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Sick of the Lies: 40 Percent of Voters in France Want an Extremist to Lead

French voters are sick of the lies being fed to them by elites and politicians. In the first round of the French presidential election, 40 percent of voters rejected the status quo, casting their votes for the radical left (Mélenchon) or right (Le Pen). Just over 20 percent voted to maintain the status quo with Macron.

"People are beginning to cry out because they're sick of being lied to by the politicians. They want someone to make it stop. They want a strongman who will put everything out and start again," Glenn said Monday on radio.

Le Pen and Macron will face off in the final round of voting.

"The world is hurling towards a massive reset, both economically and politically. The world is crying out for strongmen and dictators. The question is, where will we stand?" Glenn asked.

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GLENN: Hello, America. welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. It is Monday. A lot to discuss. I'm going to start with France.

The French went to the polls yesterday. And their candidates -- the list of candidates were much more like, you know, one of those -- a socialist and a fascist walk into a bar. I mean, it was a joke. That's what France had to choose from. The results were exactly as expected. The top three candidates were Macron, he's a socialist, Le Pen, a fascist, and Melenchon, the communist.

For the first time in modern history, none of the top three finalists represented one of the major political parties. Macron and Le Pen now moved to the second round of elections in two weeks. We have 14 days. The winner of that vote will be the next president.

The French and the European political elite have shifted now into full-on crisis mode. Nearly every candidate has urged their supporters to now cast their votes for Macron.

Who is Macron? Macron is -- he's a socialist. He's not on the Socialist Party, but he was working for Hollande and doesn't really have any real experience and is seen as a guy who really doesn't have real connections. But he does. He is the elite of the elite. He is a big-time socialist and big-time globalist.

I don't know if you heard, but President Obama and Angela Merkel got involved. Weird uncomfortable phone call with Macron and Obama, where he was like, "Hey, keep fighting on. As you know, it could be that last day of campaigning, that turns things around."

Everybody is frightened of Le Pen. And they should be. Everybody -- almost everybody is frightened. This is really important for you to understand.

The Trotskyist communist Melenchon is the only one that is not rallying against Le Pen. Now, here's the communist, who is the only political candidate who is not rallying the forces. Why?

What's a communist doing supporting the far right borderline fascist? Well, if you're a long-time listener of the program, I remember getting mocked for saying it, but I believe the far left and the far right would work together with a common goal, and they would be joined by the Islamists. Do you remember that?

Just days before, speaking of which, ISIS struck France with another terror attack.

Now, what usually happens? ISIS usually strikes, and then they write several days before they claim responsibility. But in this case, the moment it happened, ISIS was there saying, "It's us. It's us."

Why?

This attack may very well end up being the Comey letter for Marine Le Pen. Will this be the final straw or one of the final straw that forces the undecideds to vote for Le Pen?

Why would ISIS -- why would ISIS care who wins the French presidency?

The ISIS -- the ISIS imams over in France have been preaching that a major goal of their operations in the West is to provoke such a severe crackdown on Muslims, that many would become sympathetic to the caliphate. And that is exactly what Le Pen is offering.

So the first thing you need to watch is how many -- how many times will ISIS strike France in the next 14 days, to get people to go, screw it. Enough of this playing footsy. I want to round them up.

Communists, fascists, and Islamists, they will work together to overthrow the status quo in Europe and then they will come here. They all want the same thing: They want an end to the status quo, to bring the entire system of the West to its knees.

Now, here's the reason why this election carries a -- a list of why you should care, longer than we have time to talk about. You will likely hear about the French election as you channel surf, but it will be a blip.

I want you to understand: France is the number six economy in the world. The number two economy in the Eurozone. If Le Pen wins, the markets will become unstable and the threat of a Frexit will be a matter of not if, but when.

She also says she's going to pull out of NATO and her alliance will not go to the United States, but to Russia.

All of that is important. But that's not what I want you to focus on.

What you should watch for is what's happening in France, and take notes. Because it is a warning. Over 40 percent of the French voters in this election voted for a candidate at the extreme end of the political spectrum.

Think of that. Forty percent said, I want -- not a socialist. I want a die-hard communist, or I want a die-hard fascist.

A national socialist, Le Pen, Nazi, or a Trotskyite communist. Forty percent of France said, "I've had it."

The radical left and the radical right. People are beginning to cry out because they're sick of being lied to by the politicians. They want someone to make it stop. They want a strongman who will put everything out and start again.

Now, here are the lies that the French people take notes. Here are the lies the French people are tired of: One, borders mean nothing. Two, sovereignty means nothing. Three, the union over your country. Four, the collective over the individual. Five, gender and race are whatever you want them to be. Six, religion and faith, lie. Seven, jihadist terrorists have nothing to do with Islam. Eight, massive debt is a good thing. Carry on with your spending.

This is what the communist Melenchon said to his millions of supporters at his concession speech over the weekend. Listen to this: Quote, the future lies with those French people who understand that the country is not doing well. The future is about listening to those French people who understand that we must stand up and we must resist. The world, at least the western world, has had enough. And people in the West are waking from their coma.

The problem is, this is seldom a peaceful process, especially in Europe and the Middle East. With terror and slaughter return.

Macron, just like Hillary Clinton, was sure to win, and Brexit was sure to fail. He is predicted now to roll on to victory. We certainly don't want Le Pen, but I'm struggling to go find a happy ending here.

If Le Pen wins, then an anti-Semitic nationalist becomes president of one of the most powerful nations on earth. Le Pen represents the old world dark version of European nationalism and -- and fascism. Her countryman Charles de Gaulle famously said, "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first. Nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." We should remember that.

Le Pen believes more in just -- more than just sovereignty and patriotism. She's a true nationalist. It's an ideology that birthed two global wars in Europe. I don't believe our world can survive a rebirth of European nationalism, and that's what is at stake.

If Macron wins, things are going to stay exactly the same. Think about if Donald Trump doesn't make an impact on the things that he promised during the election and things stay exactly the same.

Where are we going to be in four years? With Macron, nothing will change. But that could prove even more catastrophic than any other option. Immigration will continue to spiral out of control in France. The economy will continue to tank. Millions will lose their jobs. Terrorism will continue to grow.

Since the attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2015, France has been hit 11 times, 230 Frenchmen killed, 800 wounded. All of these issues are just going to exacerbate and -- and a worse Le Pen and a more dogmatic Melenchon will be waiting in the wings for their time to come out at an even more weakened Europe.

Again, what happens with Trump if he doesn't deliver on his rhetoric in four years? Will a socialist or communist have a legitimate shot at becoming president? I believe the answer is yes. This election almost had a senile old fart who was a socialist upend the entire thing. I think there was a chance he could have beaten Donald Trump.

What happens -- step four -- who steps forward in three and a half years? This is a global phenomenon. France is just leading the pack.

When the European Union was conceived by its founders, it was famously guaranteed peace and prosperity. Prosperity has been proven now in Europe to be a lie. How long before peace shares the same fate?

Strongman and dictators are on the rise. And we're seeing it all over the globe. What's happening in Venezuela is happening in the Philippines. The scariest thing of all: It's not the dictators, it's the people. The people are crying out for a dictator.

Look what just happened in Turkey: A coup attempt gave an already autocratic leader all the excuses he needed to become a full-on despot. He didn't have the force to make it all happen. He didn't have to hold a gun to the Turkish people's head. He just asked them. And they gladly handed their sovereignty and their freedom over to him. What country and what leader will be next.

You know, I used to be able to draw comparisons to the 1930s, but I can't anymore. Because of the 1930s, we had Churchill. I don't see a Churchill. Where are the noblemen and women who are willing to stand up to despotism and evil? Where are they today? Where are they even on our own streets?

The world is hurling towards a massive reset, both economically and politically. The world is crying out for strongmen and dictators. The question is, where will we stand?

Our history has shown that we have never been about the -- the single personality promising to save us all. They used to have to cloak themselves like Churchill did and Wilson did. They don't need to cloak themselves now.

Our Churchill has always been our founding principles and Constitution. We need them now more than ever, and you need to be aware. The world can change in the blink of an eye. Can change dramatically in the next 14 days.

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WARNING: How America Elects a Socialist President in 2028 | Glenn TV | Ep 444

The rise of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist who just won the Democratic primary for mayor, is not just a political earthquake shaking New York City — it’s a warning for the rest of America. Backed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani promises free everything, to tax the rich, and to dismantle capitalism. There’s nothing new about this tired strategy, but the media is propping him up as a new political genius. And with Democrat leaders lining up behind him, it’s clear: This radicalism isn’t fringe anymore. It’s the Democratic Party’s future. Mamdani’s rise is part of a larger movement that’s rewriting America’s values. Glenn Beck explains how New York is the prototype for the Left’s socialist makeover of America. Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Standford, gives a terrifying prediction on Mamdani’s mayoral race chances and warns the revolution is coming for mainstream Democrats. He also dives into MAGA’s frustration with the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.

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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

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

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.