you re going to caucus on monday? yes, i do. okay.. can we ask you. i m going to vote for the third time for president trump. i like hie m. i knew i liked robert. what s your questioned for the former president? i just wanted to say also, thank you,questit want presidenr your support of the vets. my wife and i and my oldesp fot are all veterans of the united states army. we appreciate it. thank you very much. some of my friends that supported you in 2020 are not this time because they believe a trump presidency will bring for years of chaos due to your haters. what is your response to them? well, i think first of all, i m glad you re asking the question, and i m very glad that you started off by saying you re with me because i want you on my side wit. figured maybe fox would have written that question. it was jus t the second part of the question. but just so you understand, we didn t write any of the
the united states out of foreign wars? yeah, do it through reig peace, it through through strength, you know. i rough strength, you know. i was the only president for 78 years. no war started with now. i wiped out isis. you know, i did a thing that wasisis won t go into name. i won t go into specifics. but we did the thing but we did the thing possible. they did very quickly. i withdrew froi m syria. i withdrew from iraq. i withdrew. they want to put back.s that we re in countries that don t even want us with countriewants a lot of you never even heard the names of these countries. you know, there names. s a great there names. leader, in my opinion, is very strong. some people say it s terrible to sayinion. that he is viktor . he s the prime minister of hungary. and they said, what would you do? there are wars all over the world right? he said, what i do is make sure the american people vote for makedonald trump for president, because when he was president, china feared him.
in mexico. so we did a lot of great things. and i woult d just say we re going to just keep expanding. we rebuilt the militarp y. we even did something that hopefully nobody in this roomitary. but right to try whee we re able to use space ageablet medicines that won t be approved for four or five yearso use ag, that work ia cases. and i ve saved thousands and thousandses lives with right to try. thank you very much. so we ll take a quick break. we re goinh.g to go talk about the economy when we come back. that ilks the number one issue in every poll on voters minds. so join us when we comek with right back with lots more questions for president trump. good to have you here, sir. to my health is an accomplishment. concerns getting screened faded concerns getting screened faded away. to my astonishment, my doctor
welcome back to our town hall with former president donald trump live from des moines. let s get back to some questions. let s get righ live fromt back r questions. this one from shelley flockhart. here she is.ut shelley, thank you for coming out tonight . ming out tonight what are you thinking nig about monday night and who you re going to support and what s your questionht a? a president trump is sitting right there. oh, than wk you. i knew that. i knew that when i looked at you. thank you very much. appreciate it. yes. so my question pre is, you rea business owner. i m a business owner. i own a smalowner.l business ane is money. would you ever is allow a shutn in the future? a shutdown in termshe of covd or a shutdown in terms of budget? because, you know, they re talking about a budget shutdown right now, but you re talking about a covid shutdown, correct? no, i wouldn t. and i never did. i let the governors makei lerno decisions, and some of them
the republican presidential nomination is almost here. we re going to win the iowa caucuses and then we re goinr.gu to crush crooked joe biden next november. tonight, former president trump will address the most pressing issues facing the nation, the starting on the debt of our issug the border,ebt of our getting rid of the woke ideology, but a gauntletgetting of legal perils hovers over his campaign. they re not after me the. not after me thereafter you. there s no confusion about who trump is while his leadingo cono rivals unleash attacks. he s running on a lot of the things he to do in 2016 but then did not do. chaosised follows. . and we can t be a country in disarray. an tfive days from the pivotaldi first in the nation caucuses, sarrthe path crowningnomine the republican nominee starts here. i m goine g to be there.ther we re all going to be there together and we re going to be first. e. st in thyou re first in the natn because of me, but we re going to be america first again