RADIOJanuary 24, 2024

Don't give a DIME to the GOP until they admit who tried to BRIBE Kari Lake

Audio has leaked of a conversation between Kari Lake and Arizona GOP chairman Jeff DeWit that makes Glenn furious. Glenn demands that the RNC come clean about who “back east” tried to bribe Lake to hold off on her Senate run: “Call and write [the GOP] and say, NOT A DIME to any candidate…unless you clean house on this.”

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Now, I want to start with something that I don't think if we were a liberal show. MSNBC, we would be doing this.

But I think conservatives are different.

I think I -- at least I do. I want to know all the bad things that are happening in my own party. Because I believe my own party. Even though it's not my party.

People on my side, if you will, some of them are corrupt.

And I don't have an answer for who did this. But I want you to just ask yourself the MOM formula.

And I'll tell you what the MOM formula is after you listen to this.

It was last year, at CPAC. Kari Lake made a pretty bold statement, and she said, someone in the G.O.P. in the back east G.O.P., tried to bribe me to keep me from running for Senate.

Now, a lot of people can say those things. But do you have the evidence?

Yes. She does. And it was released yesterday.

I want you to hear this -- which was taped, I believe by her.

And it is the voice of the Republican -- head of the Republican Party in Arizona.

Listen.

VOICE: Is there a number at which?

VOICE: I can be bought? That's what it's about.

VOICE: For a couple of years. Getting back to what you were talking about.

VOICE: No. No. 10 million, 20 million, thirty -- no. No. No. A billion? No. This is not about money. This is about our country.

I think it's disturbing that they would even -- that anybody would think this is...

VOICE: I -- to be fair, even me, even me. I'll say this.

I want fresh (inaudible) right now, for the reason, that I've never seen anyone -- I can't even think of a single person in a federal race, who lost, randomly lost. I can't think of it.

If you can think of it, let me know.

VOICE: I'm not going to let these people who hate our (bleep) country, tell me not to run. You should call them and tell them to get behind me.

So what's going on? What is -- I'm assuming this is our friend.

VOICE: Oh, this is -- this is -- this is back east.

They are -- they're very powerful people. They want to keep you out. But they're willing to put their money where their mouth is, in a good way. So this conversation never happened.

VOICE: This is crazy, though. They should want me. I'm a great candidate. People love me. These people are corrupt.

VOICE: Well, maybe you're right.

VOICE: They are right -- they corrupt.

VOICE: Don't go -- this -- if you say no, which is fine, it's your choice. Don't tell people.

VOICE: They're going to have to try to have me murdered.

VOICE: If that stuff that came out last week is right about the cartel stuff. The cartels are operating in 50 states right now. So...

VOICE: So what's going on? Who is it? What --

VOICE: Let me just tell you real quick, let's just say there are people calling around, saying, gosh, look, you can't -- everybody -- if you say no, don't say, I got offered that. Don't talk.

VOICE: Yeah.

VOICE: Because then we lose our ability to get things done in the future.

GLENN: Jeez.

VOICE: Here's my problem. Rather than just say, let's work with her, she's a great candidate -- because they don't own me, and it pisses me off.

VOICE: Yeah, it's not about ownership.

VOICE: It's about control.

VOICE: I don't know if it's about control. It's about being on the team. Like I said --

VOICE: They want to be on the team?

VOICE: They want you to be on their team.

VOICE: But if they're pushing a globalist agenda, I can't do that. So what do they want? What do they want me to do?

VOICE: I can tell you what I can offer you. But I said -- talking -- so the ask of me was, it's confident.

So the ask I got today, back east was: Is there any companies out there, something, that can put her on the payroll, give her, to keep her out?

And I said, well, what do you want to do?

Whatever we need to do.

VOICE: This is about defeating Trump.

And I think that's a bad, bad thing for our country.

DeSantis is not America first. This is about the final deathblow to Trump, and I don't think that's good for our country.

VOICE: I mean, I love Trump.

VOICE: It's not good for our country, Jeff.

VOICE: It's not.

But at the same time, I don't know that -- I think what it really comes down to for a lot of people, it's not really about control or agenda. It's just about the ability to raise money to win.

you know, If you really want to know -- absolutely. And even on their end, what makes them the most money.

VOICE: I know. All these new attendants don't -- want their payday, and I don't want to make a deal with these kind of people. This is a hill worth dying on. I'm not -- if they're going to steal the election to make me and our movement go away, I'm not letting them do that. I owe it to the people of Arizona, to carry their torch and their voice.

VOICE: Or don't go away. Pause.

VOICE: This is -- the battle is right now, Jeff.

VOICE: Pause. Wait for your caucus.

VOICE: No. The battle is right now. The battle is right now, and we don't have time to pause on the battlefield.

VOICE: You're not -- you can't scratch this. It's not for you.

VOICE: Yeah.

VOICE: And they're sitting around. So it's just -- it's a backscratching club. That's all DC is. It's a big backscratching club.

You're no -- you scratch somebody's back -- and you have already made it known, if you get there, you aren't scratching his back. I will scratch people's back. You know, I've been on the outs for a lot of the time. I will scratch people's back, you know. Where are we in two years, if they steal the election again?

VOICE: Listen to what you're saying. Why don't we do something about it? So that we, the people, can pick our --

VOICE: What can we do?

VOICE: I'm not willing to accept that. Then I'm going to be the biggest (bleep) in these people's (bleep) -- I'm running. And I will be the biggest pain in their (bleep).

VOICE: I'm willing to tell them.

VOICE: And they're going to have to kill me to stop me.

GLENN: That is incredible, and incredibly slimy. The name of the guy who is making this offer is the chair of the Arizona Republican Party.

I've talked to some legal experts, they're not sure if this is illegal.

You're not sure if this is illegal? You're offering someone a bribe.

If it's not illegal, it should be illegal!

Some very powerful people want you to step aside.

Some very powerful people do not want you in.

Now, what can they give you to step aside.

Nothing. Money. Jobs. Nothing!
No. We're not -- we're not trying to stop you. Pause. Just a pause. This is in our own party!

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GLENN: Ten-second station ID.
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Okay. So let's ask the mom question of this. Because who is responsible?

He says, it's the power is back east. Some people back east. Now, I think I know who he is talking about.

Because I have heard through the grapevine, for the last few years, about this kind of stuff, not this blatant. But this kind of stuff happening.

Because somebody has a big, huge treasure chest.

Now, the MOM question is motive, opportunity, and means.

Let's ask MOM: Who has the motive to stop Kari Lake from going into the Senate? Who has the opportunity to do it? And who has a giant Senate chest, that has used it in, hmm, I think ways that the average Republican would not be very proud of?

And we have seen this treasure chest used against Republicans, who are the only choice in some states.

Who has the means? Check. I'm thinking of someone. The opportunity? Check again.

And the motive? Giant check.

Now, I have absolutely -- I don't know who you came up with, but I have no idea if that's true.

That's why I don't want to say a name. Because I don't know. But we damn well better find out. Every single person in this audience should be calling the G.O.P. national headquarters today, and saying, what the hell is this?

I'm sorry. I won't accept that you can't find -- for some reason, we had somebody leak a SCOTUS decision!

Put our Supreme Court justice's lives at risk, and somehow or another, they couldn't -- they couldn't get that one or the two people that had access to it.

They couldn't figure out, who it was.

You've got like two to four people, maximum, that had that!

You can't figure it out. Huh!

I'm so sick and tired of this.

Every single person that writes a check, to any G.O.P. person, you should not fund the G.O.P. until this is exposed and cleaned up.

This is corruption, at the highest levels. No. No.

This is -- this is -- what did he say?

This isn't about control.

This is about ownership.

STU: I thought he said, it wasn't about ownership. It was about winning the election.

GLENN: No.

He said it's about ownership. And it's about being on the team. It's about being able to raise money.

Okay.

She said, it was power and control. He said, it's just ownership. They want you on the team. So, in other words. They want to own you.

That's the problem in Washington.

And I'm sorry. We cannot say, we're the good guys, if this stuff is happening in our own party.

This is the kind of stuff, that we all say we're against.

Are we against it in our own party?

Because I am.

I'm pretty sure you are too.

Did you hear how slimy that guy was.

It's not me. It's not me. I mean, I'm just the messenger. I'm just saying. I got a call from -- you know what happens when I get a call from back east, first of all, my gosh. Was Lucy right about, you know, that Christmas is run by the syndicate back east? My gosh. So I got a call from back east. You know what I do with that call? I'm not doing that. Do your own dirty business. Click.

But, see, he has ambitions. He wants to go higher. He wants to be one of the bigwigs, that he can call out west some day and say, look, here's what I want you to do.

Shame on you, Jeff DeWit. Shame on you! Do you have -- do you have no pride? Do you have no love of country, of decency? Do you not know what ethics are? I suggest you start looking them up, Jeff.

Because you're so far away from ethical, it's shocking. This is what Donald Trump is fighting.

And let me tell you: This is exactly the kind of stuff that Nikki Haley allowed to happen, in her own camp.

She knew really bad organizations, and funds that fund the Democratic Party in all kinds of ways. Went to her. And said, look, we'll fund you.

And she said yes!

This is not good, by any stretch of the imagination.

And each of us should be -- in fact, can you get the number to the national headquarters, of the G.O.P., so people can call and write today?

Because you should call and write. And say, not another time, to any candidate.

None!

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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”.

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.