kidney symptoms.
We measure ANCA, which is a more expensive test.
We run several tests for heart damage, BMP, troponin, and collectin-3.
But the point is, from taking a history, doing an EKG exam and some labs, we can size up
if somebody's in trouble or not.
Fortunately, the vast majority of people are fine.
Sure, the longer you go from the shots with no side effects, statistically, less likely
something's going to happen.
But we have seen new blood clots and new complications arise, Dan, even three years after the shot.
And you know what the wildcard is, is getting another episode of COVID because the vaccines
don't work.
You have a vaccinated person, they're loaded with spike protein, maybe they have a tendency
towards blood clot, they get another episode of COVID, it's mild, but yet they end up with
a blood clot.
Now, I see that in practice frequently.
Wow, that's pretty scary because, you know, you would think, I mean, call me crazy,
Doc, but I'm a believer in these, you know, nutty things I learned about in biology 101,
like natural immunity.
You know, I'm not a doctor, but, you know, I'm pretty sure my freshman year biology teacher,
Miss Lonergan, taught me that.
The body's supposed to get better at defending against pathogens over time with persistent
reinfection and not worse.
Now, is there any truth to the story I hear running around out there that some people
who get the vaccine actually may have some kind of imprinting problem and that they may
be more likely to get COVID or is that just, you know, kind of an old wives tale making
its way around the Internet?
No, it's true, Dan.
There was a study in Cleveland Clinic, over 51,000 Cleveland Clinic employees.
With every successive shot, there's a higher risk they get COVID over and over again, probably
because the immune system's being misdirected, they keep getting exposed to this vaccine
spike protein.
The body produces antibodies called IgG4, they're subclass switching to useless antibodies.
It just sets up the body to actually take in more virus.
It's called antibody-dependent enhancement.
So, you know, the best advice we have is for people to lay off these shots.
You're right, natokinase, bromelain, and curcumin, that's called McCulloch protocol-based spike
detoxification, that's now become essentially a worldwide standard.
We have one supportive paper for surreptase, we don't know about lumbricase.
The principle is the body needs some assistance in enzymatically dissolving the spike protein
and getting it out of the body.
So I get a ton of questions about this, just to state again, you said bromelain, natokinase,
and curcumin, is that the three?
And those are all, just so we're clear, those are all over the counter, they've been available
for years, natokinase is actually part of a fermented Japanese dish, it's nothing particularly
exotic, but these things have shown some efficacy, if you do have some of these clots or clotting
type problems, that they've shown some clinical efficacy?
Well, we have two peer-reviewed papers, I'm a leader, senior author on them, laying out
the rationale for this.
For natokinase, we have several preclinical studies showing both intact cell and cell
lifecycle models, nato definitely dissolves the spike.
Bromelain, again, preclinical studies support doing this.
Both of those are forms of blood thinners, which people need anyway, there's a tendency
towards blood clotting, not blood thinning currently among everybody post-pandemic.
And then curcumin, that's a derivative of turmeric, that's like an Indian spice, but
in a capsule, that's gone all the way through clinical trials.
And that improves multiple parameters of long COVID and vaccine injury syndrome.
So I feel pretty strongly people should be on these three natural products, in combination,
keeping caveats in mind regarding bleeding, and we use it in addition to blood thinners
and aspirin, but with careful observation.
And then slowly, probably over a year, people progressively improve.
Yeah, and of course, folks, as Doc said, talk to your own doctor, we don't know what kind
of medications you're on or anything like this, this is not medical advice for you.
But in general, Doc, I have been taking those products long before COVID, at least two out
of three.
The natokinase is a recent addition for me, but having pretty severe osteoarthritis, curcumin
is a pretty powerful anti-inflammatory.
I choose not to be on prescription drugs, it's a personal choice I make.
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