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You WON’T BELIEVE the left’s latest charge against Trump

It’s no secret the left has been trying to destroy Donald Trump ever since he announced his White House candidacy years ago. The FBI raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago seemed to take things to a new level, but we may never know the answers if the INSANELY redacted affidavit released by the DOJ is any indication. But one thing IS clear: some Trump haters are going to new lengths to bring him down. In fact, the left’s latest charge against the former president is so ridiculous it's hard to believe. Glenn and Stu discuss Trump's apparent ‘unlawful storage,’ plus how his alleged misconduct doesn’t even COMPARE to that of a far-left favorite...

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GLENN: Okay. So it's strange. I -- I heard a lot of talk this weekend, of people saying, did you see the -- did you see the Mar-a-Lago affidavit? And I said, no.

And they said, yeah. It was mainly, you know, it was all just black bars. I said, no. I saw that. I didn't see the affidavit. I saw all the black bars.

And there's something new now. The Department of Justice has redacted the reason for redacting the affidavit.

STU: Really?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

STU: Seems appropriate.

GLENN: Yeah. The only thing they said, that wasn't redacted there, was agent safety.

Every other -- you know, agent safety. That's because the violent extremists on the right.

STU: Right.

GLENN: So Asian safety was not redacted. But every other reason for redacting, was redacted.

STU: So we have absolutely no idea what's in it. But also, no idea, why we can't see things. Right.

GLENN: Yeah. We don't know what's in it. And we also now don't know the reason why, we don't know what's in it.

STU: This is perfect. This is perfect.

GLENN: No, seriously, it's really good.

By the way, the New York Times now, demands criminal prosecution of Donald Trump. Uh-huh.

STU: Are we supposed to care about what the New York Times demands? I don't.

GLENN: No. Not at all. So let me give you this. This one is from, I think it's YouTube. Not YouTube.

Yahoo. There is little left for the Justice Department due, but to decide whether to wait until after the midterms to formerly seek the indictment of a grand jury, for Donald Trump.


STU: Hmm. This is --

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

STU: I heard -- I heard someone talking about this whole scandal earlier today. And the phrase they used. I mean this sincerely. The phrase they used, what they were going to charge him with was unlawful storage.

GLENN: Oh, man.

STU: Does anyone think this will have an impact? I'm fascinated by this.

GLENN: Unlawful storage. That is -- that is a death penalty sentence right there.

STU: Again, we're not talking about -- like, a guy getting access to documents he's not supposed to have access to, right? That's not what we're talking about. These are documents -- the man saw with his eyes, while he was president with the United States. So the issue here is, he should have put it in a better closet. He should have put it in a safe. He should have let it be stored at the archives. A storage conflict. This is what's going to take down Donald Trump. The guy who survived all of these other things. Unlawful storage is the thing. That's what they want us to believe today.

GLENN: Well, that's the way we took Al Capone down.

STU: Unlawful storage?

GLENN: Well, no. Tax evasion.

We couldn't get him on the other things, you know. The difference is that Al Capone was actually killing people. Donald Trump hasn't done anything. You just don't like him.

STU: Right. Can I run a couple of scenarios by you?

GLENN: Sure. Yeah.

STU: So I want to boil this down for a second. No one actually cares if Donald Trump has this document. I know it's a controversial thing to say.

GLENN: No. It's not. Maybe for the media.

STU: Maybe for the media. But no one actually cares. The man literally, we are supposed to believe, saw them, and that's why he has them, right?

GLENN: And, by the way, he didn't pack them up. The GEO did. The GEO did. So that's not him or his people.

STU: One of the few things we know about these documents. Is they were put in between newspaper clippings and everything else. And you could say -- so let's start at the bottom. He didn't do anything at all.

Obviously, that does not affect. What we're talking about here is not whether these documents affected the national security. It's just a matter of how it affects Donald Trump's future politics. That's all the story is about. It has nothing to do with whether or not he committed a crime or not. So maybe he did nothing wrong. Obviously, that's not I problem. Next step up, he was reckless -- he shouldn't have had the documents and had them. Right? Let's say he was reckless with the documents, okay?

GLENN: Like, what would be reckless? Like laying them out, putting them on the menu at Mar-a-Lago.

STU: Right. Exactly. Let's say. You're at Mar-a-Lago. Your kid is ordering a grilled cheese. He flips it over, it's supposed to be the maze. But instead, it's a nuclear document. That would be really reckless.

GLENN: Right. Or -- or I could get the ground beef, the sirloin, or the nuclear secrets.

STU: Right. Exactly. That would be bad.

GLENN: Right. Okay. Because then he would technically be selling them, Stu.

STU: If it's just a process argument about documents, there is no impact to our politics, right? The fact that he should have -- let's just say. Let's take the worst case. He should have gone through some other process of declassification or whatever. No one actually cares about that. At all.

It's not -- it's not going to impact our politics. Step it up. Was he reckless with them?

Let's say, like he legitimately put them in some closet, and did not lock the door, which is what they're saying.

GLENN: No. They came down. And asked him to put a lock on, and he did.

STU: And he did.

But I would ask you this: Go try to steal a drink at Mar-a-Lago. Would that be easy? This is the president of the United States' house. They act as if people could walk into any closet and start stealing boxes. This is not likely to occur. While you might say, hey, they should be in a highly classified environment. I get that.

GLENN: Well, look. Hang on. Hang on. I think you're doing too much work here.

STU: Let me give you the last two scenarios. This one I would say, let's just say, he handled them recklessly. I think in our politics, that could escalate to the point of the Hillary Clinton scandal, where the people on the one side of the argument, think it's the worst thing in the world. And the other side does not care at all. It could elevate to that level. The only thing that could actually make any difference to the story, would be if you had evidence, evidence of Donald Trump using these documents for his own personal benefit. I.e., he was selling them to get golf events, at his country clubs, which was actually tossed out there by the left.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. Wait. If Donald Trump -- and this could happen. It didn't with Donald Trump. But it could happen, in theory.

STU: In theory.

GLENN: If Donald Trump said to somebody else in the White House, I want you to go into the skiff. I want you to -- I want you to take pictures of those documents.

STU: Sure.

GLENN: Then cut the top of them off, so it doesn't say classified or top secret. And then email them to my home.

That would be bad.

STU: Right. And, of course, would be much, much, much more risky than having them in a closet. Anything online, anywhere, would be more risky than having it in Donald Trump's closet, even without a lock.

GLENN: Hey, how do you know it's not a virtual closet? Go ahead.

STU: We don't know. But if you had evidence, that let's say, he was taking documents, that were central to American security. That he was going to use to -- in a political ad, three weeks later, that he didn't decline. I don't know what the scenario would be. But if he found something like that, and found real evidence of that, maybe that would move the needle.

A process crime on documents is not moving -- this is a ridiculous controversy. And I swear the left just wants to talk about Donald Trump, because they think, that's going to help them in some way.

They want to -- they want to get in a fight with them. They want to make it about them versus Donald Trump again. They remember the good old days, back when they were winning midterm elections back in 2018.

They remember the good old days when CNN had eight people watching it.

They remember all these wonderful dreams. So they want to talk about it constantly. But what the hell is the point of this? Like, these are not documents that they stole. He didn't go into a bank vault, and steal documents he didn't see. He literally saw them.

GLENN: He's also the president, and he declassifies anything he wants, unlike the Secretary of State. Anyway, that's a different story. Let me ask you this question, okay?

Same kind of topic. Who do you believe? Who do you trust?

Apparently, a Ukrainian truck driver's daughter named Ina Jacoshovin.

STU: Are you a native speaker?

GLENN: That's the way you pronounce it. Jacoshovin.

STU: I could tell.

GLENN: Who allegedly posed as a Rothschild heiress to gain access to Mar-a-Lago and meet former President Donald Trump, is being accused now of the FBI of having ties to Russian organized crime.

Apparently, this woman, who lives in Ohio.
The FBI said, she was making trips to Mar-a-Lago, to get money from Donald Trump for a children's charity, which actually was a front for organized crime in Russia.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: So Donald Trump was writing checks to organized crime in Russia. Uh-huh.

STU: Does that --

GLENN: Now, she says, no.

Nothing like that. FBI says, yeah. Everything like that. My question is: Who do you believe? The woman you don't even know anything about, that could have been -- could have been masquerading as a Rothschild, and a Soviet spy.

Or the FBI.

STU: The fact that you have to ask that question is a problem with our institutions.

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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.