RADIOOctober 20, 2022

Why is the FBI TARGETING peaceful, pro-life Americans?

Peaceful, pro-life Americans continued to be targeted by the FBI. Many of them were arrested for praying inside or near abortion clinics, which the federal government says is a violation of the FACE Act. But, Glenn and Stu argue, this NEVER should have become an issue for the FBI or the federal government to begin with. In this clip, Glenn exposes the FBI's current 'agenda,' which could be coming directly from the White House. Plus, Glenn plays a related political ad from Eric Swalwell that's SO outrageous, he can't even watch the whole thing...

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Okay. Tonight, I mean, this is, so you know; I wrote the book what was it? It was the second, the Eye of Moloch, and it came out on a Tuesday, and either Monday or Wednesday was the day that Snowden came out and said the CIA was spying on you. Do you remember that?

STU: I don't remember that.

GLENN: Tonight I'm doing a special and I'm going to show you how there is a net or a noose that is being readied and it is well-coordinated, and it is closer than you think. Tonight I'm going to show you how churches, religion, religious institutions, are directly under attack, not just by this administration. Religion is being hit methodically from multiple different directions; the media, street activists, perversions within the church itself, as well as directly from this government and it's all happening right now. I'm going to show you how a group of house democrats are looking to weaponize the IRS directly at Christian leaders that have been staples of the American religion community for decades. Oh those IRS are just going after rich people, well, and pastors. At the same time, the left is creating their own religious networks and their own religious experts that let's just say have questionable opinions. I want to show you the opinion from the new president of the evangelical network, a group called Equal Justice USA, to sounds like the church I want to go to. His name is Sam Heath. Here he is recently on a podcast talking about, you know, people of trouble. Here it is. >> There may need to be a season of separation without harm for an individuals someone may need to be removed from a situation, a person, or from society, but the goal of that is ultimately to have that person reintegrated back into community. We already believe this as Christians; right? If we did church discipline in the right way, that's exactly what it is rn we approach someone, if that's rebuffed we approach as a group. We bring it before the church and that person is removed. Ex communication is never meant to be this permanent lasting puss punishment, it is meant to be this thing done for the safety of the community because harm is always communal, and it is a fact, and it is done with an invitation to return. It is done always with a handout of welcome, of return to this healings offered to you. If you can't pursue that in order to pro tech this community, we might need to remove someone for a season.

GLENN: For a season. I mean, that wouldn't be bad. Feel like summer camp.

STU: Right.

GLENN: Like summer camp.

STU: A camp.

GLENN: Okay. Now, let me just ask you, this is a guy who is let's just say, all he's talking about is abolishing all prisons, and the church is just like hey you know what, for a season, I gotta have you en a time out. But what is illegal right 93? What are we really talking about? Because I've heard, I've heard people on MSNBC right now talking about what are we going to do with these people that voted for Trump? What are we going to do with these people? First, if this was a Christian talking on a podcast about the sanctity of human life, they would have been labeled white Christian Nationalist. So we did some digging around because this guy, you know, he hasn't been labeled anything but good. So his group, Equal Justice USA, has received seven-figure fund from George Soros's open society. Religion is a left wing weapon now. It is under attack. Leftest agendas are being poured into doctrine, and at churches all over the country. You need to be aware of it, but you also need to be aware that the government is going to do whatever they can as well. Abuse of power is what the FBI is doing right now. They are using the FACe Act. Howmany times have you seen a swat team or an FBI guy kicking down the door of somebody's house? I is seen now more and it's on an Act I haven't ever even heard about. I mean when it was passed, I thought that was reasonable, don't block people they should be able to pray and say hey, please don't go in. But don't block somebody from entering. Okay. All right. Well, now the Biden administration has taken another political target, those who believe in the right for life. The guy who's involved on this one, 25 year old Herb Geraghty, with -- he was charged with a conspiracy against rights and FACE Act offenses. Wow, a conspiracy. Yes. Yes. It's a conspiracy. He's going to be on with me in just about an hour. He can't talk about some things. you know who this guy is? This is the guy who helped find, remember they found all of the fetuses, all the little babies in Washington D.C., and then it just kind of disappeared, that story? Remember?

STU: Loosely.

GLENN: You'll remember it en the next hour.

STU: Going to have to be more specific when you talk about one of these abortion clinics or situations that turned out really ugly.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Because there's been a lot of them.

GLENN: He's now facing 11 years in prison. He will tell you in a little while. He found out about it on Twitter. That, that they were coming for him. That's how he found out about it. He has since said I'm willing to turn myself in, but they're not, you know y don't have a word from them yet. I hope they don't bust down my door because I'm welcoming -- I have the feeling he kind of welcomes a trial. This is the world we're headed in if we don't stop the FBI. A whistleblower on the FBI just came out. He blew the whistle on the agency because they're not -- I'm quoting -- they're not following their own rules. The way they are using, quote, excessive tactics ensures that the process is the punishment, even if the suspect is innocent. That's what's happening. You think that 86 year old woman is going to prison? I don't think so.

STU: No. But the process is the punishment in and of itself. I think to make a quick distinction, Glenn, you mentioned the FACE Act being rational as far as we don't want to block people from going into clinics. You shouldn't be able to do that. It is rare irrational in the United States, however, for that to be a federal crime. There's no reason that comes from the federal government.

GLENN: No reason.

STU: Local, states, communities.

GLENN: These things are always local.

STU: That's how you

GLENN: Always local. The problem is the local police are not doing it. They're not arresting -- because they'll arrest them, charge them with a misdemeanor, and they'll say look, guys, you can't do that. They'll arrest them with a misdemeanor. And that's it. This particular Act happened two and a half years ago and the FBI is just on it now.

STU: Right. And that the problem. When you say the problem is that they're not, local police aren't doing enough they're just charging them with a misdemeanor. That not a problem. That's how it should occur. That's correct.

GLENN: Correct.

STU: What's going on now is they found this rule and they're utilizing it as a weapon to go after people they don't like.

GLENN: Exactly right.

STU: And we're seeing it over and over again across the country. This is why, even a sensible law, should not be in the hands of the federal government. This is why you keep it close to him in your local community. There is no reason why a federal law needs to be because people in Pocatello, Idaho are being blocked walking into a clinic. That's an Idaho situation, not a Washington D.C. situation.

GLENN: I was leading something the other day unrelated to this and it said and it is true on page 23897, 23,897 of the federal code, it states, and where thought -- oh. Oh, it's just that easy, it's right there.

STU: Why didn't we know?

GLENN: Now here's the craziest part of this thing. We are living in a time we are living in a time that has been lived in before where the two sides don't see the same thing at all. We're not seeing the same thing at all. We're seeing FBI come in and bust down the doors of people who were praying, praying. Bust their doors down, and then everybody else who steals, kills people, they're just released, it's no big deal. Now we're also seeing this happen because people were praying at abortion clinics. Here is a new ad from Swalwell.

STU: Eric Swalwell, the congressman?

GLENN: Yeah. It's a new campaign ad. I'm going to describe it. It's a couple having dinner in their house with their children. They're having dinner and all of a sudden you see the blue and red lights through their window. Listen.

>> You're weird.

>> He is weird, but cute.

GLENN: Aw, look at this.

>> Grows. (knock on door) >

> Mary Anderson?

>> Yes.

>> I have a warrant for your arrest.

>> Arrest for what?

>> Penal code 243 violation, unlawful termination of a pregnancy.

>> You gotta be kidding me.

>> That's my personal business.

>> That's for the courts to decide, ma'am. Your medical records have been subpoenaed and Dr. Landry is already in custody.

GLENN: This is unbelievable June can't just --

>> You will have to submit to a physical examination.

>> What? By who?

>> Don't touch her. My wife -- (baby crying).

GLENN: This is --

>> Put your hands behind your back.

GLENN: Okay. Stop. I can't watch anymore. You know why this is crazy is, first of all, it's local police.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: It's local police, and they're not knocking, they're pounding open up, FBI.

STU: Light.

GLENN: And if you don't open, they will come in. But they come in with rifles pointed at people. 87 year old ladies.

STU: This is really happening against the pro-life movement. It is not happening agents women who have had abortions. By the way, none of the laws passed

GLENN: Would allow that.

STU: Would let a woman being prosecuted.

GLENN: I would stand against it. We have got to heal hearts not throw people in prison. On this, now doctors are maybe a different thing.

STU: That where the law usually hits, is it's illegal to do it and the 'S the one that gets punished not the woman. I honestly don't think there's one law in the entire country that does that.

GLENN: No. Would you stand against it?

STU: Regardless. I mean, well, I don't think that the certainly the right approach for today.

GLENN: Correct.

STU: At some point, it would be interesting if we actually do believe that this is taking a life, that the person

GLENN: No, I know that. That is not where are.

STU: Exactly.

GLENN: We're not there.

STU: The point here is that this is a mythical thing. You know what it reminded me of, Glenn? Cory Gardner banned birth control.

GLENN: Oh I know.

STU: Remember that whole thing where Cory Gardner the former senator from Colorado, they tried to beat him initially and they ran these ads where he was going to delete birth control from availability. It's like, well, you know; that's not at all, that's not at all what happened, the guy's already left office. They're still warning people that birth control is going to go away just around the corner. It never happens. They never have to honor this fan fiction they put out there in election season.

GLENN: Correct. So now the FBI is moving at gun point, not like, not like I almost said Cory Gardner, not like Eric Swawell is saying, the exact opposite of that. There are cases now that are at least two years old, no violence, and the FBI is trying to put these people in jail for eleven years. May I ask, where is the FBI with Jane's revenge? Where is the FBI in the over 170 attacks on Catholic targets since May of 2020. Where are you on that one, FBI? There is an agenda, and I will show you it to you tonight at 9:00 p.m., you don't want to miss it.

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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”.

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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.