RADIODecember 14, 2023

THIS is why we should LEAVE the United Nations

The United Nations has been covering up scandals connected to its Peacekeepers for decades and NOBODY has done anything about it. On top of this, the U.N. has clearly become a tool for global elites to force their agendas on the rest of the world. So, maybe it's time that the United States cuts ties with the globalist group. That's what Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representatives Chip Roy (R-TX) and Mike Rogers (R-AL) are now proposing. Glenn reviews their plan to not just defund the U.N., but cut ties with it and its affiliated entities, like the W.H.O.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: I don't know if you saw this story about the UN.

Borjo was earning $7,000 a month, as the head of logistics in the peacekeeping commission in Goma. I don't even know where Goma is, do you?

PAT: No.

GLENN: He was getting locals to procure children for him. He had two assets that ensured children trusted him: He was white, and he worked for the United Nations.

PAT: Oh, you can always trust white people. Right?

GLENN: Sure. Always.

PAT: Isn't that a pretty hard-core rule of thumb.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. He said the sex was consensual. But was unsure if the children were afraid of saying no. I'm not sure. I don't think so. But I'm not sure. Could be.

PAT: Oh, my gosh.

GLENN: After the Congolese police arrested him, and the French authorities jailed him for nine years in 2008, the UN made a public promise to help his victims. That promise was never kept. The UN said, it could never find the victims.

PAT: I'll bet they tried really hard. Really, really hard. They're probably still looking right now.

GLENN: Well.

PAT: No? Oh.

GLENN: No.

Fortunately, Channel 4, I don't know where Channel 4 is. Maybe this is Channel 4 from the BBC. Fourteen years on, we investigated sex abuse for Channel 4.

It took only one afternoon for my producer to find four women, who he had raped when they were children.

PAT: Wow.

GLENN: The hunting ground was the slums. And the airport where barefoot children in ragged clothes scamper through the alleyways.

Adults remember the rapes well. One girl was 14, when she used to sell bananas by the side of the road to pay for her education. Luring her with promises of help, for six months, he took her to a hotel where he abused her.

He was so old, as old as my father.

He was a civilian, part of the culture of UN personnel having sex with prostitutes, including children. More than a decade on.

That culture still persists. This story goes on to say how horrible these peacekeepers are from the United Nations.

We have known this story forever, Pat.

We've heard about the blue helmets going in. And raping women and children, for decades. Decades

PAT: True. Yeah.

GLENN: And nobody has done anything about it.

PAT: Yeah. And they're not just inept, or ineffective.

They're evil.

GLENN: They're evil. They're evil.

Mike Lee, Chip Roy, and representative Mike Rogers of Alabama, now are pushing paper that would cut all of our ties to the UN. And all of its affiliated entities, including the World Health Organization.

The UN doesn't deserve a single dime of American taxpayer money or one bit of our support.

PAT: That's for sure.

GLENN: We should defund it, and leave it immediately.

And I'm proud to leave this critical effort alongside with Mike Lee and Mike Rogers.

This is Chip Roy. No more blank checks from the United Nations.

America's hard-earned dollars have been funneled in the initiatives that fly in the face of our values, enabling tyrants, betraying allies, and spreading bigotry.

With the Defund Act, we're stepping away from this debacle.

If we engage with the UN in the future, it will be on our terms, with the full backing of the Senate. And the ironclad escape clause. This is fantastic.

PAT: And not only should we leave it. We should force them to leave us. Get off our continent.

GLENN: This is not our continent.

What about Canada and Mexico

PAT: Okay. Well, get off our mainland. Get out of our country

GLENN: Get off our island. Yeah!

That will show you.

PAT: Seriously, doesn't that belong in Europe? Shouldn't they be in Belgium, just like the European Union is, and every other one world organization, known to man, including NATO.

Get them over there. They would love them over there.

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: Well, they do love them.

GLENN: I don't know if the people love them anymore.

PAT: Not the people, but certainly the European bureaucrats love them.

GLENN: The bureaucrats over here love them

PAT: Thank you.

GLENN: I've never seen a time where our bureaucrats are more out of step, all over the world.

PAT: Right.

GLENN: I said this, I don't know.

Four or five years ago.

This is not a war against Republican and Democrat.

This is truly between the elites, and the people.

And that's what's happening all over the world.

That's what's happening in China.

That's what's happening in France.

And the Scandinavian. Countries. And Germany.

PAT: I wonder if that's why, people who are similar to Donald Trump, at least in rhetoric, or in delivery.

GLENN: It is.

PAT: Are winning, all over the world.

GLENN: Yes. It is.

PAT: Yeah. Argentina. The Netherlands. I mean, did you ever think Geert Wilders would be elected?

GLENN: No.

No.

PAT: The head of the Netherlands. No way. No way.

GLENN: Is he? Is he?

Did he make it to Prime Minister?

PAT: They thought he was going to.

GLENN: But he didn't. He just missed it. Just shy of it.

PAT: That was really amazing.

GLENN: Yeah. We were advised by everybody. Not to have him on.

He came to America. He came into the studios

We had him on. And everybody was like, you can't have him on.

He's a racist, radical, big on the.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: No. Not so far.

I mean, you know, doesn't have enough power, to really show it.

But doesn't seem to be in any way, shape, or form

PAT: No. Yeah.

GLENN: And the same thing with the guy in Argentina.

That guy looks great.

PAT: He does. He does. He's just outspoken.

And people for some reason recoil at that.

They don't -- they don't like outspoken leaders, I guess.

People who just -- who are sick and tired of pussy-footing around.

And just tell it like it is.

And that's what he does.

GLENN: But that's not -- the people are not tired of that at all.

They're not that at all.

PAT: No. They're not. The left is tired. The left certainly doesn't want that.

GLENN: Correct. They don't want anyone speaking out.

Because they are the fascists.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: And this was brought up yesterday by a few people.

We talked about it yesterday. When Joe Biden says he's going to just take the -- the formulas, and just take the --

PAT: Can you believe that?

From the drug companies. And we're supposed to be okay with that. Because the pharmaceuticals are all evil giants, who make too much money. And charge us too much.

But I'm sorry. This is about freedom. This can't be about the government just seizing control of everything they want.

GLENN: Beyond that, they don't think they're bad.

PAT: That's very true.

They're in bed with Pfizer, and Moderna.

GLENN: Yes. Yes. I was never against big pharmaceutical. I thought big pharmaceutical, you know, it's a giant corporation.
Yes, it's probably not doing things.

But this is redistribution of wealth. This is, you know, to give to the -- give to the have-nots, and screw the haves. We've always paid more here in America for our drugs. So people who don't have as much, will pay less all around the country.

I've always thought, well, I don't like it. But okay.

Well, now you see the government and pharmaceutical companies have been in bed for a long time.

And all of a sudden, the left, who has been saying that forever.

PAT: They love those.

GLENN: Yeah, they love them.

PAT: They're best friends with the pharmaceuticals.

GLENN: Right. And now he's saying, screw the pharmaceutical companies. I'll just take their patents. You can't do that!

PAT: No.

They're doing so many things they can't do though. It's amazing. I don't think "can't" means what we thought it meant.

GLENN: I know. I know.

PAT: The other story that was really big yesterday, was -- was the FBI may be being thwarted in their civil asset forfeiture.

Civil asset forfeiture problem. Which happened in Los Angeles.

Remember that one, from two years ago?

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

PAT: They stole anywhere from 85 to $100 million worth of cash and goods from people.

GLENN: They went into this. I think it was Beverly Hills, wasn't it?

PAT: Yeah. It was.

GLENN: Kind of like mailboxes, et cetera.

Kind of vault. It's not a bank. It's just this giant vault. And people would rent safety-deposit boxes.

Well, there was one guy, who -- did they prove that he was doing things or not?

PAT: No. And it wasn't. I don't think it was an individual at all. It was the company supposedly that operated or owned the safety-deposit boxes.

And so they had the warrant to go look at the company's safety deposit boxes.

GLENN: Because they thought there might be illegal ill-gotten goods in their safety-deposit box

PAT: And they didn't find anything illegal there

But they were also ordered not to touch anybody else's safety deposit box. Any of the individuals there, not fair game.

They're off-limits, leave it alone. So what they did instead was get into all 1400 safety-deposit boxes. And took it.

GLENN: They took everything.

PAT: They took gold coins. They took jewelry. They took cash. To the tune of 85 to 100 million-dollars worth. And they didn't charge anybody with anything.

GLENN: And they said to the people, well, go ahead and fight us on this. You are part of it?

Are you part of the problem?

I mean, they threatened them with prosecution, if they said, hey. I want my stuff back.

So a lot of people were just like, I'm not going to fight with the United States government.

PAT: And in a lot of cases, they were wealthy people, and it didn't hurt them that bad. But that's beside the point. It's the principle of this thing.

You can't just steal from people. But they do.

GLENN: They do all the time. And it's not just the FBI. It's all the way down to our local police.

PAT: Yes.

GLENN: I mean, it's -- we have become Mexico.

Unless this stuff is stopped, when you put AI together, with the federal government and all of its private/public partnerships. There ain't nothing left.

There's nothing left. What do you think of the story today, that the Democrats are coming out, and they're saying, companies like BlackRock can't own private houses. They can't invest in private homes. And just buy them all up.

Wait a minute.

What?

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Why? What is that all about?

Why would the Democrats be leading that charge?

PAT: And I didn't know that was happening in the first place. Did you?

Were you aware of that. The investment from BlackRock. In individual homes.

GLENN: Vanguard and everything else. That's what is driving our property prices so high. They go in and buy entire neighborhoods.

Sometimes two and three times above the asking price.

So they just come in, and they buy everything, and then they hold it.

It is part of the you'll own nothing. You'll rent from us.

And so they're going in, and --

PAT: And how hard would that be, to turn that down?

Even if you're a big critic of BlackRock or Vanguard. They come in and say, I'll give you three times the market value. Uh, okay.

GLENN: Most people would not say no.

PAT: Right.

GLENN: I mean, I know a guy who is selling his house. Somebody from California came in. Some rich person from California came in.

And said, what are you asking for your house?

And he said, it's not for sale. And he said, well, we've looked at the houses. And, you know, your house is probably worth X amount. He put a million dollars on that amount, plus. And the guy --

PAT: Wow.

GLENN: And the guy went, wait. What?

And he said, and I'll give you another million if you're out by the end of the month. He was out. He was just out. He was like, buh-bye. You got it.

I'll load my car up starting right now.

PAT: Wow. If that's the case, I'm calling BlackRock to say, have you considered living in this neighborhood?

GLENN: I know. I know. I mean, it's crazy.

PAT: That is crazy.

GLENN: But I'm -- first of all, I don't like the government saying what investors can and can't invest in.

PAT: Right. A dangerous precedent.

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INSIDE Trump’s soul: How a bullet changed his heart forever

“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”.

Transcript

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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.