Good afternoon and welcome to the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum. I am the executive Vice President of the foundation. Welcome to the 2020 Great American author series. Id like to start by thanking you all for participating in todays program especially those that submitted questions. All watching or providing a tremendous amount of support to the library as we have been closed for six months. I encourage you to sign up for a membership and to do that, visit Nixon Library. Com after this program and. Today our guest is the son of the president of the United States from the first family, donald trump junior, executive president of the organization working to expand the retail and commercial real estate portfolio and overseeing a number of Organization Development projects and is now leading the company. Mr. Trump is joined today by hugh hewitt president of the nixon foundation,. Host the network and nbc contributor and Washington Post contributing columnist. Welcome to the library. I wish i could be there in person. Im stuck inside of the beltway but i have my copy right here and everybody watching if you order one of these from the bookstore it will be signed by donald trump junior. I wasnt planning on writing another book or doing anything like that. A little bit over a year ago, but the reality is we were stuck in quarantine. I couldnt go to work or church or school or do anything. If i wanted to lose or riot i would have gotten exemption because certainly that was accepted but that isnt my thing. I sat there and said let me research the guy we are running against and do a little bit of homework. Its hard to believe how little there is out there despite a half a century as a creature in washington, d. C. So when i started looking i said i cant believe the wealth of information out there all of which is basically disqualifying to someone. The history, the votes, the policy as robert gates who was the secretary of defense said biden has been on the wrong side of every decision which is the e over half a century. More shocking than perhaps the terrible decision and destruction of the american working class with policies that shift the dream was no one in the media had any interest in pointing these out. I followed this stuff closely and i couldnt believe that there wasnt a single journalist in America Today willing to call these things out, willing to talk about how bad joe biden was for american trade and manufacturing and bluecollar jobs. How shady the family is and it isnt just under, 30 million a year fees. Im sure they would have no problem if i took 30 million. That wouldnt be an issue at all but getting housing contracts paid for by the u. S. Government, minor details. Hes never built a home in his life. Minor details. That isnt a qualification for a major contract. His only qualification is he knew joe biden. These are things that would be disqualifying and then you get into the medical side of things. I interviewed Ronnie Jackson talking about some of the decline that we see almost on a daily basis and what hes seen as a shift. We hear about trump being in the later stages theres no stages but it hasnt stopped anyone from coming out there and saying it. I go through all these things in the book. Theres 18 chapters, almost all of them worse than the next about the guy that would be president of the United States. Its a sad state of affairs that someone like me, im not a journalist. Its not what i do. I couldnt believe that of the tens of thousands who claim to be all for information and journalistic integrity that they wouldnt be asking these questions so the reality is theyve created an opportunity for me to do that and i thought it was an Important Message not just for those on our side but those on the fence because the image they have is one thats just fictitious. Host ive talked to donald trump, junior and i want people to get it. What he mentioned is true no Publishing House in america would put out this book or would put it out in time for the approach that hes famous for because it got to the press in time but that is a risky thing. Sarah huckabee was on working for years. And i dont have the question from the audience for you but walk through what selfpublishing means as opposed to how they massaged it and keep you from telling the truth. Guest i had a Good Relationship with my publisher but the reality is i know plenty that have been on the radio show. You know who im talking about. They will show me the Text Messages from the publisher. I saw your tv interview. We dont like that you went that far on the issue. These are not radical people. They are number one best sellers or top ten best sellers, conservative leaders having conversation about mainstream thoughts and being threatened with a part of their livelihood. If you talk about this we are not going to publish your next book. I want you to minimize this so you cant influence the election. I turned down a big offer because i had a best seller before. Im going to do it on my own which meant literally everything. Heres the number with the library of congress. I did it myself because i wanted to make sure the message got out. It is as much a Public Service announcement as it is anything else because no one else is doing the job. Because of that, they tried to make it difficult for me. I had gotten back with my team and i would have been number two bestseller but they didnt even look at it and i went as far to offer them but we literally say i made it available so someone could buy it there because so many dont want to go to amazon or big attack. They are against that so i made it available for myself and i said i will give you my password and let you look at what we did. You can see each one going to show you the numbers. When you combine that without question i did almost 30 to 40 of the volume because a lot of the conservatives were like i would rather get it from dawn directly than to give it to big attack. I made that available but they wouldnt even look at it. It would have been i believe number two based on the numbers on the New York Times bestseller list, but they wouldnt even acknowledge the book because they are not going to do anything to promote something against the democratic cause and the convention of publishing which is also just a liberal if not more so than the media itself so they dont want someone like me to be successful or to take on a Major Institution like that and when but we were doing it and based on the numbers we were doing it very well. Not just in media but Business Development and publishing especially. Lets talk about the election before we go back to the specifics. Where do you see the race 44 days out . Where are we up or down or where is it too close to call . Guest its close and a lot of the places certainly based on the polling but i dont give as much credence as i use to. I look at this and i see people and what they do to the conservatives and i could wear a hat in portland or new york or chicago. I dont recommend it. You saw what they did to rand paul. Say her name, talking about the Breonna Taylor legislation that he introduced but they dont know what hes talking about. Its not because they believe in the claws but someone gave them bullet points and told them to do that. They dont have information to realize they are the number one champion of the cause. It shows you what were up against, so i do not take it to heart. A lot of it is set up by the numbers. They are trying to say dont turn up or go out. Its not what i see. I spend my time in Middle America whether it is for my own past times i like spending time with americans. I dont live in new york city on the weekends. I go out and see that and the enthusiasm and amount of signage is palpable. The energy is absolutely incredible so i dont take it to heart but we do need everyone in the game. Weve got to support a president thats delivered results for the first time in a long time. If you are from china like the Chinese Government, you want joe biden to win. To shift the American Dream for decades but if you want to live your American Dream, you have no choice you just wouldnt know that based on what the media tells you. Host when we talked on the radio about the privilege and i keep holding it up you have to say seven times to get more copies from donald trump junior i didnt think it would be possible to turn up more but of course on friday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. I played this morning on my show your fathers gracious remarks when he exited the stage and a reporter told him the first time he learned Justice Ginsburg had died your father was very gracious, agreed lady she was and he said this morning on fox and friends he wouldnt be announcing a nominee until after her services on friday or saturday. Have you talked to him yet about who he is considering . Guest i havent gotten into the details. I know its going to be important. Every quote obama, biden when the situation was similar but you didnt have the senate and white house in the same control. All these people would have done it. I think its going to be important for us to do that and not squander the seed. We already see the tension. There are threats of packing the courts and all these things. Guess what theyve been making these threats anyway. Is anyone dumb enough to think they are not going to do all these things . Maybe we will eliminate the filibuster like you were not going to do that anyway. Does anyone watch with the democrats are willing to do . They are still pushing the collusion. They dont say anything about the fbi members deleting their phones because a highpriced lawyer the fbi doesnt remember his password. No one is this stupid but this is a perfect example. You can have two separate arguments at two separate times and you will never get called out on the hypocrisy but all of these people are on the record and we have an obligation to do that because they are going to do it anyway. If you give them power they will do anything to attain the power. Just look what they put the American People through the last four years despite unprecedented economic success and Foreign Policy success. They spent more time Fact Checking my sister than they did multiple piece deals in the middle east. Thats the holy grail of the geopolitical politics and nancy pelosi saying its a distraction. If obama would have done it it would have deserved the nobel prize he got nominated for 11 days after, despite having done nothing yet. Host i dont know if you were in the white house last week but these were big deals, the first piece deals in 25 years between bahrain and israel and it barely made a blip in the manhattan beltway but ive spent ten days telling people this is astonishing. I didnt think it would happen. Do you think it sunk into america yet how significant the deal is . Guest i think so. Youre not going to get to everyone you should. If you are following it and you are into politics you are consuming five or ten minutes a day to put food on the table and its going through that media filter. You are hearing more Fact Checking. He probably had some help but he did it. I had the picture. I dont know why its relevant but i do understand why its relevant you wouldnt be talking about a middle east peace deal because its been 150 billion supporting the largest sponsor of terror rather than trying to do this. Im watching the New York Times, could the real estate air with such cynicism and such vile, what could he do, like i wish you would spend a little more time holding the people you hold in such high regard to have achieved zero, if only you scrutinize them a little bit. But they are the experts and the people that took a different approach didnt repeat the same thing over and over expecting a different result they got unprecedented success and because that happened, nothing to see here. Host you have skill sets and broadcast and your animated and answer the question but i dont believe the media understands the skill set in the development until i retired three years ago i represented the west coast not your father or you, nobody, no conflict of interest, just Big Developers and people like that. The skill set is more complicated than the skill set that goes into the reporting but the reporters dont know what goes into it. Have you found even a handful of reporters that understand what it takes to go, do you know of any of them that understand what it takes . Guest they are supposedly experts but they dont know about much. We saw that in 16. They sit there in a room, 20 likeminded individuals telling each other how brilliant they are but they cannot fathom anything about whats going on in america or the complexities. They havent been right on most things. They havent gotten anything right. They are shocked donald trump gets these things done while obama and biden failed to get it done but they dont know why. Because he does have a skill set and donald trump did these things in the real world and it does have real world experience and why he was able to grow the strongest economy in america has known, not because hes preaching it like an academic but because hes actually signed the president to paycheck and had peoples wellbeing was pending on his success. So getting into the politics, im not sure. It may be a little more vicious but others like obama that had a soft ball thrown at him for eight years they wonder why he didnt get it done, because hes willing to engage and take on the other side and not just accept what the experts say should happen, but because he understands and plays out of the scenario so much better. They have no idea what they are doing and they havent for a long time. They are just reporting on what other people do. Weve seen this over and over again but it doesnt stop them from trying. Host where does this energy level come from . I will tell you this, your father is never tired. Hes never not working. He will call you back in the middle of the night, late. Youve got the same energy level. Where does this come from . I kind of kickback. Where does this energy level come from . Guest my grandfather lived a Horatio Alger kind of story, son of immigrants, and of the house and his father passed away at the age of 12 or 13yearsold. He went to work and buil built a great business. Its just what i know. My fathers always been like this. He didnt turn it on for the presidency. When i was out of college starting to work on a saturday morning at 5 a. M. Like why arent you in the office. I may have been recovering a little bit, saturday in my 20s and i also have the gene for being a little bit of a smart alec. Like why are you not in office, i am in the office. Thats how i know you are not here. Hes always had that passion for what he was going to commit to. Hes going to work harder, better, faster, more efficiently and nobody will beat him in the energy department, certainly not joe biden who needs three days to recover after a teleprompter press conference and has to go into his basement and hide for three days. The presidency is a fulltime job, not one hour every fourth day with four days of basement breaks in between. Host whats going to happen in these debates. They will moderate between the former vic Vice President , joe n and president trump, what do you think is going to happen and do you trust the former vice presidenvicepresident to show uu trust the moderators to be equally as difficult to him with questions as they will be to your father . Guest i dont think they will be tough on joe biden. Even the sort of fake conservative leaning ones they dont like donald trump was challenged conservative orthodoxy and the dogma and more importantly has gotten more things done for conservatism than anyone. The reality is the vast majority of the colleagues and peers who are radical leftists at this point. Theres not even a pretense. He will probably try to get out of it, joe biden what if he had a tenpoint lead in the polls, we can lose a couple points not showing up but we have a good lead. I dont know if he has a choice but the reality is hes been doing this for half a century. They will probably give him some kind of medication to make sure hes awake. He can get through a two hour debate. Hes been doing it for half a century. It shouldnt be that hard. Hes done it more and the reality if joe biden shows up to the debate and doesnt fall off the podium they will say that he won regardless of what happens. He will remember some oneliner. Remember there isnt a quick wit but they will write something down, he will read it sometime through the debate and it will be the only clip played on tv the next week and they will say that he won the debate. The game is sort of set up and if the average viewer watching the show doesnt understand that the game has already been fixed and its always going to be against donald trump, they need to wake up because they havent been paying attention. He should do fine. This is what he does his whole career. Its not the first time. Hes been there for half a century. The more important question i would want the moderators asking is if joe biden has been there for 50 years, name a single joe biden accomplishment. Name one that was good for america. Host when your father has accomplished more in 47 months and joe biden and 47 years, okay that is a great bit of elaboration. They jumped on your father as opposed to the point. And he was making a point. Dont get me started. Guest theres nothing they wont attack. Host someone well frame, probably chris wallace, frame the decision to move forward with a nominee on the Supreme Court whether it is judge barrett, judge john larson from michigan, judge rushing or todd, the fifth one thats been floating around that your father confirmed larson. They will frame it as a negative thing for him to move forward with a nomination. Twentynine times theres been a vacancy on the Supreme Court during a presidency, 29 times president s have nominated when their party is controlled by the senate, 17 to 19 times the nominee has been confirmed. So it should go forward. They will frame it negatively. Whats your advice going to be to him about how to answer a negative framing of why not just wait until the election is over, what about garland . Guest if i break it down into simple politics, for me, theres no enthusiasm for joe biden. There may be enthusiasm for the Supreme Court seat. I would feel it now and take it out of the equation. People are showing up for joe biden, but they may show up and try to fill that seat. I think we have an obligation to do it. I think the other side had a free quote imaginable and the statistics you just pointed out. It shows its obvious. Anything donald trump does they will frame it negatively. They frame middle east peace deals in a negative way. So, i dont think that people take too much credence in this. You had the greatest economic numbers in the history. There wasnt a single economic metric we were not better than joe biden but they are somehow saying its Barack Obamas economy but he is the one saying there was no magic wand did what donald trump is going to do, but he did. But it almost doesnt matter. Ive just loved i lost hope the media would try to be objective and do the right thing and try to be honest arbiters. The pretense of neutrality is just totally out the window so it doesnt matter. We have to deliver for our people. If our senators get wishywashy and soft on this they will lose the entire debate and they shed. Host that is great by the way they framed middle east peace in a negative way. Please remember and use that. I sit on the radio this morning if the senate doesnt act by the election to confirm whoever your father nominates this weekend, the republicans will get wiped out and, i mean, from top to bottom. Weve waited for 30 years to put three justices on the Supreme Court that are serious. Your father has put two on, the third will be serious. Do you agree that we will get wiped out if this isnt done . Guest i agree 100 . Using some of the more wishywashy conservatives. Well, you know guess what, if you are a trump supporter, they dont deserve your vote. They really dont. Again, if these people think that in a reverse situation a democrat would be even moderately pretending that they were not going to get this done, you are not smart enough to be in the elected officials office. So, we have to do it in my opinion. We have to fight for it. I imagine my father will fight very hard. We have to get everyone else on board. Host i have a lot of questions to ask you but i want to go through a couple of things you have specifically in the book. You go after former Vice President s brother and sister and the entire family. But lets talk about hunter because every time hunter biden comes up, people throw scalding hot water on whoever raises his name even though its legitimate, absolutely youve been under the microscope i would say a pathological exam for you and everybody else in the trump family. What is the most important thing for people, and you have a lot from liberal privilege to know about his dealings. Guest honestly its the extent of it. And its the ownership. China owns the bidens when you pay 1. 5 million from the Chinese Government in a typical fund, that is 30 million a year in fees and 2 model that would be a standard model. 30 million a year paid to an unknown investor like hunter biden. I interviewed in the book i interviewed steve, one of the biggest on wall street, 40 year track record and Companies Like chrysler. It took him a decade to get into china. The First Investment was 100 million and he had a track record. Nobody heard of hunter biden. Hes got the drug issues and alcohol and Child Support issues, but tell me when the Chinese Government, do they do due diligence, they said like ive never seen before. They are smart investors. They are not giving it to a crack head. They just are not doing that unless they are buying them and of course that is what they were doing. No one believes that they were investing in him because they think that hes going to bring returns. They are buying access to the family. To think that joe biden is going to be tough on china now that we know what they did with the coronavirus and now that we know they withheld information that could have saved lives, they lied to the wto. If you didnt know china wasnt going to be a good player on the world stage prior to this, maybe a little bit naive if you still think they are a good player now and good decent people looking out for anyone other than chinas interest, you are a moron. This is so disgusting and so terrible the second largest economy in the world and an actor that truly could do real damage economically and otherwise and a true competitor joe biden wouldnt even say they were an enemy the other night. He did russia but not china how do you say that after the release of the virus . Is because he was bought and paid for it would be a global scandal i took that much i will be in jail but hunter biden can take an act like it never happened give me a break joe biden has been shipping more bluecollar jobs to china than any human being alive yet the media has allowed him to run like you will do something good for working class america is an absolute lie and a disgrace and then you understand and the book again to his record he has built more of the American Dream in china than he has in the United States. And Sarah Huckabees get sanders talked about her deal with the grand jury you spent 30 hours before congress it turns out there pebble with the department of justice and has been going after you and your father online. Do believe anybody on the team is fairminded in any of those people will step forward to say you were exonerated there was no coverup or will it always be the public face . They dont even face the consequences you push the date on the deep state or the leftist a narrative you can see those that were afraid one flagrant liars so they knew it was a real and testified under oath accordingly with the credibility of these offices. But then to get to these things and then they talk about it with the stability because of the positions they once held. But i forgot my password to my government iphone i entered the wrong password 12 times or 15 times. That only happen 27 times. Statistics doesnt allow for that type of coincidence. But the institutions and republicans are one or they are more worried about these bureaucratic institutions than protecting the constitution thats why they dont go after them but im reading now some of the reports it will not come out now until after the election. The number two person in the administration to perpetrate the hoax. Are you saying its not coming out. They dont want anything to reflect on joe biden but joe biden unmasked me. Not unless it was a political set up 27 iphones under investigation magically erased because everyone coincidentally all forgot their codes . Imagine if i used that excuse i would be in jail for a long time and that is where those people belong. What is the best advice. You learn the hard way i think one of the biggest things you learn the hard way is the notion you dont get anything you dont ask for making sure we work hard bluecollar joe he is anything but on the son of a billionaire from new york city hyphen more bluecollar jobs than joe biden because my father made us do that tying up a boots in the marina i went into landscaping then driving hundred on heavy machinery at 16 years old when i worked in the marines i was making minimum wage making tips a pretty good living for 14 yearold now minimum wage and no tips no goodlooking girls running around and i remember going to my father and say working harder and making less money why dont you give me a raise . He said while i pay you more than you are willing to work for . So i tried to negotiate that retroactively because it was so miserable. But then you have to apply for what you want. What quality do you admire most from your father quick. Thats hard he has a lot of great qualities obviously his work ethic to me the room and understand what is going on hes a street smart guy. And then to look at it from an oldschool perspective and to show weakness and you cannot do that. Was really interesting about the campaign trail is so many people have gone through new york and meeting people in iowa and all over the world they all have a donald trump story and one that touches their hearts my father never told me about or bragged about. With 40 or 50 years later people remember that story so there is that empathetic side that is much bigger than anyone would realize and i wish you would highlight that a little bit mor more. When he left the rally and told him Justice Ginsburg died first thing he said Great American. And then he walked away. They will never talk about that and that is the reality. But then he has to get the kind of news everybody says is like a donald trump toward moment to jump on and on it he was totally empathetic and sympathetic and gave a great quote. And it is a total surprise coming off the passionate speech i thought he handled it perfectly and its amazing is not out there that we want to put out going again someone because somehow than that i think anybody couldve handled. Are those voters a big thing . I say it all the time and the son of a guy from new york cit city, hunter and a fisher in my free time i with real america my home in the northeast pennsylvania on the weekends having a longterm history of bluecollar democrats they are recognize the party is not there is not even their parents Democratic Party they fail to recognize there is a consequence to be a vocal conservative versus wearing make America Great again with that distinction those who have been brought out of the political closet and those is still recognize there is consequences in his hands on college campuses. Thousands of people will request tickets will get those people in the room so if you teachers knew that you were here do think there would be an academic penalty . Not a single hand is a group immediately there are those that go the way to show up but those that say i will go in there and vote for trump its my secret. That number is significant no matter where you are and people have had enough so he people that have been a lifelong democrat they just lost me i am over it i cannot do it anymore. Just to see what they have done with the Trump Administration dont think we lost anyone that voted for us in 2016 we have gained people from the other side that recognize now actually was planning on delivering and he did. We will be there on election da day. Are you planning to run for Political Office . My only plans are to make sure my father gets elected 2020. After the rnc you and nikki haley i even know i was running. But the reality is this process has woken me up to so much we are so blessed to live in this country. Will have enough fighters on the conservative side willing to engage the democrats have taken advantage of that for decades and laughing their way to the bank thats not my style i will keep fighting whether i will run or not i will one of plans right now but i will say one way or the other for sure. We have a new exhibit the president s club between your father and Richard Nixon and the friendships that people dont know or understand and to see her father on tv that he will be president. Its amazing on the menu at lunch is an Amazing Library by the way to have that correspondence who say from the president to say she is a political expert if you ever decide to run you will win. That is the first opening salvo so i look forward to seeing all the others because thats Pretty Amazing in the first person or family letters to the game of politics. Liberal privilege available from the Nixon Library thank you don junior best of luck on the trail and i will see you inside the beltway. 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