RADIOJanuary 16, 2023

Why did Team Biden ‘discover’ the classified documents NOW?

More classified documents were discovered over the weekend at another home of President Joe Biden (…how many homes does he HAVE?!). Attorneys for the president discovered the files when sent to the house to pack things up. But why were lawyers sent to pack up items? Why does it seem like the Biden Administration was aware of these documents the entire time? And if that is true, why did they decide to ‘discover’ them NOW? Is there more to this mysterious timeline? In this clip, Glenn answers all of these questions plus more. And, he’ll dive even more into this topic during his upcoming Glenn TV special this Wednesday at 9pm ET on BlazeTV.com.

Transcript

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GLENN: So Kevin McCarthy, he's come out and said, the discovery of more classified documents in President Joe Biden's possession, oh, that highlights the hypocrisy inside the federal government. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it does do that. It does. But is this new?

Haven't we always said this is this

Think of Donald Trump.

I mean, I could go back in time. Think of Ronald Reagan would have done that. Think of Eisenhower. If he would have done that.

I mean, you could go all the way -- think of Lincoln, if he would have done that. This is the same story. It's the same story.

We got it.

Now, why is this story happening? Well, let me give you -- they found more documents over the weekend. Now, remember, the White House said, we're absolutely done with documents.

They found every -- they found more over the weekend. At another house.

How many houses -- this guy is like Ronald McDonald. Ronald McDonald is constantly building another Ronald McDonald House.

How many houses does that clown need? How many houses does the president need?

He's got to have more houses. So they went to another house. And they went, oops. Okay. It's not exactly over, but these documents really don't matter.

Okay. All right. Well, they're classified documents. So I'm pretty sure that would matter.

Now, they went to Wilmington, and -- and when I say they, they went to Wilmington and Rohobeth HEP Beach. That's where his other house is.

And when I say they, I mean the same people that went to, you know, his foundation with the university.

So who are they? His attorneys. Now, this started back in -- what was it? November, or October?

Where the president's attorneys went to his office to pack up stuff and -- and close that office.

His attorneys. Now, that is the world's most expensive moving company. Okay?

Why would you have your attorneys do that?

Well, I could provide a thesis. Let's say, you know, you have something you shouldn't have. And maybe eudone something you shouldn't have done.

You go to your attorneys, first. Because to them, you don't have to say, I know this guy. What you say to them is, you guys can't talk, right?

I mean, legally, everything I say to you, you can't repeat it, right?

Right. Good.

I've got all these top secret documents, okay? There's a bunch of them over there. There might be a bunch of them -- I mean, I think I might have some of them in Sandy Berger's socks. I don't know. So if you guys go in there, and you find them, just do what you have to do, I don't want to know about it.

Okay. The president has said last week, the attorneys told me, you know, do not even ask about. Oh.

Hmm. Did you guys talk about it before they said that to you?

So the attorneys go in. They find it. And they immediately call and cooperate.

You know, that is big of Joe Biden.

Well, that's why he had the attorneys there. Now, go to his house. But I have it with my Corvette. Ah, yeah. We'll come back to them.

See, that is like the safest place on earth. You have an old Corvette?

I'm telling you, you can't break into -- the garage door opener. Nobody has one of those. Nobody has one of those.

You can't just -- and get in. Because the garage door opens.

It's locked.

You need some sort of like, I don't -- this is even beyond quantum computing, to be able to get past one of those Sears garage door openers.

So we're going to come back to that one. So then his other house, this weekend. After it's all out in the open, his attorneys are there at the other house.

Now, I don't know why they haven't done all of the places they could look. You know, at once. Maybe in November.

Hey, we found him in the basement. You have any, you know, next to your Corvette.

Well, there is that big box that says classified and has big red tape all over it. You know, we should probably go there. Do you have any other houses that -- I don't know why. I don't know why. But they're fully cooperating.

Okay. Now, let's ask two questions. Let's ask two questions.

When something says top secret, to get a top secret classification, what do they do, before you get that little card?

Stu.

STU: They usually do a background check.

GLENN: Background check. Okay. Good. Good. What are they looking for?

STU: Criminal activity. Some way you could be compromised.

GLENN: Compromised, sure.

Or, you know, I just toured the Soviet Union.

You know, they're looking for anything that you've done, that shows that you are on, let's say not America's side.

Or you have any friends that might be let's say, not on American side.

Or you have any business dealings, with some people, that let's just say, are not America's side. And then you also look -- final thing is, is he compromised with money? With drugs?

Is there a sex scandal? Is he -- is he prone to a honey pot thing? Okay. All right. That's what they're looking for.

Because you can so easily need money. And then somebody can come out and go, listen, I'm Boris, but I'm absolutely love America. And I just want to see the -- I want to see top secret document, pause I want to show you how American I am.

I'll never say anything to Soviet Union.

Okay. All right. That guy could approach you and go, so you need a little money, maybe. A little heroin. Okay. I can help.

But I want to see top secret document.

That's what they're worried about. Okay.

Now, wait a minute. This isn't the president or vice president's house at the time, he was the vice president. And he had them there, while he was vice president. And then he kept them there, while he was president. Okay. So they've been in there for a while. Who else has been in his house?

Oh, my gosh! A guy who is constantly asking for money for drugs and hookers. A guy who is doing shady business deals with China and with Russia. And Ukraine. Wait a minute. That's exactly the kind of guy we don't want to have access to top secret documents! Yeah. But he was almost never there.

Well, let's go back to that ultra secure garage. That's the house that Hunter Biden was renting from his dad. Not now with his art money. He was renting it from his dad, when he had no money. Remember?

I've got no money. That's why she's pregnant. I couldn't afford a condom. Oh, poor guy.

So his dad said, just stay at my house. I'm not living there. You just stay at my house.

Oh, my gosh. What a great dad. And he wanted to make sure, that his son grew up a little bit. And you'll have to work for it, a little bit. You know, this house. The most expensive rent in this area, is $6,000 a month.

So I'm going to cut you a deal, because you're my son. You just pay $50,000 a month.

But, Dad, remember, I couldn't afford the condom.

Right. Well, this is a condominium. With more letters. Going to be a little more expensive.

$50,000 to his desperate son.

Now, where does his desperate, I don't have any money son get that money?

Oh, don't worry. He's got a job with like Burisma. He's doing deals over in China. Completely his deal. No big deal.

No big deal.

Joe Biden does not know a thing about it. Nothing. He's not getting any money from it. He's just trying to help out his poor wayward son. Giving him access to his house. So he has a place to rest his angelic head. While dad charges him $50,000 a month.

And what's in that house?

The boxes of top secret documents, right there, next to the garage.

So you don't need MacGyver. You don't need some genius to go, how do we break in, past that Sears robotic arm?

How do we do it?

Because you already have a drug addict inside. Who is writing his family going, yeah. At least dad doesn't take half your money. Remember? He's really bitter and angry with his dad, at that time. He wants his dad to suffer.

Hmm. So what Boris has to do? Hey. I hear you're unhappy about Dad, huh? Hey. Are those little top secret documents. You know, what would be fun, I give you more money. We say, you work in gas industry.

So why is this all coming out now?

Why did -- why did the attorneys go in to look for all of these documents? Why are they turning them in?

And it's good news, right? That we have a special counsel. Of course, it is. It's a very good thing. I'll tell you right now, you say the Justice Department is corrupt. I've employed a special counsel on it.

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GLENN: Okay. So let's tie this up in a bow. You have the lawyers, special counsel, the House, Hunter Biden. And innocent. Looking like a little puppy dog with big sad eyes, Joe Biden. Okay. Here's what's going on: Back in November, I remember reading a lil story. Lil, as Tom Broadkaw used to say. A lil story about how Joe Biden's White House was now preparing for the onslaught of the Republicans who were going to possibly win Congress, and they needed to have all these attorneys ready to go.

So they were already working up things. Okay.

Sidebar, put that off to the side for a second.

Why would you have your attorneys do this, when you know you're going to look like a hypocrite?

Well, you might want to do that with your attorneys, so you could tell the attorneys everything that, you know, what's going on, and they can't say anything.

And they could clean up this mess, and make it old news, by the time it's used in a case against Hunter Biden. We know this.

They already brought those out. And they were cooperating every step of the way.

We already know that Hunter Biden was paying his father $50,000 a month. And he rented a house where all those documents were. But it was crazy. His dad was, you know, vice president. He has a wayward son.

He was just trying to help him out. That's why we appointed a special counsel. Oh, no. Wait a minute. What was it that I heard from the worst spokesman at the White House ever, on this question?

Play it again, Sam. Play it again, Sam. Play it -- play it again, Sam. Okay.

VOICE: Does this episode undercut that argument? That he would restore confidence? Because here we have in the headlines that he is now under investigation.

VOICE: He's restored independence in the Department of Justice. That's what we're doing here. When we're saying we're going to refer you to the Department of Justice, that is restoring independence as it relates to --

GLENN: Oh, stop for a second.

So the only reason why a special counsel was appointed, was to restore America's confidence in the system.

And it has nothing to do with now Joe Biden, his attorneys, his spokespeople, saying, I cannot comment on this anymore.

I refer you to the Department of Justice. Well, normally, when they would say that, imagine if it was Abraham Lincoln and they did this. There would be leaks. Abraham Lincoln.

He's under investigation. But here's the stuff our inside sources tell us.

This time, there won't be those leaks.

So you've effectively now shut down the story. Well, they they got somebody super special on the case. Yeah. Inspector gadget.

We needed inspector gadget, because he's the only guy to figure out whether you could have a Corvette and a serious car opener and get into the place. Uh-huh. That's what's going on. This is all just pretrial maneuvering. Preinvestigative maneuvering. By the White House. To make this, we've heard this before.

That's just old news.

Yet all of these things cleared up, so they can say, I'm not talking about old news.

I'm talking about what's happening today. This president needs to concentrate on what's going on for the American people.

That's exactly what's happening. And if you would like more evidence of it, join me on Wednesday.

Because Wednesday, on my Wednesday night special on Blaze TV, I line all of this out.

It's pretty clear, when you look at it. Hmm.

Too bad nobody in the media is looking at it. It's weird. Neither is Kevin McCarthy. I can't believe the double standard of the media. You go get them, Kevin.

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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”.

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.