RADIOFebruary 08, 2024

Gina Carano reveals why she’s SUING Disney with Elon Musk

Former ‘Star Wars’ actress Gina Carano is teaming up with Elon Musk and X to sue Disney and Lucasfilm after they trashed her name and fired her from ‘The Mandalorian.’ Gina joins Glenn to reveal how she got in contact with Musk and what her life was like after she lost her role as Cara Dune. She tells Glenn that Disney didn’t even have the courtesy to notify her first, but instead allowed mobs to go after her over false claims of ‘hate speech’: “[Disney] definitely put my life in danger.” Plus, she tells Glenn why she decided to take on Disney: “So many people have come before me and fought this battle and nobody was paying attention…it breaks my heart that they didn’t get justice.”

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GLENN: I don't think I need to really do a long introduction. So I'm not going to. Actress, former MMA fighter, Gina Carano. How are you?

GINA: I'm good. Thank you so much for having me.

GLENN: You bet. I've got to tell you, I am so glad to see that you are standing up and fighting back against Disney and Lucasfilm for what happened to you. Can you just describe, quickly, that whole scene?

GINA: Well, quickly.

GLENN: I know. Sorry.

GINA: No. It's okay. I actually -- it was really interesting. For the longest time, for the last couple of years, I just -- you know, just distraught. Trying to rebuild my life. Running into all sorts of problems, and trying to, you know, re-create my career. And finally, you know, I was like, I had to just give it to God and say, all right. You know, you've got me in life. I'm going to keep going. And I have to let this go, and give it to you. And, you know, whatever justice I get, you know, I know you're working behind the scenes for me.

And then, it's almost as soon as I did that, I got an email from a lawyer, that was hired by Elon Musk and X to inquire about my case. And then I was just so excited, and I emailed him back, like immediately.

And, you know, we started going through all of the -- you know, I just educated them. And I sent them everything I have to date. And I have a lot more to send them. And they are wonderful. And they are just excited. And they couldn't believe -- they were kind of like dumbfounded about how this happened.

So that's the quick version.

GLENN: So you -- I mean, you've worked with everybody. Michael Douglas. Fassbender. Channing Tatum. Bill Paxton. Antonio Banderas. Robert De Niro. Ryan Reynolds.

Have you had any support from these people, or are they afraid to come out? How would you describe what you've -- your friend circle.

GINA: Well, yeah. I mean, well, that's not my friends. They're not my friends.

GLENN: Your coworkers.

GINA: They're incredible people that I've worked with.

You know, I've never had an issue with anybody. With anyone, whatsoever. You know, as far as actors go or a crew goes. Or for that matter, I did not have an issue on set, ever.

I get along with everybody. But, yes. To answer your question, there has been many people who I have worked with. And who I haven't worked with, that I have run into.

Not only just very well-known actors. But also very well-known producers. And actually people who are still working in Disney and Lucasfilm, actively, you know, have -- you know, they all have shown so much support. Everything that I've seen. Any of them.

And to be very honest, I've not had one person from this industry come up to me and say, you know, I deserved that. They're all saying the complete opposite.

So it's just been kind of mind bending that -- that Lucasfilm couldn't see that as well.

GLENN: When -- when they contacted you, I assume they contacted you with this. Or maybe they just said, oh, it's over for other reasons.

But when you found out that you were being cut out of everything. And your career was over, because of a tweet.

That was exactly the same, that your costar tweeted, except, toward the other side.

Did you point that -- I mean, you had to have gone, guys. Wait a minute. Hold it.

I mean --

GINA: Well, they didn't contact me. This is very interesting.

I think it just shows what the company was at the time, a couple years ago. They didn't even contact me to let me know they were letting me go. They didn't contact me to let me know that there was about to be paparazzi stalkers. And people waiting outside my house.

I found out all that just like everyone else did, over the internet.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

GINA: And it did. It was awful. You know, I've been trying to put on a very brave face for the last couple of years.

GLENN: It's hard.

GINA: I cannot begin to even describe. I couldn't leave my house for seven days. I was being talked. I was being harassed. They were coming up to my -- I had to keep all my blinds closed. And I had actually lost all hearing. I don't know -- it's a very interesting random thing. I lost all of the hearing. As soon as I was cancelled, my hearing got clogged. And I could only hear 5 percent.

GLENN: Was that kind of like -- this is a horrible name for it, but hysterical blindness, where you are in so much trauma, that --

GINA: It really felt like -- it really -- yeah, it really felt like that.

It felt like that, or either that, or just God put earmuffs on me.

So I really had to sit there in my head. And I really had to sit there in my head, and just go over things.

And it was quite. It was torturous, until I was finally just like, okay.

I just gave it to God. And I just, it's just -- it was just such an intense time.

And, you know, for them not to even warn me.

You know, I didn't live in a gated community. So I was out there.

And that wasn't -- you would think that somebody would have just call me and tell me, hey. Thank you for all your work and everything. And we're just no longer going to work with you.

And then they put out the statement about denigrating people off of their religious and cultural beliefs.

And I was like, this is -- I just -- it was just, at the worst time possible, they really kind of, you know -- they definitely put my life in danger, at that moment.

GLENN: So what do you hope happens with this lawsuit? I mean, I would love to see the discovery on all of the emails going back and forth, that will be nice.

GINA: Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I hope that -- I hope that this makes a change. I hope that it's -- it makes a change. In this industry.

And it makes the change in people's hearts.

The post I got fired for originally. Or what they said I got fired for.

Was never supposed to be what they -- what the media and all the media twisted into.

It was supposed to be, you know, do not demonize your neighbor. You know, we need to look at each other as human beings. Because the internet is one thing. But when you get outside, and you get around people, there's so much love and there's so much, you know -- it's not the internet. The internet is false. It's a lot of people nephew hiding behind brave ideas and false accounts. And when you get to be around people, there is -- you know, we all -- you know, all read. We are all on this earth together. And so I hope that this the outcome of this case is just to make, you know, everybody kind of be -- truly, truly inclusive industry in Hollywood. And make it that much difficult to do what was happening to me, to happen to the next person.

GLENN: Yeah. You know, it's -- I don't think people understand that, you know, it's happening to people like you. And, you know, people all over in the country, who are in visible places.

And I don't think people are really understanding.

If they do it to people like you, why would they hesitate to do it to a nobody.

And that's -- that's the scariest thing.

Is they're not coming after the nobodies. Alone.

They're coming after names like Elon Musk. Who I think they're trying to do the same thing to.

GINA: Oh, yeah. Yeah. When they try to smear him as anti-Semitic. I was like, that's exactly what they did to me. They try to smear you as all these key words. Racist, anti-Semitic, transphobe.

And, you know, it's just -- it's really, they're just trying to squash anybody who has the ability to reach people, to --

GLENN: To communicate.

GINA: Yeah. To tell them -- let's communicate. Let's think critically. Let's not just listen to what the news is telling us. And let's -- let's communicate with each other. Because we have to.

Because everything is owned now by people who want to grab more control.

GLENN: It's really crazy. I've never seen, especially with Disney.

I've never seen such a wrecking ball taken to their, you know, own corporation.

Like Disney has taken a wrecking ball to everything they own and everything that they touch. This is just horrible.

GINA: It's truly a shame, because we just grew up with Disney. And it doesn't seem like it would be that hard of a fix.

You know, it doesn't seem like, hey. You know what, my stuff here.

They're so good at telling everybody how to apologize and get on their knees and say sorry. It's like, you know, lead by example in this case. It wouldn't be hard to be like, to look at my case and be like, hey. You know what, we belong there.

Let's make it right. And, you know -- and then let's start reaching out to -- you know, really includes this -- like all -- all people. It doesn't mean that they have to follow any kind of political, you know, life. They could just really include and appreciate the fan base that they had, that has just been completely betrayed by them. So I don't understand in those meetings, how it's just not like, you know what, we did wrong. Let's face up to it.

Let's do something right here. And let's get our -- like our conservative viewers back.

It's just a no-brainer.

GLENN: Right. I don't know if they could, at this point.

Once you violated my family. I mean, beyond what they did to you. They -- you know, they're trying to teach my children principles, that I don't agree with at all.

And they lost that trust. That parents have. Oh, it's Disney. It's safe.

It's not safe. And that's going to take them a long time to recover that. And a good step forward, would be to -- to -- to correct this, with you and others that they have wronged.

So, you know, when this happened to you --

GINA: But nothing is impossible, you know.

GLENN: I know.

GINA: If they keep going down this route, they will just be considered evil. You know, I have a massive fall to, you know, rock, to push back a mountain. To get back a career. But I'm not looking at that, saying, okay. I'm at the bottom again, I'm not going to do it.

You know, we have to constantly rebuild ourselves, and so do companies.

So if they started now, they could start pushing that rock back up, instead of just tumbling -- it's just tumbling down the hill.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

Well, you are going to be -- you're going to be fine, in the end.

Especially since -- you know, when this happened, we weren't really ready as conservatives. And I don't want a bunch of conservative films. Or, you know, films about -- I just want good films. You know what I mean?

GINA: Yeah.

GLENN: And can we have them say decent things about society. And try to help us be better people.

GINA: Exactly.

GLENN: But if you look at the films now, Angel is really I think leading the way on this.

If you see some of the stuff that's coming. And I think we're right on the cusp. I started TheBlaze, you know, before -- before Amazon ask HBO were online.

We were doing digital streaming at TheBlaze. And it was a nightmare. Now, 12 years later, things are happening, to where, there is a community.

You give it another five years, and we're not going to have worry about Hollywood.

GINA: You know, and it really just breaks your heart. You know, I feel like so many people have come before me, and fought this battle. And nobody was paying attention. So I really am honored to be in a position where people are paying attention right now.

And to give respect to those people that came before me.

Those actors. And everyone trying to break down the barriers for so long.

You know, it breaks my heart, that they didn't get I couldn't wait.

And so, you know, yeah. I'm -- I feel pretty fortunate, you know, to be in the situation, to help with that.

Because, yes. In five years, it's going to be even better. And I'm excited to have just been at the beginning of this.

Just how I was at the beginning of women's mixed martial arts.

You know, part of breaking ground here. And so I really hope this case is -- I hope, I hope people pay attention to it. And blow it out of the water.

And just make sure, that we will make it easier for the next generation, and the people -- the younger people behind me.

GLENN: I have such great respect for you. Thank you so much for coming on. You're welcome here, any time. Best of luck to you.

You bet. You bet.

GINA: Thank you so much, Glenn.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.

SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?

SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.