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Could Donald Trump campaign — and WIN — from PRISON?

Former president Donald Trump is now leading President Biden in the polls in nearly every battleground state. But how much of this would change if Trump is convicted of a crime and goes to jail? While many Americans believe the lawsuits against Trump are nothing more than political hit jobs, there's still a chance that one of them could land him in prison before the 2024 election. And there's even a chance that he could be removed from the ballot in some states if he is convicted in his January 6th trial. Glenn, Pat, and Stu discuss what a campaign run from prison could look like for Trump and if it would help or hurt his chances of winning in 2024.

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

We're glad you're here. Thank you so much.

We're just talking about the polls of Trump, leading Biden now in nearly every battle ground state. And he is leading in every battleground state.

STU: Five out of six, I think it was.

GLENN: Except for Wisconsin.

STU: Wisconsin.

GLENN: And could you look into, and break this down at all, on demographics?

STU: Yeah. I mean, it's not good for Joe Biden.

Again, the democratic voting base is -- assumes 95-ish percent of black voters.

90 percent. 85 percent of Hispanic voters.

That's thousand they get into power.

They just dominate these groups by so much, it's overwhelming.

Well, Donald Trump in this poll, has 22 percent support among African-Americans.

This would be a modern day first for a Republican.

A sizable improvement over the 8 percent he had in the same states in 2020.

GLENN: Wow.

STU: And a Hispanic voter.

GLENN: Wow. Where was it? Do you know, in 2016? It wasn't that high.

STU: I don't have it on off the top of my head.

GLENN: Sixteen or 12, something like that.

STU: Yeah. It's right around there. That sounds about right, from memory. Hispanic voters as well.

Of course, he earned 28 percent of Hispanic voters in 2016.

And 2020, it rose to 36 percent.

GLENN: Wow.

STU: Trump now has 42 percent in this poll of Hispanic swing state voters. It's a little bit of a different population. There's some asterisks involved in all of that. Generally speaking, it's showing that the multi-cultural base of the Democratic Party is eroding in a major way. And largely, it's because of Joe Biden.

They look at everything he's done. And they say, number one, he's too sold. He doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't have the mental acute. He's asked in this poll specifically. And they don't think he has it.

And then also, all these things, like inflation and the stuff that we complain about all the time, it hits these populations really hard.

GLENN: Really hard.

Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed has joined us now.

Pat, President Trump goes in to testify today. In the New York trial.

And this is the one where, you know, he was committing fraud, because he said his house was worth, you know, pretty much --

PAT: More than it was.

GLENN: Well, they say, more than it was.

Others say, it was -- it was pretty close on target, for what it really is.

But if he goes to jail, how much does this change?

PAT: Well, I was really happy to see the New York Times point out, that if he goes to jail, he loses all five of those swing states then. That he otherwise would win. So if he's convicted and goes to jail, he won't win those swing states.

And they were really -- really great at pointing that you the on.

STU: It really wasn't even that strong.

It was 6 percent of people switch their votes if he's in jail.

GLENN: If he's in jail.

PAT: If he's in jail, literally.

STU: That would be enough to cost him the election in these polls. Again, it's just a poll. Still, it would be enough. However, I was amazed. That's a pretty low number.

PAT: It is.

GLENN: And I'm not sure that that's true.

STU: Yeah. I'm not sure.

GLENN: I'm not sure that's true.

PAT: The only way that were true, is if he were kept off the ballot in those states, if he were in prison.

GLENN: The only way. The only way, and I think you would go to the Supreme Court on this.

The only way that would happen is if he were convicted in the January 6th stuff. Insurrection.

STU: You think that one. Because I can't imagine people will be like, well, he took too many documents from his office.

And he put them in a bathroom. Therefore, he shouldn't be president. I don't think that's real. I don't think the American people care that much about that type of thing. January 6th thing, I think they do.

We obviously have looked into this. Talked about it all the time.

Talked about some moderate voter, in a swing state.

I think that would have an effect.

If he was convicted over it. It would be interesting to see.

I don't think it would be positive.

I think it would be hard to run a campaign from prison. And look, we all know this is what they want.

GLENN: It's been done before.

STU: It has been done before about. But not successfully. Not successfully.

GLENN: But it was a Communist. Multiple Communists, actually. Peace and freedom party has run candidates for prison, multiple times.

GLENN: Yes. Right.

STU: But generally speaking, very difficult to do.

Suboptimal would be one way.

And like, when we talk about this. We always talk about the actual merits of these cases. Does that make any difference at all?

The merits of the cases have nothing to do with this story. The story is about whether these people will throw him in prison. Whether the merits are true or not.

That's what you have to worry about, if you're Donald Trump or the Republican Party. It will be hard. It will be a difficult task to achieve to be elected from prison.

And I don't know if they will -- but it's is not impossible.

GLENN: I've seen conversations. I can't remember who was -- who did a piece on this.

But with the African-American community.

And it might actually help him, in the African-American community.

Not because they want, you know, somebody who is, you know, a felon in.

They see injustice.

And all of the people they think, many people, are -- have been used and abused by the system. And thrown into prison.

STU: Right. It's sort of -- they connect with the oppression.

GLENN: They connect with the oppression. And they'll look at that and go, oh, my gosh. He's now one of us.

STU: And look, Donald Trump can pull off these magic tricks that no one else can do.

He can be a multi-billionaire in a giant skyscraper. And not only convince people, he's a man of the people, but also that he's oppressed. He's just able to do it.

GLENN: He's actually -- yes. He has his own plane. But he eats McDonald's. You know what I mean?

STU: Yeah. I think it works for him.

GLENN: He's a strange kind of combination of everything.

STU: It's fascinating to see.

I mean, he really can. He is a magician when it comes to politics.

That's the thing, when you look at the movement behind him long-term.

There have been very few people who are able to pull that off, other than him.

Right?

A lot of these candidates that he puts up for these. And he praises don't do that well. Because they don't have whatever he has.

Right?

Donald Trump has something somewhat unique. This is not something -- this is not breaking news. The guy is pretty unique too.

And he is able to pull things off, that other politicians or candidates cannot. He's been the only one that has been able to do it.

There are some examples of people who have similar viewpoints of him. That have done okay. Really, there's something magical in the recipe there.

That he has, that no one else has. And he will remind you that if you ask him.

PAT: And can you imagine what will happen if he's removed from the ballots, in a lot of these states? The chaos. The rioting. It would be ugly.

GLENN: It would be Civil War.

You cannot do that.

They're doing -- the Democrats are doing everything they can, to thwart the election process.

PAT: And they would love to see chaos like that. They would love it.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. They would.

It might be the final straw.

GLENN: Right.

STU: Do you think, even if he gets convicted and put in prison, of some sort.

I mean, I think that that line makes the country unrecognizable. I don't know how people would react to that.

PAT: It's banana republic stuff.

STU: It really is.

And would it be hard to argue anything other than that.

You're putting a guy leading to be president in prison so that he can't be president. That is legitimately what happens in Venezuela.

GLENN: Right. Well, this is -- this is what they impeached him over. The Democrats said, he was going to a foreign entity. Ukraine. And trying to get dirt on his opponent, to be able to make sure he went to jail. That's exactly what Biden is doing.

STU: Yeah. It really is remarkable. And I --

PAT: Incredible.

STU: And I don't know.

It would be one thing if they did this in the immediate aftermath. If right after January 6th happened, they tried the quick, sort of express impeachment, if you will. Which was really, really a joke.

But if they had done this, and tried to go after him, and tried to prove he did something wrong. Or whatever.

It may have been more acceptable to people. Wait until he's running and winning.

And then be like, oh, by the way. We have a bunch of charges from like 12 different states.

Everything he has ever done was wrong. We all found out today.

Like, it's so transparent, that people have to be able to see that, I would think.

GLENN: It's bizarre. I know.

STU: But I get surprised by the American people often.

GLENN: So from Texas, the Democrat from Texas, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is worried that voter's feelings will result in a vote for Trump.

STU: Oh, no. Not feelings.

GLENN: Yeah. Not feelings.

STU: Oh, no.

GLENN: Okay. She's worried about the feelings, and not the facts.

PAT: Well, do you know why she's worried about the feelings though?

Is because all black people don't know how they're actually doing. They don't -- those are the facts they don't understand.

They don't understand two things. That they're doing way better, that they think they are.

The other thing, they are just don't understand our system. They're too stupid.

GLENN: Oh, they don't understand.

STU: That's based on the color of their skin.

PAT: Of their skin.

GLENN: Wow. That is interesting.

Well, she said also that they feel as though they're not doing well.

PAT: Right. But they are.

She has to tell them, yes, you are.

GLENN: Because it's the -- the facts, yes, you are.

Isn't that incredible.

PAT: It's unbelievable.

GLENN: The standard, first of all, being worried about somebody's feelings over facts. Coming from a progressive Democrat. Where all of euro feelings are valid.

PAT: Yeah. Right.

GLENN: No. No, they're not.

And now, when they can't change the feelings, they have to change the facts.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: I mean, it is -- it's nuts.

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GLENN: So it has been a little frightening this week. And you're looking at things.
And, you know, Donald Trump might seem calloused to some.

Because he will just say, you know, hey. Stop freaking out. Stop freaking out.

And it's easy to say that, as a negotiator. If you're negotiating in a company. And you can say to your staff, behind closed doors. Listen, we are going to do some stuff.

But I'm negotiating. Don't freak out. Anybody freaks out. We will lose the negotiation.

Don't freak out. He's been trying to do that.

But he has to say it on a global stage. Where everybody is watching him.

So he's trying to say, don't freak out. I've got this.

I've got this.

And it's required us to have faith.

And, you know, that's hard to give to a politician. Any politician.

Especially if you didn't vote for that politician. If you don't like Donald Trump. You're not going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

You will think he's destroying the country.

And it's really interesting. Because those who didn't vote for Donald Trump, because they thought he would destroy the country, most likely voted for the last administration.

And it didn't matter that they were literally on the take from one of our enemies.

Literally making millions of dollars, taking money, to influence decisions, from China.

It didn't matter that they were lying. They were cheating. That they were literally stealing from you, now we know, through USAID.

Through all of these NGOs. They were literally stealing from you.

Let alone, lying to you!

Remember when I told you about The Great Reset? Something ESG.

DEI.

All these things that we now are very, very well aware of, and we know. They are absolutely true.

They were implemented by the same people who said they were conspiracy theories.

I mean, that's the one thing I can't get past is the people. How do you get past?

How do you hate Donald Trump so much, that you can still run to the people who have lied to you over and over again?

About things that do matter. You know, when Donald Trump said, I have the biggest -- I had the biggest crowd ever!

It doesn't matter. If he's telling the truth or lying.

Does that matter?

No. We're not. We're not. We're not. Trying to undermine capitalism and go to a global government through ESG and DEI and the World Economic Forum.

That lie matters. That one matters. That one will matter for generations.

That one matters to your children and your grandchildren.

But for some reason, some people will just continue to dismiss that.

I want to remind you, that while we're in this situation, with China. First of all, China is the source of COVID.

Did you see this week, what they came out with, on -- that Biden covered up something we reported on, almost, I mean, within a couple of months of COVID.

We said, you know, we've been doing our homework on this. And there was an event with the global army. And all of the armies around the world, that were kind of war gaming and getting together. And our troops were there too.

And it was all in Wuhan. And they came home, and they were sick.

Remember that? And we were like, that might have been the first kind of outbreak of this.

And everyone called us conspiracy. They just -- they just released the documents that show that Joe Biden that afternoon. It was try.

And they buried it.

So we're dealing with a country like China. Really, really bad. You know that, and I know that.

We are dependent on China now! And that can't happen.

Do you remember what COVID was like, when everybody was like, oh, you can't get that. You can't get that.

You can't get surgical masks, because they're all made in China.

How many times did we, in 2020, 2021, 2022 say, I've never seen this in the United States before.

Wait a minute. There's a shortage of, what?

Okay. We weren't used to that.

Don't forget that. Don't forget that.

Especially when it comes to things like medication and rare earth minerals.

You may not know exactly what rare earth minerals are. Or your friends might not know.

But rare earth minerals are what -- it's going to control the world!

You don't have access to rare earth minerals, you can't make batteries or chips.

Okay? Nothing! China is buying them up from all over the world.

And we have created this country, where we can't even mine our own rare earth minerals, and underneath some of our mountains, we have more rare earth minerals than every place in the world combined!

But our government has shut that off. Now, why?

Again, may I remind you of what we just came out of.

The Cloward and Piven strategy. Cloward and Piven were these two university professors, back in the '60s. And when I first brought them up, back in the early 2000s, everybody was like, that's crazy.

She's just a sweet old lazy lady.

She didn't mean any of that stuff.

Yes, she did. Yes, she did.

She was the one at the White House, with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. That did the motor voter law.

That was her. Why?

Get people, everybody who is registered for a license. Get them registered to vote.

The whole thing -- her whole plan with her husband, Cloward and Piven, the whole thing was to collapse America. Economically.

Overwhelm the system, and collapse it economically.

We're dealing with that reality.

Okay?

Whether it's intentional or not.

We all know, we all know, you look back -- I look at this world, and you see, my gosh.

It's just a sprawling, chaotic system, that we've all been swept up in.

And it has strangely worked in many ways, until it doesn't work.

Because of his something like COVID.

And then all falls apart.

And you look at everything that we're doing. The endless wars.

The draining of our spirit.

And our resources. With these endless wars. Government spending like there's absolutely no tomorrow.

Printing money, until it feels like Monopoly cash. Globalism, that has left us leaning on our enemies, for things as basic as medicine and rare earth minerals.

Elites in our universities. And now running our schools. That are destroying our children, by teaching them to be victims.

And not teaching them how to empower themselves, by learning how to think!

Worst of all, the global governments. The World Economic Forum.

The WHO. The United Nations.

All of those things that have said to us, for years. No. We're not doing that. We're not doing that.

And now we know that they have been doing that. And with our help, from the elites in our own governments. And they have redesigned the world.

They have infiltrated a compliant press, that denies the truth.

They are continually defying common sense.

And they are defying the -- the will of the people. Openly.

Openly. Destroying our nations.

Destroying our history.

Our unity. Now arresting those who dare stand against them.

Whether it's the guy down the street on the school board or at the school board meeting. That is like, hey. You guys are all crooks. What are you doing to my kids?

Those who are protesting rape gangs in England.

Actual leaders running for higher office against the machine in France and Romania.

They tried to do it here.

This is all a house of cards.

And it's trembling under its own weight. And deep down. Every single one of us know it.

One way or another.

We all know it. Whether you're in denial or not, that's up to you. Even those on the left, the ones who have been loudest about keeping it going, all along. The ones who are now protesting and burning Tesla. Unless you're a useful idiot. Unless you're someone who is like, yeah. Our side is always right.

I will burn down a Tesla factory.

Unless you're just a useful idiot, you know, this is not about what's right and wrong.

This is about keeping the decline of this nation, and the entire West, on that path.

Because the elites, some of those that are tied to the last president, and his circle. Pushed this idea, of the Great Reset.

Which is a managed decline.

They see the cracks, just as much as I do. They're trying to control the fall, so they can control our future.

They know there's too much money to be lost. So let's get together with all the big banks. And the big corporations.

And finding out more and more. Our CIA. And everybody else.

And we will manage this collapse, keep the people down. Keep the people quiet. And then we will control everything, and we will reset. That's -- that's not -- God didn't give you the right to do that! God didn't give anybody for anybody to do that to a whole population of people!

So this is what we've been fighting against. And now Donald Trump is standing up and saying, that is so deep and metastasized. To save it, we have to turn this thing 180 -- this is the world's largest aircraft carrier, ever in the imagined nation of mankind. It's like an imperial stormtrooper ship. You know, of a -- of a -- you know, of an aircraft carrier.

Practically half a continent. And you have to turn that thing around!

So let me talk to you about fear.

Just that, should scare the hell out of all of you. Every single one of us, it should scare our children and our children's children. It should scare everybody within the sound of my voice. Because you know it's true!

There is trouble, whether it's intended or not, this doesn't work anymore!

Okay?

And basis we got off common sense. And common values.

Now the question is: Are you going to fear it, or are you going to face it?

And that's really what this election, I think was about. At least for me!

I see one guy who is willing to stand up and say the truth, and then actually follow through with action.

I don't see politicians follow through with action. He is actually not afraid of doing it! I'm not afraid of the truth.

You shouldn't be afraid of the truth. The truth will set us all free!

It's scarier to pretend it's not there!

Yeah. It's going to be tough. It's going to be really tough. We have some hard times ahead of us. There's no sugarcoating.

Nobody should sugarcoat that.

But it's, what is the goal at the end?

Is it for the elites to control everything?

Or is it to give you power?

Because both of them are risky. Both of them could end in violent revolution.

Both of them could fail.

But I know which side I want to win. I want the side that says, hey. These values are worth fighting for, and trying to save.

And it might be our World War II. It might be our Great Depression.

It might be our Civil War. But I would rather take that on, then pass it on to my children. Because I would have my children to have the opportunity sooner rather than later to be free.

The system has been running on fumes. And when it finally sputters out, we're going to feel the jolt, one way or another.

What's been happening this week, is dedicated people, who know what's going on. That says, okay.

I don't want the pain.

But I would rather take it on my shoulders now, than pass it on my kids.

Because we might be able to save it now, if we're honest about what we're facing.

Let me carry the load. Let me mess with the mess that we've made. So they don't have to!

Because a controlled fire is good!

Forest fires are good too, in the end. Long run. But a controlled fire is good.

It gets rid of all the underbrush. And it actually replenishes the soil, so something good could grow. And some controlled burns are going to happen. We have a chance here to rebuild, to rethink how we live.

We cannot continue to rely on far off enemies. We have to start looking closer to home. To our own soil.

To our own hands. To our own people.

We can make things again.

Not the things we made in the past.

We're never going back to those days.

Something new and better is on the horizon.

But we can grow things.

We can stand on our own 2 feet. It's time to say, you're 25 years old. You're not a kid. Adolescence now. Adolescence now lasts until you're 25!

In George Washington's time, you were an adult when you were 13!

Are we getting better or weaker? This is not going to be easy. But what is the -- what's at the end, will either be completely bogus, or real again.

And somewhere inside of me, I know we're not done yet.

World has been through collapse before, empires fall, systems crumble.

But the ones who make it, are the ones who dust themselves off.

So I am for one, willing to take the hit.

I am willing to grit my teeth. Because I believe in what's on the other side.

And I know it's -- you can say it's easy for you to say, Glenn. But I only succeed when you succeed.

I get paid a salary because you have the money to buy things that we advertise. So if you don't succeed, I don't succeed.

I lose everything too. I just want to encourage you to pray on this, this weekend.

And -- and find the strength to at least face the truth. And turn the page.

Because it's not just about survival.

It's a new start!

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