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Glenn: Will FRANCE now join the anti-U.S. dollar crusade?

Several countries — like India, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia — are making moves in partnership with Russia and China to weaken the U.S. dollar. And now, France may be considering such moves as well. After spending hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters that his nation must re-establish ‘strategic autonomy’ and resist becoming ‘just America’s followers.’ This — plus a few more stories that Glenn details in this clip — signals more trouble for the U.S. dollar, which is already down in usage around the world, Glenn says. A dollar collapse 'will happen slowly,’ he explains, ‘[and] then ALL AT ONCE.’

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GLENN: Let's start with Macron. Which always sounds like a cookie to me. But he's the French president.

And Macron says that dedollarizing might be the thing to do.

He said, trading in commodities and other currencies. Might be the right thing for France and others.

After spending six hours with the Chinese President Xi, as part of a three-day state visit to China.

Macron made it extremely clear that France wants nothing to do with World War III, emphasizing that Europe must employ strategic autonomy, presumably led by France, while speaking with reporters aboard the Air Force One for France. The French president said, that the great risk facing Europe right now, is that it got us caught up in a crisis, that is not ours. Which prevents it from being its strategic autonomy. He is calling for a single global world order. He said, we're living in a jungle right now.

And we have two big elephants trying to become more and more nervous. I don't even understand that. That didn't be a bad translation. Two elephants that are trying to be more nervous. What are you talking about?

STU: Somebody just threw it into Google Translate.

GLENN: Ah, it's the president of France, they don't ever make sense.

If they ever become nervous and start a war, it will be a real big problem for the rest of the jungle. You need the cooperation of a lot of other animals. Tigers, monkeys, and so on.

What, is he talking to Kamala Harris?

Like, and boys and girls, we need tigers and monkeys and maybe even a chicken or two.

His concept of strategic autonomy was enthusiastically endorsed by President Xi and the CCP. They are trying to weaken the transatlantic relationship to accelerate this trend. What's going to do that is cutting us off at the knees with the dollar. We are now down in that are usage, for international trade. We are down now 7 percent.

That is significant. Significant amounts of money, are now being liquidated. And countries are not using the dollar. This is going to happen very slowly. And then all at once.

So you're going to see it slip 10 percent. Maybe 15 percent.

And then it will be dumped.

France said -- no. I'm sorry.

China said to France: The question you need to answer. Is it in your interest to accelerate a crisis on Taiwan?

The answer is no.

The worst thing would be to think that Europeans will become followers on this topic and take our cue from the US agenda, and a Chinese overreaction.

Just hours after he was headed back to Paris, China launched their military exercises around Taiwan.

Taiwan, I mean, is going to be trouble for us.

Do we have the Lindsey Graham cut, from I don't know, face the nation or Chuck Todd or whatever the hell it is.

Pat played it this morning. See if you can get it from him. It is -- it is -- I mean, I want to talk about marching to yet another war. Listen to this.

VOICE: I am fearful that the Chinese may be setting conditions to block a Taiwan in the coming months. Or weeks.

And we need to respond forcefully, if they do that. We need to blockade all shipments coming from the Mideast to China. And let them know, if you blockade Taiwan, we'll cut off your oil.

We need to train more aggressively. Taiwanese forces, so they can fight like the Ukrainians. We need to put nuclear missiles into our submarines.

Biden won't do it. The military asked for nuclear-tipped cruise missiles to be put back in submarines, like the Russians did.

And we'll never more forces in the region.

I think if you do those things, you can deter a blockade.

VOICE: It sounds though, that a ratcheting of a situation, and if Taiwan is not trained, armed, ready for this, we don't want to be leading to World War III.

GLENN: Listen to this.

VOICE: Well, nobody wants World War III. But what kind of world do you want to live in? Do you want to live in a world where an island called Taiwan can be taken by China? Ninety percent of the high-end chips made in Taiwan, that have a monopoly on the digital economy.

Do you just want to let Putin take whatever he wants in Europe? I don't want to live in that kind of world. There's no reason for this. Listen, I believe in a One-China policy. But I would be willing to fight for Taiwan.

GLENN: Good. Let's send him over. All in favor of sending Lindsey Graham over to Taiwan to fight the Taiwanese? Say aye.

It's unanimous. Gee. Holy cow.

STU: That's amazing.

GLENN: It is truly amazing.

We have ratcheting it up. I don't know if you saw some of the documents that came out, supposedly from a Pentagon leak. We don't know -- we don't know who is leaking these yet. But apparently, they're significant. They're the most significant leak, they say, since -- what's his name, that's now over in Russia.

STU: Snowden.

GLENN: Snowden. That's significant. But it had our battle plans. Apparently, it showed we were already in a war with Russia. Shows some battle plans that we have.

Shows how weak the Ukrainians are actually at fighting the numbers. Have been changed.

But this could be disinformation. We don't know. Which is a great place to be.

Because we don't know a lot it seems, in this administration.

Then Russia and Iran, met again this weekend, to weaken the US dollar. During the meeting, Iran expressed the satisfaction with the volume of economic cooperation, between a Russia and an Iran.

Praising the path that started to reduce the influence of the dollar in the region. And international economic exchanges.

We will together eliminate the dominance of the West over the world economy, to the minimum. So at least they're speaking out.

By the way, central bank, I would like to remind you again of what my grandfather said. My grandfather always told me when I was a kid. Because when I was growing up, my grandparents were the greatest generation.

They lived the lie the war. And if you had grandparents like that, they never, ever forgot it.

My grandmother, back in the '70s and early '80s, was still -- and my mom too because of my grandmother, still saving all of the wrapping paper. We would open for -- open presents for Christmas. And we would have to open them carefully. Because we had to save it to use it again, the next year.

Even though, all of us kids were like, what are you talking about? There might not be any wrapping paper. You know what I mean?

It was like crazy. But that's how bad things were. They never forgot it.

You know, they were in their 20s and 30s. And by the time, they were in their 80s, they were still like, it could happen at any time.

My grandfather said, had we known what rich people and countries were doing, we would have -- we would have fared better.

Well, you know what the rich countries are doing, and the rich people are doing.

Central banks have now doubled down on gold buying.

February, central bank gold reserves rose another 52 tons. It is the 11th straight month of central bank net gold purchases.

Well, I didn't want to say, not all the smart people. We're not buying any gold in our central bank. The People's Bank of China increased gold holdings, reported 24.9 tons, the fourth consecutive month of reported Chinese gold purchases.

In the time, China's official gold reserves have grown by 102 tons of gold.

They are clearly planning something. And speaking of that, there was somebody that did a fake interview, and was posing as Vladimir Zelinsky.

The Ukrainian president. And got the European central bank president, Christine LaGuardia, on this video conference.

And they were talking. Now, remember, one of them is AI. One of them is a fake, you know, individual. Not the president of Ukraine, is not the president of Ukraine.

But she didn't know it. Here's a little piece of that conversation.

VOICE: There are many protests in Europe, against the electronic euro. The problem is, they don't want to be controlled.

They don't want to --

VOICE: Yeah. But you know what. You know what. Now we have in Europe, this threshold, above 1,000 euros. You cannot pay cash.

If you do, you're on the gray market. Until you take your risk.

You get caught, you get fined, or go in jail. But, you know, the digital euro is going to have a limited amount of control.

They will be controlled. You're right. You're completely right. We are considering whether for very small amounts. You know, anything that is around 300, 400 euros. We could have a mechanism where there is zero control.

But that could be dangerous.

GLENN: That could be dangerous.

VOICE: But ten years ago.

And highly financed by those very small anonymous credit cards that you get recharged in total anonymity.

GLENN: Got it?

So anyone who says that digital currency is not coming, you're mistaken.

It's already in -- in -- coming down the pike. Anyone who tells you that, oh, well, it's not going to control anything. Listen to what she just said. It will have some control. Some control.

But we're thinking about -- what was it, three to 400 euros?

STU: Small transactions.

VOICE: Yeah. We're thinking about 5- to $700, you're going to be able to buy something, you know, and it won't be tracked. But anything above that, would be tracked. However, that's very dangerous to do.

Because the terrorists could win. That's what she just said.

STU: And that's really, really disturbing.

And it's three or four times as bad, when I realize she's talking to a machine.

Like, it would be one thing, if we caught her. When I first saw this headline, I was like, oh, what did she blurt this out on a hot mic?

You know, how did this -- no. No. She just got fooled by AI.

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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.